"Support for Obama Hidden" read my editorial in the Courier Journal Online

read it at:
http://www.courierjournal.net/article.php?article_id=2054

Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address

lol funny

-Cynthia

Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught – recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor's roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.

He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

"We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.

The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.

But Yosuke apparently wasn't keen on opening up to police officials.

"I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," Uemura said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120ap_odd_japan_parrot_returns.html?source=mypi

Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data

*Praises Facebook for it's strong stance on privacy*

-Cynthia

Google, Facebook in stalemate over social data

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP INTERNET WRITER

NEW YORK — Google Inc.'s online communities have little traction in the United States, but the search leader continues to seek a spot in the social-networking hierarchy.

First, it must contend with Facebook, the No. 2 online hangout behind MySpace.

Days after Google unveiled Friend Connect, which lets the sites of musicians, political campaigns and others incorporate profile data from several social networks, Facebook began to block the program.

Although Google was taking advantage of the same tools that Facebook made available free to other outside developers, Facebook said Google was violating Facebook's restrictions on data sharing. The two sides remain in a stalemate.

Google, whose Orkut social network has tens of millions of users in Brazil, tried to reach further into social networking with the November unveiling of a consortium called OpenSocial, which lets developers write applications for use on multiple social networks. News Corp.'s MySpace has joined, but Facebook hasn't.

This month, Google unveiled Friend Connect, which promises to pool profile data from Facebook, Google Talk, Orkut, LinkedIn, Plaxo and hi5, though not MySpace. The profile information gets incorporated into other sites – a political campaign, for instance, can build communities of supporters by tapping existing networks – with Google serving as the intermediary.

Facebook quickly objected, citing privacy concerns. Normally dealing with other companies one on one, Facebook can block a service it feels violates its rules. With Google as the intermediary, Facebook lost that leverage, so it decided to block Friend Connect entirely.

In a blog posting, Facebook developer Charlie Cheever said Google's Friend Connect "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge, which doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect."

Google responded, acknowledging it passes along data. But it said sharing is limited to links for profile photos of users and friends who have expressly consented to sharing with that particular site. The user's name and numeric ID on Facebook are replaced with Google's own identifiers, Google said in a company blog post.

Google also said it purges Facebook data from its systems every 30 minutes, more frequently than the 24 hours required by Facebook.

Facebook has run into privacy challenges before, most recently when it unveiled a marketing tool called "Beacon" that tracked purchases Facebook members made on other Web sites and sent alerts to their Facebook friends about the transactions.

But Rachel Happe, research manager at IDC, said the dispute is ultimately about control rather than privacy. She said Google's Friend Connect "starts to eat into other people's value proposition, which is why you saw Facebook object to it."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700ap_data_walls_facebook_v_google.html

with pen in hand….the world goes flat

Dear Friends,

So anyway I thought that I would actually write something instead of copying and pasting today. My loves politics and science have collided in my blog subscriptions. It is hard to find good science and space oriented blogs on Myspace. So my quest is on. If you discover any let me know.

Recently, I saw a friend's blog and he had written about his adventures in dating, so I thought that I would to. I have entered the dating world again only to find myself wanting a relationship with someone, but at this time I'm unable to commit to anyone. I feel that if I was in a relationship right now that I would cheat, and I don't want that. I would like to be ready for it and be faithful. I guess I am still sowing my wild oats since my divorce. Not that I party, because I don't. I do not even drink or smoke. The "wild oats" that I am speaking of are of experiencing what affect others can have on my life.

Textual Relations lol

This one guy has really impressed me; he is good to me and the kids, works, intelligent and ambitious. He is more of the inventor type and big into computers and online gaming.

Another guy that I had fallen for, was still in love with his ex, and didn't want anything more than a booty call I guess. Maybe that's all I wanted from him? Na, I wanted more. So I don't know where we really stand at this point. He may end up just being a good friend, unless he suddenly shows more interest, which he won't, so oh well I gained a friend, eh?

Hillary vs. Obama

Enough about that, let's talk politics. Hillary is holding out till the end even though she has less of a chance now. I think that if Obama was white that she would have already have dropped out. I think her not dropping out is linked to his race, because she assumes that because he is black that they will not choose him for the nomination. Why else would she be holding on for dear life to this? Don't get me wrong I like her a little, and respect her ambition, but come on?

I can not stand the thought of McCain being the next president. So I hope that he loses terribly in a grand defeat. I do not trust this man. He will take America down paths that we will not be able to recover from, just as Bush has. Repression and oppression plague Bush, the need to enforce his rule and settle old grudges with pure outlandish actions. My guess is that Bush is mad that the U.S. could not drill in the protected land, so he secretly influenced the oil prices to do us over. He had a grudge with Saddam so he took him out too, and dragged 4000 of our troops who lost their lives there with him. No better way to settle old vendettas than with the backing of the army, eh? There were no WMD's and they knew that all along. They tricked congress and the American people into war. If we now control that country then why are gas prices still so high?

Another problem that I cannot understand is the rising rice prices around the world. When there has been no decrease in production and distribution of rice, a staple of many eastern countries diets. This is somehow also being controlled; there is some new direction that the world is being pushed into. Starvation of the masses. Oppression and control. You will see it. I feel sad for those people who do not pay attention to the news and what goes unsaid. If you listen to the news you can see how they manipulate things in their chosen direction. Fox News is for McCain, CNN for Hillary, MSNBC Hillary, but I wonder if the people within these networks want to support Obama more openly, but cannot due to pressure.
I will write more later. I gtg

-Cynthia Yildirim

MYSTERIOUS CRIMES PLAGUE US ATTORNEY TARGETS

May 1st, 2008
http://rawstory. com/news/2008/Breakins_plague_Justice_Department_whistleblowers_0430. html

Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys
05/01/2008 @ 1:39 am
Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna, Muriel Kane and Lindsay Beyerstein

The Permanent Republican Majority Part VI

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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson

These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because of the suspicious nature of each incident individually as well as the pattern collectively.

Typically burglars do not break-into an office or private residence only to rummage through documents, for example, as is the case with most of the burglaries in these two federal cases

In Alabama, for instance, the home of former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman was burglarized twice during the period of his first indictment.

Nothing of value was taken, however, and according to the Siegelman family, the only items of interest to the burglars were the files in Siegelman's home office

Siegelman's attorney experienced the same type of break-in at her office
In neighboring Mississippi, a case brought against a trial lawyer and three judges raises even more disturbing questions. Of the four individuals in the same case, three of the US Attorney’s targets were the victims of crimes during their indictment or trial.

This case, like that of Governor Siegelman, has been widely criticized as a politically motivated prosecution by a Bush US Attorney

The main target of the indictment, attorney Paul Minor, had his office broken into, while Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, Oliver E. Diaz Jr., had his home burglarized.

According to police reports and statements from Diaz and from individuals close to Minor, nothing of value was taken and the burglars only rummaged through documents and in Minor’s case, also took a single computer from an office full of expensive office equipment
The incidents are not limited to burglaries. In Mississippi, former Judge John Whitfield was the victim of arson at his office.

In Alabama, the whistleblower in the Don Siegelman case, Dana Jill Simpson, had her home burned down, and shortly thereafter her car was allegedly forced off the road
While there is no direct evidence linking these crimes to the US Attorneys’ office targeting these individuals, or to the Bush administration, there is a distinct pattern that makes it highly unlikely that these incidents are isolated and unrelated

All of these crimes remain unsolved

A FIRE IN ALABAMA
On Feb. 21, 2007, a private residence located at 1429 West Main Street in Rainsville, Alabama caught fire.

The house belonged to whistleblower Dana Jill Simpson, a long-time Alabama Republican lawyer and political opposition researcher who was then preparing to come forward in connection with the conviction of former Alabama Democratic governor Don Siegelman and his co-defendant, Republican fundraiser and businessman, Richard Scrushy

According to the police report obtained by RAW STORY, the east side of the building was completely damaged and the entire structure sustained damages of roughly 30 percent. (See attached report.) The cause of this fire is unknown and there has been no formal investigation to date.

Simpson was not home at the time of the incident

According to Simpson's attorney in Montgomery, Alabama, Priscilla Duncan, the timing of the fire at Simpson's home should raise questions
Jill "was talking to Siegelman's attorneys about what she was witness to, discussing going public," said Duncan in a conversation late last week.

"On February 15 she also sent a letter to Art Leach [Scrushy's attorney)
Six days after Simpson sent the letter to Leach, her house caught fire
According to Simpson's subsequent May 7, 2007 affidavit and her sworn testimony before the US House Judiciary Committee Sept.

14, Siegelman's prosecution was allegedly orchestrated by senior officials in the Bush administration, primarily former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove

Simpson testified that two weeks after the November 2002 election in which Siegelman was defeated by Republican Bob Riley, Republican operative Bill Canary -- who was serving as Riley's campaign advisor -- held a conference call with Riley's staffers about "how to handle Siegelman.

" As reported in Part I of RAW STORY's investigative series, Simpson alleges that during this call, Canary stated that "his girls" would "take care of Siegelman"
Simpson says she understood "his girls" to be a reference to Canary's wife, Leura Canary, the US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and the couple's long-time friend, Alice Martin, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Both women had been appointed by George W. Bush in 2001 and had been investigating Siegelman since taking office.

Siegelman would later be indicted in Leura Canary's district
Karl Rove has publicly denied any involvement in the investigation and prosecution of Siegelman but refuses to testify to this under oath.

Neither Bill nor Leura Canary has offered a comment for any of our articles in the investigative series

THE CAR ACCIDENT
Less than two weeks after her house caught fire, Simpson's car was allegedly forced off the road. She was rushed to Marshall Medical Center South and was treated for bruising on her arms and chest. According to the police report of the accident, Simpson was heading northbound on U.S 431 when a "non contact" vehicle made an improper lane change into her lane. Simpson swerved to avoid hitting the vehicle, almost going into the ditch, and struck a car parked in a driveway. (In the police sketch of the accident below, Simpson's car is marked #1.

The parked car is marked #2

According to the police report, the driver of the non-contact vehicle was Mark Roden of Rainbow City, Alabama

Ms. Simpson told RAW STORY several weeks ago that a state trooper interviewed Mr. Roden at the scene of the accident, and "when the trooper asked him for his employment information, Mr. Roden said that he was a officer with the Attalla police department.

He was then allowed to leave without a citation"

The city clerk for the city of Attalla, Alabama confirmed to us that Mark Roden was indeed a former police officer with the Attalla Police Department, but she could not provide additional information.

Calls left for the Attalla police chief were not returned

Repeated attempts to reach Mark Roden at the residence listed on the accident report have been unsuccessful

According to Priscilla Duncan, on the day of the car accident Simpson had met with Richard Scrushy, the co-defendant in the Siegelman case, to discuss coming forward as a whistleblower

"It is definitely coincidental," Duncan said

FORMER GOVERNOR'S PRIVATE RESIDENCE BURGLARIZED -- TWICE
Simpson was not the only one involved in the Siegelman case to fall victim to crimes. According to Governor Siegelman's daughter, Dana Siegelman, their family returned home from a summer trip in 2004 to find the house unlocked and the doors open. Nothing had been taken, although the home contained computers, stereos, and jewelry. Ms.

Siegelman explained that the only things disturbed were in Siegelman's office, including his papers, which seemed to have been rifled and were in disarray
Ms.

Siegelman says that her family experienced this once more in the summer of 2004 and that the timing of the two burglaries appeared strange, because it was during this period that charges were brought against her father by the office of US Attorney Leura Canary
According to Siegelman's daughter, the family did not report these incidents to the police at the time because they already felt targeted by the US Attorney's office and the FBI, as well as being uncertain as to what had actually occurred

"It was only later, when we realized how deceitful our government really could be," Dana said, "that we suspected our house might have been bugged or Dad's files had been sifted through -- when the same thing happened to his lawyer, Susan James"

SIEGELMAN'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE BROKEN INTO
Don Siegelman was sentenced to over seven years in a state penitentiary in June 2007. He was not allowed out on bail during his appeal, but was immediately shackled, manacled and moved out of state without his lawyers being informed.

The severity of the sentence prompted 44 former state attorneys general of both parties to write a letter to Congress, asking them to investigate Siegelman's prosecution, which they describe as having "sufficient irregularities as to call into question the basic fairness that is the linchpin of our system of justice"

Montgomery attorney Susan James immediately prepared to file an appeal on Siegelman's behalf with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

James had handled much of the sentencing part of Siegelman's case and was now part of the appeal team

On July 1, 2007, James' office was broken into. As with Siegelman's home, no computers or office equipment were taken or anything of any value.

James told the Associated Press, "They went through our client files"
James expanded on the break-in in a recent interview with RAW STORY.

She said the burglars went through several file cabinets with documents filed under the letter "S," which might have included Siegelman's files if she had not moved them earlier after a previous break-in
"This burglary is unusual," said James. "File cabinets were left open.

Drapes were closed and the blinds were pulled down"
James said that the only reason that someone would need to close the drapes and pull down the blinds was if they wanted to turn the lights on to look for something.

She asserted that the office next door to hers was not burglarized, even though it also had computers and equipment
When asked what she made of the cases described in this article, James said she'd not been aware of the number of break-ins and the similarities between them

"The entire scenario appears to be a pattern unrelated to just random burglaries and random crimes," James said.

"Our break-in was treated as a routine burglary but when you add the facts of what appear to be other similar burglaries together, this is something that definitely bears further investigation"

Dana Siegelman says that her family now has "little doubt as to why or who was behind it," but did not elaborate

ALABAMA BUSINESSMAN'S OFFICE APPEARS BURGLARIZED - WHILE HE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY US ATTORNEY
Sometime between Sunday, March 2 and early the next morning, the office of Montgomery insurance executive and life-long Republican, John Goff was vandalized by persons unknown

"We came in to work one day and the window was knocked out," Goff told Raw Story in a phone interview. Goff explained that the $400 window described in the police report was the sliding glass front door of his office. According to the police report obtained by Raw Story (See attached report.

), a large pane of glass was smashed

At the time the of the incident at his office, Goff was the subject of what he alleges is a politically motivated prosecution orchestrated by the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama, Leura Canary, in retaliation for a politically embarrassing lawsuit he filed against the State's well-connected Republican governor, Bob Riley, last year
Leura Canary’s husband, Bill Canary, served as a campaign advisor to Riley when he ran against Siegelman in the 2002 election.

In essence, the US Attorney appears to bringing charges against the perceived enemies of her husband’s client

A month after the incident at Goff’s office, a grand jury indicted Goff on charges of embezzlement, mail fraud, and conspiracy. The charges stem from a dispute between Goff and two reinsurance companies over insurance premiums Goff collected from clients. The original dispute was settled by arbitration and litigation several years ago.

The arbitration panel agreed that Goff had failed to pay what he owed

Goff reached a settlement with the Alabama Department of Insurance for complaints arising from the same dispute in the spring of 2005
It is not clear why federal prosecutors decided to revisit the matter in 2007 and launch a criminal investigation against Goff, indicting him in 2008
Goff and his lawyers maintain that federal prosecutors with close ties to Riley are rehashing settled business in order to punish Goff for blowing the whistle on an alleged attempt at extortion by lobbyists for Riley
They alleged that US Attorney Leura Canary has a conflict of interest because her husband, Bill Canary, is on the list of witnesses to be deposed in Goff’s lawsuit against Riley and others in his administration
The US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama did not return repeated calls and emails seeking comment

MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT JUSTICE'S HOME BROKEN INTO
The break-ins and arson are not, however, restricted to Alabama. In Mississippi, there was another alleged political prosecution, a bribery case brought by the Bush-appointed US Attorney for the Southern District, Dunnica Lampton, against attorney Paul Minor and three judges, including Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr.

, Minor and two of the judges have also fallen victim to break-ins and arson
On May 14, 2004, while Judge Diaz and his family were out of town, a neighbor noticed an intruder and called the police. According to the police report, the front door of the Diaz home appeared to have been kicked in and a window broken.

(See attached police report)

In a striking similarity to the Alabama cases, the Diaz burglars appeared not to have been interested in valuables of any sort
"Our door was kicked in and our documents were rummaged," Diaz said in an extensive interview for Part V of our investigative series. "Televisions, computers and other valuables were not taken, despite the fact that we were out of town for several days and the home was left open by the burglars. We could not figure out a motive for the burglary and reported it to the Biloxi Police Department.

The crime was never solved"
A FIRE IN MISSISSIPPI
In the early morning of Sept.

15, 2003, the Biloxi, Mississippi office of another of the defendants in the Paul Minor case, former Mississippi judge John Whitfield, was set on fire

At approximately 3:30 am, Whitfield's secretary, Michele Herman, was awakened by a call from the fire alarm company informing her that the office was ablaze. Herman was the first of Whitfield's associates to arrive at the scene.

Her boss and other colleagues joined her soon after
Herman described what happened after she arrived
"I rushed to the office to watch the fire department put the fire out. It was contained to my office because we close doors between offices when we leave," Herman wrote in an email.

"Just about everything I had was destroyed -- over 20 years worth of my research and books and photos and paintings and such"

From the outset, the Biloxi fire and police departments treated the fire as a case of arson. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms were also involved, as were investigators from the US Attorney's office.

However, the only suspect in the arson case was Whitfield himself

"It was us, me and John [Whitfield] and a former cop that worked with us, and Mike [Crosby, Whitfield's attorney] that kept telling the fire officials that it looked like something was splashed all over the wall of the outside of the house that we used as an office," Herman stated.

"They ignored us until John hired an independent fire inspector/arson expert"
According to Herman's recollection, local authorities announced that same day that they intended to confiscate files and documents that had survived the blaze.

Whitfield's lawyer, Mike Crosby strongly objected to this, since he was concerned that privileged information — including Whitfield's defense file and the case files of his clients — would fall into the hands of the FBI and the ATF and be used against Whitfield in his upcoming trial
In a letter obtained by RAW STORY, dated Sept. 19, 2003, Crosby wrote to the judge overseeing the seizure of files and hard drives to register his strenuous objections. The files and disks contained information that was critical to the operation of Whitfield's law practice as well as his defense file for the Diaz/Minor case. Crosby explained that he'd offered to make copies of all the materials for the investigators, if only he could have the originals back. The authorities refused.

(See attached letter)

Repeated attempts to reach Crosby for comment have been unsuccessful

"No one has ever been charged with the crime, as far as we know," Herman added. "They dropped it after they investigated John — he was their suspect, you know.

Only problem was, he didn't own the building, had nothing to gain — no motive for destroying the building"

YET ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI BREAK-IN
Also charged by US Attorney Dunnica Lampton was Paul Minor, a successful trial lawyer and the largest individual Democratic campaign donor in Mississippi.

Minor was convicted of bribery and mail fraud and is now serving time in a federal penitentiary in Florida

In the summer of 2003, Minor's Biloxi, Mississippi law office was allegedly broken into.

According to his secretary, Janet Miller, a brick was used to shatter her office window and the break-in targeted only her office
"I panicked because they took my whole computer — it had all of my bookkeeping on it and I had an old back up that I had not updated since March," Miller said

"It had a lot of Paul [Minor]'s personal stuff on it, his business, and of course it had all of the accounting for the law firm on it from 2000 forward"
Miller said that files were also rummaged through, but she could not say for sure if anything was taken because it was so chaotic.

No other office in Minor's suite of offices were disturbed

This crime, like the others, remains unsolved

HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?
John C. Villines, ICPS, CPP, has studied crime causation and crime prevention for 30 years. As a security consultant, he has provided services to private industry, the United States Government, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and others. He is the Director of John C.

Villines LLC, often appears as an expert witness criminal cases, and was up until recently the Chairman of the Georgia Board of Private Detective and Security Agencies

Villines was asked in the most general terms what he makes of this series of crimes.

He was not provided with the names of the individuals or any information that would identify the Alabama and Mississippi cases
"I would avoid drawing conclusions based upon the amount of information you have provided," Villines wrote in an email response.

"But it would be reasonable to expect that the burglar or burglars is seeking information"
RAW STORY asked Villines if these crimes could be identity theft-type crimes or something similar

"Certainly, identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States," Villines responded.

"However, a series of burglaries and arsons such as you have described would not be the primary crimes I would expect to see associated with attempts to steal personal identifiers"
"It would seem more reasonable to expect that the burglar(s) have targeted information related to specific individuals, and that the value of the information is related to a personal motivation (either on the part of the burglar(s) or someone who has contracted their services, as in the famed Watergate burglary).

Possible motives (speculation): acquire damaging information about a third party, or recover personal information to keep it from being discovered by others"

The pattern of break-ins and other crimes in Alabama and Mississippi and the serious questions surrounding possible intimidation tactics are not without precedent.

From the 1960's to the 1980's, similar tactics were used by the Nixon and Reagan administrations to spy upon and demoralize their political opponents

In 1971, a group of anonymous activists broke into FBI headquarters in Media, Pennsylvania and made off with more than a thousand documents, which were then mailed to major newspapers and politicians. The documents revealed the existence of a secret counterintelligence program — known as COINTELPRO for short — dedicated to investigating, undermining, and discrediting anti-war and civil rights groups.

As part of this program, violent attacks against activists by right-wing groups were sometimes allowed to go forward or even incited by FBI informants within those groups

The death of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1972 and strict new guidelines passed by Congress in 1976 were believed to have put an end to such abuses.

Two high FBI officials were even convicted in 1980 of having ordered agents to break into the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground, including the sister of Bernadine Dohrn
These safeguards, however, broke down during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, who pardoned the two officials and had their convictions expunged. The FBI was once again a political tool, which not only investigated liberal members of Congress, such as Rep. John Conyers and Sen.

Christopher Dodd, but also paid right-wing groups, including the followers of Reverend Moon, to spy upon and disrupt individuals and organizations opposed to the Reagan administration's support for right-wing dictators in Latin America

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ross Gelbspan wrote in Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI (1991) about "the mystery of the little-publicized epidemic of low-grade, domestic terrorism. It includes break-ins, death threats, and politically motivated arson attacks which have plagued hundreds of activists and organizations across the country for the past seven years.

While the FBI has repeatedly denied any role in these activities, the Bureau has, at the same time, refused scores of requests to investigate what is clearly an interstate conspiracy to violate the civil liberties of the victims
"From 1984, when the first reports of mysterious political break-ins and death threats began to surface, the list of such episodes has continued to escalate. … Of nearly 200 political break-ins and thefts of files reported by Central America and Sanctuary activists, not one has been solved"
Whether or not the recent cases in Alabama and Mississippi actually represent the reemergence of COINTELPRO tactics from the past remains unclear. There is no solid evidence tying any of the cases to one another.

But there does appear to be a common pattern, both in who is being targeted and also in how the burglars have conducted their operations
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Larisa Alexandrovna is the Managing Editor of Investigative News for Raw Story and regularly reports on intelligence and national security matters. She has been covering the US Attorney Scandal for over six months. Her essay on the Siegelman case appears in a newly published anthology, Loser Taker All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008, edited by New York University professor Mark Crispin Miller, which features a collection of essays from prominent journalists, activists, and scholars. Contact her at larisa@rawstory.com

Lindsay Beyerstein is an investigative reporter for Raw Story, regularly covering national issues relating to civil liberties, corruption, and women’s rights. She writes regularly for other publications, such as In These Times, and her photography has been published in The Austin Chronicle, Aftenposten (Norway's second largest newspaper), and Earth Island Journal. Lindsay can be reached at lindsay@rawstory.com

Muriel Kane is the Research Director for Raw Story Investigates
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The Permanent Republican Majority Series and Related Raw Story Articles

Part One – The Political Prisoner

Part Two – Exclusive interview with jailed governor’s daughter, Dana Siegelman

Part Three – Running Elections from the White House

Part Four – How Bush pick helped prosecute top Democrat-backed judge

Alabama station drops 60 Minutes expose on Don Siegelman prosecution

Interview with Dana Jill Simpson and alleged Rove smear campaign

Karl Rove’s Next Move: A million dollar home on Florida’s Emerald Coast

Part Five – Mississippi Justice: Bush US Attorney targeted my wife, supporters and friends