Keith Olbermann's Scathing Criticism of Obama's Secrecy/Immunity Claims
By Glenn Greenwald The fact that Keith Olbermann, of all people, spent the first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing) some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is the conduct of the Obama DOJ here. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22376.htm ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN April 09, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself: ~ Thomas Paine = Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down: ~ Frederick Douglass = He who dares not offend cannot be honest: ~ Thomas Paine = Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy: With the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the much-publicized warrantless wiretapping program is still a 'secret' that cannot be reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again." http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/05 === WATCH: Did Barack Obama bow to Saudi King Abdullah?: U.S. President Barack Obama has drawn fire from conservative commentators in the press and the blogosphere after video surfaced on the Internet apparently showing Obama bowing before Saudi King Abdullah during the G-20 economic summit in London on April 1. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22386.htm === Obama to seek $83.4 billion for Iraqi, Afghan wars: President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for a war supplemental spending bill like the ones he sometimes opposed when he was senator and George W. Bush was president. http://snipurl.com/fl899 === Assassination by Air Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars By Tom Engelhardt The most intense of our various drone wars, the one on the other side of the Afghan border in Pakistan, is also the most mysterious. We know that some or all of the drones engaged in it take off from Pakistani airfields; that this "covert war" (which regularly makes front-page news) is run by the CIA out of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia; that its pilots are also located somewhere in the U.S.; and that at least some of them are hired private contractors. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22377.htm === Pakistan: "The Most Dangerous Country" Video and Petition The war in Afghanistan and its potentially catastrophic impact on Pakistan are complex and dangerous issues, which further make the case why our country needs a national debate on this now starting with congressional oversight hearings. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22382.htm === Bury Al-Qaeda Ghost By IFTEKHAR A. KHAN Wrapping defeat in euphemism, Bush in his last year in office had said: "We are not winning war in Afghanistan." Obama has inherited Bush's losing war. Instead of reappraising the past strategy to determine the causes of failure, he has decided to inject more troops. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22383.htm === Keith Olbermann's Scathing Criticism of Obama's Secrecy/Immunity Claims By Glenn Greenwald The fact that Keith Olbermann, of all people, spent the first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing) some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is the conduct of the Obama DOJ here. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22376.htm === No End In Sight By Mike Whitney China, Russia, Venezuela and Iran have already called for a change in the world's reserve currency. It won't happen overnight, but the momentum is steadily growing. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22374.htm === Sleepwalking Our Way Towards a World Currency By Edmund Conway Let's assume for a moment that we are in the protean stages of a new world currency; that the G20's moves this time last week are laying the ground for its special drawing rights to replace the dollar as the international reserve currency. On that basis which of these two scenarios would you feel more uncomfortable with? http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22385.htm === Olmert's Nightmare The Growing Belief in a One-State Solution http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22378.htm === The Problem Isn't Avigdor Lieberman Israel's Master Plan for Transfer http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22384.htm === Tribal Activism and War Lobbying The Demolition of Jewish Power By Gilad Atzmon As it happens, there is a growing rage towards Jewish politics and national politics in particular, but this shouldn't take us by surprise considering the crimes that are committed locally and globally by Zionists and Neocons, whether it is Olmert's genocidal practice in Palestine or Aaronovitch/Cohen lobbying for a war against Israel's enemies and last pockets of resistance. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22375.htm === Easter Hope Justice Against Torture By Ray McGovern Even if our own government proves too timid to bring him to justice, Bush cannot risk being apprehended abroad, brought to The Hague, and tried for war crimes. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22381.htm === "Conspiracy Nuts?" Time For a Closer Look By Michael Gaddy Is the state capable of killing to achieve its goals? One could always ask Randy Weaver and the Waco survivors, not to mention the families of tens of thousands of soldiers and millions of Vietnamese and Iraqis. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22379.htm === Did Barack Obama bow to Saudi King Abdullah? Video In the clip, Obama appears to bow before the Saudi monarch, lowering his head in the direction of Abdullah's hand as he shook it just moments before G-20 leaders posed for a group photograph in London last week. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22386.htm === Afghanistan :" US military admits killing mother, children: The US military in Afghanistan admitted Thursday that four people its troops killed in a raid were not "combatants", after Afghans said they included a mother and her children, with a baby dying afterwards. http://snipurl.com/fl7uh === Obama Should Listen to Iraqis, Not Lecture Them: If Obama just asked Iraqis on his flying visit, he would find they think the US is part of the problem and should leave them to it http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/08-1 === US, Iran to hold nuclear talks: The United States and five other powers have invited Iran to a meeting on its nuclear programme after Washington dropped its opposition to direct talks with Tehran in a major change of policy. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0409/1224244282502.html === Secret US-Iran meetings held in Geneva: Academics and specialists from Iran, the United States and Europe have been meeting regularly in the Swiss city of Geneva for high level but informal talks. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=10550607 === Iran to launch its first atom fuel production plant: "This is the first nuclear fuel complex ... 100 percent Iranian and the president will inaugurate this," said Vajihollah Asadi, a manager at the complex near the central town of Isfahan. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090409/ts_nm/us_iran_nuclear_plant_sb === US arms shipment reaches Israel, president Obama urged to halt further exports: The new delivery to Israel of a massive consignment of US munitions, revealed by Amnesty International today, throws into question whether President Obama will act to prevent the US fuelling further Israeli attacks against civilians that may amount to war crimes, as was perpetrated in Gaza. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18136 === George Galloway in California: Galloway spoke movingly about his visit to Gaza, and what he found there. He spoke for over an hour, but I've excerpted ten minutes of highlights here: http://lefti.blogspot.com/2009/04/george-galloway-in-california.html === CIA medics joined in Guantánamo torture sessions, says Red Cross: Medical personnel committed a "gross breach of medical ethics" by taking part in torture in Guantánamo, a leaked International Committee of the Red Cross document has revealed. http://snipurl.com/fl8ft === Traces of explosives in 9/11 dust, scientists say: Tiny red and gray chips found in the dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center contain highly explosive materials - proof, according to a former BYU professor, that 9/11 is still a sinister mystery. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705295677,00.html === Black Money: As the global financial downturn continues and pressure for profits increases on corporations across the world, a small group of lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive crackdown against an international business tactic -- bribery -- which the World Bank says amounts to as much as a trillion dollars a year in payments. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/blackmoney/etc/synopsis.html === Fed sees economy sliding further: Federal Reserve policy-makers, faced with bleaker forecasts for a rapidly worsening recession, decided to buy a "substantial" amount of U.S. Treasury and mortgage debt to halt the slide, minutes of their most recent meeting showed on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5377PR20090408 === Moody's Downgrades The Whole Country: For the first time ever, the ratings agency placed all munis on negative outlook, a precursor to potential downgrades. Historically, the agency looked at munis individually and considered them to be too diverse to make blanket statements about. http://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-puts-all-munis-on-negative-outlook-2009-4 === The banks are too powerful and they are ruining the rescue plan: Recent events have made me pessimistic that America's latest bank rescue plan will work. Worse, it is the disastrous banks themselves that are being allowed to wreck any efforts to resurrect the global economy. http://snipurl.com/fl8jv === Germany increases car subsidy to ?5bn: Germany is more than tripling the incentives on offer to buyers of new cars as it attempts to boost its auto industry, which employs around 15pc of the nation's workforce. http://snipurl.com/fl8l9 === Number of grown-up children returning to live with parents triples amid recession: The number of 18-34 years olds living rent free with family and friends has more than tripled as the recession bites, new figures suggest. http://snipurl.com/fl8me === more here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. 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