Today from CNN:

More than 700 people have been arrested in a federal investigation into mortgage fraud since March 1.

Results of the investigation are not complete and have not been published, but losses so far are estimated at $1B.


More to come . . .
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Yesterday's hearing on those torture memos--euphemistically renamed "extreme interrogation"  memos by some--before the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties reestablished certain key principles and clarified some key facts.

One is that the push to institute torture as a tactic, in the administration's war to expand global war, came from the top down, not from the bottom ('commanders in the field') up. Probably most thinking people either knew or surmised this key point even before the extensive documentation recently made public by author Philippe Sands, by the House Armed Services Committee and by Professor Lawrence ...   more »

From Richard Hayes Phillips, one of the statistical experts doing research on the 2004 election and its vote/exit poll anomalies:

"IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE" OF FRAUD IN 2004 OHIO ELECTION

Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., has been the leading investigator of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio.  His long-awaited book, "Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election," was recently published.

This book is the document of record, based upon actual forensic evidence.  Phillips examined 126,000 ballots, 127 poll books, 141 voter signature books, and other
records, enabling him to prove that the election was rigged.

The book is hard ...   more »