WOOLSEY WATCH: THE AXIS OF WOOLSEY – ALAN KEYES – LARRY KLAYMAN

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JAMES WOOLSEY’S MOST RECENT RECORDED CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS: KLAYMAN, LARRY VIA FRIENDS OF LARRY KLAYMAN 01/16/2004 250.00 24020212665 LIEBERMAN, JOSEPH I VIA JOE LIEBERMAN FOR PRESIDENT INC 02/27/2003 1000.00 23990743001 06/18/2003 1000.00 23991387761 HARMAN, JANE VIA FRIENDS OF JANE HARMAN 02/04/2000 1000.00 20035311284 LUGAR, RICHARD G VIA FRIENDS OF DICK LUGAR INC 05/19/2000 500.

AP HAS KERRY UP BY 3; ELECTORAL COLLEGE TIED

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ELECTORAL-VOTE.COM HAS BUSH AND KERRY TIED TODAY 264-264, with ten Minnesota votes still without a home. An Associated Press poll has Kerry up by 3 points over Bush, but Fox News is tilting towards the majority of polls that are calling it dead-even. Tradesports.

NOTE TO JOHN ASHCROFT: <em>THE MATRIX</em> WAS FICTION!

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MAYBE IT’S TIME TO GO BACK TO CASH AND JOIN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS who refuse to hold a passport. Bruce Schneier reports on these new RFID passports (that’s radio frequency identification chips in your passport) that continually broadcast your personal information to whatever reader picks up the signal.

PATRIOTISM? WOULD YOU KNOW IT IF YOU SAW IT?

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MARK SALTER, JOHN McCAIN’S ABLE CHIEF OF STAFF AND CO-AUTHOR with McCain of three books — Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him; Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life; and Faith of My Fathers — protested Mark Goldberg’s critique of Tony Blair’s American…

ELECTORAL VOTES TODAY: KERRY 271; BUSH 257; DEAD EVEN 10

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ACCORDING TO ELECTORAL-VOTE.COM, IF THE ELECTION WERE TODAY, John Kerry would win by a single electoral vote, even if Minnesota’s ten electoral votes, now dead even, swing toward Bush. Fragile, very fragile. However, TradeSports.com is bouncing all over the place.

TRACKING DOWN BODY COUNT STORIES IN IRAQ

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SEYMOUR HERSH IS FLYING BACK FROM SPAIN, and I have not been able to connect with him today. I have been trying to ask him if the story he has shared about friendly granary guards in Iraq being gunned down by U.S.

<em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> ON THE “BODY COUNT WAR”

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SEYMOUR HERSH CALLED IT RIGHT. Iraq has become a body count exercise, and we all need to be worried about the ramifications. The New York Times‘ Norimitsu Onishi asks in an article today “How Many Iraqis are Dying?” Best estimates for the past week: From Oct. 11 to Oct.