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Deemed necessary to
prevent terrorism
By Dana Priest and R.
Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post 6-8-04
WASHINGTON - In August 2002, the Justice Department advised the White House
that torturing al-Qaida terrorists in captivity abroad "may be justified,"
and that international laws against torture "may be unconstitutional if
applied to interrogations" conducted in President Bush's war on terrorism,
according to a newly obtained memo..
Ashcroft Says Bush Rejects Use of Torture
Guardian, UK |
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Is Tenet where the buck stops?
Boston Globe, MA - June 8, 2004.
THE PAIN
ON President Bush's face when he announced the resignation of CIA Director
George Tenet was evident. ... |
Remedies for Prisoner Abuse
Washington Post Editorial 6-7-04
THE ONLY WAY to staunch the continuing damage of the prisoner abuse scandal
is for the Bush administration to fully document and publicly report on the
dozens of cases of homicide and physical abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan... |
I don't trust an Attorney
General that
speaks in tongues.
"They
remind me of teenagers who got their inheritance too soon and couldn't wait to
blow it." --Bill Clinton on the Bush White House
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam-News
Florida Voter Viagra
Kast quits
as Florida elections chief 5 months before election
Less than
five months before the Nov. 2 election, veteran elections official Ed Kast is
quitting his job overseeing the state's voting machinery. Secretary of State
Glenda Hood named the agency's top lawyer, Dawn Roberts, to replace him…
One sunny day in 2005 an
old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd
been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U. S. Marine standing guard and
said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."
The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and
no longer resides here."
The old man said, "Okay" and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same
Marine, "I would like to
go in and meet with President Bush." The Marine again told the man, "Sir, Mr.
Bush is no longer
president and no longer resides here." The man thanked him and, again, just
walked away.
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very
same U. S. Marine,
saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said,
"Sir, this is the third
day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I've told you
already that Mr. Bush is no
longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"
The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love
hearing it."
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow."
Sent in by Joi
Are you a Democrat or a Republican?
“I am not
a registered anything. I vote both parties. I did vote for Bush. My husband did,
too. Now we're A.B.B. -- Anyone but Bush. We have lost the moral high ground in
this country”. – Sherron Watkins –
Enron Whistleblower in a
New York Times Interview
New Documents
Suggest Enron's Lay, Skilling, Washington Lobbyist Knew About Company's Trading
Schemes In California
The Baltimore Chronicle, MD - 6-7-04
…On May 17,
2001, Enron Chairman Ken Lay called a secret meeting at the Peninsula Hotel in
Beverly Hills, Calif., in an effort to get some of the state's rich and famous
to lobby the California Legislature about getting "deregulation right this
time." Lay apparently paid close attention to Enron's trading profits. A few
months earlier, Sue Mara, an Enron governmental affairs employee phoned Bob
Badeer, an Enron trader, with a question from Ken Lay. Following public comments
by Davis about the state of California's energy crisis, Mara said Lay personally
wanted to know if Davis's comments had affected the price of power in the
forward market. That Lay would be interested in such minute details contradicts
the former chairman's public statements that he had no idea about the
shenanigans taking place inside of Enron.
California's current Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who unseated Davis in a
contentious recall election last year, attended the meeting at the Peninsula
Hotel with Lay, as did former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and junk-bond
king Michael Milken and other luminaries. Lay handed the attendees a seven-page
document that contained so-called solutions to the state's electricity crisis….
George, Ken and Benito
Aljazeerah.info
"It was
as if Osama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in
long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting 'invade Iraq, you must invade
Iraq." --Richard Clarke, Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator, on
Bush's response to 9/11
Disturbing News
"I don't
think he's stupid. I think we're stupid, because if we weren't, he wouldn't talk
to us this way." –-Daily Show host Jon Stewart, on President Bush
Republican Shenanigans
Gallup Approval Rating for Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush2
How sweet it is: Respect for Clinton rebounds among Americans
USA Today 5-23-03
...Only Abraham Lincoln (chosen
by 15%) and John F. Kennedy (13%) finished ahead of Clinton (11%) in the April
poll, which asked Americans who was "the greatest" president. George W. Bush
managed to tie Clinton for third place.
Ronald Reagan, a conservative icon, garnered 10% of the vote, followed by
Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter. Bush's
father, the 41st president, was chosen by just 2% of the respondents, tying with
Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson. ..
So
Clinton was more popular than Reagan in 2003. Gee, listening to the cable
news channels I sure thought otherwise. I
found
this article on Altercation .
On This Day
In 1985, Shiite Moslem gunmen
commandeered TWA Flight 847 carrying 153 passengers and crew from Athens to
Rome. The ordeal ended 17 days later in Beirut, where one of the hostages, a
U.S. sailor, was killed.
Biz/Tech News
Good News
Military Families Protest Iraq Services
Wilmington Morning Star, NC - 6-8-04
It's been 550 days since members of the 94th Military Police Company left their
homes. Children have been born, marriages delayed, jobs put on hold. And family
members Monday demanded...
"I
wouldn't kick President Bush out of my bed." --Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy's Carson Kressley
The transit
of Venus across the sun is projected onto a hand. Five transits of Venus
have been recorded -- the last occurred in 1882. (HO)
Peace.
