28.Aug.2004 In a joint order signed today by the interior minister + transport minister, the transport ministry has handed over the charge of airport security to the interior ministry. _{https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52511}
28.Aug.2004 MOSCOW- Experts probing the twin air crash in Russia have found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the second plane also, proving that both the airliners went down as a result of terror attacks, the country’s main anti-terror agency FSB security service said today.
“The additional analysis of the fragments of Tu-134 plane that crashed in Tula region has resulted in discovery of traces of hexogen,” FSB spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS.
On Friday, Ignatchenko had announced that traces of highly explosive hexogen were found on the wreckage of Sibir Airlines’ Tupolev Tu-154 jet that crashed in Rostov region while on Moscow-Sochi flight. Both planes had taken off late Tuesday night from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport and disappeared from radar screens with a gap of a minute.

The crashes killed 90 people on board including at least two suspected female suicide bombers.
The authorities have declared that bodies of one S Jibirkhanova, a resident of Chechnya travelling on Sibir airlines’ Moscow-Sochi flight +

Aminat Nagayeva, a passenger of Moscow-Volgograd flight of Volga-Aviaexpress airlines, remain unclaimed by their relatives. _{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52511}

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28.Aug.2004 Of an impeachment in the silly season - The Times, London LONDON- What happens when an obscure nationalist, two animated academics +

the editor of a right-wing journal with a flair for publicity combine forces in the dog days of a soggy August?
To the more excitable, if gullible, observers of politics, the answer is an ingenious mechanism to hold Mr Tony Blair to account for “high crimes + misdemeanours” for invading Iraq + even to remove him from office.
Most people, however, would probably conclude that the outcome is, instead, probably the silliest story to emerge over the summer:

the plan to impeach Mr Tony Blair.
Is the Prime Minister really likely to be arrested and hauled before Black Rod in the Lords (albeit with the chance of being freed on bail) as a prelude to an impeachment trial staged somberly by the Commons with the Lords sitting in judgment?
One would think not.
Indeed, would the valiant, if eccentric, band of 13 MPs who have so far joined the campaign to impeach Mr Blair really be able to surmount a Government majority of 159 to persuade the Commons to support an impeachment motion?
Far-fetched, one might conclude.
Moreover, would Mr Michael Martin, the Speaker, even allow such a motion to be moved, given that, as recently as 1999, a Select Committee on Parliamentary Privilege concluded that the power of impeachment “may be considered obsolete”?
Surely not.
Formidable as they may be, these obstacles have not prevented the impeachment campaign from gaining considerable media attention.
It began this year when Mr Adam Price, the Plaid Cymru MP behind the idea, hunched over his laptop computer at home.

He tapped in the words “impeach” and “Blair” on Google. Up popped two results. One was a Guardian article by Dan Plesch, an honorary fellow of Birkbeck College and the author of controversial claims last year that Mr Jack Straw and Mr Colin Powell expressed private doubts about whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before going to war.
The other was a paper on impeachment commissioned from the Commons library last year by Mr Peter Kilfyole, a Labour MP and opponent of the Iraq war, who had taken it no further.
These gave Mr Price, a tenacious man, the information he wanted. The power of impeachment, although not used in England for 150 years, considered obsolete and recommended for removal, remained in place. To an optimist, that made impeachment “alive and well”. The MP commissioned a lengthy analysis of the impeachment process from Mr Plesch. He requested a second, accusing Mr Blair of misleading Parliament to make the case for war, from Dr Glen Rangwala, a lecturer international politics at Newnham College, Cambridge + critic of the war through the columns of the Independent on Sunday. Together, these formed the basis of a 99-page report on the case for impeaching the Prime Minister. Then came the masterstroke from Mr Price.

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28.Aug.2004 Moreover, would Mr Michael Martin, the Speaker, even allow such a motion to be moved, given that, as recently as 1999, a Select Committee on Parliamentary Privilege concluded that the power of impeachment “may be considered obsolete”?
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28.Aug.2004 ‘Blair deceiving’ -Scotland-The journalist whose report on prewar intelligence about Iraq sparked a furious feud between the BBC + the government accused Mr Blair of deceiving the public, + said an official inquiry into the affair was “a landmark of judicial incompetence and bias”. “The reason the government is distrusted is because it doesn’t tell the truth,” former BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan said at the Edinburgh International Television Festival today. — AP _{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52514}

28.Aug.2004 CIA Director more powerful WASHINGTON- President Bush has expanded the powers of the CIA Director + ordered the creation of a national counter-terrorism centre to synchronise + sharpen the government’s fight against terror.

The new measures, aimed at silencing critics who have questioned the effectiveness of the US Intelligence apparatus, give the agency chief far greater authority over the intelligence budgets.
Mr Bush, who signed four executive orders and two Presidential directives to effect the changes, also gave the Intelligence chief power to determine how various agencies, including the Defence Department, spend the money on various programmes.
The interim reforms comes after criticism from the Democratic Presidential candidate Mr John Kerry over the failure to find WMD in Iraq. — PTI_{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52508}

28.Aug.2004 but said the person works in the office of Mr Douglas J Feith, the undersecretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon.
Feith is a key aide to Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld, working on sensitive policy issues, including US policy toward Iraq and Iran. The investigation centres on whether the employee in Mr Feith’s office passed secrets about Bush administration policy toward Iran to the main pro-Israeli lobbying group in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which then allegedly gave them to the Israeli government, one official said.
Israel has rejected any links with the Pentagon employee who was allegedly passing sensitive documents to the country, saying it had not conducted intelligence gathering activities on US soil for years. — Agencies_{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52508}

28.Aug.2004 FBI probes Pentagon spy link WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM- The FBI is investigating whether an aide to the Pentagon’s No. 3 official acted as a spy for Israel, giving the Jewish classified materials about secret White House deliberations on Iran, according to two federal law enforcement officials.
No arrests have been made, said the officials, speaking yesterday on condition of anonymity, because the investigation is continuing.
The officials refused to identify the Pentagon employee who is under investigation, but said the person works in the office of Mr Douglas J Feith, the undersecretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon.
Feith is a key aide to Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld, working on sensitive policy issues, including US policy toward Iraq and Iran. The investigation centres on whether the employee in Mr Feith’s office passed secrets about Bush administration policy toward Iran to the main pro-Israeli lobbying group in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which then allegedly gave them to the Israeli government, one official said.
Israel has rejected any links with the Pentagon employee who was allegedly passing sensitive documents to the country, saying it had not conducted intelligence gathering activities on US soil for years. — Agencies
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28.Aug.2004 WASHINGTON-President Bush has expanded the powers of the CIA Director and ordered the creation of a national counter-terrorism centre to synchronise and sharpen the government’s fight against terror. The new measures, aimed at silencing critics who have questioned the effectiveness of the US Intelligence apparatus, give the agency chief far greater authority over the intelligence budgets.
Mr Bush, who signed four executive orders and two Presidential directives to effect the changes, also gave the Intelligence chief power to determine how various agencies, including the Defence Department, spend the money on various programmes.
The interim reforms comes after criticism from the Democratic Presidential candidate Mr John Kerry over the failure to find WMD in Iraq. — PTI _{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52508}

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28.Aug.2004 “Churchill, who like Mussolini was a life-long anti Bolshevik, was looking ahead to the coming conflict with the Soviet Union,” Peter Tompkins, a veteran American journalist who co-produced the documentary, said. Some biographers of Mussolini deny that the secret correspondence existed. — The Times, London _{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52509}

28.Apr.1945 04-10 p.m. Benito Mussolini was murdered by a two-man team led by a British secret agent acting on the orders of Winston Churchill, according to a new investigation.
In the official version, the Italian dictator + his final mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot by Italian partisans led by Walter Audisio — codenamed “Colonel Valerio” — at the gates of Villa Belmonte at Mezzegra near Lake Como

Their bodies were then hung upside down in Milan.
But it is now suggested that this was cover-up, + that Mussolini and Petacci were really killed at

28.Apr.1945 11 a.m. that day by Bruno Lonati, an Italian partisan codenamed “Giacomo” + “Captain John”, a British Special Operations Executive agent of Sicilian parentage whose name was Robert Maccarrone.
An Italian state television documentary — Mussolini: The Final Truth — claims that Mussolini was carrying compromising letters from Churchill written over a period of years involving a deal under which Italy would make a separate peace with the Allies, a breach of Churchill’s agreement with President Roosevelt at Casablanca to seek the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers.
“Churchill, who like Mussolini was a life-long anti Bolshevik, was looking ahead to the coming conflict with the Soviet Union,” Peter Tompkins, a veteran American journalist who co-produced the documentary, said. Some biographers of Mussolini deny that the secret correspondence existed. — The Times, London _{URL: https://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52509}

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RE:USA writes off Pak debt George Bush to Musharraf : "I need Osama NOW". Shyamal Ganguly(shyamalganguly@hotmail.com)

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28.Aug.2004 New light on Mussolini killing

28.Aug.2004 ‘Blair deceiving’

28.Aug.2004 Of an impeachment in the silly season

28.Aug.2004 Terror link to both air disasters

28.Aug.2004 FBI probes Pentagon spy link

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28.Aug.2004 Maoists bomb Nepal Lever factory

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27.Aug.2004 Bush Flip-Flops Again-So Mr. Bush FINALLY admitted yesterday to the New York Times for the very first time that "miscalculations" were made concerning our handling of the Iraq situation after the official war

This seems to be a flip-flop from a previous statement he made at his last formal news conference.

When asked if he could name any mistakes he had made, he stood, staring blankly for several seconds,

then said he couldn't think of any mistakes his administration had made.

Hmmm....

Mr. Bush also insisted that the 17 month insurgency was the unintended by-product of a "swift victory."

Bush last statement raises a couple of questions.

What gave the president the idea that the U.S. would get mired down in a protracted military offensive, when Bush father's Gulf War lasted only 48 days?

We had, at that time decimated Saddam Hussein's army + negated his ability to become a real threat to the USA.

By all accounts his military capabilities, as we headed to war against him 00.000.2003 were not nearly as great.

So again I ask what made Bush think his offensive would take longer?

As it turned out, Bush 43"s military offensive lasted a mere 42 days.

It should not have come as a surprise to him Bush.

But a more important question comes to mind.

Why was there no strategy to secure the peace + quickly stabilize Iraq, once the official war was over?

It is the job of Bush the commander-in-chief to ask important questions, then make important decisions BEFORE war is waged.

It was Bush job to review battle plans, then accept or reject them, before a single fighter plane was launched or a single soldier was set forth on the ground.

It was also Bush job to demand from his advisors + military planners a workable post-war plan.

No such plan ever existed.

This gross negligence has led us to a 17 month long occupation which has cost nearly a thousand American soldiers lives. Such lack of foresight is inexcusable and unforgivable.

For the president to say that he could not have forseen a "swift victory" against a Hussein army which was weaker than the one his father waged war on is disingenuous, to say the least.

Such an admission only proves his unworthiness as the leader of the free world.

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15.Aug.2004 Israelische Gefängnisse: Tausende Palästinenser treten in Hungerstreik
Die israelischen Justizbehörden sehen sich mit einem massenhaften Hungerstreik von palästinensischen Häftlingen konfrontiert.

Mit der Aktion protestieren sie gegen ihre Haftbedingungen.

Eiskalt reagierte der israelische Minister für Innere Sicherheit:

„...meinetwegen können sie sich zu Tode hungern.“
27.Aug. 2004 Am meisten aber wird der Reformprozess in einem Land beflügelt WO DAS LEID besonders hoch ist.

In Schweden beispielsweise war vor knapp zehn Jahren für jeden offenkundig, dass der Staat vor dem Offenbarungseid stand:

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27.Aug.2004 Absturz in Russland: Sprengstofffund bestätigt Terrorverdacht

27.Aug.2004 US-Wahlpannen: Bush und Kerry bringen Juristen-Truppen in Stellung

27.Aug.2004 Arbeitsmarktreformen: Köhler warnt vor Eskalation der Proteste

27.Aug.2004 Artensterben: Hochsee-Angler gefährden Fischbestände

27.Aug.2004 Sudan: Flugzeugentführung endete glimpflich

27.Aug.2004 Caravan-Salon: Wohnmobil auf hoher See

27.Aug.2004 Rom: Terrorkommando soll Anschlag auf Papst planen

27.Aug.2004 Militärs kaufen ein: Werkzeuge für den modernen Krieg

27.Aug.2004 Von Paris bis Berlin: Mit Zeppelin auf Europatour

27.Aug.2004 Expertise: Kofi Annans unnützer Kampf gegen den Terror

27.Aug.2004 Terror: Die schlimmsten Anschläge in Russland

27.Aug.2004 Trotz Wirtschaftswachstum: Zahl der Armen in den ^USA steigt um 1,3 Millionen

27.Aug.2004 Hirnforschung: Rache tut gut

27.Aug.2004 Ermittlungen in Russland: Selbstmordkommando war an Bord der Tupolew

27.Aug.2004 Millionenvergleich: Krematoriumsbetreiber lässt Hunderte Leichen verwesen

27.Aug.2004 Unverwüstliche Flash-Card: Kamera liefert Bilder ihrer eigenen Zerstörung

27.Aug.2004 Mieses Konsumklima: Deutsche fürchten Einkommenskollaps

27.Aug.2004 Optimismus: Opec peilt Ölpreis von 30 Dollar an

27.Aug.2004 Irak: Bush räumt erstmals Fehleinschätzung ein

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27.Aug.2004 _Muffins, Gedichte und Gartenarbeit - Er liest den Koran, schreibt Gedichte und gärtnert.

In der Einzelhaft hat der frühere irakische Diktator Saddam Hussein offenbar seine musische Ader entdeckt.
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27.Aug.2004 London - Eines der Gedichte handele von US-Präsident George W. Bush, berichtet der irakische Menschenrechtsminister Bachtiar Amin der britischen Zeitung "Guardian". Er habe aber noch keine Zeit gehabt, es zu lesen. In seiner Einzelhaft vertreibe sich der frühere irakische Präsident die Zeit außerdem damit, im Koran zu lesen. Saddam widme sich ansonsten der Gartenarbeit: "Er kümmert sich da um einige Büsche und Sträucher und hat sogar einen Ring weißer Steine um ein Pflaumenbäumchen angelegt."
Saddam habe auch eine Vorliebe für Kekse und Muffins, berichtete Amin. Der allgemeine Gesundheitszustand Saddams sei gut. Er werde jedoch wegen Bluthochdrucks behandelt und leide unter einer chronischen Prostata-Entzündung.
US-Soldaten hatten Saddam im Dezember in einem Erdversteck in der Nähe seiner Heimatstadt Tikrit gefasst. Ihm wird in Bagdad wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit der Prozess gemacht. Saddam droht im Falle einer Verurteilung die Todesstrafe.

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27.Aug.2004 H.R.4480 : To make local governments eligible to apply for + receive grants under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, + for other purposes.

17.Apr.2002 Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced ) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
06.May 2002 Latest Major Action: Referred to House subcommittee.

Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime + on Terrorism + on Homeland Security.

H.R.4746 : To assess the extent of the backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples + to improve investigation + prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 5/15/2002) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 18.Jul.2002 Referred to House subcommittee.

Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism + Homeland Security.

H.R.5394 : To assess the extent of the backlog in DNA analysis of rape kit samples + to improve investigation + prosecution of sexual assault cases with DNA evidence.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 9/17/2002) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 10/7/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism + Homeland Security.

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27.Aug.2004 H.R.2009 : To provide reliable officers, technology, education, community prosecutors, + training in our neighborhoods.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 24.May 2001 ) Cosponsors (224)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 18.Jun.2001 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

H.R.3285 : To provide for the sharing of certain foreign intelligence information with local law enforcement personnel + for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 13.Nov.2001 ) Cosponsors (18)
Committees: House Judiciary;

House Intelligence (Permanent Select);

House Financial Services;

House Education + the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 3/6/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.

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27.Aug.2004 H.R.1643 : To provide for the recognition of Jer^usalem as the capital of Israel.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 26.Apr.2001 ) Cosponsors (4)
Committees: House International Relations - Latest Major Action: 21.May 2001 Referred to House subcommittee.

Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East + South Asia.

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Title: To prohibit USA assistance for the Palestinian Authority + for programs, projects, + activities in the West Bank + Gaza.
Sponsor: Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] (introduced 15.Mar.2001 ) Cosponsors (9)
Related Bills: H.R.1795, S.1409
Latest Major Action: 15.Mar.2001 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

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27.Aug.2004 Stress in der Kindheit verändert das Gehirn
Stress kurz nach der Geburt kann dauerhaft das Gehirn verändern. Forscher fanden in Experimenten mit Ratten heraus, dass die Gehirnregion, die für das Lernen + die Regulation von Angst zuständig ist, überempfindlich wird + auch im Erwachsenenalter unter Dauerstress steht.

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27.Aug.2004 Die Wissenschaftler vermuten, dass Menschen ähnlich auf Stress in der Kindheit reagieren.

So hätten beispielsweise Frauen, die als Kind missbraucht wurden, häufig einen verkleinerten Hippocampus. Dies könne auf eine verminderte Nervenzellbildung zurückzuführen sein

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27.Aug.2004 Vor zwei Wochen wurde die fünfjährige Natasha in die Klinik eines Safariparks bei Tel Aviv eingeliefert.

Die Tierärzte diagnostizierten bei ihr und drei weiteren Schopfmakaken eine schwere Magen-Darm-Grippe.

Während sich der Zustand von Natashas Kumpanen in der Obhut der Pfleger rapide verbesserte, ging es der Makaken-Dame von Tag zu Tag schlechter. "Ich war mir sicher, dass sie sterben würde.

Sie konnte kaum atmen + ihr Herz funktionierte nicht richtig", sagte der Tierarzt Igal Horowitz.
Nach intensiver Behandlung aber stabilisierte sich Natashas Zustand. Als sie später die Klinik verließ, bekamen die Tierpfleger den Mund nicht mehr zu:

Die Affendame schritt majestätisch, den Blick geradeaus und das Kreuz durchgedrückt, auf zwei Beinen.

Primaten wechseln normalerweise zwischen aufrechtem Gang und Laufen auf allen Vieren. "Ich habe so etwas noch nicht gesehen", sagte Horowitz.
Natashas neue Art der Fortbewegung ist offenbar auch keine vorübergehende Laune. Seit ihrer Genesung hat sie vom aufrechten Gang nicht mehr abgelassen.

Horowitz liefert eine mögliche Erklärung für ihr Verhalten: Ihr Gehirn könnte durch die Krankheit beschädigt worden sein. Ansonsten aber, gesteht der Veterinär ein, sei ihr Verhalten ganz normal.

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_27.Aug.2004 Affe entgeht dem Tod aufrechten Ganges Eine Begegnung mit dem Tod verändert das Bewusstsein zuweilen auf eine Art, die selbst Wissenschaftler staunen lässt.

Ein israelisches Affenweibchen überlebte eine Krankheit nur knapp und geht nun aufrecht wie ein Mensch.

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15. April 2004 URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,295231,00.html
27.Aug.2004 . "Es ist unglaublich dämlich von den Demokraten, auf diese 527er zu setzen" ätzte der republikanische Senator John McCain unlängst in der "Detroit Free Press".

"Jedem Milliardär wie George Soros stehen 20 konservative Milliardäre gegenüber, die im Zweifelsfall viel mehr Geld auftreiben können". URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,295231,00.html
27.Aug.2004 Vor allem die Demokraten machen reichlich von den 527ern Gebrauch, sehr zum Missfallen der gegnerischen Republikaner.

Die hatten bisher darauf gebaut, dass ihrem Widersacher Kerry finanziell die Puste ausgeht, während sie unangefochten Bushs Botschaft per TV unters Volk bringen können.

Diese Rechnung geht nun nicht auf:

Einer Studie des Medienwissenschaftlers Ken Goldstein von der Universität Wisconsin zufolge haben die Demokraten dank der Schützenhilfe der 527er Komitees bisher fast genauso viel Minuten an Werbespots versendet wie die Bushies.
Angesichts dieser Entwicklung entdecken die Republikaner plötzlich ihr Faible für transparente Parteienfinanzierung. Um die nach Aussage von Marc Racicot, dem Chef der Bush-Kampagne, "illegalen Geldflüsse" von "zwielichtigen liberalen Propagandagruppen" zu stoppen, hat die Grand Old Party bei der Bundeswahlkommission FEC Klage eingereicht. Die Anwälte der Bush-Seite erheben im Wesentlichen zwei Vorwürfe. Erstens sei neben der eigentlichen Demokratischen Partei eine "Schattenpartei" entstanden, wodurch das geltende Recht zur Parteienfinanzierung ausgehebelt werde; zweitens sprächen sich ACT, MoveOn.org und andere Gruppen verbotenerweise mit Kerrys Kampagnenmachern ab.
Drohende Soft-Money-Schlacht
Wenn die demokratischen 527er ihre Aktionen mit den "echten" Demokraten koordinierten, wäre dies in der Tat ein Verstoß gegen geltendes Recht. Die Republikaner weisen darauf hin, dass es schon seltsam sei, wenn Kerry seine Werbespots eher am Morgen sende, während die 527er eher Fernsehminuten am Nachmittag buchten. Zufall? Oder Resultat geheimer Absprachen? Die demokratische Seite streitet alles ab. "Entscheidend ist doch vor allem die Frage, ob man diese mutmaßliche Koordination juristisch nachweisen kann", so Kommers von Public-i, "und das wird den Republikanern sehr schwer fallen".URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,295231,00.html
27.Aug.2004 Ein Schlupfloch namens 527
Allerdings haben versierte Washingtoner Politmanager bereits einen Ausweg aus der Misere gefunden. Sie gründen formell von den Parteien unabhängige Organisationen, die nicht für einen Kandidaten trommeln, sondern den Wähler mit so genannten issue ads lediglich auf Sachthemen aufmerksam machen. Dadurch fallen die Wahlkampvehikel, die nach einem Paragraphen im US-Steuergesetzbuch 527er Ausschüsse heißen, nicht unter das Parteispendengesetz - und können weiterhin ganz legal Millionenbeträge sammeln. Allein Bush-Hasser und Multimilliardär George Soros hat zehn Millionen Dollar an einen 527er, den Media Fund, gespendet. Nathan Kommers vom unabhängigen Washingtoner Center for Public Integrity (Public-i), hält das juristische Schlupfloch für "völlig wahnwitzig", weil es die Reform der Parteienfinanzierung in weiten Teilen ad absurdum führe.