Re: [CTRL] Research on the forced vaccination issue.

[Jim Rarey]

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The lady is right about the forced vaccinations and concentration camps 
however it won't be found in the Homeland Defense bill.

The provisions are found in three "state compacts" which have been or are 
in the process of being adopted by the individual states.

Following is an excerpt from an article I wrote in March of this year 
explaining two of ;the compacts. The third, the "Model State Emergency Health 
Powers Act" can be found at the following URL.
http://www.aapsonline.org/legis/msehpa2.pdf

It provides for the declaration of a "health emergency" by the governor 
(based on an actual outbreak or even the perception of a potential public health 
problem) It provides for mandatory vaccinations and "quarantine" of anyone 
refusing them. The declaration of a health emergency would activate the other 
two compacts.

Most of the states have already adopted these compacts in one format or 
another. In some, as in Michigan, it was a stealth operation.

The article excerpt:


For at least a year now stories 
have been circulating on the Internet about facilities being prepared across the 
country intended for incarceration of segments of the civilian population. The 
facilities are variously described as concentration camps, relocation centers, 
detention stations, etc. It can now be confirmed that laws are being put on the 
books of the various states that provide for the “evacuation” of civilians to 
predetermined locations in other states.

The laws are in conformance with 
an “Interstate Emergency Management Assistance Compact” promulgated under the 
rubric of “Homeland Defense.” In Michigan, implementation of the compact 
comprises two Public Acts (P.A. 247 and P.A. 248). The former deals with the 
handling of “personnel” and the latter with equipment. Both went on the books in 
January of this year but do not go into effect until at least one other state 
joins the compact. (There is another requirement discussed later in this 
article.) 

Among other things the compact 
provides for the following:

Mutual assistance between party 
(member) states in managing any emergency or disaster 
declared by the governor of the affected state. The declaration could involve 
(but is not limited to) natural disaster, technical disaster (whatever that 
means), man-made disaster, emergency aspects of resource shortages, civil 
disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack.

Emergency related exercises 
outside of actual emergency periods.

Affords the emergency forces of 
another state the same powers, duties, rights and privileges afforded in its own 
state, except that of arrest unless specifically authorized.

Note: Another compact from 1996, 
which has been adopted in most states, allows the use of a state’s National 
Guard troops in any other “party” state.

Specifies that no party state or 
its officers or employees is liable on account of any act or omission in good 
faith while providing aid or using equipment or supplies.

Requires each party to provide 
compensation to injured members of the emergency forces and death benefits to 
representatives of members killed while rendering aid, as if the injury or death 
were sustained within its own state.

Requires party states to work out plans 
for the orderly evacuation and interstate reception of civilians.

The states are required to 
establish procedures for compensating other states that render assistance.

And finally, the compact requires 
a provision for temporary suspension of any statutes or ordinances that restrict 
the implementation of these responsibilities.

The two bills implementing the 
compact were passed in the Michigan House and Senate on roll call votes without 
a dissenting vote. They were introduced in November of last year and final 
passage was on 12/31`/01. There was no mention of the compact or bills, at any 
stage, in the local media. Needless to say it was not on this writer’s radar 
screen either. It was only discovered while browsing the legislature’s web site 
on another topic.

All kinds of unconstitutional 
laws are being rushed through the Congress and state legislatures in the name of 
fighting terrorism. However, it 
should be obvious that the advance planning in putting all these pieces together 
took place long before September 11 of last year.

Jim Rarey
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Research on the "forced vaccination" 
issue.
-Caveat Lector-Someone on one of the lists I belong to 
posted an articlehysterically decrying the passing of the Homeland Security 
Billparticularly with regard to the issue of those 
"enforcedvaccinations" and concentration camps looming in our future, and 
sheasked a very logical question (quoted below) which caused me to 
setout to find the answer (being the birddog that I am!). During 
myresearch, I noticed that the vast m

[CTRL] SNIPER CASE: TRUE LIES?

[Jim Rarey]

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MEDIUM 
RARE
By Jim Rarey

December 2, 2002

SNIPER CASE: TRUE LIES?

As court records and other 
documents have become available, a troubling pattern of government willful 
inaction, suppression of relevant facts, and misleading statements to the media 
has emerged.

The handling of circumstances 
around the Bushmaster rifle, alleged to be the sniper weapon, by the ATF and FBI 
are incomprehensible and inexcusable. Initially there was confusion over a 
similar Bushmaster rifle Muhammad had purchased from Welcher’s Gun Shop in 
Tacoma, Washington in December of 1999. The rifle was sold back to the gun shop 
by Muhammad on May 23, 2000; two months after his ex-wife had obtained a 
restraining order against him. It was his apparent possession of the weapon 
after the date of the restraining order that was the basis of the arrest warrant 
issued in Seattle less than 24 hours before his arrest.

There are contradictory 
explanations of the route of the weapon now alleged to be the sniper rifle. The 
manufacturer, Bushmaster, says it shipped the rifle to an unnamed distributor in 
June of 2002. A statement from Bullseye Shooter Supply, the largest gun dealer 
in Tacoma, said the weapon was received on July 2, but directly from the 
manufacturer.

There is also a discrepancy in 
the description of the rifle between that of the gun store and the one said to 
have been found in the car when Muhammad and Malvo were arrested. At the 
conclusion of an ATF “investigation” as to why the store had no record of what 
happened to the weapon after it was received, the store filed a theft report 
with Tacoma police. Initially the storeowner Brian Borgelt (who incidentally is 
a former sniper instructor) had said there’s “a pretty good likelihood” Muhammad 
bought the rifle from his store.

In the report the rifle was 
described as having been fitted with a red visible laser sight. No such 
accessory was reported on the inventory of items recovered from the Chevrolet 
Caprice.

But the surprising thing is that 
Borgelt and the store are still in business. A couple of years ago, in an ATF 
audit, Borgelt reportedly was unable to account for 150 guns. Initial reports 
from the ATF said that about 340 guns were missing at the start of the current 
audit. ATF spokeswoman Martha Tebbenkamp said, “that number is not correct.” 
However she refused to say what the correct number is or whether it is higher or 
lower than the 340. She also refused to say what, if any, sanctions might be 
imposed. However one of the store employees said they received only a warning, 
nothing else.

The ATF has recently earned a 
reputation for coming down like a ton of bricks on minor violations of only one 
or two missing records. Borgelt’s treatment by the ATF tempts one to speculate 
he may be supplying government operatives with weapons for whatever purpose or 
fronting for the unnamed distributor.

But the distributor is not the 
only one that has remained nameless. According to the New York Post, on the 
Monday before Muhammad and Malvo were arrested, police got a tip from an 
unidentified Tacoma man. He said Muhammad and/or Malvo had told him about the 
attempted robbery and murder in Montgomery, Alabama giving details only the 
shooters would know. The Post article said the police were investigating that 
lead when the highly publicized call attributed to the sniper told the 
authorities to take a look at the incident in Montgomery (later determined to be 
the city in Alabama and not the county). The task force has never acknowledged 
this bombshell.

A second person relevant to the 
investigation is anonymous to the public. He told police Muhammad and Malvo 
lived with him for a couple of months in Tacoma during which time they had 
access to his weapons collection. One of the pistols in the collection was used 
in the murder of the daughter of a woman who had worked for Muhammad at his auto 
repair shop in Tacoma. Another pistol was used to shoot a couple of bullets into 
the wall of a local synagogue. The Seattle Times believes it knows who the man 
is and has requested an interview, which was declined. It is not known if this 
man and the one who phoned in the tip are one and the same.

If Tacoma (Pierce County) 
authorities decide to prosecute the mysterious tipster would have to testify in 
public. But that’s not likely as the chief criminal prosecutor for the county is 
saying the cost would probably prohibit it.

Meanwhile, a number of potential 
witnesses to Muhammad’s involvement in a document forgery ring and alien 
smuggling operation are being quietly rounded up by U.S. authorities, not for 
prosecution but deportation. 

One such person who entered the 
country with false documents supplied by Muhammad is Antiguan Norman Manroe. 
Manroe was arrested on a drug charge in Connecticut and was set to be released 
on $50,000 bail when federal authorities intervened and took him into custody 
for deportation

[CTRL] Fw: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FORMER FBI DIRECTOR LOUIS FREEH

[Jim Rarey]

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For Immediate ReleaseDec 4, 2002
Contact: Press 
  Office202-646-5172
  

  SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST FORMER FBI DIRECTOR 
  LOUIS FREEHJudicial Watch Wins Victory on 
  Behalf of Client Notra TrulockCase to Proceed 
  to Discovery(Washington, DC) Judicial 
  Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes 
  government corruption and abuse, said today that the United States Supreme 
  Court rejected former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s claim of immunity in a 
  lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of its client Notra Trulock. 
  Mr. Trulock is the former Director of Intelligence for the 
  Department of Energy who “blew the whistle” on Communist Chinese espionage 
  activity at U.S. nuclear laboratories. After leaving government service, 
  Mr. Trulock wrote an article in a July 2000 edition of the magazine 
  National Review, which was critical of the Clinton administration, 
  Louis Freeh, the FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies for 
  repeatedly ignoring his warnings about espionage. Later that month, FBI 
  agents unlawfully searched Mr. Trulock’s home computer files and 
  confiscated his computer hard drive. Mr. Trulock's suit sets forth the 
  violation of his First Amendment free-speech rights because the actions of 
  Freeh and other FBI officials were conducted in retaliation for the 
  magazine article.As part of the FBI’s campaign of harassment and 
  intimidation, officials kept Mr. Trulock's computer hard drive for two 
  years. Mr. Trulock’s private, personal records were stored on the hard 
  drive, including research about a genetic disorder from which his son 
  suffers, as well as his personal financial information.“The 
  Supreme Court has sent a clear signal to all senior law enforcement 
  officers and federal officials: ‘You are not above the law!,” and that 
  message is consistent with our motto at Judicial Watch. We look forward to 
  taking Mr. Freeh’s deposition and uncovering the facts that will bring 
  justice for the damages and suffering Mr. Trulock has experienced,” stated 
  Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry 
  Klayman.
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[CTRL] Tacoma gun shop

[Jim Rarey]

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Looks like the feds are shutting down all operations that could be tied to 
Muhammad/Williams and deporting the ones they can.

JR

 
Thursday, December 05, 2002, 
12:00 a.m. Pacific 

Not to be used for commercial or for profit 
activities.
ATF, tax agents raid Tacoma gun store 
By Steve Miletich and Mike Carter 
Seattle Times staff reporter 

TACOMA — Evidence of tax evasion and scores of unaccounted-for guns led 
federal investigators yesterday to search the gun shop that once owned the rifle 
used in the Beltway sniper killings. 
More than a dozen agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 
(ATF) and the Internal Revenue Service conducted early-morning raids at Bull's 
Eye Shooter Supply near the Tacoma Dome and the luxury Lakewood home of its 
owner, Brian Borgelt. 
The warrants authorizing the searches remained sealed while agents 
inventoried boxes of materials seized at both locations. 
A federal law-enforcement source said agents in recent weeks had obtained 
evidence that Borgelt and his business — one of the largest gun shops in 
Washington — have not paid federal taxes for at least six years. 
Borgelt was home during the search of his large, two-story house on the shore 
of American Lake, and later drove to Bull's Eye, where agents completed their 
search after 10 hours in the store. Handwritten signs on its barred, glass doors 
said Bull's Eye was closed for the day. 
Borgelt said he is cooperating with authorities. He said he believes their 
main focus is learning how the Bushmaster rifle got from his store into the 
hands of sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. "Everything 
else is a sub-issue," Borgelt said. 
He declined to say whether he had paid his federal taxes for the past six 
years. The tax issues, he said, "are a business matter that's being attended 
to." 
His store came under scrutiny after the arrests of Muhammad and Malvo, 
suspects in killings and robberies that left 14 people dead and five wounded in 
five states and the District of Columbia. Muhammad and Malvo lived in Tacoma 
just before the sniper spree and are suspected in the slaying of a 21-year-old 
woman here. 
The .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle used in most of the slayings was traced to 
Bull's Eye, which obtained the $1,600 weapon in July from the manufacturer. 
Borgelt told investigators he was not aware it was missing until it was found 
behind the seat in Muhammad and Malvo's car when they were arrested Oct. 24. 
It would have been illegal for either Muhammad or Malvo to buy a gun. 
Muhammad, 41, was the subject of a domestic-violence protective order and the 
17-year-old Malvo was a juvenile and illegal immigrant. 
Their arrests led to an ATF compliance audit of the Tacoma gun store. Gun 
dealers are required to keep a ledger of sales so that a weapon can be traced if 
it is used in a crime. The ledger also demonstrates that the buyer had a 
mandated background check. 
ATF agents found that Bull's Eye could not account for as many as 90 guns, 
sources have said. 
"We found sufficient record-keeping deficiencies that it became serious 
enough to conduct a criminal investigation," ATF special agent Martha Tebbencamp 
said. 
Two years earlier, an ATF audit of Bull's Eye turned up 150 instances in 
which firearms couldn't be matched to sales records. ATF has been criticized for 
not having sanctioned Bull's Eye or its owner two years ago. Failure to properly 
keep the firearms records is a federal misdemeanor. 
The ATF told Borgelt to clean up his books but took no action against his 
firearms license, federal sources said. 
Borgelt filed a theft report for the Bushmaster with Tacoma police last 
month, but could not say when the rifle disappeared from his store. Federal 
agents and prosecutors question this account. 
A regular customer who was turned away from Bull's Eye yesterday said a 
Bushmaster rifle was put on display in July, and he is certain it was the same 
gun. He said the weapon was a showpiece, customized with an expensive scope and 
bipod stand. 
"I didn't see any others like it — it was too pricey for a lot of people," 
said the customer, who only gave his name as Robin. 
The rifle would have been difficult to steal. "It wasn't at a spot where you 
would easily reach it," the customer said. "You had to ask if you could handle 
it, and one of the guys would let you." 


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Re: [CTRL] Voxfux: The Bush Family Must be Immediately Killed

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This posting is over the line. Impeachment, yes.

JR

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-Caveat Lector- http://www.voxnyc.com/archives/0066.htmThe 
Bush Family Must be Immediately KilledNo Trial, No Explanation, No Warning - 
Just Immediate Death.by voxfuxBy the administration’s own policy 
the Bush family must be immediately destroyed. No trial, no explanation, no 
warning - Just immediate death. According to White House officials the 
President’s policy is that ANY “association” with ANY suspected Al Queda or 
terrorist is sufficient enough for immediate extermination by the CIA or US 
military. Yet there is NO other family in America today who has had 
closer ties with the Bin Ladens than the Bush family. And that bears 
repeating.THERE IS NO OTHER FAMILY IN AMERICA WHICH HAS HAD CLOSER 
ASSOCIATIONS AND SUSPICIOUS DEALINGS WITH THE BIN LADEN FAMILY THAN GEORGE BUSH 
SENIOR AND JUNIOR. NO OTHER AMERICANS!For over thirty years the Bush 
family has forged extensive secretive and extraordinarily suspicious dealings 
with the Bin Ladens. Starting with Bin Laden’s father and brother who gave 
millions of dollars of cash to George Bush Jr so that he may buy a company and 
promptly drive it straight into the ground (While extracting delirious personal 
profits - sound familiar?) No other Americans have ever had closer 
“associations” with the Bin Ladens. So frightened is Bush that the true nature 
of his secret links with the bin Ladens will be exposed that he will expend NO 
LIMIT of US taxpayers resources and military might to cover up and obliterate 
any trace of his suspicious past with the terrorists.So suspicious are 
the circumstances surrounding the deaths of both Bin Laden’s father and brother 
in two different plane crashes, (both in, guess which state? - Texas) that it is 
no wonder why the younger Osama has such a hatred for Bush and it is no wonder 
why Bush has become so consumed with the destruction of this set up fall guy. 
So lets all hope that some brave CIA or military unit will be successful 
in this mission which is critical to the safety and security of the American 
people and complete their mission to find Bush and his Father and terminate 
these two terrorist "associators" with extreme 
prejudice.solidarityvoxfuxBelow is the associated press 
article outlining the administrations total destruction of any resemblance to 
the great constitutional nation that the US once was. It represents nothing less 
than the death of Democracy - It represents the death of America. Since 
there is no due process in America any longer, Bush can simply claim, for 
example, that Voxnyc was working for Al Queda, and since there is no more trials 
and zero due process that means he may simply kill any political opponent any 
time any where and say that that opponent was a terrorist and that he has 
"proof"... but you can't see that proof because of "national security" reasons. 
We will see a massive increase of political assassinations in the United 
States (More than there already have been since this lying, immoral, idiot and 
his cabal of murderers seized the Presidency.) Here's the article that 
the slime at the assoCIAted press shovelled.U.S. Can Target (Kill) Americans 
(Anytime Anywhere)By JOHN J. LUMPKIN WASHINGTON (AP) - American 
citizens... can legally be targeted and killed by the CIA under President Bush's 
rules for the war on terrorism, U.S. officials say.The authority to kill 
U.S. citizens is granted under a secret finding signed by the president after 
the Sept. 11 attacks that directs the CIA to covertly attack al-Qaida anywhere 
in the world. The authority makes no exception for Americans, so permission to 
strike them is understood rather than specifically described, officials 
said.These officials said the authority will be used only when other 
options are unavailable. Military-like strikes will take place only when law 
enforcement and internal security efforts by allied foreign countries fail, the 
officials said.Capturing and questioning al-Qaida operatives is 
preferable, even more so if an operative is a U.S. citizen, the officials said, 
speaking on the condition of anonymity. Any decision to strike an American will 
be made at the highest levels, perhaps by the president.U.S. officials 
say few Americans are working with al-Qaida but they have no specific 
estimates.The CIA already has killed one American under this authority, 
although U.S. officials maintain he wasn't the target.On Nov. 3, a 
CIA-operated Predator drone fired a missile that destroyed a carload of 
suspected al-Qaida operatives in Yemen. The target of the attack, a Yemeni named 
Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, was the top al-Qaida operative in that country. 
Efforts by Yemeni authorities to detain him had previously 

Re: [CTRL] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About Jenin

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flw,

Well said!!

JR

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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Israeli Censors Ban Movie About 
Jenin
-Caveat Lector-While I¹m against censorship in any 
form, Israel never claimed to not haveit. Democracies operate with 
censorship all the time, they are notexclusiveconcepts.Note 
 I clearly state that I think censorship is wrong, but it does 
notmake a country not a democracy.People confuse 'democracy' 
with a free society. 'Democratic' societiesare usually authoritarian. In a 
democracy, the majority tyrannizethe minority. A democracy can legalize 
slavery if the majority votesfor it. Most modern democracies degenerate into 
oligarchies whereinthe influential few manipulate the majority through a 
structured electoralprocess strictly controlled by political parties that in 
turn arecontrolled andfunded by the influential few.The only 
guarantee of a free society is a Constitutional Republic thatguarantees 
minority rights against the tyranny of the majority. That iswhy the US is 
supposed to be a constitutional republic - NOT ademocracy.Unfettered 
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Re: [CTRL] Mitchell out, Hamilton in ... and Barry Seal's attorney Richard Ben-Veniste

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I think we'll have to call this commission the "Gang of Ten."

JR

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-Caveat Lector-Ya think something is
up?OmKfrom:a friend;George Mitchell has resigned
from the 9/11 commission because he didn'twanna quit his law firm. He's been
replaced by Lee Hamilton, formercongressman, former head of House
International Relations Committee,member par excellence of the Trilateral
Commission and The Coucil onForeign Relations. He's be the top Demo on the
commission, to which theDemos have also selected outgoing senator Max
Cleland, who spent the 45minutes between the WTC attack and Pentagon attack
talking to Joint Chiefschair Myers in the Capitol basement, outgoing rep Tom
Roemer of Indiana,lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste, and Jamie Goerlick, deputy
attorney generalunder Clinton. (From AP, in today's SF Chronicle, p A
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[CTRL] INS deports sniper suspect's mother

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Another potential witness out of reach! - JR

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=brefer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/99770_james13.shtml

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/99770_james13.shtmlINS deports sniper suspect's mother 
Jamaican woman's deportation could mean 
she would not be allowed back
Friday, December 13, 2002
By HECTOR CASTROSEATTLE 
POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Suspected serial sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's mother, who hired a smuggler two 
years ago to sneak her into the United States, has been deported by the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The federal government took Una James into custody Wednesday, and she was 
flown from Seattle to Miami Thursday night en route to Jamaica, the Justice 
Department said.
Malvo, 17, and John Allen Muhammad are accused in sniper attacks that left 13 
people dead. Muhammad is also a suspect in at least one local homicide, the 
shooting death of a Tacoma woman earlier this year.
James previously filed a petition to remain in the United States in the hope 
that she would be allowed to leave the country voluntarily. By doing so, she 
would reserve the possibility of one day re-entering legally. But in a secret 
immigration hearing last month, a judge denied that motion and ordered her 
deported.
She was supposed to have 30 days from the date of the Nov. 19 hearing to 
appeal. 
Now, with her deportation, James could end up on a list of people who are not 
allowed to return to the United States, INS spokesman Garrison Courtney 
said.
"She may be inadmissible for a period of five years," he said, adding that 
was a general guideline and wouldn't necessarily apply to James.
James left Jamaica in late 2000 without Malvo, who stayed behind with 
Muhammad.
But the teen joined her a short time later. The two stayed for a time in 
Florida, but last year Malvo and Muhammad left for Bellingham.
James followed, and in December 2001 asked the local police for help getting 
her son away from Muhammad, whom she considered a dangerous influence.
Instead, police reported her to the Border Patrol and she was arrested. 
After about a month in detention, the mother was released on $1,500 bail 
along with her son. But when he rejoined Muhammad, James was afraid to ask 
police for help again.
Investigators believe the two began the sniper shootings a few months 
later.



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[CTRL] Army to enforce smallpox quarantines

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We knew it was coming. Sounds like they are not going to depend on 
governors to get the job done. Maybe not enough states have adopted the Model 
Emergency Health Powers Act. Sound a lot like martial law, doesn't it?

Jim


http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=20021213-041745-9227r
Pentagon plans for smallpox 
outbreak 
By Pamela HessUPI Pentagon CorrespondentFrom the International 
DeskPublished 
12/13/2002 4:36 PM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- The military could be called on to keep order 
and quarantine affected areas if there were a smallpox outbreak in the United 
States, according to a Defense Department response plan completed in 
September.
The White House and Pentagon unveiled plans Friday to begin vaccinating 
health-care workers and as many as 500,000 military personnel against the 
release of smallpox on the battlefield, but it also has a step-by-step guide for 
military commanders in the event of a domestic biological weapons attack. 
Because the disease was finally eradicated in 1979, a single case of smallpox 
would be considered to be the result of a germ warfare attack. There are only 
two known stocks of the disease -- in the United States and Russia -- but the 
U.S. government fears that some of the stock may have been stolen and sold on 
the black market.
Smallpox would kill one-third of its victims if they are not treated in time, 
according to the Centers for Disease Control.
The newly organized U.S. Northern Command, currently headed by Air Force Gen. 
Ralph Eberhart, would be in charge of coordinating military support for a 
domestic biological attack.
While the military is generally prohibited from performing law enforcement 
duties on American soil under a law known as the Posse Comitatus Act, the 
military can be pressed into service by civilian authorities in the event of an 
emergency.
Military personnel would generally not be carrying weapons to enforce the 
quarantine in the event of a biological weapons attack. However, they could be 
deployed to the affected area with weapons, and the weapons would be secured in 
a warehouse in case they are needed. Weapons would only be carried with the 
express order by the secretary of defense and the attorney general, according to 
a Defense Department smallpox response plan released in September.
Local military commanders may use troops at local civilian authority request 
without approval from the Pentagon to save lives, prevent human suffering and 
mitigate great property damage, according to the plan.
An outbreak of smallpox in the United States could seriously infringe on 
military activities, as flights and troop movement would be cut to a minimum to 
slow the potential spread of the disease. Those within one hour of ground 
transportation -- or one leg of a commercial flight originating at an airport 
within an hour ground transport of an infected area -- would be considered the 
most likely to have been exposed.
Military personnel might also be pressed into mortuary-related duties in the 
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[CTRL] Montgomery's Chief Moose Also Answers to 'Major'

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Do you think "major" Moose might know something about why the F-16's never 
got off the ground from Andrews on 9/11? And a National Guard Sgt. who is secret 
service?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14560-2002Nov20?language=printer
washingtonpost.com 
Montgomery's Chief Moose Also Answers to 'Major' 

By Steve VogelWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, 
November 21, 2002; Page AA03 

The world may know him now as Chief Charles Moose, the Montgomery County 
police chief who was the foremost face of the sniper hunt. But at the D.C. Air 
National Guard, Chief Moose answers to "major."
Moose, who led the law enforcement task force that arrested two suspects 
linked by authorities to 15 shooting deaths in the Washington region, wears a 
second hat as commander of the D.C. Air National Guard's security forces 
squadron.
It's a job that has kept him involved in another major story rooted in a 
different type of terror than the sniper spree -- the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on 
the Pentagon. Squadron members could be called to deploy overseas to support a 
U.S. war against Iraq, although there is a good likelihood that military 
officials would decide to exempt Moose because of his job as police chief.
"I don't make that call," Moose said in an interview. "I'm qualified. I'm in 
the mix. Being police chief is not any kind of a waiver."
Moose has commanded the squadron during a time of enormous activity brought 
on by world events. "It was real high tempo for a while, then it backed down, 
and now it's looking like it might go high tempo again," Moose said.
The squadron provides security for the D.C. Guard's 113th Wing, which is 
based at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County. The wing flies F-16 
fighters that have regularly patrolled the skies over Washington since the 
hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon in the terrorist attacks.
Moose's squadron of 60 service members is responsible, among other things, 
for protecting the fighter aircraft, equipment and runways at Andrews. Some 
squadron members have been sent to protect U.S. aircraft and bases overseas, and 
more would likely be needed in the event of a war with Iraq.
"He's real focused on getting the job done and not who gets credit," said 
Brig. Gen. David Wherley, commander of the D.C. Air National Guard. "The people 
who work for him, they respect him."
Although a tough taskmaster who would make his displeasure with poor 
performance readily known, Moose is known to also look out for the welfare of 
the members of his squadron. "He spent time with the troops in the trenches, and 
they respect that," Wherley said.
"What you see is what you get with Maj. Moose," Chief Master Sgt. Bobby 
Spear, the senior enlisted member of the security forces squadron, said in a 
news release. "He is direct, but he is also a humanitarian."
Moose, who had served previously with the Oregon National Guard, joined the 
D.C. Air National Guard soon after arriving in Montgomery in 1999 and served in 
the headquarters. "He did such a great job, I asked him to be the security 
forces commander" leading the whole squadron beginning in May 2000, Wherley 
said.
Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the 113th Security Forces Squadron would only 
occasionally get called out to help with security for events such as major 
protests in Washington or presidential inaugurations.
That all changed after the terrorist strikes. With the F-16s flying almost 
round-the-clock, the entire security forces squadron was called to active duty, 
except for Moose and Spear. Wherley said he made the decision that Moose's job 
as Montgomery police chief was more important than his Guard duties. 
Spear worked for the U.S. Secret Service at the time but has since 
retired.
"I told [Moose], 'I think you being a good chief in Montgomery County is more 
important than you being out here,' and he agreed," Wherley said.
Even so, Moose spent long hours at Andrews after the attack on the Pentagon, 
according to Guard officials, and when not at the base would frequently check in 
via cell phone or e-mail.
"He worked around the clock for two or three weeks after the terrorist 
attacks," Spear said. "He would work all day at Montgomery County and then come 
to Andrews and work with us late into the night, making sure we had everything 
we needed to keep our planes and our part of the base secure. He'd spend the 
night and then go back to work at Montgomery County the next day."
Moose was scheduled for weekend Guard duty during the sniper hunt, but he 
arranged to postpone it. "Everybody understood," Moose said.
"Until the sniper thing, he very seldom missed a weekend drill," Wherley 
said.
Even during the sniper crisis, Moose was in touch with the squadron via cell 
phone and e-mail, though most of the communication was in the form of words of 
encouragement from squadron members. "They'd say," Moose recalled, " 'Don't 
worry, we'll take care of it. We're praying for you. Get some rest.' "

[CTRL] Special handling for Malvo's mother

[Jim Rarey]

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Malvo's mother, Una James, was flown from Miami to Kingston, Jamaica on a 
U.S. government plane escorted by U.S. Marshals.

Now compare this with how illegal arab detainees are put on commercial 
planes with no escorts and handcuffs removed.

See two articles below.


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=trefer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/100022_james14ww.shtml

SEATTLE 
POST-INTELLIGENCERhttp://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/100022_james14ww.shtmlMother of teenage sniper suspect back in 
Jamaica 
Saturday, December 14, 
2002
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The mother of 17-year-old sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo 
returned to Jamaica on Saturday following her deportation from the United 
States, police said.
Una James, 38, flew from Miami to Kingston aboard a U.S. 
government plane, escorted by U.S. marshals, police Detective Cpl. Rohan 
McFarlane said.
James had recently been living in an undisclosed area about an hour away from 
Seattle. She was deported for being in the United States illegally, officials 
said.
After speaking with Jamaican immigration officers, James was whisked out a 
rear entrance of the airport to relatives in a waiting car, McFarlane said. She 
did not speak to reporters.
"She is free to go," McFarlane said.
Authorities have linked her son and 41-year-old John Allen Muhammad to 19 
shootings, including 13 deaths, in Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, 
Louisiana and Washington. The two were arrested at a rest stop in Maryland in 
Oct. 24. Both are charged with capital murder.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14 in Fairfax County, Va., to 
determine whether Malvo will be tried as an adult and face the death penalty in 
the shooting of FBI analyst Linda Franklin. James is considered a likely 
material witness in the trials of both men.
She reportedly has been unable to speak with her son since his arrest. She 
has made no public statements about the case.
James and Malvo moved from Jamaica to Antigua in 1998. Investigators believe 
it was there that Malvo met Muhammad, a U.S. Army veteran.
Authorities say James and her son later immigrated into the United States 
illegally, and that Malvo and Muhammad were reunited in Bellingham, where they 
lived at a homeless shelter as father and son.
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HOMELAND INSECURITYINS to deport Arabaliens on airliners No handcuffs, no police escorts for 6,000 Middle-Easterners living 
  in U.S. illegally 
  
  Posted: August 1, 20021:00 a.m. Eastern
  
  By Paul 
  Sperry
  
©2002WorldNetDaily.com 
  WASHINGTON – The Immigration and Naturalization Service plans to deport 
  – unrestrained and unescorted – most, if not all, of the estimated 6,000 
  Arab nationals living illegally in the U.S. via commercial airliners, 
  WorldNetDaily has learned. 
  The Middle Easterners are among the estimated 314,000 aliens recently 
  identified by INS Commissioner James W. Ziglar as having ignored 
  deportation orders. 
  After it rounds them up, INS will follow a longstanding but 
  little-known policy of returning aliens from overseas countries on 
  passenger jetliners. 
  The INS policy – spelled out in the enforcement-standard section, 
  "Escorting Detainees on Commercial Aircraft" – allows INS officers to book 
  a group of fewer than 10 "non-violent" aliens at a time on a jet – with no 
  escorts and no handcuffs. 
  Even aliens with criminal records are eligible for 
  unsupervised removal, as long as they haven't been convicted of violent 
  crimes, according to INS guidelines. 
  The policy requires only that the aliens be preboarded and 
  seated in the last rows of the plane "whenever possible." 
  Once they're seated, the officer or officers who escorted 
  them on the plane remove their handcuffs and exit the plane. 
  "Officers should use care and discretion when removing restraints from 
  properly classified low-risk detainees to avoid notice by the traveling 
  public and airline personnel," INS policy advises. 
  "Officers should be aware the general public may perceive persons 
  transported to airline gates or boarded in restraints as threats to 
  airline and passenger safety when traveling without escorts," it further 
  states. 
  The policy has long been a sore spot with airline pilots, but 
  particularly so after last year's hijackings by 19 Arab nationals, three 
  of whom were in the U.S. illegally. 
  The INS refuses to say how many, if any, Arab aliens have been 

Re: [CTRL] Law To Head 9-11 Commission

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Judging by the real appointments, this is almost believable.

JR

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-Caveat Lector-http://bobsfridge.com/skew.htmBush 
Names Bernard Law To Head 9-11 Commissionback to Bob's Fridge 
DoorTell your friends about this pagePresident Bush named former 
Boston Cardinal Bernard Law to head the governmentcommission to investigate 
the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks. Law replaces Henry Kissinger whoresigned as 
chairman of the commission after concluding he would have had to cut ties 
toall his clients including Idi Amin, Augusto Pinochet and Mars candy. Law 
appeared with thepresident at the announcement in the East Room of the White 
House. “We needed someonewith the credibility and trust of the American 
people to let them know we intend to get tothe very bottom of what went 
wrong with our intelligence operations. Bernard Law hasshown that he will 
not tolerate secrecy and is committed to uncovering evil,” Bush said.White 
House aides disclosed that the selection of Law was initiated by presidential 
advisorKarl Rove who believes the former cardinal will appeal to white males 
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[CTRL] WHY QUIT HENRY? - IS IT ACXIOM?

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MEDIUM 
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December 17, 2002

WHY QUIT HENRY? – IS IT ACXIOM?

When Dr. K (Kissinger) withdrew 
as co-chairman of the commission to investigate the 9/11 terrorist attacks after 
refusing to make his client list public, he bitterly asserted his consulting 
business represented no foreign companies or governments that would constitute a 
conflict of interest with his duties on the commission.

Although there is no particular 
reason we should believe anything Kissinger says, for purposes of this article 
let’s take that assertion at face value. That would mean if there is a conflict 
it must be with one or more of his domestic (U.S.) clients.

Kissinger’s two consulting firms 
(Kissinger  Associates and Kissinger-McLarty  Associates) advise a 
large number of U.S. companies. Yes, it is that McLarty, Mack McLarty who was 
Bill Clinton’s chief of staff and is now vice-chairman of the first firm and 
partner in the second.

The client lists of the two firms 
are closely guarded. However, from time to time some information leaks out. 
Although Dr. K has his own share of skeletons in his closet, e.g. his 
involvement in the overthrow of an elected government in Chile and the resulting 
thousands of deaths that have branded both Kissinger and Pinochet as war 
criminals, some of his domestic clients have their own scandals with which he 
may not want to be associated.

One that is, or has been, a 
Kissinger client is J.P. Morgan Chase, implicated in the Enron frauds as well as 
money laundering along with other New York investment banks. (But that’s only 
drug money and U.S. taxpayers’ dollars recycled through the Russian KGB/Mafia, 
not known to relate to terrorism.) Kissinger sits on the Morgan/Chase 
International Advisory Board.

Other examples could be cited but 
in this writer’s opinion, the association Dr. K is most afraid might be made 
public is with the little known company Acxiom.

Hardly a household name (we will 
try to change that), Acxiom has been selected the lead company to provide 
software and pull together the network to furnish the information to DARPA’s 
“Information Awareness Office” (IAO) where John Poindexter of Iran-Contra infamy 
will prepare individual dossiers on every American citizen and the millions of 
aliens (legal and illegal) in the country. 

The plan calls for the collection 
of information from a staggering number of sources e.g. banks, credit unions, 
health care organizations, the IRS and Social Security agencies, the INS, the 
FBI, grocery chains and any number of other companies and government agencies 
(federal, state and local) that have records of individual transactions.

But even this association might 
be covered up in these days of managed news. No, what scares Kissinger the most 
is the control and history of Acxiom itself. The company may be more than just a 
client. Mack McLarty sits on its Board of Directors, which implies some kind of 
investment to protect. 

While the name of the company 
means nothing to almost all Americans, perhaps a couple of the names under which 
it operated earlier will generate a spark of recognition. Before it morphed into 
Acxiom, the company was named Alltel. Still nothing? Then how about its original 
name, Systematics? Now memories come flooding back of the PROMIS software 
scandal and those associated with it.

The powerful PROMIS software was 
developed by Bill Hamilton’s company Inslaw. It was virtually stolen by the U.S. 
Treasury Department. It was then combined with software from Systematics and 
farmed out to the CIA for final modification (installation of a backdoor 
feature). 

When treasury forced Inslaw into 
bankruptcy (by withholding payments due Inslaw) ownership of the software wound 
up with a CIA cutout the Hadron Corp. Hadron peddled the software to governments 
and financial institutions around the world thus giving the CIA backdoor access 
to secret information of a number of governments and banks.

But it doesn’t stop there. The 
person who controls Acxiom/Alltel/Systematics is Arkansas billionaire Jackson 
Stephens. Stephens, and those working with him, have been involved in myriad 
shady operations too numerous to cite here. We can only hit some of the 
highlights.

At Systematics, one of the 
lawyers Stephens hired to represent the company was a bright young attorney 
named Hillary Rodham. After she joined the Rose law firm (then Hillary Rodham 
Clinton) Stephens employed the firm (mainly its partners Hillary, Vince Foster 
and Webster Hubbell) in several of his ventures.

Stephens was a financial angel to 
both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He gave final impetus to Clinton’s cash 
strapped presidential campaign with a large “loan” from his Worthen bank. 
Stephens (along with the Harvard University endowment) rescued one of Dubya’s 
companies from bankruptcy with sizeable investments.

Another scandal suppressed by the 
“watchdogs of the press” was the cocaine

[CTRL] Fw: Reno residents see shuttle before breakup; Sparks astronomer catches it on video

[Jim Rarey]

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If you haven't seen the video shot by the amateur astronomer in 
Nevada,you should. It requires Apple QuickTime viewer. If you have it go 
to this URL.
http://www.rgj.com//news/files/2003/02/01/21413.mov

If you don't have QuickTime you can get a free download at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/





  
  
 Reno residents 
  see shuttle before breakup; Sparks astronomer catches it on 
  video
  


  Elaine 
  GoodmanRENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL2/1/2003 
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  An amateur astronomer who watched the space shuttle cross the sky 
  outside his Sparks home early Saturday picked up on videotape what might 
  be signs of trouble for the doomed flight.
  Jay Lawson, a volunteer at the Fleischmann Planetarium at the 
  University of Nevada, Reno, said he didn’t see any apparent problems while 
  watching the shuttle in the predawn sky a little before 6 a.m. But Lawson 
  said he saw something unexpected while watching his tape a few minutes 
  later.
  “There was a flash of light, a puff in the ionization trail,” said 
  Lawson, a 45-year-old manager at Sparks-based Sierra Nevada Corp., a 
  defense contractor.
  After the flash, Lawson noticed a smaller object trailing the shuttle 
  on the video, which he said might have been a piece of the spacecraft that 
  had broken off.
  Mission Control abruptly lost contact with the shuttle at 6 a.m. PST. 
  The spacecraft apparently disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes 
  before its scheduled landing in Florida at 6:16 a.m.
  After viewing the shuttle from Sparks, Lawson went inside to watch it 
  land on television. It was then he learned the grim news. He woke up his 
  wife.
  “It was a pretty emotional thing to realize, that early in the morning 
  that people had lost their lives,” Lawson said.
  Keith Johnson, the planetarium’s associate director, said he sent NASA 
  a clip of Lawson’s video footage, which was shot about 10 minutes before 
  Columbia disintegrated 39 miles over Texas. The shuttle passed to the 
  south of Lake Tahoe, about 45 miles above Nevada. 
  NASA spokesman Phil West said investigators are interested in the tape 
  as well as all other footage and eyewitness accounts of Columbia’s 
  disintegration.
  The tape will be evaluated by a team of experts at a later date, he 
  said.
  “It’s unlikely that we would be able to comment on any specific tape or 
  imagery today,” West said Saturday. “But we’re interested in seeing any 
  images and accounts people have of the event.”
  Johnson said the shuttle, as seen from Reno, was smaller than a full 
  moon but bigger than a star. It moved faster than a satellite, slower than 
  a meteor, and left behind a long trail.
  “There’s no question about what it was,” Johnson said. “It was 
  spectacular.”
  Many others from northern Nevada and eastern California reported seeing 
  the shuttle trail across the sky.
  Adam Kremers, a technician at the planetarium, also woke up early 
  Saturday to see the shuttle reentry.
  He watched the bright orange glow start in the western sky and quickly 
  move to the southeast.
  Then he went back to bed.
  “My wife woke me up at 8, ‘turn on the TV, something had gone wrong,’” 
  Kremers said. “I was crushed. You don’t believe it at first.”
  Other residents saw something unusual in the early morning sky on 
  Saturday but did not know what it was.
  Kathleen Gardiner of Washoe Valley was looking out her window from bed 
  a little before 6 a.m. when she saw a reddish orange ball trailing what 
  looked like smoke and moving extremely fast.
  “A few minutes later I turned on the TV and put two and two together,” 
  she said. “What a sad day. I pray for the families of the shuttle 
  crew.”
  Mike Spanier, a Hawthorne resident, said he was on his way to work at a 
  resource center for children when he saw a streak in the sky.
  “It was neon pink I mean really bright neon pink and to my eye it was 
  the size of a football or basketball. You saw the vapor trail. I would say 
  about two to three miles to my eye,” Spanier said. “I looked up and I had 
  to stop and look at it.”
  He said he wonders whether, if it was the shuttle, any pieces landed in 
  northern Nevada. “If it is possible there are pieces over in Nevada, they 
  need to be looking for those too.”
  With wire servicesCopyright © 2002 The Reno 
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Re: [CTRL] Kosovo: A Political Virus

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Yes, the KLA (narco-terrorists) was our ally, funded by the CIA and trained 
by al Qaeda.

JR

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Subject: [CTRL] Kosovo: A Political Virus
-Caveat Lector-Observer Worldview Extra: Unseen 
Warshttp://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,901367,00.htmlLessons 
from KosovoIf there is war from Iraq, there are many lessons about 
post-warreconstruction from the west's experience in Kosovo. But the 
currentcrisis also means we risk overlooking unfinished business elsewhere, 
say ValPercival and James Lyon of the International Crisis GroupVal 
Percival and James LyonSunday February 23, 2003The ObserverAs 
the United States and its allies prepare for possible military 
interventionin Iraq, they should bear in mind the lessons of their 
intervention inKosovo - perhaps the most ambitious experiment in 
post-warreconstruction that the international community has 
undertaken.Since 1999 the donor community has contributed billions of 
dollars inhumanitarian, reconstruction, and development assistance. Tens 
ofthousands of peacekeepers and thousands of civilians worked to 
rebuildKosovo into a democratic 'autonomous' society.Although the 
international community has much to be proud of in Kosovo,two key weaknesses 
have hampered their efforts: failure to get full controlof the security 
situation, and failure to develop a realistic exit strategy inpartnership 
with the local actors. Both of these are also risks for anyfuture 
international intervention elsewhere, and while Kosovo's 
specificcircumstances are of course unique, the situation there illustrates 
theproblems that will arise elsewhere.When the NATO-led Kosovo Force 
(KFOR) rolled into the province on 11June 1999, they feared resistance from 
remaining Yugoslav army andparamilitary forces, as well as retaliation 
attacks against KFOR from thelocal Serb population.In fact (as 
should have been anticipated) the problems of those first fewmonths were 
completely different - a complete security vacuum, withhorrific crimes of 
revenge perpetrated against the Serb civilian populationby Albanian 
extremists. NATO and the UN were shown to be impotent, andthey - and 
Kosovo's population - are still paying for that early failure. 
Theinternational community cannot afford to make that mistake 
elsewhere.NATO also failed to effectively neutralize its former allies 
from the 1999conflict, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In the immediate 
aftermath,KLA members were able to gain control of local institutions, 
involvethemselves in organised crime, and engage in extortion and 
intimidation.Although the international community tried to occupy former 
KLAmembers through recruitment to a new Kosovo Protection Corps and 
theKosovo Police Service, former KLA fighters were still able to 
exacerbatearmed conflicts in South Serbia in 2000 and Macedonia in 2001. It 
is notsufficient to disarm the enemy - to get a peaceful environment, you 
haveto disarm your allies as well.Under Security Council Resolution 
1244 the UN must develop"autonomous" government institutions for Kosovo 
pending the resolution ofthe province's final status. Kosovo is thus in a 
sort of international twilightzone: a de jure part of Yugoslavia (now 
renamed "Serbia and Montenegro"),yet simultaneously a de facto UN 
protectorate under internationaladministration, which may well be on the 
road towards independence.The UN at first found it difficult to attract 
sufficiently skilled internationalrecruits to work in a difficult post- 
conflict setting. Many internationalsfound themselves running municipal 
administrations, or even governmentministries, for which they had no 
experience or training.Three and a half years down the line, Kosovo now 
has a President, a PrimeMinister, and a functioning government. However 
internationaladministrators are finding it hard to let go. Consultation 
mechanisms withlocal leaders have not been institutionalized, and critical 
information iskept in the hands of internationals. While local politicians 
lobby theinternational community for more authority, it is often a cry for 
inclusionin the process of governing rather than a desire to be at the 
helm.While UNMIK has outlined "benchmarks" to assess Kosovo's 
institutionaldevelopment, the process has not gone much beyond describing 
theseobjectives. There is no implementation strategy, no assessment of 
howclose (or far) Kosovo is from meeting these benchmarks, what 
resourcesare needed, and what further action. At the same time there is 
missionfatigue, resources are running low, and the world's attention is 
focused onthe Middle East. UNMIK is planning to transfer as much 
responsibility aspossible in the next twelve months to minimize the costs 
and to minimizeits responsibility for governing Kosovo.Yet Kosovo is 
at a critical phase. Institutions are not yet fully developed,the civil 
service 

[CTRL] Removal of whistleblower protection in TWA 800 shootdown

[Jim Rarey]

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Executive Order 13039 of March 14, 1997 removed whisleblower protection
from U.S. Navy personnel in the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG).
This group was involved in the missile exercise that resulted in the shoot down
of TWA 800. 

The EO is in a pdf file that can't be copied, but can be printed from the
URL below.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1997_registerdocid=fr14mr97-134.pdf

Following is the provision in the U.S. Code cited in the EO as President
Clinton's authority to remove the protection from the NSWDG.


Title 5 USC Section 71


(b) 


(1) 
The President may issue an order excluding any agency or
subdivision thereof from coverage under this chapter if the President determines
that - 

(A)

the agency or subdivision has as a primary function
intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work, and


(B) 
the provisions of this chapter cannot be applied to that
agency or subdivision in a manner consistent with national security requirements
and considerations. 

(2)

The President may issue an order suspending any provision
of this chapter with respect to any agency, installation, or activity located
outside the 50 States and the District of Columbia, if the President determines
that the suspension is necessary in the interest of national security




Additionally, on January 7, 2002 President George W. Bush signed EO 13252
removing whitleblower protection from the following agencies.

United States Attorneys' Offices
Criminal Division
INTERPOL - U.S. National Central Bureau
National Drug Intelligence Center 
Office of Intelligence and Review

The EO can be found at the URL below.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2002_registerdocid=fr11ja02-128.pdf



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[CTRL] Pilots' Alliance 'Shocked Beyond Belief' by TSA Disclosure

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This is so crazy it sounds like Alice in Wonderland. The only time the 
pilots' weapons will not be locked up is when they don't need them. The outrage 
should not be about the "weakness" being disclosed, but about the insane policy 
itself.

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Pilots' Alliance 'Shocked Beyond 
Belief' by TSA DisclosureBy 
Jeff JohnsonCNSNews.com Congressional Bureau ChiefFebruary 25, 
2003Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Airline pilots supporting the 
law that allows them to carry guns to defend against potential terrorist 
hijackings said Monday they are "shocked beyond belief" that federal aviation 
security officials have publicly revealed weaknesses in the Bush 
administration's plan to implement the law.As CNSNews.com previously 
reported, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 
acknowledged Friday that pilots who participate in the program will only be 
allowed ready access to their guns when they are inside the cockpit with the 
door locked."The jurisdiction of use of the weapon is in the cockpit and 
the cockpit only," explained TSA spokeswoman Heather Rosenker. "The weapon needs 
to be re-secured in the locked box if the cockpit door opens."Capt. 
Tracy Price, a commercial passenger airline pilot and chairman of the Airline 
Pilots Security Alliance (APSA), was livid upon learning that the TSA had 
disclosed the vulnerability."[T]he TSA is advertising that to would be 
terrorists and telling them and pointing out to them that the best opportunity 
that they will have to take over the cockpit is just then, when the cockpit door 
is open because they know that the weapon will not be accessible to the pilot," 
Price said.The disclosure caused Price to "seriously question the TSA's 
motives" for allowing the information to be made public."Are they truly 
concerned about airline security, or are they concerned about building their own 
empire?" he asked. "If they had a serious concern with airline security, they 
would have never let that information out like they did. We're shocked beyond 
belief."TSA has justified the decision based on its interpretation of 
the legislation that mandated the arming of qualified commercial airline pilots. 
The law calls for the creation of a "Federal Flight Deck Officer 
Program.""They are called 'Federal Flight Deck Officers,'" Rosenker 
explained. "If somebody tries to intervene into the cockpit of that aircraft, 
they have the right to use their weapon."Asked if there were no other 
circumstance, under which a pilot would be justified in using the weapon, she 
replied, "That's correct." Rosenker acknowledged that the regulation would 
include times during flights when one of the pilots leaves the cockpit to use 
the restroom or get food.Price rejected Rosenker's 
explanation."We agree that our jurisdiction is strictly in the cockpit," 
Price acknowledged. "Just because we don't have federal law enforcement officer 
jurisdiction and liability protection when we're carrying the firearm to and 
from our homes, doesn't mean we're not authorized to carry the 
firearm."The Homeland Security 
Act of 2002, which created the Department of Homeland Security and mandated 
that TSA create the armed pilots' program, supports Price's claim. Section 1402 
(f) of the law states that: "Notwithstanding any other provision of federal or 
state law, a federal flight deck officer, whenever necessary to participate in 
the program, may carry a firearm in any state and from one state to another 
state."The law also states that: "In consultation with the Secretary of 
State, the Under Secretary may take such action as may be necessary to ensure 
that a Federal flight deck officer may carry a firearm in a foreign country 
whenever necessary to participate in the program."Price believes TSA's 
narrow interpretation of the statute and their public disclosure of that 
information amounts to a serious threat to the safety of pilots."It's a 
massive, huge hole and it's a huge problem, and it's something we had hoped and 
everyone had agreed, we thought, that it would be something that we wouldn't let 
out," Price explained.Cargo Planes Vulnerable Due to Exclusion from 
ProgramBut the firearm storage and transportation requirements are 
not the only problem that pilots have with the federal flight deck officer 
program, as Price explained."At the 11th hour, cargo pilots were removed 
from the legislation that authorizes pilots to be armed, and they were removed 
by simply inserting the word 'passenger' before the word 'airline,' so passenger 
airline pilots only are the ones that are authorized to carry firearms," Price 
said. "We've got serious, grave concerns about that because cargo pilots have at 
least as strong a requirement for being armed, or maybe even stronger than 
passenger airline pilots."There are a number of differences between 
passenger and cargo 

[CTRL] Fw: If War Starts, Battle Coverage to Be Unprecedented

[Jim Rarey]

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Bread and circuses for the masses. Shades of the Roman coliseum and the
gladiators. The suspense of a Hitchcock film, will the emperor turn his thumb up
or down?

JR
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Subject: If War Starts, Battle Coverage to Be
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By Kathleen T. RhemAmerican Forces Press
ServiceWASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2003 -- If the United States is
forcedinto a war with Iraq, the American public can expect"incredibly
robust coverage," the woman in charge offacilitating that coverage said
today.Victoria Clarke, assistant secretary of defense for
publicaffairs, told NBC Today show's Matt Lauer that reporterswill be
with air, sea and ground units "from the verybeginning" of any conflict.
With current technology, it'sconceivable American and international viewers
could seereal-time battle coverage, she said.The only restrictions
will be "those things that couldimpact the success of the mission, those
things that canput people's lives at risk," she said.Clarke didn't
deny that live coverage could possibly leadto American viewers seeing
American soldiers die in battle."War is not a pleasant thing," she said.
"That's why thepresident and others are trying so hard to exhaust
everypossibility, so that (armed conflict) is a last resort."Such
open coverage is only possible because mediarepresentatives and defense
officials have spent countlesshours drawing up media "rules of engagement."
Clarke saidcooperation between major media outlets and the Pentagonhas
been extraordinarily close in recent months todetermine how best to
facilitate news coverage.Operational security is always a top concern,
Clarke said,but journalists who accompany units can generally betrusted
to follow established rules on the release ofinformation. She pointed to the
hundreds, even thousands,of reporters who covered operations in Afghanistan
as anexample."We had very few incidents in which we believed
reportersactually, knowingly, violated the guidelines," she said.The
assistant secretary refused to allow Lauer tocategorize such broad coverage
as propaganda. On thecontrary, she noted, openness is the U.S. military's
way ofcountering Iraqi propaganda."We're going up against people who
are masters of lies anddeception and denial," Clarke said. When such lies
arebroadcast on television, in newspapers and on the Internet,they can
quickly gain an air of truth and becomebelievable, she
explained."It's one thing for us to stand up and truthfully say,
forinstance, that Saddam Hussein has put civilians next tomilitary
assets or vice versa," Clarke continued. "It'sanother thing, and it's a
powerful thing, for NBC or CNNInternational to demonstrate to the world that
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Hypocrisy, thy name is politician (of both parties).

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Re: [CTRL] DoD Releases Draft Military Commission Instruction

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Click on the URL and read this abomination. One statement that jumps out
is, "This document does not preclude trial for crimes that occurred prior to its
effective date." In other words ex-post facto criminal laws in express violation
of the Constitution.

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RELEASEFebruary 28, 2003(703)428-0711(public/industry)DOD
RELEASES DRAFT MILITARY COMMISSION INSTRUCTIONThe General Counsel of the
Department of Defense (DoD) todayreleased a draft military commission
instruction entitled"Crimes and Elements for Trials by Military
Commission:http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2003/d20030228dmci.pdf."This
instruction lists and defines certain violations of thelaws of war and other
offenses triable by military commission.DoD will be prepared to conduct
full and fair legal proceedingsshould a military commission be
convened. Although no chargeshave been referred against any individual
potentially subject tothe jurisdiction of a military commission, this
instruction willhelp to ensure that DoD will be ready to fulfill
itsresponsibilities if called upon.The international law of armed
conflict, from which the Crimesand Elements instruction is derived, is a
broad and complex areaof the law. There is no single legal document
thatcomprehensively codifies this body of law. Rather,
definitionsof crimes are dispersed throughout dozens of sources
includingtreaties and conventions, domestic and international
statutes,judicial decisions, and the body of custom and
practicerecognized by the international community."Over the past few
months, DoD and other government lawyers haveanalyzed these sources of law
and consolidated in a singleresource a list of certain crimes that
potentially may becharged and tried before a military commission as well as
thedefinitions of those crimes," said DoD Deputy General CounselWhit
Cobb. "In the event that a military commission iswarranted, this
instruction will assist all participants -including prosecutors, defense
counsel, and military commissionmembers - to understand what constitutes an
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[CTRL] Don't ask Chief Charles Moose

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Don't ask Chief Charles Moose
  
  Posted: March 5, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern
  
  By Michelle 
  Malkin
  
©2003Creators Syndicate, Inc. 
  
  My famous local police chief, Charles "Still waiting for the white van" 
  Moose, seems to have little time to take care of business here at home. 
  Montgomery County, Md.'s top cop is busy slapping together a tell-all 
  book, polishing off a movie deal, and preaching his purported "crisis 
  management" wisdom abroad. 
  Moose's highly sought-after wisdom is, of course, derived from his 
  gross bungling of last fall's sniper attacks by accused killers John 
  Muhammad and Lee Malvo. But never mind his Keystone Kop hunt for the wrong 
  vehicle while the snipers' Chevy Caprice (spotted by several witnesses and 
  stopped at least 10 times for license-plate checks during the shooting 
  spree) got away. Pay no heed to his oversight of nonsensical roadblocks, 
  botched hotline operations, and the deadly politically correct assumption 
  that the snipers were crazed white militants in a non-existent white box 
  truck. 
  Yes, despite these fatal missteps, gushing and gullible audiences 
  outside Maryland are warmly welcoming Chief Moose as a spotless role 
  model. A local ethics investigation into his side efforts to capitalize on 
  the brutal slayings, such as the for-profit crisis management and conflict 
  resolution consulting firm he formed with his wife just six weeks after 
  the "Beltway" sniper saga ended, will likely do little to slow the 
  jet-setting Moose's pace. 
  Why any group would want to host or hire Chief Moose as an exemplar of 
  effective, responsible public leadership is beyond me. 
  This six-figure-salaried public servant refuses to disclose the amount 
  of his book advance from Dutton Books. He remains similarly tight-lipped 
  as county ethics authorities mull this week whether or not he and his wife 
  are "intentionally (using) the prestige of office for private gain." He 
  dismisses criticism of his judgment as "attacks." 
  Chief Moose's office told me this week that he has not yet accepted any 
  honoraria for his sniper-related speaking engagements. But by his own 
  admission, Moose has already broken clear county government rules 
  requiring him to have gotten permission to pursue the book deal and other 
  off-duty, paid endeavors. He claims he and his wife "haven't made a single 
  penny" from the private consulting venture. But he remains defiantly 
  "hopeful" that he will start turning a profit while keeping his day job. 
  Moose doesn't make his travel schedule available to the public on the 
  county police department website. But my research shows that he is 
  apparently already racking up some major frequent-flyer points, room 
  service and invaluable pre-book publication schmooze time, as an anointed 
  Leader in Times of Crisis. 
  In December, Moose was scheduled as the featured guru at an advanced 
  professionals seminar in Braintree, Mass., where attendees learned how 
  Moose "coordinated one of the biggest manhunts in history." In March, 
  he'll do breakfast with the Virginia Press Association in Norfolk. In 
  April, he's headed to San Francisco to address the National School Board 
  Association for a talk on developing "effective crisis response plans" as 
  demonstrated by his leadership in capturing the snipers. 
  He'll take the same message to Los Angeles that month, at the annual 
  leadership development conference of the National Center for Women and 
  Policing. In May, he'll be the special keynote speaker at a Toronto 
  Crimestoppers convention. The group says that "Chief Moose's skillful 
  management of the Washington sniper events" will make his presentation 
  "particularly meaningful and relevant." In June, he's trekking to 
  Winnipeg, Canada, for the International Police Association's "Aboriginal 
  and Diversity Law Enforcement conference." 
  Chief Moose was closer to home this week for his regular appearance on 
  a softball Beltway radio show called "Ask the Chief." It was a typical 
  exercise in evasion and idolatry. The fawning host apologized for raising 
  questions about the ethics investigation and concluded the interview with 
  a giggly query about which actor would be playing Moose in the 
  sniper-attack movie. 
  Moose wouldn't respond to that 

[CTRL] The Corporate Contracting Behind John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness Program

[Jim Rarey]

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Poindexter conflicts of interest? - JR

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03jan-feb/jan-feb03corp3.html


 
Jan/Feb 2003 - VOLUME 24 - NUMBERS 1  2 


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Total Business 
AwarenessThe Corporate Contracting Behind John Poindexter’s Total 
Information Awareness Program
By Adam 
Mayle and Alex Knott

  
  

  The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon 
  research program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of 
  information on people in the United States, has hired at least eight 
  private companies to work on the effort. Since 1997, those companies have 
  won contracts from the Defense Department agency that oversees the program 
  worth $88 million. 
  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees 
  the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 contracts to Booz 
  Allen  Hamilton amounting to more than $23 million. Lockheed Martin 
  Corporation had 23 contracts worth $27 million. The Schafer Corporation 
  had nine contracts totaling $15 million. Other prominent contractors 
  involved in the TIA program include SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI 
  Dynamic Systems, Syntek Technologies and ASI Systems International. 
  TIA itself was first proposed by an employee of a private contractor. 
  John Poindexter, who worked on DARPA projects for Syntek, an Arlington, 
  Virginia-based technical and engineering services firm, suggested the 
  program in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 
  Poindexter, who headed the National Security Council during the Reagan 
  administration, was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts for his role 
  in the Iran-Contra scandal. The convictions were overturned in 1991 
  because he had been given immunity for his testimony during the 
  Congressional investigation of the affair. On January 14, 2002, he 
  returned to the government as the director of the Information Awareness 
  Office (IAO). 
  TIA draws heavily on the private sector. Five of the eight contractors 
  identified by the Center are involved in evaluating future contracts for 
  the program. Grey Burkhart, an associate of Booz Allen Hamilton, 
  identifies himself on his resumÈ as "assistant project manager" of TIA 
  system implementation. Even the phrase "Total Information Awareness" has a 
  private pedigree -- Visual Analytics, Inc., a Poolesville, Maryland-based 
  software developer and DARPA contractor, has applied for a trademark for 
  the phrase. 
  In addition, at least 24 universities have received almost $10 million 
  during the last five years to do research on TIA-related projects. Some of 
  the largest grants went to Cornell University, Columbia University and the 
  University of California, Berkeley and dealt with the TIA's language 
  translation program, Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and 
  Summarization. 
  "DARPA doesn't do any of its own research," says Jan Walker, a 
  spokesperson for the agency. She also says that DARPA doesn't require 
  private contractors to share their research solely with DARPA. "The 
  government benefits when there are commercial applications [from DARPA 
  research] because it keeps the cost down," she says. Any limitations on 
  commercial use are negotiated "on a case by case basis," she says, adding 
  that, "many of the things DARPA does have commercial applications." 
  DARPA employs 240 people and oversees a budget of roughly $2 billion. 
  It relies heavily on outside contractors. Some act as "systems engineering 
  technical assistance," or SETA contractors, who assist DARPA in managing 
  the efforts and representing the program with Congress, the Department of 
  Defense hierarchy and the military services. Typical projects involve five 
  to 10 contractors, two universities, and budgets between $10 and $40 
  million. DARPA's website notes that the best program managers -- the 
  agency's employees who oversee the contractors -- "have always been 
  freewheeling zealots in pursuit of their goals." 
  A lack of oversight Congress, which exercises oversight of 
  the executive branch and the military, has not held a single public 
  hearing on TIA and sources on the Hill suggest that members know little 
  about it. In a November 22, 2002 letter, Senator Charles E. Grassley, 
  R-Iowa, asked the inspector general of the Defense Department to "conduct 
  a complete and thorough review of the TIA program." Noting that available 
  information regarding TIA was not sufficient, Grassley wrote that the 
  Defense Department's comments about DARPA "only provide few answers and 
  invite many more questions." 
  Grassley questioned the 

[CTRL] More Defense Department privatization

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CONTRACTS from the United States Department of DefenseNo. 
105-03FOR RELEASE AT(703)697-5131(media)5 p.m. ETMarch 10, 
2003(703)428-0711(public/industry)CONTRACTS
ARMY


Texas Gas Service Co., Austin, Texas, was awarded a 
$9,479,280firm-fixed-price type of contract for assuming 
ownership,operation and maintenance of the natural gas distribution 
systemfor the U.S. Army. The performance completion date is 
March2013. Contract funds will expire at the end of the 
currentfiscal year. This was a sole-source solicitation. 
Thecontracting activity is the Defense Energy Support Center, 
FortBelvoir, Va. (SP0600-03-C-8252).


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ONEOK names head of Austin-based gas unit
An executive at ONEOK Inc. [NYSE: OKE] will become president of the 
Austin-based natural gas assets that the energy company is buying from Southern 
Union Co., ONEOK announced Monday. 
Once ONEOK's $420 million purchase of Southern Union Gas Co. is completed, 
Roger Mitchell will become president of what will be known as Texas Gas Service 
Co. Mitchell has been vice president for the eastern region of ONEOK's Oklahoma 
gas distribution subsidiary, Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. 
Texas Gas Service will maintain headquarters in Austin, and Mitchell will be 
based here, ONEOK spokeswoman Andrea Chancellor says. 
The ONEOK-Southern Union Gas deal is expected to take effect Jan. 1. 
The new Texas Gas Service serves about 535,000 customers and employs about 
730 people throughout Texas, including about 220 in Austin. 
"The same employees that were at the company prior to the change in name and 
ownership will be the same employees there tomorrow, providing gas service and 
responding to customer needs," Chancellor says. "Actually, the transition will 
fairly seamless and invisible to customers." 
The deal includes Southern Union Gas, 125 miles of natural gas transmission 
lines, SUPro Energy Co., Mercado Gas Services Inc. and Southern Union's natural 
gas distribution investments in Mexico. 
With its move into Texas, Tulsa, Okla.-based ONEOK will serve a total of 1.96 
million customers, a company news release states. According to the latest survey 
published by Pipeline  Gas Journal, that will make ONEOK the country's 
fifth-largest gas distribution company, based on the number of customers. 
Mitchell, 51, joined ONEOK in 1978 and has held numerous executive positions, 
including manager of corporate responsibility, manager of corporate 
communications and advertising, Oklahoma Natural Gas' area manager in Ponca City 
and Oklahoma Natural Gas' district manager of customer service in Oklahoma City. 

David Stevens had been president of Southern Union Gas since 1998. He now is 
president and CEO of Energy Worx Inc., a pipeline management subsidiary of 
Southern Union. 
On Monday, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Southern Union [NYSE: SUG] announced it 
would use proceeds from the sale of its Austin-based natural gas division to 
help the parent company finance its $1.8 billion purchase of a gas pipeline 
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Re: [CTRL] Trouble Ahead For New US Colony

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Can you say "Selective Service?"

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[CTRL] Fw: Northern Watch Flies Top Cover for U.S. Envoy in Northern Iraq

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They must have been feeding those pilots "stay awake pills" by the
gross. - JR

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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Northern Watch Flies Top Cover for U.S. Envoy in Northern
Iraq
By Maj. Bob ThompsonSpecial to the American Forces Press
ServiceINCIRLIK AIR BASE, TURKEY, March 11, 2003 -- What started out as
arequest for 48 hours of combat air patrols turned into six days
ofpractically nonstop flying as Operation Northern Watch kept skiesclear
while a U.S. envoy met with Iraqi opposition leaders in
northernIraq.Though not designed for around-the-clock operations,
OperationNorthern Watch aircraft patrolled Iraqi skies for more than 129
hourswhile flying 290 sorties between Feb. 24 and March 2."This was
one of the most challenging missions ever accomplished inthe history of
Operation Northern Watch," said Brig. Gen. Robin Scott,co-commanding general
of the combined task force based here. "Ourpeople proved once again that we
have the best pilots, the bestaircraft and the best maintainers in the
world."During the long hours of support to the envoy's meeting on
dangerousground, Operation Northern Watch achieved historic "firsts." For
thefirst time, coalition aircraft dropped precision-guided bombs Feb.
24in response to threats from Iraqi mobile surface-to-surface
missilelaunchers south of Mosul. The operation conducted its first
leafletdrop March 1, northeast of Mosul -- the 240,000 flyers warned
Iraqigunners not to target or fire upon coalition aircraft."It was
truly a team effort," Scott said. "My co-commander, Brig. Gen.(Levent)
Turkmen and his staff worked tirelessly, providing thenecessary coordination
and approvals from myriad Turkish agencies tokeep the mission on track. The
39th Wing worked with us day and nightto ensure we had all the support we
needed to carry out the mission."Though definitely not a first,
coalition aircraft also came underIraqi anti-aircraft-artillery fire midway
through the missions andresponded Feb. 27 by knocking out military
communication sites westand south of Mosul.Since the end of
Operation Desert Storm in 1991, coalition forces haveenforced the Northern
No-fly Zone despite being fired upon by theIraqis nearly every
mission."Our day-to-day Operation Northern Watch mission is difficult
anddangerous even under normal circumstances," Scott said. "Last
week,despite long hours, marginal weather conditions and
nighttimeoperations, our team stayed at the top of their game and made it
lookeasy."To keep up with the heavy demand for air refueling,
Operation EnduringFreedom tankers and aircrews were quickly drafted to
support themissions over northern Iraq."During the six days of the
operation, our tanker team offloaded 5.6million pounds during in-flight
refueling," Scott said. "Without thesecrucial assets, we would have never
maintained our 24/7 operationsover Iraq."During the mission,
coalition fighters, tankers, intelligence,surveillance and reconnaissance
assets worked as a team to enforce theno-fly zone and provide air cover.
Missions required a mix of aircraftand on any given day have included the
E-3B Sentry AWACS, EA-6BProwler, EP-3 Aries II, F-15C Eagle, F-16CJ and
F-16CG Falcons, UH-60Black Hawk helicopter, MC-130 Combat Talon, KC-135R
Stratotanker, C-12Huron, British GR-3 Jaguar, Nimrod and VC-10
Tankers.AWACS crews of the 970th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control
Squadronfrom Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., flew 14 sorties and 173
hourswithout a single air or ground abort.Operation Northern Watch
personnel received thanks and congratulationsfrom Gen. Charles Wald, deputy
commander of U.S. European Command;Gen. Gregory Martin, commander of U.S.
Air Forces in Europe; and Brig.Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Special
Operations Component, EUCOM,Scott noted.(Maj. Bob Thompson is the
director of the Combined Information Bureau,Combined Task Force Operation
Northern Watch, at Incirlik Air Base,Turkey.)200303111a.jpg An F-15C
Eagle tops off its gas tanks during an aerialrefueling with a KC-135R
Stratotanker during Operation Northern Watch.Both aircraft are part of a
coalition task force that has enforced theno-fly zone over northern Iraq and
monitored Iraqi compliance withU.N. Security Council resolutions for nearly
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[CTRL] Fw: DoD, USAID Teams Readying to Rebuild Iraq, Provide Assistance

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Will Halliburton get to use forced labor (conquered military) as
reconstruction laborers?


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Subject: DoD, USAID Teams Readying to Rebuild Iraq, Provide
Assistance
By Kathleen T. RhemAmerican Forces Press
ServiceWASHINGTON, March 11, 2003 -- "Free Iraqis" who have lived in
theUnited States and other democratic countries will provide
valuableliaison between local Iraqi government officials and U.S.
officialsoverseeing the country after any potential
conflict.Officials from the Defense Department and the U.S. Agency
forInternational Development are working to have teams ready to move
intoIraq in the event of military conflict to begin
coordinationimmediately for humanitarian aid and reconstruction.A
senior defense official was quick to point out to reporters todaythat the
president hasn't made a decision to force Iraqi disarmamentwith military
might. But if he does, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeldhas said the United
States is committed to making life immediatelybetter for the Iraqi
people.In January, President Bush authorized the immediate stand-up of
theOffice of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. A senior
officialfamiliar with that office and its efforts also was on hand to
answerreporters' questions in the Pentagon today.That official
explained the agency is looking to hire more than 100"free Iraqis" on 90- to
180-day contracts to assist the civilministries and to act as
representatives in each of the 17 provincesand Baghdad to coordinate with
the local officials and help recommendreconstruction or humanitarian
projects."We think that's a good recipe," the official said, "to have
peoplethat were born and raised in those provinces but now have lived in
ademocracy. And now they can explain things to the people there who
havebeen oppressed for 30 years."He said he hopes to hire Iraqis who
have specific expertise in certainareas. For example, he is looking for
volunteers who have experience inpublic health administration and who can
assist officials in the Iraqihealth ministry.The official said the
goal of the Office of Reconstruction andHumanitarian Assistance is to pass
the country's governance to theIraqi people as soon as possible, "but with a
government that expressesthe free will of the people of Iraq."In the
immediate aftermath of any conflict, a civil administrator, whois a senior
Defense Department civilian official, would coordinateefforts in Iraq and
report directly to the chief of U.S. CentralCommand, Army Gen. Tommy Franks.
This administrator would oversee threeseparate teams coordinating
reconstruction, civil administration andhumanitarian assistance.A
cornerstone of the plan would be to keep Iraqi officials in theircurrent
positions within the civil ministries, police and militaryforces, and
courts, and to continue paying them. The Defense Departmentbriefer explained
officials are working to determine a fair pay scale,keeping in mind that as
much as 60 percent of all Iraqis now getgovernment food aid.He said
there are many possible sources of funding for payrolls. Hespecifically
mentioned frozen Iraqi assets as a potential solution.Regular
Iraqi army soldiers would provide the manpower for many civilreconstruction
projects, the official explained. Military forces aresuited to completing
engineering projects like road construction andremoving rubble, and to
demining and disposing of unexploded ordnance."Using the army allows us
not to demobilize it immediately and put alot of unemployed people on the
street," the official explained."They're working to rebuild their country.
It's re-establishing some ofthe prestige that the regular army has lost over
the years, and itallows us to get a lot of good things done for the
country."The official estimated the Defense Department
could get the mechanismsfor Iraqi self-governance into place within several
months. He'soptimistic, he said, these efforts will get Iraq back on its
feet morequickly than similar efforts in Afghanistan. He noted Iraq's
populationis more sophisticated and its infrastructure more developed
thanAfghanistan's."Even though it's been an oppressed country,
(Iraq) has the structureand the mechanisms in there to run that country and
run it fairlyefficiently," the official said. "At one time, it was probably
one ofthe most efficient countries in that part of the world, and a lot
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[CTRL] Gorton still hasn't received security clearance

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134651355zsection_id=268448406slug=gorton12mdate=20030312

 
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Gorton still hasn't received security clearance 
By Alex Fryer Seattle Times Washington bureau 

WASHINGTON — When Slade Gorton was appointed in December to a special 
commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, supporters 
heralded his lengthy résumé and expertise in intelligence matters. But Gorton 
lacks the one thing he really needs: security clearance to review classified 
documents. 
Gorton, a former Republican U.S. senator from Washington, isn't the only 
commissioner without clearance, so while the FBI completes background checks, 
the panel is at a standstill. 
"The slowdown is our own clearances," said Gorton, noting that he can't even 
read the classified findings of a previous congressional investigation into the 
Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. 


  
  

  


  

  
  
9/11 commission Chairman: Former New Jersey Republican Gov. 
  Thomas Kean; vice chairman: Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, 
  D-Ind. 
  Members: Former Illinois Republican Gov. Jim 
  Thompson; former White House Counsel Fred Fielding; former 
  Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash.; former Navy Secretary John Lehman; 
  former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.; former Rep. Timothy Roemer, 
  D-Ind.; lawyer Richard Ben-Veniste; and former deputy attorney 
  general Jamie Gorelick 
The National Commission on 
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is supposed to examine every aspect of 
the attacks, including intelligence systems, law-enforcement agencies, 
commercial aviation and all "other areas of the public and private sectors 
determined relevant by the Commission," according to the law that authorized its 
creation. 
In an earlier interview, Gorton said the commission would "develop a history 
of intelligence operations, where they fell down, and where there was clear lack 
of cooperation" among the FBI, CIA and other agencies. 
Commission co-chairman Lee Hamilton, a former Indiana congressman, said he 
didn't know how many of the 10 commissioners were awaiting security clearances. 
But he said the FBI likely would not complete all of the checks by the end of 
the month. 
A spokeswoman at the FBI press office in Washington, D.C., said that she had 
no specific information about the 10 commissioners but that a top-secret 
clearance typically takes about 10 months and can include information from 15 
years in the past. 
But because Gorton and other commission members have held security 
clearances, the process could go quicker, said FBI spokeswoman Charlene Sloan. 
"We do the best we can," she said. "A serious, lengthy background check takes 
time." 
Still, it's an odd setback for Gorton and others who were selected for their 
decades of public service. 
"It's kind of astounding that someone like Senator Gorton can't get immediate 
clearance," Hamilton said. "It's a matter we are concerned about." 
Hamilton said the White House is urging the FBI to expedite the process, 
which can include interviews with business associates, neighbors and college 
professors. 
It has been a rough start for the commission. 
In December, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger resigned a month after 
being named commission chairman over complaints of possible conflicts of 
interest. Two days earlier, former Sen. George Mitchell, D-Maine, had announced 
his withdrawal as vice chairman, citing suggestions he should sever ties to his 
law firm. 
The law establishing the commission states that members must be "prominent 
United States citizens," well-versed in intelligence-gathering, law enforcement 
and foreign affairs. 
Gorton, a former state attorney general, was elected to the Senate in 1980 
and defeated in 1986. He again was elected in 1988 and 1994. He served for two 
years on the Senate Intelligence Committee during the Gulf War. 
After his 2000 defeat, Gorton joined the Seattle law firm Preston, Gates 
 Ellis. 
The commission must make a report to Congress in 14 months, detailing its 
conclusions and recommending corrective measures to prevent acts of terrorism. 
Gorton said the commissioners have decided all recommendations must be 
unanimous. "Otherwise, the report will simply gather dust," he said. 
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[CTRL] CFR Post-war plan for Iraq

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Following is the URL for the Council on Foreign Relations' plan for U.S.
policy in post-war Iraq.

Let's see how closely the actual policy follows it.

http://www.cfr.org/pdf/Post-War_Iraq.pdf


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[CTRL] Fw: Money in Politics Alert -- Postwar Profiteers

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CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICSMONEY IN POLITICS ALERTVol.
7, #8; March 12, 2003tel: 202-857-0044, fax: 202-857-7809email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: www.opensecrets.org;www.capitaleye.org; www.fecwatch.orgPOSTWAR
PROFITEERSHow a handful of construction firms got an early invitation
torebuild IraqBy Sheryl FredA select group of U.S.
construction firms now bidding on alucrative government contract to rebuild
a postwar Iraqcontributed a combined $2.8 million--68 percent
toRepublicans--over the past two election cycles.The U.S. Agency for
International Development asked BechtelGroup Inc., Fluor Corp., Halliburton
Co. subsidiary Kellogg,Brown  Root, Louis Berger Group Inc. and Parsons
Corp. tosubmit bids last week for the $900-million contract. Thisinitial
estimate for repairing and building water systems,roads, bridges, schools
and hospitals in the country is just thefirst step in what the Wall Street
Journal called "the largestgovernment reconstruction effort since Americans
helped torebuild Germany and Japan after World War II." The firms
thatland the contract are also likely to make the short list forfuture
projects in Iraq, which include plans to develop thecountry's oil
industry.Bechtel, the engineering giant that employed the likes of
formerDefense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of
StateGeorge Schultz and former CIA Director William Casey before
theytook their government posts, gave $1.3 million in individual,PAC and
soft money contributions between 1999 and 2002. As itprepares its bid for
the postwar project, Bechtel is facingallegations that it contributed to
Iraq's military buildupnearly two decades ago. The San Francisco Chronicle
has reportedthat a German journalist uncovered a document prepared for
theUnited Nations by Iraq that says Bechtel was among 24 U.S.companies
that supplied the country with weapons during the '80s.Kellogg, Brown
 Root and parent company Halliburton--which washeaded by Vice President
Dick Cheney until 2000--was thesecond-largest donor of the group, with more
than $709,000 incontributions. Halliburton also gave more to Bush's
presidentialcampaign--$17,677--than any of the other bidders combined.
Fluor, which gave more than $483,000 in individual, PAC and
softmoney contributions in the previous two election cycles, alsohas
ties to the Defense Department. Kenneth Oscar, the company'svice president
of strategy and government services, recentlyserved as the acting assistant
secretary of the Army, where hedirected its $35 billion-a-year procurement
budget.Representatives from Bechtel and Halliburton told reporters
thisweek that they were asked to submit a bid because they've
donesimilar work with USAID in the past. Both companies participatedin
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[CTRL] Fw: U.S. Dominance in Space Makes General 'Pity the Enemy'

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A lot of bragging but no mention of the really exotic weapons they have. -
JR

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ServiceWASHINGTON, March 12, 2003 -- Anybody who goes against the
massivespace capability of the U.S. military "is in for a tough go," Air
ForceMaj. Gen. Franklin J. "Judd" Blaisdell told reporters during a
Pentagonpress briefing today."Whether it's Iraq or any other
enemy of the United States and itsallies, I would tell you that we're so
dominant in space that I wouldpity a country that would come up against us,"
said Blaisdell, the AirForce's director of space operations and integration.
"The synergy withair, land and sea forces and our ability to control the
battle spaceand seize the high ground is devastating."I don't
believe that many of them understand how powerful we are," thegeneral told
reporters. "All countries respect the power of the UnitedStates and they
respect how dominant we are in this region."Asked what would demonstrate
how much more powerful the United Statesis now compared to the Gulf War,
Blaisdell rattled off "speed,lethality, persistence, information dominance,
precision and the battlespace characterization, bombs on target, real-time
battle management."That's what we're about, and that's what we're able
to deliver throughspace, air, land and sea and the capability of all of
those to cometogether."Space started playing a major role in warfare
in the 1960s and early1970s, Blaisdell noted, harkening back to the May 1960
shootdown ofFrancis Gary Powers' U-2 plane over Russia. He said, today, in
one day,one satellite, the Corona, could photograph more Soviet territory
than28 U-2 missions over four years."Space assets will save lives.
It keeps folks from putting our troopsin harm's way," the general said. "It
gives you that persistence,perspective and penetration, because space assets
can get over areasthat you wouldn't normally be able to get over with manned
platforms.You can stay there, loiter there, and for a warfighter, you have
anopportunity to know what's going on there -- real-time
situationalawareness, real time battle management unimpeded."Noting
that space is a worldwide mission, Blaisdell said hisorganization has more
than 33,600 people spread out in 21 differentlocations in the United States
and 15 places around the world.Pointing out that warfighters need good
communication, Blaisdell said,"Many people forget that we depend quite a bit
on commercialcommunications. You need good communications if you're going to
get tothe theater and be able to make a difference. Good communications
isneeded to ensure that we have information superiority for the
fight."Warfighters are also concerned about weather conditions, he
noted. "Youwould no more go into a battle in any region in the world
withoutknowing the weather conditions," Blaisdell said. "For the Army,
you'dwant to know moisture and soil content. They don't want their
tanksbogged down. The Navy needs to know winds and sea state,
icebergpossibilities. The Air Force will not do refueling operations
inthunderstorms."When it come to "space control," for space
situation awareness, thegeneral said, "We need to know what's happening in
our spaceenvironment, not only for what we have, but what other countries
mayhave." He said the United States has a ground system that can read
thelettering on a basketball out about 25,000 miles. But it's
weatherdependent.Col. Steven Fox, director of the Army Space Program
Office and theproject manager for the exploration of national capabilities,
said theArmy considers itself the largest user of space
capabilities."And most recently, our Afghanistan involvement highlights
how much werely on space," Fox said. "Space enables everything we do,
fromdetection of missiles immediately upon launch so we can prepare
tointercept them or to deal with the effects. We collect data
foranalysis and use space for dissemination of intelligence
capabilities.We use GPS for other space-based systems to locate targets, to
guideour weapons and for navigation."The colonel said space assets
"allow us to disseminate missile datawarnings to soldiers very quickly so
they can take the appropriateaction. But primarily, space ensured that we
had an uneven playingfield in favor of the United States and our allies.
Space isfundamental to the way Americans are going to fight."Space
capabilities also help the Army keep track of supplies andenhance logistics
operations.Fox said space capabilities also allow the Army to keep track
ofsoldiers who are far beyond line of sight of normal
communications.Some soldiers carry transmitters.Asked why some
soldiers buy commercial GPS receivers, Fox said, "It'ssort of like your
favorite brand of cell phone. So I believe somesoldiers are used to a
commercial product and they use it."He said a 

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Fed let banks short commodities without limit?

[Jim Rarey]

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There will be some bear rallies, but it won't hit bottom until the Dow is
around 3,000.

JR

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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Fed let banks short commodities
without limit?
-Caveat Lector-I'd be willing to bet the market has made
a bottom.SteveOn 13 Mar 2003 at 0:10, William Shannon
wrote: If they were smart they'd be shorting S  P
futures! Bill."If this were a dictatorship, it'd
be a heck of a lot easier, just solong as I'm the
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Fed let banks short commodities without limit?

[Jim Rarey]

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Now what would I do with WorldCom wallpaper?

Jim

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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Fed let banks short commodities
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-Caveat Lector-On 13 Mar 2003 at 1:13, Jim Rarey
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until the Dow is around 3,000.I'd be willing to bet 100,000 shares
of WorldCom your're wrong, Jim. ;-)Steve"If this were a
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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Will Fed let banks short commodities without limit?

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I think some of it would look nice in Terry MacAuliffe's den. (:

Jim

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-Caveat Lector-On 13 Mar 2003 at 2:39, Jim Rarey
wrote: Now what would I do with WorldCom wallpaper?Apply it
to the steps of the Whitehouse, (with temporary glue that expires in 2004)
;)Steve"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a
lot easier, just solong as I'm the dictator."-GW Bush during a
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[CTRL] Fw: DoD Announces Number For Oil Well Fire Contractors

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I thought Halliburton already had the contract. Maybe the DOD is just
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NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of
DefenseNo. 116-03(703)697-5131(media)IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch
13, 2003(703)428-0711(public/industry)DOD ANNOUNCES NUMBER FOR OIL
WELL FIRE CONTRACTORS The
Department of Defense announced last week that ithas plans to prevent or
mitigate destruction of Iraq's oil wellsby Saddam Hussein's regime.
Companies interested in providingspecialized services related to
firefighting or assessing damageto oil facilities in the event of military
action in Iraq shouldcall toll-free, 866-461-5171. A recorded message
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Re: [CTRL] Congressional Taliban At It Again

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is
insession. --Mark Twain (1866)
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[CTRL] Fw: Chief Moose withheld look-out on sniper suspects

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D.C. SNIPER TERROR Cops: Chief Moose withheldlook-out on sniper 
  suspectsDelayed release of descriptions focusof 
  Maryland police union negotiations
  
  Posted: March 15, 20033:27 p.m. Eastern
  
  By Paul 
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  ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose knew the 
  descriptions of the Beltway snipers at least one day before releasing the 
  information to his own patrol units, police union officials charge. They 
  say the delay not only jeopardized the lives of citizens, but also the 
  safety of police officers. 
  
  


  Chief Charles 
Moose
  And in an unprecedented move, union officials in their latest contract 
  negotiations insisted that Moose’s office agree to ''promptly notify 
  officers of all vehicles, suspects and conditions, of which it becomes 
  aware, that may jeopardize officer safety.'' 
  The union settled for less-specific language proposed by headquarters 
  in the final contract, which still obligates Moose to ensure ''the timely 
  release of appropriate information to preserve officer safety.'' 
  Walter Bader, president of the Montgomery County Fraternal Order of 
  Police, testified last month during contract talks that the issue of Moose 
  withholding information from street officers "became a concern during the 
  sniper incident." WorldNetDaily has obtained a transcript of his Feb. 3 
  testimony. 
  Noting that alleged Beltway snipers John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd 
  Malvo were armed and extremely dangerous and posed a "greater than normal 
  threat of death" to officers, Bader complained that Moose should have put 
  out information on the suspects, including their names, race and vehicle 
  description, in multiple radio broadcasts as soon as he learned the 
  information. 
  But a lawyer for the police union suggested the chief, who has been 
  widely praised for his handling of the case, delayed releasing the 
  information by at least a day. 
  What's more, the suspect look-out, when finally released, was posted on 
  the department's "web board," which cannot be accessed from patrol cars. 
  Moose declined to notify uniformed patrol officers about Mohammed and 
  Malvo through radio channels or through their cruiser computers, called 
  mobile data terminals, or MDTs. 
  Assistant Montgomery County Police Chief John King told the union 
  lawyer he did not know when headquarters learned that Mohammed was a 
  suspect. "I am unsure," he testified in a Jan. 30 arbitration hearing, 
  according to a transcript obtained by WorldNetDaily. 
  King also claimed not to know when the warrant for the sniper suspects' 
  arrest was put together or when it was shared with Montgomery County 
  headquarters here, according to the transcript. 
  Moose responded to the union charges in a bulletin 
  posted Thursday on the Montgomery County Police Department website. 
  He says he learned of no "confirmed suspects" by the close of the day 
  on Oct. 22. That morning, bus driver Conrad Johnson was fatally wounded by 
  the snipers in Aspen Hill, Md. 
  Mohammed and Malvo were finally arrested early in the morning on Oct. 
  24 after allegedly shooting 13 people in the capital area over three 
  weeks. 
  Related column: 
  Race-conscious 
  Moose may have cost lives 
  
  

  Paul Sperry is Washington 
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[CTRL] International Solidarity Movement activist killed

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International Solidarity Movement activist killed




American college student Rachel Corrie was tragically killed on
Sundaywhen she fell down as an IDF bulldozer destroyed a house in
Gaza.The bulldozer was part of an operation to eliminate tunnels used
byPalestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt into
Gaza.Corrie apparently stood atop a mound of dirt as the bulldozer
approachedthe house, but then fell backward, tumbling down the mound and out
ofsight. The bulldozer continued and accidentally crushed her.The
IDF Spokesman said that soldiers repeatedly warned demonstrators tokeep a
safe distance.Corrie was a volunteer with the International Solidarity
Movement. She wasknown for anti-Israel and anti-American activities, as this
photo fromGaza shows Corrie burning an American flag, while Palestinian
children look on.(In general, we wonder on what basis the International
Solidarity Movementjustifies shielding a house used for weapons
smuggling.)The Washington Post(http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35126-2003Mar16.html)
notestwo important points:1) soldiers driving an armored bulldozer
have limited visibility becauseof the narrow window.2) One of the
ISM founders admits the protesters might not have been asdisciplined in
their protest as they should have been.Most media reports failed to
mention that the IDF bulldozer was lookingfor smuggling tunnels. Instead,
reports described the housesympathetically as "the home of a Gazan
doctor."And the entire mainstream media neglected to mention
Corrie'santi-American activities and flag-burning.HonestReporting
encourages members to monitor your local media to see howthey are reporting
the circumstances of Corrie's unfortunate death, andher personal
background.HonestReporting.com
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[CTRL] Paper: EPA Erred in Ground Zero Air Claim

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http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/3-17-2003/20030317041501_30.html



  
  
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Paper: EPA Erred in Ground Zero Air Claim

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - 
Ground Zero tests by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the 
days immediately after the World Trade Center collapse did not 
support the agency's own statements the air around the site was safe 
to breathe, a newspaper reported.
A report by the EPA's Office of Inspector General said the agency 
reached its conclusion on the safety of the air using a cancer risk 
level 100 times greater than what it normally considers acceptable 
for public exposure to toxic contaminants.
The status report, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, supports the 
views of some doctors and public health advocates who evaluated 
thousands of firefighters, volunteers, demolition workers and 
laborers working on the site.
"To say that it's safe, which suggests no risk, we just knew that 
was wrong," said Jonathan Bennett, a spokesman for the New York 
Committee for Occupational Safety and Health.
The status report summarizes preliminary conclusions. It is 
expected to be published in May and a spokesman for the inspector 
general said the findings could change before publication. The 
Office of Inspector General is an independent investigative office 
that reports directly to Congress.
Of 3,500 Ground Zero workers screened nearly a year after the 
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, more than half continued to suffer from 
lung, ear, nose and throat problems, according to a study released 
in January by Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
About 40,000 workers were involved in the rescue, recovery and 
cleanup efforts at the site.
The yearlong investigation by the Office of Inspector General 
will determine whether air pollution monitoring data from the 
collapse site and surrounding areas supports what the EPA told the 
public about the health risks.
EPA officials declined comment Friday.
"It is inappropriate for the EPA to be commenting on a document 
that is not final and that is being done independently," said Lisa 
Harrison, the agency's press secretary.
The EPA has come under criticism from inside and outside the 
agency over its public pronouncements on air quality around Ground 
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[CTRL] Plunge protection and rallying shares

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http://www.thisislondon.com/news/business/articles/timid60605

This isLONDON18/03/03 - Business section 
Plunge protection and rallying sharesAnthony Hilton, Evening Standard 

STOCK markets rallied last week because it looked as if war with Iraq was 
going to be postponed. Yesterday the markets rallied because it looked like the 
war was about to begin. The two reasons contradict each other. The explanations 
do not make sense unless the markets are being rigged. 

And who might want to do that? Well the US government would. The last thing 
President George W Bush needs is for his invasion of Iraq to set off a stock 
market crash, a collapse in the price of the dollar, a rush into gold or a spike 
in the price of oil. It is the kind of distraction that could be very 
unsettling. 

The American public's support for Bush's Middle East adventure is not so 
cast-iron strong that he wants to tempt fate. So, according to the conspiracy 
theorists, the US authorities have been intervening anonymously in the markets 
to move them in the direction they want and to burn out any short-term 
speculators positioned the other way. 

So do we believe the conspiracy story? Well, it is known that America has a 
secret standing committee known unofficially as the 'plunge protection team' 
which consists of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Federal 
Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, various other senior administration officials 
and the leading movers and shakers of Wall Street. The official purpose of this 
committee, as detailed a few years ago in the Washington Post, is to stabilise 
unruly markets for the greater good of the US as a whole. Seeking to prevent a 
military operation being undermined by panic in the financial markets would 
appear to be well within its brief. 

The conspiracy theory also seems to fit the facts. The more astute watchers 
of markets say that the only explanation for what began last week and continued 
yesterday was a US government-inspired support action to get markets where they 
wanted before the outbreak of hostilities. 

The trick about buying and selling in markets is to complete the trade 
without moving the price. The massive and sudden surge of activity last week and 
yesterday only made sense if it was intended to shift the price. Last week and 
again precisely at 3.30pm yesterday, massive selling undermined the euro on the 
currency markets and made the dollar correspondingly stronger. To the minute, 
there was similar sudden heavy selling in the gold market. Last week this bashed 
the metal's price from $350 to nearer $330 and yesterday it killed off the 
recovery. 

So much for gold as a safe haven in times of war. 

Last week again, heavy selling and officially-inspired rumours of a fleet of 
loaded Saudi tankers heading this way brought the price of crude back from its 
peak. Yesterday the price was undermined by helpful rumours that the US 
government would release some of its vast strategic oil stockpile. 

All very convenient, as was the rally in equities led by the New York's Dow 
Jones Industrial Average. The Dow, surprisingly, is one of the world's least 
sophisticated indices. It is composed of 30 shares but these are not weighted 
for market capitalisation, so the Dow's value is much easier to manipulate than 
Wall Street's size and importance would suggest. 

Because its shares sell for more than $130, one company, 3M, accounts for 
more than 10% of the Dow's value. IBM is another such heavyweight. Aggressive 
buying of these two companies has a remarkable effect on the index - certainly 
enough to create a bandwagon on to which others will jump. Needless to say, 3M 
has seen huge volume in recent days. 

Convinced? We may not know what really happened for months, or even years. 
But there has been some astonishingly ham-fisted dealing in recent days if it 
was not deliberate market manipulation. And given that truth is the first 
casualty in war, why should we expect markets to be a no-go area for the 
architects of spin and the conditioners of expectations? 

These markets are no place for innocents or innocence. 

KKR's record
IN a recent article on the Safeway bid, I wrote that on the basis of its 2001 
report to investors, private equity house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts had 'only two 
seriously profitable investments out of more than 60' in its 26 years of 
operation. 

This is misleading because, while the two investments to which I referred 
were among the most successful in the history of private equity and contributed 
a significant proportion of the aggregate $30bn-plus of gains the firm has 
generated to date for its investors, the majority of the remainder have also 
been profitable. 




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[CTRL] Fw: Pentagon Plans Heavy Investment in UAV Development

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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Pentagon Plans Heavy Investment in UAV 
Development
Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press 
ServiceWASHINGTON, March 18, 2003  The Defense Department 
todayunveiled a billion dollar roadmap for unmanned aerialvehicles 
during the next 25 years. Plans call fordeveloping joint interoperable UAVs 
that are capable ofeverything from surveillance to air strike."The 
roadmap provides those high priority investmentsnecessary to move UAV 
capability to the mainstream," saidDyke Weatherington, deputy of the UAV 
Planning Task Forcein the Office of the Secretary of Defense, at a DoD 
pressbriefing today. "The potential value UAVs offer rangeacross 
virtually every mission area and capability ofinterest to DoD. The roadmap 
identifies those keytechnology areas that we think are right for 
investment."The Pentagon has made UAV weapon systems a 
priority.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who strongly supportsthe UAV 
program, has pushed UAVs as one way to transformthe military.Today, 
about 90 UAVs support military operations around theworld, and the 
department has them standing by forpotential use over Iraq.By 2010, 
according to the roadmap report, DoD hopes toincrease its UAV inventory to 
about 350. And the departmentplans to increase that to more than a thousand 
in theoutyears, according to Weatherington.From 1991 to 1999 the 
Pentagon invested about $3 billion inUAV projects. That is projected to rise 
to $10 billion fromtoday through 2010, according to the latest DoD 
UnmannedAerial Vehicles Roadmap 2002-2027 report.The Air Force's 
Predator UAV proved its military capabilityflying reconnaissance missions in 
Bosnia, and was creditedwith taking out one of al Qaeda's top lieutenants 
inAfghanistan with a Hellfire missile.Besides Predator, the military 
services are developingother UAV platforms. For example, the Air Force 
hasanother UAV called Global Hawk. The system is 
completelycomputer-operated and can be used for long-termsurveillance. 
The high-flying Global Hawk currently carriesphoto reconnaissance equipment, 
but production versions ofthe system will carry electronic intelligence 
gatheringmaterials. The Global Hawk can stay airborne for 32 
hours.The Army has developed the Shadow 200 tactical UAV. TheArmy 
also has the Hunter UAV, and both are primarysurveillance UAVs and relay 
video in real time.Meanwhile, the Marine Corps has developed Dragon Eye, 
asmall, hand-launched UAV that can give leaders a snapshotof the 
battlefield, and it plans to make improvements tothe Pioneer UAV developed 
by the Navy. The Pioneer was usedin the 1991 Gulf War.The Navy is 
developing Neptune, which can drop smallpayloads and the X-46/X-47, a large 
autonomous unmannedcombat aerial vehicle that has a 34-foot wingspan. 
Thesystem will be initially built for tactical surveillance,but the Navy 
envisions it one day becoming a strike system.Weatherington said that 
UAVs offer a unique advantage formilitary leaders because they can conduct 
dangerous missionwithout the risk of human life. UAVs will soon have 
thecapability for reconnaissance in areas possiblycontaminated with 
biological or chemical agents or suppressenemy air defenses, or provide deep 
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[CTRL] Fw: Homeland Defense Chief Speaks of New Responsibilities

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ServiceWASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 -- The symbolism couldn't be better:
The newOffice of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense
islocated in the section of the Pentagon destroyed in the
terroristattack of Sept. 11, 2001.Paul McHale, the first assistant
secretary of defense for homelanddefense, said it is appropriate that "we
who work here are remindedevery day that brave men and women died in close
proximity to where wework now, and our obligation is to ensure it doesn't
happen again."A former congressman from Pennsylvania, McHale supervises
all DoDhomeland defense activities. The main focus is oversight of the
newU.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for North America and
theCaribbean. He also supervises homeland defense activities involving
theU.S. Pacific, Transportation and Strategic commands."We have
supervisory responsibility with regard to the services, mostnotably in their
force protection anti-terrorism activities," he saidduring an interview.
"Basically, if DoD is doing it and it relates tohomeland defense, it's
subject to the supervision of the new office."McHale stressed U.S.
Northern Command's defense mission. "It's not justconsequence management,"
he said. "(The command) is involved verydirectly in the deterrence,
prevention and defeat of an enemy attack."McHale said the Congress, the
president and the defense secretary fullyexpect Northern Command to defeat
enemy attacks, "not merely respond inthe event an enemy attack is tactically
successful."While the focus of the U.S. military must be to defeat
hostile nation-states, the "fundamental lesson of Sept. 11 is we now must
redesign ourmilitary forces to effectively defeat terrorist threats,
includingthreats of weapons of mass destruction," he said. "It is
thatobligation which is paramount for NORTHCOM."According to McHale,
the Defense Department will closely coordinatehomeland defense issues with
the new Department of Homeland Security.McHale, a Marine reservist who was
called up for the Persian Gulf War,said two categories of emergencies may
require military support to acivilian agency. The first is when the military
possesses a uniquecapability. A terrorist attack with weapons of mass
destruction is anexample of this, he said.The second is if a
catastrophe overwhelms civilian agencies. "DoD isprepared to respond if so
ordered by president," McHale said. He notedthe new emphasis on homeland
security by local and state governmentsand the improving training and
equipment local emergency respondershave received may mean less likelihood
of service members being used inthis situation.He stressed that in
the United States, the military is almost always ina supporting role. "DoD
will operate in support of a lead federalagency, such as the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, which is partof the Department of Homeland
Security," he said. "We would provideadditional expertise and manpower, if
directed by the president orsecretary of defense."McHale said
service secretaries will remain responsible for forceprotection of stateside
bases for the time being. He said that analternative option would be to
assign responsibility to NorthernCommand. "That is still under discussion,"
he said.His office will also take over as executive agent for civil
support forDoD. Army Secretary Thomas White currently holds the position.
McHalesaid he anticipates that the current special assistant for
militarysupport will come to the new Office of the Deputy Assistant
Secretaryof Defense for Civil Support.Since coming on board after
his Senate confirmation in February, McHalehas been on the road meeting with
various homeland defense leaderswithin the department. He said the people he
has met, the efforts hehas seen and the careful thought that is going into
the activityencourage him. And when he returns, he goes into a part of the
Pentagonthat was once smoking, smoldering wreckage."I think what it
says to our enemies is, if you attack, we will defeatyou; if, in the short
term, your attack is successful, we will comeback and we'll come back
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Re: [CTRL] Tripp'd Down

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You might be interested in a couple of articles I did on Linda Tripp. I
will post them.

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[CTRL] Fw: LINDA TRIPP - KEY TO WACO?

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MEDIUM RARE
By Jim Rarey

September 15, 1999
LINDA TRIPP - KEY TO WACO?

What in the world, you might say, could Linda Tripp have to do 
with the Waco disaster? Please bear with me. Review the facts presented here and 
reach your own conclusions.

That Linda Tripp was more than just a secretary who happened to 
be in the right place (or the wrong place, depending on your point of view) at 
critical times is indisputable. Consider the following chronology of positions 
she held.

Tripp married a career army officer, Bruce Tripp, who probably 
was in military intelligence. According to an article in the March 23, 1998 
issue of Newsweek, "She was introduced to covert operations through a 
secretarial job at U.S. Army Intelligence Command at Fort Meade, Maryland. " The 
article continues, "Following her husband to Fort Bragg, N.C., she got a job 
with the top-secret commando unit, Delta Force, so secret she couldn’t describe 
it on paper. ‘The nature of this position is classified,’ she explains on her 
resume." 

From Delta Force, Tripp was transferred to the Bush White House 
working in the press office. When George Bush lost the election to Bill Clinton 
she was placed on the transition team to work with the incoming 
administration.

With her top secret clearance, she was assigned by the Clinton 
White House to one of the most sensitive positions available under civil service 
as secretary to the new Chief Legal Counsel, Bernard Nussbaum. Nussbaum was 
Hillary Rodham’s law professor at Yale Law School and worked on the Nixon 
impeachment House Committee where he brought Hillary on as a staffer. It is 
generally thought that Hillary was responsible for Nussbaum’s appointment as 
White House Legal Counsel. In her job, Tripp undoubtedly was privy to 
information on the scandals that started almost at the very beginning of the 
Clinton administration (Travelgate and the FBI files, to mention a couple). Waco 
also happened during her stint with Nussbaum (more on that later).

When Nussbaum was replaced as White House Counsel (for reasons 
which are not clear) Tripp was transferred to an even more sensitive position as 
secretary to Vince Foster! Foster, a partner with Hillary Clinton at the Rose 
law firm, was a senior attorney in the White House Counsel Office, but more than 
that was handling the personal legal affairs of the Clintons. Tripp was the last 
person to see Foster in the White House on the day of his death.

The other imbroglios in which she was involved are pretty much 
public knowledge (the Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky affairs). 

How did it come about that Linda Tripp was assigned to two such 
sensitive positions? Neither of the Clintons knew her before they encountered 
her on the Bush transition team. Why would they assign her to such sensitive 
jobs? Obviously, she was recommended by someone the Clintons trusted (or to whom 
they couldn’t say no).

Even more curious is Tripp’s relationship with Lucianne 
Goldberg and Goldberg’s background. According to an article by Elise Ackerman in 
the Feb. 23, 1998 issue of U.S. News and World Report, Goldberg is married to an 
editor at the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), "with ties to U.S. 
intelligence agencies", Ackerman relates. Ackerman also goes out of her way to 
tell us that, "It (NANA) was founded by Ernest Cuneo, a veteran of the OSS, the 
precursor to the CIA."
(The role of reporters and journalists is a classic cover for 
covert intelligence agents.)

The Ackerman article also relates the story of Lucianne 
Goldberg’s experience in "dirty tricks" for the Nixon campaign. Goldberg, 
evidently with genuine press credentials from Women’s News Service (an affiliate 
of NANA) traveled on the McGovern press plane during McGovern’s campaign against 
Richard Nixon in 1972. According to the article, Goldberg later said she was 
collecting information on reporters and Secret Service agents as to "Who was 
sleeping with who, what the Secret Service men were doing with the stewardesses, 
who was smoking pot on the plane-that sort of thing." That information certainly 
had nothing to do with the McGovern campaign strategy but might have been useful 
in blackmailing reporters, journalists and Secret Service agents.





How does all of this relate to Waco?

Michael McNulty, the producer of two film documentaries on Waco 
("Rules of Engagement" and the soon to be released "A New Revelation"), has 
claimed on cable television shows to have documentation that indicates decisions 
on FBI activities at Waco were made in the White House involving; Webster 
Hubbell, Vincent Foster, Hillary Clinton and Bernard Nussbaum.

The advance issue of the Sept. 27, 1999 issue of the New 
American Magazine reports on a meeting held on April 14, 1993 (just five days 
before the final FBI assault at Waco) at which Janet Reno and Webster Hubbell 
met with mil

[CTRL] 'Mega Fix': The dazzling political deceit that led to 9/11

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  As Cashill proves beyond dispute in this DVD, these are not multiple 
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  Sen. John Kerry made no public comment about the fate of TWA Flight 800. 
  But after Sept. 11, 2001, he implied to Larry King that the plane's 
  destruction was a terrorist act, a charge he repeated to Chris Matthews 
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  The Kerry gesture did not surprise writer/ producer/historian Jack 
  Cashill. He had been watching Kerry and the Clintons play deadly games 
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  A Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue, Cashill has produced and 
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  Emmy Award-winning "The Royal Years," among others. When he teamed up with 
  James Sanders three years ago to produce the documentary "Silenced" and 
  the book "First 
  Strike," both on the fate of TWA Flight 800, he began to discern the 
  pattern of political deceit that marked the election cycle of 1995-1996. 
  The research on his new best seller, "Ron Brown's 
  Body," confirmed his suspicions. 
  It was not, however, until he collaborated with "The Third 
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  a series of WorldNetDaily articles about the Oklahoma City bombing that he 
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  Shot in HDTV, "Mega Fix" 
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  Although entertaining, and often amusing, the thesis of "Mega Fix" is 
  deadly serious: In the aftermath of the November 1994 electoral debacle, 
  the Clintons and their operatives –Richard Clarke, Sandy Berger, Jamie 
  Gorelick among others – finessed or fixed all terrorist investigations to 
  enhance Clinton's reelection. This meant denying or downplaying any 
  Islamic connections, particularly to the Ramzi Yousef circle and its known 
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  After the Oklahoma City bombing, the White House made the 
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[CTRL] Powell Aide Gave Papers To Taiwan, FBI Says

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Another outing of a CIA agent? - JR

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24703-2004Sep15?language=printer





  
  


  

  
  
  

  

  

  
   
  
  
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Powell Aide Gave Papers 
To Taiwan, FBI Says 
By Jerry MarkonWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, 
September 16, 2004; Page A01 

A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's 
leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and 
was charged yesterday with concealing a trip to Taiwan, court papers say.
Donald W. Keyser, who was elevated to principal deputy assistant secretary 
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs this year, made the trip last year, according 
to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Keyser, 61, who 
advised Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on China issues, met with one of the 
agents in Taipei last September during an official trip to China and Japan, the 
affidavit says.
Tailed by the FBI in recent weeks, Keyser and two Taiwanese agents conducted 
a series of covert meetings around Washington. At a meeting July 31 at the 
Potowmack Landing restaurant, the affidavit says, Keyser handed the Taiwanese 
two envelopes "that appeared to bear U.S. government printing.''
On Sept. 4 at the same Alexandria restaurant, on the Potomac River with a 
view of downtown Washington, FBI agents saw Keyser pass a document captioned 
"discussion topics,'' the affidavit says. FBI agents stopped the three men 
outside the restaurant and took the six-page document, described in the 
affidavit as something "derived from material to which Keyser had access as a 
result of his employment with the Department of State."
The court documents do not say that Keyser accepted money and do not 
otherwise ascribe a motive. Neither Keyser nor his attorney returned phone calls 
yesterday. 
Keyser told the FBI that the document he gave the two Taiwanese agents 
contained "talking points" that he often would prepare for his meetings with the 
two agents, according to the affidavit. He said that his trip to Taiwan had been 
for sightseeing and that he had not notified anyone about it, including his 
family. His wife is a CIA 
officer.
State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher said the department is 
cooperating with the FBI, but he declined to comment further. The affidavit does 
not describe the documents Keyser allegedly handed over as classified, and it is 
unclear whether any damage could have been done to national security.
Keyser is charged with concealing the trip to Taiwan by lying in May on State 
Department forms for security clearance that required him to disclose foreign 
travel.
News of Keyser's arrest stunned some in diplomatic circles, in which he is 
highly regarded as a China analyst. Keyser, a Foreign Service officer for three 
decades, speaks fluent Mandarin and is knowledgeable about the former Soviet 
Union. He has served in high-ranking positions in the U.S. embassies in Beijing 
and Tokyo, and was deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs when he allegedly made the trip to Taiwan. 
Keyser retired in July as the No. 2 person in the State Department's East 
Asia bureau, but he is still assigned to the department's Foreign Service 
Institute in Arlington.
"He is an absolutely superb specialist on China and a fine Foreign Service 
officer. I've never had the slightest reason to question his loyalty to the 
United States,'' said J. Stapleton Roy, a three-time U.S. ambassador who was 
Keyser's boss when Keyser was deputy director of the State Department's Bureau 
of Intelligence and Research.
Roy quit his job in protest in 2000 after then-Secretary of State Madeleine 
K. Albright suspended Keyser for 30 days and reassigned him because of lax 
security stemming from a missing top-secret laptop computer. Keyser was one of 
at least six State Department employees disciplined over the loss of the 
computer, which contained thousands of pages of information about weapons 
proliferation issues and was never found. Roy said yesterday that Keyser had 
nothing to do with the computer's disappearance.
This is the second recent instance of a federal official being implicated in 
passing documents to countries friendly with the United States. The FBI is 
investigating whether Lawrence A. Franklin, a Pentagon policy analyst, provided 
a draft presidential directive on Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs 
Committee, and whether that committee passed the information to Israel, law 
enforcement sources have said. No charges have been filed.
The United States has a longstanding "one China" policy, under which it 
maintains diplomatic relations only with China, not with Taiwan. But Chinese 
officials recently have expressed frustration over the Bush administration's 
willingness to sell arms to Taiwan. China and Taiwan are adversaries, with China 
insisting that 

[CTRL] The shots of war

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The shots of war

  Cristina Kutz thinks the anthrax vaccinations that she and other troops 
  must undergo devastated her health. Her complaints are not unique, but doctors 
  don't back her up.By SUSAN ASCHOFF, Times Staff 
WriterPublished September 17, 2004



RIVERVIEW - Cristina Kutz spends too many hours in these silent rooms with 
the beige walls endemic to starter homes in the Tampa suburbs. She is 
apprehensive about leaving. She fears her body will betray her.
She eats like an anorexic. Food turns on her, unleashing nausea and diarrhea. 
She always is tired but cannot sleep. She takes almost a dozen pills, from 
immunosuppressants to antidepressants, every day.
She used to be strong. 
She was Senior Airman Cristina Kutz, who tracked dozens of Air Force pilots 
and ground crew at Hurlburt Field in the Florida Panhandle, charting their 
training and readiness for battle. Suddenly, the members of her squadron were no 
longer rehearsing. They were ordered to the Middle East on the eve of the Iraq 
war.
Before leaving, they prepared for an enemy they could not see: Viruses and 
bacteria that Saddam Hussein threatened to unleash in lethal clouds upon the 
battlefield. Kutz, like some 300,000 others ordered to the war zone, was 
vaccinated against anthrax.
In the last decade, hundreds of troops insist the anthrax vaccine made them 
sick. Hundreds more have refused the shots, risking court-martial. Medical 
experts say it is safe. But the experts cannot definitively exempt the vaccine 
for a host of health problems reported by servicemen and women. Kutz believes 
the anthrax vaccinations ravaged her health, making her too weak to work, too 
precariously well to venture out of her house most days. 
She thinks the U.S. government discounts her concerns that the anthrax 
vaccinations made her unfit to continue as one of its soldiers.That's an order 
More than 1.2-million troops have received anthrax vaccinations since 1998. 
In March, a year after the invasion of Iraq, the Department of Defense extended 
anthrax vaccinations to troops bound for South Korea, in addition to those 
deployed to the Middle East and Asia.
Some soldiers, citizens and congressmen questioned the need for the mandatory 
vaccinations. Since the mid 1990s advocacy groups have urged the Defense 
Department to stop them.
"The use of a vaccination which appears to have the potential for serious 
health consequences for our troops in an effort to counter a threat that may not 
exist seems to unnecessarily expose our troops to risk," wrote Sen. Jeff 
Bingaman, D-New Mexico, in a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
At least 400 troops have refused the shots. More than 100 have been 
court-martialed for defying an order since mandatory vaccinations for 
active-duty personnel and reservists resumed in 1998, according to government 
documents and congressional hearings. 
Hundreds more who got the vaccine blame it for chronic illnesses, from joint 
and muscle pain to debilitating fatigue, leukemia to blindness.
"There's no question the symptoms are real, but there's no scientific 
connection to anthrax (vaccine)," says Dr. Richard Lockey, director of the 
University of South Florida's division of Allergy  Clinical Immunology.
"For the troops, we want them protected," says Col. John Grabenstein, deputy 
director for military vaccines for the Army's surgeon general. "We can't protect 
against artillery fire, but we can do this."Maybe it's the food 
On Nov. 15, 2002, two months before traveling to the Middle East, Kutz 
received her first anthrax vaccination.
She read warnings on the Internet that the shots were unsafe.
"I remember wondering, "Why would these wusses refuse the vaccine?' I 
remember our commander telling us not to be babies."
Looking back, the now 23-year-old Kutz finds omissions that give her 
pause.
They received no briefing on health issues.
There was no distribution of package inserts, which list dozens of possible 
side effects, from minor swelling to death.
The needle burned into her upper right arm. The next day, the site was sore 
and swollen, with a lump the size of a golf ball, Kutz says.
She was nauseous. Her head ached. The flulike symptoms disappeared in a week 
but the golf ball remained. On Dec. 13, she got a second shot in her left arm. 
No rash this time, but the same lump. Her stomach ached. She vomited. She 
suffered with diarrhea marked by mucus and blood, and heavy menstrual 
bleeding.
Kutz decided she should get no more shots. But an incomplete series - the 
schedule calls for three anthrax vaccinations in one to two months and three 
more within 18 months - would mean she could not deploy. She received the third 
vaccination on Jan. 22, 2003.
By February, the 15th Special Operations Squadron was overseas at a hastily 

[CTRL] Japan Shuts Unit of Citibank, Citing Violations

[Jim Rarey]

-Caveat Lector-



City Bank's private banking operations have been used to launder huge sums 
from its foreign subsidiaries including millions of dollars of drug money from 
the "private" account of the brother of the Mexican president.The brother was 
under indictment for murder at the time. - JR

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/18/business/worldbusiness/18citi.html?pagewanted=printposition=



  
  
 
  
  
  September 18, 2004
  Japan Shuts Unit of Citibank, Citing 
  ViolationsBy TODD ZAUN
  


  
  OKYO, Sept. 17 - In one of the severest penalties ever 
  imposed on a bank in Japan, regulators on Friday ordered Citigroup to close its Japanese private banking 
  operations because of serious violations of the country's banking 
laws.
  The Financial Services Agency ordered Citibank to shut the four 
  branches in Japan where it offers private banking services to wealthy 
  customers after the agency discovered a string of violations and 
  improprieties over the last three years. The actions cited included 
  failing to put in effect measures to prevent money laundering, 
  overcharging customers for financial derivative products and making loans 
  that helped clients carry out a variety of improper deals, regulators 
  said.
  "A number of acts injurious to public interests, serious violations of 
  laws and regulations, and extremely inappropriate transactions were 
  uncovered at the Private Bank Group, which led us to conclude that 
  continued future operations are inappropriate," the Financial Services 
  Agency wrote in its order.
  Citibank in Japan apologized for the violations and vowed to improve 
  its management and its internal controls. 
  "Citibank Japan sincerely apologizes for the problems identified in the 
  F.S.A. orders and is earnestly addressing the issues raised and working to 
  prevent their recurrence," the bank said in a statement. It added that it 
  "is committed to doing everything necessary to restore the confidence of 
  its customers."
  The bank was ordered to come up with a plan to improve its business 
  operations by Oct. 22. Citibank will have a year to close its private 
  banking business. Though it cannot accept new customers after Sept. 29, 
  the bank can continue to serve its current clients until Sept. 30, 2005. 
  On that date, regulators will revoke Citibank's license to operate the 
  four branches and they must be closed. Citibank could reapply for those 
  licenses, but that would probably take years.
  The bank said it did not know yet what would happen to the 400 
  employees working in the Japanese private banking division.
  Citibank also has 25 retail branches in Japan, but those branches are 
  not affected by Friday's order.
  It was the second time this week that Citigroup has expressed 
  contrition for breaches in its overseas operations. 
  On Tuesday, the company apologized for a huge bond trade in Europe that 
  outraged competitors and led to an investigation by regulators in Britain; 
  France and Germany are also looking into the trade. In early August, 
  Citigroup traders sold 11 billion euros of European government debt ($13 
  billion) within minutes via an electronic trading system only to buy some 
  of it back less than an hour later at lower prices.
  The transactions were not illegal, but rivals said Citigroup violated 
  an unwritten rule among big bond houses not to use their trading heft to 
  manipulate prices.
  Citibank's private banking business in Japan concentrates on customers 
  with about $1 million to save or invest and emphasizes highly personalized 
  service. But regulators said Citibank's private banking division often 
  misled its well-heeled clients. Regulators said Citibank charged some 
  customers above-market prices for publicly traded derivatives and failed 
  to explain fully the risks involved in many of its financial products.
  Regulators say Citibank also went beyond the scope of its banking 
  license by brokering real estate and art deals for its rich clients - 
  activities not allowed under Japanese banking laws.
  Private banking employees were also reckless with client information, 
  the bank regulators said. For example, some employees kept records of 
  secret passwords for the most forgetful clients. Regulators discovered no 
  cases of employees using the passwords to steal money.
  Toshihide Endo, director of the Financial Services Agency's supervisory 
  bureau, said that employees of the private banking group might have been 
  tempted to take shortcuts when screening clients because "their salaries 
  and performance evaluations were closely linked to sales targets.''
  "That might 

[CTRL] U.S. and Trade Partners Maintain Unhealthy Long-Term Relationship

[Jim Rarey]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/18/business/18trade.html?pagewanted=printposition=



  
  
 
  
  
  September 18, 2004ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 
  
  U.S. and Trade Partners Maintain Unhealthy Long-Term 
  RelationshipBy LOUIS UCHITELLE
  


  
  o organization has been more alarmed about America's 
  constantly rising deficit in global transactions than the Institute for 
  International Economics, a center of expertise in this field. A disaster 
  in the making, declares the institute's director, C. Fred Bergsten - and 
  one coming soon. 
  But month after month, indeed year after year, the disaster has failed 
  to occur and now one of the institute's own trade experts, Catherine L. 
  Mann, has stopped, as she puts it, crying wolf.
  "Because nothing happened, I did a lot more analysis," Ms. Mann said, 
  "and I have come to the conclusion that a co-dependent relationship exists 
  between the United States and its trading partners.'' That situation "may 
  not be healthy for either side,'' she added, but it "can last for quite 
  some time."
  For Americans, the positive side of this equation - known as the 
  balance on current account - is that they get to consume much more in 
  goods and services than they produce. As for America's trading partners, 
  particularly China, Japan and the Asian tigers, they gain from an overseas 
  marketplace that allows them to expand production and job creation beyond 
  what their own population can consume. 
  The downside for the United States is that most of its imports are 
  purchased on credit extended by its trading partners. The overall indebtedness is now about $4.4 
  trillion, nearly twice what it was in 2000 - an 
  increasingly costly arrangement for Americans and a potentially risky one 
  for the nation's foreign creditors. 
  While Mr. Bergsten, one of the better-known commentators on the global 
  economy, remains alarmed that the arrangement could unravel abruptly, with 
  the dollar plummeting in value and inflation rising, Ms. Mann represents 
  an alternative view held by a growing number of economists. This group 
  argues that rather than crisis, the United States is caught in a gradual, 
  almost imperceptible deterioration brought on by the yawning deficit in 
  trade and other international transactions, and the deterioration could 
  continue for a long time. 
  "If there has been no crisis, there has to be a counterweight that 
  keeps the crisis from happening," Ms. Mann said. "The counterweight is 
  that the United States and its main trading partners have a vested 
  interest in the status quo.''
  No one knows how this situation will unwind. The willingness of the 
  United States to accumulate more and more debt could indeed end painfully 
  or it could play out gradually and mildly as the nation's trading partners 
  pull back on their lending and Americans slow their consumption of 
  imported goods and services.
  "I think in the long term what is happening is unsustainable but it is 
  very hard to predict a turning point in an unsustainable situation," said 
  Robert Blecker, an economist at American University who, like Ms. Mann, 
  describes himself as a former Chicken Little. "You can see why something 
  cannot keep going,'' he said, "but you can also see why it keeps going." 
  
  The scorecard in this process is the current account, which encompasses 
  the imbalance in the trading of goods and services as well as the 
  shortfall in all other cross-border payments, from interest income and 
  rents to dividends and profits on direct investments. The current account 
  deficit was equal to 5.7 percent of all domestic economic activity in the 
  second quarter, the Commerce Department announced this week. 
  That was a record and an unusually rapid rise from 4.5 percent of 
  G.D.P. in last year's fourth quarter and 5.1 percent in the first quarter. 
  The trade deficit, the biggest single component, has risen to $447 billion 
  over the last year, a 10 percent increase. 
  What could turn things around? Interest payments on the debt could 
  finally get too burdensome for American borrowers, for example, or the 
  Chinese, the centerpiece among the nation's trading partners, could 
  discover that they finally have enough customers at home and do not need 
  to sell so much to the United States on credit.
  The dollar, in response, would fall sharply in value, forcing prices to 
  rise in the United States for a vast array of imported goods and services, 
  leaving Americans, in response, much more dependent on their own 
  inadequate production.
  "At some point the music stops, or 

[CTRL] Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National

[Jim Rarey]

-Caveat Lector-



How can there be any basis for contesting results when there is no record 
of each individual ballot cast? - JR

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/politics/campaign/19vote.html?pagewanted=printposition=



  
  
 
  
  
  September 19, 2004
  Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes 
  NationalBy TOM ZELLER Jr.
  


  
  ust over six weeks before the nation holds the first 
  general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, 
  specialists agree that whatever the remaining questions about the 
  technology's readiness, it is now too late to make any significant 
  changes. 
  Whether or not the machines are ready for the election - or the 
  electorate ready for the machines - there is no turning back. In what may 
  turn out to be one of the most scrutinized general elections in the 
  country's history, nearly one-third of the more than 150 million 
  registered voters in the United States will be asked to cast their ballots 
  on machines whose accuracy and security against fraud have yet to be 
  tested on such a grand scale.
  Because of the uncertainties, experts say there is potential for 
  post-election challenges in any precincts where the machines may 
  malfunction, or where the margin of victory is thin. Sorting out such 
  disputes could prove difficult.
  "The possibility for erroneous votes or malicious programming is not as 
  great as critics would have you believe," said Doug Chapin, the director 
  of Electionline.org, a nonpartisan group tracking election reform. "But 
  it's more than defenders of the technology want to admit. The truth lies 
  somewhere in between."
  Since the 2000 presidential election and its contentious aftermath, 
  voting systems that record votes directly on a computer - as opposed to 
  those that use mechanical levers or optically scanned paper ballots - have 
  quickly moved to the center of a rancorous debate. The disagreement pits 
  those who see them as unacceptably vulnerable to vote manipulation and 
  fraud against those who see them as an antidote to the wretched hanging 
  chad.
  Even in the final run-up to November's elections, the issue remains in 
  flux. In California, the machines have been certified, decertified and 
  recertified again. In Ohio, a closely contested state, an electronic 
  upgrade to the state's predominantly punch-card system was halted in July 
  by the secretary of state there, who cited unresolved security concerns. 
  
  All the while, a vocal mixture of computer scientists, local 
  voting-rights groups and freelance civic gadflies have relentlessly cited 
  security flaws in many of the machines, with some going so far as to say 
  that the flaws could be intentional and accusing the major companies of 
  having ties to conservative political causes. 
  The companies and election officials have fought back bitterly, 
  accusing the activists of being wild-eyed fearmongers. A study released by 
  Electionline.org last month would seem to suggest that partisan politics 
  plays less of a role than critics have claimed. 
  That report found "no industrywide partisan trend to political 
  contributions among the largest election system companies." The leader in 
  the electronic voting machine market, Diebold, and its executives have 
  given more than $400,000 to Republican interests since 2001, the study 
  found. But other large companies, including Election Systems  
  Software and Sequoia Voting Systems, "gave a slight edge to Democratic 
  candidates and party organizations." 
  Concerns over the security and accuracy of the machines have proved 
  harder to dispel, though, and they have not always come from the fringe. 
  
  At the end of June, two prestigious groups - the Brennan Center for 
  Justice at New York University School of Law and the Leadership Conference 
  on Civil Rights - issued a set of recommendations for technical upgrades 
  and procedures that they said could help shore up high-tech voting systems 
  in time for the November elections. 
  Nancy Zirkin, the deputy director of the Leadership Conference, said 
  she thought that the report had been taken seriously, but conceded that 
  the group did not know how many states or precincts had actually adopted 
  the recommendations. 
  Other critics say that too little has been done in response to numerous 
  problems - and that it is now too late to do much more before the 
  election, because software and technology have to be tested and "frozen" 
  well ahead of voting to avoid malfunctions and electoral chaos.
  "Switching now, approximately 40 days before the election, would 
   

[CTRL] 9/11 Panel Members Form Group to Press Recommendations

[Jim Rarey]

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The commission's report and recommendations are as bogus as Dan Rather's 
memos. JR

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/politics/19panel.html?pagewanted=printposition=



  
  
 
  
  
  September 19, 2004
  9/11 Panel Members Form Group to Press 
  RecommendationsBy PHILIP 
  SHENON
  


  
  ASHINGTON, Sept. 18 - Members of the independent Sept. 
  11 commission have received pledges of nearly $1 million for a private 
  educational group they have created to press for enactment of the panel's 
  recommendations, commission officials said Friday.
  The group, the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, opened an office here 
  this week and has a Web site, www.9-11pdp.org, where the 10 former 
  commissioners said in a message that the "perils of inaction are far too 
  high - and the strategic value of the commission's findings too important 
  - for the work of the 9/11 commission not to continue."
  The panel's final report, issued in July, has created a whirlwind of 
  activity at the White House and on Capitol Hill, with a bipartisan group 
  of lawmakers rushing to complete work on bills to enact many of its 
  recommendations before Election Day. 
  President Bush has said he supports the central 
  recommendation to establish the position of national intelligence 
  director, and on Thursday he provided Congress with draft legislation to 
  do that. 
  The draft met with a mixed reception. Some lawmakers said the plan did 
  not give the director the full range of powers recommended by the 9/11 
  panel. And, Congressional aides said the plan, which is likely to form the 
  outline of legislation that House Republican leaders are drafting, also 
  allowed the government to continue to classify intelligence budgets that 
  the panel wanted to be made public.
  A spokesman for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, John Feehery, said in an 
  interview that he believed the White House proposals would probably be 
  incorporated into a House bill to be introduced within days. "Obviously," 
  Mr. Feehery said, "we've been talking to them extensively, and I think the 
  proposals are very close." 
  Officials of the 9/11 panel said that the new project had received the 
  pledges of nearly $1 million from a group of foundations and that the 
  donors' identities would be made public after final commitments for the 
  donations had been received. 
  "There will be no corporate money," said Al Felzenberg, spokesman for 
  both the panel and the new group.
  Mr. Felzenberg said in an interview that he would be one of the five 
  paid employees of the project, which will be led by Christopher Kojm, the 
  deputy staff director of the 9/11 panel and a State Department official 
  under President Bill Clinton and the current President Bush. 
  Mr. Kojm will have the title of president, though commission officials 
  said the work of the group would largely be directed by the commission 
  chairman, former Gov. Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey, a Republican, and its 
  vice chairman, former Representative Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana, a 
  Democrat.
  A statement on the Web site said the project would "undertake a 
  yearlong nationwide public education campaign" to add to "the 
  understanding of American citizens of the nature of the terrorist threat." 
  
  Timothy J. Roemer, another former Democratic congressman from Indiana 
  and a panel member said: "This is a temporary operation to serve the 
  purpose of educating the American public about the recommendations of the 
  commission and to encourage the White House and Congress to implement 
  those recommendations."
  Commission members have voiced support for two bills before the Senate. 
  But Mr. Roemer, like other commission members, said he was more anxious 
  about the intentions of the House, where Republican leaders have been 
  unwilling to commit to many specific recommendations. 
  "It doesn't look to be a bipartisan process at this point in the 
  House," he said. "We'd like to see pressure exerted on the House by the 
  American people and the White House."
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Re: [CTRL] Dan Rather's Monstrous Lie

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In addition to his "eye witness" reporting, Rather was one of eighteen 
people who were given a private screening of the Zapruder film shortly after the 
assassination which Rather reported supported his position.

Life magazine acquired a copy of the film (there were three copies and the 
original). The magazine published a series of frames from the film that showed 
the president's head moving forward, just as Rather ha reported. It would later 
be found that Life had switched two frames.

Time-Life acquired the original and second copy. It was more that a decade 
later that the uncut film was seen which clearly showed Kennedy's head snapping 
backward when hit by a shot that obviously came from in front. If this had been 
known shortly after the assassination, the public would never have accepted the 
Warren report or that Oswald was acting alone (if indeed he fired any shots at 
all.)

JR
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-Caveat Lector-All the media is abuzz about Dan Rather 
and whetherhe should be fired.Dan Rather should not be fired over 
this flap aboutforged letters. He should be fired for a much 
biggerreason.Rather should have been fired long ago. He lied 
toAmerica about the assassination of President JohnKennedy.Dan 
Rather was the only news reporter who was an eyewitness to the shooting of 
JFK.You can read all about this in Rather's book entitled:"The Camera 
Doesn't Blink"Rather was standing on the south side of Elm Street 
inDealy Plaza. The cars carrying the reporters in themotorcade had not 
turned from Commerce St. into DealyPlaza, so they couldn't see the 
shooting. But Ratherdid see it.He made several reports on both 
CBS TV and Radio thathe "had a clear and unobstructed view". That he 
was"looking directly at the President when he was shot."Rather then told 
the nation that he saw "the Presidentthrown suddenly and violently 
FORWARDalmost overthe seat in front of him..."Years later when 
the famous Zapruder film of theassassination was allowed to be seen by the 
public,and Rather's lie was revealed. The film clearly showsthat 
Kennedy was thrown violently BACK and to his leftby the impact of the fatal 
head shot.Rather's report agreed with and supported the officialstory 
that Kennedy was shot from the Texas School BookDepository which was 170 
feet to the rear of thePresident's car. His career at CBS instantly 
went uplike a rocket!Just weeks after Rather made his false report, 
CBSpromoted him to the coveted assignment of CBS WhiteHouse News 
Correspondent. His next step up the ladderwas to 60 Minutes. When Cronkite 
retired, Rather wasgiven the job of CBS Evening News Anchor.So, 
should Rather be fired?YES!But CBS rewarded him for his monstrous lie 
aboutthe killing of President Kennedy.He shouldn't be canned over this 
baloney about theforged letters.He should be fired because his entire 
career wasfounded on his false report on the assassination ofPresident 
Kennedy.This information should have been revealed 
decadesago. 
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[CTRL] Kerry Might Reconsider USFK Reductions: Sandy Berger

[Jim Rarey]

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I see the archive thief is back on the Kerry team as a key advisor. I guess 
Kerry is counting on the notoriously short memories of the public. Or maybe he 
was confident the US media would not report it. We have to find out from a 
Korean publication.


http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200409/200409230021.html


  
  

  

  

  


  Kerry Might 
Reconsider USFK Reductions: Sandy Berger

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 
Sandy Berger, former White House National Security Advisor and key 
foreign policy and security advisor to Democratic Party presidential 
candidate John Kerry, hinted Wednesday that should Kerry win the 
U.S. presidential election in November, it was possible that the 
decision to reduce U.S. troops in Korea would be reconsidered. 
In a keynote address for an international symposium entitled 
"Regionalism in Northeast Asia: Opportunities and Challenges," 
hosted by Johns Hopkins University and the Maeil Business Newspaper, 
Berger said USFK reductions were inappropriate, claiming that 
pulling 12,000 troops out of Korea at a time when Koreans were 
openly raising doubts about the Korea-U.S. relationship was sending 
a bad signal to Koreans. He said he strongly wondered whether John 
Kerry, if elected, wouldn't reconsider the reduction. Berger 
indicated once again the need for direct talks between the U.S. and 
North Korea to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, stressing that 
sitting face-to-face with North Korea was not surrender. On the 
contrary, he said the U.S. could take a strong position. He said 
the two biggest challenges in Northeast Asia were North Korea and 
Taiwan, and the next U.S. president would have to focus on 
eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons development project and 
make clear to China that the use of arms against Taiwan would not be 
tolerated. 

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[CTRL] A Possible Case of Fudging Profit to Match Desires

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  September 24, 2004MARKET PLACE 
  A Possible Case of Fudging Profit to Match 
  DesiresBy FLOYD NORRIS
  


  
  ow profitable was Fannie Mae?
  The answer, according to a report by its newly invigorated regulator, 
  is that it was as profitable as it wanted to be.
  The report, released late Wednesday, essentially argues that the 
  accounting policies at Fannie Mae, the giant mortgage company, violated 
  generally accepted accounting principles and gave it far too much 
  flexibility in choosing how much it would report in earnings.
  It is unclear whether that led Fannie Mae to overstate its profits 
  regularly, although the report does say that happened in 1998. Instead, 
  the report says that the agency sought improperly to eliminate volatility 
  from its earnings. In at least some cases, that meant finding ways to hide 
  earnings so they could be used later.
  Management, the report said, "wanted to portray Fannie Mae as a 
  consistent generator of stable and growing earnings" and did so even 
  though there was really a lot of volatility in its business.
  It said the company had a "dysfunctional and ineffective process" for 
  setting accounting policies and that internal auditors performed 
  "incomplete and ineffective reviews."
  The report said that management had wide latitude in estimates of 
  crucial factors in computing its earnings, which it could use "to hit an 
  earnings number."
  Because those same manipulated numbers were used to analyze Fannie 
  Mae's sensitivity to changes in interest rates, the report said, "this 
  practice has unfavorable safety and soundness implications that go beyond 
  financial reporting."
  The report by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, 
  prepared with the help of Deloitte  Touche, is far from the last 
  word, even though it led the agency yesterday to demand that Fannie Mae 
  take immediate steps to address concerns about safety and soundness. 
  The company had told analysts that its accounting decisions were 
  supported by KPMG, which certified the company's books, and some analysts 
  voiced hope that the argument would be seen as an arcane one between 
  accounting firms.
  A spokesman for KPMG declined to comment.
  At the heart of the dispute is perhaps the most complex accounting rule 
  in existence, known as SFAS 133, a statement of the Financial Accounting 
  Standards Board. That rule requires companies to account for derivative 
  securities at market value but allows them to keep those changes from 
  affecting earnings if the derivatives are used to hedge specified 
  exposures.
  The report concluded that Fannie Mae rode roughshod over the rules, 
  certifying that some hedges were "perfect hedges" when they were not, and 
  in other cases treated as hedges investments that did not qualify for the 
  treatment.
  In some cases, Fannie Mae's documentation of hedges was not adequate, 
  and in other cases the documents were created retroactively, the report 
  said.
  "This lack of documentation and the ability to create such 
  documentation retroactively is not only an SFAS 133 violation, but is 
  evidence of a poor control framework and is a significant safety and 
  soundness problem," the report said.
  The accounting rule at issue is similar to Statement 39 of the 
  International Accounting Standards Board, which is now the subject of a 
  dispute in Europe. The European Commission, under pressure from banks who 
  fear it would cause earnings to be too volatile, is expected to allow 
  companies to ignore significant parts of the rule. The international board 
  changed several parts of its rule to make it easier to use hedge 
  accounting without the extensive documentation that caused part of the 
  problem at Fannie Mae.
  For Fannie Mae, the controversy may leave it more vulnerable to 
  political opponents who want to reduce the benefits it receives from the 
  lower interest rates it commands because it could call on the Treasury for 
  some help if it ran into problems. The amount of such help is relatively 
  small, but many investors have assumed more would be available if needed, 
  and thus have been willing to lend money at low rates to Fannie Mae.
  It may be that in making itself more attractive to stock market 
  investors by reporting steadily growing earnings, Fannie Mae took steps 
  that will damage the most important advantage it had.
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[CTRL] Fw: [Freedom_of_Information] The Truth about Viet Nam The UN

[Jim Rarey]

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THE TRUTH By LtCol "Bud" Farrell, USAF, 
ret. When I was a young officer and jet fighter pilot flying 
missions in the Korean Conflict (unknowingly under the command of a 
Soviet General of the United Nations Security Council), I could never 
understand how the enemy knew so much about us, as broadcast almost 
daily over the communist Pyongyang radio station in North 
Korea. Our wives' names, childrens' names, Squadron 
Commander names, flight numbers, etc.! The North Koreans knew when we 
were coming, how many of us there were, what type of aircraft we were flying 
and even the targets we were to hit. Later I realized that the naval 
and ground forces suffered the same fate that we did, especially our Army 
and Marine infantry troops. All of our military 
operations had to be forwarded by radio to the Soviet Commander of the 
United Nations Security Council at the United Nations Building, New York 
City, for approval before our forces went into action against the 
North Koreans and Red Chinese. The Soviet Commander of the United Nations 
Security Council delayed the battle plans until he used the radios in the 
United Nations Building in New York to relay all our "battle planning 
information" to Moscow, North Korea and Red China. The 
enemy then contacted and relayed these same battle plans to their communist 
forces in the field. The enemy knew when to move from an area and when to 
attack our smaller fighting forces. They knew beforehand when we were coming 
and how many of us there were. They knew everything about us all the time - 
24 hours a day!!! I later found this same form of "treason" 
was used against our forces in the Vietnam War. All information regarding 
"every battle plan in Vietnam" was given to the North Vietnamese, 
Soviets (Advisors), and Viet Cong Troops in the field during the 
entire war. The enemy knew our every move at all times. 
Our troops were led like sheep to the slaughter in both Korea and Vietnam. 
Like blind fools we sent our combat plans to the enemy for 
approval. There was a standing joke among us 
fighter pilots. "That Moscow had a file on each and every one of us." 
How little did we really know. Every mission, every movement was 
compromised! General Walt, former Commander of the United States Marine 
Corps, reflected upon this information in his book that was written in the 
early 1980's. This was never allowed to appear in any bookstore in the 
United States. During the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, thousands of our 
fighting men were mentally or physically incapacitated because of 
this treason! To this day, the Soviets (or someone from one of their 
satellite countries) are the only ones who can command the United 
Nations "World Police Forces". Each and every one of us 
that served in Korea or Vietnam served under the total command of a Soviet 
General! Here are the names of the soviets and the dates they served as 
"Under-Secretary of the Security Council of the United Nations," thus the 
highest military commander of all United Nations fighting forces anywhere in 
the world, including all military forces of the United States. These 
names and information was obtained from the United Nations yearbooks 
up through 1983. Later yearbooks were not available. (All listed below 
are Soviet Generals holding the office of "Under-Secretary for Security and 
Political Affairs"):1946-1949 Arkady Alexandrovitch Sobolev 
1949-1953 Constantine E. Zinchenko 1953-1954 Dragoslov Protich 
1958-1959 Antoly Dobrinin 1960-1962 George Petrovich Arkadev 
1962-1963 Eugeny D. Kiselev 1963-1964 Vladimir Paulovitch Suslov 
1965-1967 Alexel Efemovitch Nesternko 1968-1973 Leonid N. Kutakov 
1973-1978 Arkadv N. Shevchenko 1978-1980 Mikhail D. Sytenko 
1981-1983 Vlacheslav A. Ustinov 1988- Vasiliy Safronchuk 
 "The post for 'Political and Security Affairs' 
traditionally has been held by a soviet national, who is a Senior Advisor to 
the Secretary-General." [New York Times, May 22, 1963] The Soviet Lt. 
General Alexandre Vasiliev, the Soviet Representative on the United 
Nations (Mini) Military Staff Committee from 1947 to January 1950, 
is the same General Vasiliev who took "a leave of absence from his 
United Nations job" and was PLACED BY THE SOVIET UNION AND RED CHINA IN 
COMMAND OF ALL CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOP MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE 38TH 
PARALLEL. During the Korean "Police Action", Lt. General 
Vasiliev received all his military information and troop movements of 
all United Nations forces in Korea directly from his superior, Soviet 
General Constantine E. Zinchenko (see above, 1949-1953), who served as 
Under-Secretary of the Security Council of the United Nations in New 
York. ALL battle plans had to be APPROVED by him AHEAD OF 
TIME. It was the traitor, President Harry S. Truman 
himself, who REFUSED TO ALLOW General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme 
Commander of the United Nations fighting forces in Korea, to bomb the 
bridges at the Yalu River over which the 

[CTRL] Ink Expert Portrayed as Victim at Perjury Trial

[Jim Rarey]

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Sex, Lies and victimology - JR

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Ink Expert Portrayed as 
Victim at Perjury Trial Affair, Feud Claimed in Case Brought 
About by Prosecution of Martha Stewart 
By Brooke A. MastersWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, 
September 24, 2004; Page E02 

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- Lawyers for the U.S. Secret Service laboratory director 
on trial for lying at Martha Stewart's criminal trial portrayed him as the 
victim of a bitter underling who was angry that she hadn't been called to 
testify in his stead.
But a federal prosecutor contended that Larry F. Stewart -- who is not 
related to the millionaire businesswoman -- committed perjury while testifying 
in February about the ink on a key document in the case. The 47-year-old lab 
director falsely took credit for the work done by the lower-ranking employee, 
Susan Fortunato, and falsely claimed to be familiar with another colleague's 
book proposal "to bolster his standing before the jury," Assistant U.S. Attorney 
David Esseks said.
Martha Stewart's former broker Peter E. Bacanovic, who was charged with 
making false documents, was acquitted on that count, but the two defendants were 
convicted in March of conspiracy, obstruction and lying to federal investigators 
about her December 2001 sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock. Prosecutors charged 
Larry Stewart with perjury in May.
Opening statements in his trial Thursday offered an unusually personal view 
of the Secret Service's Washington forensic division, the nation's premier 
document analysis laboratory. Not only was Larry Stewart romantically 
involved with another laboratory employee, but he, Fortunato and other top 
document examiners also were in the habit of discussing their sex lives in 
graphic detail over lunch, according to a witness and the lawyers. 
Fortunato had filed, and later withdrawn, a sexual harassment complaint against 
Stewart in 2001 alleging that he had kissed her during a meeting.
"This case is the final episode in a three-year feud between Larry Stewart 
and Susan Fortunato," said defense attorney Judith Wheat. "Larry Stewart may 
have ruffled feathers along the way, but Larry Stewart is not a liar, and Larry 
Stewart did not commit perjury."
Early testimony in the case was largely a rehash of this winter's 
high-profile prosecution of the 63-year-old founder of Martha Stewart Living 
Omnimedia Inc. and her former broker. At that trial, Larry Stewart served as the 
government's main expert witness.
Describing himself as "the national expert" on ink, he testified then that he 
had personally tested the ink used to mark up a worksheet that Bacanovic said 
documented an agreement to sell ImClone if the share price fell below $60. "This 
is where I first placed an ink," Larry Stewart said at one point, describing the 
analysis.
Prosecutors used the finding that two inks had been used on the page to argue 
that the $60 arrangement was a cover story designed to conceal that Bacanovic's 
assistant had improperly tipped Martha Stewart that ImClone's founder was trying 
to sell his stock in the company.
But Fortunato, 39, testified Tuesday that she had actually done all the work, 
with only minimal input or oversight from Larry Stewart. Two months after the 
Martha Stewart trial ended, Fortunato told her bosses that she believed her 
supervisor had lied on the stand.
When Larry Stewart was confronted with the discrepancy, "he turned white," 
Esseks told the jury. "He hesitated; he stammered. He said, 'I want to go home.' 
"
But Wheat said yesterday that her client, a father of two, "uses 
the terms 'I,' 'we' and 'the lab' interchangeably," and that Martha 
Stewart's prosecutors had done the same thing. She also said that Fortunato 
brought up the alleged perjury only during a larger litany of complaints about 
Larry Stewart's management and that the government had misunderstood her 
client's testimony about the colleague's book proposal.
The stakes in this trial are high, and not just for the participants. Larry 
Stewart has analyzed evidence from hundreds of cases including high-profile 
matters involving suspected Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk, the Sept. 11, 
2001, terrorist attacks and the Washington area snipers. If he is 
convicted, it could cause ripple effects elsewhere in the criminal justice 
system.
Lawyers for Martha Stewart and Bacanovic are watching, too. They have said 
they intend to make the perjury charges against Larry Stewart a key part of 
their appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Martha Stewart 
announced last week that she would serve her five-month prison sentence without 
waiting until the appeal is heard next year.


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[CTRL] 34 at MVD charged in fake-ID case

[Jim Rarey]

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WOW! At $3,2500 per authentic I.D. or license, there must be some major 
funding and organization behind this.Illegals coming across the border into 
Arizona, could have the I.D. waitng for them or even given them in Mexico to 
facilitate crossings at customs ports of entry. - JR

http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/40369.php


Published: 09.24.2004


34 at MVD charged in fake-ID case 
False licenses, other cards sold, indictments say 
By Eric Swedlund and Barrett Marson 
ARIZONA DAILY STAR 
A three-year undercover investigation into 
widespread corruption at Arizona Motor Vehicle Division offices resulted in the 
indictments of 34 people suspected of making and selling fraudulent driver's 
licenses, authorities said. 
In one of the largest public corruption cases 
in state history, MVD employees have for years been accepting bribes of up to 
$3,500 for unlawfully providing state identification cards and driver's 
licenses, according to indictments released Thursday. 
Among those indicted are 26 current and former 
employees of 10 MVD offices in Southern Arizona and the Phoenix area and eight 
others suspected of brokering the sale of fake state-issued ID cards. The 94 
pages of indictments also contain several charges of conspiracy. All but two 
Phoenix-area suspects were arrested Thursday. 
"These fraudulent documents would permit 
individuals to travel from Arizona to Washington nonstop. They could be used to 
open a fraudulent bank account. They could be used to buy a weapon," said 
Jennifer Guerin, chief assistant U.S. attorney in Tucson. "They would permit an 
individual who otherwise would not be permitted to cross the border to cross 
through a Border Patrol checkpoint." 
While authorities aren't certain how many 
state-issued ID cards and driver's licenses were fraudulently produced, the 
Operation Double Driver undercover investigation, which began in Tucson, 
involved $70,000 in bribes and turned up more than 100 fraudulent licenses and 
other documents. And officials expect to find more, said Roland Mignone 
assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Tucson office. 
MVD employees accepted bribes for issuing 
fraudulent driver's licenses, identification 
cards, commercial driver's licenses, hazardous-material certification and even a 
Social Security card in one Phoenix case, Mignone said. The 
fraud was the work of several pockets of illegal activity rather than a single 
organization. 
Of those arrested, 11 are current or former 
MVD employees in Tucson, two are former employees in Sierra Vista, two are 
current MVD employees in Douglas and one worked in Nogales. 
The investigation started in December 2001 
when an undercover Tucson police officer working for a counter-narcotics task 
force received a tip that MVD employees were selling the IDs, said Kathleen 
Robinson, assistant chief of the Tucson Police Department. 
Undercover narcotics officers continued to 
investigate and verified the fraudulent documents were being sold when they 
purchased some, Robinson said, at which point the investigation was turned over 
to the FBI and expanded to the Phoenix area. 
Although investigators have uncovered no link 
to terrorist activities, authorities said it is cause for worry about the 
nation's security. 
Guerin said those IDs were the "real McCoy" 
and would be nearly impossible for anyone to tell they had been fraudulently 
issued. 
The maximum penalty for each count of 
unlawfully producing identification documents is 15 years in prison and a 
$250,000 fine 
"To my knowledge, this is probably the largest 
public corruption case in the history of our state," said Pima County Sheriff 
Clarence Dupnik. "They have sold national security in a traitorous and 
despicable fashion." 
The indictments were announced at press 
conferences in Tucson and Phoenix. In Phoenix, U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton said 
authorities will never know how many fraudulent licenses were issued. 
Nathan Gray, FBI assistant special agent in 
charge, said law-enforcement officials will attempt to get as many names as 
possible from the suspects. 
"It is going to be near impossible to know 
exactly all the people," Gray said. 
Charlton warned MVD employees involved with 
the scandal or who have knowledge of it to contact law enforcement. 
Authorities said the workers who sold the fake 
documents were allowed to continue with their jobs after undercover agents 
purchased the IDs. 
Law-enforcement officials did not want to blow 
the investigation by arresting one or two suspects at a time. Thomas 
Clinkenbeard, chief investigator for the MVD's Office of Special Investigation, 
said the agency is going to try to get some of the licenses back. 
"It's a huge concern but there are 
accommodations that have to be made. You don't want to compromise the 
investigation," Clinkenbeard said. 
The workers are now on paid administrative 
leave pending further action, Department of Transportation Director Victor 

[CTRL] Navy dismissal of Kerry probe appealed

[Jim Rarey]

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MISSION: IMPLAUSIBLENavy dismissal of Kerry probe appealedIgnored Lehman's insistence he didn't sign Silver Star 
  citation
  
  Posted: September 23, 20042:05 p.m. 
  Eastern
  
  By Art 
  Moore
  
©2004WorldNetDaily.com 
  Judicial Watch is appealing 
  the U.S. Navy secretary's unwillingness to probe allegations of fraud 
  thoroughly in the awarding of John Kerry's war medals, charging that the 
  limited examination dismissed obvious evidence and that the senator's 
  presidential campaign was tipped off. 
  Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch's director of investigations and 
  research, told WorldNetDaily if the Navy does not respond within the 
  required 10 days to a Freedom of Information Act request for documentation 
  to back its decision, a lawsuit will follow. 
  "We are not at all shy about going to court over FOIA matters," said 
  Farrell. "So if they don't comply with the law, we will sue them; it's 
  that simple." 
  
  Judicial Watch filed 
  the initial complaint Aug. 18 after news reports revealed Kerry's 
  campaign website displays a document listing a "Silver Star with combat 
  'V'" even though the combat "V" device, for valor, is never given with the 
  nation's third highest award for heroism. 
  One of the most glaring problems with the Navy's brief examination, 
  Farrell contended, is its unwillingness to probe the unorthodox issuance 
  of three citations for Kerry's Silver Star award. The third, issued more 
  than a decade after the event, bears the signature of former Navy 
  Secretary John Lehman, who recently told the Chicago Sun-Times he had 
  nothing to do with it. 
  'Properly approved' 
  Last Friday, the Navy's inspector general, Vice Admiral Ronald Route, 
  faxed a letter to Judicial Watch saying Kerry's medals were properly 
  approved. 
  Farrell told WND a "reliable source" has informed Judicial Watch that 
  the Kerry campaign got a hold of the letter hours before the watchdog 
  group received it at 5:12 p.m. 
  "It's not clear to us how Kerry's political campaign could become aware 
  of the letter," Farrell said. "It would be highly irregular for a third 
  party that is not involved in the request to be the first to be told of 
  any outcome." 
  Route said in his letter Friday that the Navy's "examination found that 
  existing documentation regarding the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple 
  Heart medals indicates the awards approval process was properly followed. 
  "In particular," Route said, "the senior officers who awarded the 
  medals were properly delegated authority to do so. In addition we found 
  that they correctly followed the procedures in place at the time for 
  approving these awards." 
  But Judicial Watch says no specific documentary examples were cited or 
  offered as exhibits to Route's letter. 
  The Navy inspector, Judicial Watch asserts, "dismissed an investigation 
  into the eyewitness accounts -- some sworn -- of officers, sailors and one 
  medical doctor by writing: 'Conducting any additional review regarding 
  events that took place over thirty years ago would not be productive.'" 
  A leading figure in the Swift Boat 
  Veterans for Truth campaign to expose Kerry's war record, Jerome 
  Corsi, has been assisting Judicial Watch in its case. 
  Corsi, co-author of the group's New York Times No. 1 best-seller "Unfit for 
  Command," says that whether or not Judicial Watch's request ultimately 
  succeeds, it already has exposed the fact that Kerry has not authorized 
  release of all of his Navy records as he has insisted. 
  In response to the request, the Navy said it had 31 pages of documents 
  it was not authorized to release under the Freedom of Information Act. 
  Kerry needs to fill out a Standard Form 180 in order for the records to 
  be released. 
  Corsi believes the Judicial Watch request could help answer questions 
  raised in the swiftboat vets' book. 
  "We're trying to determine whether political influence was used by Sen. 
  Kerry to embellish the heroic nature of his exploits," Corsi said. "We 
  think that the three different citations on the Silver Star give reason 
  for suspicion." 
  Related offer: 
  "Unfit for 
  Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" 
  
  

  Related stories: 
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[CTRL] CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit Job?

[Jim Rarey]

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http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/09/20/Politics/Cbs-Planning.Another.AntiBush.Hit.Job-730861.shtml

Insight on the News - Politics Issue: 9/20/04 



CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit 
Job?By Cliff Kincaid 
The CBS scandal gets worse every day. 
Now, in an amazing twist, Michael Isikoff of Newsweek was on Chris Matthews' 
MSNBC "Hardball" show last Wednesday night claiming that CBS had been planning 
to air a story about the White House using forged documents to make the case for 
war against Iraq.CBS, reportedly, postponed the story so it could go on 
the air attacking President Bush on the National Guard issue. It backfired when 
60 Minutes itself got caught using forged documents. Still, Isikoff indicates 
that 60 Minutes is planning to air the anti-Bush piece, perhaps as early as 
Sunday night, September 26. here is only one big problem-the anti-Bush 
story, as described by Isikoff and eagerly embraced by Democrat partisan 
Matthews, is completely false. It's as phony as those National Guard documents. 
The Iraq-uranium link, the subject of much media misinformation, has 
been documented and confirmed by authoritative reports from Britain's Lord 
Butler, who had been a cabinet secretary under five different Prime Ministers, 
and the Senate Intelligence Committee. In an article 
on the Newsweek website, Isikoff claims that 60 Minutes had originally planned 
to run a story about "how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents 
purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger."Isikoff 
says the story, narrated by CBS correspondent Ed Bradley, "asked tough questions 
about how the White House came to embrace the fraudulent documents and why 
administration officials chose to include a 16-word reference to the 
questionable uranium purchase in President Bush's 2003 State of the 
Union."Isikoff says 60 Minutes has been working on the story for more 
than six months. It is amazing that, 18 months after Bush uttered those 
16 words, Isikoff, 60 Minutes, and Chris Matthews still can't or won't get the 
story straight. Bush's famous 16 words were: "The British 
Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant 
quantities of uranium from Africa." Bush never said that Saddam "purchased" 
uranium. While the Bush administration mishandled the controversy under 
a media assault and even backed away from what the President said, subsequent 
investigations confirm that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from 
Africa.Lord Butler's July 14, 2004, report called Bush's words 
"well-founded." It reported that,"a) It is accepted by all parties that 
Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999."b) The British Government had 
intelligence from several different sources indicating that this visit was for 
the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium constitutes almost 
three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was credible."c) The 
evidence was not conclusive that Iraq purchased, as opposed to having sought, 
uranium and the British Government did not claim this. "d) The forged 
documents were not available to the British Government at the time its 
assessment was made, and so the fact of the forgery does not undermine 
it."FactCheck.org, a group headed by former CNN and Wall Street Journal 
reporter Brooks Jackson, examined the controversy and declared, "Both the Butler 
report and the Senate Intelligence Committee report make clear that Bush's 16 
words weren't based on the fake documents. The British didn't even see them 
until after issuing the reports-based on other sources-that Bush quoted in his 
16 words." Ironically, one of th
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Re: [CTRL] CBS Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit Job?

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I only posted this so we could watch and see if CBS was 
stupid enough to walk into this trap even with the "warning" from Insight. Given 
CBS's track record, anything anti-Bush from them, truthful or not,. will be 
considered a "hit" piece, They brought it on themselves. 
JR

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  So now any critical examination of 
  Dumbya's regimeby CBS will be an "anti-Bush hit 
  job?"
  Better tell that to Viacom head 
  honcho Sumner Redstone, aBushite and owner of CBS, thathis 
  network is being mean to the boy president. Maybe he'll eventell 
  their mommies to lay off the moron.
  
  Bill.
  
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  Planning Another Anti-Bush Hit Job?
  
  http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/09/20/Politics/Cbs-Planning.Another.AntiBush.Hit.Job-730861.shtml
  
  Insight on the News - Politics Issue: 
  9/20/04 
  
  
  CBS Planning Another 
  Anti-Bush Hit Job?By 
  Cliff Kincaid The CBS 
  scandal gets worse every day. Now, in an amazing twist, Michael Isikoff of 
  Newsweek was on Chris Matthews' MSNBC "Hardball" show last Wednesday night 
  claiming that CBS had been planning to air a story about the White House 
  using forged documents to make the case for war against Iraq.CBS, 
  reportedly, postponed the story so it could go on the air attacking 
  President Bush on the National Guard issue. It backfired when 60 Minutes 
  itself got caught using forged documents. Still, Isikoff indicates that 60 
  Minutes is planning to air the anti-Bush piece, perhaps as early as Sunday 
  night, September 26. here is only one big problem-the anti-Bush 
  story, as described by Isikoff and eagerly embraced by Democrat partisan 
  Matthews, is completely false. It's as phony as those National Guard 
  documents. The Iraq-uranium link, the subject of much media 
  misinformation, has been documented and confirmed by authoritative reports 
  from Britain's Lord Butler, who had been a cabinet secretary under five 
  different Prime Ministers, and the Senate Intelligence 
  Committee. In an article on the Newsweek 
  website, Isikoff claims that 60 Minutes had originally planned to run a 
  story about "how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents 
  purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from 
  Niger."Isikoff says the story, narrated by CBS correspondent Ed 
  Bradley, "asked tough questions about how the White House came to embrace 
  the fraudulent documents and why administration officials chose to include 
  a 16-word reference to the questionable uranium purchase in President 
  Bush's 2003 State of the Union."Isikoff says 60 Minutes has been 
  working on the story for more than six months. It is amazing that, 
  18 months after Bush uttered those 16 words, Isikoff, 60 Minutes, and 
  Chris Matthews still can't or won't get the story straight. 
  Bush's famous 16 words were: "The British Government has learned 
  that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from 
  Africa." Bush never said that Saddam "purchased" uranium. While 
  the Bush administration mishandled the controversy under a media assault 
  and even backed away from what the President said, subsequent 
  investigations confirm that Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from 
  Africa.Lord Butler's July 14, 2004, report called Bush's words 
  "well-founded." It reported that,"a) It is accepted by all parties 
  that Iraqi officials visited Niger in 1999."b) The British 
  Government had intelligence from several different sources indicating that 
  this visit was for the purpose of acquiring uranium. Since uranium 
  constitutes almost three-quarters of Niger's exports, the intelligence was 
  credible."c) The evidence was not conclusive that Iraq purchased, 
  as opposed to having sought, uranium and the British Government did not 
  claim this. "d) The forged documents were not available to the 
  British Government at the time its assessment was made, and so the fact of 
  the forgery does not undermine it."FactCheck.org, a group headed 
  by former CNN and Wall Street Journal reporter Brooks Jackson, examined 
  the controversy and declared, "Both the Butler report and the Senate 
  Intelligence Committee report make clear that Bush's 16 words weren't 
  based on the fake documents. The British didn't even see them until after 
  

[CTRL] Biographer still insists Kerry a 'hero'

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  Saturday, September 25, 2004
  

  
MISSION: IMPLAUSIBLESenator's campaign paid for Brinkley to issue 
  clarification
  
  Posted: September 25, 20041:00 a.m. 
  Eastern
  
  By Art 
  Moore
  
©2004WorldNetDaily.com 
  Amid ongoing criticism by Swift 
  Boat Veterans for Truth, the author of a sympathetic biography of John 
  Kerry's war years appeared to back off his book's portrayal of the senator 
  as a hero but insisted in a subsequent statement paid for by the Kerry 
  campaign that he was misinterpreted. 
  
  


  
  In a New York Times interview published yesterday, Douglas Brinkley, 
  author of "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War," commented on the 
  impact of efforts to refute the two presidential candidates' recounting of 
  their Vietnam-era military service. 
  "Every American now knows that there's something really screwy about 
  George Bush and the National Guard, and they know that John Kerry was not 
  the war hero we thought he was," Brinkley told the Times. 
  The paper added that Brinkley made the comment "acknowledging that Mr. 
  Kerry's opponents had succeeded in raising questions about his service." 
  
  The University of New Orleans professor did not respond to WND's 
  request to elaborate on the remark, but he issued a press release stating 
  the Times story "leaves the false impression that I think John Kerry was 
  not 'the war hero we thought he was.'" 
  "Nothing could be further from the truth," Brinkley said. "He was a 
  great American fighting man in Vietnam and deserved all of his medals. 
  Over the past year I have vigorously defended Kerry's military record and 
  will continue to do so." 
  Brinkley said his comment was meant to be about the political 
  consequences of the anti-Kerry Swift boat attacks vs. the anti-Bush 
  National Guard ones. 
  "I was speaking about public perceptions not my personal beliefs," he 
  stated. 
  But Jerome Corsi, co-author of the swiftboat vets group's New York 
  Times No. 1 best-seller, "Unfit for 
  Command,"thinks the initial interpretation -- that Brinkley is 
  stepping away from the book -- is more consistent with the historian's 
  recent, less vigrous posture. 
  "It sounds like the Kerry campaign, in a panic, got to Brinkley and he 
  is running for cover," Corsi said. 
  Brinkley's statement, issued via U.S. Newswire, was paid for by 
  Kerry-Edwards 2004, according to Editor  Publisher. 
  The Kerry campaign did not immediately respond to a request from WND, 
  seeking to find out whether Brinkley's statement was initiated by the 
  campaign itself. 
  Corsi notes that it was Brinkley's book, published in January, that 
  raised the ire of so many of the men who served with Kerry and prompted 
  the formation of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in early April. 
  The founder of the group, Adm. Roy Hoffman, became incensed when he 
  read the book's negative portrayal of his character, and Kerry offered to 
  help correct the record in a new edition. 
  But no update was produced until the paperback version, coming out this 
  week. As WorldNetDaily 
  reported, Brinkley also told a veteran who says his battalion was 
  "sullied" by a war-crimes charge in the book that publisher Harper 
  Colllins would issue a new edition within two weeks. 
  But that promise was made in early May. 
  Corsi characterizes the book as poorly researched and full of glaring 
  inconsistencies. 
  "He did little else but take Kerry's word for events in Vietnam," Corsi 
  said. "It is more of a campaign biography that fits the rules of 
  hagiography rather than a serious, critical biography and is not worthy of 
  the standards of a professor with a Ph.D." 
  As just one example, Corsi says Brinkley states in the book that 
  Kerry's resignation letter from Vietnam Veterans Against the War is in the 
  controversial anti-war group's archives, but the author footnotes Kerry as 
  the source without researching it himself. 
  Corsi noted Kerry has refused to make public the materials used 
  exclusively by Brinkley in the book, including his diaries and letters. 
  Kerry had insisted in interviews that he had an agreement with Brinkley 
  that prevented release of the diaries, but the historian says he has given 
  up all rights, and it is up to the senator to give permission. 
  Brinkley told the Washington Post in August, "I don't mind if John 
  Kerry shows anybody anything. If he wants to let anybody in, that's his 
  business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me 

[CTRL] Kerry flip on West Bank wall may cost votes, some say

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  By S.V. 
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  Palm Beach Post Capital Bureau
  Friday, September 24, 2004
  Efforts to secure part of the Democratic Party's Florida base may cost 
  Sen. John Kerry support from a smaller, but possibly vital, constituency: 
  Arab-Americans.
  In a recent interview with The Palm Beach Post, Kerry reiterated 
  his support for the Jewish state, including its right to built a security 
  barrier through the occupied West Bank territory and its ability to buy 
  advanced weapons, such as "bunker-busting" bombs.
  Israel used such a bomb two years ago to assassinate a terrorist leader 
  in the Gaza Strip, but the explosion also killed 15 civilians, including 
  children.
  
  
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  Kerry also said that, although he would encourage movement toward a 
  peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians, he would not do so "at the 
  expense of Israel's right to defend herself."
  "Israel has to negotiate Israel's security, not the United States," 
  Kerry said.
  Kerry's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears virtually 
  identical to that of President George W. Bush, whom Israeli Prime Minister 
  Ariel Sharon has called Israel's strongest supporter ever in the White 
  House.
  Republicans, who have been working to eat into the estimated 80 percent 
  support that Jewish voters in Florida gave to the Democratic ticket in 
  2000, said it is too late to be shoring up votes from those who 
  traditionally have supported the Democratic Party.
  "Me-too leadership is not what the Jewish community is looking for," 
  said state Rep. Adam Hasner, a Delray Beach Republican and Florida 
  chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign's Jewish Outreach Coalition.
  Kerry's position supporting Israel in its construction of a barrier — 
  the 480-mile project includes trenches, barbed wire and concrete walls — 
  goes against the international community, which has condemned it. The 
  position also is a change from what Kerry told Arab-Americans at a 
  conference last October, when he called the project a "barrier to 
  peace."
  "It certainly was a bit of a slap in the face to us," said James Zogby, 
  president of the Washington, D.C.-based Arab American Institute. "It was 
  embarrassing."
  Taleb Salhab, head of the Florida Arab American Leadership Council and 
  a Democratic activist in Orange County, conceded that Kerry's stronger 
  pro-Israel line would make it tougher to persuade Arab-American voters to 
  support him.
  Still, he said Arab-Americans interested in seeing Palestinians getting 
  their own state and bringing peace to the region would be better off with 
  Kerry than with Bush, who Salhab said had essentially given Sharon carte 
  blanche to do whatever he wanted.
  During Bush's three years in office, "more Palestinians and Israelis 
  have died than in any other three-year period in the last 30 years," 
  Salhab said.
  There are about 500,000 Jewish voters in Florida and about 120,000 
  Arab-American voters.
  Michael Lebovitz, Jewish Outreach coordinator for the Bush-Cheney 
  campaign, said Kerry's changing position on the issue would help Bush win 
  more than the 19 percent of the Jewish vote he received nationally in 
  2000.
  "The president has been steadfast in his support for Israel and helping 
  Israel remain safe and secure," Lebovitz said. "I contrast that with Sen. 
  Kerry, who, depending on the audience he's talking to, says different 
  things."
  Zogby said he believes Kerry took some bad advice when he shifted his 
  position. He said Jewish voters tend to be fairly liberal on social issues 
  and the vast majority of them would have supported Kerry even with his 
  original stance.
  "At the end of the of the day, I don't think they gained five votes, 
  but I think they lost many more than that," Zogby said.
  He said he continues to support Kerry because he believes Bush has been 
  uncritically supportive of Israel and unengaged in the conflict there.
  Kerry, who spoke to The Post Wednesday after meeting with about 
  65 Jewish community leaders from Palm Beach and Broward counties, also 
  said he would be better for Israel's security by fixing the "mess" in 
  Iraq.
  "I think President Bush has drawn terrorists to the region who weren't 
  there 

[CTRL] Kerry Taps Controversial Elian Attorney

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Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004 2:07 
p.m. EDT 
Kerry Taps Controversial Elian Attorney 
The Elian Gonzalez controversy was the single most 
critical factor giving George Bush the presidency in 2000. 
It may prove to be a critical factor this year as well – thanks to John Kerry 
who just tapped a key figure in the Elian controversy for his campaign. 
Kerry must have forgotten that after the Elian brouhaha record numbers of 
Cuban Americans in Florida voted against Al Gore – ceding the closely contested 
Florida race – and the presidency to George Bush. 
The Miami Herald reported Saturday that "a lawyer unpopular with many Cuban 
Americans for his role in the Elián González case will help prepare John Kerry 
for the upcoming presidential debate to be held at the University of Miami.” 
That lawyer’s name is Gregory Craig, a well-connected Washington attorney who 
represented Elian Gonzalez’s father. 
Craig worked closely with the Cuban government and Attorney General Janet 
Reno to gain custody of little Elian. 

In the end, armed federal immigration officers stormed the home of Elian’s 
uncle and seized the boy. With the help of Reno and the Clinton White House, 
Craig successfully returned Elian to Castro’s custody. 
Now, Craig has been tapped by John Kerry’s campaign to prepare him for his 
first debate with President Bush, which is scheduled for Sept. 30 in Miami. 
Craig will also reportedly play the role of President Bush in a series of 
mock debates with Kerry. 
Craig’s new role in the Kerry campaign underscores Senator Ted Kennedy’s 
strong control over the Kerry effort. 
Craig has been a longstanding Kennedy operative, and the Herald noted that 
Craig had "served as a top foreign policy advisor to Sen. Edward Kennedy . . .” 
Superlawyer Craig also served as Bill Clinton's lead impeachment lawyer. 
The Craig appointment is in keeping with NewsMax Magazine’s recent cover 
story "Teddy’s Back!” 
Authored by best-selling author Richard Poe, the report reveals that Ted 
Kennedy is the driving force behind the Kerry campaign and that Kennedy 
operatives – including Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and political 
adviser Bob Shrum – are calling the shots. 
But the selection of Craig will be seen as a major slap in the face to Cuban 
American voters – a voting bloc Kerry has been trying to woo. 

Kerry has sought to outflank Bush by claiming Bush has been too soft on 
Castro and Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez. 

Just this month the Kerry campaign even opened a campaign office in Miami’s 
Little Havana and began broadcasting radio ads in Spanish attacking Bush’s Cuba 
policies. 
But Kerry’s efforts in Miami may be for naught with the Craig appointment. 
Even the Herald noted Kerry’s error, calling the Craig appointment a 
"misstep, signaling a campaign that is still learning its way around Florida -- 
and Miami's -- complicated mix of politics, six weeks before the election.” 
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[CTRL] Swiftvet Author to Kerry: Renounce 'Hanoi Jane's' Campaign Help

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Friday, Sept. 24, 2004 10:53 
a.m. EDT 
Swiftvet Author to Kerry: Renounce 'Hanoi Jane's' Campaign 
Help 
John Kerry should reject 'Hanoi Jane' Fonda's campaign help in 
this year's presidential election and issue a statement renouncing her 
anti-American activities during the Vietnam War, "Unfit for Command" co-author 
Jerry Corsi said Thursday.Fonda has been traveling the country 
registering women voters and denouncing President Bush as a "radical ideologue" 
- backing Kerry the same way she did 34 years ago when she bankrolled his group, 
Vietnam Veterans Against the War. "Jane Fonda has been a 
radical activist since the 1960s," Corsi told NewsMax. "I don't recall any 
statement from Kerry renouncing either Jane Fonda or Scott Camil, who was one of 
the most radical activists in the VVAW." 
Camil was a regional organizer for Kerry's campaign earlier this year. 
But it's Fonda who's become the focus of new controversy. Last week she 
brought her "Vaginas Vote" registration drive to New York City and 
enthusiastically endorsed Kerry's presidential bid. 
"I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism and 
moderation," Fonda told a Fox News reporter, in quotes covered only by the 
British press. About Bush, she added, "I mean, we are dealing with a radical 
ideologue here." 
The Kerry-Fonda relationship is the target of the latest TV ad by the 
Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, with a narrator explaining: 
"Even before Jane Fonda went to Hanoi to meet with the enemy and mock 
America, John Kerry secretly met with enemy leaders in Paris. ... Eventually, 
Jane Fonda apologized for her activities, but John Kerry refuses to." 
Corsi said that instead of campaigning for Kerry, Fonda should "come out 
publicly, especially in view of the new Swiftvet ad, and let us all know if she 
renounces having gone to North Vietnam during the war and telling our POWs at 
the Hanoi Hilton that they were war criminals." 
See old pals John Kerry and 
"Hanoi Jane" Fonda protesting the Vietnam war together in 1970. 
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[CTRL] Source: CBS Worried About Worse Revelations

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Source: CBS Worried About Worse Revelations 
Senior sources at CBS headquarters in New York tell NewsMax 
that, while they are pleased that Dick Thornburgh and former AP president Lou 
Boccardi have agreed to head an investigation into the controversial Dan Rather 
report on President Bush's National Guard service, there are hints that more 
revelations are yet to be uncovered.
One CBS insider tells NewsMax that though it is hoped "the worst is behind 
us," there is a fear that more is yet to come. 

While no details on what else may be uncovered by the investigatory panel 
were discussed, there is a growing acceptance that some high-level firings or 
"resignations" may be in the works. 

Those seemingly "exposed" are on the management side of CBS News operations. 

Even the fate of Dan Rather is not assured. Sources explain that the future 
of such CBS notables as Rather and news president Andy Heyward could be impacted 
by what the panel may uncover. 

Lou Boccardi had a reputation within the Associated Press for having zero 
tolerance for shoddy news reporting. 

In a move still talked about by AP'ers, Boccardi sacked his longtime No. 2, 
Bill Ahearn, in 2000 when the AP came under fire for "questionable" sourcing on 
story about a U.S. massacre in the village of No Gun Ri during the Korean War. 

Ironically, the AP won a Pulitzer for the story. 
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BY DAWSON BELL FREE PRESS 
STAFF WRITER 
September 23, 2004

Overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are 
under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to 
register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered 
voters, election and law enforcement officials said Wednesday. 

Officials in Wayne, Oakland, Ingham and Eaton counties have been contacted 
about the problem, which appears to be an outgrowth of unprecedented efforts by 
political interest groups to register thousands of new voters before the 
November election. 

State Elections Director Christopher Thomas said he hoped criminal 
prosecutions would result. Thomas, who has held his post for more than 20 years, 
said the scale of voter-registration drives this year and the irregularities 
were like nothing he had seen before. 

Although there is little likelihood that phony registrations could be used to 
affect the outcome of an election because of safeguards in place, alleged fraud 
undermines confidence in the system and burdens local elected officials, Thomas 
said. 

"We don't want to give the impression that there are a lot of people who will 
be able to vote" using a phony registration, Thomas said, "but these clerks have 
enough to do without having to screen thousands of duplicates" and bogus 
applications. 

Ingham County Sheriff's Detective Mark Bowser said an investigation of 
suspected registration fraud has been under way since late August and could be 
turned over to the county prosecutor by the end of the week. 

Bowser said it is unclear how widespread the problems are. He said the 
investigation has reviewed "a couple thousand questionable registrations." 

Representatives from two groups whose workers have submitted 
apparently-fraudulent applications -- the Public Interest Research Group in 
Michigan (PIRGIM) and Project Vote -- downplayed the issue Wednesday, insisting 
that it involved only a handful of workers and a limited number of 
registrations. 

David Leland, national director of Project Vote, said fewer than 100 of the 
thousands of applications his group has collected in Detroit, Pontiac and other 
four other urban centers had been identified as fraudulent. 

But the massive registration drives have produced thousands of registration 
applications from voters already on the rolls, city elections officials said. 

Detroit Elections Director Gloria Williams said her office has been receiving 
several thousand new registrations a day, about half of which were duplicates of 
people already registered. 

Heidi Blankenship, regional director of a PIRGIM voter-registration drive 
designed to generate 20,000 new voters in Ingham and Washtenaw counties, said 
only three or four workers out of dozens in the project were suspected of 
wrongdoing. She described them as "young students who didn't realize it was a 
potential felony." 

She said PIRGIM pays workers a flat rate, with bonuses for exceeding 
registration targets. The group attempts to verify a sampling of new 
registrations, she said. 

Project Vote's Leland said workers from the offices of the Association of 
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which are collecting 
registrations in Michigan, had produced nearly 70,000 new registrations with a 
very low error rate. 

"I feel very happy with the way it is working out, but we will do whatever we 
can to ensure the integrity of the process," he said. 

There have been scattered reports of similar voter-registration problems from 
around the country. The Project Vote office in Ohio fired two workers earlier 
this year for submitting bogus voter applications. 

Ingham County Clerk Mike Bryanton said some of the alleged fraud he had 
reviewed was "pretty obvious," including names taken out of the phone book and 
as many as eight people registered from a single apartment address. 

Bryanton said he didn't know whether the bad registrations violated election 
law or could be prosecuted under some other statute, such as forgery. But they 
are a "real pain" for local clerks, he said. 

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[CTRL] Dead man on voter rolls sparks inquiry

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  Dead man on voter rolls sparks inquiry 
  
  Thursday, September 23, 2004 
  Michael ScottPlain Dealer Reporter 
  Painesville - At least one Lake County voter would have made quite a 
  comeback to cast a ballot Nov. 2. 
  He has been dead for more than two decades, elections officials said. 
  
  In a seemingly lesser miracle of wayward democracy, an elderly nursing 
  home resident who only scrawls a shaky "X" when signing official documents 
  suddenly regained a firm, crisp cursive signature when she registered. 

  Both the dead man and the elderly woman were signed up by voter 
  registration advocacy groups, Lake County elections officials said. 
  "Those were not their signatures," Lake elections board Director Jan 
  Clair said Wednesday. "Now, we're talking about election fraud here, and 
  we're going to take some of these cases to the prosecutor." 
  Clair said the veracity of dozens of registration cards and maybe 
  hundreds of absentee ballot requests are being investigated by the Lake 
  County board in an election year with possibly record-setting registration 
  efforts. The 12,000 new registrations in Lake County this year more than 
  double the last two years combined, she said. 
  "Let's just say there are a lot of voter advocacy groups out there this 
  year with a number of zealous participants who maybe don't understand the 
  law regarding this type of activity," Clair said. 
  "We're not going to be allowing anyone to intrude on the integrity of 
  democracy," Clair said. 
  She said that the registration of the deceased man was filed by the 
  National Voter Fund, the registration arm of the NAACP, and the woman in 
  the nursing home was registered by the group Americans Coming Together, 
  known in this state as ACT Ohio. 
  She said ACT Ohio had been to two Lake County nursing homes and a 
  number of registrations were now in question. 
  A spokesman for the National Voter Fund could not be reached. Its Web 
  site, www.naacpnvf.org, says it is a nonpartisan effort to increase 
  participation of the African-American voter. 
  Jess Goode, state communications director for ACT Ohio, said the Lake 
  County allegations would turn out to be nothing. 
  "We honestly believe that there is nothing to this and that it was 
  based on confusion and miscommunication," Goode said. "We have tough, 
  professional standards and . . . a well-trained staff. 
  "Our goal is to make sure more Ohioans are able to vote legitimately." 
  
  ACT is a partisan group formed with the specific intent to oust 
  President Bush from office and promote Democrats on all ballots, according 
  to its Web site, www.actforvictory.org. 
  Groups like ACT are known as 527 organizations because of the number of 
  the section of the tax code that governs political committees. Published 
  reports have said that the organizations have raised nearly $184 million 
  since the end of 2002 to use for get-out-the-vote operations, political 
  advertising and contributions to state and local candidates. 
  Clair said she is also investigating a potentially fraudulent 
  registration effort by a political candidate, whom she would not name 
  unless the case gets referred to Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson. 
  
  None of the cases has been turned over to Coulson yet, although board 
  members Wednesday gave Clair the OK to pursue the cases criminally. 
  There are other apparent irregularities in Lake County, like dozens of 
  people on one street who filed for absentee ballots. 
  "Like one entire neighborhood that says it's going to be out of town on 
  Election Day?" Clair asked. "That seems more than a little strange, so 
  we're going out to have a talk with some people." 
  To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: 
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Re: [CTRL] Kerry flip on West Bank wall may cost votes, some say

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The article is speculating that Kerry 
could lose Arab votes because he earlier had told an Arab audience that the wall 
was a "barrier" to peace. Just another example of trying to be on both sides of 
an issue. - JR
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every act that Israel makes. Both are ready to commit American lives and 
money at Israel's behest. No difference here at all. 
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[CTRL] Victims of vaccine? N.C. troops say military program is unsafe

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Victims of 
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N.C. troops say military program is unsafe
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/9763416.htm?1c
ELIZABETH LELANDCharlotte Observer
Sun, Sep. 
26, 2004

Two days after a 
military nurse injected Lavester Brown with the anthrax vaccine at Pope Air 
Force Base near Fayetteville, his heart failed.
Brown was 34, an avid athlete, career military. Doctors had 
warned him to avoid vaccinations, he said, because of a reaction to a malaria 
drug in the early '90s. But when Brown told superiors, he said, they warned he 
could be kicked out of the military if he didn't get vaccinated for 
anthrax.
Brown was afraid: of the vaccine, of losing his job. He had a 
wife and four young children to support.
"I kept telling them, `I can't take the shot.' "
The vaccination is mandatory, part of the military's war on 
terrorism. Brown had been in the Air Force 14 years and was trained to follow 
orders. So when a commander, a major, a captain and a first sergeant all ordered 
him to be vaccinated, Brown, a technical sergeant, rolled up his sleeve and took 
the jab.
He is now awaiting a heart transplant.
Thousands of soldiers have suffered unexplained illnesses after 
getting the anthrax vaccine, ranging from muscle aches to death. The federal 
Food and Drug Administration says the vaccine has no more side effects than 
other vaccines, but cases like Lavester Brown's raise troubling 
questions:
Is the vaccination safe?
Should the military require troops to take it?
There was concern about the anthrax vaccine long before the 
threat of global terrorism.
In the 1990s, the FDA found problems with quality control 
procedures at the only U.S. company that makes the vaccine, then owned by the 
state of Michigan. The FDA warned that if the problems were not corrected, the 
company could lose its license. The state halted production in 1998 and began 
renovations, then sold the plant to BioPort.
After terrorists hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001, and 
anthrax-laced letters killed five people and infected at least 13 others, demand 
for a vaccine erupted. In January 2002, the FDA gave BioPort approval to 
distribute its vaccine to the military.
The FDA and the Department of Defense and BioPort all say the 
vaccine is safe. A vocal group of current and former military personnel, doctors 
and members of Congress claims it is not. Three lawsuits challenging the vaccine 
are now in federal court.
To the emergency 
room
Brown knew nothing of the controversy on Friday, Feb. 27, when 
he got the fourth in a series of six anthrax shots.He rarely got sick, not even 
a cold. He didn't drink. He didn't smoke. He stood 5 feet 11 1/2 inches and 
weighed 207 pounds, but so much was muscle, he looked lean.
The day after the fourth anthrax shot, Saturday morning, he 
played basketball at the gym as usual but quickly tired. He went to the 
emergency room that night, he said, and a military doctor diagnosed a 
gastrointestinal infection.
By Sunday, he felt as if his body was filling up with fluid. The 
muscles in his neck throbbed and bulged. He had trouble breathing. Back at the 
emergency room that night, he said, a doctor again diagnosed gastrointestinal 
infection.
Something else is happening, Brown remembers saying. I can't 
breathe.
He said his wife, Ebony, insisted on X-rays. "When they looked 
at the X-rays," Brown recalled, "the doctor got this look on his face. I knew 
something was terribly wrong."
Brown said his heart was so enlarged, it had almost stopped 
pumping. He now takes medication to keep it beating until a transplant becomes 
available. He has dropped to 151 pounds, and walking only a few feet exhausts 
him. Friday, he was medically retired from the Air Force.
Before he got sick, Brown sometimes worked two jobs to provide 
for Ebony and their four children, ages 5 to 12. Now Ebony works and the 
children help care for him, and that's been a tough transition.
"I wish we had done our homework before Lavester got in line 
(for the vaccine)," Ebony said. "We trusted the military."
Mandatory shots
Until recently, anthrax had been considered primarily a 
livestock disease. People can be infected in three ways -- through skin contact, 
by eating infected meat or by breathing airborne spores -- but it's 
rare.
The military became convinced that Iraq had developed biological 
weapons, including anthrax, and might pack its Scud missiles with the deadly 
bacteria. Nearly everyone who inhales anthrax dies if not treated.
In 1998, the Defense Department made vaccinations 
mandatory.
Since then, about 1.2 million military personnel have received 
the vaccine, six doses over 18 months, followed by yearly boosters. (Several 
hundred thousand, a Pentagon spokesman said, got the vaccine during the 1991 
Persian Gulf War.)
Out of 4.7 million doses given since 1998, the government says 
it has received 3,817 reports of adverse reactions, from headache, fatigue and 
fever to cancer, cardiac arrest and 

[CTRL] The Vioxx warning

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/10/10/the_vioxx_warning?mode=PF



  
  

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  The Vioxx warning
  October 10, 
  2004
  FOR FOUR years, researchers have been pointing to disturbing signs that 
  the popular painkilling drug Vioxx causes heart attacks and strokes with 
  long-term use. Last week the pharmaceutical giant Merck voluntarily withdrew the drug from the market 
  after a recent study confirmed this side effect. The rise and fall of 
  Vioxx highlights the need for longer studies before the Food and Drug 
  Administration approves new medications that will often be taken by 
  patients for extended periods of time and lack the urgency of life-saving 
  treatments. At $2.5 billion in annual sales, Vioxx is the biggest-selling 
  drug any company has ever recalled. In its five-year history it became 
  widely prescribed as a painkiller for arthritis patients, since it did not 
  cause ulcers or stomach bleeding. The study that confirmed its link to 
  cardiovascular problems was actually designed to determine whether Vioxx 
  might also prevent the recurrence of colon polyps that could become 
  cancerous.
  But critics of the drug had long voiced the suspicion that it caused 
  heart problems. In a 2000 study, Vioxx did somewhat better than another, 
  generic painkiller in not causing ulcers or gastrointestinal bleeding. 
  When that study also showed more nonfatal heart attacks in Vioxx patients 
  than in those taking the other drug, Merck attributed the difference to a 
  heart-protective effect it said the other drug had. By 2002, the FDA had 
  seen enough evidence of heart-related problems with Vioxx to require a 
  label warning. It should have also required a thorough study at that 
  point.
  In the test of Vioxx as a preventer of colon polyps, the heart problems 
  emerged after 18 months of daily use. The testing that led to the drug's 
  original approval lasted just 12 months.
  The most immediate task for the FDA is to order long-term studies of 
  possible cardiovascular problems in users of prescription painkillers 
  similar to Vioxx, such as Celebrex. But after the Vioxx recall and others 
  in recent years, the agency should also examine whether it is letting 
  medications come onto the market before their long-term effects have been 
  sufficiently tested.
  Critics of the FDA in the pharmaceutical industry and Congress often 
  take the agency to task for delaying unnecessarily the approval of new 
  drugs. While that criticism might be valid in the case of life-saving or 
  life-extending drugs for patients with cancer or other extreme conditions, 
  the only reason for speedy approval of drugs like Vioxx, which simply 
  improve on other painkillers, is to give the maker a longer period under 
  patent protection. However, there is a risk that a short trial period will 
  not detect side effects in drugs for chronic conditions that might be 
  taken by some patients for years. Patients with cardiovascular problems 
  worsened by Vioxx have paid for that rush to market.

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[CTRL] Vioxx was OKd for kids

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BY DELTHIA RICKSSTAFF WRITEROctober 11, 
2004Weeks before pharmaceutical giant Merck  Co. sent seismic waves 
through the medical community, pulling its painkiller Vioxx off the market, it 
announced the drug had been approved for children.Few drugs are 
available for those younger than 18 with debilitating rheumatoid disorders. And 
Merck announced with some fanfare on Sept. 8 that the federal Food and Drug 
Administration had approved Vioxx for pediatric use, based on research that ran three months. A longer 
Merck-sponsored study in adults showed the drug increases the risk of heart 
attacks and strokes, a finding that ended the five-year pharmaceutical run of 
Vioxx late last month.The little pill was a multibillion-dollar earner 
for the company, bringing in $2.5 billion last year alone.But Merck 
and the FDA had strong hints about the drug's cardiovascular risks as early as 
1999. And even as product liability lawyers were advertising for Vioxx 
victims on the radio and Internet, the company went ahead with the pediatric 
test."The information [about heart risks] was on the label, and it 
was for all dosing levels," said Anita Larsen, a spokeswoman for Merck, 
referring to the fine-print package insert that accompanies all prescription 
drugs, which, studies have shown, are rarely read.Larsen said the label 
information was based on scientific data reported in 2001. Still, had the 
company not withdrawn the drug, it is likely that youngsters could have been 
taking it for years.No signs in pediatric studyOfficials 
at the Arthritis Foundation, the nation's leading advocacy group for people with 
rheumatoid diseases, did not fault the FDA's approval of Vioxx for children. Dr. 
John Klippel, a rheumatologist and president of the foundation, said that FDA 
approval of Vioxx for children was based solely on the three-month pediatric 
study and that nothing in it hinted at heart problems."Vioxx wasn't 
approved long enough for children so that it would have caused a problem in 
kids," he said.The study that doomed Vioxx was aimed at determining how 
well the medication prevented colon polyps, intestinal growths that can 
sometimes flare into full-blown tumors.The study began in November 2000 
and was halted prematurely last month when researchers discovered that patients 
on the medication had double the risk of cardiovascular disorders compared with 
people on placebos. Merck's Larsen said an additional reason for that study was 
to examine the drug's potential for heart attack and stroke.Yet the 
company embarked on the pediatric study two years later already aware it was 
researching cardiovascular problems - as well as polyps - in 
adults."This was something we really wanted to examine," Larsen said of 
the drug's potential to cause cardiovascular problems. Still, evidence against 
Vioxx began arriving from numerous quarters.Dr. Garret FitzGerald, a 
cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, underscored that heart risks 
related to Vioxx were evident as early as 1999, the year Vioxx was federally 
approved. He published a scientific paper about the dangers in 2001. And last 
week, in a study released early by the New England Journal of Medicine, he said 
the entire class of drugs - COX-2 inhibitors - are potentially 
lethal.Dr. Steven Nissen, the Cleveland Clinic's vice chairman of 
cardiology, told Newsday that Merck and the FDA knew about the risks again in 
2001 because he had pointed to them as a member of an FDA heart and kidney 
advisory panel.Nissen had discovered a higher risk of cardiovascular 
problems in a group of arthritis patients on Vioxx compared with another on 
naproxen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID. Vioxx, unlike older 
NSAIDs, was designed to act only on pain and inflammation - and not cause 
stomach problems, for which NSAIDs are notorious."What we were saying to 
the medical community is that we see a problem, and we think it needs more 
study," Nissen said. "But it was very controversial, and we got a lot of flak 
for it."Merck revised the Vioxx label in 2001, warning patients of 
increased cardiovascular risks.Results out before 
approvalThe FDA's Dr. David Graham examined the medical records of more 
than 1 million adults on Vioxx and also found evidence of 

[CTRL] Distressed Fannie Mae Hires a Top Defender

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MONDAY 
MORNING 
Monday, October 11, 2004; Page E02 

Distressed Fannie Mae 
Hires a Top Defender 
Chalk up another troubled corporate client for veteran defense lawyer Robert 
S. Bennett.
Last week District-based mortgage giant Fannie Mae hired him to help stave 
off Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations 
into its accounting practices.
Bennett, 65, a partner in the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, 
Meagher  Flom, in recent years has developed a lucrative specialty of 
representing companies ensnared in financial scandals.
He and other Skadden partners also run interference for French bank BNP 
Paribas, disgraced energy trader Enron Corp., rehabilitation hospital chain 
HealthSouth Corp., audit firm KPMG LLP, and the Allbritton family of Riggs Bank 
fame.
In all, Bennett said, his team in Washington has nearly 65 lawyers -- 
including longtime partners Carl S. Rauh and Alan Kriegel and former SEC 
enforcement deputy Colleen P. Mahoney -- plus 60 legal assistants. 
But the affable former prosecutor may be best known to a wider audience for 
his defense of President Bill Clinton in a sexual harassment lawsuit that 
ultimately helped lead to Clinton's impeachment.
"When representing companies it is a very nuanced practice, because you have 
so many constituencies: regulators, law enforcement people, shareholders, boards 
of directors and board committees," Bennett said. "You have to deal with all 
these things fairly quickly, because if you don't, the franchise can be 
seriously jeopardized."
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Top Kerry Donor Faces Iranian 
Propaganda Allegations By 
Marc MoranoCNSNews.com Senior Staff WriterOctober 12, 
2004(CNSNews.com) - A pro-democracy Iranian group based in the 
United States accuses a top fund-raiser for Democratic presidential nominee John 
Kerry of aiding radical Iranian clerics. The Kerry fund-raiser is 
scheduled to be deposed in a civil lawsuit next week involving accusations that 
he has served as an agent for the Islamic government of Iran. A group of 
Iranian expatriates, the Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran 
(SMCCDI), and two American authors plan to hold a press conference this week to 
discuss the Iranian regime's influence on Sen. John Kerry's presidential 
campaign. The event will take place Thursday at the National Press 
Club.SMCCDI has alleged that Kerry presidential campaign fund-raiser 
Hassan Nemazee, a New York-based investment banker, has used his position to 
advance the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.That agenda includes 
normalizing relations between Iran and the United States and opening trade and 
investment, according to SMCCDI. The group has called Nemazee one of "Iran's 
American propagandists."Nemazee has denied charges that he served as an 
agent for Iran's government, and he has filed a $10-million civil lawsuit in 
Texas against SMCCDDI's coordinator, Aryo Pirouznia, alleging defamation of 
character. Pirouznia has counter-sued Nemazee, and Nemazee is scheduled to give 
a deposition next week. "Perhaps because [Nemazee] knows the suit would 
embarrass the Democrat nominee, Nemazee has sought to postpone if not avoid 
answering questions about his suit in a deposition. Thanks to [SMCCDI's] 
counter-suit, faith in democracy, and a clear-headed judge in Texas who refused 
[Nemazee's] delay, SMCCDI is going public with the evidence," read SMCCDI's 
press release for Thursday's press conference. Author and political 
scientist Jerome Corsi, who plans to attend Thursday's press conference, told 
CNSNews.com, "The Democratic Party and John Kerry have been funded by 
pro-mullah groups who have Israel as their sworn enemy. They are funding 
insurgents to go against our troops in Iraq, and John Kerry wants to give them 
nuclear fuel." Corsi, co-author of the best-selling book Unfit for 
Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, is working on 
another book called Atomic Islam: Iran, Oil, Terrorism and the Democratic 
Party. WorldNetDaily Books plans to publish it in 2005."Nemazee is 
one of Kerry's top fund-raisers. He is listed on Kerry's website as a top tier 
fund-raiser," Corsi said. "Nemazee has raised over half-a-million 
dollars for Kerry. He has been at all kinds of events for Kerry, and Kerry is 
proposing normalizing relations with Iran and giving Iran nuclear fuel," he 
added. Kerry called for normalizing relations with Iran in December 2003 
in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations: "As president, I will be 
prepared early on to explore areas of mutual interest with Iran, just as I was 
prepared to normalize relations with Vietnam a decade ago," Kerry 
said.The U.S. State Department consistently has labeled Iran as a 
leading state sponsor of terrorism, and human rights groups have accused the 
Iranian government of human rights abuses. The Bush administration opposes 
normalizing relations with Iran and also has denied nuclear fuel to the country. 
In the first presidential debate in Miami on September 30, Kerry said, 
"I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide [Iran] 
nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it 
for peaceful purposes." Corsi said Kerry's policy could prove very 
dangerous to the U.S."Trusting the Iranians not to make bombs when they 
have been funding Hezbollah and Hamas for a quarter century is like thinking 
[Japan's former Emperor] Tojo was not going to attack the United States when he 
had a chance," Corsi said. Ken Timmerman, author of several books on the 
Middle East, believes that Kerry "has adopted many of the positions that 
Tehran's lobbyists in America are trying to champion.""Mr. Kerry has not 
only adopted the policies that the Islamic government in Tehran would like to 
see pursued by the U.S., he has accepted money by their lobbyists and has been 
the featured speaker at prominent fund-raising events," Timmerman told 
CNSNews.com. Iran and its ability to produce nuclear weapons has 
been raised during the presidential campaign; and on Tuesday, TehranTimes.com quoted the secretary of Iran's Supreme 
National Security Council, Hassan Rowhani, as saying that Iran no longer has to 
abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the West "tries to deprive it 
of its legitimate nuclear rights."
 

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[CTRL] Education official concerned about homeschooling popularity

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"I don't know why they score so high," Nicholas said. "But historically, 
students who are homeschooled usually have exceptionally high scores on those 
tests." Duh! Wouldn't it have something to do with what and how they are 
taught? - JR
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Education official 
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Press
MERIDIAN, Miss. - A state education official 
says she's concerned about the growing popularity of homeschooling 
in Mississippi.
Peggy Peterson, director of compulsory school attendance 
enforcement with the Mississippi Department of Education, said she 
fears that some children may not be receiving top quality education 
instruction from their parents.
Mississippi Department of Education statistics show that the 
number of families homeschooling in the state has increased since 
1999, when officials began monitoring enrollment.
A total of 11,063 Mississippi children were homeschooled last 
year, up from 8,768 in May 1999. Lauderdale County alone had 281 
families homeschooling their children in May of this year.
Peterson said some parents have done a good job of educating 
their children, "but I am concerned about the ones who are not 
qualified to teach their children."
Peterson's office is the only one with the state Department of 
Education that has anything to do with homeschooling. Families that 
homeschool their children must register with their county's school 
attendance officer; the officer, in turn, reports to Peterson's 
office.
Peterson, a former president of the Mississippi Association of 
Educators, said some states require parents who teach their children 
to have a certain level of education. She said there was no such 
requirement in Mississippi.
"Mississippi has the most lenient homeschool laws in the nation," 
Peterson said.
Joseph and Mary Beth Hallman of Lauderdale County homeschool 
their son and daughter. They said they wanted to make sure their 
children receive the best education possible.
"No one cares more about our children than we do," said Mary Beth 
Hallman, whose two children have never attended a public or private 
school. "And it is a privilege to teach them at home."
Hannah, 14, is a ninth-grader; Benjamin, 12, is a seventh-grader. 
Their classroom is the family living room, where their parents teach 
reading, math, religion and other subjects.
The Hallmans are on the advisory board for the Meridian Christian 
Home Educators, one of two homeschool groups in Lauderdale County. 
Members include about 125 families and about 400 students.
Sarah Nicholas, a spokeswoman for the state College Board, said 
homeschool students often score higher than public school students 
on the American College Test and the Scholastic Aptitude Test - two 
national, standardized tests used for college admissions.
"I don't know why they score so high," Nicholas said. "But 
historically, students who are homeschooled usually have 
exceptionally high scores on those tests."
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COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAYReeve doubted embryonic stem-cell researchSaid they're 'not able to do much about chronic injuries'
  
  Posted: October 13, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern
  
  
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  Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign has used the death of 
  Christopher Reeve to highlight its differences with President Bush over 
  embryonic stem-cell research, but the actor himself expressed doubt over 
  the ability of the cells to treat chronic injuries such as the paralysis 
  he suffered from a horse-rising accident nearly a decade ago. 
  Reeve, a leading advocate for finding a cure for spinal cord injuries, 
  died 
  Sunday night, shortly after Kerry mentioned his name in Friday night's 
  debate to argue for federal funding of the controversial research, which 
  opponents, such as President Bush, argue destroys human life. 
  
  In an interview earlier this year, however, Readers' Digest asked 
  Reeve, "What's your position on embryonic stem-cell research?" 
  "I advocate it because I think scientists should be free to pursue 
  every possible avenue," Reeve said. "It 
  appears though, at the moment, that embryonic stem cells are effective in 
  treating acute injuries and are not able to do much about chronic 
  injuries." 
  Nevertheless, vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards made a 
  startling campaign promise Monday during a speech at a high school in 
  Newton, Iowa. 
  "We will stop juvenile diabetes, 
  Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases," Edwards said, 
  referring to federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. " ... When 
  John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going get up 
  out of that wheelchair and walk again." 
  But as a citizen questioner, Elizabeth Long, pointed out in Friday's 
  town-hall style debate, it's the adult stem cells, requiring no 
  destruction of human life, that actually have yielded remarkable results 
  and show the most promise. 
  Long asked Kerry: "Thousands of people have already been cured or 
  treated by the use of adult stem cells or umbilical-cord stem cells. 
  However, no one has been cured by using embryonic stem cells. Wouldn't it 
  be wise to use stem cells obtained without the destruction of an embryo?" 
  In his response, Kerry said scientists have told him "we have the 
  option" of curing Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal-cord injuries using 
  embryonic stem cells. 
  But Princeton University Professor 
  Robert P. George insists no scientists – not even those most aggresively 
  in favor of the research that destroys embryos – have ever told Kerry any 
  such thing. 
  "What Kerry has done here is told the 
  big lie about embryonic stem cells," George said in a 
  column for National Review Online. 
  The claim is "outrageous," he said. 
  
  "No one knows when – or even whether or not – human embryonic stem 
  cells will be therapeutically useful in treating any major disease 
  or injury." 
  George said there are profound and perhaps insurmountable problems with 
  the therapeutic use of the cells. 
  He emphasizes, despite what the Kerry 
  campaign has said, there is no federal ban on embryonic stem-cell 
  research. Yet the studies that have been funded with 
  state and private money have not even yielded clinical trials. 
  At the same time, stem cells from adults 
  or umbilical cords have yielded remarkable results. 
  "For months now, the Kerry campaign and its surrogates, such as Ron 
  Reagan Jr., have cruelly led suffering people to believe that cures for 
  their diseases are just around the corner," George said. "All we have to do is replace Bush with Kerry, open the 
  federal funding spigot, and presto! The blind see and the lame walk!" 
  
  The Kerry campaign's "hyping of 
  embryo-destructive research for political gain is the cruelest and most 
  shameful episode in the story of the 2004 election," 
  George said. 
  In the Reader's Digest interview, Reeve was asked, "How have political 
  decisions slowed stem cell research?" 
  "The religious right has had quite an influence on the debate," he 
  said. "I don't think that's appropriate. When we're setting public policy, 
  no one segment of society deserves the only seat at the table. That's the 
  way it's set in the Constitution. So debate all we want, hear from 
  everybody. And then allow our representatives to weigh the factors and 
  make laws that are going to be ethically sound, moral, responsible, but 
  not the result 

[CTRL] Vioxx Withdrawal Highlights Potential Problems With Prescription Drug Advertising

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Vioxx Withdrawal Highlights Potential Problems With Prescription 
Drug Advertising13 Oct 2004With 
Merck's recent withdrawal of arthritis medication Vioxx from the 
market, "prescription drug promotions of all kinds -- the celebrity 
pitches, the glossy television and magazine ads, the freebies to 
doctors -- are likely to come under new scrutiny as patients, 
researchers and consumer groups question both their honesty and 
their ultimate public cost," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. 
Direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising "helped 
boost Vioxx sales to astounding heights," with Merck spending $49 
million on ads for the drug from January through July, according to 
the Inquirer. Between 1996 -- the year prior to FDA's 
relaxing of TV and radio prescription drug ad rules -- and 2003, the 
drug industry's direct-to-consumer ad spending increased from $791 
million to $3.2 billion, according to IMS Health, the Inquirer 
reports. In 2003, industry promotional spending, including 
consumer advertising, no-cost drug samples, "educational" trips and 
drug representative visits to physicians, totaled $25 billion. 
During roughly the same period, prescription drug expenses increased 
two to five times more than spending on hospital care and physician 
services, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 
Connection Between Ad Spending, Consumer 
BuyingSome critics say that it is "no coincidence ... 
that as promotional spending soars, so does spending on drugs -- by 
consumers who are both paying higher drug prices and being 
encouraged to buy drugs they never used before," the Inquirer 
reports (Vrazo, Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/10). Many 
physicians say that when a patient requests a prescription drug by 
name, they are "unlikely to say no ... as long as it does not seem 
wholly inappropriate for the condition," partly because they are 
"too pressed for time" to explore alternatives and "do not want to 
alienate patients who can take their business elsewhere," the New 
York Times reports. Mary Frank, a family physician in California, 
said that some patients also favor prescription drugs over OTC 
medications because health plans generally cover prescriptions. 
Presidential Candidates' PositionsDemocratic 
presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry's (Mass.) campaign "blames 
the ad-driven demand for pushing up spending on pricey drugs, which 
contribute to double-digit inflation in the nation's health care 
costs," the Times reports. Megan Hauck, deputy policy 
director for President Bush's re-election campaign, said Democrats 
are "exaggerating the issue" because a 2002 Government 
Accountability Office report found the drug industry spent "far 
more" on no-cost drug samples than on direct-to-consumer ads, 
according to the Times. Changes in Regulations 
ProposedFDA is considering a proposal to allow drug 
makers to simplify magazine and newspaper ads to make them "more 
reader-friendly," according to the Times. Under the proposal, drug 
companies would be able to summarize the most important or most 
common side effects in large type; currently, they must list 
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[CTRL] Tehran John: Pro-Iranian lobby funding Kerry

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COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAYTehran John: Pro-Iranian lobby funding KerryWhistleblowers disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars given 
  candidate
  
  Posted: October 14, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern
  
  By Aaron 
  Klein
  
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  Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been given to Kerry from the 
  pro-Iranian lobby, possibly influencing the presidential candidate's 
  startling call to provide Tehran with the nuclear fuel it seeks, according 
  to Iran's Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy chairman 
  Aryo Pirouznia. 
  With top Iranian officials openly calling for the development of 
  nuclear weapons within the next four months and overwhelming intelligence 
  indicating Iran is seeking to create a nuclear arsenal, Kerry has been 
  insisting as president he would provide Tehran with nuclear fuel as long 
  as it is used for peaceful purposes only, a position that has many Middle 
  East analysts baffled. 
  
  During the first presidential debate, Kerry said, "I think the United 
  States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, 
  test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for 
  peaceful purposes." 
  The same policy of accommodation toward Iran's nuclear aspirations is 
  clearly outlined on Kerry's campaign website as well. 
  Under the heading: "Prevent Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons," the 
  Kerry campaign states: "Iran claims that its nuclear program is only to 
  meet its domestic energy needs. John Kerry's proposal would call their 
  bluff by organizing a group of states to offer Iran the nuclear fuel they 
  need for peaceful purposes and take back the spent fuel so they cannot 
  divert it to build a weapon. If Iran does not accept this offer, their 
  true motivations will be clear ..." 
  Pirouznia, who is holding a press conference in Washington, D.C., this 
  morning, is disclosing the details of Kerry's financial ties to backers of 
  the mullah government in Iran that have been seeking to moderate America's 
  harsh line with regard to Tehran's nuclear aspirations. 
  Most prominent among them is Hassan Nemazee, 54, an investment banker 
  based in New York who has joined the board of the American-Iranian 
  Council, a U.S. lobbying group that consistently has supported lifting 
  U.S. sanctions on Iran and accommodating the Tehran regime. Nemazee has 
  raised more than $100,000 for the senator's campaign. 
  Nominated to become U.S. ambassador to Argentina by President Clinton 
  in 1999, Nemazee eventually withdrew his nomination after a former partner 
  raised allegations of business improprieties, WND 
  previously reported. 
  As well, a Nemazee friend in Silicon Valley, Faraj Aalaei, has raised 
  between $50,000 and $100,000 for the Kerry campaign. 
  Last year, Aalaei married a 35-year-old recent immigrant from Iran 
  named Susan Akbarpour, who has also raised between $50,000 and $100,000 
  for the campaign. 
  In just six years since coming to the United States on a tourist visa 
  from Iran, Akbarpour has started a newspaper, a magazine, and, most 
  recently, a trade association whose goal is to get sanctions lifted and 
  promote U.S. business and investment in Iran. 
  Kerry has embraced the political agenda of Akbarpour and other wealthy 
  Iranian-Americans lobbying for Tehran. Aside from nuclear accommodation, 
  other key positions include ending the finger printing of Iranian visitors 
  to the U.S; expanding "family reunion" visas to allow extended family 
  members of Iranians living in the U.S. to immigrate here legally and in 
  large numbers; offering a "dialogue" with the hard-line, 
  terrorist-supporting clerics in Tehran; and help Iran join the World Trade 
  Organization. 
  Pirouznia will be working closely with Dr. Jerome Corsi, co-author of 
  the New York Times best selling "Unfit to Command," on a new book about 
  the Iranian-Kerry connection titled, "Atomic Islam," which will be 
  published by WND Books in 2005. 
  "America is incredibly popular with the Iranian masses, so this is a 
  grave mistake for a short-term benefit," Pirouznia says. "To the regime, 
  [Kerry's policy] sends a message that America is willing to make a deal 
  despite the blood of Americans who were murdered in Dhahran [Saudi Arabia] 
  and are being killed today in Iraq by so-called foreign elements. And to 
  Iranians, it shows that the old establishment may be back in power, a 
  return to the Carter era." 
  Dr. Corsi said, "Not 

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Judge Holds Second Reporter in 
  Contempt 
  Wednesday October 13, 
  2004 10:01 PM 
  
  By CURT ANDERSON 
  Associated Press Writer 
  WASHINGTON (AP) - A second reporter was held in contempt Wednesday by a 
  federal judge for refusing to reveal confidential sources before a grand 
  jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity. 
  U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered Time magazine reporter 
  Matthew Cooper jailed for up to 18 months and the magazine fined $1,000 a 
  day for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena seeking the 
  testimony. Hogan suspended the jail time and fine pending the outcome of 
  an appeal. 
  The ruling was nearly identical to one issued last week by Hogan in the 
  case of Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times who is also 
  refusing to name her sources. Miller and Cooper, both represented by 
  lawyer Floyd Abrams, are expected to join together in appealing their 
  cases on First Amendment grounds. 
  ``No reporter in the United States should have to go to jail for simply 
  doing their job,'' said Cooper, who is Time's White House correspondent. 
  Hogan repeatedly has cited the Supreme Court in ruling that reporters 
  do not enjoy special protection from providing testimony to grand juries 
  unless they can show prosecutorial harassment or bad faith. Hogan said he 
  could find no evidence of either on the part of U.S. Attorney Patrick 
  Fitzgerald, who was appointed special prosecutor in the investigation. 
  ``I'm convinced this is not a fishing expedition or an improper 
  exercise of prosecutorial authority,'' Hogan said. 
  The investigation concerns whether a crime was committed when someone 
  leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, whose name was published 
  by syndicated columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. 
  The column appeared after Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph 
  Wilson, wrote a newspaper opinion column criticizing President Bush's 
  claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger - a claim the CIA had asked 
  Wilson to check out. 
  Wilson has said he believes his wife's name was leaked as payback for 
  his outspokenness. 
  Disclosure of the identity of an undercover intelligence officer can be 
  a federal crime, if prosecutors can show the leak was intentional and the 
  leaker knew about the officer's secret status. 
  Novak, who cited two senior administration officials as his sources, 
  has refused to say whether he has testified or been subpoenaed. Fitzgerald 
  declined comment Wednesday. 
  Prosecutors have interviewed President Bush, Vice President Cheney, 
  Secretary of State Colin Powell and other current or former administration 
  officials in the investigation. At least five reporters have been 
  subpoenaed. 
  In August, Cooper agreed to provide limited testimony about a 
  conversation he had with Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Vice President Cheney's 
  chief of staff, after Libby released Cooper from his promise of 
  confidentiality. Fitzgerald then issued a second, broader subpoena seeking 
  the names of other sources. 
  ``The prosecutor came back a few days later and basically asked for 
  everything in my notebook,'' Cooper said. 
  Abrams said he expected legal filings in the appeals of both Miller and 
  Cooper to be completed by Nov. 10 before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
  District of Columbia Circuit, which would then likely schedule an oral 
  argument. That means the CIA leak criminal investigation, which began in 
  September 2003, could drag on into early 2005. 
  

  
  





  






  
  


  


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[CTRL] Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge

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http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=3107

As a result of meeting with the enemy and then advocating the enemy's 
position, Kerry should have been prosecuted for treason, sufferd forfeiture of 
all pay, allowances and awards, served a long sentence in the brig and received 
a bad conduct discharge. While that didn't happen, in now appears Kerry may have 
received a less than honorable discharge that was later changed to an honorable 
discharge by a Board of Review at the direction of President Jimmie 
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Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge
BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the SunOctober 13, 2004URL: 
http://www.nysun.com/article/3107
An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. 
Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept 
secret about his military service.
The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter 
administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. 
Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." 
This in it self is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable 
discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.
According to the secretary of the Navy's document, the "authority of 
reference" this board was using in considering Mr. Kerry's record was "Title 10, 
U.S. Code Section 1162 and 1163. "This section refers to the grounds for 
involuntary separation from the service. What was being reviewed, then, was Mr. 
Kerry's involuntary separation from the service. And it couldn't have been an 
honorable discharge, or there would have been no point in any review at all. The 
review was likely held to improve Mr. Kerry's status of discharge from a less 
than honorable discharge to an honorable discharge.
A Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, was asked whether Mr. Kerry had ever 
been a victim of an attempt to deny him an honorable discharge. There has been 
no response to that inquiry.
The document is dated February 16, 1978. But Mr. Kerry's military commitment 
began with his six-year enlistment contract with the Navy on February 18, 1966. 
His commitment should have terminated in 1972. It is highly unlikely that either 
the man who at that time was a Vietnam Veterans Against the War leader, John 
Kerry, requested or the Navy accepted an additional six year reserve commitment. 
And the Claytor document indicates proceedings to reverse a less than honorable 
discharge that took place sometime prior to February 1978.
The most routine time for Mr. Kerry's discharge would have been at the end of 
his six-year obligation, in 1972. But how was it most likely to have come 
about?
NBC's release this March of some of the Nixon White House tapes about Mr. 
Kerry show a great deal of interest in Mr. Kerry by Nixon and his executive 
staff, including, perhaps most importantly, Nixon's special counsel, Charles 
Colson. In a meeting the day after Mr. Kerry's Senate testimony, April 23, 1971, 
Mr. Colson attacks Mr. Kerry as a "complete opportunist...We'll keep hitting 
him, Mr. President."
Mr. Colson was still on the case two months later, according to a memo he 
wrote on June 15,1971, that was brought to the surface by the Houston Chronicle. 
"Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader." 
Nixon had been a naval officer in World War II. Mr. Colson was a former Marine 
captain. Mr. Colson had been prodded to find "dirt" on Mr. Kerry, but reported 
that he couldn't find any.
The Nixon administration ran FBI surveillance on Mr. Kerry from September 
1970 until August 1972. Finding grounds for an other than honorable discharge, 
however, for a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, given his 
numerous activities while still a reserve officer of the Navy, was easier than 
finding "dirt."
For example, while America was still at war, Mr. Kerry had met with the North 
Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegation to the Paris Peace talks in May 1970 and 
then held a demonstration in July 1971 in Washington to try to get Congress to 
accept the enemy's seven point peace proposal without a single change. Woodrow 
Wilson threw Eugene Debs, a former presidential candidate, in prison just for 
demonstrating for peace negotiations with Germany during World War I. No court 
overturned his imprisonment. He had to receive a pardon from President 
Harding.
Mr. Colson refused to answer any questions about his activities regarding Mr. 
Kerry during his time in the Nixon White House. The secretary of the Navy at the 
time during the Nixon presidency is the current chairman of the Senate Armed 
Services Committee, Senator Warner. A spokesman for the senator, John Ullyot, 
said, "Senator Warner has no recollection that would either confirm or challenge 
any representation that Senator Kerry received a less than honorable 

[CTRL] Litmus test for Sureme Court judges

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In the debate 
yesterday the two presidential candidates were asked if they had a "litmus" test 
for Supreme Court Justices. President Bush said he had none. Although John Kerry 
did not call it a litmus test, he said he would not nominate a judge who would 
vote to overturn "Roe vs Wade" the Supreme Court Decision that made abortion on 
demand legal.

However, there 
is one test that should be put to judges at all levels. The following is a 
revised version of an article I first published December 1, 2000 before the 
court handed down its decision in the Florida election controversy. (A separate 
article was written about those decisions which I will repost.)


MEDIUM RARE
By Jim Rarey

April 6, 
2003

THE “LIVING 
CONSTITUTION” FRAUD

There is no better example of the 
success of the “big lie technique” than the perception in legal circles and the 
general population that the Supreme Court has the power to “interpret” the 
Constitution. In many law schools, law students are taught that the famous 
Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court case conferred that power on the court. Nothing could be further from the 
truth.

True, that case established the 
principal of “judicial review” of congressional statutes, by the court, as 
implied in the “supremacy clause” in Article V of the Constitution. That clause grants supremacy to the 
“laws of the United States” made in pursuance (to the Constitution). Implied is 
the fact that some body must make a judgment as to the constitutionality of the 
laws. The Supreme Court, as a 
“neutral” party relative to the legislative and executive branches was the 
logical arbiter. 

Regardless of the claims of the 
anti-constitutionalists, Marbury v. Madison did not give the court the right or 
power to change the original meaning of the Constitution. That was only to be 
done through the amendment process contained within the Constitution 
itself.

At issue in Marbury v. Madison 
was the jurisdiction of the court itself. 
The Congress had attempted to change the court’s jurisdiction between 
“original” and “appellate” as spelled out in Article III of the Constitution and 
clarified in the eleventh amendment. In striking down that statute, the court 
said to allow Congress to make those changes would, “make a mockery of the 
Constitution.” The decision also 
reaffirmed the Congress’ power to regulate and make exceptions to the court’s 
appellate powers found in that same clause in Article III.

The Constitution’s restrictions 
on the powers of the Executive and Congress did not sit well with many of the 
financial elite and aristocracy in the country. An ultimately successful 
campaign was begun to convince the American public that it was more important 
for the courts to arrive at a “fair” result rather than follow the 
technicalities of a document that was “out of date” soon after its adoption.

It was argued that courts 
(especially the Supreme Court) should consider the Constitution as a “living” 
document that would change with societal needs through time. They claimed the 
amending process within the Constitution itself was too cumbersome and the job 
of keeping the Constitution “up to date” belongs with the courts.

This 
necessarily required the courts to decide what was “fair” and then find some 
rationale to support those decisions. Through time this concept of a “living 
Constitution” was accepted in law schools and primarily through appointments by 
FDR became the predominant philosophy of the Supreme Court. It has prevailed 
ever since then through successive judicial appointments by all presidents 
following FDR.

No longer 
would the intent of the founding fathers and the states that ratified the 
Constitution to limit the power of the United States (central government) be 
observed. The guiding principle was to be the “fairness” of the judicial 
pronouncements. 

At that point 
we ceased being a constitutional republic governed by law, and moved toward a 
“democracy” where the majority could vote away the rights (protected by the 
Constitution) of minorities. Of course the problem was, and is, that the only 
votes that count are those of the nine members of the Supreme Court.

One of the main vehicles for implementing 
the living Constitution by the courts has been the bastardization of what is 
known as the Commerce Clause. The framers gave the federal government the power 
to regulate “interstate commerce.” The intent was to keep the several states 
from imposing tariffs on goods coming in from another state, thus making the 
country one large “free trade” area.

The courts 
have reinterpreted that clause to mean the federal government can control every 
facet of goods that have crossed a state boundary including how it is used, or 
prohibiting its use, by the owner

One of the 
earlier travesties resulting from this “interpretation” was a case where the 
court ruled an elevator operator in the Empire State building was invo

[CTRL] THE SELECTED PRESIDENT?

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MEDIUM 
RARE
By Jim Rarey

November 24, 2002

THE “SELECTED” PRESIDENT?

Some may consider this article a 
defense of President Bush and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). 
It is not. It is a defense of the U.S. Constitution, which appears to be on its 
deathbed.

In August of 2000, this writer 
opined on the Free Republic website that Gore would be the lesser of two evils 
in voting for president. The rationale for that statement was that we know where 
Gore wants to take the country (total control by the federal government) and 
although Bush has the same goal, he would encounter little opposition from 
Republicans because he was perceived as a “conservative.” 

The flaming was immediate and 
vicious. To this day, little criticism of Republicans is allowed on that website 
supposedly dedicated to the constitution and freedom.

For years the author has been 
railing against the concept of a “living constitution” which can be 
“reinterpreted” without amending it, in order to reach a “desirable” result. No 
such power has been granted to the courts (including the SCOTUS). 
It has been usurped. The 
implied power in the supremacy clause is for the court to APPLY the constitution 
to the laws (statutes) to determine if they comply with the original intent and 
meaning of the constitution as amended.

So brainwashed and dumbed down as 
to the meaning of the constitution is the public that the congress, executive 
and courts have been able to convince them that emergency powers are not subject 
to the original constraints of the constitution.

When the court, in one of its 
rare instances, follows the original meaning and intent, the decision is met 
with derision and contempt. Such was the case in the decision that decided the 
presidency in the year 2000.

In the Florida 2000 case the 
court held (correctly in a minority concurring opinion) that the provision in 
Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution (Each State shall appoint 
in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of 
Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the 
State may be entitled in the Congress:) meant the legislature and not the state 
government which would have included the courts and executive. Theruling 
therefore said the attempt by the State Supreme Court to change the deadlines 
established by the legislature was unconstitutional. This was a part of the 
decsion that halted the recount holding that recounting votes in only four 
counties violated the equal protection clause in the Constitution because all 
counties (or none) should be recounted. With that decision, the court handed the 
presidency to Bush by a 7-2 
vote.

The 5-4 vote was on the question 
of which of two deadlines (established by the legislature) should be honored. 
The question was moot anyway since both deadlines had passed. 

The canard that Bush was 
"selected" by a 5-4 vote of "conservatives" is just that, a lie. It was the 7-2 
vote that gave Bush Florida’s electoral votes and the presidency.

However, when the exact same 
issue was presented to the U.S. Supreme Court in the New Jersey case this year, 
the court refused to hear an appeal, in effect upholding the ruling of the State 
Supreme Court that it had the authority to override the state law established by 
the legislature in the interest of "fairness."

Although a different section of 
the constitution was involved (senators not presidents), the issue was 
identical. Article I, Section 4 reads:
“The Times, Places and Manner of 
holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in 
each State by the Legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time 
by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing 
Senators.” (The exception for senators was because at that time, before adoption 
of the seventeenth amendment, they were chosen by the state legislatures.)

What does all this prove about 
the SCOTUS? Only that it will use 
original intent when it suits its purpose and ignore or trash the constitution 
when it doesn’t.

The derisive use of such 
expressions as, “the selected president’ and “resident Bush” reflect only on 
those who use them and mock the Constitution and the Office of the President, 
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[CTRL] The price for being fussy

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http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20041014-084642-7681r.htm




  
  

  

  

  
  
  

  The Washington 
  Timeswww.washingtontimes.com
  

  The 
  price for being fussyBy Scott GottliebPublished 
  October 15, 2004
  
  It is looking more and more like the violations that led British drug 
  authorities to nix half the U.S. supply of flu vaccine were mostly process 
  problems, not widespread contamination of shots. In other words, the 
  company that made the vaccine was not trying hard enough to keep its 
  factory proficient and pristine. The British 
  have always had a reputation for being fussy, but what works for selling 
  range rovers and raincoats is not considerate policy if it means a 
  lifesaving vaccine will be kept from patients who do not have an 
  alternative. The facts will emerge after the 
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration finishes its own inspection of the 
  plant. Right now, nearly half of the nation's expected supply of flu 
  vaccine is not available this winter because the British government 
  suspended the manufacturing license at the factory in Liverpool that makes 
  it. The British drug authority, the Medicines and Healthcare products 
  Regulatory Agency, said it found vaccines with abnormally high levels of 
  bacteria in them. But according to testimony 
  from Chiron Corporation, the American biotech firm that makes the vaccine, 
  and word seeping out from British drug authorities, Chiron "failed to 
  conduct operations in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practice 
  regulations of the United Kingdom," according to the company's statement 
  to Congress. In other words, the plant did not have enough controls to 
  ensure that vaccines remained free from contamination. 
  Early word is that only a very small portion 
  of the 50 million doses were actually contaminated. So, why hold up the 
  entire shipment? The British are likely to argue that they cannot tell 
  where in their production process the problems are coming from. Since they 
  cannot find where the contamination is happening, they cannot certify the 
  safety of any of the finished product. True, 
  these are serious concerns. After all, the product here is a vaccine that 
  people will be injecting into their bodies. But these kinds of process 
  problems are far different from finding widespread evidence of tainted 
  shots. British regulators had a public-health obligation to salvage 
  whatever shots could be unsoiled while they continued to fix the plant and 
  look for the root cause of the problems. In 
  some cases, even contaminated vaccines can be refiltered and cleaned. The 
  alternative is that Americans will surely die of flu this winter because 
  they could not get a vaccine. Now, even if the American regulators are 
  able to salvage some of the uncontaminated vaccines or clean up tainted 
  shots, releasing them on the heels of the rash British action would be a 
  tough sell. Liability concerns would keep Chiron from wanting the 
  unapproved lots used. And the FDA would still face a tough challenge 
  convincing people the shots are really safe and people should take them. 
  It did not have to be this way. Confronted 
  with manufacturing problems, the action that the FDA takes is always 
  weighed against its public-health impact. If closing an important drug 
  production line means people will go without lifesaving medicine, the FDA 
  forces the factory to operate under very close regulatory supervision 
  while it fixes the problems. But it lets drug production continue. 
  This was evidenced most recently in the FDA's 
  exhaustive efforts to bring the American Red Cross into compliance. What 
  was the agency going to do, turn off the U.S. blood supply? 
  The FDA also did a lot of handholding with 
  BioPort when it was having troubling bringing its plant into pristine 
  shape. BioPort, as the sole manufacturer of anthrax vaccine, was a vital 
  national-security asset. 
  In deciding what kind of 
  enforcement action to take against a firm that falls out of compliance, 
  the FDA sometimes seeks an injunction, which is a court order that tells 
  the company not to do it again. The court order also raises the stakes if 
  there are additional violations by threatening legal action. In the United 
  States, when the issue at stake is availability of an important medical 
  product, reason prevails. Not in the United 
  Kingdom. The emerging perception is that the British were nitpicky here 
  because they could afford to be. They had no skin in this game. A full 90 
  percent of the vaccines that were coming out of the mothballed plant were 

[CTRL] Pfizer's Vioxx Problem

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http://www.forbes.com/2004/10/15/cx_mh_1015bextra_print.html

Pharmaceuticals 
Pfizer's Vioxx 
Problem Matthew Herper, 10.15.04, 1:04 PM ET 
The withdrawal of the arthritis drug Vioxx two 
weeks ago was a disaster for Merck. But it also put rival Pfizer 
in a fix. Pfizer markets two medicines 
that are in the same class as Vioxx--pain medicines designed not to cause 
stomach problems. For Celebrex, the world's top-selling pain drug, Pfizer 
(nyse: PFE 
- news 
- people 
) has reams of data supporting the argument that the drug does not carry the 
same risks of heart attack and stroke that resulted in Vioxx's withdrawal. "I 
think there are strong data to support the safety of Celebrex," says Daniel 
Solomon, a researcher at Harvard's Brigham  Women's Hospital. Andrew 
Whelton, an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, calls it 
"the safest of all the anti-inflammatories on the marketplace." 
But the matter is murkier for Bextra, Pfizer's second arthritis 
drug. Bextra is likely to bring in $1.2 billion this year. There, some small 
studies indicate that a risk could exist. The risks emerged from two studies of patients undergoing heart 
surgery. The patients received either standard of care or a combination of 
Bextra and Dynastat, an experimental painkiller that is basically an injectable 
version of Bextra. In both the first previously published study and a new one 
Pfizer has now disclosed, patients who got Bextra and Dynastat had more heart 
attacks and strokes than those who didn't. "With two pieces of data [indicating 
increased heart attack and stroke], I probably wouldn't use Bextra," says 
Solomon. Not everyone agrees. Open heart 
surgery "is a very specialized surgery," argues Mitch Gandelman, a Pfizer vice 
president. "These are patients who are very ill." Whelton, who has done clinical 
research for Pfizer, concurs and notes that the patients in these studies didn't 
get a comparable anti-inflammatory drug, which may also have had a heart effect. 
And just because the drug is a risk for heart patients does not mean that it 
will have an impact on the health of other patients undergoing surgery. 
"Why deny the people who've got knee 
replacement?" asks William White, a professor of medicine at the University of 
Connecticut Health Center in Farmington who has conducted clinical trial work 
for Pfizer. But Whelton does say it might be fair for the U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration to stick precautionary language about heart patients on Bextra's 
label. Timothy Anderson, an analyst at 
Prudential, does not think that the new data represents good news. If the new 
data did result in a change to Bextra's label, Anderson wrote in a note to 
investors this morning, that could call into question the sales for Celebrex and 
Bextra, which will together account for some $4.5 billion, or almost 9%, of 
Pfizer's sales next year.  







  

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[CTRL] Flu shot rules carry penalty

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This is a psy op to let the people know that not following the orders of 
healath officials can be prsecuted as a crime. This one is directed at doctors 
and others who dispense the vaccine. However, laws are already in place to make 
it a crime to refuse to take a vaccine if health authorities say it is 
mandatory. Is this vaccine the right one for the strain of flu that will hit the 
country. Remeber last year they had the wrong one but didn't tell us until after 
flu season. Deciding which strain to provide vaccine for is not an exact 
science. - JR

http://www.detnews.com/2004/health/0410/15/c01-304807.htm

Friday, October 15, 2004

Flu shot rules carry penalty
Mich. health care providers who give vaccines to anyone 
not high-risk could face prosecution.
By Gary Heinlein, and Oralandar Brand-Williams / 
The Detroit News

  
  

  Related reportsFlu shots to be in short supply Q  A: Why a shortage? Who gets shots? What do you know about the flu? : Facts and myths, 
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LANSING — State Health Director Janet Olszewski issued an emergency 
order late Thursday prohibiting use of this year’s scarce flu vaccine for anyone 
not in one of the high-risk groups. 
Health care providers violating the order could face prosecution and 
misdemeanor criminal penalties. 
Health officials said the action — an abrupt change from the department’s 
recent policy of voluntary compliance — is the result of some disturbing news 
regarding compliance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines 
on rationing flu shots. 
“We’ve certainly had wonderful cooperation from a lot of health care 
providers and organizations ... but in the last 24 hours there also have been 
anecdotal reports that some doctors and other providers are not following the 
CDC guidelines,” said health department spokesman T.J. Bucholz. 
“We issued this order not to panic anyone, but to make sure the vaccine gets 
to those who need it most.” 
Risk groups, for whom flu inoculations are reserved, include children younger 
than two, seniors older than 65, the chronically ill and patient-care workers. 

The U.S. and Michigan face severe flu vaccine shortages this year because of 
the temporary closure of a British lab, Chiron Corp., that was a major maker. 
It’s one of just two firms that produce the concoction. 
Health officials expect the state and country to receive no more than half 
the number of doses normally used in a flu season. The Centers for Disease 
Control plan to redirect the limited supply to areas of the nation where it’s 
most needed. 
Michigan’s health department and its network of county agencies have come up 
with rough estimates that Michigan has 3.4 million people in the priority groups 
for flu shots, but only 1.7 million to 2 million doses of vaccine available in 
the state. 
Gene Mychalowych of West Bloomfield, a 70-year-old retired businessman, is 
still waiting to get a flu shot. He’s been to three clinics in Oakland County 
seeking a vaccination to no avail. 
But Mychalowych doesn’t agree with the state’s crackdown. 
“I think the people who created the shortage should be charged with the 
crime,” he said. “Flu shots have always been available. Public officials should 
be held liable. Why did they allow the shortage to occur anyway?” 
Detroiter Lottie Zdilla, in her 70s, says she has to wait at least two more 
weeks to find out if the city’s Herman Keifer clinic will have flu shots 
available. She agrees with the state’s crackdown. 
“They need to save them for elderly people,” Zdilla said. “It’s such a great 
shortage and there are a lot of senior citizens out there who really need (the 
shots.” 
Roughly 1,000 people die every year in Michigan of influenza, most of them 
senior citizens. 
It’s uncertain how much more of the federal supply of vaccine — if any more — 
will come to Michigan. 
“We’re actually quite fortunate. There are some states that have no vaccine 
at all, and we assume they’ll become priorities for the CDC,” Bucholz said. 
“California has vaccine only in Los Angeles County. So for now, we’re going to 
work within the parameters we already have.” 
Michigan is one of a growing number of states whose health officials have 
issued directives barring use of flu vaccine for anyone not in the high-risk 
groups. Such orders are issued, and carry the force of law, during medical 
emergencies. 
It’s Olszewski’s third such order as health director. Last year, she 
prohibited the sale of imported prairie dogs and other unusual pets 

[CTRL] Saddam bankrolled Palestinian terrorists

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  US investigators 
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through the UN 
oil-for-food programme with the help of a Syrian company acting as a 
front.Picture: Getty ImagesSaddam bankrolled Palestinian terrorists 
  FRASER 
  NELSON POLITICAL EDITOR 
  Key points• Documents 
  show Saddam funded Palestinian terrorist group • 
  Syrian business front funded terrorists through UN oil-for-food 
  programme• 1991 tape reveals Saddam wanted to use 
  biological weapons against Israel Story in full 
  SADDAM Hussein’s links to terrorism have been proven by documents showing 
  he helped to fund the Popular Front for the Liberation 
  of Palestine. The PFLP, whose 
  history of terrorism dates back to the "black September" hijackings of 
  1970, was personally vetted by Saddam to receive oil vouchers worth £40 
  million. The deal has been uncovered by US investigators, trawling 
  millions of pages of documents showing a network of diplomats bribed by 
  Saddam’s regimes, and political parties who qualified for backhanded 
  payments from Baghdad. The Iraq Survey Group (ISG), which is still 
  working its way through 20,000 boxes of documents from Saddam’s Baath 
  party discovered only recently, found a list of pressure groups bankrolled 
  by Saddam. Using the United Nations’ own oil-for-food 
  scheme - ironically intended as a 
  sanction to control the behaviour of his dictatorship - Saddam gave 
  Awad Ammora  
  Partners, a Syrian company, two 
  million barrels of oil. Documents handed over to US authorities by 
  a former Iraqi oil minister only four months ago show that this was a 
  front for the PFLP - which was then embarked on a spate of car bombings 
  aimed at Israeli officials. The Iraqi records show only one 
  six-month period - suggesting the payments could go on for much longer. 
  While some allocations to the likes of Russian political parties were not 
  cashed in, the PFLP oil deal was carried out in full. Since its 
  inception after the Six-Day War of 1967, the PFLP has been dedicated to 
  violence - and for this reason split from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) when it accepted the peace process. Its first 
  atrocity came in September 1970 when its members hijacked four aircraft 
  bound for the United States. All planes were blown up on the ground after 
  the passengers were evacuated. A hijacking at Lod airport in Israel two 
  years later left 24 dead. It is now devoted to thwarting the 
  "roadmap" plan for peace in the 
  Middle East - recently mainly through 
  a campaign of car bombs. While the PLO has been rehabilitated into 
  the political process, the PFLP has remained opposed to it. On Wednesday, 
  it issued a statement saying it had joined forces with Hamas, the main Palestinian terrorist group, in a machine gun attack on 
  a busload of Israeli soldiers. Earlier last week, it launched a 
  rocket attack at an Israeli kibbutz. Interviews from Iraqi 
  officials captured by US troops confirm that Saddam saw himself as the 
  potential "liberator" of Palestine. Taped conversations have been 
  uncovered from 1991 saying he wanted to deploy biological warfare on "the 
  Israeli cities - all of them". Debriefings from Iraqi regime 
  members have also disclosed that "Saddam was conscious of Israel’s WMD 
  arsenal and saw Israel as a formidable challenge". Three years 
  ago, Saddam gave a speech on Iraqi television saying "there can never be 
  stability, security of peace in the Middle East so long as there are 
  immigrant Jews in the land of Palestine". His financial support 
  also extended to Abu Al-Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front 
  - another terrorist group - who was allocated 11.5 million barrels of oil. 
  The PLO is also named as a main beneficiary from Saddam’s scheme - 
  receiving four million barrels under its own name and five million barrels 
  for its "political bureau". The cash was again passed through Syria, a 
  known conduit for Palestinian terror 
  organisations.This article: 
  http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1199662004 Middle East conflict: 
  http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=13 Iraq: http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=404 Websites: Israeli 
  

[CTRL] Kerry's devious use of Mary Chaney.

[Jim Rarey]

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Kerry's devious use of Mary Chaney
Sometimes we don't give politicians credit for how 
devious they really can be. John Kerry's apparently gratuitous mention of Dick 
Cheney's daughter at first appears to be just a thoughtless reference which 
included the fact that Cheney's daughter is a lesbian.
But let's look at his whole answer to the question 
which (paraphrased) was is homosexuality a conscious choice or is one born with 
it.
The gay community contends it is innate, that one is 
born withit although it may take time to manifest itself.
What Kerry was doing was reaching out to the gay 
community to let them know he supports their view. The devious part is that he 
used Mary Cheneyto support that view even though she has not taken any 
position on that issue, at least publicly.
I'm sure Kerry and his campaign managers thought that 
was brilliant because anyone attacking the position that it is innate, would 
also be attacking Cheney's daughter.They may have realized there would be 
some flakfrom mentioning Cheney's daughter but their spin machine 
couldminimize that. The gay community would get the message.
If Mary Cheney had taken a position on the 
question, there might have been some justification for quoting her. But she 
hasn't and what Kerry did was a cynical ploy to reassure the gay community by 
implying Mary Cheney supported that position when he had no idea what her 
position would be.
This is not only dishonest, it is proof that Kerry 
will say anything he thinks will help him get elected.
There is also a strong implication that Kerry had 
been tipped off that question would be asked.



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[CTRL] Fw: SwiftVets E-Newsletter - October 15, 2004

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  E-Newsletter 
  October 15, 
  2004

  
Today's 
  News
Swift Vet John O'Neill Responds to ABC's 
  Nightline
  "While 
  I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was 
  appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to 
  Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third 
  attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took 
  place on February 28th, 1969. 
  "I 
  would only ask the American people: 'Who do you trust more, three members 
  of a communist regime that tortured and killed our American troops or a 
  group of more than 280 highly decorated American veterans, who proudly 
  served their country and are now responsible members of their respective 
  communities?' 
  "The 
  number of veterans who support John Kerry's accounts of his military 
  service would not fill one Swift Boat. But instead of sitting down to 
  interview some of the 280 plus members of our Swift Boat organization, ABC 
  News chose to travel to Vietnam taking extraordinary and highly suspect 
  steps to find someone to corroborate John Kerry's story."
  John 
  O'Neill commanded John Kerry's Swift Boat after Kerry left Vietnam and is 
  a member of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. 
  
  
Swift Vets Air Two Ads With Largest-to-Date $3 Million Ad 
  Buy
  Swift 
  Vets and POWs for Truth released two new ads yesterday, which will run in 
  the final weeks of the presidential campaign. This $3.14 million ad buy on 
  national cable stations and in the states of Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico 
  is the largest in the Swift Vets' history. In Ohio alone, $2 million of 
  the advertising dollars will be spent in the coming weeks.
  The two 
  latest ads feature more than 75 Swift Vets united in their battle to know 
  the truth about John Kerry. The first ad entitled, They Served, portrays 
  the men who banded together to tell the whole story about John Kerry. The 
  second ad entitled, Why?, features Swift Boat Veterans and POWs posing 
  questions about John Kerry's record. 
  In 
  Why?, former POW and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor Bud 
  Day, addresses a critical question to Senator John Kerry: "How can you 
  expect our sons and daughters to follow you, when you condemned their 
  fathers and grandfathers?"
  These 
  commercials raise the question of John Kerry's fitness for office. He 
  betrayed us once, what will keep him from doing it again?
  Check 
  out both of the new commercials at: www.swiftvets.com.
  
  
Kerry Supporters Try to 
  Silence"StolenHonor"
  The 
  Kerry camp is at it again. After trying -- unsuccessfully -- to block the 
  publication of "Unfit for Command," his supporters are now working to 
  force Sinclair Broadcasting Group to pull back from plans to air the 
  documentary film "Stolen Honor" on its 62 nationwide affiliates later this 
  month.
  Swift 
  Vets and POWs for Truth needs you to respond to this effort to silence the 
  voice of the POWs. Please contact a Sinclair affiliate in your area to 
  support their to get the truth out about John Kerry by airing this 
  important film.
  You can 
  find a list of Sinclair stations on their website at www.sbgi.net/business/television.shtml. 
  
  
  
Progress 
  Update

  Swift Vets and POWs Surpass $5 million in Online 
  Contributions!
  Earlier this week, we received the contribution that pushed us 
  over $5 million from our website! To date, 72,478 donors have given 
  $5,072,527. 
  In addition, more than 60,000 people are now receiving our 
  newsletters and action alerts.
  Great 
  job, but let's make one final push down the homestretch!
  
  
  
Recent 
  Coverage
Delaware County TimesVeterans Kerry dishonored need to be heard (Oct. 
  13) 
  The 
  Comfort Inn in Philadelphia is no Four Seasons, but it's a whole lot 
  better than the Hanoi Hilton where Mike Cronin spent six years of his 
  life. The Hanoi Hilton is the name American prisoners of war in Vietnam 
  gave the prison where they were held, interrogated and tortured by their 
  jailers. 
  Cronin, 
  a Navy pilot, was one of those prisoners. So were Jim Warner and Ken 
  Cordier. They all came in to Philadelphia Sunday night to get ready for a 
  press conference they had planned for the next morning to talk about their 
  beef 

[CTRL] Lawmakers Question Merck, FDA Over Vioxx

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  FDA Over VioxxFri Oct 15, 2004 06:11 PM ET 
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. Senate Republican 
  this week demanded internal documents from Merck  Co. Inc. (MRK.N: Quote, 
  Profile, 
  Research) 
  that could answer questions about the company's interaction with U.S. 
  regulators over its arthritis drug Vioxx. 
  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley called for the 
  information on Thursday as part of an investigation into the safety 
  monitoring of the medication, which the company pulled from the market 
  after it was shown to cause heart problems. 
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Merck had an agreement where 
  the agency would "give the drug company a head's up when the federal 
  agency planned to publish a drug study that might negatively affect the 
  drug company," Grassley said is a statement on Friday. 
  Merck spokesman Tony Plohoros said the Whitehouse Station, New 
  Jersey-based drug maker "intends to cooperate fully with Senator 
  Grassley's inquiry." 
  FDA spokeswoman Crystal Rice said the agency had no comment on the 
  letter. 
  Grassley, an Iowa Republican, cited e-mails from Dr. Anne Trontell, 
  FDA's deputy director of drug safety, that questioned the efforts of FDA 
  scientist David Graham, who concluded that patients taking Vioxx had a 
  higher risk of heart attacks and sudden cardiac death than those on Pfizer 
  Inc.'s (PFE.N: Quote, 
  Profile, 
  Research) 
  rival medicine Celebrex. 
  In those those e-mails, Trontell said the company needed to know about 
  the results before they became public, according to Grassley. 
  Trontell could not be immediately reached by phone and did not 
  immediately reply to an e-mail request for comment. Graham, reached by 
  telephone, said he could not comment on the letter. 
  "Given the 'agreement' between the FDA and Merck, as well as the timing 
  of events surrounding Merck's withdrawal of Vioxx, many questions come to 
  mind, specifically: who knew what and when?," Grassley wrote in a letter 
  dated October 14 and sent to Merck's President and Chief Executive 
  Officer, Raymond Gilmartin. 
  Last week Grassley interviewed Graham, the associate director for 
  science in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, who said he felt intimidated 
  by others at the agency when he tried to get his research published, 
  according to the senator. 
  Merck shares closed up 31 cents, or about 1 percent at $30.50 on the 
  New York Stock Exchange on Friday, a day when drug stocks closed up about 
  0.38 percent, or $1.11, on the American Stock Exchange Pharmaceutical 
  Index. 
  
  

  

  
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[CTRL] Fox moves to fire accuser

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Fox moves to fire accuser BY ADAM 
  NICHOLSDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, October 16th, 2004 
  Scandal-hit Fox News moved yesterday to fire an employee who says 
  she was sexually harassed by Bill O'Reilly - but wants a judge to declare 
  the canning isn't retribution. 
  Andrea Mackris, 33, said she was served legal papers about her 
  termination by a man lying in wait for her at her Manhattan apartment 
  building. 
  The documents said Fox had asked a judge to let the TV station dump her 
  from a $93,200-a-year job as associate producer on "The O'Reilly Factor" - 
  and to rule that the firing was not in retaliation for her accusations 
  about the show's host. 
  Mackris sued O'Reilly and Fox News on Wednesday, saying her boss had 
  made "disgusting" phone calls to her. O'Reilly sued Mackris the same day, 
  alleging extortion. 
  "I was walking into my apartment and there was a man hiding inside my 
  building," Mackris told CNN's Anderson Cooper last night. 
  "I don't have a doorman. He had somehow got into my building and he was 
  hiding behind my stairwell. He said, 'Oh, you're her.' He hit me in the 
  chest with the papers and said, 'You're served.'" 
  "They're threatening me. They're frightening me," Mackris said. "Yes, 
  I'm rattled, but I'm really strong." 
  Mackris' lawyer Benedict Morelli also was served with the papers. 
  He said, "They want the right to fire my client and for a court to find 
  that firing nondiscriminatory. 
  "They will never get that right. They sued their own employee. Have you 
  ever heard of anyone suing their own employee? Can you believe that? 
  "It'll be considered next week, but there is no way I'll let it 
  happen." 
  Mackris claims O'Reilly, a best-selling author and writer, started 
  making sexual comments to her back in 2001. She said they escalated after 
  she returned to Fox News after a short stint at CNN this year. 
  She claims his remarks included telling her to use a vibrator, tales 
  about his sexual conquests and his "amazing" endowment, and three phone 
  sex calls in which he told of fantasies involving her. 
  In their countersuit, O'Reilly and Fox News say Mackris and her lawyer 
  tried to extort $60 million in return for her dropping the harassment 
  case. 
  O'Reilly has said he has been instructed not to speak about the issue. 
  His lawyers did not return phone calls yesterday. 

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  September 27, 2004 -- THE State 
Department this month labeled Saudi Arabia a "Coun try of Particular 
Concern" — citing the kingdom's gross disregard for religious 
freedom. Now that State has finally acted, what is Treasury waiting 
for? 
Saudi Arabia, as everyone knows, promotes domestic intolerance of 
Christians, Jews and Shia Muslims. That would be mostly a Saudi 
problem — if the Saudis didn't have so much money. But their oil 
riches — and well-documented largesse — allow the kingdom to 
export a distilled version of Islamofascist hatred. 
Saudi money funds Islamist schools and mosques all over the 
Middle East and in Europe. Of more immediate concern for Americans, 
rich Saudis likely underwrote the 9/11 attacks — by giving money to 
known terrorist charities, which then piped millions of dollars to 
al Qaeda. 
"Al Qaeda appears to have relied on a core group of financial 
facilitators who raised money from a variety of donors . . . 
particularly in Saudi Arabia," the 9/11 Commission reported. "Some 
individual donors surely knew, and others did not, the ultimate 
destination of their donations." 
This easy money makes Saudi intolerance our problem. To 
fund the 9/11 hijackings, those Saudis — and al Qaeda — had to get 
some of that money from there to here. This is where 
the Treasury Department comes in. 
Treasury Secretary John Snow (under the direction of President 
Bush) is responsible for damming terrorist dollars before they flow 
into U.S. bank accounts — so that more Saudi money won't fund more 
attacks on America. 
After 9/11, Congress gave the department the powers to execute 
this urgent mandate. The Patriot Act granted Treasury officials vast 
new authority to review suspicious banking transactions in the 
United States. The new law also directed American banks to report 
suspicious activities to the government — like large cash 
withdrawals or wire transfers, or unverifiable customer identities. 


  
  

  

And one of the act's strongest provisions gave Treasury new 
authority to oversee foreign banks. Under the law, Treasury 
can now label individual nations, and foreign banks, areas of 
"Primary Money-Laundering Concern." 
Banks and nations suspected of acting as terrorists' Money 
Laundromats aren't automatically barred from doing business in the 
United States. But Treasury officials can force U.S. banks to 
carefully record and report transactions done with targeted 
international banks. 
So, the department could require U.S. banks to flag 
transactions with customers of Saudi banks — to learn, for example, 
how much Saudi money flows into America for ostensible charitable or 
educational purposes. 
Treasury has invoked its new powers nine times — but not 
against Saudi Arabia, or against any other major Mideast financial 
hub. Last month, Treasury identified banks in Cyprus and Belarus as 
suspected money-launderers; last year, it took action against Burma, 
Nauru and Ukraine. 
But some common-sense financial profiling is in order here: 
* Fifteen of the 19 9/11 hijackers weren't from Nauru — 
they were from Saudi Arabia. 
* Several prominent Saudi princes and subjects, and more than a 
dozen prominent Saudi banks and charities, have been fingered in 
civil lawsuits filed in connection with the 9/11 attacks as alleged 
al Qaeda donors or money-launderers. 
* Earlier this year, Treasury shut down the Saudi-based Al 
Haramain Islamic Foundation branch in Oregon. 

[CTRL] The IMF Con

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You 
won’t hear either presidential candidate say much about the issue of 
foreign aid during this election season, despite the record levels 
of federal spending and debt that plague our economy. Very few 
Americans realize the extent to which Congress sends billions of 
their tax dollars overseas to fund the most counterproductive 
foreign welfare schemes imaginable, always in the guise of helping 
the poor. A recent report by the congressional Joint Economic 
Committee on which I serve highlights the reckless manner in which 
one organization, the International Monetary Fund, wastes your money 
around the world. 
The 
IMF provides a perfect illustration of the both the folly of foreign 
aid and the real motivations behind it. The IMF touts itself as a 
bank of sorts, although it makes “loans” that no rational bank would 
consider – mostly to shaky governments with weak economies and 
unstable currencies. The IMF has little incentive to operate 
profitably like a private bank, since its funding comes mostly from 
a credulous US Congress that demands little accountability. As a 
result, it is free to make high-risk loans at below-market interest 
rates. 
The 
real purpose of the IMF is to channel tax dollars to 
politically-connected companies. The huge multinational banks and 
corporations in particular love the IMF, as both used IMF funds – 
taxpayer funds – to bail themselves out from billions in losses 
after the Asian financial crisis. Big corporations obtain lucrative 
contracts for a wide variety of construction projects funded with 
IMF loans. It's a familiar game in Washington, where corporate 
welfare is disguised as compassion for the poor. 
In 
fact, IMF loans often do far more harm than good. At best IMF 
borrowers are governments of countries with little economic 
productivity; at worst the money ends up in the hands of corrupt 
dictators. Either way, most recipient nations face huge debts they 
cannot service, which only adds to their poverty and instability. 
IMF money ultimately corrupts those countries it purports to help, 
by keeping afloat reckless political institutions that destroy their 
own economies. 
Government-to-government transfers through a middleman like 
the IMF cannot produce real growth. When capital remains in private 
hands, it is allocated to its most productive uses as determined by 
the choices of consumers in the market. Placing capital in the hands 
of politicians and bureaucrats inevitably results in inefficiencies, 
shortages, and economic crises, as even the best-intentioned 
politicians cannot know the most efficient use of resources. 

American taxpayers already lend various governments more than 
$5 billion annually through the IMF, at a yearly cost of over $300 
million because of loan defaults and subsidized interest rates. Now 
the IMF wants to double its pool of funding, which will put 
taxpayers on the hook for $12 billion in loans at a cost of about 
$750 million each year. Furthermore, since the IMF creates “drawing 
rights” accounts that are redeemable in US dollars, it in essence 
prints US dollars when it increases those drawing rights. This is a 
clear violation of our national sovereignty, and a vivid example of 
why we should stop participating in international schemes like the 
IMF altogether.
The IMF and other complex schemes 
only serve to obscure the real issue: Why should US taxpayers be 
forced to send money abroad? Certainly the Constitution provides no 
authority for foreign aid. In historical and practical terms, 
redistribution of wealth from rich to poor nations has done little 
or nothing to alleviate suffering abroad. Only free markets, 
   

[CTRL] New Indictment for Ex-Chief of HealthSouth (Impact of the Blakely Case)

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The Supreme Court ruled in June in a Washington State case t(Blakely) 
that facts supporting longer sentences (above sentencing guidelines) must be 
proved beyond a reasonable doubt (to a jury).

Under a new Justice Department policy, revised indictments have been 
obtained in other cases, including those involving financial crimes at Enron and WorldCom. John C. Coffee, a specialist in securities 
law at Columbia Law School, said the new indictments include a section headed 
"sentencing allegations," 
which prosecutors hope will help juries deliver sentences based on factors like 
the financial losses that defendants are accused of causing.

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  New Indictment for Ex-Chief of 
  HealthSouthBy MILT FREUDENHEIM
  


  
  ichard M. Scrushy, the founder and former chief 
  executive of the HealthSouth Corporation, faces new federal charges of 
  perjury and obstruction of justice in a revised indictment by a grand 
  jury, Alice H. Martin, the United States attorney in Birmingham, Ala., 
  announced yesterday. 
  The new 58-count indictment consolidates an 85-count indictment 
  announced in November that portrayed Mr. Scrushy as the mastermind of a 
  multibillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors by inflating the profits 
  of HealthSouth, the Justice Department said in the announcement. 
  Seventeen former employees, including six former senior financial 
  officers of HealthSouth, the chain of rehabilitation hospitals and 
  surgical centers, have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with 
  prosecutors. 
  Mr. Scrushy, 52, pleaded not guilty at an arraignment hearing 
  yesterday. His lawyer, Donald Watkins, said, "the government threw out 27 
  serious felony counts.'' He added: "We don't think there's going to be 
  much merit to even those 58" remaining. 
  People who have seen the new indictment, which was not available on the 
  court Web site yesterday, said the charges still included conspiracy; 
  mail, wire and securities fraud; and money laundering. 
  Mr. Scrushy and his lawyers have said that he had no knowledge of the 
  fraudulent acts that his former lieutenants admitted to.
  The perjury charges contend that Mr. Scrushy gave false testimony under 
  oath when he said that he had not instructed anyone to change numbers that 
  HealthSouth, based in Birmingham, reported to the Securities and Exchange 
  Commission and Wall Street during an S.E.C. fraud investigation.
  The indictment also claims that Mr. Scrushy attempted to influence the 
  testimony of an accused co-conspirator in the S.E.C. investigation.
  The new indictment is also an effort to obtain a longer prison sentence 
  in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling. If convicted of all charges, 
  the announcement said, Mr. Scrushy "faces a maximum sentence of 450 years 
  in prison and more than $30 million in fines."
  Under a new Justice Department policy, revised indictments have been 
  obtained in other cases, including those involving financial crimes at Enron and WorldCom. John C. Coffee, a specialist in 
  securities law at Columbia Law School, said the new indictments include a 
  section headed "sentencing allegations," which prosecutors hope will help 
  juries deliver sentences based on factors like the financial losses that 
  defendants are accused of causing.
  Prosecutors began adding the sentencing language to indictments after 
  the Supreme Court ruled in June in a Washington State case that facts 
  supporting longer sentences must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. 
  A New York defense lawyer, Andrew J. Levander, said the Supreme Court 
  would hear arguments next week on whether that decision applies to federal 
  cases.
  Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in 
  Atlanta upheld the valuation by prosecutors of $328 million in losses by 
  HealthSouth investors when share prices fell after the fraud was publicly 
  disclosed. Prosecutors could argue that those losses should add to the 
  sentence if Mr. Scrushy is convicted, legal experts 
  said.
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[CTRL] Lost in Translation - An avoidable national-security problem

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  "Urgent complaints that the FBI could not decipher bugged 
  conversations between members of a Brooklyn mosque and Afghan terrorists 
  because it lacked translators were included in the documents former National 
  Security Adviser Sandy Berger removed from the National Archives."
  
  Fired Whistleblower Sibel Edmondsalso told them and the 911 
  Commission but included documented evidence of espionage and treason they 
  didn't want to hear.
  
  Now the politicians are doing an imitation of Captain Renault in 
  Casablanca. I am shocked, shocked to hear of this shortage of translators. - 
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  September 30, 2004, 8:18 a.m.Lost in TranslationAn avoidable national-security 
  problem.By Jim Boulet Jr. 
  Readers of the New York Times learned this 
  week that "more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable 
  terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at 
  the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
  The 
  problem is not new. In fact, the FBI told the Clinton administration it 
  had an Arabic-translator shortage, according to the New 
  York Post: 
  
  Urgent complaints that the FBI could not decipher bugged 
conversations between members of a Brooklyn mosque and Afghan terrorists 
because it lacked translators were included in the documents former 
National Security Adviser Sandy Berger removed from the National 
Archives.
  
  Now why would Sandy Berger, at the time an informal 
  Kerry campaign adviser, be so interested in covering up a translator 
  shortage that continued well into the Bush administration? Because 
  Clinton-administration language policies only made the problem worse.
  On August 11, 2000, Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 
  13166. E.O. 13166 required all recipients of federal funds, including 
  a "federally 
  funded zoo or theater," to be able to provide translations into any 
  language on demand, including rare or obscure languages spoken by only a 
  handful of people.
  E.O. 13166 would have enabled professional ethnic activist groups to 
  grow ever richer by filing lawsuits against state, county, and city 
  governments for failing to provide translations into Spanish or any other 
  language. Your local DMV could be sued for failing to do what the FBI 
  itself could not do with regard to interpreting Arabic, Pashto, and 
  Urdu.
  Only the Supreme Court's 2001 
  ruling in Alexander v. Sandoval put a temporary stop to 
  what would have been a gold-plated gravy train for these anti-assimilation 
  outfits and their trial-lawyer pals. 
  But the E.O. 13166 language-translation mandate remains the law of the 
  land, forcing a desperate FBI to compete for Arabic translators with Ames, 
  Iowa, hospitals; Nome, Alaska, unemployment offices; and every other 
  federally funded entity anywhere in these United States.
  As one might expect when a federal mandate increases demand for a 
  limited supply of talent, the FBI's translation problems have only gotten 
  worse. The 9/11 
  Commission Report documents what the FBI is up against: "The total 
  number of undergraduate degrees granted in Arabic in all U.S. colleges and 
  universities in 2002 was six."
  The increased demand has led to a lowering of standards and an 
  opportunity for America's enemies to derail our anti-terrorist activities 
  from the inside, as a CBS News 60 Minutes report, "Lost in 
  Translation," detailed:
  
  In its rush to hire more foreign language translators after 
Sept. 11, the FBI admits it has had difficulty performing background 
checks to detect translators who may have loyalties to other governments 
— which could pose a threat to U.S. national security. 

Take the case of Jan Dickerson, a Turkish translator The FBI has 
admitted that when Dickerson was hired the bureau didn't know that she 
had worked for a Turkish organization being investigated by the FBI's 
own counter-intelligence unit. 
They also didn't know she'd had a relationship with a Turkish 
intelligence officer stationed in Washington who was the target of that 
investigation.
  
  The source for this report, Sibel Edmonds, told the 
  9/11 Commission that Kevin Taskesen, a Turkish translator, had failed 
  all FBI language-proficiency tests 

[CTRL] Doctor at focus of anthrax probe files charges against family

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By GEOFF MULVIHILLAssociated Press 
WriterOctober 1, 2004, 12:00 PM EDTPOINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. -- 
The family of Dr. Kenneth Berry, whose homes were raided in August during the 
FBI's anthrax investigation, fought outside a motel because it cracked under the 
pressure of the federal inquest, a lawyer said Friday. "The great 
pressure of being scrutinized by the federal government as a responsible party 
for the anthrax mailings I think would be enough to cause stress for the average 
citizen," said Clifford Lazzaro, Berry's lawyer. The comments came the 
day Berry was to appear in municipal court on assault charges stemming from a 
domestic dispute at a Point Pleasant Beach motel the day of the searches. 
Instead of answering to the charges Friday, Berry's lawyer said a 
complaint has been filed alleging it was Berry's wife and stepdaughters who 
assaulted him Aug. 5. That day, federal agents descended on Berry's home 
and a former apartment in rural western New York, as well as his parents' summer 
home on the New Jersey shore. An FBI spokesman said the searches were part of 
the anthrax investigation. The FBI has not commented on Berry's status. 
Berry, who founded an organization in 1997 that trains medical 
professionals to respond to chemical and biological attacks, was arrested later 
that day after the domestic dispute. The pressure of the investigation 
"caused the family to crack," Lazzaro said. Lazzaro said the entire 
family will be scheduled for a new court date within a couple of months. 
Berry was in court Friday but left without being called before the 
judge. He did not make a public statement. A restraining order hearing 
for Berry has been scheduled for Monday in Ocean County Superior Court. The 
hearing would make permanent a temporary order brought on behalf of Berry's wife 
and stepdaughters. Lazzaro said Berry hopes to reconcile with his wife, 
who is living in an upstate New York home the family owns. Berry remains 
in New Jersey, but his lawyer would not say where. Five people died and 
17 were sickened in the fall of 2001 in the anthrax mailings that targeted 
government and media officials. The attacks unsettled a nation already reeling 
from the Sept. 11 terror attacks. In August, Berry lost his job as an 
emergency room doctor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is the 
second doctor connected to the anthrax probe to lose his job. 
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[CTRL] 9/11 Commissioners Say Bill's Added Provisions Are Harmful

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  October 1, 2004
  9/11 Commissioners Say Bill's Added Provisions Are 
  HarmfulBy CARL HULSE
  


  
  ASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Members of the independent 
  commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks called on the House 
  Republican leadership on Thursday to jettison some provisions tacked onto 
  an emerging measure to reorganize United States intelligence agencies, 
  saying such add-ons threatened enactment of the legislation.
  "We respectfully submit that consideration of controversial provisions 
  at this late hour can harm our shared purpose of getting a good bill to 
  the president before the 108th Congress adjourns," former Representative 
  Lee H. Hamilton, the vice chairman of the panel, told reporters.
  The commissioners were backed in their call by relatives of those 
  killed in the terror attacks, a number of House Democrats and a few 
  Republicans who said they were worried that what they considered 
  extraneous proposals on law enforcement and immigration, among others, 
  could short-circuit the legislation.
  "I have concerns that some on my side of the aisle want there to be 
  some poison pills," said Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of 
  Connecticut, who is pushing instead for a vote on his measure that 
  converts the recommendations of the Sept. 11 panel into law.
  The commissioners, who later met with a top aide to Representative J. 
  Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, urged the House leadership to 
  allow a vote on that plan and made clear their preference for the more 
  bipartisan measure being advanced in the Senate. 
  "This Senate bill is a giant step forward," said former Gov. Thomas H. 
  Kean of New Jersey, the chairman of the panel, who warned that 
  commissioners believed there was a narrow window for achieving the 
  overhaul. "The time for action is now." 
  Under the proposals being developed in Congress, a new director of 
  national intelligence would be created within the executive branch and 
  given substantial authority over the diverse agencies that now collect 
  foreign and domestic intelligence. The idea is to create a central 
  repository for the sort of fragmented information that existed before the 
  Sept. 11 attacks. The legislation contains scores of other provisions 
  regarding national security. 
  The commission members acted after a series of House committees on 
  Wednesday blocked or defeated efforts to advance the measure offered by 
  Mr. Shays and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, and 
  moved ahead with their own versions of the bill. 
  House Republican officials said they saw the additional provisions on 
  border security and immigration as perfecting and expanding on the 
  recommendations of the panel. 
  "There is more to protecting our country than creating a new 
  bureaucracy," said Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority 
  leader.
  John Feehery, a spokesman for the speaker, said: "All of the things in 
  our bill are directly linked to the recommendations. We are going to get 
  things in our bill that protect the nation and reflect the 
commission."
  The back-and-forth over the legislation came as the Senate moved slowly 
  through its plan. Given a list of potential amendments numbering in the 
  hundreds, Senate leaders were planning to file a motion to cut off debate 
  and force a final vote next Tuesday. The House expects to vote on its 
  version next week as well, and Republican leaders were pushing for a final 
  bill reconciling the two to be completed before the election.
  Commission leaders did not specify all of the House provisions that 
  that they considered problematic, though they singled out a proposal to 
  allow suspected terrorists to be deported to nations where they could be 
  tortured as well as proposed regulations on Social Security 
  registration.
  In addition to the law enforcement and immigration initiatives, the 
  commissioners and their allies are wary of the power the House bill would 
  give the new intelligence director. The version approved by the House 
  Armed Services Committee does not go as far as the commission recommended 
  in transferring authority for intelligence operations from the Pentagon to 
  the new office.
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[CTRL] U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns

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U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns
By TED BRIDIS AP Technology Writer 
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly 
resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to 
industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of attention 
paid to computer security issues within the agency.
Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., informed the 
White House about his plans to quit as director of the National Cyber Security 
Division and made his resignation effective at the end of Thursday, effectively 
giving a single's day notice of his intentions to leave.

  
  

  
  
  
Yoran said Friday he "felt the timing was right to pursue other 
opportunities." It was unclear immediately who might succeed him even 
temporarily. Yoran's deputy is Donald "Andy" Purdy, a former senior adviser to 
the White House on cybersecurity issues.
Yoran has privately described frustrations in recent months to colleagues in 
the technology industry, according to lobbyists who recounted these 
conversations on condition they not be identified because the talks were 
personal.
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[CTRL] BAYER CORPORATION AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY TO PARTICIPATING IN A CHEMICAL ADDITIVE CARTEL

[Jim Rarey]

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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/September/04_at_661.htm

  



  
  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 
  2004WWW.USDOJ.GOV
AT(202) 514-2007TDD (202) 
  514-1888
BAYER CORPORATION AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTYTO 
PARTICIPATING IN A CHEMICAL ADDITIVE CARTEL
Agrees To Pay $33 Million Criminal 
Fine
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bayer Corporation, the Pittsburgh subsidiary of 
German firm Bayer AG, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $33 million 
criminal fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of a chemical used 
in a number of consumer products, including plastic grocery bags, shoe soles and 
automotive parts, the Department of Justice announced today. Today’s charge is 
the first in an ongoing investigation of this product, polyester polyols. 
Polyester polyols are also used in automotive coatings, filters, belts, seals 
and gaskets, adhesives, sound-proofing products, and textiles. The chemical 
involved in the Bayer case, aliphatic polyester polyols made from adipic acid, 
is added to other chemicals to improve tensile strength and resistance to 
abrasion. 
According to the one-count felony charge filed in the U.S. District Court in 
San Francisco, Bayer Corporation conspired from 1998 to 2002 with an unnamed 
producer and unnamed individuals to suppress and eliminate competition in the 
United States for aliphatic polyester polyols made from adipic acid. Under the 
plea agreement, which must be approved by the court, Bayer Corporation has 
agreed to assist the government in its ongoing investigation. 
“Today’s charge represents a significant step in our continuing effort to 
eliminate illegal cartel activity,” said R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney 
General in charge of the Department’s Antitrust Division. 
The Department charged that Bayer and unnamed co-conspirators carried out the 
conspiracy by: 

  Participating in conversations and meetings to discuss, raise and maintain 
  the prices of aliphatic polyester polyols made from adipic acid to be sold in 
  the U.S. and elsewhere; 
  Participating in conversations and attending meetings concerning 
  implementation and adherence to the agreements reached; 
  Issuing price announcements and price quotes in accordance with the 
  agreements reached; and 
  Exchanging information on the sale of aliphatic polyester polyols made 
  from adipic acid in the U.S. and elsewhere. 
Bayer Corporation was charged with violating Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 
which carries a maximum fine of $10 million for corporations and a maximum 
penalty of three years imprisonment and a fine of $350,000 for individuals for 
violations occurring before June 22, 2004. The maximum statutory fine may be 
increased to twice the gain the conspirators derived from the crime or twice the 
loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater 
than the statutory maximum fine. 
Today’s charge is the result of an ongoing investigation being conducted by 
the Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Field Office and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation in San Francisco. 
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[CTRL] Congress Moves to Protect Federal Whistleblowers

[Jim Rarey]

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Conspicuous by its absence is the name of Sibel Edmonds. Her meticulously 
documented charges of mismanagement, espionage and treason have been ignored by 
the FBI, Congress and the 9/11 Commission. Yet she lost her job. Her charges 
should have resulted in the immediate firing of the FBI Director, several others 
at the administrative level and prosecution ofseveral translators. It 
would be small consolation to keep one's job when the enemy agents, and traitors 
are kept in place or even promoted. - JR

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/politics/03whistle.html?oref=loginpagewanted=printposition



  
  
 
  
  
  October 3, 2004
  Congress Moves to Protect Federal 
  WhistleblowersBy ROBERT PEAR
  


  
  ASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - Over strenuous objections from the 
  Bush administration, Congress is moving to increase protections for 
  federal employees who expose fraud, waste and wrongdoing inside the 
  government.
  Lawmakers of both parties say the measures are needed to prevent 
  retaliation against such whistleblowers, who reveal threats to public 
  health, safety and security.
  But the administration says the bill unconstitutionally interferes with 
  the president's ability to control and manage the government.
  On Wednesday, a House committee approved a whistleblower protection 
  bill. In July, a Senate committee approved a similar measure offering more 
  extensive protections to whistleblowers. 
  Representative Todd R. Platts, Republican of Pennsylvania, the sponsor 
  of the House bill, said: "We need to protect public servants who expose 
  fraud and intentional misconduct. Court decisions in the last 10 years 
  have eroded whistleblower protections, so that if you're a federal 
  employee, you're often risking your job - and the wrath of your superiors 
  - if you come forward with evidence of wrongdoing.''
  The Senate bill gained momentum when Senator Susan Collins, Republican 
  of Maine, chairwoman of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, joined 
  Senator Daniel K. Akaka, Democrat of Hawaii, in pushing it.
  "The campaign for this legislation went from dormant to active when 
  Senator Collins embraced the bill a few months ago,'' said Thomas M. 
  Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project, a 
  watchdog group that works with whistleblowers. "That was the turning 
  point.''
  While the legislation has broad support and a compromise appears to be 
  within reach, it is impossible to know whether the measure will become 
  law. As evidence of a need for legislation, lawmakers cited dozens of 
  cases, including these:
  ¶Federal investigators found that two Border Patrol agents, Mark Hall 
  and Robert Lindemann, were disciplined after they disclosed weaknesses in 
  security along the Canadian border.
  ¶Teresa C. Chambers was dismissed from her job as chief of the United 
  States Park Police after she said the agency did not have enough money or 
  personnel to protect parks and monuments in the Washington area.
  ¶The nation's top Medicare official threatened to fire Richard S. 
  Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, if he provided data to Congress 
  showing the cost of the new Medicare law, which exceeded White House 
  estimates. 
  Airport baggage screeners say they have been penalized for raising 
  concerns about aviation security. But in August, an independent federal 
  agency, the Merit Systems Protection Board, ruled that they had none of 
  the whistleblower rights available to other federal employees. The 
  government, it said, can "hire, discipline and terminate screeners without 
  regard to any other law.''
  The United States Office of Special Counsel, which investigates 
  complaints of reprisal before they go to the board, has a large backlog of 
  whistleblower cases, including many pending more than a year.
  The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have made the government more 
  secretive, but have also prompted whistleblowers to come forward in 
  greater numbers. "They feel they can no longer stand by knowing that 
  people's lives are at risk,'' said Danielle Brian, executive director of 
  the Project on Government Oversight, another watchdog group.
  Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said he knew of 
  several instances in which federal agencies had retaliated against 
  whistleblowers by revoking their security clearances. Because they can no 
  longer do their jobs, Mr. Grassley said, "the pulling of a security 
  clearance effectively fires employees.'' 
  Administration officials gave several reasons for opposing the bills. 
  Peter D. Keisler, an assistant attorney general, said the legislation 
 

[CTRL] U.S. Moves Closer to Relief of Iraqi Debts to the West

[Jim Rarey]

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How ironic. The IMF, whichalong with the World Bank is responsible for the 
crushing debt load of the poor countries will develop a plan to pay off Saddam's 
creditors with other's money, meanwhile stiffing its victims in the poor 
countries. But they won't tell us who is getting the money (the plan will not be 
made public). IMF delinda est!! - JR

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03imf.html?pagewanted=printposition=


  
  
 
  
  
  October 3, 2004RECONSTRUCTION 
  U.S. Moves Closer to Relief of Iraqi Debts to the 
  WestBy ELIZABETH BECKER
  


  
  ASHINGTON, Oct. 2 - The administration moved closer to 
  its goal of winning forgiveness for the debt that Iraq owes Western 
  nations, the primary aim of the United States here at the annual meeting 
  of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund this weekend.
  Forgiving the debt is considered critical to Iraq's future, as is 
  quelling the insurgency. Even if considerable aid is offered to Iraq at 
  international meetings in the future, Washington believes that Iraq will 
  never attract the foreign investment it needs to revive its oil industry 
  and its economy so long as it carries it unsustainable debt of $120 
  billion.
  "Iraq faces two basic problems: the terrible security situation and the 
  terrible debt situation," said Robert D. Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman 
  Sachs in New York, who is working with Iraq and the administration on this 
  issue. "You have the chance to solve the debt problem here in Washington 
  this weekend."
  The Group of 7, which includes most of the important creditor nations 
  in the West, approved an Iraq debt relief program devised by the 
  International Monetary Fund on Friday night; the plan will not be made public.
  In a statement, the finance ministers of the Group of 7 nations - the 
  United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan - said, 
  "We welcome the approval of the I.M.F. of a sound and credible program for 
  Iraq, which is an important step toward our commitment to resolve Iraq's 
  debt before the end of the year."
  However, the I.M.F. put off any decision on a proposal to forgive 100 
  percent of the debt of the world's poorest countries and, instead, asked 
  that a study be prepared by year's end that will present the best 
  alternatives for eliminating the debt.
  While the details of the accord reached here are unclear, the United 
  States would like to cement a deal when the group of industrial nations 
  known as the Paris Club meets later this month. But there are evident 
  stumbling blocks.
  Other poor countries, especially in Africa, are buried in debt amassed 
  by ruthless dictators. They are demanding that generosity toward Iraq 
  should be matched in their cases, so that they can climb out of the debt 
  that has tied their hands in the fight to stop AIDS.
  Development experts and activists had hoped to link debt relief for 
  Iraq with help for the poorest nations, but their strategy appeared to 
  crumble late on Friday when the Group of 7 approved a plan dealing only 
  with Iraq.
  Gordon Brown, the British chancellor of the exchequer and the author of 
  a plan to pay off the debt of the poorest nations by revaluing I.M.F. 
  gold, said he was not disappointed with the outcome of the meeting.
  "There has been considerable progress made this weekend," Mr. Brown 
  said, pointing to what he called a "growing consensus" that poor nations' 
  debt was an urgent problem.
  He also said that there was no link between Iraq's debt, which is 
  largely owed to individual countries, and the debt of the poor nations, 
  which is owed to international financial institutions.
  But Mr. Brown did offer a challenge to the world's other wealthy 
  nations to follow his lead and unilaterally forgive a portion of this 
  mounting debt of the poor. Last week Britain announced that it would pay 
  off 10 percent of that debt.
  Iraq's debt is almost four times larger than the $32 billion needed to 
  pay off all the debt of several dozen countries.
  Behind the scenes, France and Germany have been holding out against the 
  United States' demand for a 90 to 95 percent forgiveness of Iraq's debt, 
  saying that Iraq must repay some of its debts when it becomes a successful 
  oil-producing nation in the future.
  The two European countries suggested that only half of Iraq's debt to 
  them be forgiven, but the senior Treasury Department official, who asked 
  not to be identified, said late on Friday night that "anything like 50 
  percent debt forgiveness is unworkable."
  The I.M.F. plan is neutral on whether 

[CTRL] Homeland faulted for not unifying watch lists

[Jim Rarey]

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Not my job mon. Maybe this is why the Homeland Security cybersecurity chief 
resigned in disgust so abruptly last Thursday.-JR


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Terrorism 
NotebookHomeland faulted for not unifying watch 
lists 


WASHINGTON — The government's effort to consolidate federal agencies' 12 
terrorist watch lists into one has all but failed, partly because the Department 
of Homeland Security has abandoned its responsibility to take the lead on the 
project, according to a report released yesterday by the department's internal 
watchdog. 
The report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general, Clark 
Kent Ervin, said the government's botching of the watch list assignment follows 
a disturbing pattern in the war on terrorism. 
"In the years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, just as in the past, 
the government has continued to implement solutions in an uncoordinated manner," 
the report said. "The manner through which the watch list consolidation has 
unfolded has not helped the nation break from its pattern." 
President Bush, Congress and many terrorism experts have for years considered 
the integration of the watch lists a crucial priority in the effort to identify 
terrorists as they try to enter the country, board airplanes and open bank 
accounts, and when they are pulled over for traffic stops. 
The inspector general was blunt in accusing his own department of refusing to 
take responsibility for the job of combining the 12 watch lists, an assignment 
he said belonged to the department under the law that established it two years 
ago. 
Homeland Security officials reject the assertion, which has also been made 
for years by members of Congress, that the department has been too passive in 
staking out its congressionally mandated role to take the lead in a number of 
intelligence analysis tasks such as merging watch lists. 
"Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse pointed out that 
last year Bush gave the FBI and Justice Department, not the Department of 
Homeland Security, the job of establishing and running the Terrorist Screening 
Center, to blend the various watch lists. 


 
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[CTRL] No vaccine for virus killing recruits

[Jim Rarey]

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I guess Wyeth Laboratories didn't offer free stock to an admiral. The 
government is spending millions on questionable vaccines which may never be 
needed. but couldn't find the money for an effective vaccine for an existing 
problem.Three to five years before a vaccine is available is outrageous. 
Someone needs to be fired or courts martialed. JR


http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/41688.php


Published: 10.03.2004


No vaccine for virus killing recruits 

By Michael J. Berens 
THE SEATTLE TIMES 
SEATTLE - More than three decades ago, the 
Pentagon created two pills to ward off a lethal virus infecting boot-camp 
recruits. But defense officials abandoned the program in 1996 as too 
expensive. Now recruits are dying, thousands are falling ill, and 
the military is desperately racing to bring back a vaccine it once owned. 
The respiratory 
virus now infects up to 2,500 service members monthly - a 
staggering 1 in 10 recruits - in the nation's eight basic-training centers, an 
analysis of military health-care records shows. 
Since the oral vaccinations stopped, the 
flulike germ, adenovirus, is 
associated with the deaths of at least six recruits, four within the past year, 
according to military records and internal reports obtained by The Seattle 
Times. 
In addition, hundreds of bedridden recruits 
miss critical training and have to be sent through boot camp again, at a cost of 
millions of dollars each year. Some are dismissed permanently with medical 
disabilities. 
The virus is expected to kill an additional 
six to 10 recruits before a vaccine is again available, according to a 
classified Defense Department briefing this year. 
The virus can strike beyond military 
boundaries as well. 
Six children of service members in the Puget 
Sound area were diagnosed with the virus last winter, according to doctors at 
Madigan Army Medical Center near Tacoma, Wash. 
Most people rebound from the infection within 
four days, but if untreated, it can quickly turn ferocious, with fever, sore 
throat and labored breathing leading to severe respiratory problems such as 
pneumonia and even death. 
Adenovirus spreads by cough or touch, thrives 
in confined places such as overcrowded barracks, and targets those with weakened 
immune systems. Overstressed recruits, trying to get in shape and adapt to the 
military, turn out to be ideal incubators for the virus. 
Nationally, the virus has killed more than two 
dozen civilian children and adults in outbreaks in medical facilities in 
Illinois, Louisiana, Iowa, Tennessee and New York, the federal Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention reports. 
Military 
foot-dragging and high turnover of procurement officers have caused the 
replacement vaccine to fall behind schedule, making pills unavailable until at 
least 2007, possibly 2009, military health-care records 
show. 
Dr. Margaret Ryan, a commander at the Naval 
Health Research Center in San Diego and an expert on the virus, calls the 
vaccine lapse "indefensible." 
Original vaccine manufacturer Wyeth 
Laboratories warned as early as 1984 that it would stop churning out pills 
costing $1 each unless defense officials allocated $5 million to repair a 
deteriorating production plant. 
Wyeth executives shuttered the facility in 
1996. A military health budget later gave a reason: "suppression of program to 
pay higher priority items." 
The Pentagon's unwillingness to spend $5 
million on health care is now costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to 
remedy. 
In September 2001, plagued by boot-camp 
outbreaks, defense officials finally agreed to spend $35.4 million to develop a 
new vaccine through Barr Laboratories of Forest, Va. 
Shortly afterward, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense William Winkenwerder Jr. ordered vaccine efforts accelerated, according 
to transcripts of a Feb. 19, 2002, meeting at North Island Naval Air Station in 
San Diego. 
"This is one of the most disappointing facts 
and stories that I've learned upon coming into my position," he said. "I don't 
want to cast aspersions on anybody who had responsibility in the past, but to be 
blunt this is a major 
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