All the reports add up to a Bush administration in crisis

[ProSense]

Bush's Domestic Policy Adviser Resigns

2 hours, 13 minutes ago

President Bush's domestic policy adviser, Claude Allen, has resigned to spend more time with his family, the White House said Thursday.

Allen has been working for the administration since Bush's first year in office — first as the No. 2 official at the Health and Human Services Department, and for the last year as domestic policy adviser in the White House.

In a statement, Bush said Allen has helped develop policies that have strengthened the country's families, schools and communities. Bush thanked Allen for "his many years of principled and dedicated service to our country."

Allen, a father of four and former attorney, did not respond to inquiries asking about his departure or future job plans. His office referred calls to the White House press office, which said he will be taking some time off to spend more time with his family.

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_aide_resigns_1

Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks

Libby: White House 'Superiors' Authorized Leaks of Classified Information
By TONI LOCY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003.

The NIE is a report prepared by the head of the nation's intelligence operations for high-level government officials, up to and including the president. Portions of NIEs are sometimes declassified and made public. It is unclear whether that happened in this instance.

In a Jan. 23 letter to Libby's lawyers, Fitzgerald said Libby also testified before the grand jury that he caused at least one other government official to discuss an intelligence estimate with reporters in July 2003.


more...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1601122&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Abramoff says he met Bush "almost a dozen" times

By Andy Sullivan
2 hours, 3 minutes ago

Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public on Thursday that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.

"The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows," Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine.

Abramoff added that Bush also once invited him to his Texas ranch.

The messages were made public by the American Progress Action Fund, a liberal activist group. Eisler confirmed their accuracy to Reuters but said he did not intend them to become public.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060209/pl_nm/crime_abramoff_dc_2

Lawmakers seek oversight of Bush spying program

By David Morgan
2 hours, 12 minutes ago

Democratic and Republican lawmakers called on Thursday for stronger congressional oversight of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program, despite a new White House gesture of openness toward Congress.

A day after the White House began sharing details of the program with the two congressional intelligence committees, Republican Sen. Mike DeWine (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio said Congress still needed to adopt new legislation to ensure the program was legal under the Constitution.

"We can end this controversy about the constitutionality of this program very simply, and that is to deal with it by legislation," said DeWine, a member of the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees.

He also said it was "in the best interests of this country" for the Senate intelligence committee to have regular oversight of the program, which has caused an outcry among Democrats and some Republicans.

more...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060209/pl_nm/security_eavesdropping_dc_8

L.A. Mayor Blindsided by Bush Announcement

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he was blindsided by President Bush's announcement of new details about a purported 2002 plot to crash a plane into a downtown skyscraper, but the White House said it had contacted the mayor's office.

"I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on national TV and not inform us of these details through the appropriate channels," the Democratic mayor told The Associated Press. "I don't expect a call from the president — but somebody."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Los Angeles officials were told Wednesday about the president's planned remarks.

"And the word I heard was that there was great appreciation for the notification that we provided," McClellan said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_re_us/terror_plot_mayor_6

[Tin Man]

1. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, OUCH !!!

I think the implosion has officially begun...

[DainBramaged]

2. it's the end of the world as Bush knew it

His utopia of war, death and police states forever isn't working.

[catnhatnh]

5. It's the end of the world as he knows it,

and I feel fine...

[DainBramaged]

18. It starts with a dirty war

That's great, it starts with a dirty war, birds and snakes on an aeroplane -
Howard Dean is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, Bush misserves our own deeds. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the NeoCons in a government for
hire and a combat site. left bad, Right mad wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters laughing at the truth, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to our hearts bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent on the right - wrong. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught by foreign power. Slash and burn,
return, listen to his minions burn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Nuklar incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Karl Rove. Jack Abramoff, Dick Cheney and Libby Liar.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, peak oil, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...

(My apologies to R.E.M.)

[catnhatnh]

21. YEAH...

what he said...

[Kurovski]

48. That was GREAT!

Thanks, DainBramaged! :thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

3. Thank you, ProSense! I've been gone for a week, and this

is a nice compilation of what's been going on, as well as putting a big smile on my face! :hi:

[calimary]

27. Holy cow, is that ever true. I was watching Olbermann tonight and

was simply bowled over by the cascade of stories like boulders tumbling down a cliff - the L.A. terror "near-miss" and the questioning of motivation - using terror to yank Americans' chains and scare 'em stooopid, L.A. mayor Villaraigosa saying he'd never heard any of this before now, the libby stuff implicating cheney, and Brownie - making threats toward bush that sound uncomfortably close to blackmail - threatening to sing about his email traffic with bush and what-all was said. Holy cow!

That's getting to be a loaded newscast. NOW, he's signing off every night with a tally of how many days it's been since bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. Kinda like the day count we all had to keep during the hostage crisis in Iran.

[tridim]

4. They've been plugging holes in the dam for so long

that it's weakened to the point of bursting. Look out for a ramp up of White House initiated terra in the coming days and weeks.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

44. I once wrote a humorous article about an alley in Chicago

in which the momma and the poppa potholes joined together and created thousands of baby potholes, which grew and grew until they spawned their own potholes. Right now, that looks like a smoother trail than what these miscreants, thugs, thieves and traitors face. I only hope that our country can survive until the indictments and impeachments start.

You are absolutely right about the need for more vigilence on our part. NOTHING they say or do can be trusted. Nothing at all.

[Surya Gayatri]

46. Cornered & doubly dangerous...

We know they're vicious, but we may've seen nothing yet. What we can count on is more of their appalling incompetence. SG

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

88. so true, SG... so damnably true!

But, we can NOT count on their incompetence... Remember, we're dealing with the worst of all types of obsessives: the religious fanatic... and of all the religious fanatics, the worst are the Apocalyptics... the Armageddonites...

For those of you who've avoided the ultra-Reich (I REFUSE to call them "Right"!), let me remind you that these folk believe that "As Jerusalem goes, so goes the World." They take their core belief from the Biblical Book of Ezekiel, from which they abstract the belief that Jerusalem is God's gift to Israel, not to be shared with any unbeliever... Their God is a jealous God, remember, and most especially despises Islam, which they believe is, intrinsically, anti-God and anti-Jerusalem.

I watched 20 minutes of John Hagee this noon; this is Rev. John Hagee, of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio; part of what I call Dumbya's Pulpit Cabinet. In today's sermon, taken from his book "Jerusalem: Countdown To Crisis", Hagee preaches that Iran will attack Israel with Thermo-Nuclear Weapons in order to seize Jerusalem as their own capital; Iran will then attack the U.S. with a massive Electro-Magnetic Pulse from a device detonated about 400km over the Central Plains. Not "might"... "WILL". He speaks of these "events" as if they have already happened; just as "Believers" speak of events they believe are prophesied.

Hagee spoke today of an inscription around the Dome Of The Rock which, he says, is Arabic for "God has no son."... a direct refutation, so he claims, of the existence of the Christ and, thus, proof of the anti-God nature of Islam.

Moreover, Hagee considers efforts to make peace between Israel and Islam to be acts of Evil, coordinated by the Anti-Christ; he condemns as evil any who attempt to treat Islam with even the slightest tolerance or forbearance. Jesus will not return until Islam is eliminated from existence.

The White house is in the ideological grip of these fanatics. They will not allowed themselves to be swayed from what they see as holy work. I fear that, as the edifice crumbles, and they see their authority being taken from them, they will act in one final, massive, spasm of destruction, to eliminate, not only "the Scourge of Islam", but also all those in this country who they feel are standing against their "holy" work.

S.G., the most dangerous part of this fight is still before us... a dying beast is always the deadliest; Now, is the time to be extra vigilant lest Dumbya and his Gideon's Band destroy it all "in the name of God"!

[StClone]

6. Nominated

:-)

[kenny blankenship]

7. The Constitutionality (or rather UnConstitutionality) had already been

dealt with by legislation--hence FISA.
New legislation won't change the fact that the Bush Administration has been breaking the law, violating the Constitution, and trying to keep it secret.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

15. Congress can't pass a law to make W's program legal

It is specifically prohibited from doing so in the 4th amendment.

[EVDebs]

25. They're doing to spying what they've done with Katrina...

The cavalcade of incompetence just keeps a rollin' on.

[Independent_Liberal]

8. People, whatever you do, don't sneeze!

:)

[madrchsod]

9. another one is the secret court

is going to put the smack down on bushes excuses for going around them. gonzo`s bullshit did not sit well with them...

[ginnyinWI]

10. it's like Tom Oliphant said

They can win elections, but they cannot govern. And it's really starting to come down on them. If they could really govern, they wouldn't have to lie, cheat, steal and dissemble so much.

[babylonsister]

12. ginny, that picture is outstanding! :o) ! nt

[DainBramaged]

19. GREAT Picture of our last real President

How I miss him and his wisdom. Why do brilliant men need paramours?

[glitch]

24. They can't win elections - they can only steal them. nt

[NMDemDist2]

38. look again at the pic

It's Kerry, not Clinton

[leveymg]

49. As was said, our last real President. eom

[stevedeshazer]

11. It's telling that this is the first I've ever heard of Claude Allen

Honestly, who has heard of this guy? Who knew Bush actually HAD a domestic policy adviser? Who knew Bush actually had a domestic policy other than tax cuts for the wealthy?

[ProSense]

13. Even the founder of USA Today is weighing in

Iraq, not homeland, Bush budget buster

President Bush submitted a budget to Congress this week that is so big, most of us just shrug it off without thinking about what it means to us individually. Think about this:

•The $2.77 trillion budget for the fiscal year starting in October breaks down to an average of $9,293.62 for everyone in the USA.

•The latest budget request for Iraq of about $96 billion brings the cost of that war to $322 billion, an average of $1,080.34 per person.

Snip...

"Staying the course" on that wrong road will not bankrupt us financially. But it is busting our budget, continuing to cost countless innocent lives, and making us look morally bankrupt in the eyes of much of the rest of the world.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/neuharth/2006-02-09-iraq-budget_x.htm

Thanks all, and those who recommended

[FrenchieCat]

14. God Dog! I hope something sticks...Gee Wiz....If none does,

Then Bush replaces Reagan as the Teflon President for good....and our Democracy is dead AND gone!

[OneTwentyoNine]

16. Every chain has a weak link.....

And that link is about to break down.....

[OneTwentyoNine]

17. Its so bad that I expect Dennis Miller to start kissing Dem hiney any day!

That stupid shit swings around like a windsock,expect him to switch to Dem talking points any day now.

[LiberalAndProud]

35. Miller has "no dog in the race", according to Franken.

But I agree with you; Miller is a panderer.

[glitch]

59. I love Franken, but he is wrong sometimes.

I don't think he can wrap his head around the true sociopath.

[emulatorloo]

20. Prosense, thanks for the compilation - KICKING! EOM

:kick:

[emulatorloo]

22. More Bad News for Bush - James Comey asked to testify re NSA warrantless

wiretapping -- Not gonna be good for Gonzales/Bush

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2449360&mesg_id=2449360

[ProSense]

23. Salon: The dictator defense

The dictator defense

Bush's attorney general won't dare explain the real basis for warrantless spying on Americans: Pure, unbridled executive power.
By David Cole

Feb. 10, 2006 | The congressional inquiry into President Bush's authorizing the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans without warrants has now been locked away behind closed-door briefings. But if the public Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week is any guide, the Senate and House intelligence committees can expect to get no help from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He avoided far more questions than he answered in Monday's hearing. In one sense, Gonzales did a masterly job of defending Bush's position, by never acknowledging what he knows that position to be: an extraordinary claim to unchecked executive power.

When asked about facts, Gonzales declined to answer, saying that he could not discuss the operational details of the program. (Except, of course, where selectively disclosing details made the program appear narrow and reasonable, in which case he disclosed them.) And when asked about the law, he repeatedly refused to answer any questions about the consequences of the administration's legal theory by insisting that the questions were hypothetical and did not concern "this program." It was the perfect Catch-22: The senators couldn't ask him about the facts or the law. An exasperated Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's ranking Democrat, had it right when he remarked after yet another Gonzales dodge: "Of course, I'm sorry, Mr. Attorney General, I forgot you can't answer any question that might be relevant to this."

Snip...

Every time Gonzales was challenged on the implausibility of his reading of the authorization to use military force, however, he retreated, characteristically enough, to the doctrine of "constitutional avoidance." He said that as long as the administration's interpretation of the statute was fairly possible, it must be adopted to avoid the serious constitutional question that would be raised if one read the statutes' "plain English" as prohibiting the president's action. But that claim ultimately returns Gonzales to the question he repeatedly sought to duck: namely, does the president have the authority to violate a criminal statute barring him from conducting warrantless electronic surveillance on Americans within the United States?

Snip...

What the NSA spying debate is ultimately about is this: Do we want to live in a country where the president, like the rest of us, is bound by law, or do we want to live in a country where the president, by invoking the magic words "commander in chief," can order that criminal laws be violated in secret? One thing is certain: The Bush administration will never want a hearing on that question.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/02/10/dictator/

[johnnyrocket]

26. This just in:

Bush is a fucking idiot.

[FrenchieCat]

28. and surrounded by lying ass power hungry crooks.... n/t

[texpatriot2004]

29. nice collection of bad news for Chumpy and his Cronies nm

[Contrary1]

30. And it's not even "news dump" Friday!

:bounce:

[sandnsea]

31. Nice job!!

Now we need to blast it out to our local news and national media. Let them know they can't hide the truth from the people!

[ClayZ]

32. I bet that brush is really growing at the "ranch".

The BFEE must be all exhausted!
It is "hard work" to keep track of the lies!
I have not noticed any VACATIONS lately.

:toast:

[guidod]

33. Nice job ProSense, thanks...

[LiberalAndProud]

34. It really is time to throw the bums out.

If Dick Cheney did what Libby alleges, wouldn't that make him guilty of treason? And the criminal penalty would be ... what?

I find myself reminiscing. Spiro Agnew and a little disagreement with the IRS keeps popping into my head.
_________

"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action."

"The President has set high standards, the highest of standards for people in his administration. He's made it very clear to people in his administration that he expects them to adhere to the highest standards of conduct. If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."
_________


P.S. I oppose the death penalty (even for Cheney).
P.P.S. Innocence should be presumed until guilt has been proven (even for Cheney).

[Jane Austin]

36. Here's another story from today.

A republican congressional staffer reported that Frist and Hastert stuck the protection for vaccine makers into the health bill in the middle of the night after the conference committee had adjourned.

He or his boss was there and complained about it.

Dems had complained the next day, but this account is from a couple of republicans from Mississippi.

And then there is the widespread dissemination today of the worst picture ever of Laura Bush. :)

[Hardrada]

37. I wish we had something like the Tower of London

where Bush and cronies could be escorted as base traitors to the commonweal. And where the big iron gates could clang down behind them.

[Fovea]

43. Hey Harald, we do!

Leavenworth federal pen is only 20 some miles from my house. Close enough to visit when they get thrown in the slammer!

[depakid]

39. Yeah, but there's no opposition party

and the so called "mainstream" media is nothing but a propaganda organ for the Republican party.

Bush and the far right can do anything- no matter how egregious- who's going to stop them?

[ProSense]

40. Kennedy e-mail: he will be on NBC Nightly News to discuss Libby leak

Dear

Reports are coming out of Washington today that Scooter Libby testified in court that Vice President Cheney and other "superiors" authorized him to release classified information to make the case for war and defend the administration from criticism of its actions.

Senator Kennedy summed it up earlier this afternoon: "These charges, if true, represent a new low in the already sordid case of partisan interests being placed above national security. The Vice President's vindictiveness in defending the misguided war in Iraq is obvious. If he used classified information to defend it, he should be prepared to take full responsibility."

A National Journal reporter named Murray Waas wrote the story. We've put together a post on his article at the campaign's journal:

http://www.tedkennedy.com/waas

These reports are particularly troubling in light of recent revelations about the President's domestic wire-tapping program. If it turns out that the Vice President authorized the peddling of highly-classified national defense information to serve a political purpose, what does this mean for the intelligence the Bush Administration has gathered about U.S. citizens through their secret and warrantless eavesdropping? And what does this say about their commitment to national security?

Please forward this around to anyone you think may be interested. Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Marty Walsh
Campaign Manager

P.S. The Senator is scheduled to appear on NBC Nightly News later this evening to discuss these recent developments. Hope you can tune in.

From above link:

Who Authorized the Leaks?

The National Journal’s Murray Waas is reporting that I. Lewis Libby testified that he was authorized to share classified information with reporters by his superiors. The article goes on to point out that one of those superiors is likely to be Vice President Cheney. This would mean that the Plame Leak might extend far beyond what has been previously reported.

Senator Kennedy has already given us his first impressions of these charges:

These charges, if true, represent a new low in the already sordid case of partisan interests being placed above national security. The Vice President’s vindictiveness in defending the misguided war in Iraq is obvious. If he used classified information to defend it, he should be prepared to take full responsibility. President Bush has clearly said he would ‘clean house’ of everyone who had anything to do with the Plame leak.

The American people are also entitled to know whether the President knew that classified information was being used for this purpose, and whether he authorized it himself.

In addition, they are entitled to know that the case will not be scuttled by the administration when the decisions are made on declassifying documents necessary for the trial.

The article paints a picture that is not pretty for the Administration or our country:

Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

Libby specifically claimed that in one instance he had been authorized to divulge portions of a then-still highly classified National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein’s purported efforts to develop nuclear weapons, according to correspondence recently filed in federal court by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

Beyond what was stated in the court paper, say people with firsthand knowledge of the matter, Libby also indicated what he will offer as a broad defense during his upcoming criminal trial: that Vice President Cheney and other senior Bush administration officials had earlier encouraged and authorized him to share classified information with journalists to build public support for going to war. Later, after the war began in 2003, Cheney authorized Libby to release additional classified information, including details of the NIE, to defend the administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case for war.

You should read the entire article. And if you want to read more about the Plame Leak a good place to start is Murray Waas’ collection of articles on the subject.

–Crystal Patterson

[enid602]

41. Humpty Dumpty , , , , ,

I don't think the BFEE will be able to put Humpty back together again.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

42. watch for a terra-ist attack on US soil. They time them when

the truth starts sneaking out, despite their best efforts at muzzling the presstitutes.

[Wordie]

45. Great post, ProSense! K&R

[Surya Gayatri]

47. Good post, K & R n/t

[Carni]

50. Let's see if Mr Teflon can eject himself from all this

I would love to be a fly on the wall at the whitehouse tonight...I'll bet bushit really has his shorts in a knot :)

[ProSense]

51. Bush budget even being criticized by a Texas hypocrite

Perry jabs at Republicans, says they're spending like Democrats

LAST UPDATE: 2/10/2006 12:49:05 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry took some jabs at his own party Friday, telling a conservative group that Republicans are spending like Democrats and may be in jeopardy for doing so.

He criticized the tens of thousands of earmarks - the congressional term for pet projects - passed in 2004.


Snip...

"It's interesting Rick Perry is criticizing a Tom DeLay Congress when he is the one who called three special legislative sessions and spent $10 million in taxpayer money for a redistricting plan to keep his big spending GOP buddies like Tom DeLay in power," said Amber Moon, Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman.

DeLay, R-Sugar Land, pressured the Texas Legislature to redraw the state's congressional districts to elect more Republicans from the state.

more...

http://www.woai.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=F8B98DC0-CD69-4D6E-8322-EAD314BC3A84

[TankLV]

62. What a fucking :LIAR! If they were spending like Democrats, we'd have a

HUGH SURPLUS now with a BALANCED BUDGET.

No, they are spending EXACTLY like REPUKES, good hair boy!

[DemoTex]

52. Death by a thousand cuts?

Another weak week for the Chimperor. Add the Coretta Scott King funeral and the R/W response to that list of weekly woes, too. Also, Brownie's bird-song on the hill brought Katrina back to the front burner, where it belongs. Woe is he!

[ProSense]

53. ABA President Urges Bush to Obey Spy Laws

ABA President Urges Bush to Obey Spy Laws

By ANNA JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Friday, February 10, 2006; 7:39 PM

CHICAGO -- The president of the nation's largest lawyers group said Friday that President Bush should comply with federal law when conducting electronic surveillance of Americans and refrain from scaring people into giving up their civil liberties in the fight against terrorism.

"Times of conflict have often put stress on America's liberties. It's a time when we get frightened and are tempted to take shortcuts with the Constitution," American Bar Association President Michael Greco said. "But I personally reject the false choice that is being offered Americans that they must give up their liberties to have security."


Greco, who spoke at the ABA's midyear meeting in Chicago, also released a proposal recommending that the association oppose further electronic surveillance in the U.S. for foreign intelligence purposes that does not comply with the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. If the ABA's policy-making body approves it in a vote set for Monday, the proposal will become official policy of the 400,000-member group.

The proposal was recommended by an ABA task force that examined whether Bush was authorized to give the National Security Agency the power to eavesdrop on the international communications of Americans with suspected ties to terrorists without first obtaining warrants from a secretive court set up under FISA.

more...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021001749.html

[ProSense]

54. Pentagon removes UCSC from 'credible threat' list

February 11, 2006

Pentagon removes UCSC from 'credible threat' list

By Brian Seals and Tom Dunlap
Sentinel staff writers
SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton's efforts to get a controversial "credible threat" designation removed from a Pentagon list have finally paid off.

The Department of Defense has deleted mention of a UCSC protest from a military database, university officials said Friday.

The April 5 military recruiting protest was one of many that the Pentagon had deemed a "credible threat," according to reports by MSNBC in December.

But one UCSC student was not placated by Friday's announcement.

"It isn't exactly a huge success on our part, because the spying has already happened," said Josh Sonnenfeld, a member of the group Students Against War, which organized the protest at a UCSC job fair.

more...

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/February/11/local/stories/02local.htm

[ProSense]

55. Ex-CIA official rips war case

Ex-CIA official rips war case

Says Iraq data distorted to sway public
By Cam Simpson
Washington Bureau
Published February 11, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The former CIA official charged with managing the U.S. government's secret intelligence assessments on Iraq says the Bush administration chose war first and then misleadingly used raw data to assemble a public case for its decision to invade.

Paul Pillar, who was the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Middle East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, said the Bush administration also played on the nation's fears in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, falsely linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein's regime even though intelligence agencies had not produced a single analysis supporting "the notion of an alliance" between the two.

Instead, Pillar writes in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, connections were drawn between the terrorists and Iraq because "the administration wanted to hitch the Iraq expedition to the `war on terror' and the threat the American public feared most, thereby capitalizing on the country's militant post-9/11 mood."

The specific critiques in Pillar's 4,500-word essay, titled, "Intelligence, Policy and the War in Iraq," are not new. But it apparently is the first time such attacks are being publicly leveled by such a high-ranking intelligence official directly involved behind the scenes--before, during and after the invasion of Iraq nearly three years ago.

more...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602110096feb11,1,5857923.story?track=rss

[ProSense]

56. More...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2452814&mesg_id=2452814

[ProSense]

57. Bush and the trust gap (a must-read)

Bush and the trust gap

The Associated Press
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2006

We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers - and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less.

This has long been a central flaw of Bush's presidency. But last week produced a flood of evidence that vividly drove home the point.

Domestic spying: After 9/11, Bush authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the conversations and e-mail of people in the United States without obtaining a warrant or allowing Congress or the courts to review the operation. Lawmakers from both parties have raised considerable doubt about the legality of this program, but Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made it clear last Monday at a Senate hearing that Bush hasn't the slightest intention of changing it.

Snip…

The prison camps: It has been nearly two years since the Abu Ghraib scandal illuminated the abuses at U.S. military prison camps. There have been congressional hearings, court rulings and a law requiring prisoners to be treated humanely. Yet nothing has changed. Bush also made it clear that he intends to follow the new law on the treatment of prisoners when his internal moral compass tells him it is the right thing to do.

Snip…

The war in Iraq: One of Bush's biggest "trust me" moments was when he told Americans that the United States had to invade Iraq because it possessed dangerous weapons and posed an immediate threat to America. The White House has blocked a congressional investigation into whether it exaggerated the intelligence on Iraq, and continues to insist that the decision to invade was based on the consensus of American intelligence agencies.

more....

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/12/opinion/edtrust.php

[Loge23]

58. ...the beat goes on

Nothing new here.
These are the facts that we have known for quite some time already.
So the NYT prints yet another editorial. Tomorrow, Rove will have yet another wash ready for the rest of the media.

[AX10]

60. It was going to happen eventually.

Now, lets turn this into a Democratic victory this Fall.

[ProSense]

61. Bush lies about Abramoff photos

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2453254&mesg_id=2454759

[ProSense]

63. Senators: Cheney Should Be Probed in Leak

Senators: Cheney Should Be Probed in Leak

26 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday.


Sen. Jack Reed (news, bio, voting record), D-R.I., called the leak of intelligence information "inappropriate" if it is true that unnamed "superiors" instructed Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to divulge the material on Iraq.

Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., said a full investigation is necessary.

"I don't think anybody should be releasing classified information, period, whether in the Congress, executive branch or some underling in some bureaucracy," said Allen, who appeared with Reed on "Fox News Sunday."

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_co/cia_leak_1

[ProSense]

64. Conyers: Bad Day for Cheney, Worse Week for the White House

From Conyers' blog:

Blogged by JC on 02.12.06 @ 04:28 PM ET

Bad Day for Cheney, Worse Week for the White House
Horrible 5 Years for the Country

First the Vice President shoots a fellow hunter (accidentally -- and thankfully, the individual appears to be ok), and than there are bipartisan calls from the Senate for an investigation...

First the Vice President shoots a fellow hunter (accidentally -- and thankfully, the individual appears to be ok), and than there are bipartisan calls from the Senate for an investigation into his approval of leaks of classified infomation. Not a good day for the VP.

To make matters worse, the leaked House Report into Katrina appears to be laying the responsibility directly with the President and top officials, such as Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff.

And the NSA scandal is not going away. Our committee will have a classified briefing tomorrow, and on Wednesday, we will finally get a chance to vote on my Resolution of Inquiry asking for the legal "opinions" used to justify the program. Again, we may not win, but we will get some accountability at long last. Please turn into the Judiciary Committee web site for live webcasting of the markup on my resolution, set to begin Wed. at 10 am ET. Bradblog has the information.

linked here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=396149&mesg_id=396149

[ProSense]

65. US federal gov't disregarded Katrina threat: Post

US federal gov't disregarded Katrina threat: Post

Sun Feb 12, 3:41 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional report will show the U.S. government from President Bush down disregarded the threat of Hurricane Katrina and failed to take live-saving countermeasures, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Snip...

It lays primary fault with the passive reaction and misjudgments of top Bush aides, especially Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the Post said.

Snip...

Bush could have but did not speed the response because he alone had the power to cut through bureaucratic resistance, the Post said.

Snip...

The 600-page report, to be released publicly on Wednesday, was produced by a committee of eleven House Republicans.

Democrats have boycotted the review and called for an independent commission.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060212/us_nm/hurricane_congress_dc_2

Report: Government-Wide Katrina Failings

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 25 minutes ago

Snip...

The special House panel, chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., was boycotted by Democratic leaders who called for an independent inquiry of the government's failings similar to that of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Snip...

"Our judgment, based on a careful review of the record, is that the Department of Homeland Security needs new and more experienced leadership," Reps. Charlie Melancon and William Jefferson, both of Louisiana, said.

Details of the House findings were first reported in Sunday's editions of The Washington Post.

House investigators "are left scratching our heads at the range of clumsiness and ineptitude that characterized government behavior before and after this storm," the summary said. "...If this is what happens when we have advance warning, we shudder to imagine the consequences when we do not. Four and a half years after 9/11, America is still not ready for prime time."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_go_co/katrina_congress_46

[ProSense]

66. The man who Cheney shot

Feb. 12, 2006, 10:28PM

Whittington is influential in Texas politics

By JANET ELLIOTT
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN - Prison reformer, property rights advocate and troubleshooter for several Texas governors, Harry Whittington runs in powerful circles.

Whittington, 78, a Republican, is chairman of the Texas Funeral Services Commission and has served on the state prison board and Texas Public Finance Authority. He is a familiar figure in downtown Austin, where he keeps a law office and owns millions of dollars worth of property. One of his buildings is frequently leased by Republican candidates, including the 2006 campaign of Gov. Rick Perry.

"Harry is a very respected attorney here in Austin," said Republican political consultant Reggie Bashur. "He has served on a number of boards for a number of governors over the years. He is a man of absolute integrity."

Snip...

Bush denied trying to intervene, and the funeral regulator later settled her whisleblower case for $210,000. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.

more...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3654596.html

[tinfoilinfor2005]

67. I'm a little dense this morning...can someone clarify?

Does the mayor of L.A. mean that he wasn't aware that bush was going to go on t.v. and talk about the thwarted terrorist attempt in 2002, or is he saying that he wasn't aware that there WAS a thwarted terrorist attempt in 2002. Big difference in the two, but the report is kind of vague.

[ProSense]

68. The current mayor

says he wasn't informed about the new details. There was a lot of controversy around the original claim by Bush (around a lot of the terror alert). But why was Bush in a rush to put out the information? One would think that Bush, before going public with new information, would want to share it with the mayor of the targeted city. How does holding on to this alleged new information, keeping it from LA city officials, enhance security? JMO

[tinfoilinfor2005]

70. Thanks!

Yes, revealing it to the public now without coordinating it with the local officials is stupid and dangerous. It can set off a panic response or at the very least, leave the citizens of the area questioning and distrusting their local government. Of course this is how this administration operates, so no surprises here.

[ProSense]

69. Shoots, Hides and Leaves

Shoots, Hides and Leaves

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, February 13, 2006; 11:45 AM

Why isn't Dick Cheney on TV right now?

The vice president of the United States shoots someone in a hunting accident and rather than immediately come clean to the public, his office keeps it a secret for almost a whole day. Even then, it's only to confirm a report in a local paper.

And still from the White House, no details, no apologies, and no Cheney.

No one is suggesting that Cheney shot his hunting buddy on purpose. But could he have been negligent? What does he say happened exactly? What do the others there -- not just their hostess -- say took place? Shouldn't there be some sort of investigation? Does Cheney take any responsibility? And just when was he planning on letting the press know?

Shailagh Murray and Peter Baker write in The Washington Post: "Vice President Cheney accidentally sprayed a companion with birdshot while hunting quail on a private Texas ranch, injuring the man in the face, neck and chest, the vice president's office confirmed yesterday after a Texas newspaper reported the incident.

more..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

A lot of great links in this article.

[kayice]

71. Pat Roberts needs to share his 'memory' pills with

Dubya since he cannot recall the dozen or so times Abramoff says they met. Robert's pills might help also help Prez, jr. to recall that he cut student-aid when students ask him why in his campus Q&A's such as K-State, instead of looking around like he first heard it.

[FreedomAngel82]

72. Love it!

I wonder why the other guy resigned though. And funny how they didn't tell what this guy has done to help "families across America."

[ProSense]

73. White House can't spin fast enough

White House can't spin fast enough

By PHILIP GAILEY
St. Petersburg Times
13-FEB-06

President Bush was probably happy to be in Atlanta last week for the six-hour funeral service for Coretta Scott King, even if some of the speakers, including former President Jimmy Carter, used the occasion to take potshots at him on the war in Iraq, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and government eavesdropping. Compared to what awaited the president on his return to Washington, the knocks in Atlanta were a bubble bath.

On Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans are standing up to the Bush-Cheney White House on such issues as the balance between security and civil liberties, budget insanity and the conflict between executive and legislative powers in the administration's domestic eavesdropping program.

But that's not the half of it.

Brownie is talking to Congress. Scooter is talking to a grand jury, and Jack is talking to reporters. And what they are saying does not exactly follow the White House script on Katrina, corruption in Washington or the leaking of classified information by White House officials to make the case for going to war against Iraq.


more...

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=GAILEY-02-13-06

[ProSense]

74. Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives

February 13, 2006 latimes.com

Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives

A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law.

By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer

NEW YORK — A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture.

It also urges the United States to close the military prison in Cuba and bring the captives to trial on U.S. territory, charging that Washington's justification for the continued detention is a distortion of international law.

The report, compiled by five U.N. envoys who interviewed former prisoners, detainees' lawyers and families, and U.S. officials, is the product of an 18-month investigation ordered by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The team did not have access to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Nonetheless, its findings — notably a conclusion that the violent force-feeding of hunger strikers, incidents of excessive violence used in transporting prisoners and combinations of interrogation techniques "must be assessed as amounting to torture" — are likely to stoke U.S. and international criticism of the prison.

more...

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-gitmo13feb13,1,5090186.story?coll=la-mininav-outdoors&track=mostemailedlink

[ProSense]

75. EU Parliament wants to question CIA officials in secret prisons probe

EU Parliament wants to question CIA officials in secret prisons probe

By Jan Sliva
ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:14 p.m. February 13, 2006

STRASBOURG, France – European Union lawmakers said Monday they were looking into the possibility of questioning senior CIA and Bush administration officials as part of their investigation into whether the U.S. held terror suspects at secret prisons in Europe.

Some deputies acknowledged that the European Parliament cannot subpoena U.S. officials to testify, however, and suggested sending a delegation to the United States to speak with officials there.

One of the EU lawmakers, British Liberal Democratic Sarah Ludford, said they could also seek to speak with former members of U.S. or other intelligence services who might be able to help their inquiry, which so far is relying largely on unconfirmed press reports.

Allegations the CIA hid and interrogated key al-Qaeda suspects at Soviet-era compounds in Eastern Europe were first reported Nov. 2 in The Washington Post. The 732-member EU legislature agreed two weeks ago to launch its own investigation. A separate inquiry is also being conducted by the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog.

more...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060213-1814-cia-secretprisons.html

[ProSense]

76. A ready, fire, aim mentality

A ready, fire, aim mentality

Column by Eugene Robinson

WASHINGTON - I told you people Dick Cheney was dangerous.

Let's all wish a full and speedy recovery for Harry Whittington, the man Cheney accidentally shot on Saturday while they were out on in the Texas boonies hunting quail. As for the trigger-happy vice president, let's hope he takes this unfortunate episode as a hint to pack up his shotgun and go home. Lord knows he's done enough.

The man is out of control.

snip...

His uncompromising drill-and-guzzle position on energy makes a lot of oil industry executives sound like tree-huggers. When the subject turns to measures that could actually begin to lead this country toward energy independence, such as conservation and alternative fuels, Cheney begins checking his watch and barely tries to stifle his yawns. But let someone raise the prospect of drilling in the Arctic, which couldn't even begin to slake America's energy thirst, and he lights up with such glee that it's impossible not to think of Mr. Burns on "The Simpsons."

Conservation sounds like one of those sissified foreign ideas. Drilling, now that's what America is all about - at least the America that spends its weekends on a 50,000-acre ranch in south Texas with a bunch of fellow millionaires, shooting at quail.

Typically, Cheney's office didn't bother to tell anyone for more than 18 hours that the vice president of the United States had shot someone. A vice-presidential shooting doesn't happen every day, and I, for one, would appreciate being informed whenever the man who's just "a heartbeat away from the presidency" peppers a 78-year-old attorney with birdshot.

more...

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060214/EDIT/602140319/1003

[ProSense]

77. Timeline Following Cheney's Hunting Mishap

Timeline Following Cheney's Hunting Mishap

By The Associated Press
A timeline of events following Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident, all times EST:

SATURDAY, FEB. 11

4 p.m.: Cheney begins an afternoon quail hunt with four other hunters on the private Armstrong Ranch in south Texas. They had been hunting earlier in the day, but took a break for lunch.

6:30 p.m.: Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter Harry Whittington while aiming for a bird. Secret Service agents and medical personnel with Cheney tend to wounds on Whittington's face, neck and chest.

7:20 p.m.: An ambulance takes Whittington to a Christus Spohn Hospital Kleburg.

7:30 p.m.: White House chief of staff Andy Card tells President Bush there was an accident, but Card is unaware Cheney was involved.


more...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-cheney-timeline,1,4210861.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[ProSense]

78. Cheney: From seasoned mentor to center of controversy

Posted 2/14/2006 5:51 PM Updated 2/14/2006 6:21 PM

Cheney: From seasoned mentor to center of controversy

By Tom Raum, The Associated Press

Snip...

The shooting presents a new problem for the White House as it seeks to repair damaged credibility in a midterm election year in which continued GOP control of Congress hangs in the balance.

Cheney, 65, whose "favorable" rating was just 24% in a recent CBS-New York Times poll, has found himself in other storms swirling around the Bush presidency.

His strong insistence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction helped build the case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He also has played the role of point man in the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program in the war on terror.

And, more recently, his indicted former chief of staff — I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby — testified to a grand jury about being authorized to disclose classified information to the press in the CIA leak case "by his superiors," according to court documents. Democrats have demanded to know whether Cheney was one of those superiors.

more...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-14-cheney-analysis_x.htm

[ProSense]

79. Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs

Handling of Accident Creates Tension Between White House Staffs

By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: February 15, 2006

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — When the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, came to the press room just before 10 a.m. Tuesday and suggested he was wearing an orange tie to avoid a stray shot from Vice President Dick Cheney, it seemed to signal an effort to defuse the accidental-shooting story with a laugh.

But by midday, it was clear that the staffs of the president and the vice president had failed to communicate. Just after arriving at work around 7:45 a.m., Mr. Cheney learned that the man he had shot, Harry M. Whittington, was about to undergo a medical procedure on his heart because his injuries were more serious than earlier believed, Mr. Cheney's spokeswoman said.

No one in Mr. Cheney's office passed the word to Mr. McClellan, senior officials at the White House said, adding that the press secretary would never have joked about the shooting accident if he had known about the turn of events involving Mr. Whittington.

It was the latest example of the degree to which Mr. Cheney's habit of living in his own world in the Bush White House — surrounded by his own staff, relying on his own instincts, saying as little as possible — had backfired since the accident in Texas on Saturday. Mr. Cheney's staff members have kept their comments to chronological details and to repeating the vice president's written statements.

More...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/politics/15veep.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Roland99]

80. It's a COUNTRY in crisis!

[ProSense]

81. Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP

Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP

Public Statement On Shooting Urged

By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A01

Vice President Cheney's slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and is prompting senior White House officials to press Cheney to publicly address the issue as early as today, several prominent Republicans said yesterday.

The Republicans said Cheney should have immediately disclosed the shooting Saturday night to avoid even the suggestion of a coverup and should have offered a public apology for his role in accidentally shooting Harry Whittington, a GOP lawyer from Austin. Whittington was hospitalized Saturday night in Corpus Christi, Tex., and was moved back into the intensive-care unit after suffering an abnormal heart rhythm yesterday morning.

Snip...

"I cannot believe he does not look back and say this should have been handled differently," said Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota who is close to the White House. Weber said Cheney "made it a much bigger issue than it needed to be."

Marlin Fitzwater, a former Republican White House spokesman, told Editor & Publisher magazine that Cheney "ignored his responsibility to the American people."


more...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021402137.html?nav=rss_politics

[Kablooie]

82. But none of this makes any difference! Bush can blackmail anyone now...

with the info he's gotten from the NSA thing.

I'm afraid the Dems have lost again and pretty much permanently.
Just watch.

[ProSense]

83. Um...NO! n/t

[Kablooie]

84. I've been dissapointed by the Dems too many times now ...

This time I'll still be dissapointed but at least I'll be right.

[ProSense]

85. OK! n/t

[ProSense]

86. Search activity for Cheney jumps 300 percent

Snip...

Search activity for Vice President Dick Cheney has jumped 300 percent over the past 24 hours, following news that Cheney accidentally shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington during a weekend hunting trip in Texas. The majority of Cheney-related search queries are for Dick Cheney jokes. The top Cheney searches include: Dick Cheney Accident, Dick Cheney Shot, Dick Cheney Jokes, Cheney's Got a Gun and I Shot Dick Cheney. Meanwhile, Valentine's Day (#1) takes its annual position at the top of this week's list, as searches for Love Poems (#7) increased 897 percent in web popularity over last week. The top 10 most popular Love Poem search queries include: Teen Love Poems, Short Love Poems, Funny Love Poems, True Love Poems, Romantic Poems, Maya Angelou Poems, Best Love Poems, Love Poems and Quotes, Valentine Poems for Kids, and Valentine Poems for Friends.

http://www.sys-con.com/read/184111.htm

And the majority of articles about the shooting mention the Libby case.

[ProSense]

87. Cheney Says He Has OK to Declassify Info (an admission of guilt?)

Cheney Says He Has OK to Declassify Info

Vice President Dick Cheney Says He's Authorized to Declassify Government Information

By PETE YOST

WASHINGTON Feb 15, 2006 (AP)— Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has the power to declassify sensitive government information, authority that could set up a criminal defense for his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Cheney's disclosure comes a week after reports that Libby testified under oath he was authorized by superiors in 2003 to disclose highly sensitive prewar information to reporters. The information, about Iraq and alleged weapons of mass destruction, was used by the Bush administration to bolster its case for invading Iraq.

At the time of Libby's contacts with reporters in June and July 2003, the administration including Cheney, who was among the war's most ardent proponents, faced growing criticism. No weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, and Bush supporters were anxious to show that the White House had relied on prewar intelligence projecting a strong threat from such weapons.

When Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald revealed Libby's assertions to a grand jury that he had been authorized by his superiors to spread sensitive information, the prosecutor did not specify which superiors.

more...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1624897&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[ProSense]

89. Judge sides with privacy rights group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2464585&mesg_id=2464585

[ProSense]

90. Sen. Roberts knows the spying program is illegal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2461323&mesg_id=2467735

[ProSense]

91. The crooked Bush cabal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2469109&mesg_id=2469109

[ProSense]

92. So, how is Bush doing? n/t

[CarlSheeler4U]

93. So Does Impeach Bush get you to do something new!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/19/1730/42036

Carl
Sheeler for US Senate
www.carlsheeler.com

Be a patriot and pass the bulletin board link to every person you know and every blog you can and ask the same from them, too.

[ProSense]

94. More on impeachment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2474677&mesg_id=2474677

[ProSense]

95. The port deal

Delay possible in ports deal, Democrats want new probe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2477818&mesg_id=2477818

NJ , Port Auth. owners to sue Bush admin for data on Port Newark deal
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2477675&mesg_id=2477675

Lott: "Commerce Committee in the Dark"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2477653&mesg_id=2477653

[ProSense]

96. Rockefeller: Bush speech a security risk

Senate Democrat chastises Bush on al Qaeda speech (security risk)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2477825&mesg_id=2477825