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	<title>Connecticut Watchdog &#187; Ethics</title>
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		<title>Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? Really? DOJ’s Political ‘Purge’ and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Connecticut Crime Case</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/case-closed-on-the-u-s-attorney-firings-really-doj%e2%80%99s-political-%e2%80%98purge%e2%80%99-and-torture-probers-suppressed-evidence-in-connecticut-crime-case</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kreig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days before Connecticut's Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig, who covered Connecticut's federal courts for the Hartford Courant from 1976 to 1981, today reveals that the previously unreported fact from Dannehy's past calls her entire national investigation into question. The revelations similarly compromise the pending investigation by her Connecticut colleague, John Durham, who since 2008 has been the nation's special prosecutor for DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Energy, Our Newest Sponsor, Can Save You $$ On Your Electric Bill And Help Us Too</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/23/positive-energy-our-newest-sponsor-can-save-you-on-your-electric-bill-and-help-us-too</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I don&#8217;t announce advertising or sponsorships on our website because they are clear-cut, traditional advertising and what they pay is of no consequence to the reader. The only difference between the sponsors on my site and those in newspapers is that I tell them in writing that being an advertiser gives them no advantage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Business Bureau Gives HAMAS Terrorist Organization Accreditation And A- Rating</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/19/better-business-bureau-gives-hamas-terrorist-organization-accreditation-and-a-rating</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an embarrassing move that shines light on how little checking is done by some Better Business Bureau's before accrediting a business, a California blogger revealed tonight that someone has managed to get a fake business with the name of the terrorist organization Hamas accredited by the bureau in return for a $425 fee.]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Can&#8217;t Name One State That Is Part Of His &#8220;Multi-State&#8221; Probe Announced Four Weeks Ago</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is almost month since Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that he is heading a multi-state investigation into Google's Street View.

Yes, despite weekly claims that he would reveal the identities of those state the following week, as of today not one state has been identified by Blumenthal as having asking him to head up an investigation - a probe his office initially indicated included about 30 states.]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Ducks Giving Direct Answers To His False Military Claims</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/15/blumenthal-ducks-giving-direct-answers-to-his-false-military-claims</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sidestepped giving direct answers to his false claims that he served in Vietnam as a Marine.

Blumenthal was the guest speaker today at the Litchfield-Morris Rotary Club where I asked him how he could have accidentally told veterans that he served in Vietnam.]]></description>
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		<title>Sirius XM Complaints: Cheating Customers by Billing Improperly</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/10/sirius-xm-complaints-cheating-customers-by-billing-improperly</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Shapiro of Middletown is one of the hundreds of people whom Sirius XM tried to take advantage of by billing for a contract she did not need or want, and had not requested. When she purchased a new Buick LaCrosse, it came with a standard three-month trial subscription to Sirius XM Radio &#8211; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squabble Between PolitiFact and Arianne Huffington Shows Why You Should Read Both</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/09/squabble-between-politifact-and-arianne-huffington-shows-why-you-should-read-both</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  As a journalist and a news junkie I love to read insightful coverage of major world and national events.

  More and more I turn to the Internet (I still have the Wall Street Journal and Hartford Courant delivered as well as several news magazines) to get a wide range of facts and opinions.

 Two places I love going to are the Huffingtonpost.com and PolitiFact.com, with its Pulitzer Prize winning Truth-O-Meter.]]></description>
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		<title>Watchdog Wrongful Termination Suit Against Courant, Tribune, resurrected</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/07/watchdog-wrongful-termination-suit-against-courant-tribune-resurrected</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As promised, my wrongful termination suit against The Courant and Tribune companies has been resurrected by my attorney, Joseph Garrison of New Haven. Garrison today filed an amended complaint in Hartford Superior Court, focusing on the expressed promises made to me by Courant executives that advertising pressure would not adversely impact my job as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Dismisses Watchdog&#8217;s Wrongful Termination Suit Against Courant And Tribune Companies</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/01/judge-dismisses-watchdogs-wrongful-termination-suit-against-courant-and-tribune-companies</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hartford Superior Court Judge Marshall Berger has dismissed my wrongful termination suit against The Hartford Courant and the Tribune Co., agreeing with the firms that I did not have a legal basis to bring to suit. The dismissal, dated Monday but made available to me this afternoon, is a victory for the newspaper companies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New London Day Becomes 11th Newspaper To Publish Weekly CtWatchdog Column</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/06/27/new-london-day-becomes-11th-newspaper-to-publish-weekly-ctwatchdog-column</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am thrilled to announced that the New London Day, considered by many as one of the best small newspapers in America, today became the 11th newspaper to start carrying my weekly CtWatchdog newspaper column. The column also runs on this website as well as several other news sites in Connecticut. The other daily newspapers [...]]]></description>
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