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Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence 08 Mar 2006
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Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence 08 Mar 2006
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
08 March 2006
http://www.legitgov.org/
All links to articles as summarized below are available here:
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence 07 Mar 2006 The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops [Bush's death squads] in a growing number of American embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them.
Annan: U.S. forces may be violating international law 07 Mar 2006 U.S.-led coalition [occupation] forces and Iraq's authorities may be violating international law by arbitrarily detaining thousands of people, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report published Tuesday.
Minister says Guantanamo must close to save democracy 08 Mar 2006 The US camp at Guantanamo Bay should be closed before it undermines the cause of democracy worldwide, a Foreign Office minister [Kim Howells] has warned.
US A-G defends Guantanamo Bay 08 Mar 2006 The Attorney-General of the United States has defended Guantanamo Bay, arguing the prison camp is lawful and consistent with the Geneva Convention. In the past week, the British Prime Minister and the head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, have called for the US detention camp to close.
UK Admits CIA-run Rendition Flights: Report 07 Mar 2006 A British minister admitted that CIA-chartered planes, suspected to have been used to render terror suspects from one country to another, usually where torture is used as an interrogation tool, landed in Britain several times, a leading British newspaper revealed on Tuesday.
Minister admits 'rendition' planes used RAF bases --Government breaks silence on CIA flights --Aircraft landed at Brize Norton and Northholt 07 Mar 2006 The government last night admitted for the first time that aircraft suspected of being used by the CIA to transport detainees to secret interrogation centres had landed at British military airfields.
Republicans aim to legalize Bush's secret spy program 07 Mar 2006 Several moderate Senate Republicans are coalescing around legislation that would give President [sic] Bush's [illegal] domestic surveillance program the force of law, more than four years after the program was secretly initiated.
Senate Republicans block investigation into Bush's eavesdropping 07 Mar 2006 Senate Republicans blocked an investigation into President [sic] Bush's secret domestic spying program on Tuesday, but agreed to expand congressional oversight of the surveillance system in the future.
House approves Patriot Act renewal --Approval sends measure to Bush's desk before deadline 07 Mar 2006 Congress on Tuesday renewed controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the 2001 law passed weeks after [Bush bin Laden's] September 11 attacks. Three provisions of the renewed act would be reviewed in four years; the other provisions are permanent.
C.I.A. Fights Effort by Libby's Lawyers for Bush Briefings 08 Mar 2006 The Central Intelligence Agency objected to producing presidential briefing documents sought by lawyers for the former chief of staff to Vice pResident Dick Cheney, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday in the C.I.A. leak case.
Libby Defense Request Strongly Resisted by CIA 08 Mar 2006 The CIA said in an affidavit released yesterday that meeting the demand of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for copies of highly classified intelligence documents he saw before he was indicted would "impose an enormous burden" and divert its analysts from more important tasks.
US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box' --80% of Americans think civil war likely 08 Mar 2006 The US ambassador to Baghdad conceded yesterday that the Iraq invasion had opened a Pandora's box of sectarian conflicts which could lead to a regional war and the rise of religious extremists who "would make Taliban Afghanistan look like child's play".
U.S. death squads in Iraq are busy little bees: 18 bodies found in Iraq minibus 08 Mar 2006 A US military patrol found 18 bodies in an abandoned minibus in Baghdad early today. The victims had been handcuffed, blindfolded and hanged or shot, police Lieutenant Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.
Cheney: Iran faces 'meaningful consequences' --Vice pResident warns Tehran of pursuing uranium-enriching ambitions 07 Mar 2006 Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice pResident Dick Cheney said Tuesday. [Yes, maybe he can take their leaders hunting with him. Meanwhile, look who's talking about defying the international community? Do the words "irony" and "hypocrite" mean anything to you, DICK?]
Parsippany officials say H.S. mock trial of Bush crossed line Board members blast class project; final 'testimony' to come -- The war crimes "trial" of President Bush in a Parsippany High School classroom is expected to conclude today with additional defense testimony from the student playing Bush, but controversy over the project is continuing. [What "line" is that, the one between cowardice and courage, between lies and the truth? The line that the "officials" are too weak, wimpy and afraid to cross? The one that most weak-kneed Democrats won't cross either, because they are cowards? That line? CROSS AWAY!]
Gag me with a chainsaw! Student says he fears for safety 07 Mar 2006 The Aurora teen says he won't return to Overland High after getting threatened online. The high school sophomore whose recording of a teacher's lecture set off a fiery national debate about classroom speech said Monday that he will not return to Overland High School because he fears for his safety.
Mega barf alert! Governor praises student who taped criticism of Bush 07 Mar 2006 Gov. Bill Owens praised the Overland High School student who taped and then made public a teacher's classroom criticism of President Bush's foreign policy, saying Monday that the teenager has been unfairly targeted for ridicule.
U.S. drawing lots of Mideast oil money 7 Mar 2006 Middle Eastern companies flush with fortunes from last year's oil price increases are buying U.S. and European properties at an accelerating pace.
Tensions Increase Over Delay of a Play 07 Mar 2006 Just a week after a potential production of the controversial British play "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" was delayed at the New York Theater Workshop because of political concerns, the Royal Court Theater in London said it was considering several other offers to take the play to New York.
G.O.P. Leaders Vowing to Block Ports Agreement 08 Mar 2006 Defying President [sic] Bush, House Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would take immediate steps to scuttle a deal giving a Dubai company control of some major seaport operations without awaiting the outcome of a 45-day review of potential security risks.
Bush extends faith-based initiative to Homeland Security 07 Mar 2006 Dictator Bush is extending his faith-based initiative into the Department of Homeland Security. On the eve of his latest visit to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi, Bush has ordered the department which includes FEMA to remove barriers to funding religious relief efforts. [Gee, between Bush's faith-based Homeland Suckyourity and the Dubai ports deal, I feel so much safer already. Actually, Bush is laying the groundwork to facilitate his next terror attack, before his impeachment/treason trial can take root.]
DeLay Claims Victory in Texas Congressional Primary Election 08 Mar 2006 Representative Tom DeLay claimed victory over three Republican primary challengers in his first election since he was indicted and left his post as House majority leader.
New York Puts Mental Patients in Homes Illegally, Groups Say 08 Mar 2006 New York State regularly sends patients from mental hospitals to nursing homes, where it illegally houses hundreds of them without the care they need and often under conditions that approach imprisonment, according to legal groups designated by the state to represent the disabled.
Warning Sounded About Levees 08 Mar 2006 An expert panel monitoring reconstruction of New Orleans's hurricane-protection system warned federal engineers last month about the presence of weak, sandy soils in a newly rebuilt levee, the panel's leader said yesterday, escalating a dispute over the soundness of the government's rebuilding effort.
Industry plan would raise power rates 12% 07 Mar 2006 New Englanders would face electric bill increases of 12 percent for the next four years, and undetermined increases after that, under a plan endorsed late yesterday to 'promote construction of power plants' [maximize windfall profits], officials said.
Bird Flu Spreads in Nigeria, Reaches Oil-Producing Delta Region 08 Mar 2006 Bird flu spread to three more Nigerian states, reaching the oil-producing Delta region where attacks by gunmen on pipelines and export terminals and kidnappings of workers in the past two months disrupted supply. [LOL, looks like the terrorists running Exxon Mobil are poised to blame *bird flu* for their next round of windfall profiteering!] http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
[07 Mar lead stories:] CLG Exclusive: It's Hard Out Here for a Chimp By Leopolds Ghost 06 Mar 2006 Sung to the tune of, It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, by Three 6 Mafia http://www.legitgov.org/its_hard_out_here_for_a_chimp_060306.html
Horowitz admonished by MSNBC host for "call[ing] guests names on the air" (mediamatters.org) Appearing on the March 5 edition of MSNBC News Live to discuss the suspension of Colorado high school teacher Jay Bennish, who linked President Bush and Adolf Hitler during an in-class lecture, host Contessa Brewer admonished right-wing activist David Horowitz for calling Citizens for Legitimate Government founder Michael Rectenwald -- appearing opposite Horowitz -- a "communist," "pro-terrorist," and "a menace." Brewer said: "All right. OK, here's what we're not going to do, is to call guests names on the air." From the March 5 edition of MSNBC News Live:
HOROWITZ: This teacher [Bennish], in this 20-minute rant, also said that the victims of 9-11 deserved their fate. He's much in sympathy -- first of all, let me point out I explicitly said it would be just as wrong to have right-wing views inflicted in this way on high school students as these extremist left-wing views. Rectenwald -- Rectenwald believes that there's been a coup d'etat in the United States, we live under a dictatorship. His website calls for armed revolution --
RECTENWALD: That's not true.
HOROWITZ: This is -- it absolutely does --
RECTENWALD: No, it is not.
HOROWITZ: -- just go up there --
RECTENWALD: It is not true. You know, if you read LegitGov.org you'll see that we --
Most in U.S. Fear Iraq Civil War --Poll Also Finds Growing Doubt About Bush 06 Mar 2006 An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that fighting 'between Sunni and Shiite Muslims' [no, they have united against the illegal U.S. occupation] in Iraq will lead to civil war, and half say the United States should begin withdrawing its forces from Iraq, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
CLGers: Please contribute for March's expenses, thank you! And, thank you to all who have donated previously!!
http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute
Address to receive newsletter:
http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg
Please write to: signup [at] legitgov.org for inquiries. lrp/mdr
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
08 March 2006
http://www.legitgov.org/
All links to articles as summarized below are available here:
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Elite Troops Get Expanded Role on Intelligence 07 Mar 2006 The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops [Bush's death squads] in a growing number of American embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them.
Annan: U.S. forces may be violating international law 07 Mar 2006 U.S.-led coalition [occupation] forces and Iraq's authorities may be violating international law by arbitrarily detaining thousands of people, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report published Tuesday.
Minister says Guantanamo must close to save democracy 08 Mar 2006 The US camp at Guantanamo Bay should be closed before it undermines the cause of democracy worldwide, a Foreign Office minister [Kim Howells] has warned.
US A-G defends Guantanamo Bay 08 Mar 2006 The Attorney-General of the United States has defended Guantanamo Bay, arguing the prison camp is lawful and consistent with the Geneva Convention. In the past week, the British Prime Minister and the head of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, have called for the US detention camp to close.
UK Admits CIA-run Rendition Flights: Report 07 Mar 2006 A British minister admitted that CIA-chartered planes, suspected to have been used to render terror suspects from one country to another, usually where torture is used as an interrogation tool, landed in Britain several times, a leading British newspaper revealed on Tuesday.
Minister admits 'rendition' planes used RAF bases --Government breaks silence on CIA flights --Aircraft landed at Brize Norton and Northholt 07 Mar 2006 The government last night admitted for the first time that aircraft suspected of being used by the CIA to transport detainees to secret interrogation centres had landed at British military airfields.
Republicans aim to legalize Bush's secret spy program 07 Mar 2006 Several moderate Senate Republicans are coalescing around legislation that would give President [sic] Bush's [illegal] domestic surveillance program the force of law, more than four years after the program was secretly initiated.
Senate Republicans block investigation into Bush's eavesdropping 07 Mar 2006 Senate Republicans blocked an investigation into President [sic] Bush's secret domestic spying program on Tuesday, but agreed to expand congressional oversight of the surveillance system in the future.
House approves Patriot Act renewal --Approval sends measure to Bush's desk before deadline 07 Mar 2006 Congress on Tuesday renewed controversial provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the 2001 law passed weeks after [Bush bin Laden's] September 11 attacks. Three provisions of the renewed act would be reviewed in four years; the other provisions are permanent.
C.I.A. Fights Effort by Libby's Lawyers for Bush Briefings 08 Mar 2006 The Central Intelligence Agency objected to producing presidential briefing documents sought by lawyers for the former chief of staff to Vice pResident Dick Cheney, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday in the C.I.A. leak case.
Libby Defense Request Strongly Resisted by CIA 08 Mar 2006 The CIA said in an affidavit released yesterday that meeting the demand of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for copies of highly classified intelligence documents he saw before he was indicted would "impose an enormous burden" and divert its analysts from more important tasks.
US envoy to Iraq: 'We have opened the Pandora's box' --80% of Americans think civil war likely 08 Mar 2006 The US ambassador to Baghdad conceded yesterday that the Iraq invasion had opened a Pandora's box of sectarian conflicts which could lead to a regional war and the rise of religious extremists who "would make Taliban Afghanistan look like child's play".
U.S. death squads in Iraq are busy little bees: 18 bodies found in Iraq minibus 08 Mar 2006 A US military patrol found 18 bodies in an abandoned minibus in Baghdad early today. The victims had been handcuffed, blindfolded and hanged or shot, police Lieutenant Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.
Cheney: Iran faces 'meaningful consequences' --Vice pResident warns Tehran of pursuing uranium-enriching ambitions 07 Mar 2006 Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons and faces "meaningful consequences" if it persists in defying the international community, Vice pResident Dick Cheney said Tuesday. [Yes, maybe he can take their leaders hunting with him. Meanwhile, look who's talking about defying the international community? Do the words "irony" and "hypocrite" mean anything to you, DICK?]
Parsippany officials say H.S. mock trial of Bush crossed line Board members blast class project; final 'testimony' to come -- The war crimes "trial" of President Bush in a Parsippany High School classroom is expected to conclude today with additional defense testimony from the student playing Bush, but controversy over the project is continuing. [What "line" is that, the one between cowardice and courage, between lies and the truth? The line that the "officials" are too weak, wimpy and afraid to cross? The one that most weak-kneed Democrats won't cross either, because they are cowards? That line? CROSS AWAY!]
Gag me with a chainsaw! Student says he fears for safety 07 Mar 2006 The Aurora teen says he won't return to Overland High after getting threatened online. The high school sophomore whose recording of a teacher's lecture set off a fiery national debate about classroom speech said Monday that he will not return to Overland High School because he fears for his safety.
Mega barf alert! Governor praises student who taped criticism of Bush 07 Mar 2006 Gov. Bill Owens praised the Overland High School student who taped and then made public a teacher's classroom criticism of President Bush's foreign policy, saying Monday that the teenager has been unfairly targeted for ridicule.
U.S. drawing lots of Mideast oil money 7 Mar 2006 Middle Eastern companies flush with fortunes from last year's oil price increases are buying U.S. and European properties at an accelerating pace.
Tensions Increase Over Delay of a Play 07 Mar 2006 Just a week after a potential production of the controversial British play "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" was delayed at the New York Theater Workshop because of political concerns, the Royal Court Theater in London said it was considering several other offers to take the play to New York.
G.O.P. Leaders Vowing to Block Ports Agreement 08 Mar 2006 Defying President [sic] Bush, House Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would take immediate steps to scuttle a deal giving a Dubai company control of some major seaport operations without awaiting the outcome of a 45-day review of potential security risks.
Bush extends faith-based initiative to Homeland Security 07 Mar 2006 Dictator Bush is extending his faith-based initiative into the Department of Homeland Security. On the eve of his latest visit to hurricane-ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi, Bush has ordered the department which includes FEMA to remove barriers to funding religious relief efforts. [Gee, between Bush's faith-based Homeland Suckyourity and the Dubai ports deal, I feel so much safer already. Actually, Bush is laying the groundwork to facilitate his next terror attack, before his impeachment/treason trial can take root.]
DeLay Claims Victory in Texas Congressional Primary Election 08 Mar 2006 Representative Tom DeLay claimed victory over three Republican primary challengers in his first election since he was indicted and left his post as House majority leader.
New York Puts Mental Patients in Homes Illegally, Groups Say 08 Mar 2006 New York State regularly sends patients from mental hospitals to nursing homes, where it illegally houses hundreds of them without the care they need and often under conditions that approach imprisonment, according to legal groups designated by the state to represent the disabled.
Warning Sounded About Levees 08 Mar 2006 An expert panel monitoring reconstruction of New Orleans's hurricane-protection system warned federal engineers last month about the presence of weak, sandy soils in a newly rebuilt levee, the panel's leader said yesterday, escalating a dispute over the soundness of the government's rebuilding effort.
Industry plan would raise power rates 12% 07 Mar 2006 New Englanders would face electric bill increases of 12 percent for the next four years, and undetermined increases after that, under a plan endorsed late yesterday to 'promote construction of power plants' [maximize windfall profits], officials said.
Bird Flu Spreads in Nigeria, Reaches Oil-Producing Delta Region 08 Mar 2006 Bird flu spread to three more Nigerian states, reaching the oil-producing Delta region where attacks by gunmen on pipelines and export terminals and kidnappings of workers in the past two months disrupted supply. [LOL, looks like the terrorists running Exxon Mobil are poised to blame *bird flu* for their next round of windfall profiteering!] http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html
[07 Mar lead stories:] CLG Exclusive: It's Hard Out Here for a Chimp By Leopolds Ghost 06 Mar 2006 Sung to the tune of, It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, by Three 6 Mafia http://www.legitgov.org/its_hard_out_here_for_a_chimp_060306.html
Horowitz admonished by MSNBC host for "call[ing] guests names on the air" (mediamatters.org) Appearing on the March 5 edition of MSNBC News Live to discuss the suspension of Colorado high school teacher Jay Bennish, who linked President Bush and Adolf Hitler during an in-class lecture, host Contessa Brewer admonished right-wing activist David Horowitz for calling Citizens for Legitimate Government founder Michael Rectenwald -- appearing opposite Horowitz -- a "communist," "pro-terrorist," and "a menace." Brewer said: "All right. OK, here's what we're not going to do, is to call guests names on the air." From the March 5 edition of MSNBC News Live:
HOROWITZ: This teacher [Bennish], in this 20-minute rant, also said that the victims of 9-11 deserved their fate. He's much in sympathy -- first of all, let me point out I explicitly said it would be just as wrong to have right-wing views inflicted in this way on high school students as these extremist left-wing views. Rectenwald -- Rectenwald believes that there's been a coup d'etat in the United States, we live under a dictatorship. His website calls for armed revolution --
RECTENWALD: That's not true.
HOROWITZ: This is -- it absolutely does --
RECTENWALD: No, it is not.
HOROWITZ: -- just go up there --
RECTENWALD: It is not true. You know, if you read LegitGov.org you'll see that we --
Most in U.S. Fear Iraq Civil War --Poll Also Finds Growing Doubt About Bush 06 Mar 2006 An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that fighting 'between Sunni and Shiite Muslims' [no, they have united against the illegal U.S. occupation] in Iraq will lead to civil war, and half say the United States should begin withdrawing its forces from Iraq, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.
CLGers: Please contribute for March's expenses, thank you! And, thank you to all who have donated previously!!
http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute
Address to receive newsletter:
http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg
Please write to: signup [at] legitgov.org for inquiries. lrp/mdr
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