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Impeach Bush--Index 30
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July 12, 2006 The lawyers also said the new rules did not apply to the few dozen high-profile prisoners, such as alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who are being held by the CIA at secret locations. July 12, 2006 July 11, 2006 Days after a former private, Steven Green, was charged as a civilian in a US court with rape and four murders, four serving soldiers were charged with the same offences, the US military said in statement on Sunday. It did not name the soldiers. July 9, 2006 July 8, 2006 Throughout the Bush Presidency the major papers have been more than happy to put good polls for Bush on their front pages. Just for the fun of it, let's scan a list of articles from the New York Times and the Washington Post trumpeting good Bush poll numbers. Every single one of these was featured on the front page: July 7, 2006 Shaun Hansen, of Spokane, Wash., is accused of paying $2,500 to have employees at Idaho-based Mylo Enterprises place hundreds of hang-up calls to phone lines offering voters rides to the polls on Nov. 5, 2002. Among the contests decided that day was the close U.S. Senate race in which Republican Rep. John Sununu beat outgoing Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. Three others have been convicted for their roles in the scheme, including James Tobin of Bangor, Maine, President Bush's former campaign chairman for New England. That, along with phone records showing key figures in the phone jamming had regular contact with the White House as the scheme unfolded, has prompted Democrats to suggest the administration was involved. July 9, 2006 The increase in tax receipts looks good because the past five years looked so bad. Revenues are up but have lagged behind economic growth. July 11, 2006 "We need to think very carefully about long-term strategy. If we don't hold to the moral high ground in the medium to long term it will much more difficult to conduct a successful counter-terrorist strategy. July 7, 2006 July 6, 2006 July 4, 2006 The bin Laden unit, codenamed Alec Station, became less valuable as a separate operation as counterterrorism operations eliminated top al Qaeda operatives and the movement's focus shifted more to regional networks of militants, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. July 8, 2006 Shutting down the Bin Laden unit squandered 10 years of expertise in the war on terror, said Michael Scheuer, who founded the unit in 1995 and arguably knows more about Bin Laden than any other western intelligence official. He believes the unit was dismantled because of bureaucratic jealousies within the CIA, and that the closure delivers a further setback to a pursuit that has been squeezed for resources for the past two years. July 8, 2006 July 3, 2006 Close to two thirds of our government's budget deficit is financed by foreigners. As the dollar falls, the price of oil will soar. Period. And we can already see that happening right now. Just last week ... This is not a one-time event. It's the same trend we've been seeing for over three years. And, it's the same trend you're likely to see in the months ahead. No change in policy; no change in surging energy costs. July 9, 2006 The investigative report, by an Army general, will be highly critical of officers for not investigating the Nov. 19 incident in which Marines from Camp Pendleton allegedly stormed into houses and killed the occupants after a roadside bombing killed a fellow Marine. July 9, 2006 The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction will report to the U.S. Congress this month that corruption remains "a very huge challenge to the government of Iraq", Ginger Cruz, deputy inspector general at the oversight agency, told Reuters in an interview in Baghdad on Saturday. July 8, 2006 July 7, 2006 And so conservative Republicans are at it again, this time covering their real intentions of occupying the Middle East, controlling oil distribution in the area, and transferring taxpayer funds into the hands of greedy government contractors and the financial elites under the thin patina of terrorism. And it'll work, too, because as long as we remain afraid for ourselves and our families, we'll gladly vote in our dear leaders again, and let them trample all over our rights without so much as a peep. July 9, 2006 Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, said on Fox News Sunday he had written a four-page to President George W. Bush in May warning him that the failure to disclose the intelligence activities to Congress may be a violation of the law. July 7, 2006 July 8, 2006 July 8, 2006 July 7, 2006 July 8, 2006 "We don't know -- maybe you know more than I do -- about increasing the number of nuclear weapons," Bush said. In a series of congressional hearings last year, top U.S. intelligence officials, including then-CIA Director Porter Goss, testified that North Korea's nuclear capability had increased since 2002, when intelligence assessments estimated it possessed one or two nuclear weapons. Goss in the Feb. 16, 2005, congressional appearance said: "They have a greater capability than that assessment. ... It has increased since then." July 9, 2006 July 8, 2006 "One thing I'm not going to let us do is get caught in the trap of sitting at the table alone with the North Koreans," Bush insisted, rejecting the criticism by Democrats who say such talks would be the only way to break the logjam. July 5, 2006 This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months. July 5, 2006 July 8, 2006 June 19, 2006
June 15, 2006 July 3, 2006 Steven D. Green, a skinny, 21-year-old former private, was led into court wearing baggy shorts, flip-flops and a Johnny Cash T-shirt. He spoke only to confirm his identity and stared as a federal magistrate ordered him held without bond on murder and rape charges that carry a possible death penalty. June 30, 2006 Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, who heads the group that proposes family-related policy for the church, said in an interview with the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana published Thursday that stem cell researchers should be punished in the same way as women who have abortions and doctors who perform them. July 3, 2006 The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages. "The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11," plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. "This undermines that assertion." June 22, 2006 Nearly 20 current and former government officials and industry executives discussed aspects of the Swift operation with The New York Times on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified. Some of those officials expressed reservations about the program, saying that what they viewed as an urgent, temporary measure had become permanent nearly five years later without specific Congressional approval or formal authorization. But Mr. Levey, the Treasury official, said one personhad been removed from the operation for conducting a search considered inappropriate. One person involved in the Swift program estimated that analysts have reviewed international transfers involving "many thousands" of people or groups in the United States. Two other officials also placed the figure in the thousands. Mr. Levey said he could not estimate the number. For many years, law enforcement officials have relied on grand-jury subpoenas or court-approved warrants for such financial data. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the F.B.I. has turned more frequently to an administrative subpoena, known as a national security letter, to demand such records. July 1, 2006 July 3, 2006 June 30, 2006 Presenting her findings in Washington on behalf of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Anne-Marie Lizi recommended the shutting down of the US "war on terror" detention center by end of 2007 because the actual number of dangerous detainees was low. June 30, 2006 Treasury Department undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Stuart A. Levey said, "As the formal and informal financial sectors become increasingly inhospitable to financiers of terrorism, we have witnessed an increasing reliance by Al Qaida and terrorist groups on cash couriers. The movement of money via cash couriers is now one of the principal methods that terrorists use to move funds." In 2002 and 2003, the Congressional Research Service documented terrorists' increased use of alternative money flows, including "informal value transfer [hawala] systems that leave virtually no paper trail." Further, various news outlets and independent organizations have noted terrorist organizations' hesitance to use the international banking system in recent years. June 29, 2006 June 30, 2006 June 29, 2006 June 30, 2006 June 29, 2006 June 30, 2006 The court's 5-3 ruling said that the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war had to be applied to proceedings against all detainees at Guantanamo. June 27, 2006 "Excellent," said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. "He got all the important material and got it right." Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation that is woven throughout the documentary. "I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate," Corell said. "After the presentation I said, `Al, I'm absolutely blown away. There's a lot of details you could get wrong.' ... I could find no error." June 23, 2006 June 23, 2006 June 21, 2006 The Pentagon began investigating shortly after an Iraqi man identified as Hashim Ibrahim Awad was killed April 26 in Hamdania, west of Baghdad. Navarre did not disclose details about the incident but a senior Pentagon official with direct knowledge of the investigation has said evidence indicates troops entered the town in search of an insurgent and, failing to find him, grabbed an unarmed man from his home and shot him. June 19, 2006 June 19, 2006 The shift includes backers of the Republican Party in the insurance, pharmaceuticals and tobacco industries, such as American International Group Inc., Wyeth, and Reynolds American Inc., according to PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan tracker of campaign contributions. June 13, 2006 June 20, 2006 June 23, 2006 "What I am worried about is that there is a potential for amassing huge databases of individuals — linked by phone records, linked by financial records — that can be kept and used without any kind of real oversight. It's frightening," Krent said. June 20, 2006 After a Senate investigation unearthed evidence that the tanker purchase was viewed inside the Pentagon as a politically tinged bailout for Boeing, Air Force Secretary James G. Roche and his top acquisitions deputy resigned from government. Boeing's chief executive was replaced, and last month the firm agreed to pay $615 million to settle all liability for the tanker scandal and an unrelated impropriety. It was the largest penalty paid by a defense contractor. The investigators tried a different tack. Tell us, one said, about the extent and nature of conversations with the White House about the tanker lease. The question related to the fact that in 2002 President Bush asked then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. to help reach a deal between the Pentagon and Boeing, which had substantial clout on Capitol Hill and was a major contributor to Bush's inaugural celebration. July 1, 2006 June 20, 2006 June 20, 2006 A federal jury found David H. Safavian guilty of three counts of lying or making false statements and one count of obstructing justice in the first trial to emerge from the scandal surrounding the disgraced lobbyist. June 29, 2006 In the highly likely event that Canon Michael Barlowe, a former Wall Street banker, is elected as Bishop of Newark, this will confirm fears that there can now be no reconciliation between the liberal and conservative wings of the worldwide Anglican Church. June 29, 2006 June 25, 2006 June 8, 2006 Nonfinancial debt had risen at a 9.4% clip in the fourth quarter. The first quarter's acceleration was primarily due to increased borrowing by businesses and the government. June 21, 2006 Up until the 2001 recession, private capital looking for gain in the US "new economy" boom prevailed within this inflow. Since then an increasingly important component has been the purchase by Asian central banks, particularly those of China and Japan, of US public and commercial debt to limit their countries' exchange rates from appreciating against the US dollar. This component has risen to over 40% of total inflows, $718 billion between 2002 and 2004. Financial Times analyst Martin Wolf has called this "the largest 'foreign aid' program in history". July 3-10, 2006 issue The most frequent traveler: Tim Goeglein, a White House point man for conservative groups, who reported $30,000 in free travel. Records show Goeglein's most frequent destination was Ft. Wayne, Ind., his hometown, where he reported five visits last year. June 14, 2006 Eye-catching examples of fraudulent spending include an $8,000, two-month stay at a hotel in Hawaii, a $1,000 divorce in Houston, a bill for champagne at "Hooters", a strip bar in San Antonio, Texas, and a week-long luxury holiday in the Caribbean. June 25, 2006 June 21, 2006 June 14, 2006 June 13, 2006 Al Gore is a "mad dog" known to "foam at the mouth." John McCain is given to "showboating." And Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, Gerhard Schroeder and Kofi Annan are all "feckless fools." June 13, 2006 June 18, 2006 A single contract awarded to Britain's AEGIS Specialist Risk Management company by the Pentagon was worth $293 million, and while the government says it cannot provide a total amount for the contracts -- many of which are secret -- industry experts estimate Iraq's security business costs tens of billions of dollars. June 13, 2006 June 14, 2006 Sharp declines in the public perception of the US were particularly apparent in India, Spain and Turkey. Goodwill towards the US had fallen from 71% to 56% in India, from 41% to 23% in Spain and from 23% to 12% in Turkey. A majority of people in 10 of the 14 countries outside the US surveyed said the war in Iraq had made the world a more dangerous place. June 14, 2006 June 18, 2006 June 18, 2006 June 19, 2006 June 16, 2006 June 11, 2006 June 15, 2006 Significantly, 42% said that the people of our own country were worse off, with 26% saying better off and 31% "the same." Gallup called this "a decidedly negative tilt in attitudes about the impact of the war on the home front." While in this category, as in all others, Republicans had a more positive view, still only 48% would say that Americans were "better off" because of the war. June 16, 2006 June 16, 2006 The three died in early May while being held by coalition forces in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. The probe was triggered by soldiers who raised suspicions about the deaths, said Lt Gen Peter W Chiarelli, head of multinational forces in Iraq. June 15, 2006 June 14, 2006 June 11, 2006 June 10, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 8, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 7, 2006 June 6, 2006 Those pushing back include some congressional Republicans and conservative jurists who have been among President Bush's chief allies. The efforts surely would intensify if Democrats won control of the House or Senate in November's elections - and with it the power to convene June 8, 2006 Scientists at Harvard University were yesterday awarded ethical approval and private funds to pursue therapeutic cloning experiments that are strongly opposed by the Bush administration and the US's religious Right. June 7, 2006 Fourteen European countries colluded in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and transfers of terrorism suspects, a European rights watchdog said in a report released on Wednesday. June 12, 2006 |