Congress candidate calls for arrest of Bush & other news clips

[Guest guest]

MEDIA -- MURDOCH'S NEW YORK POST MOCKS OLBERMANN FOR RECEIVING ENVELOPE WITH

WHITE POWDER: In 2001, the New York Post received a " so-called 'anthrax

letter,' " " _infecting three staffers_

(http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=198356873 & url_num=73 & url=htt\

p://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/a

rticle_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003187334) , who all recovered. " Five

years later, the paper is deriding MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for taking

precautions after he received an envelope containing white powder. The envelope

contained a letter telling Olbermann " that it was _payback_

(http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=198356873 & url_num=74 & url=htt\

p://www.nypost.com/seven

/09272006/gossip/pagesix/powder_puff_spooks_keith_pagesix_.htm) for some of

his on-air shtick. "

 

 

 

Vermont Congress candidate calls on Pentagon to arrest Bush, Cheney Former

Army Lieutenant and candidate for Congress in Vermont, Dennis Morrisseau,

today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney by the

American military " if necessary " to prevent an unauthorized attack upon the

nation of Iran.

The antiwar Vietnam vet is a Republican, but he has won approval from the

State of Vermont to run on the ballot line “Impeach Bush Now,†rather than

Democrat or Republican.

" American forces are apparently already active inside Iran, and Naval forces

have received orders to deploy to that country, " Morrisseau said. " The

President has NO AUTHORITY to attack the nation of Iran whatsoever, in the

absence

of a full, formal Declaration of War on Iran by the sitting Congress. "

Morrisseau said any order for an attack upon Iran or to deploy naval forces

to its coastal waters is illegal, and called upon officers of the American

military to " First, refuse to obey such an order. If the president persists and

insists on ordering our forces into combat in or over Iran without a formal

Declaration of War, then I call upon you, General Pace, as Chairman of the

Joint Chiefs, and upon such other military officers as clearly see their duty

in

these circumstances to detain both the President and Vice President, until

such time as the Congress shall act. " continued at

_http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14316_

(http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14316)

 

Congress Says Yes to Torture, Expands Presidential Power The

legislation authorizes the president to order torture and abusive, humiliating

treatment; permits indefinite detention of human beings without safeguards

recognized

as essential by U.S. law and treaty obligations; and transfers significant

congressional power to the president. This legislation is morally

reprehensible. It eliminates protections that go back more than 800 years,

since the time

of the Magna Carta. Despite the flood of citizen messages and volumes of

expert testimony and opinion, the House approved the Military Commissions Act

of

2006 by a vote of 253 to 168 on Wednesday and the Senate approved the same

legislation Thursday.

(Shuster votes yes, check on your representatives here

 

 

 

Why Retired Military Brass Don't Want Torture

September 24, 2006, Los Angeles Times

_http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-kaiser24sep24,1,326876

..story_

(http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-kaiser24sep24,1,326876.s\

tory)

 

 

 

For all 43 retired generals and admirals, it was a combination of moral

outrage and deep disgust over President Bush's proposed legislation on

interrogating terrorist suspects that propelled them. The retired officers

believe

that the negative consequences of the president's anti-terror policies could

have been avoided if the administration had followed traditional military

practices. No higher-ups were prosecuted for the abuses uncovered at Abu Ghraib

and

elsewhere.

for Oil Leases

September 21, 2006, New York Times

_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/business/21royalty.html_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/business/21royalty.html?ex=1316491200 & en=3f1c\

0af75951e40a & ei=

5090 & partner=rssuserland & emc=rss)

Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal

property say the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover

millions

of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government. The

auditors contend that they were blocked by their bosses from pursuing more than

$30

million in fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil produced in publicly

owned waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuits have surfaced as Democrats

and Republicans alike are questioning the Bush administration’s willingness

to challenge the oil and gas industry. The new accusations surfaced just one

week after the Interior Department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, told

a House subcommittee that “short of crime, anything goes†at the top levels

of the Interior Department. In another clash, frustrated federal auditors

have complained that the Interior Department no longer allows them to subpoena

documents from oil companies. Agency officials acknowledged that they have not

issued any subpoenas in the last three years.

Voting machines put U.S. democracy at risk

September 20, 2006, CNN News

_http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/19/Dobbs.Sept20/index.html_

(http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/19/Dobbs.Sept20/index.html)

There is little assurance your vote will count. As we've been reporting

almost nightly...for more than a year, electronic voting machines are placing

our

democracy at risk. These machines time and again have been demonstrated to

be extremely vulnerable to tampering and error, and many of them have no

voter-verified paper trail. Only 27 states have laws requiring the use of

voter-verified paper trails. 15 states [have] no mandated requirements for

safeguarding your vote. During the 2004 presidential election, one voting

machine...added nearly 3,900 additional votes to Bush's total. Officials caught

the

machine's error because only 638 voters cast presidential ballots at that

precinct, but in a heavily populated district, can we really be sure the votes

will

be counted correctly? [in] the May primary election in Cuyahoga County,

Ohio...the electronic voting machines' four sources of vote totals --

individual

ballots, paper trail summary, election archives and memory cards -- didn't even

match up. The report concluded that relying on the current system for

Cuyahoga County's more than 1.3 million people should be viewed as " a

calculated

risk. " Are we really willing to risk our democracy? A 2005 Government

Accountability Office report on electronic voting confirmed the worst fears of

watchdog groups and election officials. " There is evidence that some of these

concerns have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections,

resulting in the loss and miscount of votes. " That is simply unacceptable.

Congress

and the White House need to immediately take steps to assure the integrity of

electronic voting with paper trails that could be audited in any recount.

Note: For lots more reliable, verifiable information on the various aspects

of the elections cover-up, see

_http://www.wanttoknow.info/electionsinformation_

(http://www.wanttoknow.info/electionsinformation)

CIA agents 'refused to operate' at secret jails

September 20, 2006, MSNBC/Financial Times

_http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14927851_ (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14927851/)

The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror

suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in

part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations

and run the secret facilities. When Mr Bush announced the suspension of the

secret prison programme in a speech before the fifth anniversary of the

September 11 terror attacks, some analysts thought he was trying to gain

political

momentum before the November midterm congressional elections. Former CIA

officials said Mr Bush's hand was forced because interrogators had refused to

continue their work until the legal situation was clarified because they were

concerned they could be prosecuted for using illegal techniques. One

intelligence source also said the CIA had refused to keep the secret prisons

going.

Getting closer to Uncle Sam

September 20, 2006, Toronto Star (One of Canada's leading newspapers)

_http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer[clip]_

(http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_\

Type1 & c=Article & cid=1

158702613986 & call_pageid=968256290204 & col=968350116795)

Public kept in dark as business leads talks about North American

integration. Away from the spotlight, from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs,

Minister of

Public Safety Stockwell Day and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with

U.S. and Mexican government officials and business leaders to discuss North

American integration at the second North American Forum. Our

government...refuses to release any information about the content of the

discussions or the

actors involved. The event was organized by the Canadian Council of Chief

Executives.... The media have paid little attention to this far-reaching

agreement, so Canadians are unaware that a dozen working groups are currently

" harmonizing " Canadian and U.S. regulations on everything from food to drugs to

the

environment and even more contentious issues like foreign policy. Note: For a

second article discussing this secret meeting on a top Canadian TV website,

_click here_

(http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/09/21/secret-meeting.html) . To

learn about other secret meetings of the power elite:

_http://www.WantToKnow.info/051115secretsocietiesbilderberg_

(http://www.wanttoknow.info/051115secretsocietiesbilderberg)

U.S. War Prisons Legal Vacuum for 14,000

September 17, 2006, ABC News/Associated Press

_http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2456625_

(http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2456625)

The U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons...keeping

14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law. Disclosures of torture

and long-term arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices

including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. Tens of

thousands

now have passed through U.S. detention. Many say they were caught up in U.S.

military sweeps, often interrogated around the clock, then released months

or years later without apology, compensation or any word on why they were

taken. Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were " mistakes, "

U.S.

officers once told the international Red Cross. The detention system often

is unjust and hurts the war on terror by inflaming anti-Americanism in Iraq

and elsewhere. The U.S. government has contended it can hold detainees until

the " war on terror " ends. [inmates] have been held without charge for three to

four years. [Guantanamo's] population today...stands at 455. Only 10 of the

Guantanamo inmates have been charged with crimes. In only 14 of 34 cases has

anyone been punished for the confirmed or suspected killings of detainees. The

stiffest sentence in a torture-related death has been five months in jail.

Press Conference of the President

September 15, 2006, Official White House Website

_http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-2.html_

(http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060915-2.html)

The information that the Central Intelligence Agency has obtained by

questioning men like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has provided valuable information

and has

helped disrupt terrorist plots, including strikes within the United States.

For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks

of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them

out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility

to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed

to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high

enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.

Note: What exactly did he mean by explosives going off in the planned

attacks of building inside the U.S.? And wouldn't you want to hit low to keep

more

people trapped above

 

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The Big Buy - Tom Delay's Stolen Congress: Video:

 

The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress is the story of one of the most

blatant power grabs in American history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13803.htm

 

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Sibel Edmonds & Bill Weaver: The 9/11 Commission: A Play on Nothing in Three

Acts :

 

On the Fifth anniversary of the September Eleven Terror Attacks, we, the

National Security Whistleblowers, want to go on record one more time to

reiterate the significant issues and cases that were duly reported to the 9/11

commission by those of us from the Intelligence, Aviation, and Law Enforcement

communities, but ended up being censored and omitted.

http://www.nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/NSWBC-911Comm.htm