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BUSH AUTHORIZED THE CIA LEAK
White House official admits Bush authorized Iraq leak - The allegation that President Bush authorized the dissemination of secret intelligence as part of an effort to buttress his case for war with Iraq introduces a new dimension to the long-running CIA leak investigation, while posing troubling new political problems for the administration.... Until now, the investigation had been about aides to Bush and their alleged efforts to attack the credibility of a vocal administration critic, including by possibly leaking classified information. Bush cast himself as a disinterested observer, eager to resolve the case and hold those responsible accountable.... But court papers filed late Wednesday night by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, in the perjury case of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, implicate Bush as knowing about efforts to disseminate sensitive information -- and also as orchestrating them.
Ranking Democrat on House Intelligence Committee calls Bush 'leaker-in-chief' - Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, released the following statement upon learning of former Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff "Scooter" Libby's grand jury testimony alleging President Bush authorized the declassification and disclosure of portions of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq.
Dems call for Bush to 'come clean,' cite 8 denials - "President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in a brief statement. "It's time for the President to come clean about his involvement in the leak case."... The statement was accompanied by eight of the numerous instances in which Bush or his spokesman, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, denied the President had knowledge of the leak
Experts: What Bush Did Would Be Legal but Unusual - Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.
VIDEO Flashback: Leaker-In-Chief Condemns Leaks - A court filing by Patrick Fitzgerald yesterday revealed that, in the summer of 2003, President Bush personally authorized Scooter Libby to leak classified information to New York Times reporter Judy Miller as part of an effort to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson.... A few months later, President Bush publicly and repeatedly condemned the leaking of classified information.
Bush OKs Leak of Classified Info, National Review Blames Press - Andrew McCarthy of the National Review blasts media coverage of todays news that President Bush authorized Scooter Libby to leak classified information by saying, "there has been no accusation none that the President or anyone else was willing to reveal, much less actually revealed, classified information. It is irresponsible to say such a thing based on the current record." THIS OF COURSE IS FALSE.
SIGN PETETION To Impeach Bush - The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors..... NOTE: You can use a throw-away email adress if you want to. Just make up a free name at dodgeit.com.
WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR
German inquiry to probe Iraq war, CIA links - Germany's parliament gave the green light on Friday for a parliamentary inquiry into whether German spies in Baghdad helped the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 at a time when the government was publicly opposed to the war.
More than 70 killed in Baghdad mosque attack - Three suicide bombers on Friday struck a Baghdad mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, killing at least 74 people, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.... Another 136 people were wounded, authorities said.
Afghan drugs barons flaunt their wealth and power - Since the western-led war on drugs started four years ago only two major smugglers have been arrested - Haji Baz Muhammad, who was extradited to the US last October, and Bashir Noorzai, who was arrested in New York six months earlier. But the remainder are apparently untouchable.... "Many smugglers don't even bother hiding their wealth," said a British diplomat in Kabul "It's their way of saying 'screw you' to authority."
U.S. Officials Are Mulling Iran Strikes, Experts Say - Key players in the Bush administration think a military confrontation with Iran is unavoidable, leading to stepped up military planning for such a prospect, according to several experts and recently departed senior government officials.
PHEW
Al Gore Is A ROCKSTAR In Front Of Corporate Execs - Al Gore brought corporate executives and environmentally minded investors roaring to their feet Thursday with multimedia images of an overheating planet and a call for Americans to reclaim their "moral authority" by tackling global warming.
Boycot Over: Danish back on Saudi shelves - Arla products were back on the shelves of Saudi supermarkets after an Islamic group called for end to the boycott of the Danish dairy producer... Soliman Albuthi, spokesman for the International Committee for the Support of the Prophet, which is based in Washington, said: "We must differentiate between those who insulted us and those who stood by us."
DIRTY REPUBLICAN BASTARDS
FOURTH Government Officual arrested for possession of child porn - Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agencys Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.
Local Teacher's Run-In With Homeland Security Creates Insecurities - Leander Pickett, a teacher's assistant at Englewood Elementary, said he was manhandled and handcuffed by two plain clothed Homeland Security officers in front of the school Tuesday for no reason at all.... Pickett was directing bus traffic, he said, when he was handcuffed and roughed up and humiliated by the very people that were supposed to protect him.
DeLay Supports Crash Dem Event - (IMPORTANT NOTE: Link has a number sign in it - which MySpace doesn't support. Enter it after "html" and before "a7816") Tom DeLay's campaign sent out an email asking supporters to disrupt Nick Lampson's press conference this morning. At that event, a 69 year old woman says she was assaulted by one of the DeLay thugs who showed up to disrupt the event. The woman, Marsha Rovai, of Richmond has asked the Lampson campaign to help see if any of the televisions stations caught this incident on tape so she can consider filing an assault charge. Several of the women at the event complained that they were pushed and shoved by male DeLay supporters. (Perhaps those women were know-it-alls.)
White House official admits Bush authorized Iraq leak - The allegation that President Bush authorized the dissemination of secret intelligence as part of an effort to buttress his case for war with Iraq introduces a new dimension to the long-running CIA leak investigation, while posing troubling new political problems for the administration.... Until now, the investigation had been about aides to Bush and their alleged efforts to attack the credibility of a vocal administration critic, including by possibly leaking classified information. Bush cast himself as a disinterested observer, eager to resolve the case and hold those responsible accountable.... But court papers filed late Wednesday night by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, in the perjury case of former White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, implicate Bush as knowing about efforts to disseminate sensitive information -- and also as orchestrating them.
Ranking Democrat on House Intelligence Committee calls Bush 'leaker-in-chief' - Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, released the following statement upon learning of former Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff "Scooter" Libby's grand jury testimony alleging President Bush authorized the declassification and disclosure of portions of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq.
Dems call for Bush to 'come clean,' cite 8 denials - "President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in a brief statement. "It's time for the President to come clean about his involvement in the leak case."... The statement was accompanied by eight of the numerous instances in which Bush or his spokesman, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, denied the President had knowledge of the leak
Experts: What Bush Did Would Be Legal but Unusual - Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.
VIDEO Flashback: Leaker-In-Chief Condemns Leaks - A court filing by Patrick Fitzgerald yesterday revealed that, in the summer of 2003, President Bush personally authorized Scooter Libby to leak classified information to New York Times reporter Judy Miller as part of an effort to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson.... A few months later, President Bush publicly and repeatedly condemned the leaking of classified information.
Bush OKs Leak of Classified Info, National Review Blames Press - Andrew McCarthy of the National Review blasts media coverage of todays news that President Bush authorized Scooter Libby to leak classified information by saying, "there has been no accusation none that the President or anyone else was willing to reveal, much less actually revealed, classified information. It is irresponsible to say such a thing based on the current record." THIS OF COURSE IS FALSE.
SIGN PETETION To Impeach Bush - The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors..... NOTE: You can use a throw-away email adress if you want to. Just make up a free name at dodgeit.com.
WINNING THE WAR ON TERROR
German inquiry to probe Iraq war, CIA links - Germany's parliament gave the green light on Friday for a parliamentary inquiry into whether German spies in Baghdad helped the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 at a time when the government was publicly opposed to the war.
More than 70 killed in Baghdad mosque attack - Three suicide bombers on Friday struck a Baghdad mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, killing at least 74 people, according to the Iraqi Health Ministry.... Another 136 people were wounded, authorities said.
Afghan drugs barons flaunt their wealth and power - Since the western-led war on drugs started four years ago only two major smugglers have been arrested - Haji Baz Muhammad, who was extradited to the US last October, and Bashir Noorzai, who was arrested in New York six months earlier. But the remainder are apparently untouchable.... "Many smugglers don't even bother hiding their wealth," said a British diplomat in Kabul "It's their way of saying 'screw you' to authority."
U.S. Officials Are Mulling Iran Strikes, Experts Say - Key players in the Bush administration think a military confrontation with Iran is unavoidable, leading to stepped up military planning for such a prospect, according to several experts and recently departed senior government officials.
PHEW
Al Gore Is A ROCKSTAR In Front Of Corporate Execs - Al Gore brought corporate executives and environmentally minded investors roaring to their feet Thursday with multimedia images of an overheating planet and a call for Americans to reclaim their "moral authority" by tackling global warming.
Boycot Over: Danish back on Saudi shelves - Arla products were back on the shelves of Saudi supermarkets after an Islamic group called for end to the boycott of the Danish dairy producer... Soliman Albuthi, spokesman for the International Committee for the Support of the Prophet, which is based in Washington, said: "We must differentiate between those who insulted us and those who stood by us."
DIRTY REPUBLICAN BASTARDS
FOURTH Government Officual arrested for possession of child porn - Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agencys Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.
Local Teacher's Run-In With Homeland Security Creates Insecurities - Leander Pickett, a teacher's assistant at Englewood Elementary, said he was manhandled and handcuffed by two plain clothed Homeland Security officers in front of the school Tuesday for no reason at all.... Pickett was directing bus traffic, he said, when he was handcuffed and roughed up and humiliated by the very people that were supposed to protect him.
DeLay Supports Crash Dem Event - (IMPORTANT NOTE: Link has a number sign in it - which MySpace doesn't support. Enter it after "html" and before "a7816") Tom DeLay's campaign sent out an email asking supporters to disrupt Nick Lampson's press conference this morning. At that event, a 69 year old woman says she was assaulted by one of the DeLay thugs who showed up to disrupt the event. The woman, Marsha Rovai, of Richmond has asked the Lampson campaign to help see if any of the televisions stations caught this incident on tape so she can consider filing an assault charge. Several of the women at the event complained that they were pushed and shoved by male DeLay supporters. (Perhaps those women were know-it-alls.)