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by Justin Raimondo (AntiWar.com)

In the wake of the Scooter Libby indictment, and the collapse of support for the war – even in the Republican congressional caucus – the bad guys are desperately trying to make a comeback, and what a pathetic sight it is.

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Reuters

Federal prosecutors urged a jury on Thursday to convict a U.S. man who confessed he joined an al Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia and plotted to kill President George W. Bush, but his lawyer said the confession was obtained through torture.

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MSNBC

A criminal complaint alleges a web of corruption and bid rigging in Iraq by officials who worked with the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S.-led agency that ran Iraq for more than a year after the 2003 invasion.

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Associated Press

The former U.S. attorney for southern West Virginia said that he never contributed secretly to a political campaign, insisting he did not follow through on an offer to help another prosecutor win election while a federal employee.

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Associated Press

Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled by peace protesters Tuesday as he spoke at the groundbreaking for a public policy center honoring former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker.

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The Raw Story

Cindy Sheehan is headed back to Crawford to meet President Bush at his Crawford ranch. The anti-war mother who lost her son, Casey, in Iraq, will hold a vigil for five days, starting on Nov. 22

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Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself from his 1985 comments that there was no constitutional right to abortion, telling a senator in private that he had been "an advocate seeking a job."

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Associated Press

Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said. "Turns out, we were wrong," Hadley told *

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Agence France Presse

In an important clarification of President George W. Bush's earlier statement, a top White House official refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture, arguing the US administration was duty-bound to protect Americans from terrorist attac

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Associated Press

Federal Emergency Management Agency has yet to reopen four of its biggest no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina work and won't do so until the contracts are virtually complete. A promise to hire more minority-owned firms also is largely unfulfil

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Associated Press

The United States rejected North Korea's demand for aid in exchange for suspending nuclear development, the U.S. envoy to disarmament talks said as the negotiations ended Friday with no word of progress or a firm date to meet again.

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Reuters

"What I am going to do is talk about this administration's commitment to our legal obligations -- we take them very seriously. I think (in) our country, unlike other countries, when there are allegations of wrongdoing ... then there are inve

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Think Progress.org Blog

Congressional Quarterly and FNS both transcribed Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s answer as “That’s accurate.” The White House transcript lists his answer as “I don’t think that’s accurate.” The White House is trying to get CQ and FNS to change thei

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by Andy Borowitz

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who have earned worldwide acclaim over the past year for their relief missions around the globe, embarked today on what they called their most challenging project to date, an emergency mission to t

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UPI

Russia this week successfully fight-tested its answer to the $50 billion U.S. ballistic defense system, which it vowed to do four years ago when the Bush administration told Russia that it would unilaterally from the 1972 START Treaty.

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