Brother, Can You Spare $3 Million for "Strategic Communication"?
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Petraeus as Puppet
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In recent months, President Bush has deflected questions about progress in Iraq with statements like, "I'm going to wait f
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Cheney Says the Q Word
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Rendition Lawsuit Against Boeing Subsidiary Grows
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A lawsuit against airservices company Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., has been re-filed to include two more victims of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's extraordinary rendition program. In December 2002, Bisher al-Rawi was kidnapped from Gambia and flown to a secret U.S.
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America Supports You With Apocalyptic Rhetoric?
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In a July 2005 PR Watch post, Laura Miller asked whether the U.S. Defense Department's "America Supports You" campaign was an attempt "to boost public support for war and distract ...
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Congresspedia's "Congress in the News" updates, July 11-July 18, 2007
- In anticipation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's upcoming appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent Gonzales a letter detailing questions the chairman planned to ask, in order to help avoid so many "I don't recall" responses. (TPM Muckraker story)
Alaskan Congressional Delegation Facing Mounting Legal Trouble; Two Members Now Under Criminal Investigation
While Congress has officially begun it's August recess, members of the Alaskan congressional delegation may be finding it difficult to relax.
Clinton Campaign Dogged by PR Misdeeds
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The PR firm Burson-Marsteller's anti-union consulting continues to haunt Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. That's because Mark Penn, a top campaign aide, also heads Burson-Marsteller (B-M).
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The Week In Congress (July 30-August 3, 2007)
Both chambers of Congress scrambled to pass weighty and complicated pieces of legislation before they adjourned for the August recess, with the House finally wrapping things up on Sunday. The biggest measures were on domestic wiretapping, ethics, childrens' health insurance and energy. The headlines below link to the respective full Congresspedia articles. Know something about the bills? Help out by editing the articles:
"Coffee with the Troops" at Yearly Kos Fuels Debate About the Netroots and the War
You can watch some powerful video of our August 5th Coffee with the Troops online at AfterDowning Street, Alternetand on YouTube. We filmed the entire event, which was attended by more than one hundred people at the Yearly Kos Convention Sunday in Chicago.
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