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THE WACO BEFORE WACO [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-16 19:58:34 by Uncle Bill
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"Not a single official went to prison for murdering my family," Video: Government Helicopter Drops Bomb on Neighborhood Video Vault - Move Bombing Bombing Photos Bombing Photos Time - "It Looks Just Like a War Zone" Ramona Africa v. United States, Case 10.865, Report No. 19/92, Inter-Am.C.H.R., OEA/Ser.L/V/II.83 Doc. 14 at 142 (1993). The Waco Before Waco Newsmax By Richard Poe September 22, 1999 With the exception of Geraldo Rivera, most Americans seem to have grasped, by now, that responsibility for the Waco massacre goes all the way to the top. Even so, we cannot pin the blame solely on Bill and Hillary. The militarization of U.S. policing has proceeded ...
NSA Bill Performs a Patriot Act
Post Date: 2006-09-16 07:40:59 by Eoghan
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A bill radically redefining and expanding the government's ability to eavesdrop and search the houses of U.S. citizens without court approval passed a key Senate committee Wednesday, and may be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week. By a 10-8 vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved SB2453, the National Security Surveillance Act (.pdf), which was co-written by committee's chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in concert with the White House. The committee also passed two other surveillance measures, including one from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), one of the few senators to be briefed on the National Security Agency program. Feinstein's bill, which Specter ...
Neocon-occupied Congress engages in own foreign and intelligence policies.
Post Date: 2006-09-15 22:36:42 by robin
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Sep. 15, 2006 -- Tomorrow . . . how the neocons are trying to return US-Russian relations to the Cold War period. Sep. 15, 2006 -- Neocon-occupied Congress engages in own foreign and intelligence policies. It is clear that the neocons are up to their old pre-Iraq war tricks vis-a-vis Iran. Instead of using Dick Cheney's office as a base of operations, the neocons are now using Congress to put forward false intelligence and initiatives aimed at destroying independent news and views of the situation in Iran. In a WMR exclusive, we have discovered there is a major attempt by the neocons in the Defense Department, the State Department's "carve out" Office of Iranian Affairs that works ...
Angry Bush Tackles Terror Revolt; counters a rebellion by senior Republicans over terror suspects’ treatment
Post Date: 2006-09-15 22:29:46 by Brian S
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GEORGE BUSH came out fighting yesterday against the senior Republicans, including Senator John McCain and General Colin Powell, who have led a revolt over his latest plans for the treatment and trial of terror suspects. He said that if legislative proposals to clarify “vague” obligations under the Geneva Conventions were blocked by the Senate, a CIA interrogation programme that had helped to prevent attacks in both the US and Britain would be scrapped. On occasions during yesterday’s White House press conference, the President appeared to be genuinely angry, interrupting a reporter’s question to shout: “I’m just telling you the bottom line. “Perhaps ...
'Alternative' CIA tactics complicate Padilla case
Post Date: 2006-09-15 17:33:13 by aristeides
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'Alternative' CIA tactics complicate Padilla case Evidence against the American terror suspect was obtained through torture, his lawyers say By Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor 09/15/06 "CSM" -- -- When alleged Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla landed in Chicago in May 2002, he was met by federal agents armed with a warrant authorizing them to take him into custody. To obtain their warrant, the agents told a federal judge that two weeks earlier a confidential source had revealed that Mr. Padilla was plotting to build and detonate a radiological "dirty" bomb in the United States. What the agents did not tell the judge is that their ...
Derelict on Detainees
Post Date: 2006-09-15 16:44:45 by Zoroaster
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Derelict On Detainees Aziz Huq September 15, 2006 Aziz Huq directs the Liberty and National Project at the Brennan Center for Justice . He is co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in Times of Terror (New Press, 2007), and recipient of a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellowship. Yesterday, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted out a bill labeled “the Military Commission Act of 2006.” Media attention in leading East and West Coast papers generally lauded the senators’ supposed new-found spine, standing up to the president’s suggested rules on military commissions for alleged terrorists seized overseas. But is this really a victory for measured ...
Viva la Contrebande!
Post Date: 2006-09-15 14:39:34 by bluedogtxn
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Viva La Contrebande by Becky Akers At what point do you suppose hapless American passengers will cry, "Enough!"? When screeners grope them? When those same perverts molest their children? When air marshals gun them down in cold blood? Nope. But deprive folks of their lip balm and lotions, and revolt brews. The Washington Post reports that a month after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) banned liquids and gels in carry-on bags, they’re still sliding past security checkpoints onto planes. Sometimes the smuggling isn’t deliberate (one passenger "said she rushed to catch an early plane and didn't know until she landed that she had two lip glosses in ...
Reporter Palast Slips Clutches of Homeland Security
Post Date: 2006-09-15 11:22:09 by aristeides
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Reporter Palast Slips Clutches of Homeland Security September 14th, 2006 by Greg Palast Forget the orange suit. Exxon Mobil Corporation, which admits it was behind the criminal complaint brought by Homeland Security against me and television producer Matt Pascarella, has informed me that the oil company will no longer push charges that Pascarella and I threatened “critical infrastructure.” The allegedly criminal act, which put us on the wrong side of post-9/11 anti-terror law, was our filming of Exxon’s Baton Rouge refinery where, nearby, 1,600 survivors of Hurricane Katrina remain interned behind barbed wire. I have sworn to Homeland Security that we no longer send our ...
Traitors to the American Revolution
Post Date: 2006-09-15 10:04:30 by bluedogtxn
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Traitors to the American Revolution by Thomas J. DiLorenzo The American Revolution was waged against a highly centralized, nationalistic governmental tyranny run by a king, namely, the British Empire. The king enriched himself and his regime through the economic institution of mercantilism, defined by Murray Rothbard as "a system of statism which employed economic fallacy to build up a structure of imperial state power, as well as special subsidy and monopolistic privilege to individuals or groups favored by the state." This system impoverished the average Englishman but was a perpetual source of power and riches for the king and his political allies. That is why the system ...
Senate Panel Defies Bush on Terror
Post Date: 2006-09-14 17:35:34 by aristeides
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Senate Panel Defies Bush on Terror Thursday September 14, 2006 4:48pm Washington (AP) - A rebellious Senate committee defied President Bush (website - news - bio) on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over terrorism and national security in the middle of election season. Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, normally a Bush supporter, pushed the measure through his Armed Services Committee by a 15-9 vote, with Warner and three other GOP lawmakers joining Democrats. The vote set the stage for a showdown on the Senate floor as early as next week. Earlier in the day, Bush had journeyed to the Capitol to try nailing down ...
McCain 'will risk presidency' over CIA jails
Post Date: 2006-09-14 17:28:43 by aristeides
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McCain 'will risk presidency' over CIA jails By Demetri Sevastopulo, Caroline Daniel and Holly Yeager in Washington Updated: 12 minutes ago John McCain, the perceived Republican frontrunner for the 2008 presidential election, has dramatically raised the stakes in a fight with the White House over secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons by saying he is unwilling to back down on the issue even if it ruins his chance of becoming president. The Arizona senator, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, strongly opposes Bush administration legislation that he believes would redefine US obligations under the Geneva conventions. The White House on Thursday attempted to downplay the ...
Powell joins opponents of Bush tribunal plan
Post Date: 2006-09-14 13:53:44 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush made a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Thursday as key Republican senators who oppose the administration's military tribunal plan for suspected terrorists gained a powerful ally -- the president's former secretary of state. In a letter to one of the major opponents of Bush's plan, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona,former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he opposed the part of the proposal that would amend the interpretation of Article III of the Geneva Conventions. The White House and the Senate GOP leadership are at odds with McCain and Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, ...
Nuke Americans First
Post Date: 2006-09-14 04:47:19 by bluegrass
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The Rubicon has been crossed.Americans have always been notoriously blind to the devastation wrought by their government's policies on the citizens of other nations--especially people of color. If you doubt that any of us who grew up in that culture are susceptible to such near-sightedness, try this little self test.How many Americans were killed in the Vietnam War? How many Americans have died to date in the Iraq War? How many were killed on 9/11? (The official figures appear at the end of the article.)Most readers wouldn't have much problem coming up with numbers within plus or minus twenty per cent of the actual figure.Now try this.How many Vietnamese were killed between 1960 and 1975? ...
Conspiracy nation
Post Date: 2006-09-13 22:09:12 by It Is A Republic
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There is a virulent form of unpatriotism festering in America today. Like an algae bloom that deprives life of oxygen, it starves democracy of the air of reason. It now thrives on what we call the far left, but like a dead zone off the coast, it moves with the tides. I am referring to the seditious dementia of conspiracy theories, the death of faith not in some mere administration or Congress but in America itself. Haven’t you heard? The U.S. government blew up the World Trade Center. Oh, sorry, that’s not right. The planes did knock down those buildings, but the White House was in on it. Oh, no, sorry again, that’s not what happened. It was the Jews. They razed it without ...
US Gov't Clashes Over Terrorism Legislation
Post Date: 2006-09-13 21:46:33 by Brian S
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Negotiations between the White House and a trio of powerful Republican senators snagged Wednesday over Bush administration demands that Congress reinterpret the nation's treaty obligations to allow tough CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects. Senator John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said his panel would meet Thursday to finalize an alternative to President George W. Bush's plan to prosecute terror suspects and redefine acts that constitute war crimes. Warner said he was aware the White House may come out in opposition of his legislation. The Supreme Court ruled in June that Bush's court system established to prosecute terrorism suspects was illegal and violated ...
Senate GOP Torpedoes Proposed Limits On Bush Wiretaps
Post Date: 2006-09-13 13:12:55 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping program Wednesday amid a sustained White House campaign to give the administration broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects. While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the war on terrorism, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House's condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended. By voice vote and roll calls, Republicans defeated Democratic amendments to insert a one-year expiration date into the bill and require the National Security Agency to report more ...
Military Wants to Use Microwave Weapons on American Crowds
Post Date: 2006-09-12 21:00:50 by Zipporah
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Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr., won epic struggles through non-violence. The Republicans have what they think is an improvement. The Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne now advocates: Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Secretary Michael Wynne.John DE's diary :: :: Yes, American citizens should now be subject to new, unsafe weapons, in service of the Bush administration's imperial ambitions. But what are ...
Press On-Camera in White House
Post Date: 2006-09-12 20:21:04 by Eoghan
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Reporters Surprised to See Cameras Rolling at the 'Gaggle' You'd think most TV reporters would be thrilled to know a camera is pointing in their direction. But a bevy of White House correspondents got bent out of shape in this morning's White House briefing, known as the gaggle, when they discovered the White House had a camera trained on the reporters during what has always been a no-cameras-allowed event. It was CBS's Bill Plante who first drew attention to the briefing-room cam. Tony Snow was close to wrapping up when Plante, seated in the front row, began to smile and wave at the ceiling above Tony Snow's left shoulder. That sort of thing doesn't usually happen during a White House ...
White House Gains Concessions in Senate Measure on Tribunals
Post Date: 2006-09-12 15:40:41 by Brian S
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006; Page A17 The Bush administration has won concessions from key Senate Republicans in proposed legislation on standards for detainee treatment and the rules for military trials of terrorism suspects, although some disagreements persist between the lawmakers and the White House, Senate sources said yesterday. The disagreements that remain involve whether suspects can be convicted with evidence they are never allowed to see, an approach favored by the administration but opposed by the Republican senators. The two sides also still differ over the terms of a related amendment to the U.S. War Crimes Act that would limit the exposure of CIA officials and other ...
Public Confidence in Government Falling
Post Date: 2006-09-12 12:30:08 by bluedogtxn
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Public Confidence in Government Falling by Bill Sardi Americans grow up with great pride that they live in the greatest country on Earth, a country that has Constitutional protections, and an economy and other freedoms that outsiders envy. But the American rose is fading, and hopefully this time, it may not be a passing whim but rather a frank realization of the failings of big government. Americans recognize the distinctiveness of their government, the Constitutional checks and balances, the banning of nobility and monarchies, the limits on terms of service for its Presidents, the protection of private property, the right to bear arms, freedom of the press, etc. At least, the American ...
THE BOGEYMAN INDUSTRY
Post Date: 2006-09-12 03:45:46 by Uncle Bill
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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. ~ Lucretius Vote Republicans For Fear THE BOGEYMAN INDUSTRY By Butler Shaffer September 12, 2006 When I was a small child, I delighted in scaring my two younger sisters with specters dreamed up by me with the help of radio broadcasts. My mind was a bottomless well of monsters, hobgoblins, and – scariest of all – those amorphous demons whose lack of clarity in shape made them all the more terrifying. I was a Ziegfeld of theatrical production, with sound effects produced ...
Bush After 9/11
Post Date: 2006-09-11 22:31:36 by Zipporah
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Five Years of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Bush After 9/11 By DAVE LINDORFF The fifth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 are a good time to take stock of where we've come since that day, and it is not a pretty picture. Others are writing about what has been done to make the country safer from such attacks in the future (answer: not much), and about how the Iraq War, far from being a part of that project, was a duplicitous diversion that had nothing to do with combating terror, and everything to do with establishing the president as a "commander in chief." I want to write about the five-year crime spree against the Constitution and the American people that began ...
Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture
Post Date: 2006-09-11 22:26:41 by Zipporah
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Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture By: Nicole Belle on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 5:29 PM - PDT Matt Lauer went after Bush over his secret prisons and the use of torture on the captured terrorists via The Today Show this morning. He was uncommonly strong and didn’t back down when Bush gave his pet answer. He hits the right note because if what we’ve been doing is legal then why was there the need for secret prisons? When Bush gets cornered–he starts saying he’s not going to talk about it anymore…(Glenn Greenwald has a post up now about John Yoo–Bush’s torture man.) Video-WMP Video-QT Matt Lauer: And yet you ...
DIANA
Post Date: 2006-09-11 16:30:23 by Mr.Washington
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You need Diane to take off Sam Danners and this Washingtons guy,s name. The Bullshit is over. You think That I am some kind of Dumnass??? Will Dylan has told all and you Pricks do not even deserve to be involed with 9/11 investagation. You put down minorities and the aclu should even see this shit. I do not give a flying Fuck about your so called Freedom4um. Who freedom is it. You make fun of people you go to different sites and cut people down and you Fucking lie out of your Ass Diane. You Fuck heads take avangtage of anyone who thinks different from you. Well if no one seems Credible then you have the Liberty4um to Fuck them over. Your cookies are deleted and we all kiss your ass goodbye. ...
Oliver Stone hints at film tackling 9-11 'conspiracy'
Post Date: 2006-09-11 15:43:41 by aristeides
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Oliver Stone hints at film tackling 9-11 'conspiracy' Agence France-Presse Last updated 11:22pm (Mla time) 09/11/2006 MOSCOW -- US filmmaker Oliver Stone, who surprised many with the patriotic flavor of his new film "World Trade Center," hinted here Monday that he is considering a more controversial follow-up investigating the "conspiracy" around 9-11. "There is a great story in a movie, a conspiracy by a group of people in the American administration who have an agenda and who used 9-11 to further that agenda," he told journalists while in Moscow as part of a world tour to promote his latest movie. There could be a "fascinating project (on) what ...
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