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U.S. Navy says officer passed secret Guantanamo data
Post Date: 2006-08-29 19:03:12 by aristeides
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U.S. Navy says officer passed secret Guantanamo data Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:33pm ET By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The military has charged a U.S. Navy officer who worked as a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay with mailing classified information on foreign terrorism suspects there to an unauthorized person, the Navy said on Tuesday. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, stationed from July 2004 to January 2005 at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, faced a total of eight counts of three criminal charges and could spend 36 1/2 years in prison if convicted on all, the Navy said. Diaz, 40, was not charged with espionage and remains free, working at a Navy office in Jacksonville, Florida, ahead of a ...
"Conservatives" cheer on Judge Posner's highly un-conservative defense of federal police powers
Post Date: 2006-08-29 18:43:51 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner has become one of the leading advocates of drastically expanded federal police powers as a response to the terrorist threat. He advocates the creation of a domestic spy agency (an internal CIA/KGB/Stassi-type agency to monitor domestic activities); expanding the group of citizens subjected to warrantless eavesdropping to include even include "[i]nnocent people, such as unwitting neighbors of terrorists"; allowing warrantless eavesdropping even if it violates the law; and stripping federal courts of their ability to enforce legal limits on the President's national security powers. Posner was interviewed yesterday by Glenn Reynolds and ...
Court ruling shakes ground under IRS
Post Date: 2006-08-29 17:11:07 by It Is A Republic
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Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington handed down an important decision relating to the definition of income for tax purposes. What is important about the decision is that it is the first one in decades saying that the Constitution itself limits what the government may tax. If upheld by the Supreme Court, it could significantly alter tax policy and possibly open the door to radical reform. In the case, a woman named Marrita Murphy was awarded a legal settlement that included compensation for physical injury and emotional distress. The former has always been tax-exempt, just as insurance settlements are. Obviously, it makes no sense to tax as income the payment for a loss that ...
Clueless and Catastrophic
Post Date: 2006-08-29 16:46:20 by leveller
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August 26, 2006 To get a better idea of what ails the world, let's use our imagination to transport ourselves into outer space. From there, we can look down on Earth not as an American or as a European, but as a disinterested alien. We see a collection of sovereign nations – some large, some small, some powerful and some weak. We also see that some of the powerful nations do not respect the sovereignty of some of the others. For example, by what right do the United States and the Europeans tell Iran it cannot enrich uranium? Other nations enrich uranium. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it grants the right to enrich uranium. Where does the ...
T-Shirt Inscription Keeps Iraqi Man From Boarding Flight
Post Date: 2006-08-29 15:56:49 by aristeides
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T-Shirt Inscription Keeps Iraqi Man From Boarding Flight WNYC Newsroom NEW YORK, NY August 29, 2006 —An Iraqi architect says he was not allowed to board a Jet Blue flight at JFK because of the Arabic inscription on his t-shirt. REPORTER: Raed Jarrar was wearing a T-shirt that read We Will Not Be Silent in Arabic and English, when he was approached by security officers. The officers said the Arabic script was upsetting other passengers, and told Jarrar to either turn the shirt inside out or wear something else. Jarrar protested but finally wore a T-shirt provided by a Jet Blue employee. JARRAR: I grew up and spent all my life living under authoritarian regimes. and i know that these ...
So many forgotten lines in the sand
Post Date: 2006-08-29 15:31:21 by bluedogtxn
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So Many Forgotten Lines in the Sand by Dave Trotter Remember Echelon, the massive electronic spy network run by NSA and their spook counterparts in sundry ally countries across the world? Because the existence of Echelon and then Carnivore were revealed during the Clinton administration, the "revelations" of the last year detailing Bush’s electronic domestic spying programs weren’t surprising to those of us paying attention – unless you can still somehow be shocked by the collective amnesia of the public. When Clinton was in the White House, Republicans charged that Carnivore and Echelon were violations of the 4th amendment, and rightly so. They were and still ...
Bush White House to be subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers
Post Date: 2006-08-29 14:15:37 by aristeides
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Bush White House to be subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers RAW STORY Published: Tuesday August 29, 2006 Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency claim that they have sent subpoenas the White House today, RAW STORY has learned. Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who say they represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas. The announcement is due to arrive at 4:30 PM, outside of Verizon headquarters in New York, RAW STORY has confirmed. Mayer tells RAW STORY that the subpoenaes, directed to ...
Times Withholds Web Article in Britain
Post Date: 2006-08-29 14:06:44 by Eoghan
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/business/media/29times.html Times Withholds Web Article in Britain By TOM ZELLER Jr. If Web readers in Britain were intrigued by the headline “Details Emerge in British Terror Case,” which sat on top of The New York Times’s home page much of yesterday, they would have been disappointed with a click. “On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of http://nytimes.com in Britain,” is the message they would have seen. “This arises from the requirement in British law that prohibits publication of prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial.” In adapting technology intended for ...
Cheney says court ruling on warrantless surveillance will be reversed
Post Date: 2006-08-29 14:02:55 by aristeides
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Cheney says court ruling on warrantless surveillance will be reversed By SEAN WHALEY REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU RENO -- Vice President Dick Cheney predicted Monday that a recent federal court ruling finding a warrantless surveillance program unconstitutional will be overturned on appeal. He also said U.S. troops will stay in Iraq until the job is done. In a speech to about 6,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the group's annual convention, Cheney said the intelligence-gathering program run by the National Security Agency is one of the most important tools the country has to stop terrorism aimed at domestic U.S. targets. The program was implemented by President Bush ...
Salt Lake City To Issue Permit For The 'Death to Israel' Rally
Post Date: 2006-08-29 13:17:29 by Brian S
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Day of protests: Jewish community concerned, but acknowledges First Amendment rights Salt Lake City will allow local defense attorney Robert Breeze to hold a "Death to Israel" demonstration Wednesday despite concerns from the Jewish community. The permit will be approved next week, after the city and Breeze finalize where the demonstration, one of several planned for that day, will be held. It will run from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Breeze, 52, said his goal is to protest "the torture and murder inflicted on Muslims by Israel and the penetration of the U.S. media by Israeli intelligence." While he said his group - the Center to Prevent Corporate Media Lying - has other ...
Bush White House To Be Subpoenaed By Wiretap Lawyers
Post Date: 2006-08-29 12:22:21 by Brian S
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Published: Tuesday August 29, 2006 Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today, RAW STORY has learned. Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas. The announcement is due to arrive at 4:30 PM, outside of Verizon headquarters in New York, RAW STORY has confirmed. The subpoenas come on the heels of two federal court decisions that were seen as blows to the Bush Administration warrantless spying program. Earlier this ...
Bush administration method for controlling the foreign media's coverage of the United States.
Post Date: 2006-08-29 02:08:26 by robin
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Aug. 28, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT FROM EUROPE. Information visas (I-Visa) -- a Bush administration method for controlling the foreign media's coverage of the United States. You're a foreign journalist and you want to visit the United States to cover a story. If you think it is as easy as hopping on an airplane, even if you are a citizen or resident of a visa-waiver country, guess again. Journalists wishing to travel to the United States -- whether they are with print, television, radio, or Internet media -- must first obtain an "I-Visa" from the U.S. embassy or selected consulates responsible for their jurisdictions. Freelance journalists who are not under contract to a ...
Bush Seeks Retroactive Laws to Protect Himself from War Crimes Prosecution
Post Date: 2006-08-29 00:30:39 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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When I was a kid, John Wayne war movies gave us the message that America was the good guy, the white hat that fought the villain. Alas, today the US and its last remaining non-coerced ally, Israel, are almost universally regarded as the bad guys over whom John Wayne would triumph. Today the US and Israel are seen throughout the world as war criminal states. On August 23 the BBC reported that Amnesty International has brought war crimes charges against Israel for deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure as an "integral part" of Israel’s strategy in its recent invasion of Lebanon. Israel claims that its aggression was "self-defense" to dislodge ...
2 Lodi residents refused entry back into U.S.
Post Date: 2006-08-28 20:20:15 by Zipporah
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08-26) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in Pakistan, placing the U.S. citizens in an extraordinary legal limbo. Muhammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old son, Jaber Ismail, who was born in the United States, have not been charged with a crime. However, they are the uncle and cousin of Hamid Hayat, a 23-year-old Lodi cherry packer who was convicted in April of supporting terrorists by attending a Pakistani training camp. Federal authorities said Friday that the men, both Lodi residents, would not be allowed ...
DO GUN OWNERS REALLY WANT TO STOP CONSTANT ASSAULTS ON 2ND AMENDMENT?(Richard Celatra)
Post Date: 2006-08-28 19:47:12 by ChareltonHest
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DO GUN OWNERS REALLY WANT TO STOP CONSTANT ASSAULTS ON 2ND AMENDMENT? By: Devvy Kidd August 28, 2006 NewsWithViews.com>http://NewsWithViews.com I'm beginning to think not. Back on March 13, 2006 in a column I said, No more Angel Shamaya's. At the conclusion of that column, I wrote: "After Waco, we said: No more Waco's. I say no more Angel Shamaya's. Enough is enough. The NRA is aware of Edwin's project, yet they have not come out nationally to support forcing the states to comply with the Second Amendment. Why not? Isn't the Second Amendment and what it stands for the main purpose behind these national gun organizations? More lobbying might be good for donations, but it will not ...
Is this Bush's secret bunker?
Post Date: 2006-08-27 21:41:02 by Eoghan
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Mount Weather is a top-security underground installation an hour's drive from Washington DC. It has its own leaders, police, fire department - and laws. A cold war relic, it has been given a new lease of life since 9/11. And no one who's been inside has ever talked. Tom Vanderbilt reports 'Actually, you may want to just put those down a minute," Tim Brown is telling me, as I peer through binoculars at a cluster of buildings and antennae on a distant ridge. "The locals might get a bit nervous." A Ford F-150 cruises by, and the two men inside regard us casually as they pass. We are sitting, hazards blinking, in Brown's BMW on a rural road in Virginia's Facquier County, a ...
Espionage -- Not Just for Spies Anymore-Bush administration and the courts are expanding the concepts of "leaking" and "secrecy" to affect normal citizens on the receiving end.
Post Date: 2006-08-27 12:23:05 by Zipporah
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Espionage -- Not Just for Spies Anymore Bush administration and the courts are expanding the concepts of "leaking" and "secrecy" to affect normal citizens on the receiving end. August 27, 2006 EARLIER THIS YEAR, media organizations went on alert after Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales said in a television interview that prosecuting journalists for publishing leaked classified information was a legal "possibility." Their apprehension eased somewhat after one of Gonzales' deputies reminded a Senate hearing that the Justice Department "has never in its history prosecuted a member of the press [under] the Espionage Act of 1917 for the publication of classified ...
The Men Who Knew Too Much? NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece
Post Date: 2006-08-27 06:09:40 by Zipporah
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The Men Who Knew Too Much? NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and GreeceAdamo Bove and Costas Tsalikidis: Both uncovered a secret bugging system and both met untimely ends.Was That Just A Coincidence? And Who Made Your Cell Phone? Guest blogged by Joseph Cannon Is someone murdering people who know too much about NSA wiretapping overseas? Two whistleblowers — one in Italy, one in Greece — uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones around the world. Both met with untimely ends. The resultant scandals have received little press in the United States, despite the profound implications for American critics of the Bush administration. Last month, ...
Homeland security moving to classrooms
Post Date: 2006-08-26 23:16:42 by Eoghan
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Schools offer programs to train professionals You can fight terror with bombs, or guns, or even with tough words. It's a battle that has taken Americans to foreign lands and into the realm of cyberspace. In Delaware, the struggle has entered the classroom. The weapon of choice is knowledge. Across the nation and around the world, colleges are increasingly creating degree programs and other courses to prepare students for work in "homeland security," the broadly defined realm of protecting communities and businesses against terror attacks and natural disasters. At Wilmington College, a master's degree concentration in the field will begin in September, and has attracted about ...
Law Put to Unusual Use in Hezbollah TV Case, Some Legal Experts Say
Post Date: 2006-08-26 14:07:52 by Eoghan
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Federal prosecutors who charged a man on Thursday with providing Hezbollah television access in New York made unusual use of a law more often employed to bar financial contributions to terrorist groups, legal experts said yesterday. The broadly defined statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, is also used frequently to block the importation of goods and services that would directly support terrorist operations. The law, which went into effect in 1977, was meant to put legal teeth in international trade embargoes with other nations, but once it was amended by the Patriot Act after 9/11, the government began to use it far more frequently against particular groups and ...
Congressional Election Nullified – Nobody Noticed
Post Date: 2006-08-26 12:12:38 by Con Vallian
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Congressional Election Nullified – Nobody Noticed Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:45 pm Article: Michael Collins Speaker of the House Nullified San Diego Congressional Race By Michael Collins “Scoop” Independent Media Washington, DC It appears the US media overlooked one of the great political stories of the year. In what is becoming something of a pattern, here’s a brief chronology: On June 6, 2006 Republican Brian Bilbray allegedly slightly outpolled Democrat Francine Busby in the special election for California’s 50th Congressional District, despite Busby’s lead in the polls going into the election. There were immediate cries of foul following the election due ...
The New Activist Judges
Post Date: 2006-08-26 08:54:17 by Zoroaster
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Published on Thursday, August 24, 2006 by Truthdig The New Activist Judges by Molly Ivins AUSTIN, Texas—Another bee-you-ti-ful example of the right-wing media getting it all wrong. Here they are having the nerve to mutter in public about “activist judges” because Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has pointed out that spying without a warrant is illegal in this country—so warrantless telephone tapping is illegal in this country. Improbably enough, the first complaint of many of these soi-disant legal scholars is that Taylor’s decision is not well written. No judicial masterpiece, they sneer. Nevertheless, warrantless spying is illegal. Did it ever occur to these literary ...
Clueless and Catastrophic
Post Date: 2006-08-26 05:19:17 by Zoroaster
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August 26, 2006 Clueless and Catastrophic
by Charley Reese To get a better idea of what ails the world, let's use our imagination to transport ourselves into outer space. From there, we can look down on Earth not as an American or as a European, but as a disinterested alien.
We see a collection of sovereign nations – some large, some small, some powerful and some weak. We also see that some of the powerful nations do not respect the sovereignty of some of the others.
For example, by what right do the United States and the Europeans tell Iran it cannot enrich uranium? Other nations enrich uranium. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and it grants the ...
Having "Preferences" is NOT a Right
Post Date: 2006-08-25 19:20:39 by chaiyah
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QUOTE--One of our fundamental rights is that of our right to freedom of association. The correlative right to freedom of association is the equally important right to freedom of non-association. Yes, the right to NOT associate -- to exclude people from our interrelationships, for any reason, based on personal preference. If your personal preference is that you don't have to confront any idea that you don't personally happen to like or prefer, you are not the kind of people I want to associate with. Either I have the right to speak my mind and my truth, or I'm history. I've been in too many Forums where I hold to the rules, but others are so narrow and uncomfortable having to think a new ...
New Yorker Arrested for Providing Hezbollah TV Channel (WALTER PINCUS WAPO ARTICLE)
Post Date: 2006-08-25 15:36:00 by aristeides
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New Yorker Arrested for Providing Hezbollah TV Channel By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 25, 2006; Page A10 A New York man was arrested yesterday on charges that he conspired to support a terrorist group by providing U.S. residents with access to Hezbollah's satellite channel, al-Manar. Javed Iqbal runs HDTV Corp., a Brooklyn-based company registered with the Federal Communications Commission that provides satellite television transmissions to cable operators, private companies, government organizations and individual customers. According to an affidavit made public yesterday in U.S. District Court in New York, a paid FBI confidential informant told law ...
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