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  • BUSH LIED... IMPEACH THE BASTARD!
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush has admitted that he has authorized the use of surveillance upon American citizens and residents. He has argued that he has the authority to do so, that he has balanced the need to spy on us and our civil liberties. Unfortunately, his claims do not withstand scrutiny.
    Firstly, the spying upon Americans without probable cause, due process and a warrant supported by evidence and sworn before a competent magistrate violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments of the US (…)

  • From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.
    It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This (…)

  • From "It Was Legal" To "I Am Lazy": The George Bush Domestic Spy Story
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another day, yet another new and wholly different explanation from the Bush administration about its illegal domestic spying operation.
    In just the last 5 days, we’ve seen 3 separate explanations rolled out from the White House. First they claimed it was legal all along, then when that didn’t fly, they said they had to do it because of a need for speed.
    Now that that has been debunked, they are actually claiming they were just too lazy to do "the paperwork." On top of this, they also (…)

  • Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden
    Attempts by European governments to deny knowledge their airports were used by the CIA to fly detainees to facilities where they could be tortured has unravelled. A document obtained by the civil rights group Statewatch confirms that the European Union (EU) agreed to such flights as part of a wider programme of joint security operations with the Bush administration in 2003.
    Minutes of confidential talks held in Athens on January 22, 2003, prove that EU officials agreed (…)

  • Senate Blocks Alaska Refuge Drilling
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By H. JOSEF HEBERT
    WASHINGTON - A quarter-century long fight over the nation’s most divisive environmental issue rages on after the Senate on Wednesday rejected opening an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling - even though that provision was included in a must-pass bill that funds U.S. troops overseas and hurricane victims.
    It was a stinging defeat for Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record), R-Alaska, one of the Senate’s most powerful members, who had hoped to garner more votes by (…)

  • Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torture
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law, RAW STORY has learned.
    The resolutions were quietly introduced Sunday evening along with a third resolution (HR 635) to create a Select Committee to investigate the (…)

  • No President Is Above the Law
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by US Senator Robert C. Byrd
    Floor Speech
    Senator Byrd on Monday expressed his strong concerns about possible violations of the Constitution in the Bush Administration’s admitted practice of spying on American citizens:
    Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country’s law-abiding citizens, and against our (…)

  • Watchdog says FBI violated surveillance rules
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by From Terry Frieden
    WASHINGTON (CNN) — A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released 93 pages of internal FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The documents previously were classified, The Associated Press reported.
    The center told (…)

  • America kidnapped me
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Khaled El-Masri
    KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003.
    THE U.S. POLICY of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine.
    I am still recovering from an experience that was completely beyond the pale, outside the bounds of any legal framework and unacceptable in any civilized society. Because I believe in the American system of justice, I sued George Tenet, the former CIA director, last week. What (…)

  • Bush fund-raisers cash in by giving - then receiving
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JIM TANKERSLEY, JOSHUA BOAK, AND CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITERS
    First of three parts
    President Bush’s corporate champions see the spoils of his administration in coal. And timber. And credit-card payments, Afghan electric lines, Japanese bank transfers, and fake crab.
    America’s business leaders supplied more than $75 million to return Mr. Bush to the White House last year - and he has paid dividends.
    Bush Administration policies, grand and obscure, have financially (…)