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Subject: Ray McGovern | I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
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Ray McGovern | I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206A.shtml
Ray McGovern writes a letter to the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence: As a matter of conscience, I am returning the Intelligence
Commendation Award medallion given me for "especially commendable service"
during my 27-year career in CIA. The issue is torture, which inhabits the
same category as rape and slavery - intrinsically evil. I do not wish to be
associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

Al-Qaeda Infiltrated UAE Government

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206B.shtml
We are focusing today on one sentence in a two-page US document officially
known as number AFGP-2002-603856. It is a 2002 letter in which al Qaeda says
that it has infiltrated United Arab Emirates security and other agencies. It
was a warning siren document that should have raised urgent concerns at the
highest level of the US government. President Bush and his entire team
initially dozed through the alarm and apparently expected we all would, too.

Bush Seeking to Outsource Tax Collecting

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206C.shtml
Treasury union members gathered outside the Internal Revenue Service
building on Wednesday to protest a controversial measure to privatize some
tax debt collection.

Burying the Lancet Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206D.shtml
Over a year ago an international team of epidemiologists completed a
"cluster sample survey" of civilian casualties in Iraq. Its findings
contradicted central elements of what politicians and journalists had
presented to the US public and the world. Soon after the study was
published, US and British officials launched a concerted campaign to
discredit its authors and marginalize their findings without seriously
addressing the validity of their methods or presenting any evidence to
challenge their conclusions. Today the continuing aerial bombardment of Iraq
is still a dark secret to most Americans and the media present the same
general picture of the war, focusing on secondary sources of violence.

TV Ads Push Iraq War Support

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206E.shtml
In an early sign of the imagery that may flood the nation's television
screens as congressional elections approach this fall, a conservative
political group closely aligned with the Bush administration has launched a
blitz of television ads to shore up sagging public support for the war in
Iraq.

Saudi Group Alleges NSA Eavesdropping
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206F.shtml
Documents cited in federal court by a defunct Islamic charity may provide
the first detailed evidence of US residents being spied upon by President
Bush's secret eavesdropping program, according to the organization's lawsuit
and a source familiar with the case.

Stacy Bannerman | Not One More Dime, Not One More Life
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206G.shtml
Stacy Bannerman testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee for
Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs: Brings the troops home now.
Take care of them when they get here. And never again send our soldiers to
fight in a war based on lies. Congress has tried to cut funding for
veterans, and has grossly underestimated the needs of the soldiers returning
from Iraq. You want to take care of our veterans? Quit making new ones.
Americans' "Internal Enemy"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206H.shtml
The US Surgeon General warns that obesity is overtaking terrorism as a
threat to the American public. But others contend that fear-mongering over
obesity is "a big fat lie."

NOW | Washington Spin Machine
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206I.shtml
NOW goes inside the world of lobbyists and the Washington spin machine with
novelist Christopher Buckley.

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