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Documents show new secretive US prison (in Indiana) program isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners
Post Date: 2007-02-16 18:53:38 by Zipporah
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Program in apparent violation of federal law The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating "high-security-risk" Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY. Quietly implemented in December, the special "Communications Management Unit" (CMU) at a federal penitentiary in Indiana targeting Muslim and Middle-Eastern inmates was not implemented through the process required by federal law, which stipulates the public be notified of any new changes to prison programs and be given the ...
Proposed Bill Would Ban (the expression of) Political Opinions in Classes
Post Date: 2007-02-16 17:10:40 by bluedogtxn
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Proposed bill would ban political opinions in classes PHOENIX (AP) -- A proposed state law would prohibit any instructor in a public school or college from advocating or opposing a political candidate or one side of a social, political or cultural issue that is part of a partisan debate. A group of Arizona lawmakers concluded Thursday that classrooms should not be forums for schoolteachers and college professors to espouse political opinions. Supporters said the measure would let students disagree with instructors without fearing retribution. However, college students and education advocates worry it would discourage instructors from leading discussions and debates on controversial ...
Was Jose Padilla Tortured by the U.S. Military?
Post Date: 2007-02-16 14:20:31 by Ada
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The accused terrorist's lawyers hope to use a competency hearing to show alleged mistreatment. MIAMI - When suspected Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla was taken into military custody in 2002, his interrogators set out to crush any hope he might have that a neutral judge or a defense lawyer would come to his aid. It is difficult to convince a US citizen that legal protections guaranteed in the Constitution no longer exist for him. But that was the mission of US military interrogators ordered to extract as much intelligence as possible from Mr. Padilla. "Only after such time as Padilla has perceived that help is not on the way can the United States reasonably expect to obtain all ...
Impeachment Passes in NM Senate's First Hearing
Post Date: 2007-02-16 13:48:00 by aristeides
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Impeachment Passes in NM Senate's First Hearing by Linda in SFNM [Subscribe] Fri Feb 16, 2007 at 10:05:43 AM PST BREAKING NEWS: NM Senate Rules Committee heard the first of 3 hearings on the Impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The room was packed with standing room only and people had to wait in the hallways. Linda in SFNM's diary :: :: Republicans did not even show up to hear the people speak. However, there were enough Democrats to make a Quorum and decided to call for a vote after only 1 hour of hearing people raise their concerns. It was a UNANIMOUS VOTE of all Democrats in the Senate Rules to pass their Hearing and to move forward to the ...
'Wash Times' Fails to Correct Fabricated Abraham Lincoln Quote -- Now a Congressman is Using It
Post Date: 2007-02-16 12:14:33 by aristeides
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'Wash Times' Fails to Correct Fabricated Abraham Lincoln Quote -- Now a Congressman is Using It By E&P Staff Published: February 15, 2007 10:00 PM ET NEW YORK More than two days after an inflammatory quote used by a regular Washington Times columnist was shown to be fabricated -- it was attributed to Abraham Lincoln, no less -- the newspaper still has not removed it from the article, nor carried a correction. That's one reason Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) cited the quote on the floor of the House on Thursday in the debate over the Iraq war "surge." He took it to be true, apparently. Rep. Young added, referring to Lincoln: "He had the same problem this ...
Honest, It Wasn't Abe's Comment
Post Date: 2007-02-16 12:12:08 by aristeides
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Honest, It Wasn't Abe's Comment Friday, February 16, 2007; Page A21 During floor debate on the Iraq war yesterday, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) quoted Abraham Lincoln as advocating the hanging of lawmakers who undermine military morale during wartime. "Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged," Young declared. One problem: Lincoln never said such a thing. Conservative scholar J. Michael Waller did, in an article for Insight magazine in December 2003. Waller later told Annenberg Political Fact Check that the supposed quote "is not a quote at all" ...
When This Job Is Over, He’ll Probably Just Retire Anyway (CHENEY COVERED BY LEGISLATION)
Post Date: 2007-02-16 10:40:08 by aristeides
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When This Job Is Over, He’ll Probably Just Retire Anyway By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff Vice President Dick Cheney was singled out for some special attention when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved new lobbying and ethics rules Feb. 14 for the executive branch. Despite getting a pass on some other provisions, the vice president is specifically covered by regulations setting a two-year “cooling off” period during which outgoing senior officials cannot lobby their former colleagues. New hires to high-ranking government posts also are prohibited from participating in policy decisions that affect their former employers. Democrats have long made ...
Bush, Congress Could Face Confrontation on Issue of War Powers
Post Date: 2007-02-16 06:59:13 by Ada
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President's Allies See Possible Challenges in Proposals Placing Restrictions on Funding for Iraq President Bush has not been shy about asserting robust powers for the presidency in waging war, but lately he has seemed to concede that Congress has a role to play as well. Lawmakers, he has indicated, are within their rights to try to cap total deployments or limit where troops can go in Iraq. "They have the right to try to use the power of the purse to determine policy," the president told editors of the Wall Street Journal recently, in an interview that took some of his strongest conservative supporters by surprise. For a president who has asserted broad executive authority ...
Shame On Germany! (Zundel Kidnapping Case)
Post Date: 2007-02-15 21:00:47 by Liberate Jim Traficant
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Shame on Germany!Ernst Zundel sentenced to prison for 5 years for exercising free speech!The German officials who have imprisoned a human being for speaking his political and historical opinions are the real criminals, not Ernst Zundel.A court in Manheim, Germany has just decreed that sixty-seven year old Ernst Zundel must be imprisoned for 5 years for peacefully exercising free speech. Zundel, a soft-spoken pacifist who has always condemned violence, dared to offer opinions on the Holocaust forbidden by the German government. The Canadian Jewish Congress applauded the conviction and sentence as have many Zionist groups around the world.Zundel, a respected artist who lived peacefully in ...
Cheney's Call
Post Date: 2007-02-15 19:20:21 by aristeides
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Cheney's Call INTELLIGENCE LEAKS By Murray Waas, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 Early on the morning of June 20, 2002, then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., received a telephone call at home from a highly agitated Dick Cheney. Graham, who was in the middle of shaving, held a razor in one hand as he took the phone in the other. The vice president got right to the point: A story in his morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned that Al Qaeda was about to launch a major attack against the United States, possibly the next day. ...
Americans confront two Mexican extremists supporting the communist/anti-American group, A.N.S.W.E.R. (video)
Post Date: 2007-02-15 13:56:07 by gengis gandhi
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here is the link to the vid. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e0d21_4507
The UNITED STATES - The New Roman Empire
Post Date: 2007-02-15 12:26:16 by Nostalgia
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Acknowledgement Through the extremely laborious and grueling research of the most God blessed people and friends of mine, true Christians, Randy Lee, John Williams, Honorable members in good standing with the Christian Jural Societies, and John Joseph, without them and their work upon which this paper is based, I would still be searching and failing! To you my brothers in Christ, I humble myself before you. Introduction The people of America are concerned that "something is wrong". Most of us Americans know something is indeed wrong, but fail in the attempt to put a finger on it. I believe that I have found the answer. Let us look upon our society today. We have rampant crime, ...
News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin
Post Date: 2007-02-14 19:32:01 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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News War: Secrets, Sources & Spin Listen to Segment|| Download Show mp3Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Frontline producer Raney Aronson discusses the new documentary series examining the relationship between the Bush administration and the press. [includes rush transcript] The series called “News Wars” will begin airing on PBS tomorrow night. Part one of the series examines the political and legal forces challenging the mainstream news media. The second part looks at the legal jeopardy faced by a number of reporters across the country and interviews reporters facing jail time for refusing to reveal their sources. One of the journalists interviewed is ...
Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire: Who’s to blame for America’s new torture techniques?
Post Date: 2007-02-14 14:18:14 by aristeides
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Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire Who’s to blame for America’s new torture techniques? By Mischa Gaus His psychiatrists call it “Groundhog Day.” José Padilla—the once-renowned “dirty bomber” who is now little more than a dim light in the government’s galaxy of desperadoes—has spent almost five years in solitary confinement. Whenever his lawyers attempt to discuss his case with him, he has the same response, begging them over and over again not to. When they try, his face seizes in tics and his body contorts uncontrollably. “Mr. Padilla may be suffering from some form of brain injury,” writes a forensic psychiatrist who ...
Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war
Post Date: 2007-02-14 11:12:35 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Frank Gaffney, one of the country's most influential and well-connected neoconservatives, has a column in today's Washington Times in which he argues that the debate taking place in Congress over the war in Iraq constitutes treason. Gaffney specifically argues that the condemnations of Douglas Feith from Sen. Rockefeller "really should be a hanging offense." Gaffney begins his column by purporting to quote Abraham Lincoln. Gaffney claims that Lincoln said: Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. This quote has become a favorite weapon for those who want ...
Foggo Indictment Expected; Dark Day for the CIA
Post Date: 2007-02-13 11:53:39 by aristeides
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Foggo Indictment Expected; Dark Day for the CIA February 13, 2007 10:22 AM Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report: Federal prosecutors in San Diego are expected today to announce indictments in a case that involves the former No. 3 official at the CIA, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, officials tell ABC News. Foggo, who served as the CIA's executive director, was accused last year by fellow CIA employees of steering contracts for the CIA station in Iraq to longtime friend Brent Wilkes, a defense contractor whose activities also led to the indictment of former Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham. Officials said today's expected indictments will also include Wilkes. At his home in ...
Congress Wants To Monitor All E-Mails, IMs, Etc.
Post Date: 2007-02-12 21:11:31 by Zipporah
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The Agonist: A bill introduced last week by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is beginning to raise eyebrows. [It] would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records. (emphasis mine) This is a terrifying development and it must be stopped before it gains any significant momentum. Background, Action items and contact information below the fold. Under the guise of reducing child pornography, the SAFETY (Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation ...
Giuliani Says Gun Control Helped Reduce N.Y. Crime, Addressing Potentially Troublesome Issue
Post Date: 2007-02-12 12:54:52 by Brian S
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SACRAMENTO Feb 11, 2007 (AP)— Rudy Giuliani addressed a potentially troublesome issue with conservative voters, saying his policies as mayor to get handguns off the street helped reduce crime in New York. "I used gun control as mayor," he said at a news conference Saturday during a swing through California. But "I understand the Second Amendment. I understand the right to bear arms." He said what he did as mayor would have no effect on hunting. Addressing another potential trouble spot with conservatives, Giuliani spoke in favor of a border fence, saying, "You have to have secure borders, you have to have a fence, and the fence I think has to be a highly ...
Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War
Post Date: 2007-02-12 05:53:24 by Ada
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Statement before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary January 30, 2007 Mr. Chairman, thank you for inviting me to offer my views on the constitutional authority of Congress to restrict, redirect, or terminate military operations. In recent years, some commentators have argued that Congress cannot, in time of war, interfere with the President’s power as Commander in Chief. Others claim that if Congress decides to exercise the power of the purse it must terminate all funding rather than adopting more selective or focused approaches. These commentators read congressional power far too narrowly and misunderstand the purpose of the Constitution and its commitment to representative ...
President Paul?
Post Date: 2007-02-12 04:48:48 by Zoroaster
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The Reactionary Utopian President Paul? January 25, 2007 Dozens of people have announced their candidacies for the White House in 2008, and if I had to bet at this point, I would put my money on the old woman. Hillary may be awful, but at least she is predictable. I suppose I can learn to resign myself to her. What difference does it really make? Our next president will have his or her hands full cleaning up after George W. Bush. In a negative sense, he has already set the agenda for his unfortunate successor. Just getting this country back to normal would be a labor of Hercules. And Hercules isn’t in the race. Politics doesn’t often produce good news, but I am slightly ...
HATE CRIME LEGISLATION BACK
Post Date: 2007-02-11 16:35:39 by Zoroaster
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HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION BACK Hardhitting Patriot Preacher Warns Of Fresh Threat From New Congress By John Tiffany On Jan. 5, liberal Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (DTexas) reintroduced so-called “hate crimes” legislation in Congress. The bill is numbered H.R. 254. “Hate” crimes laws—the brainchild of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith—are found in states and locales across America, but this new measure in Congress would enact a federal hate crime statute. Essentially, hate crimes laws would add additional criminal penalties upon anyone convicted of a crime against an individual when that crime, according to the proposed legislation, is ...
Transmitting Speech by Radio Frequency (Govt studies and patents)
Post Date: 2007-02-11 13:03:39 by robin
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11 February 2007 A sends: You mention on your website that you are interested in declassified government documents. I have three FOIA disclosures in Acrobat PDF format on a government patent capable of simulating hallucination and harassing targets that I would like to have web posted so that I could reasonably reference them in articles. These disclosures were obtained by Sharon Weinberger in research for a Washington Post Sunday Magazine article entitled "Mind Games" published Jan. 14, 2007 that is the first mainstream press mention of this type of technology. The FOIA inquiry was made to the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Division for disclosures ...
Partial List of IP Blocks Used by US "Terrorist Surveillance Program"
Post Date: 2007-02-11 12:58:22 by robin
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Partial List of IP Blocks Used by US "Terrorist Surveillance Program" The following partial list of IP blocks are routinely used by the US government entities (supported by private contractors) to gain access to, to monitor, and in some cases, to destroy IT networks. Such activity is related to the US “Terrorist Surveillance Program.” Most of the registrants of the blocks listed below are not aware of these activities. Concerned network admins should examine traffic logs closely. A correlation of traffic from several of these IP blocks likely indicates that a network is under surveillance or has had access attempted by the US intelligence community and affiliated ...
A fish rots from the head down
Post Date: 2007-02-11 08:01:52 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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and so does the United States Vice-President Bush Orders 3,000 CIA & FBI Agents onto the streets of Washington to collect all copies of The Post and Burn them.
H.R. 6166: Military Commissions Act of 2006 or Our Grandchildren are Going to Hate Us!'
Post Date: 2007-02-10 20:15:17 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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H.R. 6166: Military Commissions Act of 2006 Update 12/07/06: S. 4081, Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006 http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/200612/120506.html Duncan Hunter (R.) CA Architect of the Military Commission Act 2006(presidential candidate for 2008) or Our Grandchildren are Going to Hate Us!' OR Why did 65 US Senators break a solemn oath? Watch. Listen A History of Lawless Government TRIAL BY JURY http://www.apfn.org/APFN/trial1.htm Keith Olbermann: on the signing of the Military Commissions Military Commissions Act of 2006.pdfhttp://www.apfn.org/pdf/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s3930enr.txt.pdf Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006: S. 3931 ...
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