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	<title>Comments on: Senator Leahy Is Not Satisfied with the Anthrax Investigation</title>
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		<title>By: JohnLopresti</title>
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		<dc:creator>JohnLopresti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I thought the  passing interrogatories to Senator Leahy at the close of the meeting an appropriate, reinforcing way of helping him in a difficult, and pretty brave situation.  He has developed a natural mask of quizzicality infused with a measure of rock-ribbed NewEnglander bemusement, and especially, though downstate NY is a little peripheral to have observed the phenomenon, an aura of respect for privacy.  I have noticed the privacy theme in most of the oldest enclaves which date to colonial times, and perhaps the NewEngland variety is most accentuated, the weather being cold and the scenery exquisite.  I am sure Leahy appreciated the questions even if he could not answer volubly, yet, godlike saw one of the proposed thought lines included insight into the fact he operates based on a wealth of insider information ex officio.  Molecular biology and other forms of forensic science being what they are, it may be soon that what began with an investigation of one bioWMD worker and arrived at a report designating yet another, might go where the senator has suggested if there is a wider report developed than the recently published tale of an overnight drive in a Civic 450 miles roundtrip; I wonder if the investigation in that matter was based on POS receipts for a wider timespan than merely a few days, i.e., examining average gasoline gallonage over months, though cash for gas for several cars could complicate that kind of circumstantial case building.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the  passing interrogatories to Senator Leahy at the close of the meeting an appropriate, reinforcing way of helping him in a difficult, and pretty brave situation.  He has developed a natural mask of quizzicality infused with a measure of rock-ribbed NewEnglander bemusement, and especially, though downstate NY is a little peripheral to have observed the phenomenon, an aura of respect for privacy.  I have noticed the privacy theme in most of the oldest enclaves which date to colonial times, and perhaps the NewEngland variety is most accentuated, the weather being cold and the scenery exquisite.  I am sure Leahy appreciated the questions even if he could not answer volubly, yet, godlike saw one of the proposed thought lines included insight into the fact he operates based on a wealth of insider information ex officio.  Molecular biology and other forms of forensic science being what they are, it may be soon that what began with an investigation of one bioWMD worker and arrived at a report designating yet another, might go where the senator has suggested if there is a wider report developed than the recently published tale of an overnight drive in a Civic 450 miles roundtrip; I wonder if the investigation in that matter was based on POS receipts for a wider timespan than merely a few days, i.e., examining average gasoline gallonage over months, though cash for gas for several cars could complicate that kind of circumstantial case building.</p>
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		<title>By: Mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;123 - well, no, I can’t say I have any hopes up.  My snark meter must be off, but after mentioning that both the leftist and rightwing govs were in the mix and the sole voice seeking transparency is the socialist mp, nah, not really a light at the end of the tunnel, thing as much as a oh my, it’s a train, thing. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not really thinking that a mention in WaPo buried during convention coverage is going to make anyone ever ask for info on the children who keep disappearing or ending up dead or brutalized whenever the loyal bushies in intel and military and justice show up either. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It’s just substituting polkas for kabuki.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>123 &#8211; well, no, I can’t say I have any hopes up.  My snark meter must be off, but after mentioning that both the leftist and rightwing govs were in the mix and the sole voice seeking transparency is the socialist mp, nah, not really a light at the end of the tunnel, thing as much as a oh my, it’s a train, thing. </p>
<p>Not really thinking that a mention in WaPo buried during convention coverage is going to make anyone ever ask for info on the children who keep disappearing or ending up dead or brutalized whenever the loyal bushies in intel and military and justice show up either. </p>
<p>It’s just substituting polkas for kabuki.</p>
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		<title>By: brendanx</title>
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		<dc:creator>brendanx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Don’t get your hopes up on this.  The explanations from Polish politicians are that foreign human rights groups are a pain in the ass so, in the words of one, they have to “dot the I”, i.e., address and dismiss the matter in some formal way.  No party there is interested in seeing this secret investigation reveal anything (sounds like another country).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,5623342,Nie_bylo_doniesienia_w_sprawie_wiezien_CIA.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,562.....n_CIA.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don’t get your hopes up on this.  The explanations from Polish politicians are that foreign human rights groups are a pain in the ass so, in the words of one, they have to “dot the I”, i.e., address and dismiss the matter in some formal way.  No party there is interested in seeing this secret investigation reveal anything (sounds like another country).</p>
<p><a href="http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,5623342,Nie_bylo_doniesienia_w_sprawie_wiezien_CIA.html" rel="nofollow">http://wyborcza.pl/1,75478,562&#8230;..n_CIA.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
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		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/judge-denies-stay-on-miers-bolten-testimony-pending-appeal-8-26-08/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Judge Bates’ Order Today Denying a Stay for Miers and Bolten in Committe on Judiciary v. Miers et. al.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/judge-denies-stay-on-miers-bolten-testimony-pending-appeal-8-26-08/" rel="nofollow">Judge Bates’ Order Today Denying a Stay for Miers and Bolten in Committe on Judiciary v. Miers et. al.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
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		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;This may be late but I just noticed that Judge Bates has denied Harriett Miers’ attorneys motions for a stay.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/judge_denies_stay_bolten_and_m.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Judge Denies Stay; Miers Must Appear to Answer HJC’s Subpoena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/judge-denies-stay-on-miers-bolten-testimony-pending-appeal-8-26-08/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Judge Denies Stay on Miers-Bolten Testimony Pending Appeal 8-26-08&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On to an emergency motion by yoh govmunt in the D.C. Circuit I betcha. See Harriet and Josh don’t want to even have their scumbuts dragged before Conyers’ commitee so they can start taking the ole 5th after drinking some of it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This may be late but I just noticed that Judge Bates has denied Harriett Miers’ attorneys motions for a stay.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/judge_denies_stay_bolten_and_m.php" rel="nofollow">Judge Denies Stay; Miers Must Appear to Answer HJC’s Subpoena</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/judge-denies-stay-on-miers-bolten-testimony-pending-appeal-8-26-08/" rel="nofollow">Judge Denies Stay on Miers-Bolten Testimony Pending Appeal 8-26-08</a></strong></p>
<p>On to an emergency motion by yoh govmunt in the D.C. Circuit I betcha. See Harriet and Josh don’t want to even have their scumbuts dragged before Conyers’ commitee so they can start taking the ole 5th after drinking some of it.</p>
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		<title>By: LS</title>
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		<dc:creator>LS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Did you guys see this story???:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/08/12/possible-cyanide-found-dead-man-in-denver-hotel-room/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalterroralert.....otel-room/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“An autopsy is now complete on a 29-year-old Ottawa man found dead in a Denver hotel room on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;strong&gt;Denver&lt;/strong&gt; police haven’t yet said how Saleman Abdirahman Dirie died, &lt;strong&gt;authorities told reporters they found one pound of sodium cyanide near his body.The pound of sodium cyanide found in a hotel room Monday is potent enough to have killed close to 1,000 people&lt;/strong&gt;, according to an expert in deadly chemicals and counter-terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“You have a suspicious substance that was found in a hotel room in conjunction with a person being a foreign national, and we have a lot of questions and that is why we are assisting,” said Denver FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright. Authorities were trying to determine why Dirie, 29, was in Denver and how and when he got into the United States.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“There is not necessarily more of a concern, but it is something we are aware of and how close the DNC is,” Wright said. “We want to make sure we do everything we can to find out the unknown.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And they should be, according to Dr. Andrew Ternay, a chemist at the University of Denver and the director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Homeland Defense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“A pound of cyanide would kill hundreds of people,” Ternay said. “It depends on, do you breathe it in? Does it get on your skin? That makes all the difference in the world. Sitting in a bag, it does nothing. But if you get it on your skin, it’ll go through the pores of your skin and kill you.”&lt;br /&gt;
Police say it appears Dirie was dead for several days before his body was found in room 408 of the Burnsley Hotel in downtown Denver, located about four blocks from the State Capitol.”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you guys see this story???:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/08/12/possible-cyanide-found-dead-man-in-denver-hotel-room/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalterroralert&#8230;..otel-room/</a></p>
<p>“An autopsy is now complete on a 29-year-old Ottawa man found dead in a Denver hotel room on Monday.</p>
<p>Although <strong>Denver</strong> police haven’t yet said how Saleman Abdirahman Dirie died, <strong>authorities told reporters they found one pound of sodium cyanide near his body.The pound of sodium cyanide found in a hotel room Monday is potent enough to have killed close to 1,000 people</strong>, according to an expert in deadly chemicals and counter-terrorism.</p>
<p>“You have a suspicious substance that was found in a hotel room in conjunction with a person being a foreign national, and we have a lot of questions and that is why we are assisting,” said Denver FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright. Authorities were trying to determine why Dirie, 29, was in Denver and how and when he got into the United States.</p>
<p>“There is not necessarily more of a concern, but it is something we are aware of and how close the DNC is,” Wright said. “We want to make sure we do everything we can to find out the unknown.”</p>
<p>And they should be, according to Dr. Andrew Ternay, a chemist at the University of Denver and the director of the Rocky Mountain Center for Homeland Defense.</p>
<p>“A pound of cyanide would kill hundreds of people,” Ternay said. “It depends on, do you breathe it in? Does it get on your skin? That makes all the difference in the world. Sitting in a bag, it does nothing. But if you get it on your skin, it’ll go through the pores of your skin and kill you.”<br />
Police say it appears Dirie was dead for several days before his body was found in room 408 of the Burnsley Hotel in downtown Denver, located about four blocks from the State Capitol.”</p>
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		<title>By: PetePierce</title>
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		<dc:creator>PetePierce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’m not sure what could be outed about Dr. Hatfill except that he faked his CV in a bizarre way with a mozaic that no one on this planet would actually do or has.  But he did get work at Deitrick.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pierre Howard ABC legal and Kelli Arena former CNN employee played key roles in the screwup that resulted in DOJ settling with Hatfill for $5.8 million of your money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As far as scumbags who fake outted Hatfill and were drinking buddies with the scum in the FBI who lied about this investigation repeatedly, CNN’s Kelli Arena who doesn’t seem to be in their employ thankfully anymore, was a prime culprit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She was regular seen  at D.C. bars boozing it up with the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arena was Hatfill wallpaper for Chicken Noodle Network for a long time and some people at CNN headquaters knicknamed her FBI Groupie/Hatfill babe for a while.  ABC  legal correspondent Pierre Thomas was another. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This appropriately &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/07/kelli-arena-she-was-there.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;contexts Arena who is was a Foxesque shill for DOJ disguised as Chicken Noodle Network &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Earlier this year, Ms. Arena reported that “SOME” people speculated that bin Laden and his supporters believed it would be better for them if John Kerry were elected President. Undoubtedly that came from, as Digby puts it, Ms. Arena’s “special friend” in the Bush Administration. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If DOJ burpeed it, no matter how surreal or fictional, she reported it or she implied it.&lt;br /&gt;
The more legal trauma inflicted upon people like Arena and Thomas the better over their irresponsible reporting.  Reporters actually beat the FBI to Hatfill stakeouts several times.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And throughtout the annals of the&lt;em&gt; Federal Reporter&lt;/em&gt; there are cases reversing the stupidity of dog alerting evidence, and there are lots of cases in the state law reporters like &lt;em&gt;South Eastern Second&lt;/em&gt;, because DOJ and state assistant attorneys general,  doesn’t have a way for the defendant to exercise their 6th Amendment rights to cross the dog as a witness.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone who owns a bassett hound or a blood hound will tell you &lt;em&gt;dog alerting is pure bullshit if you’re trying to use it as evidence in a criminal case. &lt;/em&gt; Using dogs to find actual material things is entirely another matter and of course they are helpful every day.  But those things have to be linked by the type of stuff that CSI Miami and CSI coming to your town soon pretends to get done in a matter of minutes or seconds.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Arf Arf Woof!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OT PS I sure be gettin’ out my popcorn tonite and tomorry ’cause I heard Mark the Penn has written Hill’s Bill’s speech.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought we were through with Terry McAuliffe, but he has another 48 hours to wallpaper the teeeveee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kudos to the FAA Atlanta for fucking things up yet again.  Enjoy your time in line.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Great to see Monica Goodling’s mentor  Barbara Comstock used as a McCain shill.  Now there’s credibility.  Sometimes MSNBC morphs into Fox.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m not sure what could be outed about Dr. Hatfill except that he faked his CV in a bizarre way with a mozaic that no one on this planet would actually do or has.  But he did get work at Deitrick.</p>
<p>Pierre Howard ABC legal and Kelli Arena former CNN employee played key roles in the screwup that resulted in DOJ settling with Hatfill for $5.8 million of your money.</p>
<p>As far as scumbags who fake outted Hatfill and were drinking buddies with the scum in the FBI who lied about this investigation repeatedly, CNN’s Kelli Arena who doesn’t seem to be in their employ thankfully anymore, was a prime culprit.</p>
<p>She was regular seen  at D.C. bars boozing it up with the FBI.</p>
<p>Arena was Hatfill wallpaper for Chicken Noodle Network for a long time and some people at CNN headquaters knicknamed her FBI Groupie/Hatfill babe for a while.  ABC  legal correspondent Pierre Thomas was another. </p>
<p>This appropriately <strong><a href="http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/07/kelli-arena-she-was-there.html" rel="nofollow">contexts Arena who is was a Foxesque shill for DOJ disguised as Chicken Noodle Network </a></strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, Ms. Arena reported that “SOME” people speculated that bin Laden and his supporters believed it would be better for them if John Kerry were elected President. Undoubtedly that came from, as Digby puts it, Ms. Arena’s “special friend” in the Bush Administration. </p>
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<p>If DOJ burpeed it, no matter how surreal or fictional, she reported it or she implied it.<br />
The more legal trauma inflicted upon people like Arena and Thomas the better over their irresponsible reporting.  Reporters actually beat the FBI to Hatfill stakeouts several times.</p>
<p>And throughtout the annals of the<em> Federal Reporter</em> there are cases reversing the stupidity of dog alerting evidence, and there are lots of cases in the state law reporters like <em>South Eastern Second</em>, because DOJ and state assistant attorneys general,  doesn’t have a way for the defendant to exercise their 6th Amendment rights to cross the dog as a witness.</p>
<p>Anyone who owns a bassett hound or a blood hound will tell you <em>dog alerting is pure bullshit if you’re trying to use it as evidence in a criminal case. </em> Using dogs to find actual material things is entirely another matter and of course they are helpful every day.  But those things have to be linked by the type of stuff that CSI Miami and CSI coming to your town soon pretends to get done in a matter of minutes or seconds.</p>
<p>Arf Arf Woof!</p>
<p>OT PS I sure be gettin’ out my popcorn tonite and tomorry ’cause I heard Mark the Penn has written Hill’s Bill’s speech.</p>
<p>I thought we were through with Terry McAuliffe, but he has another 48 hours to wallpaper the teeeveee.</p>
<p>Kudos to the FAA Atlanta for fucking things up yet again.  Enjoy your time in line.</p>
<p>Great to see Monica Goodling’s mentor  Barbara Comstock used as a McCain shill.  Now there’s credibility.  Sometimes MSNBC morphs into Fox.</p>
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		<title>By: bobschacht</title>
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		<dc:creator>bobschacht</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I still don’t get it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;McCain cheats on his first wife in her time of trouble, dumps her, and marries a beer baroness. Thereafter he was elected to the Senate and is about to become the Republican nominee for president.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John Edwards cheats on his wife in her time of trouble, but does not dump her. Instead, he dumps the Other Woman. Like McCain, he, too, runs for the presidency. But he is loudly condemned, sent into exile, is disinvited from the Democratic National Convention, and is informed that his political career is over. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, is this a simple case of IOKIYAR? Or are the Democrats equally guilty of hypocrisy?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bob in HI&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still don’t get it. </p>
<p>McCain cheats on his first wife in her time of trouble, dumps her, and marries a beer baroness. Thereafter he was elected to the Senate and is about to become the Republican nominee for president.</p>
<p>John Edwards cheats on his wife in her time of trouble, but does not dump her. Instead, he dumps the Other Woman. Like McCain, he, too, runs for the presidency. But he is loudly condemned, sent into exile, is disinvited from the Democratic National Convention, and is informed that his political career is over. </p>
<p>So, is this a simple case of IOKIYAR? Or are the Democrats equally guilty of hypocrisy?</p>
<p>Bob in HI</p>
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		<title>By: yonodeler</title>
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		<dc:creator>yonodeler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Displeased as I am with some of Obama’s current positions, I’ve thought about checking out how much Bob Barr has changed and seeing whether I can justify voting for him. In the pre-election days of early November, however, poll results (of which I tend to be wary) may not  all conclude that McCain will win Georgia by a sizable margin, or at all, and I don’t want McCain to win. Even if poll results were to agree that McCain will win by a sizable margin, I would have to decide whether I would want to indulge in an expression of displeaure (i.e., voting outside the two major parties) that most participating voters would feel is not morally available to them in this presidential election, given the stakes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Displeased as I am with some of Obama’s current positions, I’ve thought about checking out how much Bob Barr has changed and seeing whether I can justify voting for him. In the pre-election days of early November, however, poll results (of which I tend to be wary) may not  all conclude that McCain will win Georgia by a sizable margin, or at all, and I don’t want McCain to win. Even if poll results were to agree that McCain will win by a sizable margin, I would have to decide whether I would want to indulge in an expression of displeaure (i.e., voting outside the two major parties) that most participating voters would feel is not morally available to them in this presidential election, given the stakes.</p>
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		<title>By: Boston1775</title>
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		<dc:creator>Boston1775</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;When I went to see what Barbara Hatch Rosenberg had to say, she was more accurate about where the anthrax came from than Ed Lake led me to believe.  He declared that she was a crackpot and a “conspiracy theorist” which is another way of saying crazy. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She is quoted in the Salon article as saying that it was the FBI who outed Hatfill and that she found what they had done disgusting.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I went looking for what she said rather than what was said about her.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The discrepancy between the two is big enough to make me keep digging.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I went to see what Barbara Hatch Rosenberg had to say, she was more accurate about where the anthrax came from than Ed Lake led me to believe.  He declared that she was a crackpot and a “conspiracy theorist” which is another way of saying crazy. </p>
<p>She is quoted in the Salon article as saying that it was the FBI who outed Hatfill and that she found what they had done disgusting.</p>
<p>I went looking for what she said rather than what was said about her.  </p>
<p>The discrepancy between the two is big enough to make me keep digging.</p>
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