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Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program
Post Date: 2006-03-29 10:37:08 by aristeides
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Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: March 29, 2006 WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation's most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush's domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program. In a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive court, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, several former judges who served on the panel also voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president's constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order. They also ...
Corpoatocracy: Twilight of the Republic
Post Date: 2006-03-29 01:17:24 by Coral Snake
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Corpoatocracy: Twilight of the Republic Alan Stang What is a government? Not a regime, not an administration or a royal line like the Windsors or the Hapsburgs, but a government? It is an entity that controls ground, territory, land, an area between lines on a map and the people who live there. It enjoys a monopoly on military force in the area. It is immune from liability. For instance, under the doctrine of sovereign immunity (the king can do no wrong) you can57;t sue the U.S. government or its factotums without its permission. A government amasses enormous sums (in our case, funny money) taken from the people in taxes. And a government is immortal. It never dies, unless it is ...
Judges Back Bill Examining Domestic Spying
Post Date: 2006-03-28 23:54:59 by Brian S
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(03-28) 19:55 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five federal judges gave a boost Tuesday to legislation that would bring court scrutiny to the Bush administration's domestic spying program. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the judges reacted favorably to his proposal that would require the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to conduct regular reviews of the four-year-old program. The existence of the warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency was revealed by The New York Times three months ago. The judges stressed that they were not offering their views on the NSA operation, which they said they knew nothing about. But ...
Josh Bolten: A family history of lies, cover-ups and distortion
Post Date: 2006-03-28 23:27:22 by bluegrass
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The new White House chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, is the son of Seymour Bolten, assistant to the then director of the CIA, George H.W. Bush. In 1976, the seniors Bush and Bolten were involved in a manipulation of the press to cover the back of Richard Helms, an ex-director of the CIA at the time. ----------- Documents obtained by FAIR, released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), show that George Bush, as head of the CIA in 1976, tried to bottle up a news story that exposed the apparent duplicity of another former CIA chief, Richard Helms. The story, broken on Oct. 1, 1976 by David Martin (now CBS Pentagon correspondent, then with Associated Press), revealed that Helms ...
Supreme Court Questions Military Trials; justices appeared troubled Tuesday by President Bush's plans...
Post Date: 2006-03-28 17:37:11 by Brian S
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(03-28) 14:16 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Supreme Court justices appeared troubled Tuesday by President Bush's plans to hold war-crimes trials for foreigners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And several seemed outraged by the government's claim that a new law had stripped the high court of authority to hear a case brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden. Hamdan has spent nearly four years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, and the Supreme Court has been asked to decide if he can be put on trial with fewer legal protections before a type of military tribunal last used in the World War II-era. The appeal could set the stage for a landmark ...
Ohio Attorney Persecuted And Jailed For 232 Days Under Nazi-Like Treatment Right Here In America
Post Date: 2006-03-28 00:18:53 by Zipporah
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Elsabeth Baumgartner also spent 10 days locked away, held without right to counsel and clergy, for merely speaking out at a city council meeting. Saying she was held as a political prisoner, she now faces a sentence of 66 years and 6 months for what she calls "trumped-up" charges. 27 Mar 2006 The top dogs in Ohio and the White House are "foaming at the mouth" over allegations made by a former Cuyahoga County attorney who uncovered "their illegal bones" buried deep within the fields of political corruption. Attorney Elsabeth Baumgartner, corruptly disbarred by Ohio officials, dug a hole so deep into local and state corruption it ended up all the way at ...
Has Today's Alex Jones Show Been Deep-Sixed?
Post Date: 2006-03-27 22:19:37 by Arator
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Did anyone listen to the Alex Jones show earlier today? For some reason, the nightly refeed is playing Jeff Rense instead and today's show is not even archived at the network. What the heck happened today?
DeLay license to carry concealed handgun revoked
Post Date: 2006-03-27 16:33:40 by aristeides
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DeLay license to carry concealed handgun revoked RAW STORY Published: Friday March 24, 2006 Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has lost his right to carry a concealed handgun in Texas, RAW STORY has learned. A Texas website, Brazosriver, was the first (to the knowledge of RAW STORY) to post a judge's order to suspend DeLay's license. Under Texas law, indicted felons are not allowed to carry concealed handguns. Attorneys for DeLay have appealed the order, and it will be heard by the Republican County Court at Law. There are no Democratic judges in the county, according to the site that revealed the documents.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL : RUSSIAN NUKE TRACED TO TEXAS
Post Date: 2006-03-27 14:08:28 by Grumble Jones
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RUSSIAN NUKE TRACED TO TEXAS by Ken Welch in Houston Posted March 25, 2006 During the summer of 2005 it was decided go ahead with plans for America’s second 9/11. The decision was not made in a torch-lit cave in Afghanistan, nor in a nondescript safe-house in Iraq. Implementing the plan would involve the highest officials of the United States government. The centerpiece of the plan is a portable nuclear weapon manufactured in the former Soviet Union. A tame “terrorist”, destined no doubt to be an eventual patsy, arranged for the bomb’s transport by sea, and the ship carrying it entered Galveston Bay on January 25, 2006. At this time the device remains hidden on ...
Scalia Claims Guantanamo Detainees Have No Right to Fair Trial
Post Date: 2006-03-27 13:24:03 by Zipporah
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This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the special military commissions created by the Bush administration to try Guantanamo detainees violate national and international law, as human rights groups charge. But Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t have to wait for arguments — his mind is already made up. Newsweek reports that in a controversial unpublicized March 8 speech, Scalia “dismissed the idea that the detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution or international conventions.” “War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts,” he says on a tape of ...
America's Reign of Terror in Iraq; Our Jacobins have blood on their hands
Post Date: 2006-03-27 10:53:17 by Brian S
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The U.S. is losing patience with the Iraqis, averred Sen. John McCain the other day in Baghdad, going into his favorite mode of self-righteous hectoring, warning them they had better get on with the business of forming a government. The senator cited polls showing declining support for the war, but the lack of a government is not uppermost in most Americans' minds when it comes to the war. Yes, we are increasingly cranky – about the casualties, the cost, and the clear inability of American forces to make a dent in the insurgency – and this impatient mood is no doubt shared, in spades, by the troops on the ground and their commanders, as reflected in the news of the latest ...
Iraq ruling Shi'ites demand control over security [after what it called "cold-blooded" killings by troops ]
Post Date: 2006-03-27 10:37:13 by Brian S
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27 Mar 2006 13:11:55 GMT Source: Reuters BAGHDAD, March 27 (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Islamist Alliance bloc demanded on Monday that U.S. forces return control of security to the Iraqi government after what it called "cold-blooded" killings by troops of unarmed people in a mosque. "The Alliance calls for a rapid restoration of (control of) security matters to the Iraqi government," Jawad al-Maliki, a senior Alliance spokesman and ally of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, told a news conference.
The Perils of Economic Ignorance
Post Date: 2006-03-27 09:16:24 by Phaedrus
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Last week in this column I wrote of a perfect economic storm facing America, caused by a federal government that spends, borrows, and prints so much money that our dollars are eroding in value at an alarming rate. Year after year our federal government spends beyond its revenues, prints new money to pay its debts, and borrows hundreds of billions abroad in the form of Treasury obligations that someday must be paid. With too many dollars and debt instruments in circulation, and no political will in Washington to cut spending, we've created a monster. Our perceived prosperity depends on keeping the great debt and credit engine pumping, but the only way to attract new lenders to fuel the ...
'Unit's' military expert has fighting words for Bush
Post Date: 2006-03-27 08:29:02 by Arator
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'Unit's' military expert has fighting words for Bush By David Kronke, TV Critic U-Entertainment Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit. He culled his experiences for "Inside Delta Force" (Delta; $14), a memoir rich with harrowing stories, though in an interview, Haney declines with a shrug to estimate the number of times he was almost killed. (Perhaps the most high-profile incident that almost claimed his life was the 1980 failed rescue of the hostages in Iran.) Today, he's doing nothing nearly as dangerous: He serves as an executive producer and technical adviser for ...
MORGAN REYNOLD'S LATEST: Conspiracy and Closed Minds on 9/11
Post Date: 2006-03-26 13:30:03 by Arator
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Conspiracy and Closed Minds on 9/11 Morgan Reynolds March 2006 While more Americans doubt the 9/11 story every week, evidence abounds that many have a mental block against rational examination of the evidence about 9/11. The possibility that it was an inside job is a non-starter for them. Programmed “cut outs” insure that 9/11 doubts are consigned to the “conspiracy” closet. Last June I was explaining the fuss over my 9/11 article to a family member who shall remain anonymous and he interrupted and said, “I don’t want to talk about it.” Millions join him in that sentiment. By implication they might as well say: “I’d rather cling to the official ...
Decline and fall... America's Future?
Post Date: 2006-03-26 13:14:41 by siagiah
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Decline and fall Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom. By Michelle Goldberg Mar. 16, 2006 | In 1984, the renowned historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Barbara Tuchman published "The March of Folly," a book about how, over and over again, great powers undermine and sabotage themselves. She documented the perverse self-destructiveness of empires that clung to deceptive ideologies in the face of contrary evidence, that spent carelessly and profligately, and that obstinately refused to change course even when impending disaster was obvious to those willing to see it. Such recurrent ...
BUSH ASSERTS POWERS OF TYRANNY
Post Date: 2006-03-25 21:51:51 by SKYDRIFTER
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Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers. The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the ...
Bush's Wartime Powers Again Under Review, This Time in Supreme Court With Bin Laden Driver Case
Post Date: 2006-03-25 18:27:49 by Brian S
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The Associated Press WASHINGTON - His wartime powers undercut once before by the Supreme Court, President Bush could take a second hit in a case in which Osama bin Laden's former driver is seeking to head off a trial before military officers. At stake is more than whether Salim Ahmed Hamdan, after nearly four years at the Navy prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, goes on trial for war crimes before a special military commission. Analysts say if the high court rejects Bush's plan to hold such trials for the first time since the aftermath of World War II, it could rein in the president's expanded powers in pursuing and punishing suspected terrorists. In addition to special military trials ...
Abramoff statement sought for slaying trial (ABRA,MOFF STILL A SUSPECT IN BOULIS MURDER?)
Post Date: 2006-03-25 17:39:00 by aristeides
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Abramoff statement sought for slaying trial By Associated Press Published March 25, 2006 FORT LAUDERDALE - Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his ex-partner in the ill-fated SunCruz Casinos deal will likely be subpoenaed to give statements in the case against three men charged with killing the gambling fleet's former owner. According to court documents, the lawyer for murder defendant Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello wants to question Abramoff and Adam Kidan about the 2001 mob-style slaying of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Broward Circuit Judge Michael Kaplan approved the request for subpoenas, though none have been issued. Boulis was ambushed in his car by a gunman on a ...
Justice Department responds to House questions on NSA wiretapping program (THEY'RE EAVESDROPING ON LAWYERS & DOCTORS!)
Post Date: 2006-03-25 10:29:28 by aristeides
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Justice Department responds to House questions on NSA wiretapping program John Byrne Published: Friday March 24, 2006 The US Justice Department has responded to questions from Republican and Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee on President Bush's warantless wiretapping of international calls, releasing their responses quietly on a Friday afternoon. The Justice Department's responses were provided to RAW STORY late Friday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. They were approved by Assistant Attorney General William Moschella under the aegis of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. At their core, the responses echo previous assessments by the Bush Justice Department ...
Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement
Post Date: 2006-03-25 04:40:31 by ratcat
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Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers. The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and ...
Worldnetdaily, Joseph Farah - "The FBI spent $3 million of your tax money to blow up the World Trade Center"
Post Date: 2006-03-25 00:53:15 by Uncle Bill
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THE FBI AND THE MAD BOMBERS Worldnetdaily By Joseph Farah December 9, 1999 The FBI is warning us, through its Project Megiddo report, that right-wing Christians are dangerous terrorists prone to incite violence in the weeks ahead. This warning is more than slanderous, bigoted and inciteful. It needs to be understood in context. That context is that the FBI has set up a system of self-fulfilling prophecies that permits the government to scapegoat groups of people who are enticed into committing illegal acts or conspiring about them by agents provocateur. Whether the groups are organized militia outfits, Christian Identity, the White Aryan Resistance movement or some other misfit, ...
NSA Could've Legally Monitored Doctors' and Lawyers' Calls, Justice Department Says
Post Date: 2006-03-24 22:46:01 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency could have legally monitored ordinarily confidential communications between doctors and patients or attorneys and their clients, the Justice Department said Friday of its controversial warrantless surveillance program. Responding to questions from Congress, the department also said that it sees no prohibition to using information collected under the NSA's program in court. "Because collecting foreign intelligence information without a warrant does not violate the Fourth Amendment and because the Terrorist Surveillance Program is lawful, there appears to be no legal barrier against introducing this evidence in a criminal prosecution," ...
Neil Bush's Investors
Post Date: 2006-03-24 20:30:39 by aristeides
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Neil Bush's Investors By Paul Kiel - March 24, 2006, 6:31 PM Yesterday, Josh pointed out that the business model for Neil Bush's education company Ignite! seems to be that "Neil goes around the world finding international statesmen, bigwigs and criminals who want to 'invest' in Ignite! as a way to curry favor with the brother in the White House." But just who are those statesmen, bigwigs and criminals? The company declines to name private investors, but documents filed with the SEC show that it raised $7.1 million from 53 investors. There are a number of unnamed investors from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the British Virgin Islands. Here are the ones we do know about. It's ...
BUSH Hires Communist Billionaire Li Ka-Shing, Indicted For Insider Trading, To Monitor U.S. Nuclear Materials
Post Date: 2006-03-24 19:54:11 by Uncle Bill
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Chinese firm to scan cargo Hired to operate U.S. nuke detector, chairman tied to communist regime Worldnetdaily Staff March 24, 2006 Amid the recent Dubai ports controversy President Bush assured Congress port security remained under U.S. supervision, but the administration is raising concerns again with its decision to hire a Hong Kong firm linked to the communist Beijing regime to monitor nuclear materials that pass through the Bahamas to the United States and other countries. A contract is being finalized with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., the world's largest port operator, to inspect cargo at Freeport, about 65 miles from the U.S. coast, where it likely would be inspected again, the ...
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