http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coverup/ en-us Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:24:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047302/posts The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight. In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety. The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the... Evening Standard (London, UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047302/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts Excerpt from book: “The anthrax spores in the letter to Daschle were so professionally refined, the Central Intelligence Agency believed the powder must have been sent by an experienced terrorist organization, most probably Al Qaeda, as a sequel to the group’s September 11 attacks. During a [October 17] meeting of the White House’s National Security Council that day, Cheney, who was sitting in for the President because Bush was traveling abroad, urged everyone to keep this inflammatory speculation secret. ... They thought Cheney had already been lethally infected. ... *** Cheney in particular was so stricken by the potential for... ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:49:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043593/posts The news that the Rev. Jesse Jackson took a crude swipe at Sen. Barack Obama this week put renewed scrutiny on the relationship between the veteran civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender. But Jackson's vulgar criticism of Obama came close to going unreported. Jackson made the comments to a guest before an interview on Sunday's "Fox & Friends," whispering that Obama was "talking down to black people" and that Jackson wanted to "cut his nuts off." The comments went unnoticed in the control room, Bill Shine, Fox News' senior vice president for programming, said Thursday. //snip// O'Reilly told viewers... LA Times.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043593/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts In a report on Monday’s "The Situation Room" purporting to clarify how Barack Obama "really voted on abortion" (as the graphic on-screen at right stated), CNN correspondent Carol Costello misconstrued the Democrat’s stance on legislation during his time in the Illinois state senate that would have protected infants that survived abortions.Besides the two votes specifically mentioned by Costello in the report, Obama also voted against it at the committee level, and when he was committee chair, denied a simple up or down vote on the legislation. The CNN correspondent also misrepresented the apparent pro-life stance of pro-abortion senators like... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041130/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040926/posts An education authority is investigating claims that two school pupils were punished for refusing to kneel down and pray to Allah during a religious education lesson. Parents complained after the boys, Year 7 pupils at Alsager High School in Cheshire, were given detention for being "disrespectful" to the prophet, the Congleton Chronicle reported. Parent Sharon Luinen told the paper: "This isn't right, it's taking things too far. "I understand that they have to learn about other religions, I can live with that, but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn't join in Muslim... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040926/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 01:34:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038034/posts Girl's death sparks rioting in China: reports By Chris Buckley Sat Jun 28, 3:50 PM ET Rioters torched a police building and vehicles in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, according to Chinese accounts on the Internet. The reports of the clash in Weng'an County, Guizhou province, could not be immediately verified and government and police did not answer phone calls in the early hours of Sunday. But the accounts spreading on the Internet, despite China's state censorship, depicted a violent outburst involving thousands of people and lasting several hours. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038034/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:55:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037243/posts Barack Obama's name could have been invoked more at the corruption trial of his former fund-raiser Tony Rezko. But it appears prosecutors opted against bringing Obama into the mix during the two-month trial. RELATED STORIES Who lied, witnesses or gov? Feds: Blago denied details Backers turn out for gov's fund-raiser Obama says he avoided city, state corruption Eye on Rezko: Updates from our blog Special section: The Tony Rezko trial RELATED PDF Unsealed document relating to Obama Newly unsealed documents show that prosecutors sought to call witnesses to testify about Rezko's ties to Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037243/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:47:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033303/posts The Chicago press mostly overlooked Obama’s worst scandals, instead griping about the trivial. Chicago papers, radio, and television haven’t been hagiographic in their coverage of local-rising-star-turned-Democratic-nominee Barack Obama. They dug deep into Obama’s real-estate dealings with developer/felon Tony Rezko, and provided gavel-to-gavel coverage of Rezko’s trial. But if one were to assemble a list of the revelations that have most damaged Obama’s efforts to win the presidency, two at or near the top would be the video of Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright; and Obama’s long, working relationship with William Ayers, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033303/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:35:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032819/posts Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate. The campaign has apologized to the women, all Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally. "This is of course not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama's commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton, who added that the volunteers were acting... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032819/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:30:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032373/posts While liberal journalists have moved on from the Christopher Dodd-Countrywide Financial scandal, questions linger about the sweetheart loans he got in 2003 from Angelo Mozilo. At the time, Mr. Mozilo was chairman and CEO of Countrywide, which would become a leading player in the subprime-mortgage crisis and would benefit greatly if Congress passes Sen. Dodd's lending-industry bailout bill. Does anyone believe Sen. Dodd when he says he and his wife did not "anticipate any special treatment" from Countrywide and were unaware they got it? A senator get treated royally everywhere he goes. He gets his jollies from the rump kissing... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032373/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:19:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2032182/posts "Subcommittee chairwoman Maxine Waters Monday participates in a congressional panel for an up-close look at the foreclosure crisis in Ohio, June 16, 2008, in Cleveland." Yahoo! News Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2032182/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025282/posts Last Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, third in line to the Presidency and currently the highest ranking Democrat, sat down for an 80-minute chat with reporters and editorial board members of her home district’s San Francisco Chronicle. 62 minutes in, Madam Speaker, pontificating on the Iraq surge, offered up the following: “Whatever the military success and any progress that may have been made, the surge didn't accomplish its goal. … And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians -- they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025282/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:22:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025099/posts Here's an interesting exercise: do you see anything wrong with this statement from the NY Times? Mr. Wright, however, emerged from retirement in April and spoke at the National Press Club, offering deeper and broader criticism of the United States and using mocking language. Among other things, he opined that the United States government may have had a hand in creating the AIDS epidemic. Beldar does: This paragraph is one of the most egregious examples I've ever seen of lying by omission. What made Wright's comment so outrageous was not his suggestion that the government "had a hand in creating... The Virginian/Beldar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025099/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024957/posts The following is from an MRC press release calling out the liberal mainstream media for covering up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) recent remarks chalking up the success of the U.S. military in Iraq to the "goodwill of the Iranians." [audio of Pelosi's remarks available here] Alexandria, VA-- Last Thursday, a collection of reporters and members of the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle sat down for a nearly 80-minute interview with Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California. At the 62-minute mark, Pelosi slandered and demeaned the hard-won successes of our armed forces in... Media Research Center/Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024957/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023681/posts When you're running for president, it's hard to outrun your past. Shown in old mugshots, unrepentant terrorist William Ayers (above center), and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn (right), helped launch Barack Obama's political career by holding a 1995 fundraiser in their Hyde Park home. The event came years after the couple detonated bombs in the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and New York City police headquarters. * * * * * The campaign to silence those who want to discuss Barack Obama's close personal relationships with terrorists and card-carrying Communists --associations that seriously undercut Obama's insistence that he is serious about national... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023681/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 20:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014755/posts The day following the crucial Indiana and NC primaries that seemed to end Hillary's presidential aspirations, a strange thing happened. The media started releasing bits and pieces of Hillary's seldom reported, nefarious doings. Doings that have been in the public arena for years but never followed up by the media. The Washington Times headline Once-Secret Memos Question Clinton's Honesty appeared Wednesday. The article outlined the decades old information that federal prosecutors had assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury. Information that has long been available but, curiously, never reported in depth... RightBias http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014755/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2008721/posts Asked about the recent dismantling of a high-profile unit in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles that specialized in public corruption cases, an office spokesman provided what some saw as a curious justification: Eliminating the public integrity and environmental crimes section, spokesman Thom Mrozek said, would actually enhance the effort to prosecute such cases. He explained that the unit's 17 lawyers would be farmed out to other sections in the office and that those types of cases would now be handled by a larger pool of attorneys, instead of by a select few. But in interviews with The Times,... L A Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2008721/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:19:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008293/posts London - The United Nations has covered up crimes by UN troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a claim made by the BBC, which says that it has confidential sources within the UN. The BBC says that in 2007, the UN conducted an investigation into accusations that some of its Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers had smuggled gold and ivory and sold arms to Congolese militias. The UN concluded that a peacekeeper had smuggled gold but that there was no evidence of arms trading. But the BBC is now reporting that the UN employees who conducted the investigation... Radio Netherlands http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008293/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:30:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003614/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Three victims of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the RC Church described an emotional, frank and ultimately hope-filled meeting with Pope Benedict on Thursday. They were part of a small group of people abused by clergy who were asked to share their stories with the pope in a Washington chapel. "They prayed with the Holy Father, who afterwards listened to their personal accounts and offered them words of encouragement and hope," said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a papal spokesman. The exchanges were frank and unscripted, according to some of the victims. "I told him that he... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003614/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003357/posts Washington DC, Apr 17, 2008 / 07:36 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI has now raised the topic of the sex abuse scandal three times in the last two days, and on Thursday afternoon, he held a private meetings with a group of sex abuse victims. The director of the Vatican’s Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, told the Associated Press that Pope Benedict and Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, “met with a group of five or six victims for about 25 minutes in the chapel of the papal embassy, offering them encouragement and hope.” According to Lombardi, the Holy Father told the... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003357/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003129/posts WASHINGTON -- Pope Benedict XVI, in a dramatic move likely to alter forever the image of his pontificate, met this afternoon with five victims of clergy sexual abuse from Boston. The private meeting, which was first reported by the Globe this afternoon and has since been confirmed by the Vatican, was brokered by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2003129/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2002972/posts Pope Benedict XVI chided Americans for a moral breakdown he said had fueled the church's child sex abuse scandal, ahead of an open-air mass before tens of thousands here Thursday. Gates opened at Washington's new sports stadium before dawn so that an expected 48,000 people could trickle through stringent security measures to attend the mass at 10:00 am (1400 GMT). Benedict received a rapturous White House welcome Wednesday and met privately with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office, before addressing the pedophile priest scandal that has rocked the US church in a speech to US Catholic bishops. Thousands... BREITBART http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2002972/posts#comment Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994286/posts During the recent media super storm: Obama's Pastor Disaster, CBS 2 Chicago has strangely not released video they have of Obama at Trinity United Church of Christ for a Book Signing / Church Service with Pastor Wright. According to a Chicago Tribune article, at the Service Obama spoke to the cheering congregation and the choir sang, "Hallelujah Barack". After the service Wright and Obama sat together, laughing , talking and signing books. Leaving one to wonder, if a republican candidate had this sort of controversy swirling around would the footage have found it's way to the national and cable news... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994286/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992232/posts March 26, 2008 The FBI is now involved in the theft of a car after it was found in Los Lunas with an explosive device and Iraqi currency inside.FBI agents say that they have ruled out terrorism. The car was reported stolen last week. After the theft, the car’s owner was fueling his motorcycle when he spotted his stolen car. “While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also,” said Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes. The car’s owner pulled... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992232/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:38:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985002/posts Members of the radical group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) are busy preparing to host a new “war crimes” conference next month in Washington. The event, billed as Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, takes its title from the IVAW’s namesake and mentor, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). However, information has now come to light that profoundly undermines the VVAW’s original atrocity claims. Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985002/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:35:55 GMT