Note the increasing number of mercenaries in Afghanistan..
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of CLG_News Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:30 PM To: CLG News Subject: Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government 28 Aug 2009 http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here: <http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news> http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Attn. CLG readers: CLG needs a webmaster to volunteer to help automate our main RSS and Flu News feeds. If you can help w. this endeavor, please write: webmaster at legitgov.org. Thank you! Bill <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html> Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet By Declan McCullagh 28 Aug 2009 Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200710-38.html> this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.00773:> handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt <http://www.politechbot.com/docs/rockefeller.revised.cybersecurity.draft.082 709.pdf> ), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency. Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR200908270 4065.html> 28 Aug 2009 The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR200908270 4071.html> CIA Will Cover Legal Fees --Policy [US Taxpayers] Will Help Officers Ensnared in Interrogation Probe 28 Aug 2009 CIA Director Leon Panetta decided Thursday that the agency will ensure legal representation for case officers who become caught up in investigations of alleged interrogation abuses torture of detainees prisoners at overseas locations, a senior intelligence official said. Panetta's decision follows Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s appointment of a special prosecutor earlier this week to conduct a preliminary review of whether federal laws were violated during the interrogations. <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/us-wants-20000-more-troops-to- fight-taliban-1778947.html> US wants 20,000 more troops to fight Taliban --British and American soldiers to shoulder brunt of surge's next phase 29 Aug 2009 The commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan will ask for 20,000 more international troops as part of his new strategic plan for the alliance's war against a resurgent Taliban, The Independent has learned. The demand from General Stanley McChrystal will almost certainly lead to more British soldiers being sent to the increasingly treacherous battlegrounds of Helmand, the Taliban heartland, despite growing opposition to the war. US general: In a year, only 50,000 troops in Iraq <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gaBgdQQa1cT-zF4Te3AijuZnO 2pQD9ABT0083> [And seven million mercenaries.] The U.S. Army chief of staff says he expects the number of American troops in Iraq to go 'down' to around 50,000 by this time next year. Gen. George Casey spoke during a brief visit Friday to Kuwait's Shuaiba port which will be playing a key role in the withdrawal of American forces from neighboring Iraq. 'The big prize:' Iraq violence threatens oil deals <http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/08/27/Iraq-violence-threatens-oil- deals/UPI-99721251408218/> 27 Aug 2009 Recent events in Iraq have cast a pall over the government's plans to have a November auction for potentially lucrative oil contracts. The surge in violence of the last few weeks, political uncertainty caused by this week's breakup of the ruling Shiite coalition and Iraqis' refusal to give Big Oil the terms it wants are likely to drive off the international companies that see the country's untapped reserves as the big prize. <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/military-reporter-profiles-like-per using-the-diary-of-your-stalker/> Military Reporter Profiles 'Like Perusing the Diary of Your Stalker' By David Axe 28 Aug 2009 On Monday, Stars & Stripes broke the news that U.S. military media handlers in Afghanistan have been <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/pentagon-hired-contractor-to-vet-wa r-reporters/> rating embedded reporters according to their sympathy towards U.S. war aims. Turns out this was an open secret among veterans of the Kabul beat. P.J. Tobia got his hands on his profile months ago, according to his <http://trueslant.com/pjtobia/2009/08/28/the-us-military-investigates-afghan -desk/> piece in True/Slant. "Rating the coverage that reporters give the military... seems a bit silly and slightly Orwellian, but if thousands of reporters were covering my organization, I would want a simple shorthand to identify them as well," Tobia wrote. "I do think the reports are creepy though. These guys have read almost everything I've written in the last few years, even interviews I've given to local news blogs. Reading this report is like perusing the diary of your stalker." <http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/cbs-radio-correspondent-is-wounded-in- afghanistan-1.1403717> CBS radio correspondent is wounded in Afghanistan 28 Aug 2009 A CBS spokeswoman says a CBS Radio News correspondent has been seriously injured by a bomb in Afghanistan. Cami McCormick was wounded when the Army vehicle she was riding in struck a bomb south of Kabul on Friday. She was treated at a field hospital, where she was in stable condition after surgery. <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/08/afghanistan-.html> Afghanistan: Seven years after CIA abduction, prisoner still held without charge 28 Aug 2009 Seven years after being abducted from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by the CIA and shipped to the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Haji Pacha Wazir was hoping he would finally be free. The Afghan government had cleared him for release, and a recent court ruling allowed him to petition his case in a U.S. federal court. But Wazir's petition was dismissed based on "lack of jurisdiction," despite the fact that Wazir, an Afghan national, has been in the sole custody of the U.S. government since his arrest, according to the nonprofit organization representing him. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR200908270 4071.html> CIA Will Cover Legal Fees --Policy [US Taxpayers] Will Help Officers Ensnared in Interrogation Probe 28 Aug 2009 CIA Director Leon Panetta decided Thursday that the agency will ensure legal representation for case officers who become caught up in investigations of alleged interrogation abuses torture of detainees prisoners at overseas locations, a senior intelligence official said. Panetta's decision follows Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s appointment of a special prosecutor earlier this week to conduct a preliminary review of whether federal laws were violated during the interrogations. <http://www.kansascity.com/444/story/1411614.html> Cheney condemns Obama's probe of CIA interrogations 28 Aug 2009 CIA interrogators were justified in exceeding even the broad authorizations the Justice Department gave them to handle terrorist suspects, former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney said in an interview for broadcast Sunday, suggesting that any aggressive tactic was justified in the goal of 'preventing' another terrorist attack. A CIA inspector general's report released Monday documented how interrogators menaced "high-value" detainees with a gun and a power drill, threatened their families and used other methods that went beyond even the permissive interrogation rules set by the Bush regime's Justice Department. <http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry527 2036.shtml> Cindy Sheehan Protests Obama's Vacation 28 Aug 2009 Anti-War protestor Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who rose to fame several years ago when she protested against the Iraq War outside former President [sic] Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch, was back at it again this week. But this time she was protesting President Obama's vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Those who wish to be added to the list can go here: http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg and add your name. Those who wish to unsubscribe can go here: http://lists.people-link.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legitgov. 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