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Previously declassified documents being "RE-classified" at an alarming rate
Source: AP


Submitted: 04/13/2006
WASHINGTON — The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about U.S. intelligence's role in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act.The 2002 agreement, requested three years ago by The Associated Press and released this week, shows archivists were concerned about reclassifying previously available documents _ many of them more than 50 years old _ but nonetheless agreed to keep mum."It is in the interest of both (unnamed agency) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to avoid the attention and researcher complaints that may arise from removing material that has already been available publicly from the open shelves for extended periods of time," the agreement said. Read more »


Impeach Bush? 86% voted YES


Source: MSNBC
Submitted: 04/12/2006
With more than 229,000 votes, 86% have chosen "YES" on the question of whether or not Bush should be impeached. Read more »


One Lie after another -


Source: Washington Post
Submitted: 04/12/2006
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction."A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.The three-page field report and a 122-page final report three weeks later were stamped "secret" and shelved. Meanwhile, for nearly a year, administration and intelligence officials continued to publicly assert that the trailers were weapons factories.In the end, the final report -- 19 pages plus a 103-page appendix -- remained unequivocal in declaring the trailers unsuitable for weapons production. "It was very assertive," said one weapons expert familiar with the report's contents.-their mission completed, the team members returned to their jobs and watched as their work appeared to vanish. "I went home and fully expected that our findings would be publicly stated," one member recalled. "It never happened. And I just had to live with it." Read more »