[CTRL] Fwd: Check out Should there be an impeachment investigation NOW?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 2, 2007 10:16:34 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Check out Should there be an impeachment investigation NOW? Click here: Should there be an impeachment investigation NOW? Make your voice heard. Let your elected representatives know you support Cheney's impeachment. 27,000+ signatures/messages so far, and still counting ... See what's free at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: On the Wrong Side of History
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 9:19:11 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: On the Wrong Side of History Insurgents 'right to take on US' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6618075.stm 'Insurgents' in Iraq are right to try to force US troops out of the country, a former British army commander has said. Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC's Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must admit defeat and stop fighting a hopeless war in Iraq. Iraqi insurgents would not give in, he said. I don't excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting. Sir Michael has written a book drawing similarities between the tactics of [nationalist] 'insurgents' and George Washington's men in America's War of Independence. UK and US must admit defeat and leave Iraq, says British general http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2072171,00.html A retired British army general [General Sir Michael Rose] says Iraq's 'insurgents' are justified in opposing the occupation, arguing that the US and its allies should admit defeat and leave Iraq before more soldiers are killed. When he was asked if he thought the Iraqi insurgents were right to try to force the US-led coalition [occupation] out, he replied: Yes I do. As Lord Chatham [William Pitt the Elder, who, in mid-18th century called for a cessation of hostilities in the colonies and favoured American resistance to the British Stamp Act] said, 'if I was an American - as I am an Englishman - as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms'. The Iraqi insurgents feel exactly the same way. I don't excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting the Americans. We cannot 'win' a war that serves only our enemies' interests, not our own. So continuing to pursue the illusion of victory in Iraq makes no sense, and never did. --Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, U.S. Army, ex-Director of the National Security Agency http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ Former_general_declares_Bush_has_gone_0428.html See what's free at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Things Fall Apart
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 9:11:20 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Things Fall Apart US inspector general for Iraq under investigation [himself] Reuters, 02 May 2007 By Andrea Shalal-Esa http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02425664.htm WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Stuart Bowen, the U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction whose office has uncovered abuse of both Iraqi and U.S. funds, is under investigation himself, a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Complaints against Mr. Bowen are being looked at by the integrity committee of the PCIE (President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency), said spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore. She gave no details about the investigation or the nature of the complaints against Bowen, who heads the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, or SIGIR. Bowen's office declined comment. The council, created in 1992, is comprised of presidentially appointed inspectors general and headed by Clay Johnson, the deputy director for management of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Johnson told Reuters he had no details on the nature of the allegations against Bowen, saying only they were filed by former and current employees. Right now there have been no findings, he said, adding the inspector general of the Social Security Administration had been appointed by the integrity committee to conduct the investigation. It has been going on for a long time, Johnson said. He said he chaired the council, but emphasized it was independent of the White House, and his role was very limited. He said the integrity committee was created in 1996 to investigate any allegations involving inspectors general. Several former SIGIR employees filed complaints about Bowen in 2006, focusing on charges that he failed to come to work for long periods at a time, and used SIGIR staff to work on a book about the broad lessons of Iraq reconstruction, said one former SIGIR employee, who asked not to be identified. It is SIGIR's standing policy neither to confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation, whether by SIGIR investigators or any other (U.S. government) agency, said spokeswoman Denise Burgess. Bowen was appointed as inspector general of the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority in January 2004, remaining in that role after the creation of SIGIR. His office produces quarterly reports to Congress about Iraq reconstruction efforts. His latest report said seven of eight rebuilding projects that costing about $150 million had previously been declared successes, were now in disrepair or had been abandoned. Bowen, a lawyer who spent four years in the U.S. Air Force, previously served as deputy assistant to President George W. Bush as well as associate counsel. Before his White House tenure, Bowen was a legal adviser to the Bush-Cheney transition team; and from 1994 to 2000, he held a variety of positions on Bush's staff in Texas, when Bush was governor. Johnson said he had no information about a separate investigation by the council of Johnnie Frazier, the Commerce Department inspector general, which was first reported in the Washington Post on Wednesday. See what's free at AOL.com. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Support Our Troops, Who Think Torture Is As American As Apple Pie
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 4, 2007 3:05:31 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Support Our Troops, Who Think Torture Is As American As Apple Pie Pentagon studies ethical dilemmas faced in Iraq CNN, May 4, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.main/ WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In its first study of the ethics of U.S. troops on the Iraq battlefield, the Pentagon has found that more than a third would support using torture to get information from insurgents. An even greater proportion, 41 percent of soldiers and 44 percent of Marines, said torture should be allowed if it would help save the life of a comrade. And fewer than half of the U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq would report a comrade for unethical behavior, according to the results of the survey by the Defense Department's Mental Health Advisory Team. The survey of more than 1,300 soldiers and nearly 450 Marines was conducted last year. It was the fourth in a series of surveys on troops' mental health but the first to include Marines and the first to look at ethics in Iraq. (Read the report) While fewer than half of the troops agreed that all noncombatants should be treated with dignity and respect, a quarter of those surveyed said, I would risk my own safety to save a noncombatant in danger. When mistreatment of noncombatants was reported, the most common behavior was cursing or verbal insults (28 percent of soldiers and 30 percent of Marines). Physical abuse was reported by 4 percent of soldiers and 7 percent of Marines. The survey found the death of a team member led to an increase in ethics violations. The survey also found one-third of soldiers and Marines in high levels of combat in Iraq report anxiety, depression and acute stress. Soldiers who deployed more than six months or multiple times were more likely to screen positive for a mental health issue, the survey found. Effective small unit leadership -- or when officers closest to the troops did a good job -- promoted better mental health, according to the survey. Results concerning combat stress in the latest survey were similar to those from a more extensive study of veterans who sought care from the Department of Veterans Affairs after returning from combat in Iraq or Afghanistan. (Full story) In that study, published in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine and carried out by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 31 percent of more than 100,000 veterans studied were diagnosed with mental or psychological problems. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the most common condition reported, affecting 13 percent of all Iraq or Afghanistan veterans who sought VA services, according to the study. That's slightly less than the 15.2 percent tallied for veterans of the Vietnam War, but far above the 3.5 percent reported in the general population. U.S. military: Top al Qaeda in Iraq figures killed The U.S. military said Friday it had confirmed the identities of two more senior al Qaeda in Iraq leaders killed this week during an operation near Taji, Iraq. The military identified the men as Sabah Hilal al-Shihawi, the religious adviser to Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, and Abu Ammar al-Masri, a foreign fighter facilitator. Both terrorists were identified by associates at the site, according to the military. On Thursday, the military said al-Jubouri was killed in the same raid in which al-Shihawi and al-Masri died. Al-Jubouri was the senior minister of information for al Qaeda in Iraq. (Full story) Other developments Insurgents killed five U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter in separate attacks Thursday and Friday, the U.S. military said. Since the start of the war, 3,354 U.S. troops have been killed; seven civilian contractors of the Defense Department also have died. Sixteen unidentified bodies were found Friday in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Slain bodies are dumped across the Iraqi capital every day, although fewer have been found since a new security crackdown began in February. U.S.-led coalition raids Friday in Baghdad's Sadr City led to the arrests of 16 suspected terrorists, part of a cell thought to have links to Iran, the U.S. military said. Five Iraqi police were killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb targeting their patrol detonated Friday in western Baghdad's Amel neighborhood, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. A car bomb killed three civilians and wounded three dozen in a attack Thursday in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday. Iraqi security forces detained a former military officer from Saddam Hussein's regime and an associate Thursday in
[CTRL] Fwd: Decider or Deicider?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 9:00:31 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Decider or Deicider? Update: Raw Story has the video http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ President_Bush_Defines_Iraq_Success_in_0502.html OH MY GOD! After Bush says either we'll succeed he utters what Raw Story calls a chuckle. I don't know what the hell it is--it seems to come out in a strange spasm as Bush struggles to regain control. This man is losing it. You must watch this. Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed. And this gem: I'm the Commander guy. Read the whole incoherent mess: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/02/either-well-succeed- or_n_47470.html. Iraq-Tested U.S.Generals to President: You've Failed Us http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/143 Today, two retired Generals who led troops in Iraq expressed outrage at the President's veto of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act. The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed strategy in violation of basic principles of war. His failure to mobilize the nation to defeat world wide Islamic extremism is tragic. We deserve more from our commander-in-chief and his administration.--Maj. Gen. John Batiste, USA, Ret. This administration and the previously Republican controlled legislature have been the most caustic agents against America's Armed Forces in memory. Less than a year ago, the Republicans imposed great hardship on the Army and Marine Corps by their failure to pass a necessary funding language. This time, the President of the United States is holding our Soldiers hostage to his ego. More than ever apparent, only the Army and the Marine Corps are at war - alone, without their President's support.--Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, USA, Ret. The Confession of E. Howard Hunt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt Hunt: I heard from Frank that LBJ had designated Cord Meyer, Jr. to undertake a larger organization while keeping it totally secret. Cord Meyer himself was a rather favorite member of the Eastern aristocracy. He was a graduate of Yale University and had joined the Marine Corps during the war and lost an eye in the Pacific fighting. I think that LBJ settled on Meyer as an opportunist (unintelligible) like himself (unintelligible) in a man who had very little left to him in life ever since JFK had taken Cord's wife as one of his mistresses. I would suggest that Cord Meyer welcomed the approach from LBJ who was after all only the Vice President at that time and of course could not number Cord Meyer among JFK's admirers; quite the contrary. As for Dave Philips, I knew him pretty well at one time. He worked for me during the Guatemala project. He made himself useful to the agency in Santiago, Chile where he was an American businessman. In any case, his actions, whatever they were, came to the attention of the Santiago station chief and when his resume became known to people in the Western Hemisphere division he was brought in to work on Guatemalan operations. Sturgis and Morales and people of that ilk, stayed in apartment houses during preparations for the big event. Their addresses were very subject to change so that where a fellow like Morales had been one day, you'd not necessarily associated with that address the following day. In short it was a very mobile experience. Let me point out at this point, that if I wanted to fictionalize when I'm in Miami and elsewhere during the run up for the big event, I would have done so. But I don't want any unreality to tinge this particular story or the information I should say. I was a benchwarmer on it and I had a reputation for honesty. I think it's essential to refocus on what this information, that I've been providing you and you alone by the way, consists of. What is important in the story is that we backtrack the chain of command up through Cord Meyer and laying the doings at the doorstep of LBJ. He in my opinion, had an almost maniacal urge to become President. He regarded JFK, as he was in fact, an obstacle to achieving that. He could have waited for JFK to finish out his term and then undoubtedly a second term. So that would have put LBJ at the head of a long list of people who were waiting for some change in the executive branch. Christians Demand Bush be Impeached for Worshiping Satan http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=1845 A Christian based group known as the Christian’s Liberation Movement has concluded that George W. Bush is a fake Christian and worships Satan. The group is demanding his impeachment not only for his crimes against humanity but for lying to the American people about his worship of
[CTRL] Fwd: Democracy for Sale: CO Voting Official Is Marketing Votescam to Republicans
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 4, 2007 9:48:55 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Democracy for Sale: CO Voting Official Is Marketing Votescam to Republicans Colorado elections IT manager selling voter data to GOP candidates by Todd Johnston Thu May 03, 2007 at 09:38:41 PM EST http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/5/3/213841/7860 An IT manager for Colorado's state-wide voter database has been selling targeted voter data through a GOP Campaign help web site at PoliticalLiveWires.com. According to his online resume, Dan Kopelman is currently Elections Technology Manager with oversight and guidance of the State Wide Voter Database in the office of Colorado's newly elected Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman. Returning ePluribus Media's request for information, a spokesperson for Colo. Secretary of State Mike Coffman confirmed Kopelman's employment, but said the office was unaware of his side business selling voter lists and other web-based campaign tools. Furthermore, after learning about the IT manager's conflict of interest, Deputy Secretary of State William A. Hobbs met with the Kopelman and directed him to take down his campaign web site immediately. It is inappropriate for a state employee to be both overseeing and selling voter lists, said Dana Williams of the SOS's Elections Division, adding we see this as a conflict of interest. Williams also stated the Secretary's office will be looking into the matter further. Coffman was elected to office last November, after a week needed to sort out bungled election counts in Denver and Douglas counties. However, both Coffman and his Democratic opponent Ken Gordon vowed to work together to fix the state's election system. Ferreting out employees like Kopelman would seem an ideal place to start. Political issues aside, Coffman's office is responsible for selling its master voter registration lists. In other words, Kopelman was under-cutting his boss -- the Colorado Secretary of State -- by pulling, bundling, and privately selling the state's voter information. Unless he bought the information within the databases he maintained, Kopelman actions may even constitute theft. And given that the Secretary's office was unaware of his actions, characterizing them as a side business, it seems a stretch that Kopelman was regularly purchasing updated voter data. In any case, Kopelman's political ideology seems clear. PoliticalLiveWires.com explicitly courts GOP candidates, provides links to The DrudgeReport and Rush Limbaugh as useful resources, and streams headlines from CNSNews.com. Also in his online resume, Kopelman states that from 1999 to 2002 he worked in Washington, DC under the brilliant leadership of Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Tancredo (R-CO) is the controversial Republican Congressman who called Miami, FL a third world country last November. He has also announced his candidacy for U.S. president in 2008. can't say I'm surprised (5.00 / 6) (#2) This follows the trends observed in New Mexico, Florida, and Ohio but those stories related to the SOS election night outsourcing. New Mexico let's ESS handle their voter registration data and webpage. This story seems to be a slight variation on improper SOS handling of election results and voter data. I'm willing to bet if you checked every state, you'll find many more examples of improper outsourcing and integration into Voter Vault type applications. In fact, the 72 hours and Voter Vault powerpoint slides encourage people to actively share their mailinglists and other databases with GOP votervault. domain registration (5.00 / 5) (#8) Did you check out the domain lincolndaydinner.com that is featured by Political Live Wires?? Domain Name:LINCOLNDAYDINNER.ORG Created On:23-Jun-2003 19:17:30 UTC Registrant Name:Political Live Wires Registrant Organization:Political Live Wires Registrant Street1: X S Mobile St Registrant City:Aurora Registrant State/Province:CO Registrant Postal Code:80016 Registrant Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rocky Mt. News Dan Kopelman will serve the panel representing Secretary of State Mike Coffman. He has an Associates Degree in Electronics Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology, as well as a Masters in Computer Information Systems with an emphasis on Software Engineering from the University of Denver. Currently, he is the System Administrator and Manager of Unclaimed Property in the office of Colorado State Treasurer. Also, this same Dan Kopelman appears to be involved with the usual Young Republican dirty tricks and this Press Release discussed by Rocky Mountain News. He posts to ColoradoSenate.com as some form of communications
[CTRL] Fwd: Entire Fedl Govt Being Infiltrated by Secret Agents of Perpetual One-Party Rule
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 4, 2007 10:10:34 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Entire Fedl Govt Being Infiltrated by Secret Agents of Perpetual One-Party Rule Justice probes hiring of prosecutors By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press, May 3, 12:01 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/ justice_prosecutors;_ylt=Ap882bPkJ1YUabIVjbKH0TOs0NUE WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether its former White House liaison used political affiliations in deciding whom to hire as entry-level prosecutors in some U.S. attorney offices around the country, The Associated Press has learned. Such consideration would be a violation of federal law. The inquiry involving Monica Goodling, a conservative Republican who recently quit as counsel and White House liaison for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, raises new concerns that politics have cast a shadow over the independence of trial prosecutors who enforce U.S. laws. Justice spokesman Dean Boyd confirmed Wednesday that the department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility have been investigating for several weeks Goodling's role in hiring career attorneys — an unusual responsibility for her to have had. Investigators are trying to determine whether Goodling may have taken prohibited considerations into account during such review, Boyd told the AP. Whether or not the allegation is true is currently the subject of the OIG/OPR investigation. Three government officials with knowledge of the investigation said Goodling appears to have sought information about party affiliation while vetting applicants for assistant U.S. attorneys' jobs. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. Goodling's attorney, John Dowd, declined to comment. Separately, senators subpoenaed Gonzales on Wednesday directing him to provide any e-mails related to presidential adviser Karl Rove and the firings of eight federal prosecutors. In Jackson, Miss., Gonzales ended a news conference about the Virginia Tech shootings after he was asked about being subpoenaed. I don't want to comment on it without going back and talking to folks within the department, Gonzales said. Additionally, new documents surfaced Wednesday showing that at least four of the eight targeted U.S. attorneys reported being told to stay quiet about their dismissals by Mike Elston, the top aide to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty. The documents also indicate that one of the fired prosecutors was told by Associate Attorney General William Mercer that the dismissals were to make room for others to gain experience so the Republican Party would have a strong bench of candidates for federal judgeships. Gonzales — with President Bush's backing — has resisted calls for his resignation in the controversy over the dismissals, which Democrats say appear to have been politically motivated. Last month, Goodling quit the Justice Department after refusing to testify to Congress about her role in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. The House Judiciary Committee has voted to give Goodling immunity from prosecution for her testimony — an offer that is being reviewed by the Justice Department to make sure it does not interfere with any criminal investigations. Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., said the new investigation suggests politics infected the most basic operations at the Justice Department. Goodling and Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' former chief of staff, also had authority to hire or fire about 135 politically appointed Justice Department employees who did not require Senate confirmation. Asked if he had ever heard of the agency's White House liaison getting involved in hiring of career prosecutors, Dennis Boyd, the executive director of the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys, said: No, never. Boyd, who is no relation to the Justice Department spokesman, declined further comment. The investigation of Goodling appears to focus on her role in reviewing applications for trial prosecutors for offices headed by temporary or acting U.S. attorneys who had not been confirmed by the Senate. That responsibility is usually handled by the Justice Department's executive office of U.S. attorneys. Goodling had served in the executive U.S. attorney's office until she was transferred to serve as Gonzales' counsel and primary White House contact. The internal Justice investigation concerns Goodling's review of job applicants only after she joined the attorney general's office, the government officials said. An official using political affiliation in choosing such applicants would clearly violate traditional Justice Department policy and practice, said Joe diGenova, who was the U.S.
[CTRL] Fwd: Will Blackwater Become Fuehrer Busch's SS, The Nasty Party's Paramilitary Arm?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 4, 2007 2:56:06 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Will Blackwater Become Fuehrer Busch's SS, The Nasty Party's Paramilitary Arm? Will they be training [our police officers] for torture [here in Illinois]? asked one speaker at a community meeting. We ought to know. People are afraid --particularly people with young children-- whenthey see strange men here in camouflage with submachine guns. Blackwater Rising By Chuck Goudie http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=investigativeid=5267983 May 2, 2007 - The world's most controversial security service is now open for business in Illinois. But is Blackwater, Inc. looking to make Illinois an outpost for what has been called the world's largest private army? This is the same Blackwater that has become the icon for private security services in Iraq. According to critics, Blackwater is nothing more than a corporate warlord, based in North Carolina, with a payroll of hired gunslingers -- hundreds of them now protecting diplomats and contractors in Iraq. Blackwater executives say they and their mission near a rural town south of Rockford are greatly misunderstood -- that to know them is to like them -- and that they want their new neighbors in Illinois to know them. On the ground in nine nations around the world, Blackwater is what one company executive calls the most notorious in the fast- growing business of private security. For 10 years the firm has been headquartered on almost 7,000 acres in North Carolina. More than 100,000 people have been trained there, the majority of them active duty US Marines, sailors and soldiers. That makes it the largest private military training base in the world. The firm has received hundreds of millions of dollars in State Department security contracts the past few years. But Blackwater also has a law enforcement training division. And the company says the facility it just opened in northern Illinois is for police training. We saw a need for it. You would have to go five states away to find a training facility to find anything like this, said Anne Tyrrell, Blackwater spokeswoman. Surrounded by pristine farmland, down a series of bumpy rural roads, Blackwater North took over an existing 80-acre shooting range. On the day ABC7 visited, officers from several departments including Chicago and Rockford were in a tactical hostage exercise. There are new techniques that the criminals are using so we have to be updated with our techniques. Coming out to Blackwater, these guys have seen it all, said Det. Steve Stoball, Freeport Police Department. In the nearest big city of Mount Carroll, some people say they just woke up one morning and Blackwater was in business. If they are going to do training for torture, are they going to do that on the site? We don't know, said one speaker at a community meeting. Residents recently met to discuss Blackwater's move into Illinois, and whether it will be expanding, something the company claims it does not intend. There is a campaign being waged against us to spread false information, said Annie Tyrrell, Blackwater spokesperson. Much of the Blackwater resistance began after an incident in Fallujah focused attention on Blackwater's hired gun role in Iraq. Four Backwater security agents were ambushed by insurgents, murdered, dragged through the streets and strung from a bridge over the Euphrates. It's like a secret army over there that the majority of Americans aren't aware of, said the wife of a dead Blackwater employee. At a Congressional hearing in February, relatives of Blackwater officers killed in the grizzly assault testified that their loved ones were deployed to a combat zone with minimal preparation or protection. Blackwater is among 25 private military firms hired by the US government to provide security in Iraq, at a cost of $4 billion according to Congress, but with little oversight or accountability. If you are going to subcontract out this war then there needs to be some laws, said the wife of the deceased Blackwater employee. North Shore Representative Jan Schakowsky has introduced a bill that would crack down on contractors who provide rent-a-soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Private military firms in general I think are a threat to democracy, said Dan Kenney. The spillover from Blackwater's military operations prompted DeKalb 4th grade teacher Dan Kenney to begin a campaign against the security contractor. On his spring break, Kenney says he went to Blackwater, Illinois, posing as a prospective customer to find out what they were up to. They call it it a 'combat town', said Kenney. Kenney says what he saw, and was told, leads him to believe that Blackwater will eventually conduct
[CTRL] Fwd: The Christian Taliban is Running the Department of Defense
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 7:19:50 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: The Christian Taliban is Running the Department of Defense Kill everybody -- Let God sort 'em out! On Judgment Day? Which, thanks to them, could be tomorrow. Can you imagine a contingent of religious zealots, with their contempt for secular values (and such manifestations of secular order as the U.S. Constitution) -- and with their zest for holy war -- in control of the most potent fighting force and weaponry in human history? Is this possible? Well, said Weinstein, consider the 523rd Fighter Squadron, based at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., which calls itself The Crusaders, and whose emblem consists of a sword, four crosses and a medieval knight’s helmet. Check 'em out at: globalsecurity.org , which reports that the payload on the F-16s they fly consists of a wide variety of conventional, precision guided and nuclear weapons. And listen once again to Commander-in-Chief Bush, speaking in 2003 to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, according to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz: God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If this is a religious war -- a clash of civilizations, waged by competing agents of God's will -- victory may be indistinguishable from Armageddon. God help the human race. See what's free at AOL.com. From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 6:51:54 PM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: The Christian Taliban is Running the Department of Defense Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17642.htm THE CRUSADERS *The Christian Taliban is Running the Department of Defense* By Robert Koehler 05/03/07 ICH -- Sixteen words may be all that stand right now between the apparatus of government and the Founding Fathers' worst nightmare. And those words are starting to give. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ... When George Bush, in the wake of 9/11, puffed himself into Richard the Lionheart and declared he would lead the country in a crusade against terrorism -- you know, crusade, as in slaughter of Muslim infidels -- turns out ... oh, how awkward (if you’re on White House spin duty) ... he may have been speaking literally. What's certain, in any case, is that a lot of people in high and low places within the Bush administration -- and in particular, the military -- heard him literally, and regard the war on terror as a religious war: The enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He lives in Fallujah. And we're going to destroy him, a lieutenant colonel, according to a BBC reporter, said to his troops on the eve of the destruction of that undefended city in post-election 2004. I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Jerry Boykin notoriously boasted a few years back, speaking of a Muslim warlord in Somalia. And by the way, George Bush is in the White House because God put him there. And, of course, just the other day, Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, who conducted the first official investigation into Pat Tillman's death, opined that Tillman's family is only pestering the Army for the, ahem, truth about how he died because their loved one, a non- believer with no heavenly reward to reap, is now worm dirt. Until I read the newly published With God on Their Side (St. Martin's Press), Michael Weinstein's disturbing account of anti- Semitism at the U.S. Air Force Academy, I shrugged off each of these remarks, and so much more, as isolated, almost comically intolerant noises out of True Believer Land. Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do ... Now my blood runs cold. Weinstein, a 1977 graduate of the Academy and former assistant general counsel in the Reagan administration, and a lifelong Republican, has devoted the last several years of his life to battling what he has come to regard as a fundamentalist takeover of the Academy, turning it, in effect, into a taxpayer- supported Evangelical institution. He charges that the separation of church and state is rapidly vanishing at the school, which routinely promotes sectarian religious events, tolerates the proselytizing of uniquely vulnerable new recruits and, basically, conflates evangelical interests and the national interest. If you think this is just a fight over some abstract principle, with ramifications only for atheist, Jewish, Buddhist, and other cadets who may be offended by fundamentalist God talk, I urge you to check out Weinstein's book or website. He documents a chilling phenomenon:
[CTRL] Fwd: OF the Party, BY the Party, FOR the Party -- Who Do Our Public Servants Serve?
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2007 10:06:21 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OF the Party, BY the Party, FOR the Party -- Who Do Our Public Servants Serve? Embattled Interior official resigns post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/ AR2007050202353.html An Interior Department official accused of pressuring government scientists to make their research fit [Bush] policy goals has resigned. Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a department spokesman said Tuesday. MacDonald resigned a week before a House congressional oversight committee was to hold a hearing on accusations that she violated the Endangered Species Act, censored science and mistreated staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Tester Calls on Montana U.S. Attorney to Resign http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/ AR2007050202353.html Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) called yesterday on a top Justice Department official to resign his U.S. attorney's post after revelations that he worked to alter federal law so that he and a handful of other senior aides could escape residency requirements that governed their assignments as federal prosecutors. 2006 Missouri election was ground zero for GOP http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/ AR2007050202353.html http://proctoringcongress.blogspot.com/ New disclosures in the wake of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys show that that Republican campaign to protect the balloting was not as it appeared. No significant voter fraud was ever proved. The preoccupation with ballot fraud in Missouri was part of a wider national effort that critics charge was aimed at protecting the Republican majority in Congress by dampening Democratic turnout. That effort included stiffer voter-identification requirements, wholesale purges of names from lists of registered voters and tight policing of liberal get-out-the-vote drives. Connecting the Dots in Election Fraud by Lynne Glasner http://www.opednews.com/articles/ opedne_lynne_gl_070417_connecting_the_dots_.htm ... The issue is clouded by the motive behind the purge. Either out of a desire to be politically correct or an unwillingness to apply a criminal mindset to the Bush Administration, Congressional committees are not acting as if they are investigating a crime. Though Bush has yet to mimic “I-am-not-a-crook” Nixon, without looking at the motives, it’s hard to come up with probable cause. It’s important to apply facts to the truthiness of the Republican Talking Points. The issue isn’t the replacement of US Attorneys by a new administration -- the issue is the dismissal of US Attorneys without cause in the middle of their tenure. The Congressional Research Service filed a report on the historical record of the hiring and terms of US Attorneys over the last 25 years. In the period between 1981 and 2006, there were only three U.S. Attorneys who were dismissed without apparent cause in the first four years of their terms. During this time frame, at the end of every administration, most of the US Attorneys left, as was the expected practice. But there were only 10 who left involuntarily, and all but two of these left under at minimum, a cloud of “improper” behavior. So, yes, it is a big deal. Again, we must apply fact to the spin and Republican Talking Points because there’s a gap not only in the emails that went missing, but in the facts that are being tossed around as truths. The spin- meisters want the public to retain the sound bite “voter fraud.” Drip, drip, as they squeeze out the talking points, the timing of each response carefully calibrated from a general “dismissed for poor performance” to “dismissed for not prosecuting voter fraud.” The public is a bit skittish about voter issues given the last two election cycles, so how could anyone oppose going after voter fraud. Of course that should be an issue. How silly of us dumb citizens. Here we not only get conflicting stories, but the smoke and mirrors act is adding to the putrid hot air. Here’s the problem, one that shouldn’t get lost in the new obfuscation about emails and the technicalities thereof. The general public doesn’t distinguish between voter fraud and election fraud and the media, if they do understand the difference, have been strangely silent about making sure their audience is informed. But we should not underestimate its importance. It’s not just about words — it’s a mirror we should be reflecting to shine a light on reality. Voter fraud is fraud committed by individual voters, for example, improper registration, voting twice, the kinds of things that the
[CTRL] Fw: No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Ann Coulter To: WILLIAM A BACON Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 09:58 Subject: No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume May 3, 2007 No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume By Ann Coulter Legal Affairs Correspondent, Human Events I just woke up from watching the Democrats' debate last Thursday, and I am rested and ready to report! Someone needs to tell the Democrats to stop talking about their families. I know they're trying to demonstrate their family values, but using actual, live human beings to illustrate the freakish ideas of the Democratic base just makes normal people uncomfortable. Continued... Read the rest of Ann's article here Sponsored Content Gain strength and energy... without exercise?! It's time to drop that outrageously expensive gym membership and those heavy dumb bells. All that pumping, pulling, sweating, and unnecessary stress is NOT healthy... Because so many of my patients strained muscles, ruined joints, and even suffered heart attacks at those fitness centers (or what I like to call torture chambers), I finally said, Enough! and found a safer way to keep in shape. Discover the latest research the fitness industry doesn't want you to know about. Click Here to Learn More This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because this address is signed up to receive Ann Coulter's Weekly Email Alerts from Human Events Online. To unsubscribe or to update your email delivery preferences, edit your account settings. Forward this email to a friend. If a friend has forwarded you this message, visit HumanEventsOnline.com to sign up to receive conservative news alerts from Ann Coulter and Robert Novak. Human Events Online One Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 This message was intended for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update your preferences | Unsubscribe www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Surprise! theso called environmental movenment is against drilling for oil....in the united states....
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Bill Bacon Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 16:57 Subject: Surprise! theso called environmental movenment is against drilling for oilin the united states Well what do you know the environmental groups are against this project!(LINK http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/920807/bush_mulls_oil_drilling_off_va_alaska/index.html?source=r_science) what a surprise! Can anybody point to a oil drilling project under United States control the so called Environmental groups Support I think these so called Environmental Groups have a secret agenda to keep us dependent on OPEC! Who financially and politically BENEFITS from these groups efforts to keep us DEPENDENT on OPEC! What do you think? www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Wall St Journal: America NEEDS a Fuehrer Who's Above the Law, Elected for Life
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 4, 2007 10:39:59 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wall St Journal: America NEEDS a Fuehrer Who's Above the Law, Elected for Life Glenn Greenwald Wednesday May 2, 2007 10:32 EST http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/02/mansfield/index.html The Right's explicit and candid rejection of the rule of law The Wall St. Journal online has today published a lengthy and truly astonishing article by Harvard Government Professor Harvey Mansfield, which expressly argues that the power of the President is greater than the rule of law. The article bears this headline: The Case for the Strong Executive -- Under some circumstances, the Rule of Law must yield to the need for Energy. And it is the most explicit argument I have seen yet for vesting in the President the power to override and ignore the rule of law in order to receive the glories of what Mansfield calls one-man rule. That such an argument comes from Mansfield is unsurprising. He has long been a folk hero to the what used to be the most extremist right-wing fringe but is now the core of the Republican Party. He devoted earlier parts of his career to warning of the dangers of homosexuality, particularly its effeminizing effect on our culture. He has a career-long obsession with the glories of tyrannical power as embodied by Machiavelli's Prince, which is his model for how America ought to be governed. And last year, he wrote a book called Manliness in which he urges men, and especially women, to understand and accept manliness -- which means that women are the weaker sex, women's bodies are made to attract and to please men and now that women are equal, they should be able to accept being told that they aren't, quite. Publisher's Weekly called it a juvenile screed. I'll leave it to Bob Altemeyer and others to dig though all of that to analyze what motivates Mansfield and his decades-long craving for strong, powerful, unchallengeable one-man masculine rule -- though it's more self-evident than anything else. But reading Mansfield has real value for understanding the dominant right-wing movement in this country. Because he is an academic, and a quite intelligent one, he makes intellectually honest arguments, by which I mean that he does not disguise what he thinks in politically palatable slogans, but instead really describes the actual premises on which political beliefs are based. And that is Mansfield's value; he is a clear and honest embodiment of what the Bush movement is. In particular, he makes crystal clear that the so-called devotion to a strong executive by the Bush administration and the movement which supports it is nothing more than a belief that the Leader has the power to disregard, violate, and remain above the rule of law. And that is clear because Mansfied explicitly says that. And that is not just Mansfield's idiosyncratic belief. He is simply stating -- honestly and clearly -- the necessary premises of the model of the Omnipotent Presidency which has taken root under the Bush presidency. This is not the first time Mansfield has expressly called for the subordination of the rule of law to the Power of the President. In January of 2006 -- in the immediate aftermath of revelations that President Bush had been breaking the law for years by spying on the telephone conversations of Americans without warrants -- Mansfield went to The Weekly Standard and authored a truly amazing article, which I wrote about here (see item 2). Unlike dishonest Bush followers who ludicrously claimed that Bush's eavesdropping was not illegal, Mansfield embraced reality and candidly argued that President Bush possesses the power to break the law in order to fight The Terrorists. The headline of that article presented the same mutually exclusive choice as the WSJ article today: The Law and the President -- in a national emergency, who you gonna call? In that article, Mansfied claimed, among other things, that our enemies, being extra-legal, need to be faced with extra-legal force; that the Office of President is larger than the law; that the rule of law is not enough to run a government; that ordinary power needs to be supplemented or corrected by the extraordinary power of a Prince, using wise discretion; that with one person in charge we can have both secrecy and responsibility; and most of all: Much present-day thinking puts civil liberties and the rule of law to the fore and forgets to consider emergencies when liberties are dangerous and law does not apply. Law does not apply -- that is Mansfield's belief, and the belief of the Bush movement. I didn't think it was possible, but Mansfield, with today's article in
