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dmcowen674

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5-27-2006 White House invokes privilege in spy cases

The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.

In papers filed late Friday, Justice Department lawyers said it would be impossible to defend the legality of the spying program without disclosing classified information that could be of value to suspected terrorists.

Shayana Kadidal, an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, called the administration's motion "undemocratic."

"The Bush administration is trying to crush a very strong case against domestic spying without any evidence or argument," Kadidal said in a written statement. "Can the president tell the courts which cases they can rule on? If so, the courts will never be able to hold the president accountable for breaking the law."

Justice Department attorneys said in their legal brief that the legality of the president's actions could only be properly judged by understanding "the specific threat facing the nation and the particular actions taken by the president to meet that threat."

"That understanding is not possible without revealing to the very adversaries we are trying to defeat what we know about them and how we are proceeding to stop them," they wrote.

 

dmcowen674

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6-26-2006 Bush ignores laws he inks, vexing Congress

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain thought he had a deal when President Bush, faced with a veto-proof margin in Congress, agreed to sign a bill banning the torture of detainees. Not quite. While Bush signed the new law, he also quietly approved another document: a signing statement reserving his right to ignore the law. McCain was furious, and so were other lawmakers.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is opening hearings this week into what has become the White House's favorite tool for overriding Congress in the name of wartime national security.

"It's a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution," the committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm interested to hear from the administration just what research they've done to lead them to the conclusion that they can cherry-pick."

Specter and his allies maintain that Bush, in practical terms, is doing an end-run around the veto process in the name of national security. In the sixth year of his presidency, Bush has yet to issue a single veto.

Rather than give Congress the opportunity to override a veto with a two-thirds majority in each house, he has issued hundreds of signing statements invoking his right to interpret the law on everything from whistleblower protections to how Congress oversees the USA Patriot Act.

"It means that the administration does not feel bound to enforce many new laws which Congress has passed," said David Golove, a law professor at New York University who specializes in executive power issues. "This raises profound rule of law concerns. Do we have a functioning code of federal laws?"
 

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7-22-2006 Arrested Bush dissenters file lawsuits

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by President Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration's policies.

Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating "No More War." What could be more American, they thought, than mixing a little dissent with the bunting and buzz of a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by the president?

Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.

Authorities say they were arrested because they refused to obey reasonable security restrictions, but the women disagree: "Because I had a dissenting opinion, they did what they needed to do to get me out of the way," said Nelson, who teaches history and government at one of this city's middle schools.

"I tell my students all the time about how people came to this country for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, that those rights and others are sacred. And all along I've been thinking to myself, 'not at least during this administration.'"

Their experience is hardly unique.

In the months before the 2004 election, dozens of people across the nation were banished from or arrested at Bush political rallies, some for heckling the president, others simply for holding signs or wearing clothing that expressed opposition to the war and administration policies.

Similar things have happened at official, taxpayer-funded, presidential visits, before and after the election. Some targeted by security have been escorted from events, while others have been arrested and charged with misdemeanors that were later dropped by local prosecutors.

Now, in federal courthouses from Charleston, W.Va., to Denver, federal officials and state and local authorities are being forced to defend themselves against lawsuits challenging the arrests and security policies.

While the circumstances differ, the cases share the same fundamental themes. Generally, they accuse federal officials of developing security measures to identify, segregate, deny entry or expel dissenters.

Jeff Rank and his wife, Nicole, filed a lawsuit after being handcuffed and booted from a July 4, 2004, appearance by the president at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston. The Ranks, who now live in Corpus Christi, Texas, had free tickets to see the president speak, but contend they were arrested and charged with trespassing for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts.

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.

The two women say they were political novices, inexperienced at protest and unprepared for what happened on Sept. 3, 2004.

Soon after arriving at Noelridge Park, a sprawling urban playground dotted with softball diamonds and a public pool, McCabe and Nelson were approached by Secret Service agents in polo shirts and Bermuda shorts.

They were told that the Republicans had rented the park and they would have to move because the sidewalk was now considered private property.

McCabe and Nelson say they complied, but moments later were again told to move, this time across the street. After being told to move a third time, Nelson asked why she was being singled out while so many others nearby, including those holding buckets for campaign donations, were ignored. In response, she says, they were arrested.

Republican defenders say stricter policies are a response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and a small price for ensuring the safety of a world leader in an era of heightened suspicion and uncertainty.

 

dmcowen674

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I don't even have words for this.

:(

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8-6-2006 Half of U.S. still believes Iraq had WMD

Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"?

Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?

Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why:

a drumbeat of voices from talk radio

die-hard bloggers

the Oval Office

a surprise headline here or there

rallying around a partisan flag

and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq

"For some it almost becomes independent of reality and becomes very partisan." The WMD believers are heavily Republican, polls show.

People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.

The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq.

Despite this, a Harris Poll released July 21 found that a full 50 percent of U.S. respondents ? up from 36 percent last year ? said they believe Iraq did have the forbidden arms when U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, an attack whose stated purpose was elimination of supposed WMD. Other polls also have found an enduring American faith in the WMD story.

"I'm flabbergasted," said Michael Massing, a media critic whose writings dissected the largely unquestioning U.S. news reporting on the Bush administration's shaky WMD claims in 2002-03.

"This finding just has to cause despair among those of us who hope for an informed public able to draw reasonable conclusions based on evidence," Massing said.

Charles Duelfer, the lead U.S. inspector who announced the negative WMD findings two years ago, has watched uncertainly as TV sound bites, bloggers and politicians try to chip away at "the best factual account," his group's densely detailed, 1,000-page final report.

"It is easy to see what is accepted as truth rapidly morph from one representation to another," he said in an e-mail. "It would be a shame if one effect of the power of the Internet was to undermine any commonly agreed set of facts."

The creative "morphing" goes on.

As Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas battled in Lebanon on July 21, a Fox News segment suggested, with no evidence, yet another destination for the supposed doomsday arms.

"ARE SADDAM HUSSEIN'S WMDS NOW IN HEZBOLLAH'S HANDS?" asked the headline, lingering for long minutes on TV screens in a million American homes.
 

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52% of Americans are then too stoooopid to breath, but the 2004 election proved that.

Also keep in mind that Powell has appologized for misleading the American public by saying there were WMD's in Iraq.

The stoooooooooooopidity of these people really does boggle the mind.
 

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From the above link:

"As recently as May 27, Bush told West Point graduates, "When the
United Nations Security Council gave him one final chance to disclose and disarm, or face serious consequences, he refused to take that final opportunity."

"Which isn't true," observed Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a scholar of presidential rhetoric at the University of Pennsylvania. But "it doesn't surprise me when presidents reconstruct reality to make their policies defensible." This president may even have convinced himself it's true, she said."

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When will the US wake up from Lala land and impeach the Bush gang? There is a professor of Law that has collected over 750 impeachable offenses by the Bush administration, and the Democratic party is well aware of them. Talk of political expediency for not impeaching so is no excuse. The US Republic is at stake - the world knows this and is watching. Tbh, it probably is too late: the rot goes too deep into the establishment.

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"Adding insult to injury, the redistribution of our dwindling wealth under Bush widens the gap between the "wealth aristocracy" and the rest of us.

The American consumer economy is operating on two tiers. On top are the relative handful of CEOs and investment people, immune from assault. The Republicans' gratuitous tax cuts on investment income have significantly lowered the tax burden on the richest Americans -- earning more than $10 million -- by an average of about $500,000. Mr. Bush continues to press Congress to make permanent cuts for the privileged while the national deficit goes through the roof.

The rest of us are in a squeeze as inflation is driven by energy costs, medical care, and prescription drugs. Home-foreclosure rates are growing; they jumped an average 13 percent a month nationally at the end of 2005, with highs of 30 percent in Massachusetts, 61 percent in Texas, 70 percent in Arkansas, 145 percent in New Mexico, and 210 percent in West Virginia.

As for America's standing in the world, the fog of the endless Iraq war has cost us friends that it took two world wars to win. Americans who felt pride in our triumphs see the leverage and reputation of this nation squandered.

We are reduced from a beacon of hope to a saber-rattling thug. The Bush foreign policy is nonexistent. The radical right exploits the formless "war on terror" -- which can't be won -- to retain power by keeping us afraid."

etc.

What happens when the Dream dies?

 

dmcowen674

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No surprise here again:

8-9-2006 Bush gives four friends $3.4 Billion in FEMA Disaster Contracts

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday awarded temporary housing contracts worth up to $1.5 billion for future hurricane disasters, including four to companies that previously received no-bid contracts for Katrina work.

The value of the four big contracts was raised from $400,000 to $2 billion last winter, and then raised again to $3.4 billion to allow completion of the work. Those four companies also were deemed among the most suitable for future disaster work

Four of the six contracts awarded will go to Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Bechtel National, CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Enterprises Inc., which received similar contracts but without competition after Hurricane Katrina last fall.

The Shaw Group's lobbyist, Joe Allbaugh, is a former FEMA director and is a friend of President Bush, while Bechtel CEO Riley Bechtel served on Bush's Export Council from 2003-2004, and CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. have done extensive previous work for the government.

The companies have denied that connections played a factor.
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Yeah right :roll:
 

wetech

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No surprise here again:

8-9-2006 Bush gives four friends $3.4 Billion in FEMA Disaster Contracts

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday awarded temporary housing contracts worth up to $1.5 billion for future hurricane disasters, including four to companies that previously received no-bid contracts for Katrina work.

The value of the four big contracts was raised from $400,000 to $2 billion last winter, and then raised again to $3.4 billion to allow completion of the work. Those four companies also were deemed among the most suitable for future disaster work

Four of the six contracts awarded will go to Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Bechtel National, CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Enterprises Inc., which received similar contracts but without competition after Hurricane Katrina last fall.

The Shaw Group's lobbyist, Joe Allbaugh, is a former FEMA director and is a friend of President Bush, while Bechtel CEO Riley Bechtel served on Bush's Export Council from 2003-2004, and CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. have done extensive previous work for the government.

The companies have denied that connections played a factor.
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Yeah right :roll:



you love quoting just the part of the article that serves your purpose. You did it on your thread claiming that the government is going to cut medicare payments by 5% and "republicans thrilled" about it.

You didn't even quote the article correctly this time. see above in bold.

The value of the four big contracts was raised from $400 million to $2 billion last winter...

here's some more:
All six contracts were awarded following a competitive bidding process.The six were chosen as winners out of 13 proposals based on the quality of plans, price and resource capacity, the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency said.

[...]

FEMA has come under criticism for awarding no-bid contracts initially worth a total of $400 million for Hurricane Katrina work to Shaw, Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Fluor, prompting a promise from Paulison last fall to rebid them.

Since then, FEMA has competitively awarded portions of the no-bid contracts to small and minority-owned firms for trailer maintenance. But it has also extended contracts for Shaw, Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Fluor to allow them to finish separate work on Katrina.

[...]

"These large contracts are for our immediate emergency response," said Deidre Lee, FEMA's deputy director of operations and chief acquisitions officer. "We would use the six for an immediate response, and then transition the work to regional contracts."



 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: wetech
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
No surprise here again:

8-9-2006 Bush gives four friends $3.4 Billion in FEMA Disaster Contracts

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Wednesday awarded temporary housing contracts worth up to $1.5 billion for future hurricane disasters, including four to companies that previously received no-bid contracts for Katrina work.

The value of the four big contracts was raised from $400,000 to $2 billion last winter, and then raised again to $3.4 billion to allow completion of the work. Those four companies also were deemed among the most suitable for future disaster work

Four of the six contracts awarded will go to Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Bechtel National, CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Enterprises Inc., which received similar contracts but without competition after Hurricane Katrina last fall.

The Shaw Group's lobbyist, Joe Allbaugh, is a former FEMA director and is a friend of President Bush, while Bechtel CEO Riley Bechtel served on Bush's Export Council from 2003-2004, and CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. have done extensive previous work for the government.

The companies have denied that connections played a factor.
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Yeah right :roll:



you love quoting just the part of the article that serves your purpose. You did it on your thread claiming that the government is going to cut medicare payments by 5% and "republicans thrilled" about it.

You didn't even quote the article correctly this time. see above in bold.

The value of the four big contracts was raised from $400 million to $2 billion last winter...

here's some more:
All six contracts were awarded following a competitive bidding process.The six were chosen as winners out of 13 proposals based on the quality of plans, price and resource capacity, the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency said.

[...]

FEMA has come under criticism for awarding no-bid contracts initially worth a total of $400 million for Hurricane Katrina work to Shaw, Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Fluor, prompting a promise from Paulison last fall to rebid them.

Since then, FEMA has competitively awarded portions of the no-bid contracts to small and minority-owned firms for trailer maintenance. But it has also extended contracts for Shaw, Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Fluor to allow them to finish separate work on Katrina.

[...]

"These large contracts are for our immediate emergency response," said Deidre Lee, FEMA's deputy director of operations and chief acquisitions officer. "We would use the six for an immediate response, and then transition the work to regional contracts."

Typical apologies for a Bush Apologist. So how much are you getting paid?
 

wetech

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Typical response from you. You're still ignoring the parts of the article that don't suit your agenda, and respond with a personal attack. Everyone who disagrees with you is immediately in the pocket of either big business or the republican party, right?

Again, I'll say that you're not even quoting the articles right. In your topic header, you're saying the contracts were awarded to "four friends", but only two of the companies have any sort of tie to Bush. The other two have simply done previous work for the government. That makes them "friends" as well?
 

dmcowen674

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Bush Fear & Terrer speeach #8146

8-14-2006 3:30 pm

Global War on Terrer

Must transform U.S. forces to combat multiple terrer threats

Hezbollah Hezbollah Hezbollah

Suffering from their state within a state

Iran Nuclear

Syria Syria Syria

Hezbollah and it's foreign sponsors

Advance of Liberty

Radical Extremism

September 11 2001

World Trade Center

Libert Liberty Liberty

 

Zorba

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Watching the Q&A right now. Man can this guy say anything that isn't some BS cliche? WTF is the "Freedom agenda" give me a f-ing break.
 

Pens1566

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
9-15-06 11am - Another Fear & Terror speeach just 4 days after 9-11, must be Election season.

I can't get to a TV right now, anyone watching our hero???

Just more of his greatest hits. Oh, and talking about the law he wants congress to pass to get around that pesky unconstitutional tribunals thing. You know, the one that isn't an amendment, but will make it ok somehow.
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Pens1566
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
9-15-06 11am - Another Fear & Terror speeach just 4 days after 9-11, must be Election season.

I can't get to a TV right now, anyone watching our hero???

Just more of his greatest hits. Oh, and talking about the law he wants congress to pass to get around that pesky unconstitutional tribunals thing. You know, the one that isn't an amendment, but will make it ok somehow.


zendari: Things were bad well before Bush came into office, and since then have gotten better.

Thanks, I didn't think it was anything new.

Oh, I noticed you have the Zen quote too, what happened to the Rip kind of fella???
 

Zorba

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Pens1566
Banned and returned as someone else is my guess.

Probably so and laying low until just before the Elections.


I personally think that ProfJohn is zendari reincarnate, except he doesn't use as many one line BS responses.
 

Pens1566

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Originally posted by: Zorba
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Pens1566
Banned and returned as someone else is my guess.

Probably so and laying low until just before the Elections.


I personally think that ProfJohn is zendari reincarnate, except he doesn't use as many one line BS responses.

The tactic of ignoring points that go against his agenda does seem oddly familiar.
 

dmcowen674

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He was here at my job today.

I was wondering why guys that never wear suits were all dressed up.

I didn't pay the $1,000 to be in the banquet room itself.

10-4-2006 Colorado campaign swing for Bush

President Bush has left Colorado, after a short campaign stop to raise money for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez.

Air Force One landed at Buckley Air Force Base shortly after noon.

The president was greeted by Mary Lester, a local volunteer leader with the Senior and Retired Volunteer Program, which works in the Denver Public Schools. He gave her a pin, symbolizing the President's Volunteer Service Award, and commended her for her contribution to the community.

"His call to action had given me the interest in volunteering," Lester said. "He said he hoped it would promote other people to volunteer."

The president's 17-vehicle motorcade left the airport at 12:22 p.m. to head to Englewood.

The fundraiser for Beauprez was at the Inverness Hotel and Conference Center. Participants paid $1,000 each to attend. The president spent about 30 minutes taking photos with attendees.

Text of President Bush's remarks at Inverness