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Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:52:35 -0500

DOD secretly continued intel program 24 Feb 2006

 

 

 

 

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government

24 February 2006

http://www.legitgov.org/

 

 

All links to articles as summarized below are available here:

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

 

DOD secretly continued intel program 23 Feb 2006 A controversial

counter-terrorism program has quietly continued despite being

theoretically ended two years ago. The Department of Defense's Total

Awareness Information program was halted by lawmakers more than two

years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates. However, it was

stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence

agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of

U.S. citizens, the National journal reported Thursday.

 

Pentagon Told to Release Guantanamo Transcripts 24 Feb 2006 A federal

judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of

hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a

move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal

the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there.

 

Files show military rebuffs FBI Guantanamo worries 23 Feb 2006 FBI

agents accused U.S. military personnel at the Guantanamo prison of

using illegal " aggressive interrogation tactics " on detainees but

senior military officials rejected FBI concerns, documents made public

on Thursday showed.

 

New Documents Provide Further Evidence That Senior Officials Approved

Abuse of Prisoners at Guantánamo --FBI Memorandum Details Guantánamo

Commander's Repeated Refusal to Abandon Illegal and Ineffective

Interrogation Techniques (aclu.org) 23 Feb 2006 " The American Civil

Liberties Union today released newly obtained documents showing that

senior Defense Department officials approved aggressive interrogation

techniques that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents deemed abusive,

ineffective and unlawful. ...The memo states that FBI personnel

brought their concerns to the attention of senior Defense Department

personnel but that their concerns were brushed aside. "

 

Blair condones Amin-style tactics against terrorism, says Archbishop

24 Feb 2006 Tony Blair was accused last night by the Archbishop of

York of helping the US to run " Idi Amin-style " tactics in the war on

terror. Mr Blair was challenged by Dr John Sentamu after refusing to

condemn Guantanamo Bay beyond calling the prison camp run by the US in

Cuba an " anomaly " .

 

Memos Detail 74 CIA Landings in Canada 23 Feb 2006 CIA planes have

landed in Canada 74 times since the 9/11 terror attacks, underscoring

fears that the United States is ferrying suspected terrorists through

its neighboring country en route to foreign prisons for torture,

according to newly declassified government documents.

 

Halliburton's Tehran Hideaway -- " Halliburton! " Chirped the employee

who answered the telephone in Tehran 07 Feb 2005 " Halliburton! "

Chirped the employee who answered the telephone in Tehran. Tehran, the

capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, part of the " axis of evil " ?

Yes, the company was a tenant, confirmed the guard in the lobby of a

building on Bucharest Street when we dropped in one recent

afternoon... In January, Halliburton and the local Oriental Kish Oil

won a $308 million contract to drill for gas in Iran's giant South

Pars field. " Halliburton and Oriental Kish are the final winners, "

Akbar Torkan, managing director of Pars Oil & Gas, said on national

TV. The statement sparked fury among Iran's hardliners. One newspaper

warned, " Footsteps of the Yankees heard moving in on Iran's oil sector. "

 

Gag me with a chainsaw! Pentagon: Ports uproar may pose security risk

24 Feb 2006 The second in command at the Pentagon [Deputy Defense

Secretary Gordon England] said Thursday that people who publicly

oppose allowing a Middle Eastern company to take over management of

some U.S. ports could be threatening national security. [LOL! I guess

we're not allowed to talk about it, or Al CIAduh will attack!]

 

UAE Co., White House Had Secret Agreement 22 Feb 2006 The Bush

administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates

to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its

takeover of operations at six American ports, according to documents

obtained by The Associated Press. It chose not to impose other,

routine restrictions.

 

President Bush On U.S. Ports: 'People Don't Need To Worry About

Security' 23 Feb 2006 President [sic] Bush on Thursday defended his

administration's decision to allow a company from an Arab country to

operate six major U.S. ports, saying, " People don't need to worry

about security. " [We just need to worry about *him,* the world's most

dangerous terrorist.]

 

Bush may accept delay in port deal 23 Feb 2006 President [sic] George

W. Bush, under fire from Congress for letting a state-owned Arab firm

acquire terminal management at six major U.S. ports, would accept a

slight delay in implementing the deal, a senior White House adviser

said on Thursday.

 

UAE Gave $100 Million for Katrina Relief 23 Feb 2006 Weeks before one

of its companies sought U.S. approval for its ports deal, the United

Arab Emirates contributed $100 million to help victims of Hurricane

Katrina, officials confirmed Thursday.

 

Dubai 'poised to make £3b buyout bid for P & O ports' 31 Oct 2005 Dubai

Ports World, the world's sixth-largest port operator, is set to make a

£3 billion bid this week to take over P & O, Britain's biggest ports and

ferries group, the Sunday Times News Service reported from London

yesterday.

 

Dubai wants IT business as well as U.S. ports --Dubai is encouraging

companies to set up operations in the United Arab Emirates 23 Feb 2006

The United Arab Emirates, which is currently at the center of a

controversy over whether outsourcing the management of six U.S. ports

to a company based in the Persian Gulf should be allowed, wants to do

more than manage ports: It wants Dubai, its capital, to become a major

IT outsourcing destination.

 

Space Adventures Announces $265 Million Global Spaceport Development

Project 17 Feb 2006 Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space

experiences company, announced today its plans to develop a commercial

spaceport in Ras Al-Khaimah (the UAE), with plans to expand globally.

The total estimated cost of the global spaceport development project

is at least $265 million (USD) and will be funded by various parties,

along with shared investments by Space Adventures and the government

of Ras Al-Khaimah.

 

Port Authority: We're suing to stop sale to Dubai firm 23 Feb 2006 The

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Thursday it has

security concerns over a plan for a Dubai-based firm to take over

operations at a Port Newark container terminal and it will file a

lawsuit to terminate its lease at the port.

 

Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout --A Russian arms merchant funnels

money, guns, and dope through the United Arab Emirates By James

Ridgeway 23 Feb 2006 " As for the Customs Service, it inspects as

little as 5 percent of the cargo going through the New York ports.

This is a dream setup for any arms or dope dealer, and that's exactly

what the United Arab Emirates is all about. The ties between its top

officials and royal family with the Taliban and Al Qaeda go back at

least a decade. The UAE is not only the center of financial dealings

in the Persian Gulf, it is switching central for dope and arms dealing. "

 

Dubai Harbored Hijackers? Big Deal, Bush Says By Margaret Carlson 23

Feb 2006 " There is no professional who knows what [Michael] Chertoff

is doing in charge of homeland security. The department Bush built

from scratch is a disgrace, largely because to Bush all civil servants

are bureaucrats and the government a piñata to be hit until all the

goodies are disgorged. Oh, Why Not? Plunder Medicare for the drug

industry? Done. Give away oil royalties to the energy industry? Done.

Let the oil industry write the energy bill in secret? Done. Enrich

insurance companies with Health Savings Accounts? Check. Appoint a

lawyer to oversee disaster relief and homeland security when there are

experts in the field who've devoted their professional lives to the

subject? Oh, why not? "

 

Dubai and Toxic Tank Cars: What are Bush's Priorities? By Brent

Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth 23 Feb 2006 " Just look

at what [George W.] Bush was already doing in our nation's capital to

prevent the D.C. Council from taking action against the threat of

toxic tank cars. A Navy study found that an attack on one chlorine

tank car could kill or injure as many as 100,000 people in a half hour

in the District. On February 1, 2005, the D.C. Council enacted a law

requiring railroads to route such dangerous cargoes around the

District. Bush signaled his preference for protecting business

interests over protecting the security of the people of Washington by

sending his Justice Department to court to overturn the D.C. law. When

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan demolished their arguments

in a decision upholding the law, Bush and the railroads appealed,

where they succeeded in blocking implementation of the law. By a twist

of fate, one of the railroads fighting the D.C. City Council is none

other than CSX. Treasury Secretary John Snow, who signed off on this

purchase, was formerly the head of CSX before he joined the Cabinet. A

year after Snow joined the Cabinet, CSX sold off its overseas port

operations to DP World for $1.23 billion. As chair of the Committee on

Foreign Investment in the U.S., Secretary Snow presided over the

committee's approval of the ports deal. "

 

Israel claims al Qaeda plans mega-attack 23 Feb 2006 Israeli security

officials assess that 2006 is the " target year " set by the global

al-Qaeda network to carry out a mega-attack in the country, Israel's

leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.

 

NSA fights document reclassification 23 Feb 2006 The National Security

Archive at George Washington University made headlines Tuesday when it

began actively working against federal intelligence agencies that are

reclassifying thousands of previously declassified documents. The

secret reclassification program, revealed in Tuesday's New York Times,

seeks to remove declassified documents from the public realm.

 

Vigil protests NSA wiretapping 23 Feb 2006 (Saratoga Springs, NY) More

than 30 protesters upset over the National Security Agency's

warrantless wiretapping program held a candlelight vigil Wednesday

night in front of the Broadway post office.

 

Morrissey Quizzed By FBI 23 Feb 2006 Singer Morrissey was quizzed by

the FBI and British intelligence after speaking out against the

American and British governments. The Brit is a famous critic of the

US-led war in Iraq and has dubbed President [sic] George W Bush a

" terrorist " - but he was baffled to be hauled in by authorities.

 

Peace groups under watch --Authorities keep tabs on non-violent

Seattle activists in hunt for al-Qaida 22 Feb 2006 In the post-9/11

world, some unlikely figures have attracted the attention of local

police and federal agents: the Raging Grannies, known for musical

satire, and Quaker peace activists, known for non-violence. Recently

disclosed FBI files show that in Seattle in recent years, federal

agents and local police looked for signs of civil disobedience among

activists preparing to protest Navy ships arriving for Seafair...

 

Katrina review suggests bigger role for US military 23 Feb 2006 A new

White House report on what went wrong after hurricane Katrina lashed

Louisiana and Mississippi in August suggests the U.S. military should

play a bigger role in disaster efforts. [Goodbye, Posse Comitatus!]

 

Military Has Tools to Respond to Domestic Disasters, Report Says 23

Feb 2006 The federal response to Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that

the Defense Department is one of the only federal departments capable

of playing a critical role in the nation's response to catastrophic

events, a government report released today stated.

 

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned

(whitehouse.gov) 23 Feb 2006 [.pdf version of report]

 

Iraq Imposes Daytime Curfew 23 Feb 2006 Gunmen killed dozens of

civilians Thursday and dumped their bodies in a ditch, as the

government [uS-installed dictatorship] ordered a tough daytime curfew

of Baghdad and three provinces to stem the sectarian violence that has

left at least 114 dead since the bombing of a Shiite shrine.

 

Iraq on brink as sectarian violence kills 130 23 Feb 2006 Sectarian

violence killed more than 130 people across Iraq and left dozens of

mosques damaged or in ruins as the United States appealed on Thursday

to Sunnis and Shi'ites to step back from the brink of civil war.

 

US military denies Iraq on brink of civil war 23 Feb 2006 The US

military rejected the idea that a civil war is brewing in Iraq, saying

it had confirmed only seven major attacks on mosques across the country.

 

Roadside bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Iraq 23 Feb 2006 Three U.S.

soldiers were killed near the Iraqi town of Balad on Wednesday when

their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

 

Leading female Arab TV reporter killed with crew 23 Feb 2006 reporter

famed for the courage of her work on the frontline was among the

victims of the country's latest paroxysm of violence.

 

Exit without a strategy --The popular response to Iraq's latest

atrocities has been to blame the occupation, not rival sects By Sami

Ramadani 24 Feb 2006 " Iraq is awash with rumours about the collusion

of the occupation forces and their Iraqi clients with sectarian

attacks and death squads: the US is widely seen as fostering sectarian

division to prevent the emergence of a united national resistance.

Evidence of their involvement in Wednesday's anti-Sunni reprisals was

picked up in the Times, which reported that after an armed attack on

the al-Quds Sunni mosque in Baghdad the gunmen climbed back into six

cars and were ushered from the scene by cheering soldiers of the

US-controlled Iraqi National Guard. Two years ago I argued in these

pages that the US aim of installing a client pro-US regime in Baghdad

risked plunging the country into civil war - but not a war of Arabs

against Kurds or Sunnis against Shias, rather a war between a

US-backed minority (of all sects and nationalities) against the

majority of the Iraqi people. That is where Iraq is heading. " [A must

read]

 

Superbug hits Canadian soldiers injured in suicide bombing 23 Feb 2006

The recovery of three Canadians wounded last month in Afghanistan has

been slowed by battlefield bacteria infecting American troops in Iraq,

CBC News has learned.

 

Mo. funeral-protest bill sent to governor 23 Feb 2006 The Missouri

House this week approved a bill banning protests near funerals an hour

before to an hour after a service, sending the measure to the

governor. The legislation was a response to a recent protest at the

St. Joseph funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.

 

Attorneys want Libby charges thrown out --They say prosecutor in CIA

leak case doesn't have proper authority 23 Feb 2006 Lawyers for Vice

President Cheney's former top aide asked a federal judge Thursday to

dismiss his indictment because the special prosecutor in the CIA leak

case lacked authority [?!?] to bring the charges.

 

Mexico leftist holds lead in new presidential poll 23 Feb 2006 Leftist

candidate and former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

holds a lead of between 5 and 9 points over his closest rivals for the

presidential election in July, new polls showed on Wednesday.

 

Watchdog Group Questions 2004 Fla. Vote 23 Feb 2006 An examination of

Palm Beach County's electronic voting machine records from the 2004

election found possible tampering and tens of thousands of

malfunctions and errors, a watchdog group [blackBoxVoting.org] said

Thursday.

 

Federal Reserve survey: slowest increase in Americans' net worth in

over a decade 23 Feb 2006 Americans' net worth grew between 2001 and

2004, but not nearly as strongly as it did between 1998 and 2001,

according to the Federal Reserve's triennial Survey of Consumer

Finances released Thursday. The big reason: while household assets

increased, debts – particularly mortgage debt -- rose considerably more.

 

U.S. Customs Seizing More Seniors' Medicines --Taxpayer-funded raids

subsidize pharma-terrorists' windfall profits 23 Feb 2006 The U.S.

government apparently is stepping up seizures of cheap drugs ordered

by Americans — mainly seniors — from abroad, Canadian pharmacies

say... " It's despicable, " said Samuel Robert Greenberg, a Laguna

Niguel retiree who lost a package of anti-cholesterol pills and

glaucoma eyedrops late last month. " They are playing with people's

lives. " Greenberg said such seizures were a waste of government

resources. " Forget about the heroin, " Greenberg said. " They are going

to stop the Lipitor. "

 

New Orleans' Uninsured Get Primitive Care 23 Feb 2006 Inside their

plastic and canvas walls, the doctors can only offer the most

rudimentary care: They can X-ray bones, but not set them. They can

draw blood and diagnose an ailment, but not treat it beyond

prescribing pills. And with no ER and no capacity to operate, they

can't do much more than stabilize trauma patients before sending them

by ambulance elsewhere, often far away. These tents are all that

remain of Charity Hospital, the 270-year-old institution which for

generations was the medical epicenter of the city's uninsured...

 

US nuclear industry wants no Yucca waste dump limit 23 Feb 2006 The

Bush administration should remove federal limits on the amount of

nuclear waste that could be stored at a proposed waste dump in the

Nevada desert, U.S. nuclear industry lobbyists said on Thursday.

 

[23 Feb lead stories:] 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.

 

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

thank you to all who have donated previously!!

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

 

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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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