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FBI Mining Information on Americans in Search for Possible Terrorists
Post Date: 2007-07-10 22:14:53 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement officials, the Justice Department said in a report to Congress on the agency's data-mining practices. In addition, the report disclosed government plans to build a new database to assess the risk posed by people identified as potential or suspected terrorists. The chairman of the Senate ...
Bush Denies Congress Access to Aides
Post Date: 2007-07-10 21:01:45 by robin
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Monday July 9, 2007 11:01 PM AP Photo DCPM105, WX101, DCPM104 By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush directed former aides to defy congressional subpoenas on Monday, claiming executive privilege and prodding lawmakers closer to their first contempt citations against administration officials since Ronald Reagan was president. It was the second time in as many weeks that Bush had cited executive privilege in resisting Congress' investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys. White House Counsel Fred Fielding insisted that Bush was acting in good faith in withholding documents and directing the two aides - Fielding's predecessor, Harriet ...
Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations
Post Date: 2007-07-10 21:00:00 by robin
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Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations After Bureau Sent Reports, Attorney General Said He Knew of No Wrongdoing By John Solomon Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 10, 2007; A01 As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005. Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or ...
Why did I post; There is no Constitution....
Post Date: 2007-07-10 20:31:05 by richard9151
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The actual title to the information is; There is no Constitution – it is a carefully crafted illusion. I posted this info, There is no Constitution...., to several locations and various individuals. There has been a surprising lack of response, with some exceptions. I have come to realize, after a few responses did come back, that the information is simply too new and too big for most to deal with in a short period of time. The real information contained in that post came from this; IN RE SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES, 77 U.S. 273 (1869) This information from the so-called Supreme Court is the only information that I have ever found that details the authority of the Supreme Court, and ...
Senate panel cuts off funds to Cheney
Post Date: 2007-07-10 19:02:00 by gengis gandhi
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Senate panel cuts off funds to Cheney 10 July, 2007 By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney‘s office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules. At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives. The funding cut came as the appropriations panel approved 5-4 along party lines a measure funding White House operations, the Treasury Department and ...
Conyers to Pursue RNC for White House Emails
Post Date: 2007-07-10 16:30:05 by aristeides
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Conyers to Pursue RNC for White House Emails By Paul Kiel - July 10, 2007, 3:19 PM It gets thornier. Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will vote to authorize subpoenas against the Republican National Committee for emails relevant to the U.S. attorney firings. The RNC, you'll remember, provides email to a number of White House aides, including Karl Rove and his staff. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) requested the emails back in April, and yesterday, he got his final answer from the RNC, via the White House: no. In a letter to the RNC's counsel, White House special counsel Emmet Flood wrote that the RNC emails, since they involved White House officials, were covered by the ...
CIA MK/Ultra Mind Control Victims Set to Win Huge Lawsuit
Post Date: 2007-07-10 14:43:36 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/12781/CIA's-Bourne-identity-plot/ CIA'S BOURNE IDENTITY PLOT Story Image FILM PARALLEL: Matt Damon as the CIA agent and reprogrammed killer Bourne Sunday July 8,2007 By Mike Parker in Los Angeles Comment Speech Bubble Have your say(1) MORE than 250 people who claim they are “brainwashing” victims of America’s Central Intelligence Agency are set to win a multimillion-dollar legal battle for compensation. Their case resembles the plight of Hollywood star Matt Damon’s character in the hit movie series that began with The Bourne Identity. As in the new follow-up film The Bourne Ultimatum, they ...
Rove faces cynics in Aspen: Weight gain is the main problem at Guantanamo Bay, the Bush adviser tells a groaning audience.
Post Date: 2007-07-10 14:22:00 by aristeides
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Rove faces cynics in Aspen Weight gain is the main problem at Guantanamo Bay, the Bush adviser tells a groaning audience. By Troy Hooper Special to The Denver Post Article Last Updated: 07/09/2007 01:04:48 AM MDT Aspen - A polarizing figure, presidential adviser Karl Rove is accustomed to criticism. He is also used to getting laughs. Speaking in liberal Aspen at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival, Rove encountered his share of cynics. But Rove expressed no regret about the widely unpopular war in Iraq. "I make no apologies," Rove said when an audience member asked how personally responsible he felt for the war. "It was the right thing to do. The world is better off with ...
Gonzales Lied To Congress About Patriot Act Abuses
Post Date: 2007-07-10 13:13:35 by Brian S
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Today's Washington Post reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was given a report detailing FBI abuses of power six days before testifying to Congress where he sought to renew the Patriot Act. In front of the Senate Intelligence Committee he claimed he knew of no wrongdoing or abuse of power, and that the Patriot Act was free of problems, despite the reports of numerous violations of the law and FBI protocol. The report detailed acts of unauthorized surveillance, improper searches, and other procedural and legal breaches of civil rights and privacy laws. Gonzales was also briefed on the abuse of an anti-terror tool known as the national security letter as early as 2005, well ...
Papers, Please--- Brother Elliott of Beit Shalom Ministries Arrested by Indiana Police
Post Date: 2007-07-10 02:33:05 by PercyDovetonsils
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Papers, please -- Brother Elliott of Beit Shalom Ministries Arrested by Indiana Police ( Home » Papers, please --... ) Submitted by GeorgeWashington on Mon, 07/09/2007 - 1:23am. Beit Shalom | Papers UPDATE: Brother Elliott has produced his papers and has been released by the Vigo County Jail and has a court appearance on Monday, July 9th. UPDATE 2: Elliott and Raymond have just retrieved their video camera, to find that the incident, which had been entirely caught on tape, is no longer recorded. Rather, the time is filled with black silence. A hearing has been scheduled for tomorrow morning. If Elliott pleads not guilty, the judge will hear the case at that time. Beit Shalom ...
Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USA
Post Date: 2007-07-09 21:48:05 by robin
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Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USABy Prof. Rodrigue TremblayGlobal Research, July 9, 2007 thenewamericanempire.com/blog. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." James Madison (1751-1836), 4th U.S. President and author of the U.S. Constitution "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carring the cross." Sinclair Lewis, (It Can't Happen Here, 1935) "Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a ...
Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.
Post Date: 2007-07-09 16:57:30 by Eoghan
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PRIVATE SPIES
Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.
By R.J. Hillhouse
Sunday, July 8, 2007; Page B05
Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.
The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.
Surprised? No wonder. In April, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was poised to publicize a year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national secret. What McConnell doesn't want you to know is ...
Elderly Widow Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn
Post Date: 2007-07-09 15:46:25 by Esso
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Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn't watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance. Tonight, the woman says she is traumatized and shocked that she was hauled to jail, just because she says she can't afford to water her lawn. Betty Perry says, "I never thought they would ever do anything like that to a person that is 70 years old. I've never bothered anybody, I've never hurt anybody." She says the policeman who brought her home ...
Should the cops knock on your door......
Post Date: 2007-07-09 12:39:38 by Jethro Tull
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U.S. SECRET SERVICE VISITS HAL TURNER SHOW WEB SITE "COMMENTER""Ambiguous" comment in visitor comment area prompts 3 hour visit BY: Hal Turner Central New Jersey - As regular visitors to "The Hal Turner Show" web site will recall, the Immigration Reform Bill was a huge story and this web site played a key role in defeating that Bill. Part of the effort to defeat the Bill came on Wednesday, 27, 2007 when I decided to start playing hardball with defiant U.S. Senators who dared to resurrect the Immigration Reform Bill just two weeks after public outcry caused the Bill to be "pulled" from consideration. During my regular radio show on Wednesday, ...
The Killing Machine: Reflections from a Target of the CIA
Post Date: 2007-07-09 12:03:44 by Eoghan
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It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over the material. The first package of declassified documents goes by the name of "The Family Jewels"; it consists of 702 pages on illegal CIA actions between 1959 and 1973. About 100 pages of this part have been deleted. It deals with actions that were not authorized by any law, plots to assassinate other leaders, experiments with drugs on human beings to control their minds, spying on ...
Bush Invokes Executive Privilege In Fight Over Firings Of U.S. Attorneys
Post Date: 2007-07-09 11:54:39 by Brian S
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Published Monday July 9th, 2007 President George W. Bush invoked executive privilege Monday to deny demands by Congress for testimony from two former aides about the firings of several federal prosecutors. The White House did, however, offer again to make former counsel Harriet Miers and one-time political director Sara Taylor available for private, off-the-record interviews. In a letter to the heads of the House and Senate judiciary panels, White House counsel Fred Fielding insisted that Bush was acting in good faith. But he refused the demand by legislators that the president explain the basis for invoking privilege. The latest move in the separation of powers fight between the ...
US Justice Dept attorney: Bush justice is a national disgrace
Post Date: 2007-07-08 19:17:48 by Zipporah
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Bush justice is a national disgrace By John S. Koppel Article Last Updated: 07/05/2007 11:48:30 PM MDT As a longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, I can honestly say that I have never been as ashamed of the department and government that I serve as I am at this time. The public record now plainly demonstrates that both the DOJ and the government as a whole have been thoroughly politicized in a manner that is inappropriate, unethical and indeed unlawful. The unconscionable commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, the misuse of warrantless investigative powers under the Patriot Act and the deplorable treatment of U.S. attorneys all point to an ...
Our increasing reliance on Wikipedia changes the pursuit of knowledge
Post Date: 2007-07-08 19:00:16 by Eoghan
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Turkish historian Taner Akcam arrived at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Feb. 16, 2007, expecting to be picked up by a colleague en route to a lecture he was to give later that day. Instead, he says, he was detained at the border for more than three hours. For visitors to be temporarily detained at the border is not in itself unusual but, Akcam told CBC News, the evidence the security officers showed him when he asked why they had detained him was: a page containing a tampered Wikipedia entry from December. "I recognized the page at once," Akcam would later write on the website of the University of Minnesota, where he is a visiting professor. ...
Disappeared: Five Years in Guantanamo
Post Date: 2007-07-08 17:06:07 by kiki
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In 2001, 19-year-old Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of being a terrorist, he spent five years in Guantanamo before being released -- now he's telling his story. FIFTEEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS WATCHED over a man, shackled to a seat in the cargo bay of a C-17 Globemaster -- the Air Force workhorse that usually moves Abrams tanks, Chinook helicopters or infantry vehicles. Wearing goggles that shut out all light, a soundproof headset and a mask that covered his mouth so he could not speak, spit or bite, the prisoner arrived at Ramstein Air Force Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany, under the tightest security. The plane had burned through 36,00 ...
Ghost of Abu Ghraib
Post Date: 2007-07-08 13:24:59 by Zipporah
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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Video Documentary Film Summary Through startling interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB examines and contextualizes the ... all » abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness. The film probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to commit these atrocious acts and, on a parallel track, explores the policy decisions that eroded our compliance with the Geneva Conventions and contributed to making the abuse a reality. Ultimately, the film asks what these events say about America, our government, our ...
Brzezinski, Kissinger, et al, Shill Global Slave Plantation
Post Date: 2007-07-08 11:34:47 by Eoghan
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Back on May 19, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch poked fun at the New World Order tinfoil hatters, that is to say those of us who understand what the global elite have in mind for the people of North America. “Forget conspiracy theories about JFK’s assassination, black helicopters, Sept. 11, 2001. This is the big one,” the newspaper wrote, adding that a “rumor is sweeping the Internet, radio and magazines, spread by bloggers, broadcasters and writers who cite the ‘proof’ in the writings of a respected American University professor, in a task force put together by the Council on Foreign Relations and in the workings of the Commerce Department. As do many modern ...
New NSA Whistleblower Speaks
Post Date: 2007-07-08 10:05:26 by aristeides
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New NSA Whistleblower Speaks By David Swanson t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Monday 02 July 2007 A former member of US military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. Adrienne Kinne describes an incident just prior to the invasion of Iraq in which a fax came into her office at Fort Gordon in Georgia that purported to provide information on the location of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The fax came from the Iraqi National Congress, a group opposed to Saddam Hussein and favoring an invasion. The fax contained types of information that required that it be ...
Unholy Alliance
Post Date: 2007-07-08 08:31:26 by Zoroaster
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Unholy Alliance Military and police technology sharing sends shivers up civil libertarians’ spines. by Jonah Owen Lamb In the opening scene of the 1987 film RoboCop, the megacorporation OCP unveils its newest product: Ed-209. Originally designed for the military, the robot has been modified for “urban pacification.” Its mission is to clean up a Detroit whose streets are “a war zone.” Before a meeting of executives, the hulking monster demonstrates its crime-fighting abilities. One of the executives is asked to volunteer, so he points a gun at the robot. Rob-209 says: “Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.” The suit complies. But ...
Suppression of Dissent: The White House Manual
Post Date: 2007-07-07 22:15:36 by rack42
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Suppression of Dissent: The White House Manual I've been stuffed into several "designated protest zones" in the past few years. Now you can read the effin manual for stifling dissent at presiduncial appearances. Go ahead. Download the heavily-redacted PDF. Here are some interesting tidbits: The formation of "rally squads" is a common way to prepare for demonstrators by countering their message. . . . The squads should be instructed always to look for demonstrators. The rally squad's task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead ...
Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use; Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says
Post Date: 2007-07-07 20:19:43 by Brian S
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SAN FRANCISCO Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, July 7, 2007 Printable Version Email This Article del.icio.us Digg Technorati Reddit Slashdot Fark Newsvine Google Bookmarks Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. In a drug case from San Diego County, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco likened computer surveillance to the "pen register" ...
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