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July 18, 2007
Bush Administration Official Thought WTC Towers Were "Charged"
A senior Bush administration official's first reaction to seeing the twin towers collapse on 9/11 was that the buildings had been deliberately imploded with explosive charges according to an account in Dick Cheney's new official biography, which also reveals that Cheney thought Flight 93 had been shot down after hearing of its demise in Pennsylvania.
FBI Unit That Lied To Get Phone Records Now Wants $5 Million To Pay Snooping Telecoms
An FBI unit reportedly facing a criminal investigation for abusing the Patriot Act is asking Congress for $5.3 million in 2008 to continue paying three telecommunications companies to store Americans phone and internet records for years and to provide instantaneous access. The Justice Department has long been pushing telecommunications companies to retain phone and internet records for longer periods of time, and the contracts largely achieve the FBI's goals.
Canadians Completely Unaware of Looming North American Union
In just over a month’s time, on August 20, the most powerful president in the world will be arriving in Montebello, Quebec for a two-day conference. President George W. Bush will be meeting with Stephen Harper and their Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon. So far, the silence from the Canadian and American media has been deafening.
Talk to 90% of people on the street and they won’t know about this upcoming conference, and if by a slim chance they do, they won’t know the purpose of the meeting or why the leaders of Canada, United States and Mexico are meeting in the dog days of summer under what amounts to a veil of secrecy
Total power drives you totally mad
One tends to think of those who rule as being ruthlessly logical in their application of power; after all, maintenance of the status quo should surely be one of their major objectives?
But their loss of legitimacy, obvious to all except the most myopic and self-delusional points to something quite fundamental taking place, for the loss of legitimacy reveals a ruling class that has completely lost the plot.
Video - Janeane Garofalo - 9/11 Was an Inside Job
Goldman, JPMorgan Saddled With Debt They Can't Sell
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the rest of Wall Street are stuck with at least $11 billion of loans and bonds they can't readily sell.
Of course, the NSA couldn't ALREADY have Beltway Madam Jeanne Palfrey's phone records, right?
Of more concern than the NSA warrantless spying on phones, email, fax, that they tell us about, is their thought monitoring program that has gone on in administration after administration.
Ex-Washington Investigative producer for ABC's World News Tonight James Bamford wrote two books on the National Security Agency.
Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, convened a Jan. 20 hearing on the warrantless spying. Among those called as witnesses was James Bamford. Bamford is quoted as telling the committee "Today, the NSA is the largest intelligence agency on earth and by far the most dangerous if not subjected to strict laws and oversight. It has the ability to virtually get into someone's mind."
Sneak Attack On America - New World Order Style
The Truth of the Al Qaeda Myth: Al-Qaidah is Al-CIA-duh
This is a short clip from a compelling BBC documentary entitled "The Power Of Nightmares".
Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground
The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
Filipino gets 6 years prison in Cheney spy case
A former top police official in the Philippines who admitted receiving classified information stolen from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Tuesday.
European judges demand answers on Italy spying
Judges in Germany, France and Spain are demanding answers from Rome over accusations that Italian spies snooped on magistrates across Europe, even as a key lawmaker in Italy played down the affair.
"Startling allegation" that "elements within the CIA are sabotaging our own War on Terror
"The CIA ... is the only agency I know that has a retired group of officers who formed together for the sole purpose of attacking Bush," said Scarborough. "The head of the organization goes around the country giving speeches about how the government did 9/11."
This was apparently a reference to Ray McGovern of Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who has criticized the 9/11 Commission Report by saying that "to say that no one could prevent 9/11 was a bold-faced lie. It basically let the president and everyone responsible off the hook."
Rendition inquiry reveals rift in CIA ranks
Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who produced the Council of Europe's report on the hidden transport and detention of suspects, today told a committee in the European parliament that he had received information about the secret programme from dissident officers within the upper reaches of the CIA.
Just Another Day in Iraq: 100 fathers, mothers, sons and daughters killed
Britain releases half its terror suspects without charge
Half the terror suspects in Britain who have been arrested since the attacks of September 11, 2001 have been released without charge, the British Home Office (Interior Ministry) said Tuesday.
IAEA chief hails Iran's "positive" response to nuclear issues
The head of UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday hailed Iran's 'positive' approach towards negotiations to reach a resolution to its nuclear power ambitions.
'Sicko' On Life Support
Moviegoers who were urged to "send a message" by seeing Michael Moore's "Sicko" have stayed away in droves. Now the film that was supposed to spark a health care revolution is barely breathing.
Drug barons turn Bissau into Africa's first narco-state
Welcome to Africa's first narco-state, a country with just 1.5 million people but a roaring drugs trade. Every day an estimated one tonne of pure Colombian cocaine is thought to be transiting through the mainland's mangrove swamps and the chain of islands that make up Guinea-Bissau, most of it en route to Europe.
Drugs disappear in corruption case
The report into the Ceja Task Force, which was formed in 2002 to investigate corruption of the Drug Squad, concluded the amount of drugs traded by police would never be known.
The transactions had a potential street value of millions of dollars.
Bush Middle East plan starts to unravel
George Bush yesterday encountered the weakest of welcomes for his call for an international peace conference on the Middle East.
A day after he unveiled his plan for a conference of Israelis, Palestinians and Arab governments in the autumn, there were few signs of optimism that such a gathering could produce a final resolution to the conflict.
Dow Jones approves Murdoch takeover deal
The board of US media firm Dow Jones & Co voted to approve a five-billion-dollar takeover bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the target company announced late Tuesday.
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