[Newspoetry] RE: Spoof and Truth

[DL Emerick]

some footnote to our envisioned sources...
if life follows art,
news follows newspoetry


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/politics/01educ.html?pagewanted=2&th&emc=th

Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal 
By ROBERT PEAR
Federal auditors said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the U.S., in violation of a statutory ban.

Also,
in regard to my hang'em high post of a couple days back:

See:
Matthew Rothschild | When Will Rumsfeld Face the Music?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/093005C.shtml
Matthew Rothschild: Lynndie England just got three years and a dishonorable discharge. When is Donald Rumsfeld going to face the music and get canned or indicted for his part in the torture scandal? 

and

Robert Parry | 'Frog-Marching' Bush to the Hague
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/093005O.shtml
Robert Parry states that while Private Lynndie England's punishment fits with George W. Bush's pledge to prosecute military personnel for wrongdoing in Iraq, a larger question is whether low-ranking soldiers are becoming scapegoats for the bloody fiasco that Bush created when he 
ordered the invasion in defiance of international law.

and

Italy Seeks Former US Diplomat in Kidnapping
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/093005L.shtml
Italian authorities have ordered the arrests of a former US Embassy official here and two other people in connection with a "rendition" case in which CIA operatives allegedly kidnapped a radical Muslim cleric from Milan and flew him to Egypt, where, he has said, he was tortured.

and

Bush Cronyism Weakens Government Agencies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/093005K.shtml
The universe of federal political appointees goes beyond Cabinet secretaries and their deputies and principal assistants. Lower-level "Schedule C" and other appointed jobs pay at the civil service scale and don't need to be confirmed by the Senate. Their numbers grew 24 percent from 2000 to 2004 and are included in the Plum Book, which is formally known as "United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions."

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It will take a new Congress and an army of prosecutors to clean out the Augean stables in Washington.