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Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:44:49 -0500

Press Can Be Prosecuted for Having Secret Files, U.S. Says 23

Feb 2006

 

 

 

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government

23 February 2006

http://www.legitgov.org/

 

 

All links to articles as summarized below are available here:

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

 

 

 

 

Press Can Be Prosecuted for Having Secret Files, U.S. Says 22 Feb 2006

The Bush regime said that journalists can be prosecuted under current

espionage laws for receiving and publishing classified information but

that such a step " would raise legitimate and serious issues and would

not be undertaken lightly, " according to a court filing made public

this week.

 

CBS Correspondent Killed Story At Pentagon's Request 21 Feb 2006 CBS

Pentagon correspondent David Martin acknowledged Monday that he killed

a report about how the U.S. was dealing with Improvised Explosive

Devices in Iraq after a senior military officer complained that it

contained information useful to the enemy. [?!?] Martin further

acknowledged that he had set aside other stories at the request of the

Pentagon " a number of times over the years, and each time it's turned

out that going with the story wouldn't have caused any harm. "

 

MPs recall Straw as air traffic controllers confirm 200 CIA flights

--Revelations 'fly in face' of government answers --Ministers

criticised over attitude to human rights 23 Feb 2006 MPs will today

chastise ministers over their stance on the US practice of

" extraordinary rendition " amid the first official admission that 200

suspect CIA flights had used British airspace.

 

More than six dozen CIA-linked landings in Canada: declassified memos

22 Feb 2006 Newly declassified memos show the number of Canadian

landings by planes tied to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency far

exceeds previously known figures... One note, stamped secret, says 20

planes with alleged CIA ties have made 74 flights to Canada since the

terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

 

Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Is Now Acknowledged 22 Feb 2006 The

military commander responsible for the American detention center at

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, confirmed Tuesday that officials there last

month turned to more aggressive methods to deter prisoners who were

carrying out long-term hunger strikes to protest their incarceration.

The commander, Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, head of the United States

Southern Command, said soldiers at Guantánamo began strapping some of

the detainees into " restraint chairs " to force-feed them and isolate

them from one another...

 

Straw says US Guantanamo Bay is 'no gulag' 21 Feb 2006 Jack Straw, the

Foreign Secretary, has said that the American government has no

intention of maintaining a permanent Soviet-style " gulag " at

Guantanamo Bay. His comments come a week after a United Nations report

called for the closure of the detention centre at the US military base

in Cuba.

 

America's Shame Torture in the Name of Freedom (Der Spiegel) 20 Feb

2006 " The new pictures from Abu Ghraib provide the most recent

evidence: America's moral bank account is empty -- and it has lost the

image wars. They are photos that make your blood run cold. They take

your breath away. They turn your stomach. They are photos that make

you wonder what kinds of human beings would do these things to other

human beings. They trigger anger, disgust and shame... America has

forfeited its aura as a global power. It will be a long time before

the United States will be able once again to claim moral superiority.

America has inadvertently, but consistently, inflamed the clash of

cultures. "

 

Mosque Attack Pushes Iraq Toward Civil War 22 Feb 2006 Insurgents

posing as police [Yeah, right!] destroyed the golden dome of one of

Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecedented

spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds thronged the streets,

militiamen attacked Sunni mosques, and at least 19 people were killed.

 

Battle of the mosques brings Iraq to the brink of civil war 23 Feb

2006 The revenge attacks started within minutes of the devastating

dawn blast that wrecked the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of the

holiest Shia shrines in Iraq.

 

Iraq erupts in violence after shrine bombing 22 Feb 2006 Shiite

Muslims attacked dozens of Sunni mosques across Iraq on Wednesday in

retaliation for the devastating bombing of one of Shiite Islam's

holiest sites, the Askariya shrine in Samarra.

 

Venezuela debates home guard bill 22 Feb 2006 Venezuela says it is

moving to a strategy of guerrilla warfare Venezuelan lawmakers are to

begin debating proposals which would include compulsory service in the

home guard. Army spokesman Gen Alberto Mueller Rojas told the BBC that

the country needed a civilian reserve big enough to deter any would-be

aggressors. [Good idea. - President Chavez needs to protect himself

from the Bush regime.]

 

Al Qaeda answers CIA's hiring call [No Sh*t! It's the same personnel

director for both!] 22 Feb 2006 As many as 40 possible terrorists may

have attempted to infiltrate U.S. intelligence agencies in recent

months, CIA expert Barry Royden reported at a national

counterintelligence conference in March. ...Though the agencies caught

the potential spies at the job application stage, post-Sept. 11

pressures to quickly boost staffing make it increasingly likely that a

terrorist could sneak into the intelligence community's ranks.

 

Al Qaeda's Road Paved With Gold --Secret Shipments Traced Through a

Lax System In United Arab Emirates 17 Feb 2002 Dubai, United Arab

Emirates --Just as the United States and its allies swept toward

Afghanistan's main cities last autumn, the ruling Taliban and Osama

bin Laden's al Qaeda network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold

and bundles of dollars across the porous border into Pakistan... Dubai

is also one of the region's most open banking centers and is the

commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, one of three countries

that maintained diplomatic relations with the Taliban until shortly

after Sept. 11. Sitting at a strategic crossroad of the Persian Gulf,

South Asia and Africa, Dubai has long been a financial hub for Islamic

militant groups. Much of the $500,000 used to fund the Sept. 11

attacks came through Dubai, investigators believe. [Hurry and read the

article, before the PentaPost scrubs it from its archives. --LRP]

 

UAE royals, bin Laden's saviours 15 Mar 2004 The Central Intelligence

Agency did not target Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden once as he had

the royal family of the United Arab Emirates with him in Afghanistan,

the agency's director, George Tenet, told the National Commission on

Terrorist Attacks on the United States on Thursday. Had the CIA

targeted bin Laden, half the royal family would have been wiped out as

well, he said. The 10-member bipartisan commission is investigating

the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.

 

Bush to ensure sale of US ports to Dubai 23 Feb 2006 President [sic]

George Bush yesterday promised to use his power of veto for the first

time to reject any bill that prevents a Dubai company from taking over

the management of six important American ports.

 

Bush Unaware of Ports Deal Before Approval 22 Feb 2006 President [sic]

Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six

major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab

Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his

administration, the White House said Wednesday.

 

Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid to Stop Port Deal 22 Feb 2006

President [sic] Bush yesterday strongly defended an Arab company's

attempt to take over the operation of seaports in Baltimore and five

other cities, threatening a veto if Congress tries to kill a deal his

administration has blessed.

 

Congressional delegation demands stop to ports deal 22 Feb 2006

Members of Louisiana's congressional delegation are vowing to fight

the pending sale of two leases at the Port of New Orleans to a company

from the United Arab Emirates.

 

DeLay says Bush making mistake on port sale 23 Feb 2006 U.S. Rep. Tom

DeLay said Wednesday that President [sic] Bush is making a big mistake

backing a sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a

state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates. The former

Republican majority leader said the administration's approval of the

deal is " pretty outrageous. "

 

L.A.'s Counter-Terrorism Team May Get Permanent Status 22 Feb 206

Warning that Los Angeles remains a prime target for terrorists, Mayor

Antonio Villaraigosa announced an initiative Thursday to permanently

fund expanded counter-terrorism and disaster response units in the

police and fire departments. The proposal would assign four LAPD

anti-terrorism officers to a new " intelligence fusion center, " [LOL!]

to be staffed by federal, state and local law enforcement officers in

Norwalk in the next few weeks, according to Police Chief William J.

Bratton.

 

Company develops shocking shotgun shell 22 Feb 2006 Stun-gun maker

Taser International of Scottsdale, Ariz., is developing a shotgun

shell that will be far more powerful than current ones, a report said.

 

Court Documents: Hospital Gave Lethal Injections to Patients During

Hurricane Katrina (LifeSiteNews.com) 22 Feb 2006 " Just after Hurricane

Katrina devastated New Orleans rumors circulated that at least one

hospital had euthanized patients... In a February 16 report, NPR says

it has reviewed secret court documents related to the investigation

and not yet released to the public. The documents, says NPR 'reveal

chilling details about events at Memorial hospital in the chaotic days

following the storm, including hospital administrators who saw a

doctor filling syringes with painkillers and heard plans to give

patients lethal doses...' Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights

organization that leads the disability community's opposition to

legalized assisted suicide, euthanasia and other forms of medical

killing, points to a section of the NPR report suggesting the staff

wanted to eliminate the patients so they could themselves escape. "

 

Two Courts Reject Ban on Abortion Procedure --Appeals panels find the

law unconstitutional. New faces on the high court may ultimately help

restore the prohibition, experts say. 22 Feb 2006 Two federal appeals

courts on opposite coasts Tuesday declared Congress' ban on a

controversial late-term abortion procedure unconstitutional — making

it a virtual certainty that newly confirmed Justice Samuel A. Alito

will have the opportunity to rule on the issue in the future.

 

S. Dakota legislature passes abortion ban 22 Feb 2006 South Dakota

became the first U.S. state to pass a law banning abortion in

virtually all cases, with the intention of forcing the Supreme Court

to reconsider its 1973 decision legalizing the procedure.

 

Just as Bush and his pharma-terrorists planned: Reports: Drug prices

rise under US Medicare plan 21 Feb 2006 Prices for some of the most

popular medicines used by seniors have jumped an average of 4 percent

under the new Medicare drug benefit since it began last month,

according to a report released on Tuesday.

 

Bush's budget at odds with new emphasis on alternative energy 21 Feb

2006 President [sic] Bush's own budget shows that programs to increase

the energy efficiency of buildings, appliances and vehicles - which

their advocates say represent the only way to reduce energy demand in

the short run - are being cut back sharply.

 

Is The GOP " Shock-The-Vote Gang " Planning to Heist California? By RJ

Eskow 21 Feb 2006 " The usual suspects are slipping into the Golden

State. ...[T]he GOP political 'family' is hard at work. California's

appointed (as opposed to elected) Republican Secretary of State has

recertified Diebold's voting machines, despite a damning report.

Schwarzenegger is hiring a 'steely' Karl Rove insider turned Dick

Cheney capo, along with other national GOP campaign pols, to run his

re-election campaign. The 'shock-the-vote' gang is ready to roll into

the Golden State with their patented blend of dishonest spin,

old-fashioned dirty tricks - and easy-to-rig voting machines that are

being manufactured by Republicans and purchased by other Republicans. "

 

Pa. Governor to Veto Voter ID Bill 21 Feb 2006 Pennsylvania Gov. Ed

Rendell said Monday he'll veto a bill that would require voters to

show identification at the polls because he believes such a mandate is

unconstitutional and would disenfranchise some of the state's most

vulnerable residents. People including nursing home residents and

poorer citizens might not have proper ID and thus could lose their

right to vote under the legislation, Rendell said.

 

EU approves bird flu vaccinations 23 February 2006 A European Union

veterinary expert panel has approved limited preventative [?!?] bird

flu vaccination plans presented by France and the Netherlands.

http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

 

Bird flu scare: Navapur to be sealed off 23 Feb 2006 (India) Officials

will begin sealing off the entire town of Navapur, ground zero for the

outbreak of bird flu. No one will be allowed in or out of Navapur,

which has a population of nearly 30,000.

 

Bird flu moving freely from Asia to Europe and Africa 23 Feb 2006

Indonesia said a 27-year-old woman died of bird flu as it prepared to

scour the capital for infected poultry, while Malaysia and India

expanded the slaughter of chickens to try to contain the H5N1 virus.

 

'Europe has no hope of eradicating bird flu' 23 Feb 2006 Europe has

" no hope of eradicating " the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the

foreseeable future, now that there are infected wild birds across the

European Union, a senior bird flu expert said yesterday.

 

Second duck in France found to have H5N1 bird flu 23 Feb 2006 France,

the European Union's biggest poultry producer, has confirmed that a

second wild duck on its territory has been found to have the deadly

H5N1 strain of bird flu.

 

[22 Feb lead stories:] Report says 98 dead in US custody in Iraq,

Afghanistan 22 Feb 2006 Nearly 100 prisoners have died in US custody

in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, the Human Rights First

organisation has said on BBC television. At least 98 deaths occurred,

with at least 34 of them suspected or confirmed homicides --

deliberate or reckless killing -- according to the group of US lawyers

who will publish the report. Their dossier claims that 11 more deaths

are deemed suspicious and that between eight and 12 prisoners were

tortured to death.

 

Religious charities accuse US of interfering in their work 22 Feb 2006

Islamic charities here yesterday accused the United States and other

Gulf governments of meddling in their activities and preventing them

from delivering aid to disaster-hit areas.

 

Horrors of Camp Delta are exposed by British victims 22 Feb 2006 An

award-winning film director who reconstructed scenes of torture and

abuse at Guantanamo Bay has called for the immediate closure of the

US-run camp. The White House appears oblivious to the growing

international outcry in recent weeks about conditions in Guantanamo Bay.

 

CLGers: Please contribute for February's expenses, thank you! And,

thank you to all who have donated previously!!

http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute

 

Address to receive newsletter: http://www.legitgov.org/#_clg

Please write to: signup for inquiries. lrp/mdr

 

CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, General Manager. 2006,

Citizens For Legitimate Government ® All rights reserved. CLG Founder

and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.

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