[cia-drugs] The Big Disconnect - PAUL KRUGMAN Noam Chomsky +
The Big Disconnect - PAUL KRUGMAN Noam Chomsky + by PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Friday Sep 1st, 2006 6:14 AM Krugman: Big Disconnect - Krugman on the disconnect between pundits lectures on the economy and the experience of typical families. - PLUS: Their view of the world is through a bombsight - Noam Chomsky - PlUS: Rendezvous With Oblivion, by THOMAS FRANK and more OP-ED COLUMNIST The Big Disconnect By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 1, 2006 Why have workers done so badly in a rich nation that keeps getting richer? There are still some pundits out there lecturing people about how great the economy is. But most analysts seem to finally realize that Americans have good reasons to be unhappy with the state of the economy: although G.D.P. growth has been pretty good for the last few years, most workers have seen their wages lag behind inflation and their benefits deteriorate. The disconnect between overall economic growth and the growing squeeze on many working Americans will probably play a big role this November, partly because President Bush seems so out of touch: the more he insists that its a great economy, the angrier voters seem to get. But the disconnect didnt begin with Mr. Bush, and it wont end with him, unless we have a major change in policies. The stagnation of real wages ... Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/11917607.html Their view of the world is through a bombsight - Noam Chomsky http://mparent.livejournal.com/11916564.html Nightmare Mortgages http://mparent.livejournal.com/11915773.html FBI searches offices of Alaska lawmakers http://mparent.livejournal.com/11914528.html And More Coming Up on Today's Newswire http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/09/01/ Such as: GUEST COLUMNIST Rendezvous With Oblivion By THOMAS FRANK Published: September 1, 2006 Everything I have written about in this space points to the same conclusion: Democratic leaders must learn to talk about class issues again. --- Frank, the author of Whats the Matter with Kansas, is proving to be a very insightful and articulate observer of our ever-more wobbly world in the 21st century. http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/09/01/ MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] VICTORIES from Salt Lake to OHIO They Can Never Steal OUR FREEDOM
Yeah Marsha here's some more good news, My very old friend Dr. Richard Hayes Phillips and your's truly with GREAT AMOUNTS of Help and Solidarity from Tens of Thousands of People ARE DIGGING REAL HARD to expose the VOTE Manipulations and FRAUDS of 2000 and 2004 in Florida and Ohio. TOGETHER in Solidarity FREEDOM will always WIN as Long as those who LOVE FREEDOM stick TOGETHER.PeaceJudson Witham Son Of Swamp FoxMarsha MCClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salt Lake City Mayor gets down on corrupt administration...Please forwardhttp://kutv.com/video/?id=18850@kutv.dayport.comhttp://kutv.com/video/?id=18850@kutv.dayport.comjudson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filing A Law suite and making the ballots an issue REQUIRES they be preserved. Even if the litigation is LOST the Ballots are EVIDENCE in the mean while ! The Violations I see are Constitutional as VOTE Tampering and Nullification through Criminal Tampering deprives Legal Voters of Having their Votes ACCURATELY and HONESTLY Counted .
In my understanding Ballot Tampering, Destruction or Padding would deny the Common Law Rights of people to have their Votes ACCURATELY and Honestly Counted, and anything less would be to DEPRIVE a Citizen of their LAWFUL RIGHTS TO VOTE at Common Law. Said being a deprivation of Fundemental Civil Liberty violating the US Constitutional Guarantee of Equal Protection and Due Process. You see VOTING is a 1st Amendment Issue. I realise there may need to be some NEW GROUND PLOWED, but this Vote Rigging SHIT has got to be STOPPED. The Universal Declaration On Human Rights is the Standard as Follows :Article 21.(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country,
directly or through freely chosen representatives.(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. NOTE: Genuine Elections DOES NOT MEAN Rigged or TAMPERED Ohio delays destroying 2004 ballots By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press Writer 2 hours,
55 minutes ago COLUMBUS, Ohio - Secretary of State Ken Blackwell said he will do what he can to keep ballots from the contentious 2004 presidential election beyond their scheduled destruction date in response to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. In an Aug. 23 letter to Blackwell, voting-rights attorney Cliff Arnebeck asked Blackwell to preserve the ballots in connection with the legal action. He said the individuals and public interest groups he represents have found irregularities and anomalies among the ballots they have reviewed so far, and they want to keep digging. Federal law says the secretary of state's office is required to keep ballots for 22 months following a federal election.Arnebeck's sweeping lawsuit accuses Blackwell of violating state and federal laws and the U.S. Constitution by "inequitably distributing voting
resources, suppressing votes, and spoiling ballots" in 2004, the letter said.Last year, Arnebeck dropped a similar challenge to Ohio's 2004 election results after Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Moyer called the evidence "woefully inadequate."Blackwell, a Republican now running for governor, has drawn criticism for his oversight of the 2004 election in which President Bush prevailed over Democrat John Kerry by 118,000 votes and his simultaneous
honorary role on Bush's re-election committee.He has already supported a thorough examination of the ballots by election officials, outside groups and members of the press, and will not interfere with the group's review, said spokesman James Lee.Lee emphasized, however, that county elections boards have the final say regarding what happens to the records."The ballots were counted, and they were re-counted, the Los Angeles Times even came into Cuyahoga County and made photocopies of all the ballots," he said. "If this group wants to look at the ballots yet again then they can do that, but most everyone in the state Democrats and Republicans have moved on and know that the results of the 2004 presidential election are legitimate."Lee said that the lawsuit is based on a faulty understanding of Blackwell's statutory duties as the state elections
chief."Anyone who is objectively looking at the election system in Ohio knows that we have a bipartisan voting system that is run primarily at the county level, that bipartisan boards determined whether to place individual voting machines," he said. "It's amazing that there are still those conspiracy theorists out there who refuse to accept the facts." Judson Witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ("one person-one vote" rule), see 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections § 10 Factually Citing Legal Standing
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Goats and Hussars
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 1, 2006 12:03:55 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Goats and HussarsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083106A.shtmlGoats and Hussars: A British Harbinger of American DefeatBy Chris Floyd, TO UK Correspondantt r u t h o u t | Perspective Thursday 31 August 2006Don Rumsfeld is fond of historical analogies when pontificating about Iraq; he particularly favors comparisons to the Nazi era and the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II. Unfortunately, any historian will tell you that Rummy's parallels are invariably false, even ludicrous. So we thought we'd give the beleaguered Pentagon warlord a more accurate and telling analogy to chew on.Try this one, Don. Imagine that British occupation troops in, say, Hanover, had been forced to abandon a major base, under fire, and retreat into guerrilla operations in the Black Forest - in 1948, three years after the fall of the Nazi regime. And that as soon as the Brits made their undignified bug-out, the base had been devoured by looters while the local, Allies-backed authorities simply melted away and an extremist, virulently anti-Western militia moved into the power vacuum.What would they have called that, Don? "Measurable progress on the road to democracy?" "Another achieved metric of our highly successful post-war plan?" Or would they have said, back in those more plain-spoken, Harry Truman days, that it was "a major defeat, a humiliating strategic reversal, foreshadowing a far greater disaster?"You'd have to wait a long time - perhaps to the end of the "Long War" - to get a straight answer from Rumsfeld on that one, but this precise scenario, transposed from Lower Saxony to Maysan province, unfolded in Iraq last week, when British forces abandoned their base at Abu Naji and disappeared into the desert wastes and marshes along the Iranian border. The move was largely ignored by the American media, but the implications are enormous. The UK contingent of the invading coalition has always been the proverbial canary in the mine shaft: if they can't make a go of things in what we've long been told is the "secure south," where friendly Shiites hold absolute sway, then the entire misbegotten Bush-Blair enterprise is well and truly FUBAR.The Queen's Royal Hussars, 1,200-strong, abruptly decamped from the three-year-old base last Thursday after taking constant mortar and missile fire for months from those same friendly Shiites. The move was touted as part of a long-planned, eventual turnover of security in the region to the Coalition-backed Iraqi central government, but there was just one problem: the Brits forgot to tell the Iraqis they were checking out early - and in a hurry."British forces evacuated the military headquarters without coordination with the Iraqi forces," Dhaffar Jabbar, spokesman for the Maysan governor, told Reuters on Thursday, as looters began moving into the camp in the wake of the British withdrawal. A unit of Iraqi government troops mutinied when told to keep order at the base - and instead attacked a military post of their own army. By Friday, the locals had torn the place to pieces, carting away more than $500,000 worth of equipment and fixtures that the British had left behind. After that initial, ineffectual show of force, the Iraqi "authorities" stepped aside and watched helplessly as the looters taunted them and cheered the "great victory" over the Western invaders.The largely notional - if not fictional - power of the Baghdad central government simply vanished while the forces of hardline cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which already controls the local government, stepped forward to proclaim its triumph and guide the victory celebrations in the nearby provincial capital, Amarah. "This is the first city that has kicked out the occupier!" blared Sadr-supplied loudspeakers to streets filled with revelers, as the Washington Post noted in a solid - but deeply buried - story on the retreat.British officials were understandably a bit sniffy about the humiliation. First, they denied there was any problem with the handover at all: the Iraqis had been notified (a whole 24 hours in advance, apparently), the exchange of authority was brisk and efficient, and the Iraqis had "secured the base," military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge insisted to AP. But when reports of the looting at Abu Naji began pouring in, British officers simply washed their hands of the nasty business. The camp was now "the property of the Maysan authorities and Iraqi Forces [are] in attendance," said Burbridge; therefore, Her Majesty's military would have no more comment on the matter. In this casual - not to mention callous - dismissal of the chaos spawned in wake of the Hussars' departure, we can see in miniature the philosophy now being writ large across the country in the Bush administration's "Iraqization" policy: "We broke it; you fix it."And where are Her
[cia-drugs] Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME
Censored 2006 : The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored) (Paperback) will appear from Project Censored in September. It will contain my article, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps" (2/08/06), together with this brief Preface. KBR DETENTION CAMPS: PREFACE The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a ten-year Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists." In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called "Continuity of Government" (COG) in the event of a nuclear disaster. At the time, Cheney was a Wyoming congressman, while Rumsfeld, who had been defense secretary under President Ford, was a businessman and CEO of the drug company G.D. Searle. [1] These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any "national security emergency," which they defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: "Any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States." Clearly 9/11 would meet this definition, and did, for COG was instituted on that day. As the Washington Post later explained, the order "dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans." [2] What the managers in this shadow government worked on has never been reported. But it is significant that the group that prepared ENDGAME was, as the Homeland Security document puts it, "chartered in September 2001." [3] For ENDGAME's goal of a capacious detention capability is remarkably similar to Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" for COG in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States. [4] [1] James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 70-74. [2] "Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret," Washington Post, 3/1/02. [3] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), "ENDGAME: Office of Detention and Removal Strategic Plan, 2003 - 2012 -- Detention and Removal Strategy for a Secure Homeland;" http://www.ice.gov/graphics/dro/endgame.pdf. (As of this writing, the ENDGAME Strategic Plan is no longer posted on the Internet.) Cf. Peter Dale Scott, "10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals >From Oliver North," Pacific News Service, 2/21/06. [4] Alfonzo Chardy, Miami Herald, 7/5/87. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/kbrpref.html --- Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps News Analysis/Commentary, Peter Dale Scott,New America Media, Feb 08, 2006 Editor's Note: A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says.BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.For those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North's controversial Rex-84 "readiness exercise" in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the Mexican border into the United States. North's activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The concerns persist."Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the
[cia-drugs] Re: ***Christopher Bollyn attacks continued by wing tv***
I'll make a little prediction: Mike Piper will be vindicated. Chris Bollyn will realize he is being deceived. The rotten apple in this barrel is Hufschmid. Wing TV is inconsequential. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Marsha MCClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Arlene...Would you mind dropping Michael Piper a note telling him how you feel about wing...And everyone be sure to hear The Piper report 8-31 as a guy named Solomon puts wing in their placehttp://mp3.rbnlive.com/Piper/0608/20060830_Wed_Piper.m3u ~ From: Marsha MCClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Subject: Re: ***Christopher Bollyn attacks continued by wing tv***To: Michael Collins Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] No...I believe you're one of the good guys, Michael...It's just your luck that wing tv dragged you into this...It'll be okay and work out...It always does...Everything happens for reasons, you know...Something good is bound to come out of all this I really tried not to believe Lias and Victor anything but heros...Really...I idolized her prior to learning who and what she really is...So did Judy Andreas who's a new friend of mineLisa was suppossed to be a friend of hers but cruelly betrayed her as the rule for almost everyone she chooses, trying to spread truth I could gather quite a list because when I do one of my provoked attacks of truth on wing, there's lots of feed back with those having their own stories of what wing did to them It's a long story but mine will convince you Lisa is a bad person and Victor is right behind her...I could never tell you in a brief manner all she did to me...Or tried to...I kicked her butt and her own people at her forum are witness...She banned me as soon as one of her own...A guy I wrote about, his name was actually Guy, too...A friend of hers who spoke up for me, questioning her...and boom...I'm banned Then it got serious in public forum A very long story but as soon as I can I'll hunt through our forum for the detailed emails to short cut having to write from recollection and boreing you I proved her the villian she tried to make me out to be Chin up Michael...This will pass soon...But please don't give up on Christopher...Try to see through his eyesand forgive his being hard on you And for God's sake...Ditch the two losers because in your heart you know the truth...They are going down and you don't want to be in association with them when they do...Do you? Sincerely, Marsha I Michael Collins Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume it is also your view that I am a Zionist agent working with Wing TV to destroy Christopher Bollyn. Is that why I gave Chrstopher three weeks as the guest host on my program---my decision, nobody else's--and even suggested that he have Eric Hufschmid as a co-host (even though I was becoming aware that Eric was suggesting, falsely, that AFP was suppressing Christopher's writings, which AFP was not)? Here's mine From: Marsha MCClelland [EMAIL PROTECTED] View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert Subject: Re: ***Christopher Bollyn attacks continued by wing tv***To: Michael Collins Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [input] [input] [input] [input] No...I believe you're one of the good guys, Michael...It's just your luck that wing tv dragged you into this...It'll be okay and work out...It always does...Everything happens for reasons, you know...Something good is bound to come out of all this I really tried not to believe Lias and Victor anything but heros...Really...I idolized her prior to learning who and what she really is...So did Judy Andreas who's a new friend of mineLisa was suppossed to be a friend of hers but cruelly betrayed her as the rule for almost everyone she chooses, trying to spread truth I could gather quite a list because when I do one of my provoked attacks of truth on wing, there's lots of feed back with those having their own stories of what wing did to them It's a long story but mine will convince you Lisa is a bad person and Victor is right behind her...I could never tell you in a brief manner all she did to me...Or tried to...I kicked her butt and her own people at her forum are witness...She banned me as soon as one of her own...A guy I wrote about, his name was actually Guy, too...A friend of hers who spoke up for me, questioning her...and boom...I'm banned Then it got serious in public forum A very long story but as soon as I can I'll hunt through our forum for the detailed emails to short cut having to write from recollection and boreing you I proved her the villian she tried to make me out to be Chin up Michael...This will pass soon...But please don't give up on Christopher...Try to
[cia-drugs] Supreme Court Strikes Fear: Reprimanded by the Supreme Court, the Bush administration rushes to evade punishment
Supreme Court Strikes FearReprimanded by the Supreme Court, the Bush administration rushes to evade punishment by Nat HentoffAugust 20th, 2006 11:26 AM International-human-rights lawyer Scott Horton, upsetting Bush's three-card-monte game http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0634/hentoff.jpg The interrogations of prisoners now condemned by the Supreme Court were ordered by policy makers at the highest levels of the administration—who could be prosecuted under the U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996. Scott Horton, chairman of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on International Law and adjunct professor, Columbia Law School In June, the Supreme Court ( Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) placed commander in chief Bush and the top of his policy-making chain of command in jeopardy for the treatment of their suspected-terrorist prisoners in Guantánamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan and elsewhere. So much has happened since June—the Middle East war, the civil war in Iraq, and the plot to blow up multiple U.S.-bound passenger planes—that most Americans have only a hazy idea of this Supreme Court decision that blew up the administration's grand strategy for extracting information from its prisoners around the world by any means necessary. But quietly, in fear of that ruling, the administration has drafted two changes—in the War Crimes Act and in our treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions—to foreclose any prosecutions of the Bush high command. The goal is to get these amendments passed by the Republican-controlled Congress before the midterm elections that could put the Democrats in control of the Senate or otherwise significantly increase their power in Congress as a whole. Says Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice: "This bill can . . . in effect immunize past crimes. That's why it's so dangerous." As Fidell also told the Associated Press, the intent is "not just protection of [high-level] political appointees but also CIA personnel who led interrogations"—including in their secret prisons. Here, specifically, is how the Bush high command is trying to escape the consequences of the Supreme Court's stinging reprimand. One proposed amendment would forbid any prisoner to use the Geneva Conventions as a source of rights in any American court. But—as National Public Radio's Ari Shapiro points out—the administration's lawyers claim that this restriction "does not affect the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions." Huh? I'd like to see White House press secretary Tony Snow handle that yo-yo if anyone in the White House press corps knows enough to ask the question. The second amendment the Bush team wants Congress to push through would change our War Crimes Act, which calls for the prosecution in our civilian courts of those who commit war crimes. The amendment would exclude from prosecution those who've violated a section in the War Crimes Act that references this language from Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting "at any time and in any place whatsoever . . . outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment." (This would also expunge the much publicized language of the McCain Amendment to the Detention Treatment Act of 2005.) International-human-rights lawyer Scott Horton—to whom military lawyers at Guantánamo went early on to protest the administration's rigged interrogation rules there—told me: "This amendment would continue to allow waterboarding, hypothermia [subjecting prisoners to freezing temperatures], and other severe sufferings that have also led to deaths of prisoners. These amendments are part of a fog machine to keep the policy makers safe from prosecution." Furthermore, indicating the boundless duplicity of this administration, the amendment to the War Crimes Act—bypassing the abuses forbidden by that law, the Geneva Conventions, and now the Supreme Court of the United States—excuses any of these crimes that have been committed since September 11, 2001! Anyone who has ordered or perpetrated "humiliating and degrading" treatment since then gets off scot-free. All the official lawlessness since 9-11—now even overruling a Supreme Court decision—makes chilling a recent, little-publicized speech by Justice Anthony Kennedy on August 5 before the American Bar Association: "The rule of law must be binding on all government officials; it must respect the dignity, equality, and human rights of every person, and it must guarantee people the right to enforce the law without fear of retaliation." If these administration amendments—mocking the American rule of law—are passed by Congress and, of course, signed by this president, who believes he is the law, they will be fought in court by a host of constitutional lawyers, including Scott Horton. When the case gets to the Supreme Court, I hope Justice Anthony Kennedy remembers
[cia-drugs] George Bush: Recidivist - A judge who came out of the civil rights movement teaches Bush the Constitution
George Bush: RecidivistA judge who came out of the civil rights movement teaches Bush the Constitution. by Nat HentoffAugust 26th, 2006 5:38 PM Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor: An unintimidated American. http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0635/hentoff.jpg Public interest is clear in this matter. It is the upholding of the Constitution. . . . It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control. —U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, August 17, declaring unconstitutional the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance—authorized illegally by George W. Bush Ruling for the terrorists —Headline , lead editorial, New York Sun, ridiculing Judge Taylor's ruling, the first on the constitutionality of Bush's "terrorist surveillance program," August 18 The American people are suddenly less safe today—thanks to a presumptive and overtly political ruling by a left-wing Michigan federal jurist. "Jihad's Courtroom Win," New York Post, August 18 On December 16, 2005, New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau broke a front-page story, "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts," that won them a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting—and an investigation by the Justice Department for possible unlawful releasing of classified information that may ultimately include charges of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. (The president had urged the Times not to publish the story, and condemned its appearance.) Now, in a 43-page decision in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Anna Diggs Taylor, an alumna of the civil rights movement and the first black judge to sit on that Michigan federal court, has greatly intensified the fierce national debate—in and out of Congress—caused by the Times' adherence to James Madison's message to insure the future of the Constitution: "The censorial power is in the people over the Government—and not in the Government over the people." The Justice Department had instructed Judge Taylor to not even hear the case on whether the president had allowed the National Security Agency to spy on Americans as well as suspected terrorists overseas—without first going to the secret court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978 to exercise judicial oversight over this kind of operation. "State secrets are involved," Judge Taylor was told. The case must be dismissed. But since the administration's repeated defenses of this spying program—following the New York Times story and the subsequent disclosures by other reporters—have undercut the "state secrets" argument, Judge Taylor went ahead. She concluded that the president had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the separation of powers, and the Fourth Amendment privacy protections of Americans. Not only did the president violate a statute but he also, the judge added, "blatantly disregarded the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights" (very much including the Fourth Amendment). As for the constant claim by the president, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales that, as commander in chief, George W. Bush has the "inherent constitutional power" to conduct the war on terrorism unilaterally when necessary, Judge Taylor said—and I hope future schoolbooks will include this definition of Americanism: "There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all 'inherent' powers must derive from that Constitution." What makes this regeneration of the powers of Constitution all the more important, even if her ruling is overruled by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on its inevitable way to the Supreme Court, is that Judge Taylor represents the awakening, at last, of more of the judiciary to its crucial responsibility to respect—and act—on the separation of powers. In June, the Supreme Court itself unambiguously told the president he had acted outside the law in establishing the sham military commissions at Guantánamo—and has violated the Geneva Conventions and our own 1996 War Crimes Act in our abusive and, I would add, sometimes fatal, treatment of suspected terrorist prisoners wherever we hold them. Then, this year, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit against ATT for handing over to the omnivorous, Bush-protected National Security Agency "secret direct access to phone calls and e-mail detailing the activities of millions of ordinary Americans," the federal district judge in that case—Vaughn Walker in San Francisco—was also warned by the Justice Department to dismiss the case without hearing it because of "state secrets." While the unintimidated Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit has had her ruling questioned because she was appointed by a Democrat, Jimmy Carter, Judge Vaughn Walker was put on the bench by George W. Bush's father, and is regarded as a conservative by the legal
[cia-drugs] a succinct analysis of the american dream by george carlin
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