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Bush's Dilemma: Removal (United States attorneys) Was ILLEGAL Without His OK
Post Date: 2007-03-16 21:45:27 by Zipporah
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Bush has an interesting choice over the next few days. The WH spin on the firing of the USAttys has been to put out two completely contradictory concepts and hope that no one notices. This is a pretty safe bet with the MSM, but no so much with the lawyers sitting on Leahy's Judiciary committee. Those lawyers are going to see very quickly that Bush will have to fish or cut bait. The President must confess to a role in the removal of the lawyers, or the removals are prima facie illegal. Mary2002's diary :: :: What are the two contradictory statements that the WH is selling at the same time? Well, on the one hand, WH spokespersons like Dana Perino and Tony Snow are saying: President ...
BREAKING: CBS News Says Gonzales To Be Sacked
Post Date: 2007-03-16 19:14:55 by aristeides
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BREAKING: CBS News Says Gonzales To Be Sacked by Steve Singiser [Subscribe] Fri Mar 16, 2007 at 03:33:29 PM PDT According to CBS Evening News, AG Alberto Gonzales will be fired within days. They also report that Bush is in a "pugnacious" mood (does he have another kind of mood, by the way??), but that it is a "foregone conclusion" that Gonzales is on his way to the door. CBS News is also reporting that the performance reviews for the fired US Attorneys were rife with positive reports. Snow looked pretty bad defending this earlier today. Another "Headline News" moment that the Bush-itters would probably like to forget. Good...they deserve nothing less.
Rove Joins Gonzales as a Target
Post Date: 2007-03-16 17:11:38 by aristeides
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Rove Joins Gonzales as a Target By MASSIMO CALABRESI/WASHINGTON Friday, Mar. 16, 2007 The new e-mails showing Karl Rove's early involvement in the decision-making over the firing of U.S. attorneys are inconclusive on the central question underlying the dismissals: did President Bush or his top advisers put their own political interests ahead of the public interest? But on Capitol Hill, where ill-will toward the White House is growing by the day, lawmakers are more interested in learning who, if anyone, lied to Congress — and these e-mails will only further raise suspicions and keep investigators digging. The e-mails show Rove was involved early on in figuring out which and how ...
'Hazy Memories' Cited in Attorneys Probe
Post Date: 2007-03-16 17:07:41 by aristeides
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'Hazy Memories' Cited in Attorneys Probe White House Cites "Hazy Memories" in Prosecutor Firings; GOP Support Erodes for Gonzales By LAURIE KELLMAN WASHINGTON Mar 16, 2007 (AP)— The White House dropped its contention Friday that former Counsel Harriet Miers first raised the idea of firing U.S. attorneys, blaming "hazy memories" as e-mails shed new light on Karl Rove's role. Support eroded further for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Presidential press secretary Tony Snow previously had asserted Miers was the person who came up with the idea, but he said Friday, "I don't want to try to vouch for origination." He said, "At this ...
Hold Bush responsible (LETTER TO STARS & STRIPES)
Post Date: 2007-03-16 16:54:55 by aristeides
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Hold Bush responsible It was with disbelief that I read “Reflection of pride” (letter, March 6) — another Bush regime apologist with comprehension problems. I’m unsure how taking care of troops became “ignore facts, get stupid and follow blindly.” From the grossly negligent “planning” for the invasion to the current shameful care for wounded veterans, this administration has used soldiers as a politically charged club to subdue and vilify any type of opposition or rational judgment against the (failed) ideas and plans of the president. Compare the treatment of Gen. Erik Shinseki, then chief of staff of the Army, and Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of ...
MADSEN ON SOURCE OF LEAKS ABOUT U.S. ATTORNEYS
Post Date: 2007-03-16 15:30:20 by aristeides
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March 16-18, 2007 -- WMR has learned that plans by the White House to fire U.S. Attorneys was hatched in 2005 with a view to ensure the 2006 re-election of GOP Senate and House members through massive voter fraud, a repetition of that which occurred in Ohio and other states in 2004. Of particular interest was an assurance that newly-appointed GOP U.S. Attorneys, unconfirmed by the Senate, would aggressively pursue Democratic registration drives in certain states in order to drive down voter turnout, especially among minorities.. Rove's plan, with the support of a new cadre of politically-driven U.S. Attorneys, would be to scare new voters away from registering and voting with threats of ...
BOMBSHELL: White House Security Chief Reveals -- No Probe of Plame Leak There
Post Date: 2007-03-16 13:40:38 by aristeides
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BOMBSHELL: White House Security Chief Reveals -- No Probe of Plame Leak There By E&P Staff Published: March 16, 2007 1:00 PM ET NEW YORK Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congresisonal committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The White House had first opposed Knodell testifying but after a threat of a subpoena from the committee yesterday he was allowed to appear today. Knodell has testified that those who had participated in the leaking of classified information were required to attest to this and he was aware that no one, including Karl Rove, had done ...
Kucinich: 'Impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran'
Post Date: 2007-03-16 10:54:58 by Ada
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During a speech on the House floor on Thursday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) declared that "impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran." The 2004 presidential candidate, who is running again in 2008, told RAW STORY that his House floor statement "speaks for itself." "This House cannot avoid its constitutionally authorized responsibility to restrain the abuse of Executive power," Kucinich said on the floor today. "The Administration has been preparing for an aggressive war against Iran. There is no solid, direct evidence that Iran has the intention of attacking the United States or its allies." ...
Chertoff warns of Web of terrorism
Post Date: 2007-03-16 09:11:45 by Eoghan
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Radical Islamists are using the Internet to recruit homegrown terrorists in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate panel yesterday. "I don't think it's necessary to send radical recruiters into the United States, and I think there's a risk to doing that," Mr. Chertoff told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. "But I have no question about the fact that [Osama] bin Laden and [Ayman al-Zawahiri] and others like them quite consciously use the media, including the Internet, as a recruiting tool," Mr. Chertoff said. "In terms of recruiting, I would say that the principal way to enter the U.S. is ...
The Last Days of Constitutional Rule?
Post Date: 2007-03-16 02:37:35 by Zoroaster
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March 16, 2007 The Last Days of Constitutional Rule?
by Paul Craig Roberts The Bush administration's greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses.
The administration's offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress and the American people, its vote-rigging scandals, its sweetheart no-bid contracts to favored firms, its political firing of Republican US Attorneys, its practice of kidnapping and torturing people in foreign hellholes, and its persecution of whistle blowers are altogether so vast that it is a major undertaking just to list them all.
Bush ...
Ruby Ridge Documentary
Post Date: 2007-03-16 01:11:03 by christine
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I just watched the Nat'l Geographic Ruby Ridge documentary which was aired on March 13th. This is far superior to that one. For anyone whose never read or seen the story, I recommend this. As many of you know, Randy is a personal friend of mine and my husband's. If you want to know what he's like, this is vintage "Weaver." I think, like me, you'll love his honesty. Ruby Ridge Doc - 50 mins
VeriChip Passes Significant Milestone: Over 500 Hospitals Have Now Agreed to Adopt VeriMed Patient Identification System
Post Date: 2007-03-16 00:44:39 by robin
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Tuesday March 13, 8:30 am ET VeriChip Adds 65 Hospitals/Emergency Departments to its VeriMed Network on First Day of AAEM Conference DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriChip Corporation (Nasdaq: CHIP - News), a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that 65 new hospitals have agreed to participate in the VeriMed Patient Identification System network at the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) 13th Annual Scientific Assembly conference in Las Vegas, bringing the Company's total number of enrolled hospitals to more than 500. Scott R. Silverman, Chairman and CEO of VeriChip, commented, "We are very pleased ...
ABC: Rove Suggested Firing All U.S. Attorneys (IN JAN. '05)
Post Date: 2007-03-15 17:22:08 by aristeides
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ABC: Rove Suggested Firing All U.S. Attorneys By Paul Kiel - March 15, 2007, 5:08 PM From ABC: New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House.... White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters Tuesday that Miers had suggesting firing all 93 and that it was "her idea only." Snow said Miers' idea was quickly rejected by the Department of Justice. However, Miers was Bush's staff secretary at that time in January 2005. She did not become White House ...
James II Thought Just Like Bush
Post Date: 2007-03-15 17:11:21 by aristeides
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The obstinate and imperious nature of the King gave great advantages to those who advised him to be firm, to yield nothing, and to make himself feared. One state maxim had taken possession of his small understanding, and was not to be dislodged by reason. To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all ...
Can Congress Defy Bush?
Post Date: 2007-03-15 11:34:51 by aristeides
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Can Congress Defy Bush? George Bush seems not to hear the views of the Democratic US Congress (nor the majority of the US public, according to polls) as he digs deeper into the Iraq quagmire, and persists in threatening another escapade in Iran. Can Congress stop him? Time will tell shortly, says Ibrahim Warde. President George Bush rejected the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) on 10 January 2007, in favour of a study by a neoconservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute. Rather than the phased withdrawal recommended by the Baker-Hamilton report, he chose what was called a policy of “surge”: 21,500 more soldiers would be sent to Iraq. But Congress is ...
The Bush thought process, courtesy of Kyle Sampson
Post Date: 2007-03-15 10:06:37 by Mekons4
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"We should gum this to death," Sampson wrote to a White House aide on Dec. 19. "ask the senators to give Tim a chance . . . then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in 'good faith,' of course." In other words, screw the Senate, we'll do whatever we want and laugh in their faces. This is going to make the Senate very, very happy. I'll drop everything the day they grill Sampson, who can't avoid a subpoena now. Putting good faith in quotes is really all you need to know about the ethics ...
TRANSPARENCY IN MONETARY POLICY
Post Date: 2007-03-14 19:44:10 by DeaconBenjamin
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Statement for Hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, “Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy” Transparency in monetary policy is a goal we should all support. I’ve often wondered why Congress so willingly has given up its prerogative over monetary policy. Astonishingly, Congress in essence has ceded total control over the value of our money to a secretive central bank. Congress created the Federal Reserve, yet it had no constitutional authority to do so. We forget that those powers not explicitly granted to Congress by the Constitution are inherently denied to Congress - and thus the authority to establish a central bank never was given. Of course ...
Fitzgerald: Rove tried to limit choice (OF U.S. ATTORNEY FOR CHICAGO)
Post Date: 2007-03-14 17:05:55 by aristeides
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EX-SENATOR RECALLS Fitzgerald: Rove tried to limit choice By Andrew Zajac Washington Bureau Published March 14, 2007 WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) said Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove told him in the spring of 2001 that he should limit his choice for U.S. attorney in Chicago to someone from Illinois. According to Fitzgerald, who was determined to bring in a prosecutor from outside the state, Rove "just said we don't want you going outside the state. We don't want to be moving U.S. attorneys around." Fitzgerald said he believes Rove was trying to influence the selection in reaction to pressure from Rep. Dennis Hastert, then ...
Feds say family has no rightful claim to 1933 'double eagle' coins
Post Date: 2007-03-14 15:08:44 by Neil McIver
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Feds say family has no rightful claim to 1933 'double eagle' coins MARYCLAIRE DALE The Associated Press Article Last Updated: 03/14/2007 11:44:47 AM EDT PHILADELPHIA -- A family that asked the U.S. Mint to authenticate 10 extremely rare coins cannot prove they were obtained legally and has no right to them, government lawyers argue in court papers. The gold coins, 1933 "double eagles" that were never circulated, could be worth millions of dollars apiece. A comparable one sold for $7.59 million in 2002 -- the highest price ever paid for a coin. Plaintiffs Joan S. Langbord and her two sons say they discovered the cache in 2003 in a safety deposit box belonging to her ...
Treasury casts a wide net under Patriot Act
Post Date: 2007-03-14 08:30:29 by leveller
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Posted on Mon, Mar. 12, 2007 WASHINGTON - Under a little-noticed provision in the USA Patriot Act, the Treasury Department has ordered severe restrictions against foreign banks or countries for reasons beyond the stated purpose of the law and without producing evidence. Section 311 of the 2001 Patriot Act was drafted to halt terrorist financing and money laundering, but the Bush administration has used it against an alleged source of terrorist financing - a bank in Syria - only once. The Treasury has invoked it more often to punish alleged human-rights abuses or offshore banking havens. Although Congress has yet to examine the Treasury's use of Section 311, the provision is ...
Emails detail plans for firing U.S. attorneys
Post Date: 2007-03-13 22:13:57 by robin
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Emails detail plans for firing U.S. attorneys By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON - Deflecting calls to resign, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales acknowledged Tuesday that he mishandled the firings of eight U.S. attorneys as new details emerged about the Bush administration's efforts to oust prosecutors who had fallen out of favor. Internal memos between the Justice Department and the White House show that administration officials were determined to bypass Congress in selecting replacements for eight U.S. attorneys who were forced to resign. The memos include a five-step plan for executing the dismissals and dealing the ...
Father Coughlin speaks against the Federal Reserve
Post Date: 2007-03-13 16:22:03 by Jethro Tull
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DoJ Claimed "No Role" in Rove Aide's Hiring
Post Date: 2007-03-13 16:09:35 by aristeides
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DoJ Claimed "No Role" in Rove Aide's Hiring Now that Alberto Gonzales has admitted that the Justice Department didn't give accurate information to Congress, it's worth reviewing what they said. Here's an example. In late February, Richard Hertling, the acting Assitant Attorney General, wrote a letter to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in which he claimed that the "Department is not aware of Karl Rove playing any role in the decision to appoint [Karl Rove's former aide Timothy] Griffin." Unfortunately, for the Justice Department, however, in an email outlining the media strategy for defending Griffin's appointment, Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson ...
Edwards Becomes First Prez Candidate To Call On Gonzales To Resign
Post Date: 2007-03-13 15:03:44 by aristeides
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Edwards Becomes First Prez Candidate To Call On Gonzales To Resign By Greg Sargent Yep -- John Edwards is first out of the box. Again. A statement just out from his campaign makes him the first of the Dems to demand that Alberto Gonzales step down: "Today's news is only the latest and most disturbing sign of the politicization of justice under President Bush. From the abuse of investigative authority under the Patriot Act to the unconstitutional imprisonment of the Guantanamo Bay detainees and illegal torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base, this president has consistently shown contempt for the rule of law. "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales betrayed ...
The Anti-Federalists Were Right Again
Post Date: 2007-03-13 06:29:36 by Ada
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Altough there are very few members of Congress who, like Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), can be considered strict constitutionalists, there is one clause in the Constitution that no member of Congress has ever had any trouble following. I am referring, of course, to the "elastic clause," the "sweeping clause" – the clause which states that Congress has the power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. ~ Art. I, Sec. 8, Par. 18zzzzzz Is it any wonder that James Madison, the ...
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