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June 27, 2007

Political news highlights from around the Web

  • Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw says, "what Fox puts on the air is not news."
  • 9/11 widows demand release of CIA's Inspector General 9/11 report that still has never been shown to the public. Document is said to contain, "sharp criticisms of former CIA director George Tenet and other top agency officials."
  • Arkansas GOP head says "all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001]" and the naysayers will appreciate George W. Bush.
  • Some of $78 billion spent by Pentagon on weapons research is going towards gay bombs, armed sharks, psychic teleportation and invisible self-healing shields.
  • Republican bill seeks to limit Speaker Nancy Pelosi's travels.
  • FBI document says plane carrying Saudis out of U.S. on 9-19-01 may have been chartered by Osama Bin Laden.
  • Fourteen US soldiers killed in two days in Iraq.
  • ABC News' The Blotter reports that "Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers" are coming to the US and Europe.
  • Seymour Hersh reveals new horrific details about what happened at Abu Ghraib: "I learned from Taguba that the first wave of materials included descriptions of the sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees."
  • Mahmoud Abbas has dissolved the Palestinian Authority's government as Hamas-Fatah conflict escalates.
  • President Bush hits new approval rating low of 29% on NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Congress has also hit a new low.
  • Calls for calm after the sacred al-Askari shrine is bombed in Iraq.
  • The Case of the Disappearing Watch: White House claims President Bush put his watch in his pocket during walkabout in Albania but video tells a different story.
  • Republicans block vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. President George W. Bush had dismissed the no confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as "meangingless."
  • Suicide bomb brings down bridge in Iraq trapping several U.S. soldiers.
  • Holy Gaffe: President Bush refers to Pope as "sir" instead of the appropriate "His Holiness."
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thinks history will have a favorable view of President Bush's foreign policy.
  • Is President Bush off the wagon? Spotted with foamy beer-like beverage during G8 Summit. Video here.
  • President Bush's pick for Surgeon General faces grueling Senate battle because of past "homophobic statements."
  • President Bush gets a second chance to veto embryonic stem cell research.
  • Turkish troops briefly entered Iraq to chase after Kurdish rebels.
  • Depreciation: The cost of a picture with President Bush plunges from $25,000 to just $5,000.
  • 30 months: Scotter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, sentenced to 30 months in prison for for lying and obstructing the investigation into the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
  • Experts cast doubt on credibility of JFK terror plot. Call plot "virtually impossible" and "nonsense."
  • Rep. William Jefferson, (D-La.) has been indicted on bribery charges.






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