| August 1 |
- Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News
- A top U.S. government scientist, suspected of the anthrax attacks, commits suicide. ABC News knows who is responsible for false reports blaming those attacks on Iraq, but refuses to say.
- Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo
- Ben Wizner is one of the few witnesses at the Guantánamo military commission of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver.
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| August 3 |
- Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation
- The death of Bruce Ivins raises far more questions than it answers
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| August 4 |
- Additional key facts re: the anthrax investigation
- The media's key witness as to the psychological state of Bruce Ivins -- Jean Carol Duley -- has a lengthy history that undermines her credibility.
- Salon Radio: Interview with Digby
- The standout political blogger discusses the tactics of the two presidential candidates, media coverage and the role of bloggers.
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| August 5 |
- The FBI's emerging, leaking case against Ivins
- The more revelations there are in the Bruce Ivins case, the more questions there are.
- Salon Radio: Rep. Rush Holt on anthrax
- The chairman of the House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel expresses skepticism over the Ivins accusation and supports a full-scale investigation.
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| August 6 |
- The FBI's selective release of documents in the anthrax case
- Some preliminary observations about the FBI's evidence.
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| August 8 |
- Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows money bomb
- A new organization, devoted to imposing real accountability on the political class, begins today.
- Salon Radio: Anthrax edition
- Two experts -- one in bioweapons and one in journalism -- explore the numerous, still unanswered questions in the anthrax case.
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| August 10 |
- What's the answer to this?
- The latest evidence depicted by the media as incriminating of Ivins is actually an alibi.
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| August 11 |
- Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
- A leading expert on the former Soviet republics disputes the dominant American media narrative of this conflict.
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| August 13 |
- Salon Radio: Morton Halperin
- How and why did one of the nation's most prominent civil libertarians go from vehemently opposing the FISA bill on June 9 to vocally supporting it on June 22?
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| August 15 |
- Salon Radio: Jane Hamsher
- What are the short-term and longer-term plans for Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows?
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| August 18 |
- Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media
- While most independent observers express increasing skepticism over the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the establishment media uncritically amplifies those claims
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| August 19 |
- Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"
- Bush's secretary of state sermonizes against the use of military force as a means of delivering a message.
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| August 20 |
- Journalists and their good friends in the White House
- The wall between the government and the establishment media barely even exists in theory any longer.
- Salon Radio: Charles Grassley on the anthrax investigation
- The GOP senator describes his dissatisfaction with the FBI and reveals the hearings to be held by the Judiciary Committee.
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| August 21 |
- The decay of serious journalism and Rachel Maddow's new show
- The New Republic -- of all places -- laments the loss of "nuance or intellectual rigor" on television as epitomized by MSNBC's troubling decision to give an actual liberal her own show.
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| August 22 |
- The right and men who live off their second wives' inherited wealth
- Rush Limbaugh: "He's basically a skirt-chaser, folks. He's a gigolo. Well, there aren't too many of these companies that have little heiresses running around that are single, have 500 million that some guy can marry into."
- Salon Radio: Amrit Singh of ACLU and Dennis Perrin
- Is the CIA on the verge of being held in contempt of court for destroying interrogation videos? Do Democrats love war as much as the GOP?
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| August 24 |
- Joe Biden and the political establishment's overriding goal
- The Washington Post editorial page celebrates Biden's selection as "a heartening recognition that time in Washington can be useful." Is it right?
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| August 25 |
- AT&T thanks the Blue Dog Democrats with a lavish party
- The nation's most influential faction in Congress meets with one of its most significant benefactors at the convention -- and forcibly bars the press and public from knowing what it's doing.
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| August 26 |
- Warnings to Russia from Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham
- McCain's two top Senate allies lecture Russia on the dangers of trying to dominate and interfere in other countries.
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| August 28 |
- What's missing from the Democratic convention?
- Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. Is that wise?
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| August 30 |
- Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis
- Several "hippie homes" are raided this morning by semi-automatic-weapon-wielding police squads.
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| August 31 |
- Federal government involved in raids on protesters
- More extraordinary than these extreme raids is the fact that they are generating so little attention and even less outcry.
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