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"This administration is capable of any lie ... in order to advance its war goal in Iraq," says a US government source in Washington with some two decades of experience in intelligence. "It is one of the reasons it doesn't want to have UN weapons inspectors go back in, because they might actually show that the probability of Iraq having [threatening illicit weapons] is much lower than they want us to believe.
The NAACP's lawsuit over Florida's disputed 2000 presidential election appears headed for a close as the state and two counties -- the only remaining defendants -- have agreed to a settlement, attorneys said Tuesday. Joe Klock, an attorney for the state, told U.S. District Judge Alan Gold that all parties promised to file final papers by Friday for approval. Attorneys would not discuss terms of the settlement. The class-action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other civil rights groups argued voters were disenfranchised during the on Nov. 7, 2000 election; it included allegations that blacks were kept from voting in some counties. The state and Orange and Hillsborough counties were the only holdouts in the lawsuit. Miami-Dade, Broward, Leon, Volusia and Duval counties settled earlier rather than face trial.
Hmm, let's tally the fraud - first, a contract firm with strong Republican and Texas ties erroneously marks thousands of voters as felons, denying their right to vote. Next, the inconsistent treatment of overseas votes - in precincts favorable to Republicans, the rule of law was discarded and those votes were tallied, regardless of postmarks or deadlines. Many Republican voters tallied multiple votes. In Democrat favored precincts, the letter of the law was adhered to, which suited Republican strategists just fine. Second, the differences in the mechanical error rates of non-registered votes between Republican and Democrat districts that exceed any normal statistical deviation. And finally an admission (by agreeing to the settlement) that black voters were kept from voting and wrongfully turned away. Florida is doing its earnest to return to the days of Jim Crow.
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