Even as Justice Department officials trumpeted the arrests of seven Florida men accused of planning to wage a "full ground war against the United States," they acknowledged the group did not have the means to carry out the plan. The Justice Department unveiled the arrests with an orchestrated series of news conferences in two cities, but the severity of the charges compared with the seemingly amateurish nature of the group raised concerns among civil libertarians. "We're as puzzled as everyone else," said Howard Simon, the director of the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. "There's no weapons, no explosives, but this major announcement." Just like after 9/11 they arrested over 1.200 people as terrorist suspects, thereby given the impression that Homeland Gestapo was doing something more than just making a Gigantic New Bureaucracy. So how many were actually found guilty? None, not one. However, they did succeed in ruining many lives, and they don’t give a dam ...
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 Cheney defends search of bank records |
Vice President Dick Cheney said a secret program allowing U.S. officials to examine thousands of private banking records around the world was a legal and "absolutely essential" weapon in the war on terror, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Speaking at a fund-raiser for Republican congressional candidates in Chicago on Friday, Cheney criticized the media for disclosing the program, which is run by the CIA in conjunction with the Treasury Department. For nearly five years since the September 11 attacks, the Treasury Department has been tapping into records of the Brussels-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, or SWIFT, for evidence of potential activity by terror groups. If they were truly looking for terror groups as they claim, they don’t have to look far, but they promoted and gave metals to most of the terror group that Barbecued all the men woman and children in that Waco Church. Or is this Domestic Home Grown Terror group excluded?...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2114349
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| Bolivian Official Seeks Criminal Charges for Enron Officials for Pipeline Deal |
The energy minister said Friday that he's seeking criminal charges against ex-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and others for allegedly cheating the state in a gas pipeline investment deal. Andrez Soliz said asked Bolivia's chief prosecutor to pursue charges against Sanchez de Lozada and former officials of collapsed Enron Corp. and Prisma Energy, which had bought Enron shares, for contracts damaging to the state, contravening the constitution and falsification of contracts.Soliz told a news conference that he also planned to seek charges against former Vice President Victor Hugo Cardenas, people who served as ministers during Sanchez's 1993-1997 presidency and former executives of Bolivia's state oil company....
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200833,00.html
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| Hillary touts Democrat unity on Iraq. Has she decided which way the Political wind is blowing? Well, not yet |
Sen. Hillary Clinton said yesterday that Democrats emerged from the Senate debate on US troop withdrawals from Iraq "more united" than ever behind a conditional-exit strategy in the war that has divided her party. In remarks before the NDN, a new centrist-leaning Democratic advocacy group, Mrs. Clinton avoided the criticism she had earlier leveled at anti-war lawmakers seeking a quick pullout of all US forces within 1 year. This time she offered only words of praise for the widely differing withdrawal positions offered by liberal Democrats in the Senate. "Although unity is important, it is not the most important value. I think it is a tribute to the Democratic Party at this moment in time that we are honestly & openly struggling with a lot of difficult issues facing our country," Hillary is a good example of why we need to be rid of both these parties. As long as you keep voting Republican or Democrat, you will keep these sub-Species of humans in power...
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Editor - 11:00:00 06-24-06
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| Iraqi cleric freed after U.S. raid |
U.S. forces released a revered 70-year-old Sunni cleric on Saturday hours after detaining him, Iraqi officials said.Crowds earlier gathered to denounce the early morning raid on the Tikrit home of Sheik Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, which was described as "outrageous" by a key political party.U.S. forces told Iraqi authorities that bad intelligence led to the raid and detention of al-Dabban and two of his sons, officials from Salaheddin province said.The officials told CNN that the U.S. military apologized to al-Dabban and to the provincial governor and the head of the provincial council.Earlier, the largest and most powerful Sunni Arab political party issued a statement attacking the raid in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Baghdad....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/24/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_world
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Editor - 10:40:00 06-24-06
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| Bush Asks Congress to Approve Line-Item Veto to Cut Spending |
Bush called on Congress to pass the line-item veto, which he said will help keep the economy strong by reducing wasteful government spending. ``A line-item veto would benefit American taxpayers by ensuring greater respect for their hard-earned dollars,'' Bush said in his weekly radio address. The House of Representatives voted on June 22 to give Bush a form of the line-item veto. The measure would allow the president to force congressional votes on his requests to eliminate items, such as lawmakers' special projects, from spending legislation. Opponents said the measure would cede too much authority to the president. ``A line-item veto would reduce the incentive for Congress to spend wastefully because when lawmakers know their pet projects will be held up to public scrutiny, they will be less likely to suggest them in the first place,'' Bush said. Someone tell him we could save hundreds of Billions and save thousands of lives in the bargain, just by bringing our troops home...
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