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Ashcroft: Officials fought over snooping
Post Date: 2007-06-21 17:40:43 by kiki
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WASHINGTON - The administration was sharply divided over the legality of President Bush's most controversial eavesdropping policies, a congressman quoted former Attorney General John Ashcroft as telling a House panel Thursday. "It is very apparent to us that there was robust and enormous debate within the administration about the legal basis for the president's surveillance program," Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with Ashcroft. The point is critical to two matters being considered in the Democratic-controlled Congress: One is the House and Senate Intelligence committees' ongoing review of 1978 ...
Des Moines Register Covers Ron Paul Radio Debate
Post Date: 2007-06-21 15:18:11 by aristeides
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Des Moines Register Covers Ron Paul Radio Debate Thursday, June 21, 2007 - http://FreeMarketNews.com A Des Moines Register story carried a description of the radio debate as follows: http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070621/NEWS09/706210389/-1/caucus Candidate's exclusion from forum criticized The group presenting the event says the Ron Paul is not considered 'credible.' The decision by a tax watchdog group in Iowa to keep some presidential candidates from attending its political forum in Des Moines next week has led to a barrage of angry responses from supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, one of the Republicans seeking the GOP nomination. Paul, a ...
We Are All Potentially Enemy Combatants
Post Date: 2007-06-21 10:14:00 by bluedogtxn
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We Are All Potentially Enemy Combatants by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead DIGG THIS “There ought to be limits to freedom.” ~ George W. Bush The fabric of our nation is unraveling, and our freedoms are hanging by a thread. In a world where the president has the power to label anyone, whether a citizen or permanent resident, an enemy combatant and detain that person indefinitely without trial, no liberty exists and everyone is potentially an “enemy combatant.” According to the Bush Administration, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri is such a person. This legal alien, residing in Peoria, Ill., with his wife and children, was attending college when he was swept up by ...
(Rove) Bush adviser sent 140,000 sneaky emails
Post Date: 2007-06-21 00:39:09 by robin
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Bush adviser sent 140,000 sneaky emails From correspondents in Washington June 20, 2007 12:00am Article from: The Australian PRESIDENTIAL adviser Karl Rove sent more than 140,000 emails through the Republican National Committee's computer system, circumventing a law intended to guarantee the preservation of presidential records. House of Representatives investigators have found Mr Rove was the biggest user of the back-channel system at the White House, and more than half his communications dealt with official business. The White House has previously acknowledged that aides to US President George W. Bush improperly used the political email accounts. But the material released ...
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Post Date: 2007-06-20 21:35:15 by richard9151
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What is being done to America today (see post; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965) with immigration and all of the hype and fear mongering is described as; Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis Although he never used the terms himself, the triad thesis, antithesis, synthesis is often used to describe the thought of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. It is often thought to form part of an analysis of historical and philosophical progress called the Hegelian dialectic. It is usually described in the following way: The thesis is an intellectual proposition. The antithesis is simply the negation of the thesis. The ...
UPDATED: Judiciary Committee to VOTE ON H. Res 333 (KUCIINICH'S RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH CHENEY)
Post Date: 2007-06-20 17:35:08 by aristeides
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UPDATED: Judiciary Committee to VOTE ON H. Res 333 by Mosquito Pilot [Subscribe] Wed Jun 20, 2007 at 04:08:42 AM PDT UPDATE: Her scheduler says she'll be in Houston this weekend, but he doesn't have a commitment to meet. Maybe a few more calls... the number is (202) 225-3816. Matthew is the scheduler. Ask for her to meet and discuss impeachment with me this weekend--refer to this diary and/or my daughter meeting her at the airport anniversary--they'll know who you mean. Thanks for all of your support. UPDATE 2: Staffers are reporting (3:53pm central) that H Res 333 will be brought to a vote. No timeline was given for the vote. Now is the time to call all Judiciary Committee ...
Justice Dept. opts out of whistle-blower suits (AGAINST CONTRACTOR FRAUD IN IRAQ)
Post Date: 2007-06-20 17:31:34 by aristeides
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Justice Dept. opts out of whistle-blower suits Cases allege fraud in Iraq contracts By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | June 20, 2007 WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has opted out of at least 10 whistle-blower lawsuits alleging fraud and corruption in government reconstruction and security contracts in Iraq, and has spent years investigating additional fraud cases but has yet to try to recover any money. A congressional subcommittee heard testimony on the matter yesterday, as lawmakers sought to determine why the federal government has not done more to recover tens of millions of dollars that allegedly have been misused or misspent in Iraq. "I would expect, given the talent that ...
Lou Dobbs -- Cohen&Grigsby seminar
Post Date: 2007-06-20 11:08:50 by robin
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Christine Romans reports on a video that appeared on YouTube of an immigration seminar. Topics included a tutorial for employers who want to import foreign workers by using H-1B, H-2B, and green cards. The video clips were put on youtube by a law firm called Cohen & Grigsby who held an immigration seminar on May 15, 2007 in Pittsburgh. Some of the subjects covered included instructions to employers how to avoid hiring qualified and interested American workers. Dobbs got it right when he said that this is a blatant attempt to screw American workers.
Nino Scalia: Hollywood's Justice
Post Date: 2007-06-20 06:47:10 by Ada
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As the climate in Washington, D.C. descends into the torrid, who can blame Nino Scalia for accepting an invitation that involves travel far to the North? It seems the nation’s most controversial judge is up in Ottawa attending an international conference on national security and counter-terrorism law. And the comments of a Canadian judge caused him some offense. What were the remarks that got Scalia so worked up? A swipe at the Bush Administration? An assertion of Canadian cultural supremacy? No. It seems it was a critique of Scalia’s favorite television program. The Globe and Mail reports: Senior judges from North America and Europe were in the midst of a panel discussion about ...
GOP Longshot [Ron Paul]: Ditch Fed, Go Back to Gold
Post Date: 2007-06-19 21:48:07 by DeaconBenjamin
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Anyone planning a long career at the Federal Reserve better think again if Republican presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Ron Paul makes it to the White House in 2008. Paul (R., Texas) is so disgusted with the Fed and its role in failing to stem inflation that he wants to eliminate the entire institution, including its army of economics Ph.D.s and other money wizards. In its place, he proposes returning to a system of money abandoned more than three decades ago, after slowly falling out of favor for much of the 20th century: the gold standard, or backing paper currency with bars of the precious metal. "Once you have a central bank [like the Fed] , they can't resist the temptation to ...
'You're fired,' man hears after saving a woman's life
Post Date: 2007-06-19 20:16:30 by Horse
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The 24-year-old grabbed a gun before going to help his neighbor who had been shot. When a neighbor screamed she'd been shot, Colin Bruley grabbed his shotgun, found the victim and began treating her bloodied right leg. Tonnetta Lee survived Tuesday's pre-dawn shooting at her Jacksonville apartment, and her sister and a neighbor praised Bruley's actions. But his employers, the same people who own the Arlington complex where Bruley lives, reacted differently. They fired him. Bruley, a leasing agent at the Oaks at Mill Creek, said he lost his job after being told that brandishing the weapon was a workplace violation, as was failing to notify supervisors after the incident ...
Bicyclist's account of getting tased by cops at Minneapolis St Paul international airport
Post Date: 2007-06-19 18:12:29 by Zipporah
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Bicyclist's account of getting tased by cops at Minneapolis St Paul international airport Stephan Orsak is a professional violinist, and has performed under Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur and Seiji Ozawa. He is about to go to trial on six counts, including a Gross Misdemeanor of Obstructing Legal Process 'with force or violence or threat thereof,' after he was tased by a police officer who stopped him for riding a bike out of the airport. I stated again, 'You are being rude to me and I want to speak to your supervisor'. Officer Wingate then said, 'Look, you're wasting our time. We were on a call to the Humphrey Terminal for a runaway teenage girl, and we ...
Scare Canada: The No-Fly List's False Sense of Security (NO-FLY LIST IN CANADA)
Post Date: 2007-06-18 17:59:24 by aristeides
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Scare Canada The No-Fly List's False Sense of Security By FAISAL KUTTY "Nothing personal sir, but your packages are not allowed on passenger airlines," said a United Parcel Service customer service agent, sitting in an American call centre. She was explaining to me that my package could not be delivered on an "early a.m." basis from Toronto to Peterborough. I was interrogating the agent about why this was so, since I had been using UPS without any problems since starting my practice in 1996. Initially reluctant, the agent eventually confessed that when my account number was entered into their system, the "Flight Guardian" software flashed a red signal. ...
Finkelstein and The Progressive: Fallout from a Smear
Post Date: 2007-06-18 17:24:37 by aristeides
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Finkelstein and The Progressive Fallout from a Smear By JOHN HALLE For those of us in the academy, among the most important stories of the week was a successful smear campaign waged by Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist lobby resulting in noted scholar and author Norman Finkelstein being denied tenure at DePaul University. The distinguished historian Raul Hilberg spoke for many in admitting to “a sinking feeling about the damage this will do to academic freedom.” One might think that this story would be a natural for inclusion in “McCarthyism Watch”, a regular weekly feature on the Progressive Magazine website presided over by Progressive editor Matt Rothschild. It ...
'Extensive Destruction' Of White House E-mails Found
Post Date: 2007-06-18 15:06:12 by aristeides
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'Extensive Destruction' Of White House E-mails Found A preliminary report from the House Oversight Committee finds "extensive destruction" of e-mails sent from the White House on RNC accounts. The panel, led by Chairman Henry Waxman, also found that "at least 88" White House officials past and present used RNC e-mail accounts. The administration originally said only "a handful" of such accounts existed, and later said the number was "50 over the course of the administration." In his noon briefing, press secretary Tony Snow dismissed the idea that the e-mails were intentionally destroyed, but did concede that the 140,000 e-mails in Deputy ...
U.S. attorneys fallout seeps into courts: Defense lawyers in different cases are raising new questions about government prosecutors and potential political biases.
Post Date: 2007-06-18 11:58:02 by aristeides
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U.S. attorneys fallout seeps into courts Defense lawyers in different cases are raising new questions about government prosecutors and potential political biases. WASHINGTON — For months, the Justice Department and Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales have taken political heat for the purge of eight U.S. attorneys last year. Now the fallout is starting to hit the department in federal courtrooms around the country. Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients. In court papers, they are citing the furor over the U.S. attorney dismissals as evidence that their cases may have been ...
NSA 'spy room' at AT&T exposed
Post Date: 2007-06-18 09:22:57 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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NSA 'spy room' at AT&T exposed Agency can spy on email and web use with impunity Iain Thomson, http://vnunet.com, 13 Jun 2007 Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) claim to show that US telco AT&T allowed the National Security Agency (NSA) to set up a 'secret room' in its offices to monitor internet traffic. The documents were handed over as part of an EFF legal case against AT&T for alleged violation of user privacy. The US government has asked the courts to dismiss the case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets. "The district court rejected the government's attempt to sweep this case under the rug," ...
Immigration 'Diversion' for North American Union?
Post Date: 2007-06-18 09:15:07 by JCHarris
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From the http://NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Monday, June 18, 2007 7:53 a.m. EDT Immigration 'Diversion' for North American Union? The debate over illegal immigration is a "diversion" to distract Americans from government efforts to enter into a North American Union with Canada and Mexico, in the view of activists protesting in Washington, D.C., on Friday. "The illegal alien problem is a mechanism for leveraging what is yet to come," Daneen Peterson, a researcher who studies the North American Union issue, said at the small rally, which drew about 40 protestors. "Once the civil unrest and chaos caused by the overwhelming human ...
Right-Winger Sues Blogger And Wins
Post Date: 2007-06-17 18:54:24 by robin
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Right-Winger Sues Blogger And Wins Lee Kaplan writes at David Horowitz's far-right, anti-Muslim http://FrontPageMag.com. A college student set up the blog Lee Kaplan Watch to expose what the guy is writing. He was sued by Kaplan in small claims court for "business interference," and Kaplan won $7500. because it was small claims court the judge was not required to explain his decision. The blogger writes, I hope that sufficient attention is paid to the great danger that what has happened to me poses to all of us. It is by all means a serious issue. My first amendment rights have been subverted with support from the courts, which only shows that everybody is in danger of ...
Sy Hersh on Taguba’s Abu Ghraib investigation
Post Date: 2007-06-17 18:54:15 by Zipporah
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Sy Hersh on Taguba’s Abu Ghraib investigationBy: John Amato @ 3:45 PM - PDT Sy Hersh joined Wolf on CNN this morning to talk about his new piece in The New Yorker: “How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.” It’s another important story that Sy has brought to our attention. The lies that were told about the Abu Ghraid scandal are staggering as this WH implemented torture into its playbook and the soul of America. Download (14) | Play (7) Download (12) | Play (3) HERSH: Very simply that the notion, as they told Congress, that our leader, Rumsfeld, Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense and his aides, they all went ...
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions
Post Date: 2007-06-17 14:19:56 by Zoroaster
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Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions By Joel S. Hirschhorn 06/16/07 "ICH" -- -- The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll results vividly show a population incredibly dissatisfied with their nation’s political system. In other countries in other times such a depressing level of confidence in government would send a signal to those running the government that a major upheaval is imminent. But not here in the USA. Why? First, here are the highlights of the poll that surveyed 1,008 adults from June 8-11, with a margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points. A whopping 68 percent think the country is on the wrong track. Just 19 percent ...
White House and Lawmakers Alike Face Risks in an Executive Privilege Fight
Post Date: 2007-06-17 11:57:24 by robin
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June 17, 2007 White House MemoWhite House and Lawmakers Alike Face Risks in an Executive Privilege Fight By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON, June 16 — President Bush was strangely quiet this week when Democrats issued subpoenas to two former White House officials in the firing of federal prosecutors. Mr. Bush had been quite vocal, and perfectly clear, back in March when Democrats first delivered their subpoena threat. “I will oppose any attempts to subpoena White House officials,” Mr. Bush said then. Asked if he would be willing to fight a subpoena in court, he added, “Absolutely.” But when the subpoenas actually arrived on Wednesday, for Harriet E. Miers, the ...
Scooter’s Sopranos Go to the Mattresses
Post Date: 2007-06-17 11:51:48 by robin
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June 17, 2007Op-Ed Columnist, nytimes.comScooter’s Sopranos Go to the Mattresses By FRANK RICHAS a weary nation awaited the fade-out of "The Sopranos" last Sunday, the widow of the actual Mafia don John Gotti visited his tomb in Queens to observe the fifth anniversary of his death. Victoria Gotti was not pleased to find reporters lying in wait. "It's disgusting that people are still obsessed with Gotti and the mob," she told The Daily News. "They should be obsessed with that mob in Washington. They have 3,000 deaths on their hands." She demanded to know if the president and vice president have relatives on the front lines. "Every time I watch ...
A three-pronged plan to bring America down
Post Date: 2007-06-17 09:52:43 by robin
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Issues analysisA three-pronged plan to bring America down June 17, 2007 Joshua Herring RenewAmerica analyst In an article that I read recently, there was a tragic story. It filled my heart with sorrow to think of Americans devastated in the workplace by policies that exhibit an inexcusable lack of sensitivity and civic responsibility. This is the story of which I speak: Fox News reported on a particularly tragic example of job displacement that took place in 2003: "Kevin Flanagan, a computer programmer with Bank of America, was fired from his job after being forced to train his replacement, an Indian worker who was taking over Flanagan's job as part of Bank of America's ...
WeAreChange Visits Ed and Elaine Brown
Post Date: 2007-06-17 00:04:22 by Critter
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