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White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted
Post Date: 2006-03-05 16:13:24 by Zipporah
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Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 5, 2006; A01 The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that reporters could be prosecuted under espionage laws. In recent weeks, dozens of employees at the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies have been interviewed by agents from the FBI's Washington field office, who are investigating possible leaks that led to reports about secret CIA prisons and the NSA's warrantless ...
Former DEA Agent Wants George H. Bush, Negroponte And Other Higher-Ups Held Accountable For Illegal Drug Smuggling
Post Date: 2006-03-05 14:20:47 by Eoghan
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Cele Castillo played it tough with the "Big Boys" for a long time until the former DEA agent couldn't take it any more. For 12 long years he fought hard against the drug lords in South America, finally realizing in the late 1980's his fight was essentially for nothing. After raiding jungle cocaine labs in the Amazon, conducting aerial eradication operations in Guatemala and assembling and training anti-narcotics units in several countries, Castillo finally went public and blew the whistle after realizing the real kingpin drug dealers worked in the White House, not in the jungles of Central and South America. "I took an oath to defend my country and fight the war on drugs. ...
The Oath to Adolf Hitler
Post Date: 2006-03-05 01:21:11 by Uncle Bill
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The Oath to Adolf Hitler Speech by Rudolf Hess on 25 February 1934 Background: On 25 February 1934, about a million Nazi party officials gathered at points around Germany to swear an oath to Adolf Hitler. This is an excerpt from the speech Rudolf Hess gave on the occasion, which was broadcast to the nation. The source: "Der Eid auf Adolf Hitler," Rudolf Hess, Reden (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1938), pp. 10-14. German men, German women, German boys, German girls, over a million of you are gathered in many places in all of Germany! On this the anniversary of the proclamation of the Party's program, you will together swear an oath of loyalty and obedience to Adolf Hitler. ...
AP: Many Defendants' Cases Kept Secret
Post Date: 2006-03-04 22:04:41 by Zipporah
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Sat Mar 4, 3:36 PM ET Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years. Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005. An Associated Press investigation found, and court observers agree, that most of these defendants are cooperating government witnesses, but the secrecy surrounding their records prevents the public from knowing details of their plea bargains with the government. Most of these defendants are involved in drug gangs, though lately a very small number come from terrorism cases. Some of these ...
Senator Mike DeWine and His Traitorous Ilk
Post Date: 2006-03-04 18:54:56 by Kamala
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Senator Mike DeWine and His Traitorous Ilk Friday March 03rd 2006, 8:05 pm Once upon a time, Mike DeWine, Congress critter-whore from Ohio (nearly a million dollars in business PAC contributions), would have been called out as a traitor, and then tarred, feathered, and delivered to the edge of town on a rail in much the same way Bostonians tarred and feathered excise men and other British agents. Now we can't be bothered. As Congress passes the Patriot Act, I remember DeWine, who said the following about Bush's Constitution-crunching NSA snooping program last month: "You know, there’s been some controversy about whether or not this program is legal or is not legal. ...
The Case for Impeachment : Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush
Post Date: 2006-03-04 18:12:35 by Grumble Jones
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The Case for Impeachment Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006. An excerpt from an essay in the March 2006 Harper's Magazine. By Lewis H. Lapham. SourcesA country is not only what it does—it is also what it puts up with, what it tolerates. —Kurt Tucholsky On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a resolution inviting it to form “a select committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make ...
Robert Baer (former CIA officer in Iraq)
Post Date: 2006-03-04 11:08:34 by robin
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Robert Baer Robert Baer is one of the last men you would expect to oppose an attack on Iraq. The former CIA officer was one of the key men operating inside Iraq during the aborted uprising in 1995. At the time, he was one of the CIA operatives who encouraged an uprising from within the country. The US of course didn't step in to help the revolution and it was brutally crushed. Baer is a man with considerable intelligence experience and real experience of the Middle East. Critical Robert Baer on operation He worked for the CIA's Directorate of Operations for more than two decades and spent most of his career in the Middle East, with postings in Sudan, ...
Ten Against Patriot Act Reauthorization
Post Date: 2006-03-04 04:35:31 by Zoroaster
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Ten Against Patriot Act Reauthorization When Senator Russ Feingold opposed the original version of the Patriot Act in 2001, the Wisconsin Democrat was alone in his defense of the Constitution. This year, as Feingold led the frustrating fight to block reauthorization of the Patriot Act in a form that continues to threaten basic liberties, he left no doubt that he was entirely willing to stand alone once more. To colleagues who suggested that it was appropriate to trade a little liberty for the White House's promise of more security in the war on terror, the senator declared: "Without freedom, we are not America. If we don't preserve our liberties, we cannot win this war, no ...
Angel in Jail (KABA.com Founder)
Post Date: 2006-03-04 00:35:01 by ChareltonHest
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Angel in Jail By Gary Marbut Angel Shamaya, founder of http://KeepAndBearArms.com is in jail in Michigan, having been arrested for possession of firearms not properly registered under Michigan law. Angel's friends are working to help him with this problem, but we need your help, right now! We need character references from you for Angel. There is a form letter for you to fill out and send back at: http://www.marbut.com/angel. Be advised that Angel's problem is happening in the Detroit area, where a strong anti-gun sentiment exists in the criminal justice system. So, we are asking you to downplay gun-rights and gun-related comments. We will NOT deliver to the court any disparaging ...
Administration Revives Dispute Over Eavesdropping Authority
Post Date: 2006-03-03 23:34:10 by Brian S
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In a new defense of its warrantless eavesdropping program, the Bush administration yesterday reopened a dispute about whether it tried and failed to obtain direct congressional authority for use of the president's war-making powers on U.S. territory. The Justice Department has asserted that Congress implicitly granted President Bush the power to secretly order interception of some overseas calls and e-mails made by Americans in the United States when it passed a resolution authorizing use of military force against those responsible for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Eavesdropping is part of war, the administration maintains, and the battlefield includes the United States. But ...
Pay too much and you could raise the alarm
Post Date: 2006-03-03 22:23:25 by rack42
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Walter Soehnge is a retired Texas schoolteacher who traveled north with his wife, Deana, saw summer change to fall in Rhode Island and decided this was a place to stay for a while. So the Soehnges live in Scituate now and Walter sometimes has breakfast at the Gentleman Farmer in Scituate Village, where he has passed the test and become a regular despite an accent that is definitely not local. And it was there, at his usual table last week, that he told me that he was "madder than a panther with kerosene on his tail." He says things like that. Texas does leave its mark on a man. What got him so upset might seem trivial to some people who have learned to ...
Scum-sucking traitors to their country
Post Date: 2006-03-03 20:59:00 by Uncle Bill
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Scum-sucking traitors to their country Capitol Hill Blue By Doug Thompson March 3, 2006 The next time some loudmouth partisan puke Democrat gets in my face and starts yapping about how much better things would be if his party were running the government in Washington, I'm going to pull out the vote tally sheet for the USA Patriot Act in Thursday's Senate session and ram it down his lying throat. Where was his party when it came time to take a stand for freedom in this country? Hiding like a coward, that's where. Only nine Democrats and one independent - former Republican Jim Jeffords - had guts enough to vote against reauthorizing the fascist piece of crap called the Patriot Act. The ...
Populist American Says US Hijacked By Washington Criminals
Post Date: 2006-03-03 20:09:46 by Coral Snake
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Populist American Says US Hijacked By Washington Criminals By Greg Szymanski 3-3-6 Bill Gibbons is fed up to his ears with the criminals in Washington. And he's proud to call himself a "Populist American," not willing to compromise his God-given rights of freedom and liberty in the face of what he calls a fascist hijacking of his country and its Constitution. Gibbons is just another example of an average American do above average things while trying desperately to alert his fellow citizens of the neo con takeover before its too late. And to try and get some action and in memory of his wife Betty who died in 2004, Gibbons started an extensive gathering of material on his web ...
Pentagon releases documents naming Guantanamo detainees
Post Date: 2006-03-03 19:57:35 by Zipporah
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5 minutes ago Bowing to a court order, the Pentagon released thousands of documents, identifying for the first time some but not all detainees held at a war-on-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said. A computer disk containing the documents was turned over to a reporter from the Associated Press, which filed a Freedom of Information Act suit to force the disclosure of names kept secret since early 2002. Pentagon officials said the documents would also be posted on a Defense Department website to comply with a court order that they be made public by March 3. Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said earlier the Pentagon would release 317 sets of records of hearings into ...
U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison
Post Date: 2006-03-03 09:02:58 by Zipporah
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Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, March 3, 2006; A04 Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison. In federal court yesterday and in legal filings, Justice Department lawyers contended that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot use legislation drafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to challenge treatment that the detainee's lawyers described as "systematic torture." Government lawyers have argued that another portion of that same law, the Detainee Treatment Act ...
Carlyle Group at heart of DPW deal
Post Date: 2006-03-03 05:09:11 by Uncle Bill
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Is Carlyle Group at heart of DPW deal? WorldNetDaily.com By Jerome R. Corsi March 3, 2006 What does Dubai Ports World have in common with CSX, Treasury Secretary John Snow, and the Bush Family? The Carlyle Group is the answer currently gaining ground on the Internet. What once seemed the propaganda ramblings of none other than "Fahrenheit 911's" Michael Moore may end up becoming the subject of the Senate's upcoming investigation into what Washington insiders are beginning to call the "Dubai Debacle." As reported in the Guardian as early as 2001, Bush '41 and '43 have been connected to the Carlyle Group in various ways resulting in substantial compensation to the Bush ...
Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution And why it is a benchmark of how much danger we are in
Post Date: 2006-03-03 01:45:47 by Coral Snake
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Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution And why it is a benchmark of how much danger we are in Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | March 2 2006 More Americans can name Simpsons characters than they can the freedoms that the 1st Amendment upholds. This is a benchmark of how much danger the country is in and the blame can be laid with public education. Only one in a thousand Americans can name all five first amendment freedoms. The BBC reports, "The names of American Idol TV show judges and popular advertising slogans also proved more memorable than the five freedoms - speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances." ...
I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
Post Date: 2006-03-02 20:43:19 by Zipporah
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I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture By Ray McGovern t r u t h o u t | Letter Thursday 02 March 2006 Hon. Pete Hoekstra, Chair House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Washington, DC Dear Congressman Hoekstra: As a matter of conscience, I am returning the Intelligence Commendation Award medallion given me for "especially commendable service" during my 27-year career in CIA. The issue is torture, which inhabits the same category as rape and slavery - intrinsically evil. I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture. Reports in recent years that CIA personnel were torturing detainees were highly disturbing. Confirmation of ...
Luncheon with the Police State
Post Date: 2006-03-02 16:54:14 by The 7th MJS2U2
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My husband, Russell, and I hadn't planned on tangling with the Feds today. We had planned a protest of an eminent domain seminar happening at the Radisson today. Assistant Attorney General for NH Mark Hodgdon was speaking to a group, training local businesses and governments how to steal people's property through eminent domain. But it turns out George Bush was visiting the Radisson the same day, hence our brush with the police state. We brought a bunch of signs for protesting eminent domain, plus two others with Bush's visit in mind. We went inside the Radisson to where the eminent domain seminar was being held, got a few photos of the people learning to steal. Then the Radisson employees ...
Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution
Post Date: 2006-03-02 15:53:48 by Grumble Jones
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Why Americans Know More About The Simpsons Than The Constitution And why it is a benchmark of how much danger we are in Paul Joseph Watson/Prison http://Planet.com | March 2 2006 More Americans can name Simpsons characters than they can the freedoms that the 1st Amendment upholds. This is a benchmark of how much danger the country is in and the blame can be laid with public education. Only one in a thousand Americans can name all five first amendment freedoms. The BBC reports, "The names of American Idol TV show judges and popular advertising slogans also proved more memorable than the five freedoms - speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances." ...
Bill Clinton helped Dubai on ports deal
Post Date: 2006-03-02 03:54:16 by Uncle Bill
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Bill Clinton helped Dubai on ports deal Financial Times By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington Published: March 1 2006 23:50 | Last updated: March 1 2006 23:50 Bill Clinton, former US president, advised top officials from Dubai two weeks ago on how to address growing US concerns over the acquisition of five US container terminals by DP World. It came even as his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, was leading efforts to derail the deal. Mr Clinton, who this week called the United Arab Emirates a “good ally to America”, advised Dubai’s leaders to propose a 45-day delay to allow for an intensive investigation of the acquisition, according to his spokesman. On Sunday, DP World ...
Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying; Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work
Post Date: 2006-03-01 13:52:17 by Brian S
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Wednesday, March 1, 2006; A08 Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December. In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration's original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago. At that appearance, Gonzales confined his comments to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, saying that President Bush had authorized it ...
House pulls Patriot Act compromise vote; Delays until Tuesday
Post Date: 2006-03-01 13:33:44 by Zipporah
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The House has pulled from consideration today a "compromise" measure on the Patriot Act which was agreed upon by Senate Republican moderates and the House Judiciary Committee, RAW STORY has learned. House aides say that Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has delayed a vote on the compromise measure. A vote on the Sununu provision -- named for Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) who negotiated the compromise, has been yanked from a floor vote in the House today. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday, a Senate aide said. What happens now is unclear. The Senate is expected to approve the full Patriot Act conference report, which the House has already ...
San Francisco Gun Ban Delayed by NRA Suit
Post Date: 2006-03-01 13:12:15 by Brian S
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(02-28) 14:20 PST San Francisco (AP) -- The city has agreed to delay enforcing a voter-approved ban on owning or selling handguns until a judge can consider a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging the law. The ban was put to voters in November by the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors. The NRA sued the day after 58 percent of the voters approved it. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said Monday that the city would honor a judge's request and delay enforcement until at least June 19. If upheld, San Francisco's measure would outlaw handgun possession by city residents and prohibit the manufacture and sales of guns and ammunition within city limits. The NRA suit claims the ...
Study: One In 1,000 Know First Amendment : More People Know 'The Simpsons' Than First Amendment Rights
Post Date: 2006-03-01 12:55:05 by Mind_Virus
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Study: One In 1,000 Know First Amendment Study Shows More People Know 'The Simpsons' Than First Amendment Rights By ANNA JOHNSON CHICAGO Mar 1, 2006 (AP)— Americans apparently know more about "The Simpsons" than they do about the First Amendment. Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half can name at least two members of the cartoon family, according to a survey. The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared ...
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