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Phantom Flight From Florida

The private Saudi flight that George W. Bush doesn't admit existed.

9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes

Reconstructing the chaotic morning of 9/11 from NORAD's control room audio tapes -- and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.

Tentacles of Rage: A Brief History of the Republican Propaganda Mill

The Terrorism Article the NYT Doesn't Want You to Read

The New York Times published an article on Al Qaeda's threats against the United States on September 9, 2001 -- then removed all traces of it from their archives after September 11. Read it here.

A Blacklist Burning for Bush

The more you look the more disbarred and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was deliberate.

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The Downing Street Memo

A top-secret British government document with meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister's meeting on July 23, 2002, summarizing the Bush Administration's desire for war with Iraq and the British government wondering how to justify it.

The Two Faces of the Christian Coalition

Defying predictions that he would fade from the political scene as a result of his showing at the 1992 Republican National Convention, Televangelist Pat Robertson has instead emerged as one of the country's most powerful political leaders. In the past three years, Robertson's Christian Coalition has grown from a small and sporadically successful organization into a political machine that regularly influences policy from local school boards to the halls of Congress. It has become the dominant organization in an increasingly significant political movement -- the Religious Right.

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