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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
LATimes: "When Karl Rove and his top deputies arrived at the White House in 2001, the Republican National Committee provided them with laptop computers and other communication devices to be used alongside their government-issued equipment.
The back-channel e-mail and paging system, paid for and maintained by the RNC, was designed to avoid charges that had vexed the Clinton White House - that federal resources were being used inappropriately for political campaign purposes.
Now, that dual computer system is creating new embarrassment and legal headaches for the White House, the Republican Party and Rove's once-vaunted White House operation.
Democrats say evidence suggests the RNC e-mail system was used for political and government policy matters in violation of federal record preservation and disclosure rules.
In addition, Democrats point to a handful of e-mails obtained through ongoing inquiries suggesting the system may have been used to conceal such activities as contacts with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was convicted on bribery charges and is now in prison for fraud."
10:46:28 AM 
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Harper's: "Here's a story that looks like something of a blockbuster: The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), an Iraqi-based Iranian opposition group, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. Any American supporting the group can be charged with a crime. Yet the MEK 'gets protection from the U.S. military despite Iraqi pressure to leave the country', and 'regularly escorts MEK supply runs between Baghdad and its base, Camp Ashraf'.
But you probably missed the story because (according to a reader who sent it to me) it was posted very briefly on CNN's front page and then quickly disappeared. No other major outlet (and very few minor ones) seem to have picked it up. The CNN story quotes Shirwan al-Wa'eli, Iraq's national security minister, as saying of the MEK, 'We gave this organization a six-month deadline to leave Iraq, and we informed the Red Cross. And presumably, our friends the Americans will respect our decision and they will not stay on Iraqi land'."
10:36:02 AM
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NYTimes: "Tens of thousands of protesters loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, took to the streets of the holy city of Najaf on Monday in an extraordinarily disciplined rally to demand an end to the American military presence in Iraq, burning American flags and chanting 'Death to America!'"
That looks like hundreds of thousands to me. One thing is clear Bush created havoc not democracy, peace or whatever.
This is the text from Skynews you can find on Google, which means it was the original text: "In Iraq, hundreds of thousands of mostly Shiite protesters have taken to the streets, in response to a call by rogue cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to rise against ..."
They changed that to 'tens of thousands' later.
10:29:50 AM
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