By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst

Washington, DC, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A British Broadcasting Corporation report has unleashed a political storm over suggestions that the Bush campaign in Florida may be planning to disrupt voting in the state's black neighborhoods.

Democrats have expressed outrage over the BBC report, while Republicans are heatedly challenging its accuracy. (Show me more...)

Congratulations, Mr. President!
Florida's Computers Have Already Counted Thousands of Votes For George W. Bush

Before one vote was cast in early voting this week in Florida, the new touch-screen computer voting machines of Florida started out with a several-thousand vote lead for George W. Bush. (Show me more...)

by Greg Palast

Why were Iraqi elections delayed? Why was Jay Garner fired? Why are our troops still there? Investigative reporter Greg Palast uncovers new documents that answer these questions and more about the Bush administration's grand designs on Iraq. Like everything else issued during this administration, the plan to overhaul the Iraqi economy has corporate lobbyist fingerprints all over it. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast reports on GOP 'Caging Lists' for BBC Newsnight
First Broadcast 26 October 2004
(Note that the date on the player given is 10 October 2005. This is an error by the BBC).
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Greg Palast, reporting
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals. (Show me more...)

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October 22, 2004
If the election were held today and the votes were counted fairly, Senator John Kerry would probably win. But the votes won't be counted fairly, and the disenfranchisement of minority voters may determine the outcome. (Show me more...)

The case of Florida's felon list - used by state officials, as in 2000, to try to wrongly disenfranchise thousands of blacks - has been widely reported. Less widely reported has been overwhelming evidence that the errors were deliberate. (Show me more...)

by Edward Burch
Film & Music Editor

It is certainly fitting that Michael Moore is quoted in the publicity for this film, hailing it as "courageous reporting." After all, it is the BBC's Greg Palast on whom Fahrenheit 9/11 relies for several of its key points -- the purging of Black voters from the Florida voter rolls in 2000, the connecting link of Saudi money to George W. Bush's failed oil ventures, and so on. It is one of the failings of American media that Palast, an American citizen, must report for other countries' media. (Show me more...)

Shooting the Messenger Doesn't Discredit the Message

by Greg Palast

When Dan Rather went down for airing a document he couldn't source, he did the courageous thing: blamed someone else.

In this case, Rather and CBS loaded their corporate guilt on a guy you've probably never heard of before, rancher Bill Burkett of Abilene, a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Texas Air National Guard. (Show me more...)