*An investigative report into the documents obtained by the New York Times from their lawsuit against the Pentagon revealed a six-year long strategy for the Bush administration to co-opt a team of "military analysts," and groom them to deliver war testimony manipulated in the administration's favor. These analysts were paid $500-$1,000 each per appearance on a mainstream news network.

*After human rights groups joined together in a lawsuit to investigate whether senior officials of the Bush administration authorized the use of torture, the CIA announced that it possesses some 7,000 documents that it will not be handing over. The CIA cited "presidential communications privilege," a classic stonewalling strategy for hiding immoral and illegal acts.

*Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing entitled: Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence. One would assume the study that broke earlier in the month exposing a 1 in 4 STD infection rate among teen girls would be evidence enough that abstinence-only programs are indeed what Planned Parenthood has called "a $1.5 billion failure."

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