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The Iraq War and Presidential Politics: An Appeal from a Vietnam Vet to Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb
Post Date: 2007-06-06 15:11:13 by aristeides
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The Iraq War and Presidential Politics An Appeal from a Vietnam Vet to Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb bY BRIAN M. DOWNING Recently, the Democrats, who enjoy but cannot wield majorities in both houses of Congress, relented and voted to continue funding the war in Iraq. Those who look upon the fighting as senseless and unrelated to the war on terror are keenly disappointed if not dismayed. Another funding bill will come up in the fall, but there is little reason to expect a different outcome. The Democrats evidently are subject to many of the pressures from think tanks, lobby groups, campaign contributors, and popular notions of war that brought about and continue the present course. Despite ...
Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Secretary Charged with Criminal Trespass Despite Protest of CNN Staff and Official Event Press Credentials at GOP Debate in New Hampshire
Post Date: 2007-06-06 06:17:34 by noone222
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Manchester, NH - Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for http://Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered New Hampshire state police to arrest him. Jason Bermas, reporting for Infowars and America: Freedom to Fascism, confirmed Lepacek had official CNN press credentials for the Republican debate. However, his camera was seized by staff members who shut off the camera, according to Luke Rudkowski, also a freelance Infowars reporter on the scene. He said police ...
Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and 9/11
Post Date: 2007-06-06 06:01:12 by Ada
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Abraham Lincoln, it would seem, is in the midst of a career revival. In recent years, the 16th president has been praised by the likes of author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Lincoln boosterism has been prominently featured on high-traffic political blogs such as Power Line. Amid this torrent of praise, it is worth examining the legacy that is being celebrated. Without a doubt, Lincoln achieved important results during his political career. Most notably, his presidency marked the beginning of the end of the nefarious institution of slavery. For this – as well as for laying the groundwork that extended the equal protection of the laws to all races and creeds – Lincoln has earned a ...
White House disagrees with Guantanamo trial ruling
Post Date: 2007-06-05 22:20:52 by Zipporah
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PRAGUE, June 5 (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department was considering whether to appeal. "We don't agree with the ruling on the military commissions," White House spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters in Prague where President George W. Bush is meeting with leaders of the Czech Republic. The judges on Monday said they lacked jurisdiction under the strict definition of those eligible for trial by military tribunal under a law enacted last year. The Defense Department "will make a determination as to whether ...
THE SUBORNING OF PRESIDENTIAL TREASON BY A DERELICT CONGRESS
Post Date: 2007-06-04 10:41:34 by christine
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The substantial number of messages sent by readers of my article, “It’s Time To Standup – Put Up – Or Shutup” was both unanticipated and telling. It pointed up a rapidly building and simmering resentment and anger in regard to 1. The impact of illegal aliens upon the nation, and 2. the encouragement of the illegal entry of huge numbers of aliens by George Walker Bush and a congress that aids and abets his treasonous activities. The delivering of the country, on the domestic front, to the destructive forces of a continuing and deadly invasion of illegal aliens and the equally deadly pursuit of a resource wasting belligerence on the international level has set the ...
'No Knock' Searches Get People Killed
Post Date: 2007-06-04 07:00:51 by Ada
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Last week, we were asking how police found themselves in the bedroom of a naked couple in Lancaster, Calif., in 2001, guns drawn. This led to a discussion of the problem with "no-knock" – or even "shout-once-and-storm-in" – search warrants. On Nov. 21 of last year, Atlanta police planted marijuana on Fabian Sheats, a "suspected street dealer." They told Sheats they would let him go if he "gave them something." Sheats obligingly lied that he had spotted a kilogram of cocaine nearby, giving them the address of the elderly spinster Miss Kathryn Johnston, who neither used nor dealt drugs, but who did live in fear of break-ins in her ...
Soviet-Style ‘Torture’ Becomes ‘Interrogation’
Post Date: 2007-06-03 14:31:25 by Zipporah
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Soviet-Style ‘Torture’ Becomes ‘Interrogation’ By SCOTT SHANE HOW did the United States, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, come to adopt interrogation techniques copied from the Soviet Union and other cold war adversaries? Investigators for the Senate Armed Services Committee are examining how the methods, long used to train Americans for what they may face as prisoners of war, became the basis for American interrogations. In 2002, the C.I.A. and the Pentagon became concerned that standard questioning was inadequate for suspected terrorists and turned to a military training program called Survival, Evasion, Reconnaissance and Escape, or SERE. For decades, SERE ...
Interrogation Methods Are Criticized
Post Date: 2007-06-02 05:43:51 by Zipporah
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Philip D. Zelikow, then the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, speaking before the panel at the Capitol in Washington in April 2004. Interrogation Methods Are Criticized By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON, May 29 — As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable. The psychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has yet to create an ...
Palast Exclusive: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
Post Date: 2007-06-01 09:04:06 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Palast Exclusive: The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the KingdomAnd The No Longer 'Missing' Rove Emails Revealing the Cagey Scheme to Steal 2008... UPDATE 5/31/07: Late breaking news on Griffin resignation from Palast interview with Conyers, now posted here... *** Special to The BRAD BLOG by Greg Palast This Monica revealed something hotter --- much hotter --- than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One....And the Committee members didn't even know it. Goodling ...
Too Bad (How Bush destroyed the Rs)
Post Date: 2007-06-01 07:57:48 by Jethro Tull
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PEGGY NOONANToo BadPresident Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.Friday, June 1, 2007 12:00 a.m. EDT What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one ...
Pentagon ‘Migrated’ Soviet Cold War Torture Techniques to Guantanamo, Iraq
Post Date: 2007-05-31 21:16:22 by Zipporah
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Pentagon ‘Migrated’ Soviet Cold War Torture Techniques to Guantanamo, Iraq Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a program designed to train U.S. soldiers to withstand torture if they are ever captured as prisoners of war. Developed during the Cold War, U.S. solders are subjected to techniques based “on how the Soviet Union and its allies were believed to treat prisoners,” including “prolonged use of stress positions, exposure to heat and cold, sleep deprivation and even waterboarding.” A recently declassified investigation from the Department of Defense’s Inspector General confirms “how the military training was ‘reverse ...
POLICING THE LAW-ABIDING
Post Date: 2007-05-31 19:01:35 by Tauzero
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POLICING THE LAW-ABIDING Coach Dave Daubenmire May 31, 2007 NewsWithViews.com I was out riding my bicycle this past weekend fighting my own version of the battle of the bulge. I usually ride on back roads in order to keep out of the way of traffic, plus it gives me more time to think about things of which I can write. My wife tells me that I spend way too much time with me. Bicycles, I have always been told, are to be ridden with the same flow as the traffic. It doesn’t make sense to me. Common sense tells me my chances of a healthy ride go up if I can see what is coming towards me. So, I ride my bike facing the on-coming traffic. I like my chances of avoiding a collision if they ...
TWO 'ACTS' OF TYRANNY ON THE SAME DAY . . .
Post Date: 2007-05-31 16:32:45 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Military Commissions Act of 2006' October 17, 2006, a 'day that will live in infamy', there was a public signing of 'The Military Commissions Act of 2006' which suspends Habeas Corpus which is Latin for "you have the body." "The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is an eradication of the most basic protections of liberty enshrined for over 200 years in our sacred Constitution. The all-encompassing powers granted to the president by this law potentially forbid any man, woman, or child deemed an enemy of the administration or its policies from seeking judicial relief from unlawful imprisonment. Most terrifying of all, this law enthrones President Bush ...
Minnesota case fits pattern in U.S. attorneys flap: A prosecutor apparently targeted for firing had supported Native American voters' rights.
Post Date: 2007-05-31 15:45:48 by aristeides
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Minnesota case fits pattern in U.S. attorneys flap A prosecutor apparently targeted for firing had supported Native American voters' rights. By Tom Hamburger, Times Staff Writer May 31, 2007 WASHINGTON — For more than 15 years, clean-cut, square-jawed Tom Heffelfinger was the embodiment of a tough Republican prosecutor. Named U.S. attorney for Minnesota in 1991, he won a series of high-profile white-collar crime and gun and explosives cases. By the time Heffelfinger resigned last year, his office had collected a string of awards and commendations from the Justice Department. So it came as a surprise — and something of a mystery — when he turned up on a list of U.S. ...
Hemispheric Integration - Dissolving the United States - Treason By Trade
Post Date: 2007-05-31 12:25:00 by robin
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Hemispheric
Integration
Dissolving
the United States
Treason By
Trade
From the late 1980's
forward, it has become pretty clear that treasonous forces
within the United States planned for the dissolution of the
United States at the Millennium rollover. This
subversion of the Constitution and betrayal of American
citizens has been done through the use of trade agreements.
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Pirates of the Constitution
Post Date: 2007-05-30 23:55:33 by robin
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Boeing Faces Suit over CIA's Secret Abductions
Post Date: 2007-05-30 19:49:36 by Zipporah
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Boeing Faces Suit over CIA's Secret Abductions The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan Inc. for helping the CIA secretly abduct foreigners and take them overseas, where they were allegedly tortured. The plaintiffs are three foreign nationals from Italy, Egypt, and Ethiopia (BBC). The ACLU's director said :"American corporations should not be profiting from a CIA rendition program that is unlawful and contrary to core American values.... Corporations that choose to participate in such activity can and should be held legally accountable" (CNN). The suit is being filed under a statute allowing non-Americans to sue in the U.S. for ...
MADSEN: BUSH VERSUS CHENEY
Post Date: 2007-05-30 13:56:08 by aristeides
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May 30, 2007 -- Bush-Cheney rift. WMR's Washington sources have confirmed that a major rift has opened up between President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over U.S. Iran policy. Cheney and the remaining neo-con cabal inside the Bush administration favor quick and decisive U.S. military action against Iran while Bush, backed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, favor the current diplomatic negotiations with Iran, particularly the Baghdad Green Zone talks concerning Iraq's security. Bush has reportedly bristled at Cheney's suggestion that he is a "wimp." The junior Bush has made no secret of his obsession with his father's "wimp" persona and has ...
Emergency Detention Plan: 'This Way To The Camps!'
Post Date: 2007-05-30 11:21:14 by Brian S
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Directive from Bush allows president extraordinary powers in national crisis Posted: May 30, 2007 Halliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi. As Corsi reported last week, President Bush recently signed a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive granting extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight. Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in ...
Shrinks and the SERE Technique at Guantanamo
Post Date: 2007-05-29 19:49:15 by Zipporah
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Shrinks and the SERE Technique at Guantanamo By Stephen Soldz 05/29/07 "ICH" -- -- The Defense Department (DoD) has just declassified a report from their Inspector General (OIG) looking at the various investigations that the Department has conducted into repeated claims of detainee abuse--a.k.a. "torture" and "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment"--banned by international and United States law. The report documents that the various DoD "investigations were, individually and in total, inadequate: Allegations of detainee abuse were not consistently reported, investigated, or managed in an effective, systematic, and timely manner. Multiple reporting ...
Rense & Jones Lay It On The Line (It's All True)
Post Date: 2007-05-29 10:53:29 by robin
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Rense & Jones Lay It On The LineListen Free Here (Click here to listen) (MP3) It's All True From A Grieved Citizen I just finished listening to your most recent dialogue with Alex Jones concerning the coming police state. I will tell you that I am a police officer and only recently began to understand what is going on here in the United States. I was terribly igonorant of the United States Constitution and the precious freedoms and protections from an overreaching government. I have seen and heard the quotes from people like George Bush (our Constitution is 'just a goddamned piece of paper') and Alberto Gonzales denying habeus corpus. I have seen Homeland Security ...
Net taxes could arrive by this fall
Post Date: 2007-05-29 10:28:21 by robin
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Net taxes could arrive by this fall By Declan McCullaghhttp://news.com.com/Net+taxes+could+arrive+by+this+fall/2100-1028_3-6186193.html Story last modified Thu May 24 06:25:25 PDT 2007 The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful. State and local governments this week resumed a push to lobby Congress for far-reaching changes on two different fronts: gaining the ability to impose sales taxes on Net shopping, and being able to levy new monthly taxes on DSL and other connections. One senator is even predicting taxes on e-mail. At the moment, states and municipalities are frequently ...
Bush Launches Charm Offensive in Bid to Woo Skeptical Democrats
Post Date: 2007-05-28 20:41:29 by Ferret Mike
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May 25 (Bloomberg) -- The meal was fit for a queen: caviar, Dover sole almondine and spring lamb. The setting was no less impressive: the upstairs residence of the White House, with its unrivaled vista of the National Mall. ``It's not Crawford,'' President George W. Bush told his guests, referring to the dusty central Texas town where he owns a ranch. ``But if you can't be in Texas, what a view!'' As Representative Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat, admired the scenery, he said later, he was struck by his presence at the April 17 dinner -- his first such invitation from Bush. Only 20 months before the end of his term, Bush has begun a cross-party charm offensive that ...
Iraq for Sale
Post Date: 2007-05-28 18:39:12 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Iraq for Sale Banned Excerpts http://iraqforsale.org/ On May 10th, 2007, this video was banned in Congress Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show. Republicans insisted this not be shown.
1970s traitors to their country
Post Date: 2007-05-28 12:01:54 by robin
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May 28-29, 2007 -- Neo-con cabal born in treason in the late 1970s. Lying, massive fraud, illegal weapons smuggling, forged documents . . . all sound like a description of the lead-up to the war in Iraq. However, this same situation existed in the late 1970s. Some of the same players who got this nation into the bloody quagmire of Iraq also criminally conspired to bring down the administration of President Jimmy Carter. President Carter's indignation about the neo-cons -- their blind support for Israel, their whittling away of our Constitution, our neo-con foreign policy -- is rooted in the treason they committed against the United States during his administration. There is no statute ...
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