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Washington Post

Senate Approves Detainee Bill Backed by Bush
Constitutional Challenges Predicted

By Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 29, 2006; Page A01

Congress approved landmark changes to the nation’s system of interrogating and prosecuting terrorism suspects last night, preparing the ground for possible military trials for key al-Qaeda members under rules that critics say will draw stiff constitutional challenges.

The Senate joined the House in embracing President Bush’s view that the battle against terrorism justifies the imposition of extraordinary limits on defendants’ traditional rights in the courtroom. They include restrictions on a suspect’s ability to challenge his detention, examine all evidence against him, and bar testimony allegedly acquired through coercion of witnesses…

… THEMSELVES caught in a bind like this.
Associated Press

Document seizure hampers Gitmo detainees

By ANDREW O. SELSKY, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 28, 7:49 PM ET

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – His ankles chained to the floor of the hearing room, a Saudi detainee hoped to convince three U.S. military officers that he is not a danger to the United States, has no intelligence value and should be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison.

But in his one shot this year at getting out of here, the detainee could not produce letters from his family that he wanted to submit as evidence. They were seized by the military, along with thousands of other documents from detainees, as it investigates whether the suicides of three prisoners in June were assisted or encouraged.

But in his one shot this year at getting out of here, the detainee could not produce letters from his family that he wanted to submit as evidence. They were seized by the military, along with thousands of other documents from detainees, as it investigates whether the suicides of three prisoners in June were assisted or encouraged.

While the letters on their own may not have convinced the panel that the detainee should be released, the hearing shows that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s confiscation of more than 1,100 pounds of documents is hampering detainees’ ability to confront accusations against them…

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The Huffington Post

Brent Budowsky

Bob Woodward’s Bush/Iraq Book Will Further The Firestorm

09.28.2006

Early reports out of CBSNews.com make it clear that Bob Woodward’s appearance with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes this Sunday, beginning the media campaign for his book “State Of Denial” will add further fuel to the firestorm about Iraq.

Most likely the book will include revelations that drive home the central point, that President Bush has not been honest with the American people about the level of violence in Iraq, about projections of trouble for the “stay the course” policy that will continue indefinitely unless there are dramatic changes…

The American debate on Iraq has now reached a critical mass. The demonization of those advocating change in the policy will no longer work. The combined agencies of the United States intelligence have now spoken. Every day brings public comments by commanders in the field today that make their views clearer by the hour. Bob Woodward’s book will no doubt include new statements of views and new revelations of facts that will escalate the crediblity gap of the Administration to even more Draconian levels.

It is absurd, ridiculous and hapless that the Adminstration chooses this moment to yet again escalate taxpayer financed public relations from the people who have lost credibility, for the policies that have lost credibility, using the techniques that have lost credibility.

We can only hope and pray that the President comes to his senses. In the CBS story the President is quoted as suggesting he wont change the policy even if he, Laura Bush and Barney were the only ones who support it.

This is exactly what has gotten this President and this policy and our country into so much trouble in Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

This is exactly why a Democratic Congress would serve the interest of the nation, the troops and America‘s reputation and strength in the world.

[Click through for more.—Caro]

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… the administration’s spin on the Iraq failure.
Angus Reid Consultants

Confidence in Iraq Policies Drops to 20% in U.S.

September 28, 2006

- Fewer adults in the United States believe their government’s handling of the coalition effort has been adequate, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. Only 20 per cent of respondents are confident that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful, down nine points in two years…

Iraq in a Civil War for 59% of Americans

September 27, 2006

- Many adults in the United States are concerned about the level of sectarian tension in Iraq, according to a poll by Bloomberg and the Los Angeles Times. 59 per cent of respondents think Iraq is engaged in a civil war…

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The New York Times

Report Links White House and Lobbyist

By PHILIP SHENON
Published: September 29, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 — A bipartisan Congressional report documents hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partners, including at least 10 direct contacts between Mr. Abramoff and Karl Rove, the president’s chief political strategist.

The House Government Reform Committee report, based on e-mail messages and other records subpoenaed from Mr. Abramoff’s lobbying firm, found 485 contacts between Mr. Abramoff’s lobbying team and White House officials from 2001 to 2004, including 82 with Mr. Rove’s office.

The lobbyists spent almost $25,000 in meals and drinks for the White House officials and provided them with tickets to numerous sporting events and concerts, according to the report, scheduled for release Friday.

The authors of the report said it was generally unclear from available records whether the aides reimbursed Mr. Abramoff for the meals or tickets. Ethics rules bar White House officials from accepting lobbyists’ gifts worth more than $20…

Washington Post

Abramoff Put White House Contacts at 400

By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 29, 2006; Page A12

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his colleagues billed their clients for more than 400 contacts with White House officials between 2001 and 2004, according to a report released yesterday by the House Government Reform Committee…

The report … cites documents suggesting that former White House political director Ken Mehlman, now chairman of the Republican National Committee, may have helped Abramoff’s team get money for a tribal client from the Justice Department…

One exchange of e-mails cited in the report suggests that former Abramoff lobbying team member Tony C. Rudy succeeded in getting Mehlman to press reluctant Justice Department appointees to release millions of dollars in congressionally earmarked funds for a new jail for the Mississippi Choctaw tribe, an Abramoff client. Rudy wrote Abramoff in November 2001 e-mails that Mehlman said he would “take care of” the funding holdup at Justice after learning from Rudy that the tribe made large donations to the GOP…

Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe

Center for Public Integrity

Ethics Committee Members, Staff Among the Well-Traveled
House legislators mulling rules and their aides took about $1 million in trips

By Robert Brodsky

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2006 — In the next few days, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct is expected to recommend changes to the chamber’s rules on privately sponsored travel, including measures that could strengthen disclosure requirements and close loopholes used by lobbyists.

However, the Center for Public Integrity has found that the current members of the committee are no strangers to taking privately funded trips.

From January 2000 through June 2005, the members — five Republicans and five Democrats — and their aides accepted about 400 such trips valued at nearly $1 million, according to a Center review of disclosure records.

More than half of that figure was spent on the lawmakers. The members took roughly 180 trips over the 5½-year study period, reporting expenses in excess of $550,000. Among the sponsors were corporations, trade groups and nonprofit organizations…

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Wall Street Journal

September 29, 2006, 12:05 am

Bush Damps Talk of Global Warming Shift — WSJ Interview

President Bush said he would speed up his alternative-energy push during the remainder of his term with new spending focused on easing bottlenecks that are slowing the spread of ethanol in the market.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on a swing through Alabama, Bush said he is seeking ways to overcome difficulties in transporting the fuel, and to increase the number of stations selling it. “I envision more money being spent to accelerate” availability of ethanol and other alternative fuels. He pointed to a federally funded project to build fueling stations along the highway from Indiana to the Gulf Coast as an example. (Read a transcript of the interview in plain text or PDF format.)

The president also damped speculation that his administration is exploring a major shift in global-warming policy and may soon embrace some kind of formal government-imposed limits. Read the full story. – John D. McKinnon

PLEASE try to sell this snake oil one more time.
PR Newswire

Congressional Candidates Urged to Sign Promise Agreeing to Fix Social Security for Younger Generations

   Promise Seeks Fairness, Security and Less Pressure on Future Taxpayers

    KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ — This week, Congressional candidates across the country will receive “A Promise to Our Children and Grandchildren,” which asks them to seek an honest, bipartisan debate about Social Security and find responsible solutions to fix it. The Promise was mailed to candidates by For Our Grandchildren, a Social Security education project…

Pretty soon it’ll take a football stadium to hold them all.
Associated Press

Foley resigns from Congress over e-mails

By DAVID ESPO and JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writers
Fri Sep 29, 3:56 PM ET

Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., resigned from Congress on Friday, effective immediately, in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former male page.

“I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent,” he said in a statement issued by his office.

The two-sentence statement did not refer to the e-mails and gave no reason for Foley’s decision to abruptly abandon a flourishing career in Congress.

Foley, 52, had been a shoo-in for a new term until the e-mail correspondence surfaced in recent days.

His resignation comes less than six weeks before the elections. It was not clear how Republicans would fill his spot on the November ballot…

… who can’t control their perverted sexual impulses.
The Huffington Post

Max Blumenthal

How an Accused Child Sex Predator Covered Up Racism, Sexual Harassment at the Washington Times

The Washington Times is the only newspaper where the moral issues of family and faith are proudly reported on the front page on a regular basis. From 1992 to 2002, The Washington Times’ focus was on keeping the moral standard in America and on reviving the American family.”
–Washington Times President Douglas Joo, speaking at the Times’ 21st anniversary celebration

On September 26, Washington Times Human Resources Chief Randall Casseday was nabbed in a sting by Washington Metro Police. Casseday is accused of soliciting sex over the internet with an undercover police officer who he believed was a 13-year-old girl. He sent several graphic photographs of himself and in return, received pictures of a young girl in a bathing suit, according to an affidavit filed in US District Court. When Casseday appeared to rendezvous with someone he reportedly thought would be his young prey, he was immediately cuffed by DC cops.

The revelation of Casseday’s alleged solicitation of sex with a child is emblematic of the culture of lawlessness and arrogance fostered at the Washington Times by its president, Douglas Joo, editor-in-chief Wes Pruden and managing editor Fran Coombs, which I detailed in my recent article for The Nation, “Hell of a Times.” According to two sources who have dealt directly with Casseday, the accused sex criminal has played a central role in stonewalling internal investigations into the racist and sexually predatory behavior of Times managing editor Fran Coombs, and did so on orders from Joo and Pruden.

“Whatever Joo, Pruden and Coombs wanted, Casseday did,” a senior staffer in the Times newsroom told me today. “Casseday literally was their hatchet man, the hit man for Pruden, Coombs and Joo. Now the whole story is exploding that they had a ticking time bomb all these years and they did nothing. There was no background check or anything.”…

[Click through to read the sorry detail.—Caro]

Okay, so we lost on torture, insane as that may seem.  But let’s move on to the next thing–winning in November.  The only chance we’ll have to overturn the awful legislation passed yesterday is to put Democrats in the majority.  Then we can start weeding out the DINOs.

A call to arms!
BuzzFlash.com

Battle Royale: Democrats Have Shot At Senate and House Control

Fri, 09/29/2006

by Brent Budowsky

The surge of support for several Democratic candidates has put the Senate within reach of Democratic control, joining the House of Representatives in what is now an election battle royale.

The Senate could very easily turn out 50-50, that’s how close this is, and the composition for the House could be a razor thin majority for either party.

This is the key: any single person who reads these words could determine the outcome of the Congress of the United States in one of the most important and historic elections of our time. There will be some of these races that will be decided by a handful of votes, that is how close it is.

It is fine to criticize Democrats and I am first in line to do so, and will have much more to say after the election. But this is the time for rally cry, for battle cry, for all hands on deck, for everyone manning the barricades because the core of our democracy, the very issues of war peace, are on the table and the battle is that close for control.

The Senate is now in play, and Democrats have some outstanding candidates that are fighting their way into the race and some are surging slightly ahead. This is the kind of election where even some major Republican “whales” could well lose, such as Senator Rick Santorum, high ranking Republican leader, and Senator George Allen, the darling of the right in presidential politics who may well lose his seat.

Battle cry.

Rally cry.

All hands on deck.

Man the barricades.

Do what you can, volunteer your time, donate money, do anything to help get out the vote…

[Click through to read the list of suggested candidates to help.—Caro]

We are now officially a torturing nation.

December 12, 2000 was the day we lost our right to vote.  That was the day the Supreme Court took the 2000 election out of our hands, because the process prescribed in the most sacred document we have, the Constitution, was too “messy”.

And September 28, 2006 was the day Congress tried to destroy the Bill of Rights.  Call me crazy, but I still believe there are sane judges who will strike down this unconstitutional bill.  Nevertheless, George Bush will be out of office before that happens.  Only God knows how much pain will be suffered by how many innocent people caught in the web of the American Gulag before this nation returns to sanity.

Senate approves detainee bill
The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bill for tough interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects, as President George W. Bush prevailed after a series of setbacks on his detainee policies. The Senate passed the bill 65-34, hours after Bush was on Capitol Hill urging Republicans to stay behind the high-profile measure ahead of November 7 elections that will determine control of Congress.

Humor Ink

7 tortured bodies found in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Seven bodies bearing signs of torture were found in Baghdad on Friday, more apparent victims of the sectarian death squads that roam the capital.

‘Month Of Holy War’ Encouraged In Iraq
The new leader of the al Qaeda in Iraq group has urged militants in the war-torn country to make the coming month as bloody as possible, and to kidnap as many coalition troops as possible, in a new audiotape posted on the Internet.

Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers
Roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged under a new set of laws criminalizing speech against the government.
This is representative of the “freedom” and “democracy” we’ve brought to Iraq.

Attacks cost Iraq oil exports $16B
WASHINGTON – Iraq’s most important moneymaker — its oil industry — lost $16 billion in potential foreign sales over two years to insurgent attacks, criminals and bad equipment, a secret U.S. audit says.

Iran rules out suspending nuclear activities
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has said there was no reason to suspend its nuclear activities, maintaining a tough line despite talks with the European Union aimed at persuading Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.

Pakistan accused of hundreds of terror abductions
LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistan has abducted hundreds of people as part of the U.S-led war on terror, often secretly holding them for months while they are interrogated, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday.

U.S. cuts aid to Thailand over coup
The United States suspended $24 million in military assistance to Thailand on Thursday, invoking laws that bar certain aid programs to governments that have taken power by force.

Thai Coup Leaders Choose Interim Premier
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Thailand’s coup leaders strengthened their grip on power Friday by sidelining key military supporters of the ousted prime minister, and one official said a former army commander and close adviser to the king had been picked as interim premier.

Russia to grant Cuba $350 million credit
HAVANA – Russia agreed on Thursday to grant Cuba credit worth $350 million and restructure some of its recent debt during a visit by Russia’s prime minister, officials said. The two countries also signed a military cooperation agreement.
Whew!  It’s déjà vu all over again to those of us who remember the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mexico opposed to U.S. border fence
MEXICO CITY – Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence will damage relations between the two countries.

Brazilian president wraps up campaign
SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned Thursday to the gritty suburb where he campaigned as a radical leftist for years before winning Brazil’s presidency. This time, he’s a popular centrist who stabilized Brazil’s economy and brought millions out of poverty.