2005.10.23 - PEGC Update ========================== ** The PEGC web site is down until further notice. I'm hoping to have it back up in a day or two. 1) TORTURE PBS FRONTLINE -- October 18, 2005 THE TORTURE QUESTION http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/ 2) IRAQ New York Times Magazine -- October 23, 2005 THE FALL OF THE WARRIOR KING By Dexter Filkins http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/magazine/23sassaman.html The Financial Times -- October 20, 2005 ‘CHENEY CABAL HIJACKED US FOREIGN POLICY’ By Edward Alden http://news.ft.com/cms/s/afdb7b0c-40f3-11da-b3f9-00000e2511c8.html New America Foundation -- October 19, 2005 THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (Ret.), Former Chief Of Staff, Department Of State, 2002-2005 http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=event&EveID=520 transcript: http://www.newamerica.net/Download_Docs/pdfs/Doc_File_2644_1.pdf Farrar, Straus and Giroux -- THE ASSASSINS' GATE America in Iraq By George Packer Hardcover, 480 pages, $26.00; Pub Date: 10/2005, ISBN: 0-374-29963-3 http://www.fsgbooks.com/fsg/1739034.htm 3) CIA LEAK Newsweek -- October 21, 2005 SECRETS, EVASIONS AND CLASSIFIED REPORTS By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9756141/site/newsweek/ Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- October 23, 2005 MANY PLAYERS EMERGING IN CIA LEAK DRAMA By Nancy Benac http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_CIA_Investigation_Key_Players.html Los Angeles Times -- October 20, 2005 CHENEY, CIA LONG AT ODDS By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-cheney20oct20,1,6755070.story Los Angeles Times -- October 21, 2005 BUSH CRITIC BECAME TARGET OF LIBBY, FORMER AIDES SAY By Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-libby21oct21,1,1616787.story Washington Post -- October 23, 2005 IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND ON THE SPOT Scooter Libby, Backstage No More By Mark Leibovich http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102201439.html FindLaw -- October 21, 2005 THE BIG QUESTION IS WHETHER DICK CHENEY WAS A TARGET By John W. Dean http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051021.html * COMMENT: Much as I admire John Dean's insightful columns over the last four years (including this one), I have to disagree with the reasoning behind his conclusion here. Nothing undermines national security more than a government official who violates the law in the name of national security -- that is a greased slide that leads direct to fascism. My Hamdan Commentary began with this quotation: "Corruption is the worst crime -- worse than robbery, arson, mayhem, worse than rape and murder. By starving law enforcement, it feeds these other crimes; it is the progenitor of lawlessness. More: through its example, it debilitates the conscience. It poisons our society; it poisons our souls. * * * The litigant who uses influence to affect the outcome of a case, and the judge who bends to that influence, are our most heinous criminals. How can we respect the law when we find calculated injustice in our halls of justice? And without regard for justice, without respect for law (brother though not twin), our civilization cannot function. Anyone who tries to fix a traffic ticket is damaging all of us." -- CHARLES REMBAR, The Law of the Land (NY 1980), page 299. I've said it before and I'll say it again: A government that will not obey it's own laws is no government at all. 4) NEO-FASCISM / UR-FASCISM VOTE Action Committee / Harper's Magazine -- October 12, 2005 ON MESSAGE / NOTEBOOK [The Rise of Neo-Fascism in America] By Lewis H. Lapham http://www.voteaction.org/article.php?id=665 The Modern World / Utne Reader -- November-December 1995 ETERNAL FASCISM: FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKSHIRT By Umberto Eco Writing in New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995, pp.12-15. Excerpted in Utne Reader, November-December 1995, pp. 57-59. "Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html 5) OP-ED Washington Post / CBS Face the Nation -- October 23, 2005 SPECTER & FEINSTEIN ON THE MIERS NOMINATION host Bob Schieffer http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/2005/10/post.html truthout -- October 20, 2005 CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST ON CHENEY By Ray McGovern http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102005Y.shtml TomPaine.com -- October 19, 2005 DICK CHENEY'S COVERT ACTION Face it, America. You’ve been punk'd. By Larry C. Johnson http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051019/dick_cheneys_covert_action.php truthout / New York Times -- October 23, 2005 KARL AND SCOOTER'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE By Frank Rich http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102305Z.shtml Regards, Charly Charles Gittings Lake Chelan cbgittingsyahoocom PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) * PEGC URL: http//pegcno-ipinfo * CBG Yahoo! Briefcase: http//briefcaseyahoocom/cbgittings * * *