Impeach Bush and Cheney.....They Have Broken Every Principle of Law and Defied every Precept of Decency Leaving This Nation and Its Reputation In A
Fore Closed Land Fill.
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CONFIRMED: U.S. Hid Detainees From The Red Cross
(It’s getting so bad that it would almost take George Bush being caught on tape by NBC, CBS and ABC getting a blow job from Ann Coulter on the front steps of the White House before anyone will Impeach the cretin, and FOX would argue that the film was faked…of course.)
The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who's since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility -- Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan -- were using sleep deprivation to "break" detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. "True, but officially it is not happening," she is quoted as having said.
A third person at the meeting, Jonathan Fredman, the chief counsel for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, disclosed that detainees were moved routinely to avoid the scrutiny of the ICRC, which keeps tabs on prisoners in conflicts around the world.
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It's just a $5,812,353 contract -- chump change for the Pentagon -- and not even one of those notorious "no-bid" contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received before the contract was awarded this May 28th to Wintara, Inc. of Fort Washington, Maryland, for "replacement facilities for Forward Operating Base Speicher, Iraq." According to a Department of Defense press release, the work on those "facilities" to be replaced at the base near Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, is expected to be completed by January 31, 2009, a mere 11 days after a new president enters the Oval Office. It is but one modest reminder that, when the next administration hits Washington, American bases in Iraq, large and small, will still be undergoing the sort of repair and upgrading that has been ongoing for years.
Editor’s Note: Last week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. Not surprisingly, the major U.S. news media, which has never taken Bush’s abuses of power too seriously, largely ignored Kucinich’s act.
Bernstein: Let’s cut to the quick and tell us what you see as being at the core of your call to impeach the President and the Vice President….
Bring Back Patrick Fitzgerald : Serve Mr. Bush to Justice : by Gilles d'Aymery
Patrick Fitzgerald : Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American attorney and the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 30, 2003, after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the CIA leak grand jury investigation of the Plame affair due to conflicts of interest, Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, acting as Attorney General in Ashcroft's place, appointed Fitzgerald to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel in charge of the investigation.[1][2]
(Swans - June 16, 2008) Chances are that people who depend on the corporate media haven't heard of House Resolution 1258, which was introduced by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich late on June 10, 2008, and was read in full into the wee hours of the next day, thus becoming part of the Congressional Record. That Resolution addressed "articles of impeachment of George Bush, president of the United States." Like the Resolution Kucinich introduced last November to impeach Vice President Cheney, HR 1258 has been referred to the Judiciary Committee, where it's going to die, collecting dust until future historians research one of the most shameful and destructive American presidents the country ever elected or selected.
The Movement to impeach George W. Bush has steadily grown over the past two years, with legal scholars of both liberal and conservative trends supporting the constitutional procedure -- to no avail so long as the leadership of the Democratic Party keeps that constitutional duty "off the table." But there are other venues that can and hopefully will be pursued, from appointing a Special Counsel with plenary authority to investigate whether President Bush and his vice president broke the laws of the United States in the lead up to the Iraq War and whether the president violated his constitutional oath "to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States"; to, as the renowned attorney and highly successful prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, advocates in his recently published book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Vanguard Press, May 2008, ISBN 978-1593154813), citizen-to-be George W. Bush may well be tried for murder in the future (there is no statute of limitations on a murder charge). And if none of the above works there will still be a consolation prize for people who understand that we want to remain a country of laws, not men (or women), however powerful they may be: They will be limited in their travels to other countries, especially in the European Union, for they will run high risks of being arraigned for the international crimes they allegedly committed. (More)
Plame, the daughter of an Air Force colonel and an elementary school teacher, was recruited by the CIA at 22, shortly after graduation from Pennsylvania State University. She was in the 1985-86 class of CIA officers trained at "The Farm" near Williamsburg, where the curriculum included learning to drive under fire, blowing up cars and handling an AK-47.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the subpoena on Monday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey in the latest chapter of a standoff over what Bush and Cheney told a special prosecutor about the case in 2004.
Earlier this month, the Justice Department denied Waxman’s request for a voluntary release of the interview transcripts on grounds that it “raises serious separation of powers and heightened confidentiality concerns.”
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has turned over to Waxman’s committee “FBI 302 reports” of interviews with CIA and State Department officials and other individuals involved in the CIA leak, Waxman said in a letter to Mukasey last December.
But “the White House has been blocking Mr. Fitzgerald from providing key documents to the Committee," including transcripts of Fitzgerald’s interviews with Bush and Cheney, Waxman said.
On Monday, Waxman set a June 23 deadline for Mukasey to comply with the committee subpoena.
Finally, Congress Looks at Plame-gate
Five years ago, George W. Bush's White House set in motion the "Plame-gate" scandal, the exposure of a covert CIA officer after her husband blew the whistle on Bush's use of false intelligence on Iraq. Finally, Congress is holding a hearing. A Special Report. June 16, 2008
Libby Links Cheney to Plame Leak
In a newly disclosed FBI interview, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis Libby says it's "possible" that his boss told him to leak the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. A congressional panel now wants access to Cheney's response. June 4, 2008
McClellan Suggests Plame Cover-up
As the Plame-gate CIA-leak investigation zeroed in on White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby in 2005, the two men got together for an unusual private meeting, ex-White House press secretary Scott McClellan reveals in his new memoir. May 29, 2008
Bush's 'War Crimes' & Misdemeanors
In 2004, when the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced, George W. Bush assured Americans that he was as shocked and angry as they were. But a new Inspector General's report reveals Bush's White House turning a deaf ear to FBI complaints about nearly identical detainee abuses. May 22, 2008
Jail Time for Tenet?
If the U.S. political landscape shifts next year, former CIA Director George Tenet may face legal questions about his service to George W. Bush, including -- as former CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes -- Tenet's cover-up of how Bush bungled the pre-9/11 warnings. June 11, 2008
Senate Dems Won't Block Wiretapping Compromise
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM.
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they would not stand in the way of a compromise overhaul of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), despite their concerns with the impacts of the sprawling measure.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who also sits on the Judiciary Committee, said some Democrats are "not happy with that, but there may be enough to get a majority vote."
When asked if he would whip his conference to vote against it, Durbin said: "I doubt if it's going to be a caucus position."
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) predicted Tuesday that there is enough support within the Democratic Conference to approve a contentious overhaul of the FISA legislation. Read the full story »
Appeals Court Throws Out Key Conviction In Abramoff Case
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 6:06 PM.
A federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a former White House official Tuesday in a significant defeat for prosecutors who are overseeing the investigation into the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.
David Safavian was convicted in 2006 of four charges related to statements he made to officials who were investigating Abramoff, a former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe lawmakers and bilking his Indian-tribe clients out of millions of dollars.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit threw out two felony-concealment charges against Safavian, saying he had "no legal duty to disclose" details about his relationship with Abramoff to General Services Administration ethics and inspector-general officials. At the time, Safavian was the GSA's chief of staff and helped Abramoff attempt to buy two GSA-managed properties in the Washington area.
"Attorneys commonly advise their clients to answer questions truthfully but not to volunteer information . . . ," the court wrote. "The government essentially asks us to hold that once an individual starts talking, he cannot stop."
Rules of power tactics: Saul Alinsky's radical arts, just keep this in mind as the election campaign unfolds.
More Than Half Of 'Democrats For McCain' List Have GOP Ties
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 5:14 PM.
In an effort to demonstrate his broad political appeal, Sen. John McCain on Saturday released a list of "prominent Democrats and Independents" who were supporting his candidacy. The whole concept was disputed from the get-go.
Ben Smith, over at Politico, observed that one thing the names lacked was prominence. On Tuesday, moreover, Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo noted that many names "have often supported Republicans in the past, suggesting that there's little if any meaning to their support for McCain over Obama."
Sargent highlighted seven such individuals, including Bill Veroneau, former mayor of Concord, New Hampshire, who originally had endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president; former state Rep. Steve Wenzel of Minnesota, who worked on Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty's transition team; and former Massachusetts state Rep. Brian Golden, who endorsed President Bush in both 2000 and 2004.
It turns out that Sargent only scratched the tip of the iceberg. A review of the list of the new "Democrats and Independents" who have joined "Citizens for McCain" shows that more than half of the 30 members have either obvious ties to the Republican Party or are regularly touted by GOP politicians as Democratic defectors.
People will just say any damn thing anymore and we’re expected to simply believe it because we are obviously stupid!
On the June 17 edition of MSNBC Live, MSNBC political analyst Rev. Joe Watkins falsely claimed, "No matter what you think about the current administration, at least unemployment is at an all-time low. It's at 5 percent, and some points, less than 5 percent, which has been the lowest it's been in decades." Anchor Tamron Hall replied, "Yeah, but that doesn't mean the economy's in good shape." In fact, the current unemployment rate -- which is at 5.5 percent nationally, according to a June 6 release by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) -- is more than double the lowest recorded unemployment rate since 1948, and 1.3 percentage points higher than it was when President Bush took office in January 2001.
According to the BLS, the lowest unemployment rate since 1948 was 2.5 percent in both May and June of 1953. The unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in January 2001.
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS14000000
The Family's Values: America's Most Influential (and Secretive) Religious Organization
Jeff Sharlet's The Family will leave you stunned by the religious motivations behind seemingly every political decision in the last 70 years.
Jeff Sharlet's The Family is a hair-raising account that will leave you stunned by the religious motivations behind seemingly every political decision in the last 70 years. As the title suggests, Sharlet's book focuses on the Family, a highly secretive, elite fundamentalist organization that wields political power behind the scenes. The Family, also known as the Fellowship, believes in God-driven government whose precepts are spread by top level, "key men" throughout the world. This is creepy religious imperialism at its most harrowing, which Sharlet delivers through fascinating historical accounts blended with personal anecdotes of the year he spent living with the Family in its picturesque estate along the Potomac River, Ivanwald.
Having covered all manner of religious sects for Rolling Stone and Harper's, Sharlet's intentions for living at Ivanwald were innocuous at first. What he encountered was so disturbing, however, that he felt compelled to investigate the Family's shadowy role in shaping elite American fundamentalism into a highly effective political tool. The Family is much more than its National Prayer Breakfasts, which have been presided over by every President for the last 50 years since Eisenhower helped launch them in 1953. As Sharlet writes, "the Family's long-term project of a worldwide government under God is more ambitious than Al Qaeda's dream of a Sunni empire."
Make No Mistake: McCain's a Neocon
John McCain has stressed his differences with George W. Bush over military tactics in Iraq. But the bigger picture is that McCain is every bit the neocon that Bush is -- if not more so. June 8, 2008
McCain Parrots FOX Line on Habeas, Attacking Judges in the Name of National Security
McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'
John McCain has vowed to fight the $300 billion farm bill because of alleged waste, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to block part of the bill that would regulate energy futures trading by closing what's called the "Enron loophole." May 19, 2008
McCain and the 'Unitary Executive'
John McCain's promise that he will follow George W. Bush's lead in appointing right-wing jurists, like Samuel Alito, to the U.S. Supreme Court means that Election 2008 could decide whether Bush's imperial presidency becomes the law of the land. May 13, 2008
John Mccain’s Wife Hiding War Profits, Untaxed Off-Shore Accounts?
According to a high-placed federal agent actively based in Washington, DC who spoke with federal whistleblower Stewart Webb, Republican presidential candidate and Senate Armed Services Ranking Member John McCain’s wife Cindy Hensley McCain’s multiple undisclosed federal income tax returns will reveal millions in Iraq War military procurement contract profits involving Hensley & Co. (Hensley Beer), Mrs. McCain’s large Anheuser-Busch beer distribution firm.
Executive or Imperial Branch?
Lost amid the news media's obsession over Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been any attention toward how George W. Bush has trampled on the U.S. Constitution. In this guest essay, Ivan Eland takes a stab at getting the public to pay some attention to the future of the Republic. May 7, 2008
Lost History: How the Neocons Did It
If you want to know how the neoconservatives got control of the most powerful nation on earth, Robert Parry’s Lost History is a must-read. (To read more, click here.)
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