 Perhaps they will home in on the half-million dollar bribe, offered to an African official "to motivate him real good". An alternative could be the note, bearing the word "cash", written to avoid Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) listening devices. Or there is the small matter of the $90,000, carefully wrapped in aluminium foil and hidden in plastic food containers within Congressman William Jefferson's freezer. Unfortunately for the Democratic Party as it struggles to seize back power on Capitol Hill, these are not plot choices being debated by scriptwriters for the Mob drama The Sopranos. They are options being considered by Republican strategists for use in an advertising attack campaign for November's congressional elections which they believe will blow a hole in Democrat plans to expose a "culture of corruption" within President George W Bush's party. ...
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 US scientists back autism link to MMR |
The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMR jab. American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine. The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of autistic children. The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologist Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and Prof John O'Leary, a pathologist, in 2002. Parents say their children were developing normally until they had the MMR jab, given when a child is between 12 and 18 months-old. The children now suffer from regressive autism. One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causing damage, and into the bloodstream, from where it is able to attack the brain...
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| U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned. |
In a private meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales, Mueller and other senior members of the Justice Department said Internet service providers should retain subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two sources familiar with the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity. The closed-door meeting at the Justice Department, which Gonzales had requested, according to the sources, comes as the idea of legally mandated data retention has become popular on Capitol Hill and inside the Bush administration. Supporters of the idea say it will help prosecutions of child pornography because in many cases, logs are deleted during the routine course of business. In a speech last month at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Gonzales said that Internet providers must retain records for a "reasonable amount of time." Not to worry it’s “for the Children” “for the good of the people” or “National Security”, Right?...
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| Frist defends path to citizenship citing “national security concerns.” Translation: They screwed up and trying to cover their Asses |
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist strongly defended on Sun the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants offered in the Senate's immigration reform bill, citing national security concerns. The Tennessee Republican said a failure to hold out the hope of citizenship to people living illegally in the U S would encourage the estimated 12 million illegal aliens to "stay in the shadows." "The reality is you can't just take 12 million people here, millions of whom are fully assimilated into our society and send them back" to their countries of origin, Frist said. "If the goal is national security, for example it is mighty hard to say that we've got 12 million people living out around this country and say 'you stay in the shadows, everything will be OK'," Frist said. Over 90% of the time when the “National Security” excuse is used it has nothing at all to do with the safety of this Nation, it has to do with covering up some embarrassing or criminal activity by our Public Serpents...
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| Action urged as civil liberties board convenes |
The White House's new civil liberties board is just getting to work more than a year after it was ordered by Congress, dogged by criticism that it must act more quickly and forcefully to protect Americans' rights in the war against the boogieman. The nascent Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, whose members were picked by Bush a year ago, has held 4 formal meetings since being sworn in on March 14 and has met top officials and prominent privacy and civil liberties advocates over the past two months. "Right now, there's a lot of consultation, coordination, outreach and taking stock of issues and trying to figure out how to be as useful as possible," said the board's vice chairman, Alan Raul, a lawyer specializing in privacy issues.The White House Web site says the five-member board's office space is under construction and it is hiring staff.Some critics and rights advocates say progress has been unsatisfactory considering the need for oversight of post-9/11 government policies...
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| Coleman criticized for wheat-scandal silence |
He won attention for probing the Iraq oil-for-food program, but he hasn't tackled the Australian Wheat Board's role in it. Sen. Norm Coleman got international attention last year for taking on United Nations head Kofi Annan and his scandal-plagued oil-for-food program, which let Saddam Hussein enrich himself before the Iraq war.Now he's getting notice for something he didn't do: The Minnesota Republican, chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, was not similarly aggressive in investigating how high-priced wheat from Australia wound up lining Saddam's pockets.With a wheat scandal embroiling the Australian government, Coleman is getting conflicting advice on what to do.Critics say he is going easy on an Iraq war ally. Coleman's defenders say investigating could backfire and hurt U.S. farmers....
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