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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:35 AM
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MICHAEL MOORE SUBPOENAED BY BUSH ADMINISTRATION
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 06:38 AM by kpete
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said Thursday that
the Bush administration has served him with a subpoena regarding his trip to Cuba during the making of his new film, "Sicko."


The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who appeared Thursday on NBC’s "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," said he was notified about the subpoena at the network’s studios in Burbank, Calif.

"I haven’t even told my own family yet," Moore said. "I was just informed when I was back there with Jay that the Bush administration has now issued a subpoena for me."

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He took three Sept. 11, 2001, emergency rescue workers to Guantanamo Bay "because I heard the al-Qaida terrorists we have in the camps there, detained, are receiving free dental, medical, eye care, the whole deal, and our own (Sept. 11) rescue workers can’t get that in New York City."

Moore said the film’s distributor, the Weinstein Co., will donate 11 percent of "Sicko’s" box-office receipts Aug. 11 to "help these workers and the other workers who need help

VIDEO AT http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6Zn6JmXSM
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:40 AM
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1. Subpoena?
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 06:40 AM by WilliamPitt
Never heard of it.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:43 AM
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2. Subpoenas only apply to the little people...
...and liberal Democrats.;)
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:44 AM
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3. Can he claim Executive Privilege???
:shrug:
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Buck Turgidson Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:45 AM
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4. Consecutive Privilege!
...or something like that.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:51 AM
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5. Subpoena for what? Where is the court case? The White House can't subpoena anything.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:55 AM
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6. He should handle his just like Ms. Miers.....
this is called doing the dirty work for the pharma money.

political harassment.
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:59 AM
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7. this is obviously a joke
there is no way they would want to give Michael Moore a microphone to answer their questions.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 07:43 AM
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13. DING DING DING! Drdan, you're our grand prize winner!
Edited on Fri Jul-27-07 07:43 AM by rocknation
...there is no way they would want to give Michael Moore a microphone...
Yeah--Moore's testimony would make George Galloway's sound like a recitation of the alphabet!

:rofl:
rocknation
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NI4NI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 06:59 AM
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8. What Big Pharma wants, Big Pharma gets.
This is an obvious order to BushCO to stop MM issued by Big Pharma.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 07:05 AM
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9. this regime has got to go
I hope MM tells them off good.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 07:06 AM
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10. So, how does that work?
Does the White House have it's own little White House court with little White House judges and little White House prosecutors and...oh, wait.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 07:13 AM
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11. What an opportunity for Michael Moore to state the case for
the right of everyone to health care. It's time to amend the Constitution with this right.:dem:
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-27-07 07:19 AM
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12. What opportunity? They'll probly render him to Poland
for special treatment.
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