Month November 2005

Fitzgerald calls new grand jury

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case. I bet some folks in DC won’t…

APEC protests

Thousands of farm activists and union workers hurled bottles in a clash with police near a meeting of Pacific Rim leaders on Friday and had to be quelled by water cannon. About 2,000 farmers and farm activists and 3,000 union…

Valerie Plame and WMDs

Lefti on the News blogs via The Wayne Madsen Report that Valerie Plame was outed because the CIA intercepted shipments of nerve gas into Iraq "which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam…

Yikes. Airborne mold health threat in NOLA

 "The outdoor mould spore concentrations could easily trigger serious allergic or asthmatic reactions in sensitive people," said Dr Gina Solomon, who led the NRDC team. "The indoor air quality was even worse, rendering the homes we tested dangerously uninhabitable by…