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April 8, 2004

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April 8, 2004

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April 8, 2004

Militia forces loyal to Abdurrashid Dostum take Meymaneh, the capital of Faryab province, Afghanistan, from the interim government and force the governor to flee.

The Middle East Forum is seeking support to form the Islamic Progress Institute, a progressive Islamic institute, that would represent liberal Muslims living in the United States.

US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the September 11 Commission. Rice states President George W. Bush understood threat from al-Qaeda before September 11.

Bangladesh is paralysed by a general strike called in protest at alleged government corruption.
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Zell shoves his nose further up Bush's butt « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:39am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Harry Hope (rivrvu@ix.netcom.com)Subject: Zell shoves his nose further up Bush's butt This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush, alt.politicsDate: 2004-04-05 11:11:05 PSTOnce the first and only Democrat to ever appear on the Top Ten, ZellMiller could have a permanent spot from now until November if he keepsgoing at this rate.Last week the proud Bush supporter announced that we should stopinvestigating 9/11 immediately because it could "energize our enemiesand demoralize our troops."That's right - according to Miller, finding out why 3,000 people werekilled on September 11 so that we can make sure it doesn't happenagain is the same as giving aid and comfort to the enemy.See, on Planet Zell, it's Richard Clarke who's really to blame for9/11 because he was in the "catbird seat" for ten years.Never mind that Clarke was practically begging Bush to pay attentionto al Qaeda and Bush ignored him - has everyone forgotten that OurGreat Leader is absolutely not responsible for anything at all thathappens under his watch?Said Miller, "It's obvious to me that this country is rapidly dividingitself into two camps - the wimps and the warriors."No Zell, if this country is dividing itself into two camps it'sbetween people who want the truth and people who've got their noses sofar up Bush's butt that they've lost their minds.From The Democratic Undergroundhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/Harry
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Bush schemes to delay 9/11 report until after election« Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:35am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Harry Hope (rivrvu@ix.netcom.com)Subject: Bush schemes to delay 9/11 report until after electionView this article only Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush, alt.politicsDate: 2004-04-05 18:41:26 PSTAppearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" television program, Kean saidWhite House vetters will go over his report "line by line to find outif there's anything in there which could harm American interests inthe area of intelligence."A special clearance team led by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Cardand made up of top US intelligence and counterterrorism officials hasalready been set up, he said.But the report, expected to contain hundreds of pages of findings andtestimony, is unlikely to be finished before July, according tocongressional officials.That will leave the vetting team only three to four months to completeits work, if Americans are to see the document before they go to thepolls on November 2.Asked if Americans will be able to see the report before the election,Kean answered, "I have no guarantees."It took the White House close to seven months to clear a congressionalreport on US intelligence in the lead-up to the attacks, which killedall the occupants of four passenger jets, destroyed the twin towers ofthe World Trade Center in New York and severely damaged the Pentagonbuilding in Washington, leaving some 3,000 people dead in all.Moreover, the congressional account emerged from that vetting lastJuly with dozens of blacked-out pages, which experts later saidcontained sensitive information about an alleged Saudi role infinancing al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic networks.Democratic commission vice chairman Lee Hamilton assured on the sameshow that the panel will not put up with any political editing of thedocument, saying, "We're not going to let them distort our report."Hamilton also expressed confidence White House vetters will focus onprotecting intelligence sources and information collection methodsrather than on the panel's substantive findings.But reacting to the controversy surrounding the probe, the John Kerryelection campaign released a compendium of press reports showing thepresident's lack of enthusiasm for the commission and its work sinceits inception."Bush opposed the commission entirely, he initially didn't includefunding they requested after they were established, he still has notprovided documents the commission has said are necessary for theirwork," said the campaign of the presumptive Democratic presidentialnominee.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... probe_vote
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Re: April 8, 2004

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White House vetting could delay 9/11 report until after electionMon Apr 5WASHINGTON (AFP) -The chairman of an independent commission looking into UScounterterrorism activities prior to the September 11 attacks said hecould not guarantee that the panel's report will be released beforethe November presidential election because of a protracted White Housevetting process.Former Republican New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean said he was"surprised" by the situation, but saw no way around it.
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Bush's job approval slides to new low at 43%« Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:30am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Harry Hope (rivrvu@ix.netcom.com)Subject: Bush's job approval slides to 43%, a new lowView this article only Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.gw-bush, alt.politicsDate: 2004-04-05 16:11:27 PSThttp://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htmPew Research Center for the People & the Press survey conducted byPrinceton Survey Research Associates. April 1-4, 2004. N=790 adultsnationwide. MoE ± 4."Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handlinghis job as president?" If "Depends": "Overall, do you approve ordisapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job aspresident?"April 1-4, 2004 %Approve 43Disapprove 47Don't Know 10
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Why Richard Clarke is a Hero « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:23am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Gandalf Grey (gandalfgrey@infectedmail.com)Subject: Why Richard Clarke is a Hero This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, alt.current-events.wtc.bush-knew, alt.impeach.bush, alt.politics, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.miscDate: 2004-04-06 11:03:01 PSThttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp ... clarkeisah eroWHY RICHARD CLARKE IS A HEROSat Apr 3, 8:01 PM ETBy Richard ReevesWASHINGTON -- Richard Clarke seems an odd duck, or perhaps I mean that youprobably would not want to go on a duck-hunting trip with him. He comesacross, in both appearance and in interviews, as arrogant, tough to getalong with, a loner who spent hours one early morning working out theprecise wording of his public apology to the families of Sept. 11 victims.He is also smart as hell and is telling very unpleasant truth in a criticalwhirl of many truths -- and many lies.He is a national hero -- odd in that, too. There is no real Americantradition of resignation in protest or whistle-blowing. In Great Britain,after all, which does have such an honorable tradition, two members of PrimeMinister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s Cabinet, Robin Cook and ClareShort, resigned to protest that government's role in the Iraq (news - websites) war. Americans prefer team play, loyalty, patriotism as an end initself. My country, right or wrong.The retribution for disloyalty is sure and usually swift. The most famousU.S. government official to blow the whistle was Secretary of State WilliamJennings Bryan, three times the Democratic nominee for president. He quit tobegin a lecture tour attacking his old boss, President Woodrow Wilson,declaring that the president's slogans about keeping us out of war were afraud, that Wilson did plan to take the United States into the greatEuropean war if he was re-elected in 1916. The crowds that once cheered andcheered the old Boy Orator of the Platte booed and chucked rotten tomatoesat Bryan until he went home to find a new line of work.That's the way it usually works here, and that's how it will probably be forClarke when his celebrity or notoriety has passed. I laugh when I hear thathe is "profiteering," dissing the president to sell his book. He may make afew bucks now, but he will surely lose a lot later. But whistle-blowersdon't do it for the money. More often than not they pay a high priceeconomically and in their private lives, losing friends and family. Whohires the disloyal? Who can stand living with someone ducking scorn,tomatoes and death threats?Clarke, I would wager, did not speak out because he wants to own the world;he was happiest running it from behind the curtains. That's the usualprofile of such dissenters -- or "squealers" in American jargon. They think,or come to think, they are smarter or more righteous than compromisingbosses and adversaries living with official lies.Profiteers are more like Karen Hughes than Richard Clarke. What is the wordfor a woman who quits to spend more time with her children and then takesoff on $50,000-a-night lecture tours, writes about about how wonderful herboss is, and then rejoins the team at the White House? "Real American," Icall her. "Public service" offers celebrity and deferred compensation. Forthe talented, government salaries are low, but the visibility is high. AskGeorge Stephanopoulos, or James Carville or Bill Clinton (news - web sites).What Clarke has done, whatever his reasons or persona, is to break the chainof secrecy. Thank you. More than 20 years ago, I wrote about what happenedto other angry men, heroes of mine, who rose up to say the emperor has noclothes -- Curt Flood, the baseball player who questioned the old reservesystem, and a Pentagon (news - web sites) auditor named Ernest Fitzgerald:"If you buck the system, you are almost inevitably going to be destroyed.... To keep the rest of us in line, established power had to make brutalexamples of those who dared to challenge the order of things. In the end,though, it wasn't sad. Because some of us would not bend, the rest of us hadthe small measure of freedom that came with the tiny chance that we might bethe next one to stand up."I still believe that, and this as well: Clarke is important because he isrevealing the secrets the government held before Sept. 11, 2001. If those"secrets" -- threats and dangers, not intelligence procedures -- had beenshared with the American people by their leaders, there might not have beencatastrophic tragedy that day. We, 280 million of us, would have been aware,awake, looking for bad guys, listening for danger.It's not about connecting the dots; it's about connecting the people. Theprice of freedom is vigilance, but our own government, hiding its secrets,never let us know what we should have been looking for all those dangerousyears.
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Iraqi Oil Protected By Bush Executive Order « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:21am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subject: Iraqi Oil Protected By Bush Executive Order This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: alt.politics, alt.politics.bushDate: 2004-04-06 18:11:10 PSTNow we get to the true reasons we're in Iraq:Executive Order signed by Bush, protecting American interests in Iraqioil.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... lExecutive Order Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and CertainOther Property in Which Iraq Has An InterestBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and thelaws of the United States of America, including the InternationalEmergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act, as amended (22U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, findthat the threat of attachment or other judicial process against theDevelopment Fund for Iraq, Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, andinterests therein, and proceeds, obligations, or any financialinstruments of any nature whatsoever arising from or related to thesale or marketing thereof, and interests therein, obstructs theorderly reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance ofpeace and security in the country, and the development of political,administrative, and economic institutions in Iraq. This situationconstitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the nationalsecurity and foreign policy of the United States and I hereby declarea national emergency to deal with that threat.I hereby order:Section 1. Unless licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to thisorder, any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment,or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null andvoid, with respect to the following:(a) the Development Fund for Iraq, and(b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein,and proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any naturewhatsoever arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof,and interests therein, in which any foreign country or a nationalthereof has any interest, that are in the United States, thathereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter comewithin the possession or control of United States persons.Sec. 2. (a) As of the effective date of this order, Executive Order12722 of August 2, 1990, Executive Order 12724 of August 9, 1990, andExecutive Order 13290 of March 20, 2003, shall not apply to theproperty and interests in property described in section 1 of thisorder.(b) Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continuedeffectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses or otherforms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effectheretofore or hereafter under Executive Orders 12722, 12724, or 13290,or under the authority of IEEPA or the UNPA, except as hereafterterminated, modified, or suspended by the issuing Federal agency andexcept as provided in section 2(a) of this order.Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:(a) The term "person" means an individual or entity;(b) The term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, jointventure, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization;(c) The term "United States person" means any United States citizen,permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of theUnited States or any juris-diction within the United States (includingforeign branches), or any person in the United States;(d) The term "Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products" means anypetroleum, petroleum products, or natural gas originating in Iraq,including any Iraqi-origin oil inventories, wherever located; and(e) The term "Development Fund for Iraq" means the fund established onor about May 22, 2003, on the books of the Central Bank of Iraq, bythe Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority responsiblefor the temporary governance of Iraq and all accounts held for thefund or for the Central Bank of Iraq in the name of the fund.Sec. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with theSecretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorizedto take such actions, including the promulga-tion of rules andregulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President byIEEPA and the UNPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes ofthis order. The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of thesefunctions to other officers and agencies of the United StatesGovernment. All agencies of the United States Government are herebydirected to take all appropriate measures within their statutoryauthority to carry out the provisions of this order.(b) Nothing contained in this order shall relieve a person from anyrequirement to obtain a license or other authorization in compliancewith applicable laws and regulations.Sec. 5. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right,benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at lawor in equity by a party against the United States, its departments,agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any otherperson.Sec. 6. This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and publishedin the Federal Register.GEORGE W. BUSHTHE WHITE HOUSE
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Re: April 8, 2004

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 911 what did he know 5 minutes before or after « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:16am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Sillysamiam (sillysamiam44@yahoo.com)Subject: 911 what did you know 5 minutes before or afterView this article only Newsgroups: alt.politicsDate: 2004-04-06 17:30:52 PSTruss@mindpollen.comhttp://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htmThey are showing a video tape of President Bush reading to some schoolchildren on that day that the Twin Towers were hit.Here is his charges:Apologists claim that Bush didn't leave simply because he didn't want tointerrupt and upset the children, but this falls apart for several reasons:1) America is being attacked, thousands are dying, and Bush doesn't know ifwe're facing nuclear, biological, or chemical attacks, as well. Couldn't hejust say, "Excuse me, kids, I need to take care of something. It's part ofbeing President, y'understand. I'll be back as soon as I can."2) At the moment Card told Bush about the second plane, the children weren'treading to Bush. They had finished reading words from an easel and werereaching under their chairs for a book when Card whispered to Bush. Another30 seconds would elapse before they started reading again. This pause was aperfect time for Bush to politely excuse himself.3) By staying, he not only endangered his own life, but the lives of all ofthose children. Wouldn't it be better to risk upsetting them than to riskletting them die in a terror attack?4) Even if Bush was afraid of hurting the kiddies' feelings, what about theSecret Service? Have they been trained not to attempt to save thePresident's life if it might bother some schoolchildren?5) What about Chief of Staff Andrew Card, White House Spokesperson AriFleischer, and other officials who were in that classroom? Didn't they feelthat a 21st-century Pearl Harbor and a potential attack on the Presidenthimself were worth some sort of action?6) Finally, and most damningly, this excuse doesn't explain why Bushcontinued to mill around the classroom for several minutes after thechildren had finished reading.
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Questions Bush Will Not Answer « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:12am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: America (America)Subject: Re: Questions Bush Will Not AnswerView this article only Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc, alt.politicsDate: 2004-04-07 11:18:52 PSTDid you ever use cocaine?How often do you still use it?Why didn't you keep flying when you'd claimed you had?Why did you lie about your drug abuse conviction history?Why didn't you file the paperwork on your Harken sales properly?Why didn't you warn the public about 9/11 even though you knew it was coming?Where are the WMD?Why were the US air defenses stood down on 9/11?Why did you claim you knew nothing, then immediately claim you knew who did it, that day?Why did you help your Poppy hide those Nazis in his campaign?
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Re: April 8, 2004

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Investigator Resigns Citing Bush Regime Obstruction of Investigation « Thread Started on Apr 8, 2004, 2:07am »--------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Gandalf Grey (gandalfgrey@infectedmail.com)Subject: Investigator Resigns Citing Bush Regime Obstruction of Investigation This is the only article in this thread View: Original Format Newsgroups: alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater, alt.current-events.wtc.bush-knew, alt.impeach.bush, alt.politics, alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.liberalism, alt.society.liberalism, talk.politics.miscDate: 2004-04-07 11:50:52 PSThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn ... mlInterior Dept. Is DenouncedInvestigator of Indian Funds Resigns, Alleges ObstructionBy Carol D. LeonnigWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, April 7, 2004; Page A07A court-appointed investigator has resigned from his job probing the federalgovernment's management of hundreds of millions of dollars owed NativeAmericans, and charged that the Department of the Interior blocked his workin a bid to conceal its deals to enrich energy companies and cheat AmericanIndians.In his resignation letter, made public yesterday, Special Master Alan L.Balaran said the Bush administration worked to thwart him beginning lastsummer after he uncovered a two-decades-old practice by Interior officialsof negotiating leases with oil and gas companies that gave Indian landownersa small fraction of the royalties that private landowners received insimilar deals. Balaran accused the Department of Justice and the InteriorDepartment of trying repeatedly to have him removed from the case "toprevent any further investigation" of the lopsided deals."A full investigation into these matters might well result in energycompanies being forced to repay significant sums to individual Indians,"Balaran wrote to the judge overseeing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit byNative Americans against the Interior Department. "Interior could not letthis happen. . . . Billions of dollars are at stake."Interior officials released a statement yesterday calling Balaran's charges"preposterous" and "based entirely on innuendo, supposition and baselessspeculation -- just the sorts of things to which a competent judicialofficer would give no credence."Justice Department officials declined to comment.In August 2003, Balaran reported that the Interior Department's chiefappraiser in New Mexico had repeatedly negotiated for energy companies topay Indians less than market value for the use of their land and that hedestroyed evidence of his longstanding practice. In the case of one San Juanbasin pipeline, the appraiser arranged for a gas company to pay $4.50 a yardto run pipeline across Indian-owned lands that Interior managed, while thesame energy company paid private landowners $104 a yard for running the samepipe on their adjoining land.Soon after his report, Balaran said Justice Department officials ordered himto leave an Interior Department repository in Dallas where he planned toreview gas and oil audit files."The reason for this dramatic shift in policy is obvious," Balaran wrote ofthe government's action. "The consequences of [my] findings could cost thevery companies with which senior Interior officials maintain close tiesmillions of dollars."Balaran noted that the agency's inspector general concluded last month thatDeputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles had repeated dealings with energyand mining industry clients of his former lobbying firm after assuming hispost. As a condition of his confirmation for the deputy job, Griles hadagreed to avoid such dealings for as many as six years.Balaran praised U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who is overseeing theIndian trust case, as "courageous." Lamberth said in a court order yesterdaythat he accepted Balaran's resignation "with profound regret."© 2004 The Washington Post Company
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