Greg Palast says that former US Represenative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), widely regarded as a nutcase for saying that President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks ahead of time and did nothing to stop them, was railroaded: she didn't say it, and no one who reported that she said it had the direct quote or bothered to verify it.

That's just one disturbing allegation in this must read must read must read article about power protecting its own. If even a third of the stuff in this article is accurate, heads should roll, and any Congresscritter that doesn't agree should be among them.