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Extremist Bush supporter calls for murder of scientists

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:30:00 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - We are not even at war with Iran. Congress has not declared war or authorized military force against that country. Yet Reynolds thinks that the Bush administration, unilaterally, should send people to murder Iranian scientists and religious leaders -- just pick out whichever ones we don't like and slaughter them. No charges. No trial. No accountability. Just roving death squads deployed and commanded by our Leader, slaughtering whomever he wants dead.

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The NY Times returns to pre-Iraq-war "journalism"

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Over the past few weeks, The Los Angeles Times has published several detailed and well-documented articles casting serious doubt on the administration's claims that Iran is fueling the Iraqi insurgency with weapons. A couple of months ago, The Washington Post published a very well-researched article reporting that extensive searches by British military brigades in Southern Iraq -- specifically in the areas where such weapons would almost certainly be transported and maintained -- have turned up nothing. It seemed as though the media was treating the war-inflaming claims of Bush officials against Iran much more skeptically, refusing to simply pass along accusations without first conducting an investigation to determine if those claims were true. But today, The New York Times does precisely the opposite -- it has published a lengthy, prominent front-page article by Michael Gordon that does nothing, literally, but mindlessly recite administration claims about Iran's weapons-supplying activities without the slightest questioning, investigation, or presentation of ample counter-evidence. The entire article is nothing more than one accusatory claim about Iran after the next, all emanating from the mouths of anonymous military and "intelligence officials" without the slightest verified evidence, and Gordon just mindlessly repeats what he has been told in one provocative paragraph after the next.

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A look at John McCain's blogger-consultant

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:45:05 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - Apparently, there is a new standard that any blogger who has made controversial or profane remarks in the past is unsuitable to work for a political campaign. That is the premise of these two articles -- one from The New York Times and another from the Associated Press' Nedra Pickler -- which picks up the latest idiocy from the right-wing blogosphere by claiming (in the case of the Times): Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world have landed his presidential campaign in hot water for doing what bloggers do -- expressing their opinions in provocative and often crude language. But when the Times claims that the Edwards campaign is "in hot water," what they mean is that there are complaints from right-wing bloggers and people like the right-wing Catholic League's Bill Donahue, who is an excellent arbiter of bigotry and impropriety as the author of such enlightened views as: "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It's not a secret, okay? And I'm not afraid to say it."

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The collapse of the Bush presidency poses risks

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:29:15 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glen Greenwald - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - It really is striking that whenever one is convinced that Bush's unpopularity ratings have reached their nadir, the one thing that can always drive them even further downward is Bush's appearance on national television to explain himself to the country (or, to use Jules Crittenden's classic formulation: for the President to "address us . . . and show us the way forward"). Even after six years, the more Americans see and hear from George Bush, the more they dislike him.

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Iraqis learn the art of legal

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:55:31 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 01 (Opinion) - This depressing New York Times article by John Burns and Marc Santora details the frantic, reckless manner in which Saddam Hussein was shoved into the noose in clear violation of Iraqi law. We can't even get a hanging right.

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Swamped by Muslims

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:40:01 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - If you look too hard at the specific individuals who compose our Government, it is difficult to maintain any residual sense of optimism about America's future. It's just best not to look too closely at the specific individuals, because what you will see are many, many Rep. Goodes floating around.

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Did Rahm Emanuel lie about his knowledge of Mark Foley? Yes.

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:10:00 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - At the height of the Mark Foley scandal in October -- when Democrats were pounding Denny Hastert and company on a daily basis for having taken no action despite knowing about the emails sent by Foley to at least one page ...

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The company we keep

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:20:20 -0800

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Dec. 08 (Opinion) - The Committee to Protect Journalists has issued a new report documenting the rise of what it considers to be one of the most dangerous trends -- the arrest and detention of journalists who are held indefinitely without any charges being brought. China, Cuba, Eritrea and Ethiopa "were the top four jailers among the 24 nations who imprisoned journalists." Those four countries are followed on the list by seven other countries which have more than one journalist in custody. The U.S. is part of that group, tied with Russia. Both Russia and the U.S. are each holding two journalists without charges (that we know of). Also in that group are Algeria, Azerbajian, Burma, Burundi, and Uzbekistan. Iran did not make it into that group because it is holding only one journalist in custody, and the same is true for Vietnam (Venezuela, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are holding none).

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Mark Foley and the unmasked Republican Party

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:52:50 -0700

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 04 (Opinion) - Denny Hastert is smack in the middle of one of the tawdriest and ugliest sex scandals in American political history. As a result, he has been the target of aggressive criticism, even from a few members of his own party, and, by all accounts, is desperately battling to keep his job. In need of moral absolution and support from a respected and admired figure who possesses moral authority among Hastert's morally upstanding Republican base, to whom does Hastert turn? A priest or respected reverend? An older wise political statesman with a reputation for integrity and dignity? No, there is only one person with sufficient moral credibility among the increasingly uncomfortable moralistic Republican base who can give Hastert the blessing he needs

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The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:14:13 -0700

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - From what I can discern, the Senate Judiciary Committee essentially passed on responsibility to the full Senate to save the administration by enacting the Specter FISA bill, while simultaneously blocking Democratic efforts on the Committee to dilute the most offensive parts of the Specter bill. Democrats have been reluctant to pay much attention to the Specter bill, but the way in which it (a) abolishes all limits on the President's eavesdropping powers; (b) embraces the Bush administration's most radical executive power theories; and (c) virtually destroys the ability to obtain judicial review for the President's lawbreaking, renders it a bill that is at least as pernicious as anything else that is pending. It deserves full-scale attention and opposition.

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Legal surveillance, not illegal eavesdropping, stopped the U.K. terrorist attacks

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:17:33 -0700

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 12 (News Analysis) - As I noted on Thursday, Bush supporters have been attempting to exploit the U.K. terrorist plot to bolster support for an array of extremist and lawless Bush policies -- from warrantless eavesdropping to torture -- even though there is not a shred of evidence that any of those policies played any role whatsoever, either in the U.S. or England, in impeding this plot.

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Media finally starting to report the President's systematic lawbreaking

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:13:11 -0700

Unclaimed Territory - By Glenn Greenwald - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - On March 24, 2006, The Boston Globe published an article by Charlie Savage reporting that the President, after signing into law the bill which renewed the Patriot Act, issued a "signing statement" making clear that "he did not consider himself bound" to comply with various reporting provisions in the law and therefore reserved the right to violate them. The article was extraordinary because it noted that the Patriot Act signing statement was merely "the latest in a string of high-profile instances in which Bush has cited his constitutional authority to bypass a law" -- and the article tied that ideology of lawlessness to, among other things, the President's deliberate violations of FISA when ordering warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.

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