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U.S. Wants to Send Suspect (US citizen) to Iraq Court ; Gov't attorneys: U.S. courts have no authority to stop the military...
Post Date: 2006-09-11 11:59:34 by Brian S
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(09-11) 08:35 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Government attorneys said Monday that U.S. courts have no authority to stop the military from transferring an American citizen to an Iraqi court to face charges he supported terrorists and insurgents. It is the latest legal challenge to the Bush administration's authority to keep terrorism cases out of U.S. courts. Shawqi Omar, a citizen of both Jordan and the United States who once served in the Minnesota National Guard, has been held since late 2004 in U.S.-run military prisons in Iraq. He is currently held at Camp Bucca, a prison in southern Iraq, attorneys said. His family is demanding that Omar be brought before a U.S. court, where he could ...
Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance: Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases
Post Date: 2006-09-11 07:57:21 by aristeides
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Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 11, 2006; Page A01 CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former intelligence officials and others with knowledge of the program. The new enrollments reflect heightened anxiety at the CIA that officers may be vulnerable to accusations they were involved in abuse, torture, human rights violations and other misconduct, including ...
98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits
Post Date: 2006-09-10 21:58:35 by Uncle Bill
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98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits September 7, 2006 - Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC: More than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.According to the data, available online at: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t4382005.pdf, of the estimated 223 million marijuana plants destroyed by law enforcement in 2005, approximately 219 million were classified as ...
TO KING GEORGE: "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out our substance"
Post Date: 2006-09-10 20:52:42 by Uncle Bill
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"Bush has proposed nearly 100 new federal programs and has planned to spend more tax dollars than any president in history." COMPASSIONATE SOCIALISM: The Ideology Of George W. Bush - Links/Articles To Massive Socialism THE AGONY, THE ECSTASY, THE AGONY The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's ...
CIA still hiding 'ghost' captives
Post Date: 2006-09-10 20:08:47 by Zipporah
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America relives the horror of 9/11 DOZENS of key terror suspects are still being held in unknown locations, despite President George Bush’s declaration that the CIA is no longer operating secret jails. High-level detainees such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the September 11 ringleaders, are now in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba but there are still “ghost prisoners” among more than 6,000 who have been questioned by America and its allies since 9/11. Their fate is among several unresolved issues raised by Bush’s new anti-terror legislation. His plans for military tribunals to try suspects are being held up by negotiations with leading Republican senators, ...
Report details CIA torture use
Post Date: 2006-09-10 20:07:29 by Zipporah
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September 10, 2006 THE first top Al-Qaeda operative captured by the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Abu Zubaydah, was stripped naked by his CIA interrogators, held in an icy-cold room and subjected to earsplitting music, The New York Times reported on its website overnight. US President George W. Bush mentioned Mr Zubaydah's case in a speech last Wednesday, insisting that he had never authorised torture, but arguing that methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency in its interrogations had helped uncover other Al-Qaeda plots. However, citing interviews with nearly a dozen current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials whom it did not ...
MADSEN AT NYC 9/11 TRUTH MEETING ON 9/10/06
Post Date: 2006-09-10 17:15:01 by aristeides
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Sept. 8/9/10, 2006 -- The editor will be participating in 5th anniversary 911 Truth Movement events in New York City on Sunday, September 10. For that reason, we are combining our weekend report with today's report.
Death squads in America?
Post Date: 2006-09-10 10:38:09 by aristeides
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Death squads in America? by tmaertens [Subscribe] Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 05:27:10 AM PDT Tom Maertens: HAS OUR AIM BEEN TRUE? from Minneapolis StarTribune 9/10, and posted on http://VoxVerax.com Five years after 9/11, it's clear that the Bush administration's costly War on Terror has failed on two counts. It has undermined our civil liberties and made the world more dangerous. The direct cost of the war in Iraq, according to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economist, has already exceeded $1 trillion, including long-term veterans' care and similar costs. Along with the war has come enormous destruction and loss of life, and major damage to our international standing. And there are more terrorists ...
MEETING BETWEEN KEN EVANS AND TWO IRS AGENTS
Post Date: 2006-09-09 22:43:09 by Uncle Bill
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THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSCRIPT OF A MEETING BETWEEN KEN EVANS AND TWO IRS AGENTS that took place on November 15, 2004. Every attempt has been made to make this transcript as accurate as possible. If the colors bother you, just cut and paste it as unformatted text. THE PLAYERS: KE: Ken Evans MT: Mike Taibi, IRS Revenue Agent SH: Sue Hough (pronounced Huff), IRS Group Manager K: Karen, observer. {comments added by Ken Evans after the fact} MT : Today is Monday November 15, 2004. KE: : It is. MT: It is approximately 9:00 in the morning. We’re in the Lancaster IRS office in the State of Pennsylvania. My name is Mike Taibi, I’m a Revenue Officer with the ...
THE NEW REPUBLIC: “To have a socialist society we must have a new Constitution.”
Post Date: 2006-09-09 22:20:01 by Uncle Bill
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How Tyranny Came to America One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own.The modern American educational system no longer teaches us the political language of our ancestors. In fact our schooling helps widen the gulf of time between our ancestors and ourselves, because much of what we are taught in the name of civics, political science, or American history is really modern liberal propaganda. Sometimes this is deliberate. Worse yet, sometimes it isn’t. Our ancestral voices ...
George W. Bush: "We know, by history and by logic, that 'promoting democracy' is the surest way to build security."
Post Date: 2006-09-09 16:32:05 by Uncle Bill
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"We know, by history and by logic, that promoting democracy is the surest way to build security."George W. Bush - Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/mideast/ Promoting Democracy? Security? History? Here's some history George, you stupid bastard: "Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."Daniel Webster, 1851 "Two hundred years ago, in the election of 1800, America faced another close presidential election. A ...
REP. RON PAUL: "Majority of American Citizens Expect The Federal Government To Provide For Every Need" (i.e. They're Socialists)
Post Date: 2006-09-09 15:55:36 by Uncle Bill
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Big-Government Solutions Don't Work/ The Law of Opposites HON. RON PAUL OF TEXASBefore the U.S. House of Representatives September 7, 2006Big Government Solutions Don't Work/ The Law of OppositesPoliticians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse. Not too long ago, I spoke on this floor about why I believe Americans are so angry in spite of rosy government economic reports. The ...
Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House
Post Date: 2006-09-08 21:55:58 by Uncle Bill
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Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House ABC NewsBrian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz September 8, 2006 With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Despite its use in the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer, widely sold at farm supply stores. The ABC News undercover team made the purchases, in cash, at farm supply stores in North Carolina and Virginia and were ...
I met Sam Danner at the Pentagon
Post Date: 2006-09-08 19:22:45 by Mr.Washington
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To those who wonder; On Monday the 4th of September I contacted Mr. Danner via e-mail. I told him that I was an investagator for 9/11 truth seekers. I have heard all the threads concerning him. He just shot me down in Flames. I asked him to help me with the Pentagon investagation. He just smiled at me and said tuesday in the am we will go to the Pentagon. I live in NYC and I have not the means to come. He bought me an 1st class ticket on the amtrack acela bullet train and met me at penn station early as He had aranged. He is a gray haired tall dude and wears wire rim glasses. He was very knd and I felt at home with this guy right off the bat. On the way to Washington DC I asked him if He ...
Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-08 10:42:46 by aristeides
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Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges by A Peaceful Warrior [Subscribe] Thu Sep 07, 2006 at 10:06:52 PM PDT With so much attention focused on George W. Bush's "Freedom Agenda" oversees in Iraq, Afghanistan, secret CIA torture prisons, and the like, I'd like to direct your attention to the Freedom Agenda here in what used to be known, until 2000, as the United States of America. We all know Greg Palast as one of the last of an endangered species in this country - the investigative journalist. He has reported on everything from shady big business dealings to electoral shenanigans that have clouded the last several national US elections, and if the current ...
Federal Judge In Oregon Refuses To Dismiss Lawsuit Over Bush Administration Eavesdropping
Post Date: 2006-09-07 19:22:06 by Brian S
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Published: September 7, 2006 PORTLAND, Oregon A federal judge Thursday rejected a Bush administration plea to throw out a lawsuit over the government's warrantless wiretapping program, saying he is not convinced going ahead with the case would harm national security. U.S. District Judge Garr King said he recognizes that "disclosing information regarding the al-Qaida threat" or revealing details of the government's eavesdropping program "may harm national security." But he also said "I am not yet convinced" such information would need to be revealed by proceeding with the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which had a ...
Terrorism Eavesdropping Bill Stalls In Senate Committee; Bush's Support Proved Insufficient...
Post Date: 2006-09-07 15:38:06 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's support proved insufficient to push a bill authorizing his warrantless wiretapping program through the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Sen. Arlen Specter, the committee's chairman, said the bill stalled because of election-year obstructionism. "We have seen the incipient stage of filibuster by amendment," the Pennsylvania Republican testily declared as he called off a vote to move his bill to the Senate floor. "Filibuster by speech, filibuster by amendment. Obstructionism." The target of his ire was Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who spoke against the bill for about a quarter of the panel's two-hour meeting and offered four ...
Selling Torture by Hollywood
Post Date: 2006-09-07 13:23:55 by bluedogtxn
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Softening Us Up for Torture, 24 Hours at a Time by Dave Trotter For those of you who no longer watch the Emmy Awards, 24 recently won a handful, including for outstanding drama series. I enjoyed 24 a great deal during its first season, but I often wondered whether they could sustain a show centered on a continuous series of extraordinary 24-hour days in one character’s life. Would the first ten episodes of the following season consist of Jack catching up on some sleep? But the show’s writers were way ahead on that count, and they had the good sense to fast-forward a year into Jack Bauer’s life, to the next unbelievable 24-hour sequence. (While fate and circumstance are ...
Pentagon's Top Uniformed Lawyers Warn Against Evidence Limits
Post Date: 2006-09-07 11:48:21 by Brian S
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12 minutes ago The Pentagon's top uniformed lawyers took issue Thursday with a key provision of a White House plan to prosecute military detainees, contending that language potentially restricting a defendant's access to evidence could violate treaty obligations. Their testimony juxtaposed that of a senior legal adviser at the Justice Department and challenged a leading House Republican's assertion that the United States must take a harder line when prosecuting terrorists. Rep. Duncan Hunter (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said at a hearing that any military commission established to prosecute terrorists must allow the government to protect ...
Finding the Flaws (Foreign Governments try to influence American Government? Of course they do!)
Post Date: 2006-09-06 18:51:45 by Burkeman1
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The former tennis player Ilie Nastase once had his wallet stolen, with all his credit cards in it. A friend was shocked to learn that he hadn’t reported the theft. Why not? “So far,” Mr. Nastase replied, “the thief is spending less than my wife.” That’s what I call keeping your eye on the ball. And when I hear that the government of China was trying to influence the policy of the Clinton administration, I reserve judgment until I know what it was trying to persuade Mr. Clinton to do. For all I know, its influence might have been for the better. My point isn’t completely facetious. Governments try to influence each other all the time. Our government ...
Here's the Administration's Cruel Treatment and Torture Authorization Act
Post Date: 2006-09-06 17:27:39 by aristeides
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Here's the Administration's Cruel Treatment and Torture Authorization Act Marty Lederman This is the bill the Administration has sent up to Congress. Make no mistake, the most important action has little to do with military commissions (although that stuff is certainly significant, too). Instead, focus ought to be on sections 5 through 7 (pages 77-84), which are, as I predicted here, collectively an attempt to authorize the CIA to engage in the sorts of "enhanced" interrogation techniques -- e.g., hypothermia, threats of violence to the detainee and his family, prolonged sleep deprivation, "stress positions" and waterboarding -- to which the President alluded in his ...
Smile, you're on not-so-candid camera (Who Sees You, and where, across Austin)
Post Date: 2006-09-06 14:02:32 by christine
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So you wanna be in pictures, eh? Well, congratulations; you already are. Every day, at work, on the street, in retail stores, in schools, at cash machines, in the parking garage, in your car. And soon, if the Austin City Council approves using cameras to police traffic signals, at selected traffic intersections. Security experts say that rapidly improving digital video technology and terrorism concerns, accompanied by an influx of money from federal security grants, have combined to foster an explosion of cameras in public spaces. In Britain, which reportedly has 1.5 million surveillance cameras on the job, and in certain large American cities, officials have moved toward having ...
Bush Plan Would Withhold Terror Evidence; Lawmakers Say It Would Set A Dangerous Precedent
Post Date: 2006-09-06 12:39:50 by Brian S
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Bush Plan Would Withhold Terror Evidence - By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, September 6, 2006 (09-06) 09:29 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information. "One of the most important tasks is for Congress to recognize that we need the tools necessary to win this war on terror and we'll continue to discuss with Congress ways to make sure that this nation is capable of defending herself," Bush said after a Cabinet meeting. Senate leaders were briefed on the ...
Key Points: President's National Strategy For Combating Terrorism (GOV'T TO GO AFTER CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND MISINFORMATION?) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-06 10:03:26 by aristeides
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Key Points: President's National Strategy For Combating Terrorism Office of the Press Secretary Tuesday, September 5, 2006; 11:25 AM "We're engaged in a global struggle against the followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom and crushes all dissent, and has territorial ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims. . And against such an enemy there is only one effective response: We will never back down, we will never give in and we will never accept anything less than complete victory. . We will defeat the terrorists and their hateful ideology by spreading the hope of freedom across the world. . The security of our nation depends on the advance of liberty in other ...
Y'all come to the Busheviks' Fear Fest
Post Date: 2006-09-06 09:50:33 by Eoghan
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Yes, George and Dick and Don and Karl are rounding up the party favors for the mother of all Fear Fests, which will run from Sept. 11 through Nov. 7 (and maybe a bit longer if the vote isn't fixed their way). What we have seen and heard so far is just the warm-up for the fun to come. You know, those hilarious speeches about us being the fascists, terrorist sympathizers (Bush is really over the edge if he thinks we sympathize with him and his criminal gang), defeatists, ad nauseum. There will be a lot of flag-waving and prayers. Must not forget the prayers -- especially the ones that ask the deity to smite all us fascists, terrorist sympathizers, defeatists, godless liberals and ...
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