Pentagon wants to end controversial spying program
"Parts of the database leaked to news reporters have shown that the Pentagon has been collecting information on peace activists and monitoring anti-war protests across the country. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) last year filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking to uncover which peace group is being spied on by the Pentagon and why. The filing was on behalf of several national groups and seven Florida-based peace activist groups, including Florida members of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker religious-based peace group."
by AFP
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Officer accused of forcing couples to have sex
"They told investigators the officer pulled up to their vehicle in a police car, took their identification and told them they could go to jail or perform sex acts while he watched."
by AP
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04/26/07

Mr Waxman said Ms Rice had left his committee with "no choice but to proceed with the subpoena".
""We have hit a brick wall with the secretary of state," he said as the Democratic-led committee voted 21-10 to issue a subpoena to compel Ms Rice to testify."
by BBC
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04/22/07

Mass public shootings on the rise, but why?
".....mass murder was just as common during the 1920s and early 1930s as it is today. The difference is that then, mass murderers tended to be failed farmers who killed their families because they could no longer provide for them, then killed themselves. Their crimes embodied the despair and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, the sense that they and their families would be better off in the hereafter than in the here and now."
by AP/MSNBC
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04/18/07

Did Va. Tech Murderer Learn From Video Games?
"Such games allows a player to vicariously experience a shooting rampage like the one gunman Cho Seung-Hui perpetrated at Virginia Tech. Reportedly, Cho killed some of his real-life targets with multiple shots to assure their demise."
by Jim Meyers
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04/14/07

The Secret Government
"Bill Moyers, the respected TV journalist, analyzes the threats to constitutional government posed by an illegitimate network of "superpatriots", spies, profiteers, mercenaries and ex-generals. His documentary gives a fascinating overview of what has actually happened in the last 50 years regarding the CIA and the Cold War (including Iran, Guatamala, Cuba, Vietnam and Chile). He features such people as Ralph McGeehee and Phil Retinger (both former CIA agents), Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque (Ret. U.S.N.), Theodore Bissell (active in the CIA at the time), Sen. Frank Church and many others."
by Bill Moyers/Prisonplanet
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Vast right-wing conspiracy Facts
"On Tuesday, she asserted the conspiracy is alive and well, and cited as proof the Election Day 2002 case of phone jamming in New Hampshire, a case in which two Republican operatives pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and a third was convicted. "To the New Hampshire Democratic party's credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the Republican National Committee," Clinton said."So if anybody tells you there is no vast right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court," she said."
"People think we're paranoid when we talk about the vast right-wing conspiracy, but there is a real connection of these groups -- the same names keep popping up," said Sullivan. "They are the most disgusting group of political thugs that I have ever seen."
by AP
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U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship
"Known for what many have described as his impeccable voting record, Ron Paul (Republican) is a champion of individual liberty and a strong campaigner for restoration of a true Constitutionalist form of US government, a trait that has made him a rare and popular candidate amongst people from all across the political spectrum. When asked what he believes the overriding issue in America today is the Congressman pointed towards the erosion of personal freedoms: "Probably it's the threat to individual liberty. because our government is growing endlessly by leaps and bounds and nobody seems to want to put a hold on it. every time government grows it is at the expense of personal liberty." The Congressman explained that freedom is the underlying issue because the consequences of such erosion of individual liberty have a knock on effect in many different areas. Economically, for example, the country is becoming dependent, less productive and less self sustaining. "Economically the consequences will be that there's going to be a wholesale rejection of the dollar, because the world has trusted the dollar, especially since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods in 1971, when the linkage of the dollar to gold was broken, they still trusted the dollar as if it were gold, and therefore we can print the money and we can spend the money and foreign countries take our money, then loan it back to us, so they're getting a bum rap." Paul stated. "
by Steve Watson & Alex Jones
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03/22/07

Senate approved subpoenas to investigate sacking of eight US prosecutors
"A US Senate committee has voted to authorise legal orders compelling key White House aides to testify over the sacking of eight US prosecutors. The subpoenas target senior White House aides, including President George W Bush's political adviser Karl Rove. "
by BBC
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Senate Panel Authorizes Subpoena For Rove
"The Senate panel voted to approve subpoenas for Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and her former deputy, William Kelley. The House subcommittee Tuesday authorized subpoenas for Rove, Miers and their deputies." "Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, said it would be "outrageous," to allow Rove to testify off the record. "Anyone who would take that deal isn't playing with a full deck," Reid said.
by CBS/AP
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02/09/07

The FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans
"The audit also concluded that the FBI for three years underreported to Congress how often it used national security letters to force businesses to turn over customer data. The letters are administrative subpoenas that do not require a judge's approval."
by LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
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House Democrats introduce bill to restore habeas corpus
"the United States has paid a steep price in eroded moral authority," she argues. Yet she insists, "There is no reason why we can't fight the War on Terror and live up to our obligations under US law and the Geneva Conventions."
by Mike Sheehan
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03/06/07

Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case
"Mr. Libby, 56, who once wielded great authority at the top levels of government, is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandals of the 1980s."
by NEIL A. LEWIS
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Army Fires Commander of Walter Reed
"The action came 10 days after a Washington Post series exposed the squalid living conditions for some outpatient soldiers at Walter Reed and bureaucratic problems that prevented many from getting the care they need."
by Steve Vogel and William Branigin
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02/22/07

New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing
"The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the Patriot Movement before the turn of the century."
by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
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Ron Paul BIO
"I like this guy, what do you think?"
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02/10/07

What the media does not cover about 9/11
"Larry A. Silverstein already owned WTC-7 but six weeks before 9/11 he signed a 99year lease on the entire WTC complex that included an insurance policy of 3.5 Billion dollars."
by loosechange911.com
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Who was incharge durring 9/11?
"The CIA has super ordinate agency and authority during an national emergency situations and has complete control over the president and the military. During 9/11 the CIA could and did override everything such as radar and radios from a bunker bellow the white house. "
by Halifaxion & Mike Ruppert
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CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL
"Admits in 2003 that there is a move to set up a world movement to over through our government and form a dictatorship."
by Truth4Youth Channel
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Helping Homeless Children - How much of this is really true?
"How much of it is also used as a tax shelter and is it used to also buy up Businesses without paying taxes"
by Alex Jones
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About the JFK Movie
"Who killed JFK, was it the few leaders/managers in charge of the CIA along with a few other intrest groups? Thats what some claim."
by Alex Jones & Jim Marrs
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An explosion of disbelief - fresh doubts over 9/11
"...And one of the most puzzling anomalies that he studied was that none of the hijacked planes was intercepted by fighter jets, even though there was plenty of time to do so and it would have been standard emergency procedure in response to a suspected terrorist attack. Indeed, it is mandatory procedure in the U.S. if there is any suspicion of an air hijack. In the nine months before 9/11, the procedure had been implemented 67 times in America. Readers of The New Pearl Harbour and viewers of Loose Change are reminded that it was 7.59am when American Airlines Flight 11 left Boston. Fifteen minutes later, at 8.14am, radio contact between the pilot and air traffic control stopped suddenly, providing the first indication that the plane might have been hijacked. Flight 11 should have been immediately intercepted by fighter pilots sent up from the nearby McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. They could have made the journey to the World Trade Centre in three minutes. But, surprisingly, F-15 fighter jets were instead ordered out of an airbase 180 miles away at Cape Cod. They appear to have flown so slowly - at 700mph, instead of their top speed of 1,850mph - that they did not arrive in time to stop the second attack, on the South Tower of the World Trade Centre. They were 11 minutes too late. And this is not the only worrying question. Incredibly, the attack on the Pentagon was not prevented either. The defence headquarters was hit by the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 at 9.38am. But fighter jets from Andrews Air Force Base, just ten miles from Washington, weren't scrambled to intercept it. Instead, jets were ordered from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, 100 miles away. By the time they arrived, Flight 77 had already hit the Pentagon. "
by SUE REID
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02/08/07

Pentagon Says Pre-War Intel Not Illegal
In a report to be presented to Congress on Friday
"In a telephone interview Thursday, Levin said the IG report is "very damning" and shows a Pentagon policy shop trying to shape intelligence to prove a link between al-Qaida and Saddam."
by NPR
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Military Shows Off Experimental Heat Ray
"The military demonstrates a "heat ray" developed as a way to disperse threatening crowds. Officials say the electro-magnetic device does no permanent damage, but makes people feel as if their skin is burning."
by NPR
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Ray Gun, I think so.
"A reported 1400 vehicles were damaged on 9/11. [Reference] These vehicles had peculiar patterns of damage and some were as far away as FDR Drive (about 7 blocks from the WTC, along the East River). Vehicles had missing door handles for example, windows blown out, window frames deformed, melted engine blocks, steel-belted tires with only the steel belts left, and vehicle front ends destroyed with little or no effect on the back end of the vehicles. What could have caused such extraordinary damage? Portions of cars burned while paper nearby did not."
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Ground Zero EMT: We Were Told Building 7 Was to Be "Pulled"
"The EMT made the decision to make his claims public after becoming aggrieved at how 9/11 debunkers were viciously attacking the creators of Loose Change for questioning the events of 9/11 in their film, which has now aired on numerous international television stations and has been seen by millions on the Internet. In his enthralling testimony, the EMT goes into graphic detail of how he and others personally witnessed a plethora of explosions at all points of the buildings before their collapse. "There were explosions. There were flashes. There was molten metal running down the I-beams of the basement levels like lava flows. I've never seen anything like it. Yes, planes hit the buildings - anybody who says otherwise is a moron. But the explosions - the rapid, symmetrical, sequential explosions - they happened," states 'Mike'."
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02/06/07

Remember this one?
With America and the Democatic majority investigating missing money going to Iraq - Listen to Galloways opening statement to our Senate in 2005
"......if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth. Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer. Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it. Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government. "
by informationclearinghouse & by Simply Appalling Blog
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Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion
"JONES: "What do we do if the military-industrial complex carries out a terror attack to blame it on them?" GALLOWAY: "Well that's another very real danger. There's no way we can legislate for that but we we must be on guard. We need a vigilant citizenry.""
by Alex Jones
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02/05/07

Bush's $2.9 trillion request is 'sticker shock'
"The federal deficit hit an all-time high under Bush of $413 billion in 2004. It has been declining since that time and the 2008 budget projects it will continue to decline and show a surplus in 2012, three years after Bush leaves office."
by AP
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Top secret army cell breaks terrorists
"But a risk still remains. All potential agents are warned that anyone suspected of being a coalition spy will be tortured before being murdered. If he is married, his wife will be gang-raped in front of their children, who will in all probability also be murdered, they are told. Despite the risks, JSG operators deal with dozens of Iraqis every week who are -prepared, for a variety of reasons, to become informers."
By Sean Rayment, Sunday Telegraph
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FRU Operations in Iraq - What We Don't Really Know About
"The FRU is the same ultra secret cell of the SAS whose criminal activities in Northern Ireland were under investigation by former Scotland Yard commissioner Sir John Stevens for more than a decade, during which time it emerged that the unit was involved in the murder of civilians in Northern Ireland. According to Detectives, 'Military intelligence was colluding with terrorists to help them kill so-called "legitimate targets" such as active republicans...many of the victims of these government backed hit squads were innocent civilians.' “Beginning in the 1980s the highly secretive FRU was sent into Northern Ireland to recruit and train double agents to work inside the paramilitary groups,” writes Michael S. Rose. "
By Steve Watson
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02/01/07

FBI Agent Testifies In Libby Case
"Libby's acknowledgment of a possible discussion with Cheney about revealing Plame's job is likely to have more impact on political debate about the Plame leak than on the trial because Libby is not charged with the actual leak. "
- by The Associated Press
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Ex-Cheney Aide's Attorneys Want More Information About Ari Fleischer's Immunity
"Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says that in early 2004, as his investigation into who revealed CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to reporters was heating up, Fleischer stepped forward with an offer to prosecutors: Promise no prosecution and he would help their case."
- by CBS/AP
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Senate Votes To Up Minimum Wage To $7.25
"The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to boost the federal minimum wage by $2.10 to $7.25 an hour over two years, but packaged the increase with controversial tax cuts for small businesses and higher taxes for many $1 million-plus executives. "
- by The Associated Press
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Is Bush Violating the Law?
"The Bush White House maintains that because the nation is in an indefinite war on terror, Bush's constitutional authority as commander in chief has virtually no boundary. His language in the signing statement on the McCain amendment was widely viewed as reserving himself the right to ignore it."
- By Dan Froomkin
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"In his signing statements, Bush has repeatedly asserted that the Constitution gives him the right to ignore numerous sections of the bills -- sometimes including provisions that were the subject of negotiations with Congress in order to get lawmakers to pass the bill. He has appended such statements to more than one of every 10 bills he has signed."
- By Dan Froomkin
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12/11/06

Dubai Ports to sell U.S operations to AIG unit
"WASHINGTON - Dubai Ports World, the company whose planned takeover of major U.S. port operations ignited a political firestorm earlier this year, has agreed to sell those operations to AIG Global Investment Group."
"One of the loudest critics of the original deal said he was pleased and expected the deal to clear the few regulatory hurdles that remain. “This is an appropriate final chapter to the book on the Dubai Ports World deal,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. “This is very likely to receive broad support in Washington and throughout America.”
"Critics of DP World cited the UAE’s history — noting that some of the money that financed the Sept. 11 terror attacks moved through the UAE's banking system — and the government’s past support of Afghanistan’s Taliban government before the 2001 attacks. As a result of the public pressure, DP World ultimately agreed to sell off the U.S. assets. The Department of Homeland Security, which had tried to defend the initial DP World acquisition, had no comment Monday, agency spokesman Russ Knocke said. Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey, who sits on the House Homeland Security Committee, pledged his party would keep a closer eye on such deals in the future by conducting “the type of oversight that has been completely absent during the Republican Congress.” The outgoing chairman of that committee, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said he was pleased DP World is “out of the picture” and replaced by an American-owned company. “The lesson here is that anyone who’s given a contract which affects homeland security has to be thoroughly investigated and examined when they’re coming from a foreign country, but especially a country such as the United Arab Emirates,” King said."
- by The Associated Press
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Rumsfeld faces personal suit by detainees
"But Judge Hogan also appeared reluctant to give Rumsfeld immunity from the torture allegations. "It's unfortunate, to say the least, that there has to be any argument that the U.S. military tortured citizens of another country," Hogan said."
"The judge questioned the scope of that immunity and asked whether it protects the government officials from liability for everything. "Would you take the same policy if the argument was one of genocide?" Hogan asked. "Are you saying there could be no inquiry done?""
- by Joel Seidman
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Report: U.S. bugged Princess Diana’s phone
"The fact that U.S. intelligence agency files contained references to her has long been known. As far back as 1998, the National Security Agency said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request that it had a Diana file amounting to 1,056 pages."
"Conspiracy theorists have claimed Paul was not drinking that night, contending the blood samples were swapped with blood from someone else who was drunk."
- by Robert Windrem and Pete Williams of NBC News, along with The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
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Ethics panel finds House GOP leaders negligent
"The panel said it found no evidence that any current lawmakers or aides violated any rules. But it said it discovered a pattern of conduct among many "to remain willfully ignorant of the potential consequences" of Foley's conduct."
- by The Associated Press
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11/29/06

Russia's Bitter Chill
A mysterious death in London brings back bad memories — and disturbs the new dissidents who defend Russia's freedoms
"Alexander Litvinenko didn't mince words. On Oct. 19, at a public meeting in London, he introduced himself as a former Russian kgb officer, and proceeded to accuse President Vladimir Putin of sanctioning the murder two weeks earlier of a crusading Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya;.................
"I know that a journalist of her stature could not be touched without sanction from the Russian President himself," he said. "Anna was a political opponent, and this is why she was killed.""
- by PETER GUMBEL
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A history of famous poisonings
"From tampered food to umbrella darts, poison has been used to silence many a key figure. Here are some notable — and rumoured — cases of those who died or were injured by poisons."
- by CBC News
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Alleged Russian spy arrested in Montreal
"The Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy service has complained for years that foreign governments are mounting increasingly sophisticated spying operations in Canada, often in an attempt to gain industrial secrets. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay protested about what he said was industrial espionage by China. Beijing angrily rejected the allegation. "
- by David Ljunggren
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Polonium-210 one of world's rarest elements
"LONDON, England (AP) -- Polonium-210 -- the radioactive substance used to poison a former Russian spy in London -- is one of the world's rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.

It is highly lethal when ingested, and extremely hard to detect, experts said."
- by the The Associated Press
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11/11/06

Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse
"Lawyers for the plaintiffs say that one of the witnesses who will testify on their behalf is former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all U.S. military prisons in Iraq. Karpinski — who the lawyers say will be in Germany next week to publicly address her accusations in the case — has issued a written statement to accompany the legal filing, which says, in part: "It was clear the knowledge and responsibility [for what happened at Abu Ghraib] goes all the way to the top of the chain of command to the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld .""
- by ADAM ZAGORIN
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11/09/06

Voters Oust GOP From the 'Scandal Seats'
"Foley, Abramoff and Other Scandals Give Republican Strongholds to Democrats"
- by ABC News
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Bush has committed several acts which justify impeachment
"Several reasons to impeach Bush"
- by impeachbush.tv
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POLITICAL SCANDAL WATCH
"POLITICAL SCANDAL WATCH"
- by ABC News
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10/06/06

Using the ‘‘war on terror’’ to turn back the clock on civil liberties Washington votes for torture
"As Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, commented in the Los Angeles Times, “Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantánamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.”"
- by www.socialistworker.org
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WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? The Democrats’ pathetic display
"The significance of the Foley scandal has not yet registered with the White House, however. When questioned on October 2 about Foley’s escapades, White House spokesman Tony Snow dismissed, “I hate to tell you, but...there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.”"
- by www.socialistworker.org
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EDITORIAL MEMO: WORKERS ANTICIPATE REVERSAL OF RIGHTS FROM BUSH-APPOINTED LABOR BOARD
"As a body comprised of Presidential appointees, the Labor Board's actions often reflect the political interests of the Administration. However, unlike its predecessors, the "Bush Board" decisions do not represent the typical political pendulum swing to the right or left. Instead, this Labor Board has sought to override the law's intent to protect workers in favor of absolving employers of legal responsibility to respect workers' inalienable freedoms of association and free speech."
- by Kimberly Freeman
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09/25/06

U.S. gets ‘Sovietized’
"Prisoners taken in the dead of night to Lubyanka were systematically beaten for days with rubber hoses and clubs. There were special cold rooms where prisoners could be frozen to near death. Sleep deprivation was a favourite and most effective Cheka technique. So was near-drowning in water fouled with urine and feces."
- by ERIC MARGOLIS
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New Angles Emerge in Anthrax Attacks of 2001
"The fifth anniversary of the anthrax attack is approaching, and little is known about who was responsible. But the FBI is convinced that the anthrax wasn't weapons-grade level, and authorities have widened their investigation, according to a report in The Washington Post."
- by David Kestenbaum
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Report: Iraq War a Breeding Ground for Terrorism
" A recent National Intelligence Estimate -- a report compiled by several American intelligence agencies -- warns that the continued U.S.-led occupation of Iraq is increasing the threat of global terrorism by spurring radical Islam. NPR senior Washington, D.C., editor Ron Elving talks with Madeleine Brand and Mike Pesca about what the report could mean for the president and his political opponents."
- by Ron Elving
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09/24/06

Carlyle poised to bid for Libyan oil giant, says son of Gaddafi
"The Washington DC-based Carlyle has been known in the past for its links to prominent right-wing US politicians. These include the former US secretary of state James Baker and the former US defense secretary Frank Carlucci, as well as the former British prime minister John Major. None of the men retains positions with the company."
- by David Owen and Sarah Wachter
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9/11 Lecture to Bring BBC to Madison?
"Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan society of students, faculty and experts dedicated to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths about 9/11, includes physicists, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, pilots, and aeronautical engineers among its members."
- by Reprehensor
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09/21/06

Chavez Calls Bush 'Devil,' Assails U.S. Policies
"And it smells of sulfur still today," Chavez said. "Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum -- the president of the United States, the gentleman whom I refer to as 'the devil' -- came here, talking as if he owned the world."
"Speaking through an interpreter, Chavez called on nations to rise up against what he called America's hegemony. He even had some recommended reading for his colleagues: Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. "It's an excellent book to help us understand what's been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, " Chavez said, "and what's happening now.""
- by Michele Kelemen
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Six Months Later, Dubai Firm Still Owns U.S. Ports
" Six months ago, Dubai Ports World reached an agreement with Congress to sell its North American operations to a U.S.-based firm within four to six months. Six months later, the company still owns those ports, but says it will sell soon. Democrats say they will make it a campaign issue if a sale isn¿t completed before the November elections."
- by Adam Davidson
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09/19/06

Does the United States lead the world in prison population?
"Great, you're thinking. The only countries that might put away more of their own people than we do are both notorious authoritarian states. No question: considering we're supposed to be the land of the free, we've got a huge number of folks locked up. Most countries, including almost all our industrialized peers, have imprisonment rates under 200. India, hardly an orderly utopia, has a rate of just 29. What gives? You can try to explain our prison boom by pointing to political gambits like mandatory sentencing laws and the war on drugs, but that's dodging the question: Is crime here really that much worse than everywhere else?"
- by CECIL ADAMS
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Torture by proxy - How immigration threw a traveler to the wolves
"Our intelligence agencies have a name for this torture-by-proxy. They call it "extraordinary rendition." As one intelligence official explained: "We don't kick the s -- out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the s -- out of them." This secret program for torturing suspects has been authorized, if that is the right word for it, by a secret presidential finding. Where the president gets the authority to have anyone tortured has never been explained. It is time someone asked. What our government did to Maher Arar is worse than anything the British did to our Colonial forefathers. It was worse than anything J. Edgar Hoover did to alleged Communists, civil rights workers and anti-war activists during his long program of dirty tricks. According to the Bush administration, we are at "war" with al Qaeda. If so, then delivering a suspect to torturers is a war crime and should be prosecuted as such. But first, we need to know who was responsible, and that will not be easy -- unless there is a firestorm of protest. Isn't it time to condemn torture by proxy and demand prosecution of the persons responsible? Isn't it time to question how these watch lists are assembled and used, before more of us fall victim to secret detentions and brutal interrogations based on guilt by computerized associations?
Christopher Pyle teaches constitutional law and civil liberties at Mount Holyoke College. "
- by Christopher H. Pyle
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Western Voters Consider Property Rights Changes
"But many are familiar with the Supreme Court's eminent domain decision last year. In that case, Kelo v. New London, justices ruled that it's legal for local governments to condemn someone's property and then transfer it to someone else for economic development -- say, a shopping mall or a high-end resort."
- by Jeff Brady
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09/15/06

Rep. Ney Agrees to Plead Guilty
"Rep. Robert Ney (R-Ohio) agreed today to plead guilty to conspiring to commit multiple official acts for lobbyists in exchange for campaign contributions, meals and luxury travel, sports tickets and gambling chips. He became the first elected official to face charges in the ongoing influence-peddling investigation of former lobbying powerhouse Jack Abramoff."
- by James V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt
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My anthrax survivor's story
"Every day I wonder: Who sent the letter? There have been some leads. But the case remains unsolved."
- by Casey Chamberlain
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Karl Rove Gets No Apology From Me
"We remember the facts of the case. Plame’s identity was first blown in a column by Bob Novak on July 14, 2003 — eight days after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, had posted an op-ed piece in the New York Times challenging President Bush’s State of the Union assertion that Saddam Hussein had been shopping for yellowcake uranium in Niger. He’d been sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate those claims, wrote Wilson, and came back and told the White House the story was phony. In other words, Bush was lying. In response, Novak implied — citing two administration sources — that an out-of-work Wilson had been sent to Africa only because his wife worked at the CIA, and was therefore not to be believed."
- by billpress.com
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09/13/06

The two organizations that run the United States
"Barry Goldwater states in his book, "With No Apologies", on page 231:"Does it not seem strange to you that these men just happened to be CFR and just happened to be on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, that absolutely controls the money and interest rates of this great country without benefit of Congress? A privately owned organization, the Federal Reserve, which has absolutely nothing to do with the United States of America!"
The members of the CFR dominate almost every aspect of American life, yet most Americans have never even heard of the Council on Foreign Relations. One reason for this is probably because there are over 170 journalists, correspondents, and communications executives who are members of the CFR, and who do not write about the organization. Also, it is an express condition of membership that no one is to disclose what goes on at CFR meetings."
- by Melvin Sickler
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09/12/06

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
"The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism."
- by Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell
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Anomalies of the September 11th Attack
"Accepting the official story of the 9/11/01 attack requires one to accept a long series of anomalies -- extremely improbable events, amazing coincidences, and contradictions. This page lists many such anomalies. The Top Anomalies page focuses on the more salient ones."
- by 911research.wtc7.net
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09/06/06

Olbermann’s Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
"Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle: The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word—“media”—the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda. That linkage is more than just indefensible, It is un-American. Mr. Bush and his colleagues have led us before to such waters. We will not drink again."
- by Jamie Holly
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How U.S. workers got left behind
"WHILE ACCOMPLISHING little else in this election year, the House of Representatives voted in June, for the eighth consecutive year, to award all members of Congress raises in their annual salaries to a hefty $168,500. Washington’s policymakers have not, however, managed to muster a similar bipartisan resolve to raise the federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, unchanged since 1997, leaving a family of three $6,000 below the federal poverty line--now at its lowest proportion of the median annual wage since the years following the Second World War. "
- by By Sharon Smith
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In the belly of the beast of Bentonville
"One by one, each of us was called into the office and grilled. Expressing a truly unique form of motivational speaking, the overnight manager used an interesting analogy when stressing to me the importance of accepting consequences. “Say I was to lose my temper and punch you in the face,” he asked casually, “there would be repercussions for such behavior, wouldn’t there?” He then handed me a pink slip for “insubordination.”"
- by JOSH GRYNIEWICZ
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Karr cleared in JonBenet Ramsey case
"DNA of suspect in murder no match, but he faces child porn charges in Calif."
- by The Associated Press
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08/16/06

Suspect Arrested in JonBenet Ramsey Murder
"In a statement Wednesday, John Ramsey said: "Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case and had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder."
- by AS Press & fox News
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08/15/06

Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11
"Let’s address the real issues here. Why is it important that we not let the so-called conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 be drowned out? After spending the better part of the last five years treating these theories with utmost skepticism, I have devoted serious time to actually studying them in recent months, and have also carefully watched several videos that are available on the subject. I have come to believe that significant parts of the 9/11 theories are true, and that therefore significant parts of the “official story” put out by the U.S. government and the 9/11 Commission are false. I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. The items below highlight the major questions surrounding 9/11 but do not constitute a detailed recounting of the evidence available."
- by Bill Christison
" Bill Christison is a former senior official of the CIA. He was a National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis before his retirement in 1979. Since then he has written numerous articles on U.S. foreign policies. He can be reached at: kathy.bill@christison-santafe.com"
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RFID-chipped passports cross the pond
"State Department officials claim that a layer of metallic anti-skimming material in the front cover and spine of the book can prevent information from being read from a distance, provided that the book is fully closed. The document will also employ a cryptographic technique called Basic Access Control, which means the RFID chip unveils its contents only after a reader successfully authenticates itself as being authorized to receive that information."
- by Anne Broache
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08/12/06

Crooked from top to bottom
"What Watergate showed us about the political system"

"By the early 1970s, Felt headed the FBI’s inspection division, “more popularly known as the ‘goon squad,’ the unit of agents who traveled the country seeing to it that local agents followed Hoover’s often twisted and illegal directives,” author David Price wrote on the CounterPunch Web site. As a zealous defender of Hoover in Washington’s behind-the-scenes power struggles, Felt came into conflict with the Nixon administration--which had its own ideas about how to use the repressive apparatus of the state. When Hoover died in 1972--a month before the Watergate break-in--Nixon bypassed Felt, the heir apparent, and appointed a loyalist, L. Patrick Gray III, to be the new director. Felt used his relationship with Bob Woodward to retaliate."
- by SW Online
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08/10/06

CIA contractor goes on trial over Afghan abuses
"Passaro beat Abdul Wali for "two solid nights", leading him to plead with prison guards to shoot him to end his suffering, prosecutor Michael Sullivan said in an opening statement. Wali died of his injuries."
- by Matthew Bigg
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How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine
"One comment stated that you can not hack the Diebold machine online. The supervisor of elections in Tallahassee,FL as a test, had a computer expert try to hack the voting machines online with a laptop from a hotel room. Of course he was successful. The reaction from the Republican Florida Secretary fo State was "Stop testing these machines!"
- by Marty Kaplan
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08/09/06

Conspiracy Theories Find a Home on the Internet
“Most watched independent video since its been put on the internet last year.”
"The documentary Loose Change is an Internet sensation that explores many of these theories. Renee Montagne talks to Dylan Avery, director and narrator of Loose Change. She also talks to historian Timothy Naftali to understand what's behind the fascination with conspiracy theories."
- by Renee Montagne NPR
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08/07/06

AOL 's $658 Million Privacy Breach?
"In a possible massive violation of federal privacy law, America Online released the logs of nearly 20 million web searches documenting three months of activity by 650,000 AOL users."
- by Ryan Singel and Kevin Poulsen
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India Widens Ban on Coke and Pepsi
"Pesticide residue was 24 times above limits set by the Bureau of Indian Standards in 57 samples tested, the report said. In one bottle of Coca-Cola bought in Calcutta, the level of the carcinogenic pesticide Lindane exceeded the bureau’s standards by 140 times."
- by AMELIA GENTLEMAN International Herald Tribune
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We may need to re-think what we are really drinking, and who or what type of company we are giving our hard earned money to! I use to really enjoy a nice cold coke but after reading these articles I have switched to Pepsi, but now after reading the thing about pesticides I will now have to get my sugar boost from Mountain Dew!

See the bellow sites for some desterbing news related to Coke:
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08/01/06

Hyper-Rich Getting Hyper-Richer
"Some fun facts:

* The Iraq war has cost about $200 billion. By 2010, Bush's tax cuts that disproportionately favor the rich will have cost us $2 trillion. We could have ten Iraq wars for that price!

* The top one percent elite alone will get a half-trillion dollars in Bush tax cuts - enough for two Iraq wars and a second Korean war!

* The Department of Homeland Defense budget for the last three years totaled $93.2 billion - a mere 5% of the Bush tax cuts that disproportionately favor the wealthy."
- by Lee Waggoner
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07/30/06

Suspect ticketed before Jewish center shootings
"Police: Pregnant woman was shot in arm protecting her abdomen"
- by CNN
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Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects
"The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department."
- by JAMES GLANZ
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07/28/06

"Unborn children of the region [are] being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA."
Very sad pictures, it really makes a person stop and have to wonder about what we are really doing, and the consequences from it all? Now I understand better what our troops call Gulf War Syndrome.

"Aerosol DU (Depleted Uranium) exposures to soldiers on the battlefield could be significant with potential radiological and toxicological effects. [...] Under combat conditions, the most exposed individuals are probably ground troops that re-enter a battlefield following the exchange of armour-piercing munitions. [...] We are simply highlighting the potential for levels of DU exposure to military personnel during combat that would be unacceptable during peacetime operations. [...DU is..]... a low level alpha radiation emitter which is linked to cancer when exposures are internal, [and] chemical toxicity causing kidney damage. [...] Short term effects of high doses can result in death, while long term effects of low doses have been linked to cancer. [...] Our conclusion regarding the health and environmental acceptability of DU penetrators assume both controlled use and the presence of excellent health physics management practices. Combat conditions will lead to the uncontrolled release of DU. [...] The conditions of the battlefield, and the long term health risks to natives and combat veterans may become issues in the acceptability of the continued use of DU kinetic penetrators for military applications."
- by Ross B. Mirkarimi
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Israelis Rain Down Deadly DU On Lebanese Civilians
"Esteemed expert and whistleblower highlights US sale of GBU 28 weapons"
- by Paul Joseph Watson
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Wal-Mart Decides to Pull Out of Germany
"FRANKFURT, July 28 — Wal-Mart Stores, admitting defeat in Germany’s giant, cutthroat retail market, said today that it would sell its 85 stores here to a German retailer, the Metro Group, and incur a loss of $1 billion."
- by MARK LANDLER
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See my short story regarding Wal-Mart:
Short Story

IBM Office Accused of Hacking Law Office
"The complaint alleges that more than 42,000 attempts were made to enter the firm's system and they were traced to IBM's Durham office."
- by Ari Shapiro
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Specter Proposes Bill to Challenge President
"Some members of Congress are upset at President Bush's practice of signing bills into law, while attaching statements explaining why he may choose not enforce the law. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) is proposing a bill that would give either the House or the Senate standing to go to court to challenge those "signing statements."
- by Ari Shapiro
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Cell Phone Picture Called Obstruction Of Justice
"Man Arrested For Shooting Photo Of Police Activity - "They threatened to charge me with conspiracy, impeding an investigation, obstruction of a investigation. … They said, 'You were impeding this investigation.' (I asked,) "By doing what?' (The officer said,) 'By taking a picture of the police officers with a camera phone,'" Cruz said."
- by NBC10
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Mossad - The Israeli Connection To 911
"ISRAELIS FOREWARNED - On September 12, 2001, the Internet edition of The Jerusalem Post reported, "The Israeli foreign ministry has collected the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack." Yet only one Israeli was killed at the WTC and two were reportedly killed on the "hijacked" aircraft. Although a total of three Israeli lives were reportedly lost on 9/11, speechwriters for President George W. Bush grossly inflated the number of Israeli dead to 130 in the president's address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001. The fact that only one Israeli died at the WTC, while 4,000 Israelis were thought to have been at the scene of the attacks on 9/11 naturally led to a widespread rumor, blamed on Arabic sources, that Israelis had been forewarned to stay away that day."
- by Christopher Bollyn
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Lebanon attack a joint Israeli-U.S. military operation: Dead UN soldiers had atrocoities info
"The result of U.S. intelligence support for Israel is directly linked to the targeting of particular locations, including the Israeli launch of 24 high-explosive missiles on a block of ten buildings in south Beirut. The entire block was leveled in the attack. The deliberate Israeli attack on a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) outpost in southern Lebanon was the result of that post gaining information of Israeli atrocities committed against the civilian Lebanese population. The Israeli attack, called deliberate by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, killed blue helmet peacekeepers from China, Finland, Canada, and Austria. Israeli continued to attack the UN post even as rescuers attempted to locate survivors in the rubble of the building. The deliberate 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, an NSA spy ship monitoring communications during the Arab-Israeli Six Day War, was the result of the Liberty intercepting Israeli communications on the massacre by Israeli forces of surrendering Egyptian prisoners of war in Sinai. Israeli planes continued to attack the ship, even after it raised a large American flag. U.S. Navy and NSA survivors in the water were also strafed by Israeli aircraft."
- by Marc Parent mparent7777
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07/27/06

Russian arms arrive in Venezuela
"Venezuela's military is undergoing a profound transformation, with a major recruitment drive and new technology."
- by Greg Morsbach
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Venezuela to Buy 50 Russian Mig-29 Fighters
"Venezuelan contracts are also being drawn up for Russian Mi-17 heavy-lift helicopters as well as radar systems from China, according to U.S. intelligence reports."
- by MosNews
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Pending National Labor Relations Board rulings could undermine workers’ choice to organize U.S. workplaces
"As a body comprised of Presidential appointees, the Labor Board's actions often reflect the political interests of the Administration. However, unlike its predecessors, the "Bush Board" decisions do not represent the typical political pendulum swing to the right or left. Instead, this Labor Board has sought to override the law's intent to protect workers in favor of absolving employers of legal responsibility to respect workers' inalienable freedoms of association and free speech."
- by Kimberly Freeman
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07/23/06

Arrested Bush Dissenters Eye Courts
"In Cedar Rapids, McCabe and Nelson are suing three unnamed Secret Service agents, the Iowa State Patrol and two county sheriff deputies who took part in their arrest. Nelson and McCabe, who now lives in Memphis, Tenn., accuse law enforcement of violating their right to free speech, assembly and equal protection."
- by TODD DVORAK
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