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Conversations with Daniel Ellsberg, Part 2: Judith Miller, the New York Times and Government-Controlled Press
Post Date: 2006-01-23 11:38:26 by aristeides
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Conversations with Daniel Ellsberg, Part 2 by SusanG Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 09:22:50 AM PDT Judith Miller, the New York Times and Government-Controlled Press In agreeing to hand over a copy, even in the absence of any assurances that the Times planned to run the story, I was aware, as presumably Neil [Sheehan] was, that I was signaling my trust in him to use the material as he saw fit. It was my consent for the Times to publish at its discretion. But in fact, as I learned later, he did not need my consent, or my copy for that matter. What I did not know, what he chose not to tell me, was that the Times had already rented several suites in the New York Hilton, where a team was working ...
'Decommissioned' Guns Nearly As Good As Confiscations
Post Date: 2006-01-23 08:39:23 by Red Jones
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'Decommissioned' Guns Nearly As Good As Confiscations By Alan Korwin, 1/13/2006 12:24:01 PM The Brady group and its congressional supporters are proceeding, and making headway, with a below-radar effort to ban operating firearms from the general public, without having to actually disarm America's 80 million gun owners. The plan is now evolving around an innocent-sounding new legal term. It was tucked deep in a 400,000-word spending bill under president Clinton (law # P.L. 105-277), and it is now spreading throughout federal gun laws. Its latest use, the eighth, is in the frivolous-lawsuit ban just enacted (The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, law # P.L. 109-92; S.397). ...
Activists Seek to Evict Souter From Home
Post Date: 2006-01-21 14:48:21 by Zipporah
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Activists Seek to Evict Souter From Home By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the justices who voted for the decision evicted from his own home. The group, led by a California man, wants Justice David Souter's home seized for the purpose of building an inn called "Lost Liberty Hotel." They submitted enough petition signatures - only 25 were needed - to bring the matter before voters in March. This weekend, they're descending on Souter's hometown, the central New Hampshire town of ...
Republicans Gone Wild
Post Date: 2006-01-21 08:15:19 by robin
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Thursday 19 January 2005 "Ethics reform" gestures and suddenly hazy memories can't hide the truth: Abramoff is an integral part of the GOP machine that revved up with the '94 "revolution." Hardly anyone in the Republican Party, in Congress or at the White House, seems to recall ever having met Jack Abramoff. Collective amnesia has suddenly descended upon the capital. The super-lobbyist, whose plea bargain with prosecutors requires the extensive naming of names of members of Congress, staffers, ex-staffers, lobbyists, friends, colleagues and his own personal assistants, is spending his days racking his memory for details of their relationships that may become the basis ...
Democrats Hold Hearing on Illegal Spying
Post Date: 2006-01-21 07:54:47 by robin
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Friday 20 January 2006 There can be no doubt that today we are in a constitutional crisis that threatens the system of checks and balances that has preserved our fundamental freedoms for more than 200 years. There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of US citizens. The Bush Administration offers two arguments to justify their actions. First, they assert, that warrantless searches were authorized by the Afghanistan use of force resolution. Second, they say, the Constitution permits and even mandates such actions. To this member and indeed to most of our ...
Are You Ready to Be Bugged and Tortured By George W. Bush
Post Date: 2006-01-21 03:22:39 by Zoroaster
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Published on Thursday, January 19, 2006 by the Free Press Are You Ready to Be Bugged and Tortured By George W. Bush? by Harvey Wasserman It's not really terrorists George W. Bush wants to bug and torture. It's YOU. It's not really terrorism he wants to fight. It's opposition from people he can't control. It's not really US security he wants to protect. It's the power of his regime. The Constitutional debate about whether these executive privileges are allowable in war is a smoke screen. This isn't about war: It's about dictatorship. It’s about making power permanent by using private information against you, and by terrifying you with torture. Team Bush believes it rules by ...
The latest Bush mega-catastrophe is now pharmaceuticals
Post Date: 2006-01-20 21:46:14 by Coral Snake
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Columns Harvey Wasserman The latest Bush mega-catastrophe is now pharmaceuticals January 16, 2006 No matter what you think of George W. Bush, he is staking out his claim as a bona fide Horseman of the Apocalypse. With his Hand of Hell in Iraq already yielding countless dead, $200 billion wasted and a global war against Islam well on its way to Armageddon, Bush has definitively established his ability to wreak unparalleled disaster on a global scale with zero positive outcome. By drowning New Orleans and turning its alleged rebuilding plan into a sinkhole of corruption and disarray, he has shown he can lay waste to an entire American city. And now he is visiting disease and death on ...
They have pictures... (OF BUSH AND ABRAMOFF)
Post Date: 2006-01-20 17:29:06 by aristeides
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They have pictures... by jseltzer [Subscribe] Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 02:58:03 PM PDT Washingtonian is reporting that the line being spun by McClellan (that Bush doesn't know Abramoff) is total bullshit. The Washingtonian has seen five photos of the President with Abramoff or his family. One photo shows the President and Abramoff shaking hands at a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building, where a bearded-Abramoff introduced Bush to several of the lobbyist's native-American clients. What's funny is how obvious this should have been to the press corp. I can't understand how the press doesn't run screaming from the briefing room. Sources say the photographs are being kept safe. ...
Bush and the Constitution: "Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper"
Post Date: 2006-01-20 16:26:44 by aristeides
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Bush and the Constitution "Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper" By GARY LEUPP Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, says he's talked to three people present last month when Republican Congressional leaders met with President Bush in the Oval Office to talk about renewing the Patriot Act. That act, passed by legislators who hadn't read it, in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 (when most people were shell-shocked and lawmakers in particular disinclined to use their brains), has of course been criticized as containing unconstitutional elements. All three GOP politicians quote their president as saying: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamned piece ...
Dear President Bush; about that "goddamned piece of paper."
Post Date: 2006-01-20 16:23:32 by aristeides
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Dear President Bush; about that "goddamned piece of paper." “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” Let us start out with the fact that the Constitution is actually written on parchment, not paper. A trivial point, I grant you, but one that reveals (along with your inability to correctly pronounce the word "nuclear") a shocking lack of education in a head of state. But to get to the point, the Constitution is not the parchment itself, but the ideas written upon it; ideas which form the foundations of our nation, ideas which would carry equal weight if written on stone, glass, ...
Derby scuffle officer has internal affairs history
Post Date: 2006-01-20 14:14:27 by tom007
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Derby scuffle officer has internal affairs history 12:37 AM CST on Thursday, January 19, 2006 By REBECCA LOPEZ / WFAA-TV Camille Dubose A witness captured the officer restraining Michelle Metzinger. click to watch The Dallas police officer accused of using excessive force while placing a female roller skating on Elm Street under arrest Saturday is not a stranger to such allegations, according to police records. The Dallas Police Department has launched an internal affairs investigation into the scuffle that occurred between Officer Ceaphus Gordon and Michelle Metzinger, a 25-year-old roller derby skater for Assassination City. However, it will not be the department's first look into ...
Political Machines: Was the 2004 Election Fixed?
Post Date: 2006-01-20 08:26:37 by Zoroaster
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January 19, 2006 Political Machines Was the 2004 Election Fixed? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS As coincidence would have it, Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Fooled Again" (Basic Books), documenting the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election, arrived in the same mail delivery with the January 12 edition of the Defuniak Springs Herald, the locally owned weekly newspaper in a Florida panhandle county seat. The Florida panhandle is thorough-going Republican. Even Democrats run as Republicans. Nevertheless, the newspaper's editor, Ron Kelley, believes that American political life is measured by something larger than party affiliation. In his editorial, "The shepherds and ...
"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched."
Post Date: 2006-01-19 17:56:54 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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"Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior (Head of the CIA during the Mena CIA Drug Trafficking) speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - 'The Demonic Cabal - (excellent article!) Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bvtvd Click for Full Text!
Local Control: The Great American Scam
Post Date: 2006-01-19 17:03:24 by eyeswideoopen
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Local Control: The Great American Scam http://www.channelingreality.com/News/local_control.htm
ABRAMOFF, GABON, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, AND THE WHITE HOUSE (MADSEN)
Post Date: 2006-01-19 15:08:51 by aristeides
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January 19, 2006 -- With reports of over 200 contacts between convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the Bush White House, there is also renewed interest in what "neighbor" Abramoff was referring to in his July 28, 2003 letter, written on Greenberg Traurig LLP stationery, to Gabon's President Omar Bongo concerning a proposed visit to the White House by the oil-rich African dictator. Abramoff was paid $9 million by Bongo for arranging the visit. Abramoff is no stranger to representing African dictators. His clients have included the late Zaire (Congo) strongman Mobutu Sese Seko and Angola's assassinated rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Indicted White House aide David Safavian, an ...
Cheney calls domestic spying program essential to war on terror
Post Date: 2006-01-19 15:07:33 by Zipporah
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NEW YORK -- Vice President Dick Cheney offered a robust defense of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program Thursday, calling it an essential tool in monitoring the activities of al-Qaida and associated terrorist organizations. But he stressed the program was limited in scope and had been conducted in a way that safeguarded civil liberties. In a luncheon speech at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative public policy think tank, Cheney warned that the United States still faced significant threats from a network of terrorists intent on establishing a radical Islamic empire throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East. He insisted the U.S.-led war in Iraq was essential to ...
Frist Not Allowing Senators To Speak On The Senate Floor About Alito...
Post Date: 2006-01-19 14:26:42 by aristeides
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Frist Not Allowing Senators To Speak On The Senate Floor About Alito... The Huffington Post | Posted January 19, 2006 09:49 AM Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) tried to secure time this week to speak on the Senate floor about Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito. But Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist would not allow any time for speeches until January 25, a day after the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Alito's nomination. The normal practice of the majority leader is to give senators time to make floor speeches about the nominee. Instead of speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Leahy will give a speech today at Georgetown University Law School. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. ...
Human rights abuse is Bush policy, says watchdog
Post Date: 2006-01-19 10:57:05 by Zipporah
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A leading human rights organization has accused the Bush administration of using torture and inhuman treatment of detainees as a deliberate strategy in its war on terror. Human Rights Watch charges in a new report that the treatment of detainees has undermined the United States' ability to champion human rights around the world. Human Rights Watch says policy decisions from senior Bush administration officials have created an atmosphere tolerant of abuse. The organization's executive director, Kenneth Roth, says it became clear this past year that torture and inhuman treatment are not simply the unintentional byproducts of these policy decisions. "It's not simply a matter of ...
Feds after Google data: RECORDS SOUGHT IN U.S. QUEST TO REVIVE PORN LAW
Post Date: 2006-01-19 10:45:01 by aristeides
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Feds after Google data RECORDS SOUGHT IN U.S. QUEST TO REVIVE PORN LAW By Howard Mintz Mercury News The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches. In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed ...
FORMER IRS SPECIAL AGENT SPEAKING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARCH '06
Post Date: 2006-01-18 23:25:56 by Neil McIver
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Dear Friends: I will be speaking at the 2006 Health and Freedom Conference in Irvine, California, which will be held Friday March 10th through Sunday March 12th, 2006. Barring any unforeseen scheduling difficulties, one or more members of my legal team are also planning to attend and may be given an opportunity to speak to the gathering. I will be joining many other speakers that weekend, some of whom you may be familiar with and some not. For more information go to http://www.livefreenow.org and click on "2006 Health and Freedom Conference" or call Freedom law School at (760) 868-4271 for a color brochure. I have also been invited to appear on "The Power Hour" with ...
9/11 suit tossed (right to sue waived by taking 9/11 funds)
Post Date: 2006-01-18 19:29:08 by Zipporah
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Can't blame city, Motorola for faulty radios: top court DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld a ruling that families of firefighters killed at the World Trade Center cannot sue the city and Motorola over allegedly faulty radios used on 9/11. The high court backed an earlier decision that the families waived their right to file a lawsuit because they had accepted money from the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. The ruling infuriated relatives of the slain Bravest. "The justice system has turned a blind eye," said Rosaleen Tallon, whose brother, Sean Tallon, 26, died when Tower 1 collapsed. "It's very disappointing and ...
Bugging America
Post Date: 2006-01-18 08:20:46 by Zoroaster
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January 17, 2006 Bugging America The Liberties of the Subject By WERTHER The overwhelming balance of recorded history has been marked by despotism. When homo sapiens sapiens transitioned from hunter gatherer to agriculturalist, he gained literacy, solid dwellings, and other accoutrements of what is commonly considered civilization. But he experienced a sharp decline in personal liberty. The reasons for this are commonsensical. Disputes between tribes of hunter gatherers could be resolved by one or the other simply pulling up stakes and relocating to a new territory, there being few material impedimenta to prevent them. A settled agricultural existence, on the other hand, implied ...
Gore Channels Taft
Post Date: 2006-01-18 07:29:27 by Zoroaster
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January 18, 2006 Gore Channels Taft It was a great speech by Justin Raimondo Has Al Gore become a conservative? His recent speech to the Liberty Coalition, a group of conservatives and liberals united in opposing the growing authoritarianism that drives this administration, sounded as if it had been written by some disgruntled paleoconservative. With his frequent references to the Founders and their philosophy of strictly limited government, his embittered lament at the rapid erosion of individual liberties against the Leviathan State, and his openly anti-interventionist critique of our foreign policy of preemptive aggression, one might have imagined he had suddenly started channeling ...
Leading Conservatives Call for Extensive Hearings on NSA Surveillance; Checks on Invasive Federal Powers Essential
Post Date: 2006-01-18 07:13:30 by aristeides
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Leading Conservatives Call for Extensive Hearings on NSA Surveillance; Checks on Invasive Federal Powers Essential 1/17/2006 6:36:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Laura Brinker, 202-715-1540, for Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, laura.brinker@dittus.com WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances (PRCB) today called upon Congress to hold open, substantive oversight hearings examining the President's authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) to violate domestic surveillance requirements outlined in the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, chairman of PRCB, was joined by fellow conservatives Grover ...
(CHERTOFF) U.S. plans alternative to passports (NATIONAL ID CARDS)
Post Date: 2006-01-17 21:48:49 by robin
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WASHINGTON -- The United States plans to develop an inexpensive and secure travel card for cross-border visitors by the end of the year. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the document will be an alternative to passports and similar to a driver's licence or other personal identification card. The new document is part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, an attempt to increase security following the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Chertoff said a new system at border crossings, called People Access Security Service or PASS, will improve security but won't disrupt tourism and business travel. Canadian officials have objected to plans that would require ...
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