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["Ben Spiker" <Ben.Spiker AT cheshirepark.com>]

Thanks. Sounds cool, I will check it out.

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From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thad Anderson
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 2:22 PM
To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Outragedmoderates.org presents Download For Democracy

Hey guys, 

I know a lot of people who read this site; for thosee of you I don't
know, I'm a Raleigh native who is now attending law school in New York
City.  I'm writing to spread the word about my website,
outragedmoderates.org.

The goal of the site is to present a moderate argument against the
Bush administration.  The aspect of the site I'm most excited about is
the Download For Democracy campaign, which uses Peer-to-Peer file
sharing to let citizens see controversial Bush administration
documents with their own eyes.

So far, we're offering 55 government documents, including the
following:

Iraqi prisoner torture scandal:
- General Taguba's report, the internal investigation which first
documented the Abu Ghraib abuses
- The memo in which President Bush claimed the right to ignore the
Geneva Convention
- The memo that authorized forced nudity and threats with unmuzzled
dogs
- The memo that authorized the "waterboarding" and "mock burial"
torture methods
- The memo in which Bush's lawyers explain that forcing prisoners to
stand motionless, for hours, is going too far; which shows Sec.
Rumsfeld's handwritten response: "I stand 8-10 hours a day. Why is
standing limited to 4 hours?"

Cheney's Energy Task Force and Halliburton:
- An email from a high-ranking Energy Department official to a gas
industry lobbyist, asking him to submit a proposal of how he would
change the Energy Department's policies if he "were King, or il Duce"
- The Pentagon's harsh internal audit of Halliburton subsidiary KBR's
billing and subcontracting practices
- The Pentagon's paperwork for Halliburton/KBR's no-bid contract
- The "coordinated w VP" email, written by an employee at the Army
Corps of Engineers, which provides strong evidence that Vice President
Cheney was involved in the decision process for Halliburton's no-bid
contract

Please check out the site, and pass it on to anyone you know who would
be interested.

Thad Anderson
outragedmoderates.org
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