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TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ITS OWN INCOMPETENCY AS AN EXCUSE, BUSH ADMINISTRATION GIVES FBI TOTALITARIAN STATE POWERS TO SPY ON AMERICANS


John Conyers Stands up for Democracy and Freedom Against an Increasingly Stalinist Justice Department 5/31 IT'S US OR RUSH! IF YOU VALUE TODAY'S BUZZFLASH PRO-DEMOCRACY NEWS REPORTING, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT COSTS MONEY TO COUNTERACT THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT BY THE RIGHT WING MEDIA AND "THINK TANKS." Justice Department Accused of Politics in Florida Redistricting. What a Surprise! 5/31 Shouldn’t Halliburton be blaming Cheney instead of its accountants? 5/31 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! The New Expanded Post-September 11th Edition of "The Bush Dyslexicon," by Mark Crispin Miller 5/30 Man faces jail for cussing at a Bush 5/31 FBI Monitored Militants in Italy Before 9/11 5/31 Mueller's Credibility is Shot, But in the Bush Administration Lying to Protect the Errant Dimwitted Prince is a Prerequisite Expectation 5/31 So Do You Have Blacks in Brazil? 5/31 DEMOCRATIC SENATORS WANT SOME ANSWERS FROM ASHCROFT ON SHAM FLORIDA ELECTION "LAWSUITS" BuzzFlash Featured in "Tapped" 5/31 Okay, Bush and Cheney Bullied America Into Thinking They Knew Nothing Before September 11th, Then They Galvanized the "War on Terror," But Only Now, After Their Lies Come Out, Do They "Reform" The FBI. Pathetic. 5/31 REPOSTED: The NRA Can be Beaten, And Usually is 5/30 LATEST RNC "GOP TEAM LEADER" ATTACK ON DEMOCRATS ALERT 5/31 High Fives for Everyone! It's About Oil. It's About Oil. It's About Oil. 5/31 Scam Alert, by Molly Ivins 5/31 NewsMax by the Numbers 5/31 The Bush Administration "We Want You to Forget About Our Negligence and Incompetence" Scare Tactic of the Day 5/31 The Boys From Brazil, A BUZZFLASH READER CARTOON 5/30 HELD OVER FOR FRIDAY: A BuzzFlash Interview With David Brock, Author Of "Blinded By The Right," On The Role Of The Judiciary In The Right-Wing Agenda It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son" BuzzFlash.com on Laura Flanders' Show on Friday 5/31 The Original Translated "Do You Have Blacks in Brazil?" Der Spiegel Article 5/31 U.S.-Backed Enron Project in Trouble 5/31 W Gives Jeb $235 Million of Our Money. Isn't That Nice of Him? 5/31 Daschle's bogus low "approval rating" (Salon Premium, but the first four paragraphs are interesting) 5/31 The May 30th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-american Video of Judicial Watch News Conference with FBI Agent Robert Wright (req. RealPlayer) 5/30 Yes, It's About Oil. It Didn't Take Them Long. 5/31 Larry Klayman, An FBI Agent, and David Schippers Claim Mueller Didn't Want the Truth to Come Out. Hmmm. (All on the Right Wing Newsmax) 5/31 Industry Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids Smoke - Report 5/31 Heart of Cheapness, by Paul Krugman 5/31 When It Comes to Bush, Ken Lay, and Enron, Follow the Oil. A Smoking Gun Document. 5/30 NEW COLUMN! Southern Style by Rebecca Knight (Author of "Liberty") - Inaugural Article - "Imperative!" 5/29 BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! FEC Criticized Over Campaign Finance Rules 5/31 The Republicans Continue to Smear Tom Daschle, A Man of Integrity. Something the Grand Hypocrisy Party Can't Fathom. 5/31 Remarks by the President Regarding Escalating Tensions Between India and Pakistan in the Dispute Over Kashmir 5/31 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! Buy "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" And Help Out Buzzflash.com Ashcroft's Biggest Gift to the NRA is Starting to Have an Adverse Impact 5/30 Text of 1998 FBI E-mail 5/30 BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison -- "Intelligence" 5/29 Afghan Warlord Urges War Vs. U.S. 5/31 Gramm-Kyl Estate Tax Plan Threatens Taxpayers With $850B Price Tag 5/31 Ceremony closes 'Ground Zero' cleanup 5/31	Someone Tells Bush to Send Rumsfeld to S. Asia 5/31 From S&Ls to Enron: Bill Black Offers a Primer on CEO Fraud 5/31 Another Federal Judiciary Travesty: Democrats cannot question Republican lawmakers about whether they created a congressional seat especially for state House Speaker Tom Feeney, two federal judges ruled Wednesday. 5/30 Baucus: Health care in crisis 5/31 Florida State lawmaker is accused of operating illegal cemetery 5/31 Cloning Bill Bans Abortion Too? 5/31 Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan sign pipeline deal 5/31 Gagged by Google 5/31 Russia Co. to Sell Crude Oil to U.S. 5/31 "Bush's historic speech" by German paper "Tageszeitung" 5/31 Sounding desperate Defending Bush, without flogging Clinton, becoming harder for right-wingers to do 5/31 Feds: Ex-Agent Had Key Data, Liquidated Stocks on 9/10 5/31 Slave to His Job No More: Republican Staffer Sidelined For Writing "Blistering" Essay of McCain 5/31 George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil - Updated 5/31 WATCH OUT! "The Justice Department sharply eased restrictions on domestic spying Thursday, handing the FBI broad, new authority to monitor Internet sites, libraries, churches and political organizations" 5/31 Is the Death Penalty a Lottery? You Bet 5/31 First Lady Bush says she was happy to get "kinky" with Kinky Friedman 5/31 LIBERTY! A BuzzFlash Writer Puts the Editorial Boards of the New York Times and Washington Post to Shame Fla. County Makes '23' a Passing Grade 5/31 $24,000 sofa among luxuries bought by Army and Air Force 5/31 GOP Raps Chamber for Kirk Event 5/31 The ACLU today released the first definitive run-down on the panoply of new powers that the government has granted itself since September 11 (req. Acrobat Reader) 5/31 A callow cowboy stumbles: "Europeans - not just the elites but much of their populations - simply find Mr Bush irredeemably uncouth, a walking, talking version of every American cliché they love to hate." 5/31 More Proof That Jeb's Blue Ribbon Commission Was a Whitewash -- State agency often houses foster children in Broward office building 5/31 "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock Harvey Pitt Investigates Dick Cheney. There's Not Going To Be An Investigation. Someone Will Shove Some Papers Around a Desk and Say "Dick's Clear, Nothing Here." What a Disgusting Sham. 5/30 Central Asia gas deal signed 5/31 Oil riches in the pipeline 5/31 New FBI focus stirs fears of civil abuses 5/31 Wrong Way on Energy 5/31 Alternative media and the new paradigm 5/31 Avoiding the real questions 5/31 After 9/11, Big Brother is watching 5/31 REPOST: One of Karl Rove's Key Advisors Promotes a Chilling Manifesto Against Progressives and Democrats 5/31 The Peculiar Duplicity of Ari Fleischer 5/31 The Attorney General was quick to restrict official information after September 11. Why isn't he moving just as fast to reform the FBI? 5/31 From Heroes to Scapegoats 5/31 Carlyle Group Honcho Says, "said Sept. 11 had boosted interest in security-related investments, especially those with a track record of selling to defense contractors." 5/30 "Remember, though, that Ashcroft, who managed to lose a Senate race to a dead man, was not picked for his smarts but rather as a naked political concession to his fellow right-wing fundamentalists." 5/30 Bush Did Try to Save Enron 5/30 REPOSTED: Please Note Another "Unusual" Rehnquist Decision Favoring the GOP. "Rehnquist, in an unusual solo opinion issued Friday, rejected an emergency appeal from state officials who wanted to keep the original maps." 5/30 The Hesitant Hawks 5/30 Triple Cynical Move of Day: Boy George to Use Taxpayer Money to Enrich Oil Companies to Help Jeb Appear an "Environtmentalist," While Boy George Still Advocates for Bringing the Oil Rigs to the Arctic Refuge. Unbelievable! 5/30 Is There an Enron-Afghanistan Connection? 5/30 Support Independent News Sources! "In what could be a major blow to Democrats' hopes of regaining the governor's office, Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein is on the verge of qualifying to receive up to $3.4 million in taxpayer-funded Clean Election campaign funds." 5/30	A New Dennis Kucinich Speech 5/30 The Most Dangerous Place in the World, By SALMAN RUSHDIE 5/30 Getting Off of Welfare is Not the Same as Moving Out of Poverty 5/30 Grand Hypocrisy Party Department of "Justice" White Wash in Florida Why is the American Press Ignoring Bush's Ignoramus Do You Have Black in Brazil Comment? 5/30 The May 29th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) "US oil services and engineering firm Halliburton is being investigated for its accounting practices when US Vice President Dick Cheney was at the helm." 5/30 A federal judge in New Jersey dealt a significant blow yesterday to the government's efforts to hold terrorism suspects in secret 5/30 Panel protected Jeb, not Florida's children 5/30 MORE PRE-ATTACK WARNING MEMOS TURN UP: WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP? YOU CAN'T LEAD IF YOU DON'T LEAD. Confusion Reigns on Ashcroft NRA Second Amendment Policy 5/31 The Halliburton Company — which disclosed Tuesday that it was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a change in its accounting practices in 1998, while Vice President Dick Cheney was its chief executive .... 5/30 Sen. Dodd: 9-11 Attacks Happened on Bush's Watch (Newsmax) 5/30 The Reward for Incompetence: FBI Given More Latitude to Encroach on Civil Liberties 5/30 BUSH LOYALIST MUELLER PREPARED TO TAKE THE FALL FOR THE ERRANT DIMWITTED PRINCE: ADMITS FBI MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED SEPTEMBER 11TH BUZZFLASH EXCLUSIVE, MUST READ: AFTER MEMORIAL DAY, IT'S TIME TO ASK, ONCE AGAIN, ABOUT BUSH'S NATIONAL GUARD RECORD AND WHY HE RAN AWAY FROM SERVICE IN VIETNAM 5/28 US's Afghan aid package fuels pipeline politics 5/30 Taliban Rule as Darkness Descends 5/30 Bush's Enron-Apparent: Texas Governor Rick Perry 5/30 Dynegy Chief is Much Richer for Being Forced Out 5/30 Just imagine Bush's words coming from mouth of President Gore 5/29 While You Were Freaking: Bush Spent Terror Week Smiling for the Camera AND Ashcroft's Wasted Summer (2nd Story) 5/30 Suburban GOP Mob-Connected Mayor Let the Wolves Into Town 5/30 Do We Buy or Sell This SEC Boss? 5/30 U.S. backs off election lawsuits: The Justice Department now says it has little evidence that any Floridians were intentionally denied their right to vote. 5/30 We Investigate To Find Justice - It's That Simple 5/30 Jockeying for judges: Conservatives fire away at Democratic-induced 'judicial crisis' 5/30 "A former Baptist minister in the town of Cut and Shoot pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting two children, often in His Office" 5/30 British Troops Mass Near Pakistan 5/30 septembereleven.net: . . .in memory of all victims of terrorism 5/30 Boomtown, U.S.A.: story of the men and women of McAlester, Oklahoma, who run the factory that makes virtually every non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. 5/30 REPOST: Study shows network news sources skew white, male & elite 5/30 BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist - "Imperial Schlemiels" 5/28 A BuzzFlash Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive REPOSTED: BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. THE LIGHTER SIDE: Cheney's Eyepatch 5/31 These are Ironic Times 5/29 Gross Out of the Day 5/31 Ode to Pootie-Poot 5/29 A Message from Dick Cheney 5/29 The Top Ten Conservative Idiots "Out of Harm's Way" Edition 5/27 The New and Improved FBI 5/30 What's Dick Cheney Got Down His Pants? 5/30

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TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ITS OWN INCOMPETENCY AS AN EXCUSE, BUSH ADMINISTRATION GIVES FBI TOTALITARIAN STATE POWERS TO SPY ON AMERICANS