By Dave Lindorff

I reported in this space yesterday that Gannett's USA Today newspaper had incorrectly identified the message of the orange ribbon worn at the Oscars by Oscar nominee Julie Christie. The paper had said it was for the ACLU. I had said it was the symbol of the national impeachment movement.

While it is the case that the impeachment movement is using the color orange, and encourages the wearing of orange ribbons and armbands, it turns out that Christie was wearing her ribbon as part of an ACLU-led call for the closing of the US torture camps at Guantanamo Bay Naval base on the Isand of Cuba.

My headline, of course, is metaphorical.

The publisher in question is Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily.com, which shares the bottom of the rightwing "news" chain with Matt Drudge's Drudgereport.com. For guys like Farah and Drudge, no baldfaced rightwing lie about a Democrat is too false or sleazy to publish. And once they publish such lies, they get promoted by more "credible" outlets like Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, FOX News, and Wall Street Journal, and are then embraced on MSNBC by Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan, who together did more to promote the Swift Boat Liars than anyone on TV.

If They Want A Condemnation We'll Give Them One

Once in a rare while a member of Congress will speak the plain truth without equivocation.

Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/condemnation.php

And when Pete Stark stood up to accuse the president of the United States of having no conscience about the deaths of the thousands of valiant troops he sent on a criminal war mission (for his "amusement" Stark said), while at the same time stealing the medicines out of the mouths of babes, not a word was voiced in protest by the Republicans present in the moment. There was only a mild generalized statement from the chair about avoiding personal references to the president.

And the reason there was not a peep of actual outrage when Stark spoke those indicting words (that they are so howling about now), is that they in knew in what was left of their hearts that it was all shamefully true.

All of our emails and calls are giving Democrats in Congress the backbone to say NO to Bush's demand for warrantless wiretapping power.

So to avoid defeat, the Busheviks are once again playing their ace-in-the-hole - the Big Lie - which is being stovepiped into Congress through Rupert Murdoch's lie-filled NY Post.

On May 15, Spc. Alex Jiminez (left) and six other soldiers were on lookout in the Triangle of Death when insurgents attacked, killing 4 and kidnapping 3, including Jiminez.

While U.S. troops began a highly-publicized manhunt, NSA lawyers struggled to find a top Justice Department official to get an emergency warrant for a wiretap (of what I don't know - did the insurgents leave behind a cellphone or their personal address book?).

But it took them 10-12 hours because

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was out of town; Deputy AG Paul McNulty had resigned already; Solicitor General Paul Clement "had left the building"; and the other responsible official, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein was not yet authorized to approve the emergency order.