Voter Fraud

The website "truthout.org" contains a list of videos that offer points of view and hard evidence to support the truth that the media chooses to ignore. One of these videos is "Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program for Diebold AccuVote-TS". After watching this video, I was sickened by the fact that there is an on-going effort to tear down what little democracy we thought we might have. It is unbelievable what Americans do for power. Also Keith Olbermann of MSNBC covered the discrepancies of the 2004 election in a Must See video days after the election. Where was the media coverage? I don't remember hearing about the massive discrepancies in Ohio and Florida that could have turned the election. This is very disturbing. Congressmen and Senators called for an examination of the 2004 vote by the GAO. The Free Press article "Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005" gives a synopsis of these findings which they point out was not covered by mainstream media. It becomes exceedingly clear that this dictorial administration probably has been in office illegally for both terms. When you have a mission it doesn't matter how you get there - anything goes which they continue to demonstrate with there lies and unwillingness to listen to the American voter.
In an Alternet story the abusives of the 2002 election emerge. The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet. Posted July 30, 2003. I wonder where I was that I didn't understand the implications of all the discrepancies and issues that arose with the electronic voting machines This is one more chink in the armor of our democracy what little we have left.

Carl Bernstein - Bush/Nixon Comparison

Mike Sheehan's article in Raw Story states veteran reporter Carl Bernstein says the lack of truth and candor from the Bush administration is unprecedented in his experience and his experience includes the uncovering of Watergate during the Nixon Administration. In comparing Nixon's administration to Bush he says "We now understand the psyche of Richard Nixon, that his was a self-destructive act and presidency". Bush on the other hand, "This president has a record of dishonesty and obfuscation that is Nixonian in character in its willingness to manipulate the press, to manipulate the truth," he adds. "We have gone to war on the basis of misinformation, disinformation and knowing lies from top to bottom." For those of us who lived the Watergate scandal, feeling that was thw worst possible are now confronted with more evil then we could have imagined and it appears that Bush will get away with it and in the process take down the United States.

GAO & Phillip Perry (Cheney)

As reported in Think Progress, GAO Comptroller General David Walker told the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee that Homeland Security has been a challenge to get access to their records. Walker said the problem is “systemic” and not the fault of any single individual. But he complained that GAO has had to go through the office of Chief Counsel Philip Perry. Perry is married to Elizabeth Cheney, a former State Department official who is one of the vice president’s two daughters. Walker said it is his understanding that Perry’s office has to review documents GAO seeks before they are released and that Perry selectively sits in on interviews with department employees.

The GAO’s Skinner “said his investigations have also been hindered”:

“We’re experiencing the same problem,” said Skinner, who added his office is “oftentimes” told who they can interview and that it sometimes takes weeks to get documents. Skinner said he prepared a document last summer to inform all department employees of the IG’s responsibilities and authorities and encouraging them to cooperate with investigations. “That letter has been sitting up in counsel’s office at DHS since I believe June or July of ‘06,” Skinner said.

The latest semiannual report from Inspector General Skinner highlighted “a litany of staff misconduct: immigration officials demanding sex in exchange for visas, airport screeners stealing money from tourists’ luggage, federal air marshals smuggling drugs, and employees from various DHS agencies committing sex crimes.” Cheney's son-in law appears to be able to be as deceptive as his father-in-law.

All this information is available but the disclosure is going to happen after this administration is out of office. What a shame! Nothing will be done and the deception can continue.

Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy has reported that the trial of defendants Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)is scheduled to begin on or around June 4 in the Eastern District of Virginia. This is an unprecedented case in which the government claim that the Espionage Act could be used to prosecute the unauthorized receipt and transmittal of classified information by private citizens who are not engaged in espionage. This was upheld by a Federal Court last year. The question is did they really spy for Israel or were they being used by the governments of the United States and Israel routinely as a diplomatic "back channel" to convey sensitive information. This is definitely not on the front page of any newspapers. The court has made it very difficult for the prosecution and the defense to do their jobs. The outcome appears to be questionable as more and more restrictions are added on.

Bush regains his footing?????

David Broder of the Washington Post believes that like Clinton, Bush is regaining some ground with public opinion. I can't tell if this article is tongue in cheek or Broder really believes what he wrote.

Washington Post allowing falsehoods and half truths on their outlook section

Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek, expressed his concern in the Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel for an article published by the Washington Post on the front page of their Outlook section in which right-wing legal expert Victoria Toensing from the Reagan Administration presents false accusations against the prosecutor. Patrick Fitzgerald and Joe Wilson. Parry states "By presenting these pro-Libby arguments in such a high-profile manner, including fabricated “mug shots” of prosecutor Fitzgerald, the Post could be seen as joining in a last-ditch bid for jury nullification to spare Libby from conviction.(the mugs shots are not online) Parry also said "Back in the late 1980s, I co-wrote a lead article for the Post’s Outlook section and the piece underwent intensive review for fairness and accuracy. So the argument doesn’t hold that the Post sees no problem in publishing reckless charges in the Outlook section just because it can be passed off as opinion.(Before the Fairness Doctrine was repealed?) It appears that the Post is moving further to the right.

Hurrah for Rep Henry Waxman

The top auditors for the government say $10 billion dollars has been wasted or poorly tracked in the Irag war and reconstruction. The GAO gave the report to the Oversight Committee headed by Rep Henry Waxman who said he intended to investigate the fraud, waste and abuse agressively. Incidently the big abuser was Halliburton,the oil-field services firm once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney,with $2.7 billion in question. The problem is that by the time all the graft is uncovered Bush/Cheney will be out of office.