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Jul 06
2007

WHY IS THE COST OF IRAQ WAR SO HIGH? HMMM..P2

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However, the Defense Department's Motsek, who monitors contractors, said the Pentagon estimated the total was 6,000.

Both figures are far below the private security industry's own estimate of about 30,000 private security contractors working for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, media outlets and businesses.

Industry officials said that private security companies helped reduce the number of troops needed in Iraq and provided jobs to Iraqis - a benefit in a country with high unemployment.

"A guy who is working for a [private security company] is not out on the street doing something inimical to our interests," said Lawrence Peter, director of the Private Security Company Assn. of Iraq.

Not surprisingly, Iraqis make up the largest number of civilian employees under U.S. contracts. Typically, the government contracts with an American firm, which then subcontracts with an Iraqi firm to do the job.

Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council, a contractors' trade group, said the number of Iraqis reflected the importance of the reconstruction and economic development efforts to the overall U.S. mission in Iraq.

"That's not work that the government does or has ever done.... That's work that is going to be done by companies and to some extent by" nongovernmental organizations, Soloway said. "People tend to think that these are contractors on the battlefield, and they're not."

The Iraqis have been the most difficult to track. As recently as May, the Pentagon told Congress that 22,000 Iraqis were employed by its contractors. But the Pentagon number recently jumped to 65,000 - a result of closer inspection of contracts, an official said.

The total number of Iraqis employed under U.S. contracts is important, in part because it may influence debate in Congress regarding how many Iraqis will be allowed to come to the U.S. to escape violence in their homeland.

This year, the U.S. planned to cap that number at 7,000 a year. To date, however, only a few dozen Iraqis have been admitted, according to State Department figures.

Kirk Johnson, head of the List Project, which seeks to increase the admission of Iraqis, said that the U.S. needed to provide a haven to those who worked most closely with American officials.

"We all say we are grateful to these Iraqis," Johnson said. "How can we be the only superpower in the world that can't implement what we recognize as a moral imperative?"

The back story

Information in this article is based in part on a database of contractors in Iraq obtained by The Times under the Freedom of Information Act, which allows the public access to government records.

The database is the result of a census conducted earlier this year by the U.S. Central Command.

The census found about 130,000 contractors working for 632 companies holding contracts in Iraq with the Defense Department and a handful of other federal agencies.

The Times received the database last month, four months after first requesting it. Because the Freedom of Information Act law requires an agency to provide only information as of the date of the request, the census is based on figures as of February. During interviews, Pentagon officials said the census had since been updated, and they provided additional figures based on the update.

Contractors in Iraq

There are more U.S.-paid private contractors than there are American combat troops in Iraq.

Contractors: 180,000

U.S. troops: 160,000

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Nationality of contractors*

118,000 Iraqis

43,000 non-U.S. foreigners

21,000 Americans

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Top contractors

Company: Kulak Construction Co.

Description: Based in Turkey, supplies construction workers to U.S. bases

Total employees: 30,301

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Company: KBR

Description: Based in Houston, supplies logistics support to U.S. troops

Total employees: 15,336

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Company: Prime Projects International

Description: Based in Dubai, supplies labor for logistics support

Total employees: 10,560

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Company: L-3 Communications

Description: Based in New York, provides translators and other services

Total employees: 5,886

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Company: Gulf Catering Co.

Description: Based in Saudi Arabia, provides kitchen services to U.S. troops

Total employees: 4,002

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Company: 77 Construction

Description: Based in Irbil, Iraq, provides logistics support to troops

Total employees: 3,219

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Company: ECC

Description: Based in Burlingame, Calif, works on reconstruction projects

Total employees: 2,390

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Company: Serka Group

Description: Based in Turkey, supplies logistics support to U.S. bases

Total employees: 2,250

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Company: IPBD Ltd.

Description: Based in England, supplies labor, laundry services and other support

Total employees: 2,164

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Company: Daoud & Partners Co.

Description: Based in Amman, Jordan, supplies labor for logistics support

Total employees: 2,092

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Company: EOD Technology Inc

Description: Based in Lenoir City, Tenn., supplies security, explosives demolition and other services

Total employees: 1,913

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Note: Data are as of February, which is most current available.

*Approximate - numbers rounded

Sources: U.S. Central Command, Times reporting

Paul Duginski Los Angeles Times

Copyright 2007 Los Angeles Times

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Jul 06
2007

WHY IS THE PRICE OF WAR IN IRAQ SO HIGH?? HMMMMM.....P1

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YOU GUESSED IT!

HOW MUCH MORE DO WE HAVE TO TAKE??  

  

Private Contractors Outnumber US Troops in Iraq

by T. Christian Miller

The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government's capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.

More than 180,000 civilians - including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis - are working in Iraq under U.S. contracts, according to State and Defense department figures obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

Including the recent troop buildup, 160,000 soldiers and a few thousand civilian government employees are stationed in Iraq.

The total number of private contractors, far higher than previously reported, shows how heavily the Bush administration has relied on corporations to carry out the occupation of Iraq - a mission criticized as being undermanned.

"These numbers are big," said Peter Singer, a Brookings Institution scholar who has written on military contracting. "They illustrate better than anything that we went in without enough troops. This is not the coalition of the willing. It's the coalition of the billing."

The numbers include at least 21,000 Americans, 43,000 foreign contractors and about 118,000 Iraqis - all employed in Iraq by U.S. tax dollars, according to the most recent government data.

The array of private workers promises to be a factor in debates on a range of policy issues, including the privatization of military jobs and the number of Iraqi refugees allowed to resettle in the U.S.

But there are also signs that even those mounting numbers may not capture the full picture. Private security contractors, who are hired to protect government officials and buildings, were not fully counted in the survey, according to industry and government officials.

Continuing uncertainty over the numbers of armed contractors drew special criticism from military experts.

"We don't have control of all the coalition guns in Iraq. That's dangerous for our country," said William Nash, a retired Army general and reconstruction expert. The Pentagon "is hiring guns. You can rationalize it all you want, but that's obscene."

Although private companies have played a role in conflicts since the American Revolution, the U.S. has relied more on contractors in Iraq than in any other war, according to military experts.

Contractors perform functions including construction, security and weapons system maintenance.

Military officials say contractors cut costs while allowing troops to focus on fighting rather than on other tasks.

"The only reason we have contractors is to support the war fighter," said Gary Motsek, the assistant deputy undersecretary of Defense who oversees contractors. "Fundamentally, they're supporting the mission as required."

But critics worry that troops and their missions could be jeopardized if contractors, functioning outside the military's command and control, refuse to make deliveries of vital supplies under fire.

At one point in 2004, for example, U.S. forces were put on food rations when drivers balked at taking supplies into a combat zone.

Adding an element of potential confusion, no single agency keeps track of the number or location of contractors.

In response to demands from Congress, the U.S. Central Command began a census last year of the number of contractors working on U.S. and Iraqi bases to determine how much food, water and shelter was needed.

That census, provided to The Times under the Freedom of Information Act, shows about 130,000 contractors and subcontractors of different nationalities working at U.S. and Iraqi military bases.

However, U.S. military officials acknowledged that the census did not include other government agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department.

Last month, USAID reported about 53,000 Iraqis employed under U.S. reconstruction contracts, doing jobs such as garbage pickup and helping to teach democracy. In interviews, agency officials said an additional 300 Americans and foreigners worked as contractors for the agency.

State Department officials said they could not provide the department's number of contractors. Of about 5,000 people affiliated with the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, about 300 are State Department employees. The rest are a mix of other government agency workers and contractors, many of whom are building the new embassy.

"There are very few of us, and we're way undermanned," said one State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We have significant shortages of people. It's been that way since before [the war], and it's still that way."

The companies with the largest number of employees are foreign firms in the Middle East that subcontract to KBR, the Houston-based oil services company, according to the Central Command database. KBR, once a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., provides logistics support to troops, the single largest contract in Iraq.

Middle Eastern companies, including Kulak Construction Co. of Turkey and Projects International of Dubai, supply labor from Third World countries to KBR and other U.S. companies for menial work on U.S. bases and rebuilding projects. Foreigners are used instead of Iraqis because of fears that insurgents could infiltrate projects.

KBR is by far the largest employer of Americans, with nearly 14,000 U.S. workers. Other large employers of Americans in Iraq include New York-based L-3 Communications, which holds a contract to provide translators to troops, and ITT Corp., a New York engineering and technology firm.

The most controversial contractors are those working for private security companies, including Blackwater, Triple Canopy and Erinys. They guard sensitive sites and provide protection to U.S. and Iraqi government officials and businessmen.

Security contractors draw some of the sharpest criticism, much of it from military policy experts who say their jobs should be done by the military. On several occasions, heavily armed private contractors have engaged in firefights when attacked by Iraqi insurgents.

Others worry that the private security contractors lack accountability. Although scores of troops have been prosecuted for serious crimes, only a handful of private security contractors have faced legal charges.

The number of private security contractors in Iraq remains unclear, despite Central Command's latest census. The Times identified 21 security companies in the Central Command database, deploying 10,800 men.

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Jul 06
2007

IMPEACH NOW!!! ASK QUESTIONS LATER! OUR WARRIORS ARE BEING KILLED TODAY. NOT LATER!

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WHEREAS, in accordance with the 2007 U.S. Social Forum's Charter of
Principles we are united in our opposition to "...any form of
imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society..." and
are united in the common purpose of social, economic and political
justice; and

WHEREAS, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney
have repeatedly and intentionally violated the Constitution of the
United States causing the People to question the integrity of both the
President and Vice President and to suspect that high crimes and
misdemeanors have been committed. These violations include but are not
limited to:

q Violating the People's Constitutional right to privacy in their
persons and papers by engaging in a persistent, secret and unregulated
pattern of domestic surveillance that bypasses the institution (FISA)
established for that purpose.

q Conspiring to deprive United States citizens of Constitutional legal
protections and access to Justice when charged with or suspected of
crimes.

q Exceeding Constitutional Authority to wage war by invading a
sovereign nation in direct defiance of the United Nations Security
Council.

q Acting upon an interpretation of the Constitution (the "unitary
executive") that ignores standard Separation of Powers and regards the
Presidency as unlimited in ability to wage war, bypass civil liberties
and remain above the law.

WHEREAS, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney
repeatedly and intentionally misled the Congress, the International
Community and the American People as to the risks posed by Iraq, as
well as other groups or nations. These misrepresentations, and the
actions they triggered, resulted in substantial loss of life to the
People of the United States, loss of national treasure and the
diminution of our nation's standing in the world. Such
misrepresentations include:

q Influencing, manipulating and distorting intelligence prepared by
national agencies such as the CIA, NSA and FBI, so as to present a
biased view of events that would support specific strategies favored
by the Administration.

q Knowingly and publicly presenting untrue statements regarding Saddam
Hussein's acquiring uranium resources from Africa as part of a
reconstituted Nuclear Program, as well as additional untrue statements
that Iraq had fully active Chemical and Biological Programs as well.

q Presenting doctored photographs and satellite images to the domestic
and international community to support such lies and manipulations.

WHEREAS, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney
have engaged in a pattern of behavior considered to be War Crimes per
the Geneva Accords, United Nations Charter and other international
treaties to which the United States is a signatory. This behavior
includes use of torture, rendering persons to a third party where they
will undergo torture and confinement without access to courts of law.

WHEREAS, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney
have abused their powers under the Constitution plus engaged in a
pattern of lying and deceit to cover up such abuses. These abuses include:

q Excessive and obstructive use of Presidential Signing Statements as
a strategy to bypass the execution of duly passed legislation as
required under the Constitution' s separation of powers doctrine.

q Prohibiting, delaying and limiting cabinet members and staff members
of the Administration from providing information to Congress in
support of Congress' standard oversight role. .

q Revealing the identity of a covert CIA agent (Valerie Plame) engaged
in Middle East intelligence work, presumably as a response to policy
criticism by her spouse (Ambassador Wilson).

q Undermining the integrity, readiness and efficacy of governmental
agencies such that the People are not reliably served and have reason
to doubt the fair and equitable use of national resources. Examples
include the Department of Justice, Veterans Administration, FEMA,
National Guard, no-bid/no-oversight of government contracting and
deployment of our nation's Armed Forces without providing for
sufficient equipment, training and mission planning.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the 2007 United States Social Forum, the first
United States Social Forum, supports the impeachment of George W.
Bush, President of the United States and Richard B. Cheney, Vice
President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors and if
found guilty be removed from office.

NATIONWIDE IMPEACHMENT TRENDS
The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions
urging the impeachment of Bush and Cheney has recently grown to 15.
Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions,
which have now been passed by at least 77 cities and towns and a
growing list of labor unions and other organizations. These
resolutions are all listed at http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list.

































































































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Jul 06
2007

Washington Talk Radio Station Drops Bill O’Reilly!! ABOUT TIME!!

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Washington Talk Radio Station Drops Bill O'Reilly

Think Progress | July 6, 2007

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Washington DC FM talk radio station 106.7 WJFK yesterday announced it was dropping Bill O'Reilly's nationally syndicated show, and replacing it with a sports-talk program. The Washington Post reports today that O'Reilly's cancellation is a "case in point" of how poorly conservative radio programs have fared in DC:

With the exception of Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk-radio hosts have struggled for years to find a wide audience on the local dial. While Limbaugh's afternoon program remains popular on WMAL (630 AM), not many other conservatives' programs have.

Yet despite their underwhelming performance, numerous right-wing radio hosts have been given repeated opportunities to succeed in DC. "Such radio stars of the right as Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage at times have literally had no ratings in Washington, as measured by Arbitron."

In its diagnosis of conservative talk's failures in the DC region, the Post points to a host of factors including the weak signals of some stations, weak programming, and the unique culture of the area that is resistant to political talk radio. One factor that went unmentioned, however, is the impact media consolidation has had on the local market.

In the Center for American Progress's recent report on the "structural imbalance of political talk radio," it noted that Washington DC had 65 percent conservative content and only 35 percent progressive. In this region, the market is dominated by only five owners:

Ownership# of stationsStation ID
Bonneville International5WFED, WGYS, WTOP, WTWP-AM, WTWP-FM
CBS Radio1WJFK
ABC, Inc.1WMAL
Radio One, Inc. (Urban Talk)1WOL
Clear Channel2WTNT, WWRC

This pattern of ownership homogeneity is reflected in radio markets throughout the nation. CAP's report calls for increasing the ownership diversity in the talk radio market, allowing more local participation in determining the content communities want to listen to.

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Jul 06
2007

ON PATRIOT TEAMWORK AND FOCUS!!

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It appears that Dr. James Fetzer, founder of Scholars for 911 Truth, has begun a renewed effort dealing with the evidence on a more focused factual basis and unity by concentrating on "911 was an inside job" with a goal of cleaning up our treasonous government. "Micro Nukes in the WTC" is only a small portion of the treachery of this government and should not divide those that know/expose the present crimes against humanity of US government elitists. Whether one is a micro nuker, star wars beamer, planer, no planer, poder, no poder, etc, et al, we must not be distracted from the government atrocities and strive for the truth with a goal of returning this government to the historical background Constitutional interpretation of a true Constitutional democratic republic. For the first time in this country's history, we could have what our founders envisioned. Only The People can decide and force that issue.

Another kindred spirit, Jeff Rense , deserves credit for recognizing and exposing the information included in Micro Nukes in the WTC to a larger spectrum of the population. Jeff has promoted the information in both articles and broke the radio silence in an exclusive 2 hour interview on his radio show on September 28, 2006. My sincere heart-felt thanks to patriot brother Jeff Rense and my friend/sister Susan Callaway current editor/owner of The Price of Liberty and past editor of the Sierra Times.

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Jul 06
2007

WHAT GIVES THIS CHUMP MAYOR THE RIGHT TO SELL OUR COUNTRY DOWN THE HIGHWAY?

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So what do we do? Let's E-Bomb him!!!

Mick Cornett
Oklahoma City Mayor
e-mail address: mayor@okc.gov
telephone # 405-297-2424
fax# 405-297-3759

200 N Walker, 3rd Floor
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

David Holt, Assistant to the Mayor
Gayleen Keeton, Executive Assistant


Let's let this scum know that what he's promoting is Anti-American and we wont stand for it!!! Yes, the NAU would be good for the three countries...in fact it will only be good for the three countries corporations that benefit from such a thing, but not the citizens!!!

E-Bomb away!!!

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July 5, 2007

NAU Boost

The North American Union received a boost this week with an approval to extend the building of the new super highway connecting Mexico with the US and Canada, through Oklahoma and Colorado.

In fact, the mayor of Oklahoma City announced that he approves of the North American Union and that this new mega-road will help the economy of his state and the 3 nations under one economic system.

Meanwhile, the Mexicans are busy upgrading ports at the Texas-Mexico border to allow billions of tons of Chinese goods to enter North America easily and be distributed via the new super highway. We have all seen recent news reports on the contaminated Chinese goods that are killing humans and animals. Is this what awaits us in the glorious NAU future?

In The News - www.expansions.com

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In 2004 Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett attended the US Conference of Mayors. While there, answered some questions posed to him about how Oklahoma City was continuing to grow. He calls for the "economic integration" of these United States, Canada and Mexico. He also speaks of the NAFTA Corridor.



"If we can have but three nations and one economy," said Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornettt "I think it would be much easier for us to solve a lot of the social problems with the end migration."

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Jul 06
2007

WONDER WHY IT IS SO TOUGH TO GET THE TRUTH OUT!!?

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http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/protest/30298prs20070628.html

White House Policy Illegally Silences Americans Critical of Bush, ACLU Charges (6/28/2007)

Civil Liberties Group Sues Former White House Staffer for Ejecting Taxpayers from Public Events

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: media@aclu.org

WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a federal lawsuit against a former high-level White House staffer for enacting a policy that unlawfully excluded individuals perceived to be critical of the administration from public events where President Bush was present. The policy is laid out in an October 2002 "Presidential Advance Manual" obtained by the ACLU.

"The White House has gone too far in its attempt to make dissent invisible," said Chris Hansen, a senior ACLU attorney who is lead counsel in this case. "When taxpayers foot the bill for a public event, the president does not have the right to use a partisan litmus test to stack the audience with his political supporters."

The ACLU filed today's lawsuit after obtaining a heavily redacted version of the Presidential Advance Manual from the Justice Department. This manual is the Bush administration's guide for planning presidential events around the country, and it repeatedly instructs organizers about "the best method for preventing demonstrators," "deterring potential protestors from attending events," "designat[ing] a protest area . . . preferably not in view of the event site or motorcade route," and the like.

The ACLU said it is clear from the manual that the aim of the White House policy is to keep people who are critical of the president away from him and from the news media. According to the manual, "if it is determined that the media will not see or hear" demonstrators, then event staff can ignore them. The manual's guidelines are designed for use at all presidential events, not just fundraisers or political rallies. However, the ACLU noted that there are stricter constitutional guidelines for taxpayer-funded events than for privately- or politically-funded events.
















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Jul 06
2007

DIN'T WANT TO WAIT TILL 8/18 TO IMPEACH BUSH, BUT PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE!!

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TAKE ACTION NOW!



Thanks to those of you who have already taken action. But if you really want to Impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney, and get the message to Congress on 8/18, then we're gonna need everyone to help!




If you haven't already, then please forward this on to at least 10 people, chain letter style. If just 10 people forward to 10 people eight times in one unbroken chain of democracy, then after eight forwards we'll have reached 100,000,000 people.



Then, on August 18th, 2007, everyone MAIL / EMAIL / CALL your Representatives and demand that they IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY!






Visit http://www.myspace.com/impeach818
for more info, videos, and downloadable flyers.



Visit congress.org to find your

Representatives' contact info.



So remember:

Send this message to just 10 friends right now, and on 8/18 so we will be heard & UNITED!

































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Jul 05
2007

CHENEY -- OUT OF CONTROL TRAITOR!!! WE NEED TO STOP HIM NOW!!

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IN ADDITION TO BELOW ARTICLE RECOMMEND:

CHAIN OF COMMAND, By Seymour Hersh

FIASCO, By Thomas E. Hicks

 

How Cheney abused his power in war on terror

By Tim Shipman

Vice-President Dick Cheney was personally responsible for American policies that subjected terrorist suspects to cruelty and denied them the right to a fair trial, according to revelations from senior US government officials.

The details have laid bare more than ever before the remarkable influence of Mr Cheney in shaping the prosecution of the war on terror which led to the scandals at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib
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The claims that Mr Cheney manoeuvred to circumvent both American and international law came as the vice-president last week faced three new congressional demands that he release information on his activities.

Even his supporters admitted that the disclosures have left Mr Cheney looking like a "comic-book villain" whose contempt for process, including within the White House, has undermined public support for President Bush.

A year-long investigation by The Washington Post uncovered details of how in November 2001 - two months after the September 11 atrocities - Vice-President Cheney went behind the backs of the secretary of state, Colin Powell, and the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to deny foreign terrorist suspects access to a court.

In a private dinner with President Bush, Mr Cheney presented him with an order written by his own lawyer, David Addington, denying suspects a civilian trial or a court martial and ordering that they could be confined indefinitely without charge.
Within an hour of the meal, the document had been signed by the president, having been whisked straight to his desk on Vice-President Cheney's orders, without being seen by senior White House staff. Miss Rice was described as "incensed" and when Mr Powell learnt of the decision from television news he snapped: "What the hell just happened?"

Mr Cheney then ordered his legal team secretly to draw up orders for intelligence agencies to intercept letters, telephone calls and electronic communications to and from America, without a warrant - something forbidden by federal law since 1978.

Last week, the powerful Senate judiciary committee issued subpoenas to Mr Cheney and the White House, demanding access to documents relating to that decision.

Then, in January 2002, Mr Cheney decided that America must abandon the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of enemy prisoners, which outlawed torture.

He personally commissioned legal opinions that would maintain a ban on torture but permit "cruel, inhuman or degrading" interrogation methods. A document drawn up by Mr Addington was adopted, verbatim, by President Bush.

In August that year, the vice-president's lawyer inserted a paragraph into a memo of instructions for the CIA on torture which claimed that laws forbidding any person to "commit torture do not apply" to the president because that would be a restriction of his right to wage war.

The US Supreme Court has since given three rulings contradicting Vice-President Cheney's view of the president's powers, culminating in June with a demand for the Guantánamo inmates to face trial.

But Mr Cheney is accused of continuing to try to bypass international law. When the Senate voted in 2005 to support the Geneva Conventions, Vice-President Cheney - defying opposition from the CIA, the Pentagon, and state and justice departments had a clause inserted into the bill, which meant that the US military is bound by it but not the CIA.

The revelations paint a picture of a man obsessed by secrecy and the accumulation of power. The vice-president keeps even routine papers in a safe in his office, refuses to disclose the names or the size of his staff and has ordered the Secret Service to destroy his visitor logs.

He has even created his own security designation, stamping "Treated As: Top Secret/SCI" (special compartmented intelligence) on mundane papers, in an attempt to protect what are in fact unclassified documents. The classification suggests that their disclosure could cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security". He even put the Top Secret stamp on a paper detailing talking points for officials to use with the press - information he actually wanted to be made public.

Mr Cheney also ordered that images of his official residence be pixelated on the Google Earth website, which features satellite photographs, while the White House and Capitol remain fully visible.

He is now under investigation by the House of Representatives committee on government oversight for refusing to follow a long-standing directive ordering his office, among other government agencies, to hand over to the National Archives details of how he uses classified information. When challenged, he recommended abolition of the archive office.

Last week Mr Cheney and Mr Addington tried to argue that he was not bound by the rules, claiming that he is not part of the executive branch of government because he also acts as president of the Senate. They abandoned that position when congressional Democrats threatened to strip him of his executive funding. "He's saying he's above the law," said Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the oversight committee.

Vice-President Cheney has previously claimed executive privilege - the opposite excuse - in refusing to hand over details of which oil companies he consulted when drawing up American energy policy.

The Washington Post series also detailed how he ordered the diversion of a river to irrigate farms in Oregon, in pursuit of farmers' votes, despite scientific evidence that this would endanger two protected species of fish. The move killed 80,000 salmon. Last week that issue became the subject of an inquiry by another House committee.

Allies say Mr Cheney is unrepentant. "The only person in Washington who cares less about his public image than David Addington is Dick Cheney," said a former White House ally.

"What both of them miss is that in times of war, a prerequisite for success is people having confidence in their leadership. This is the great failure of the administration - a complete and total indifference to public opinion."

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Jul 05
2007

WONDER WHY NO MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF CFE? THEY'RE MEMBERS!! PT2

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On the other hand,Robert Stevens is the chairman & CEO of Lock-
heed Martin,and Stevens himself is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations.

On paper,industrial companies & labor unions are supposed to hate
each other.In reality,however, both Big Industry & Big Labor are in
bed together.Whenever a worker pays their union dues,thier simply
getting shafted by the CFR cabal.

Politics is another example.On paper,the Democratic Party & the Re-
publican Party oppose each other.However, the truths stranger than
fiction.High ranking members of Dem Party & the Republican Party
are in bed together.

Bill Clinton,Jim Carter,John Kerry,Joe Lieberman,Dianne Feinstein
are members of Democratic Party & their all members of the Council
on Foreign Relations.

Henry Kissinger,John McCain,Newt Gingrich,Cheney, Kathy Harris,
and Bill Frist are members of the Republican Party & they are mem-
bers of the Council of Foreign Relations.

The international bankers control and finance both the Democratic
Party and the Republican Party.David Rockefeller is a Republican,
and George Soros is a Democrat,but their membership into those
political parties mean absolutely nothing to them.Thus,Left- Right
political perspectives are nothing more than charades.

The CFR is 1 of the few organizations where capitalists & socialists
work together in harmony.David Rockefeller himself has given aid
& comfort to Nikita Khrushchev,Chou Enlai,and Fidel Castro.

This explains why CFR members love the Chinese Communists
& the Russian Bolsheviks so much.From the time America estab-
lished diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union in 1933 until its coll-
apse in '91,the Soviet Embassy was located right across the street
from the Harold Pratt House.

Almost every ambassador to the Soviet Union were CFR members.
In fact,every liaison officers and ambassadors to Red China is or has
been members of the Council on Foreign Relations.By the way,Com-
munist agent Alger Hiss was a member of CFR for a short time.

The CFR is truly an elite organization. Membership into this elite
cabal is by invitation only.The Council on Foreign Relations is no
different from the Chinese Communist Party,the Soviet Commun-
ist Party,and the Nazi Party of Germany.

Dissent is not tolerated; any CFR member who fails to toe the line
are expelled from organization or in some cases killed in cold blood.

Important CFR meetings are off-the-record & are never discussed in
public.Those who leak any secrets will face consequences and reper-
cussions on a massive scale.

According to the CFRs own Rule on Non-Attribution, It wouldnt be in
compliance with the reformulated Rule,for any meeting participant;

(i) to publish a speaker's statement in attributed form in a newspaper;

(ii) to repeat it on television or radio,or on a speakers platform or in a
classroom;

(iii) to go beyond a memo of limited circulation, by distributing the
attributed statement in a company or govt agency newsletter.

The language of the Rule also goes out of its way to make it clear that
a meeting participant is forbidden knowingly to transmit the attribut-
ed statement to newspaper reporter or other such person who is likely
to publish it in a public medium.

The essence of the Rule as reformulated is simple enough: particip-
ants in Council meetings should not pass along an attributed state-
ment in circumstances where there is substantial risk that it will
promptly be widely circulated or published.

As CFR member David Gergen once said,Its none of your damn bus-
iness.In other words,just shut up and say nothing.This explains why
CFR journalists will say or write absolutely nothin about the CFR's
evil,totalitarian agenda.

This elite cabal has purpose; the Council on Foreign Relations wants
to establish and exercise power & control over the American people
and the entire world.

Unfortunately, CFR members will do just about anything to achieve
their lust for power and domination.

Yes,CFR members will lie,cheat,covet, steal,and kill just to get what
they want.They will engage in secrecy,treachery, and duplicity.

They'll engage in a rebellion & a insurrection against our Constitu-
tion & our Declaration of Independence just to get what they want.

We the people need to expose and eliminate the Council on Foreign
Relations before the CFR destroys us.In the mean time,get a FREE
copy of 2005 CFR membership roster & my personal CFR charts
and study them.

On Election Day this year,I want you to go to the polls and vote,
and I want you to expel the traitors and CFR members from off-
ice and elect patriotic Americans instead.






































































































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