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"Black Elk" |
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02 Jan 2006 10:44:13 AM |
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George W. Bush = Richard Nixon redux. |
The neo-fascists have went on the offensive with their probe of
whistleblowers. Rather than protecting whistleblowers who have exposed
criminal activity they're on a witch hunt to prosecute them for their
patriotic actions.
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Justice Probe of Spy Leak Could Shield Bush
President gives self excuse not to talk about wiretaps
by James Ridgeway
December 30th, 2005 5:16 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.-President Bush's announcement Friday, that the Justice
Department would begin an investigation into the leak that brought forth his
probably illegal domestic spying project, is clearly political and meant to
insulate the White House and intelligence agencies from further public
scrutiny by saying they are the subject of a criminal investigation.
It will be up to Congress to undertake a serious investigation, issuing its
own subpoenas, and calling the major participants to testify.
Even as he sought to gain advantage from the spy leak, Bush was faced with a
series of new and unsettling events tied to intelligence and foreign policy.
The Associated Press revealed the National Security Agency had been placing
Internet cookies in millions of computers owned by U.S. citizens. After
inquiries by the Associated Press and privacy activists, the NSA claims it
abandoned this part of the domestic spying project. The AP reported, "The
National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors'
computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal
rules banning most files of that type."
The UN is investigating charges the U.S. is force feeding prisoners on a
hunger strike at Guantanamo, by ramming pipes through the nose and down into
the stomach, resulting in serious bleeding. The Pentagon denies it. "In a
statement, the army said it was providing appropriate nutrition through
nasal tubes, a procedure that would be consistent with force feeding," BBC
reports.
John Dean, President Richard Nixon's former counsel and one of the most
persistent critics of the Bush administration's handling of 9-11 and the War
on Terror, writes that Bush should be impeached for his admitted direct
violation of the constitution. "There can be no serious question that
warrantless wiretapping, in violation of the law, is impeachable," writes
Dean in Findlaw. "After all, Nixon was charged in Article II of his bill of
impeachment with illegal wiretapping for what he, too, claimed were national
security reasons."
Bush, says Dean, "may have outdone Nixon: Nixon's illegal surveillance was
limited; Bush's, it is developing, may be extraordinarily broad in scope.
First reports indicated that NSA was only monitoring foreign calls,
originating either in the USA or abroad, and that no more than 500 calls
were being covered at any given time. But later reports have suggested that
NSA is 'data mining' literally millions of calls-and has been given access
by the telecommunications companies to 'switching' stations through which
foreign communications traffic flows. In sum, this is big-time, Big Brother
electronic surveillance."
As for Bush's criminal investigation into the leak, Dean says, "Such a
criminal investigation is rather ironic-for the leak's effect was to reveal
Bush's own offense. Having been ferreted out as a criminal, Bush now will
try to ferret out the leakers who revealed him."
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the best thing that had ever happened to the German financial elite from a
strictly business point of view.
"The Splendid Blond Beast", Christopher Simpson
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| User: "catfish" |
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| Title: Re: George W. Bush = Richard Nixon redux. |
02 Jan 2006 11:06:44 AM |
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Typical neo-con hypocrisy. Notice these same people stalled, hemmed &
hawed, & eventually stone-walled when Karl Rove & Bob (Douchebag)
Novack outed a CIA agent as an act of political revenge.
Disgusting...
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| User: "Beacon of Truth and Light \maybe" |
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| Title: Re: George W. Bush = Richard Nixon redux. |
02 Jan 2006 09:19:22 PM |
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"catfish" <beauregard_t_catfish@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1136221604.461645.49090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
Typical neo-con hypocrisy. Notice these same people stalled, hemmed &
hawed, & eventually stone-walled when Karl Rove & Bob (Douchebag)
Novack outed a CIA agent as an act of political revenge.
Disgusting...
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Yes. Utterly vomit-inducing. These fuckers are just going to push it as far
as they can get away with.
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| User: "Cameron L. Spitzer" |
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| Title: Re: George W. Bush = Richard Nixon redux. |
03 Jan 2006 01:32:23 PM |
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In article <_2muf.67392$7p5.31818@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Beacon of Truth and Light (maybe) wrote:
"catfish" <beauregard_t_catfish@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1136221604.461645.49090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
Typical neo-con hypocrisy. Notice these same people stalled, hemmed &
hawed, & eventually stone-walled when Karl Rove & Bob (Douchebag)
Novack outed a CIA agent as an act of political revenge.
Disgusting...
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Yes. Utterly vomit-inducing. These fuckers are just going to push it as far
as they can get away with.
Let's give credit where credit is due. Nixon got reelected,
in part because the corporate lapdog media refused to
report what they knew about him before the election.
That is, he was being treated with powerful psychotropics for
his paranoid schizophrenia and he was a raving alcoholic.
Nixon's mental problems were an open secret in DC, but
the news was withheld from the public.
(Katherine Graham explained they always do that, out of respect
for "the office." She compared it to JFK's philandering,
which was also well known but not reported.)
Eventually his associates started writing their memoirs.
The _New York Times_ sat on the Bush illegal domestic spying
story for a year, and Bush got reelected, sort of.
Ask any psychiatrist to speculate on Bush's condition, based
only on what we observe of his behavior. Bush *admits* God
speaks to him through voices in his head, and he believes he
is above the law, including the Constitution. What else do
you suppose the press corps knows about GWB that
they're not telling us? When does it become newsworthy
that the President is mentally ill?
Cameron
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