Phoenix, comes to mind. I’d have teh google for more, but CIA and US Govt. bad acts go hand in hand.

As mentioned above, Guatamala in ‘54. . . . only ONE of the coups staged.

We’re corrupted, top to bottom. Have been, for a long, long time . . .

Several newspapers are now reporting that Newt Gingrich is dating and basically living with Callista Bisek, a “willowy blond Congressional aide 23 years his junior.” Biske, 33, has been spending nights at Gingrich’s apartment near the Capitol and has her own key. In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Gingrich was apparently dating Bisek all during Clinton-Lewinsky adultery scandal, even as he proclaimed family values and bitterly criticized the President for his adultery.

Reporters and other Washington insiders have known about this relationship since 1994, even before Gingrich became Speaker of the House, but did not have any solid proof to report. In 1995, Vanity Fair magazine described Bisek as Gingrich’s “frequent breakfast companion.” Gingrich was married to Marianne Gingrich during all of that time, and just filed for divorce in August 1999.

Newt is apparently trying to create a new hybrid form, Christian adultery. According to MSNBC, Bisek sings in the National Shrine Choir, and Newt would often wait for her at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, listening to her sing while he read the Bible.

This is hardly the first time Newt has cheated, either. “It was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his [first] marriage to Jackie. Maybe not on the level of John Kennedy. But he had girlfriends — some serious, some trivial.” — Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler throughout the 70s. One woman, Anne Manning, has come forward and confirmed a relationship with him during the 1976 campaign. “We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, ‘I never slept with her.’”

Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt’s daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. “As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys’ wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.”

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..an-Honesty

I wrote back at the time of the Iraq war vote that many Demcorats were allowing themselves to be played (although there were those who did vote no). They were afraid to vote against a popular President. But if the war was a success they would get no credit for their vote. And if it was a failure (as it was), they would be tied to it forever and used shamelessly as cover by Republicans. I didn’t realize at the time just how completely this would happen or on so many issues. But more than that I didn’t realize how many Democrats voted with the Republicans because they, in fact, agreed and still agree with them.