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Wilkerson Points Finger at Cheney on Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505A.shtml
Colin Powell's former Chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, stated bluntly that it was Vice President Dick Cheney's office which triggered abuse of Iraqi prisoners with word that filtered down to soldiers in the field that interrogations were not providing needed intelligence. Now, Cheney goes one step further, by appealing to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in US custody.

Lawmaker From Ohio Subpoenaed in Abramoff Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505B.shtml
Rep. Robert W. Ney notified Congress yesterday that he had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury examining the Lobbying Activities of Jack Abramoff, making the Ohio Republican the first lawmaker to receive such a demand in the expanding influence-peddling investigation.

Rich Miles | Where Were They When We Needed Them?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505C.shtml
Richard Miles criticizes those, news agencies and people, that have frivolously jumped on the anti-Bush band wagon, who were not speaking up when their support was initially needed.

US, Iraqi Forces Launch Offensive near Syrian Border
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505D.shtml
The state of Texas finally found a judge yesterday to preside over the criminal trial of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), but not without a new, last-minute dispute about partisan political interference.

Maureen Dowd | Fashioning Deadly Fiascos
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505E.shtml
Maureen Dowd details the makings of "good intelligence" from the Cheney 'cabal' to Michael Brown's FEMA fashions.

US Should Repay Millions to Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505F.shtml
An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary.

DeLay Case: New Counsel, New Judge
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505G.shtml
The state of Texas finally found a judge yesterday to preside over the criminal trial of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), but not without a new, last-minute dispute about partisan political interference.

Ex-British Ambassador: Iraq War 'Fueled Terrorism'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505X.shtml
Britain's involvement in the Iraq war has "partly radicalized and fueled" the rise of home-grown terrorism, London's former ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, says.

9 Nights of Rage
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505Y.shtml
Nearly 900 vehicles were torched and 250-plus people arrested as French police desperately battled the country's worst rioting for decades, which has now raged for nine consecutive nights.

Rioting Erupts as Bush Visits Argentina
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505Z.shtml
A hemispheric summit meant to help create jobs and spread democracy throughout the region opened yesterday with large-scale anti-US demonstrations and deep divisions among participating nations about the Bush administration's expanded free-trade agenda.

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