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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Sampson Grilled by Senators on U.S. Attorney Firings: Says Gonzales Made False Statements
Post Date: 2007-03-29 14:19:26 by aristeides
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Sampson Grilled by Senators on U.S. Attorney Firings: Says Gonzales Made False Statements By E&P Staff Published: March 29, 2007 11:30 AM ET updated NEW YORK E&P will keep an eye all day on the testimony, and grilling, of former Justice Department official Kyle Sampson at a U.S. Senate hearing today. He offered his written testimony this morning (it was leaked last night) and then the questioning began by Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Arlen Specter, and other members of the Judiciary Committee. Specter asked about Attorney General Gonzales' "candor" in saying earlier this month that he was not a part of any discussions on the firings. He asked about the November 27, 200 ...
IS THERE A MORMON MAFIA BEHIND KYLE SAMPSON? OR JUST A NETWORK OF FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS?
Post Date: 2007-03-29 10:07:55 by aristeides
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IS THERE A MORMON MAFIA BEHIND KYLE SAMPSON? OR JUST A NETWORK OF FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS? Karen, the head of DWT's Mean Jean Schmidt Department, had a slow news week with Mean Jean keeping a low profile after the vomit incident. So Karen started tracing some of the friendship webs that have been behind Kyle Sampson's otherwise inexplicable rise to power. Karen discovered a network of wingnuts, many of whom are Brigham Young University alumni and believers in the large and wealthy Mormon cult, who recommend and protect each other. Their cabal has been fueled by a huge influx of patronage from the Bush Regime. (It helps explain why Utah is the last remaining state in the entire U.S. ...
Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine
Post Date: 2007-03-29 06:59:20 by Ada
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He survived Iraq, only to suffer Death By Government in the "Land of the Free": Sgt. Derek J. Hale, USMC, ret. ~ RIP Delaware was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. It may be the first state to be afflicted with a fully operational death squad – unless a civil lawsuit filed on Friday against the murders of Derek J. Hale results in criminal charges and a complete lustration (in the Eastern European sense of the term) of Delaware's law enforcement establishment. Hale, a retired Marine Sergeant who served two tours in Iraq and was decorated before his combat-related medical discharge in January 2006, was murdered by a heavily armed 8–12-member ...
Home Of The Free - No LongerBrave
Post Date: 2007-03-29 02:07:39 by robin
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Home Of The Free - No LongerBrave By Judith Moriarty 3-28-7 Transportation Security Administration officials have announced two major changes:Travelers may now carry through security checkpoints travel size toiletries ( 3 oz or less) that fit comfortably in ONE, Quart- SIZE, clear plastic, zip top bag. Pay attention and follow directions or that trip to Disney World can be cancelled! After clearing security, travelers can now bring beverages and other items purchased in the secure boarding area, on-board the aircraft.At the checkpoint travelers will be asked to remove the zip-top bag of liquids and place it in a bin or on the conveyor belt, x-raying separately will allow TSA security ...
Iowa Flag-Desecration Laws Tossed [flying a flag upside down and writing on it]
Post Date: 2007-03-29 00:25:25 by Brian S
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Two state laws that prohibit misuse and desecration of an American flag are unenforceable and unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt said Tuesday that the Iowa laws violate a due process clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa brought a lawsuit on behalf of a man charged with a misdemeanor for flying a flag upside down and writing on it and another man also charged with flying a flag upside down. It declared the ruling a victory. "Today should mark the end of government misuse of these laws to intimidate and harass those who disagree with government ...
MADSEN ON WEBB AIDE ARREST
Post Date: 2007-03-28 15:18:40 by aristeides
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March 28, 2007 -- Whenever a Democratic member of Congress is reported to have trouble with the US Capitol Police one can be assured that one person is always involved -- Terrance Gainer, the Republican former Chief of the Capitol Police and Harry Reid's mortifying pick as Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. In March 2006, Gainer, who was embroiled in a nepotism scandal, defended his police force after a scuffle ensued between a US Capitol cop and then-Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA). Our sources on the Hill said that McKinney was targeted by Gainer and the Republican leadership in a ploy to embarrass her. The incident was referred to the US Attorney for the District of Columbia rather than ...
E-mail Controversy Prompts Many Aides To Stop Usage
Post Date: 2007-03-28 14:20:56 by aristeides
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E-mail Controversy Prompts Many Aides To Stop Usage March 27, 2007 | 5:18 PM ET This comes from Whispers editor Paul Bedard: The growing controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors and what administration officials knew about it is renewing concerns among Bush aides over the less-than-secret aspect of E-emails. Those concerns were elevated this week when a House chairman asked that all aides retain their E-mails. But just a week after E-mails in the U.S. attorneys case became a main focus of congressional Democrats probing the firings, several aides said that they stopped using the White House system except for purely professional correspondence. "We just got a bit ...
Gonzales aide with Domenici connection (GOODLING) won’t testify in Senate
Post Date: 2007-03-28 12:03:10 by aristeides
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Gonzales aide with Domenici connection won’t testify in Senate Last Update: 03/27/2007 7:33:28 AM By: Associated Press AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ liaison with the White House will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings about the firings of eight US attorneys. An attorney for Monica Goodling says she will cite her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Goodling was involved in an April Sixth, 2006, phone call between the Justice Department and New Mexico Republican Senator Pete Domenici. Domenici had complained to the Bush administration and the president about David Iglesias, then the US attorney in Albuquerque. Domenici wanted ...
Senate Panel Wants Status of Justice Aides in Connection to Attorney Probe
Post Date: 2007-03-28 11:28:11 by aristeides
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Senate Panel Wants Status of Justice Aides in Connection to Attorney Probe By Seth Stern, CQ Staff The Senate Judiciary chairman asked Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to clarify the employment status of three Justice Department aides the committee might subpoena and whether any have retained their own lawyers. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., noted that two other aides the committee wants to question about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling, have either resigned or taken a leave of absence and retained outside counsel. In a handwritten note Tuesday, Leahy asked Gonzales to provide the information in advance of Sampson’s scheduled testimony before the ...
Why I love Fox News
Post Date: 2007-03-28 06:15:59 by Ada
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First, let me point out that I don’t watch Fox news… or headline news… or CNN… or MSNBC… or my local affiliates. In fact, I abhor Fox News’ worship of the state just as much as I detest CNN’s worship of the state. The only difference between the two networks is each supports a different prince and each advocates their man’s assumption to the throne. Many people hate Fox News. That’s fine with me. As an economist, I understand the concept of voting with your dollars. If you like a TV show, watch it. If you don’t like the show, then don’t watch. It’s that simple. Furthermore, by that logic it is obvious that many people enjoy Fox ...
The future looks very bleak
Post Date: 2007-03-28 04:36:57 by noone222
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The crash of the US economy has begun. Although the reasons for the now-accelerating economic fiasco have been in place for decades, the chickens are only now coming home to roost. The murder weapons used to kill the economy are "free trade," outsourcing, illegal immigration, special work visa programs, and unrestrained government spending, which have all contributed to the death of what was just a few decades ago the economic powerhouse of the world. The balance of trade between most of our trading partners in this so called system of "free trade" is completely lopsided. For instance, the flood of products which are imported to the US just from China alone, in contrast ...
Dick Cheney and the mysterious $140,000 contract
Post Date: 2007-03-27 23:15:27 by aristeides
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Dick Cheney and the mysterious $140,000 contract by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/27/2007 08:13:00 PM ET TPM has more information on Dick Cheney's odd ties to the corrupt GOP lobbyist who bought off Randy "Duke" Cunningham. How did this guy, out of nowhere, get the contract to screen the president's mail, presumably for Anthrax? The guy was a nobody. Had never had a federal contract before. His company showed no revenue, ever. Yet somehow the guy is hired by Dick Cheney's office to oversee the Anthrax mail threat at the White House, and then the guy gets hundreds of millions of dollars of DOD contracts, and bribes a sitting GOP congressman. All because Dick Cheney ...
U.S. Judge Dismisses Torture Lawsuit Against Former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
Post Date: 2007-03-27 19:18:43 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government job. The lawsuit contends the prisoners were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First had argued that Rumsfeld and ...
House strips Bush of US Attorneys appointment authority
Post Date: 2007-03-27 16:09:36 by aristeides
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House strips Bush of US Attorneys appointment authority Michael Roston Published: Tuesday March 27, 2007 In a 329-78 vote last night, the House of Representatives followed the Senate and stripped President George W. Bush of the authority to appoint United States Attorneys on an interim basis, ending the ability of the Bush administration to do an end run around the Senate in putting controversial US Attorneys in office. The bill sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) places a 120-day limit to the term of a United States Attorney appointed on an interim basis. Democrats allege that the previous authority to appoint interim US Attorneys on an unlimited basis, inserted stealthily into the ...
Democrats push ahead with war funding bill despite veto threat
Post Date: 2007-03-27 15:54:58 by aristeides
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Democrats push ahead with war funding bill despite veto threat March 27, 2007 12:58 EDT CAPITOL HILL (AP) -- Despite a veto threat, Senate Democrats are still pushing ahead with war funding legislation that calls for combat troops to come home from Iraq within one year. The Senate is debating a bill that the administration has said will "embolden our enemies." The White House has promised a veto. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says the White House reaction to the provision in the 122 billion-dollar bill is "not surprising" because it has refused to change course despite dwindling public support. The bill would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but order the ...
The Pentagon's Power to Jail Americans Indefinitely
Post Date: 2007-03-27 05:49:05 by Ada
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The presiding judge in the Jose Padilla case has held that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a speedy trial does not protect American citizens from being indefinitely incarcerated by the Pentagon. Padilla had filed a motion to dismiss the case on the ground that the federal government had denied him his right to a speedy trial. Padilla has been in custody since May 2002 and his trial, which is scheduled to begin in April, is not being held until some five years later. From May 2002 until January 2006, Padilla was held in U.S. military custody as an “enemy combatant” in the “war on terror.” In January 2006, the Pentagon chose to transfer custody of Padilla to the ...
Chairman Waxman Requests Information on White House Contract with MZM
Post Date: 2007-03-26 17:28:51 by aristeides
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Chairman Waxman Requests Information on White House Contract with MZM As part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse in federal contracting, the Committee has requested information on a $140,000 contract awarded by the Executive Office of the President to MZM, Inc. in July 2002. The contract with the White House appears to have been MZM’s first prime contract with the federal government. Subsequent investigations of other MZM contracts had uncovered serious irregularities. To date, there has been no examination of the circumstances surrounding the company’s initial contract and the role that White House officials played in the award and ...
USAgate scoop: Justice aide to TAKE THE FIFTH!
Post Date: 2007-03-26 15:58:12 by aristeides
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USAgate scoop: Justice aide to TAKE THE FIFTH! by EZ writer [Subscribe] Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 12:47:44 PM PDT Breaking: AP-APNEWSALERT (AP) - WASHINGTON _ A Justice Department aide involved in the prosecutor firings will refuse to answer questions at a Senate hearing, citing protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer says. holy crap! Is someone facing a perjury rap if they testify? WOW! What next? Stay tuned ... WASHINGTON (AP) - Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday. ...
Committee Orders All RNC Emails To Be Preserved
Post Date: 2007-03-26 14:10:13 by aristeides
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Committee Orders All RNC Emails To Be Preserved by Scout Finch [Subscribe] Mon Mar 26, 2007 at 09:31:27 AM PDT Way to go Henry Waxman and the Administration Oversight Committee! Sorry for the brief diary, sounds like details are unfolding. But, from the Oversight Committee's Website: Monday, March 26, 2007 Administration Oversight Committee Directs RNC to Preserve White House Emails Citing evidence that senior White House officials are using RNC and other political email accounts to avoid leaving a record of official communications, Chairman Waxman directs the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney ’04 Campaign to preserve the emails of White House officials and ...
A weekly roundup of the buzz from the Sunday talk shows
Post Date: 2007-03-26 10:41:12 by robin
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A weekly roundup of the buzz from the Sunday talk shows Monday, March 26, 2007; Page A02 The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said White House officials should testify publicly but not under oath about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. The remarks by Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) challenge President Bush's offer of allowing the officials, who include chief political strategist Karl Rove, to meet privately with lawmakers in a session not to be transcribed. Two other Republicans -- Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and Chuck Hagel (Neb.) -- agreed with Specter that any such testimony should at least be transcribed. Save & Share Article What's This? Digg Google ...
Court Rediscovers 2nd Amendment, Liberals Fear Other 'Rights' May Soon be Found
Post Date: 2007-03-26 09:38:36 by innieway
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Tragedy struck leftists all across America last week when a federal appeals court reviewing the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, ruled that the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed upon by the District. The court's inexplicable ruling was based on a "radical" interpretation of the recently rediscovered 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. According to the Washington Post, which upon hearing of the decision had a small editorial seizure it called “A Dangerous Ruling,” the ...
Bush isolated from GOP lawmakers
Post Date: 2007-03-26 07:18:11 by Jethro Tull
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Bush isolated from GOP lawmakers March 26, 2007 BY ROBERT NOVAK Sun-Times Columnist Two weeks earlier on Capitol Hill, there was a ground swell of Republican demands -- public and private -- that President Bush pardon the convicted Scooter Libby. Last week, as Alberto Gonzales came under withering Democratic fire, there were no public GOP declarations of support amid private predictions of the attorney general's demise. Republican leaders in Congress (asking not to be quoted by name) early last week predicted Gonzales would fall because the Justice Department botched firing eight U.S. attorneys. By week's end, they stipulated that the president would not sack his longtime ...
No Chance for Justice Under a Criminal Regime
Post Date: 2007-03-25 16:42:52 by robin
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It's becoming ever more clear to Americans that we're presently living under a criminal regime. The Bush junta has been attacking the Constitution since it seized power in the 2000 coup d'etat. Not content with doing away with habeas corpus, torturing war prisoners, and spying on American citizens, it's caused a new Constitutional Crisis by hiring and firing U.S. Attorneys dependent on their doing the bidding of the cabal and its Republican Party henchmen. As we look at this new Constitutional crisis we run smack up against the pervasive criminal atmosphere created by the cabal and its Bush junta puppet regime. If the House Judiciary subcommittee and the Senate Judiciary ...
City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention
Post Date: 2007-03-25 16:30:25 by robin
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Marco Ceglie, a member of Billionaires for Bush, a satirical performance troupe, said he suspected that the group was under surveillance in 2004. March 25, 2007 City Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention By JIM DWYER For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records and interviews. From Albuquerque to Montreal, San Francisco to Miami, undercover New York police officers attended meetings of political groups, posing as sympathizers or fellow ...
Deep Gloat (BUSH'S CRUELTY)
Post Date: 2007-03-25 09:37:00 by aristeides
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Deep Gloat The truly great, giddiness-inducing thing about the Justice Department scandal (still awaiting its moronically obligatory "gate"-suffixed title) is how it owes its existence to the gratuitous nastiness of these hate-driven punks in the White House. Gonzales and Co. could have just said, "We're firing these people because we can," and that would have been that. Sure, Josh Marshall might still have been all over it, but he would have been just a dismissible left-wing blogger. And sure, John Conyers and Chuck Schumer might still have fulminated about it on C-SPAN, but most House and Senate Democrats are such wusses that nothing would have come of that, ...
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