SEDER in 3-6... Wednesday 5/7...Maron V Seder TBD

Like listening to the show on Sunday.

But no big deal ... just would be nice 8-)

Free Democracy

You should make the sammycam link give the choices for both wideboy and small because the wideboy always locks up for me.

Just a suggestion, Sam. Thanks for listening!
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tralalalah wish upon a star....thank you SAMUEL!!!

post the wexler clip regarding cheney again for me please...i am mad i was not here at that time to jump up and down...well rather late than never

Mark Klein will be on C-Span’s Washington Journal this morning, between 9:30 and 10 am ET

Letting Bush spy on Americans is unwarranted
By: Ari Melber
November 7, 2007 04:42 PM EST

Under Republican control, the last Congress largely ignored the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless domestic spying program.

Republicans failed to provide thorough oversight or pass a single surveillance bill.

Under Democratic control, Congress is now doing even worse, abdicating oversight and actively undermining accountability for violations of the nation’s surveillance laws.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is debating whether to extend “temporary” legislation, passed in August, to enable the government to spy on Americans without warrants.

The “FISA Amendments Act” would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.

That was the court President Bush defied by ordering warrantless surveillance.

One of the court’s judges, James Robertson, resigned in protest, while the attorney general, his deputy and the FBI director all threatened to resign.

A federal court also found the warrantless surveillance illegal last year.

Yet the Senate is poised to wipe away that history by validating surveillance without warrants or court oversight.

From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush’s warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government’s power to spy on its citizens.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

Leave aside the current administration, and history shows illicit surveillance is a serious and bipartisan problem.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1C069D94-3048-5C12-000814501...

Specter floats compromise on FISA telecom immunity
By Manu Raju
November 08, 2007

The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is drafting a compromise to resolve the thorny issue of whether to provide retroactive liability protections for the phone companies that allegedly participated in the Bush administration’s secret wiretapping program.

At a markup on a bill to overhaul the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) plans to offer an amendment that would make the federal government — instead of the phone companies — the defendant in about 40 pending lawsuits across the country.

The mark up starts Thursday and will continue next week.

“I think it’s very important that the courthouse not be closed so there can be a judicial determination to see if there have been any violations of privacy rights,” Specter said. “I think the telephone companies were good citizens, and should not suffer from what they did. And my idea is to have the government substituted as the party.”

The issue of immunity for telecommunications firms has become a flashpoint as Congress grapples with overhauling FISA. Democrats are pushing for stronger oversight of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, and an administration-backed interim bill that Congress passed in August expires in February.

The Senate Intelligence Committee last month approved a bill by a 13-2 vote that includes a provision to extend liability protections for companies that allegedly participated in the program after the Sept. 11 attacks, provided that the firms can show they had authorization from the government. A corresponding FISA bill in the House, which is still awaiting floor action, does not include an immunity provision.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/specter-floats-compromise-on-fisa-te...

why am i all alone? once again?

Only Congress can bring charges against a sitting President or Vice-President.

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413 Congressmen refuse to Impeach Bush. 22 Congressmen are willing to do the right thing. The crimes are self evident. They are not differences in policy and politics, but high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats and well as Republicans are in on this fix.

These crimes are being ignored by all the media even to point that when Dennis takes the floor and exposes Cheney for all the world to see, the media turns a blind eye.

The American public just is too lazy and too stupid to know what the 3% knows.

Policy:

It became obvious to me that this vice president, who was a driving force for taking the United States into a war against Iraq under false pretenses, is once again rattling the sabers of war against Iran with the same intent to drive America into another war, again based on false pretenses.

That despite all evidence to the contrary, the vice president actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and the Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

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Dennis and the 3% got no where with this attack because it is a difference of opinion and not a Crime.

Only Congress can bring charges against a sitting President or Vice-President.

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413 Congressmen refuse to Impeach Bush. 22 Congressmen are willing to do the right thing. The crimes are self evident. They are not differences in policy and politics, but high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats and well as Republicans are in on this fix.

These crimes are being ignored by all the media even to point that when Dennis takes the floor and exposes Cheney for all the world to see, the media turns a blind eye.

The American public just is too lazy and too stupid to know what the 3% knows.

Policy:

It became obvious to me that this vice president, who was a driving force for taking the United States into a war against Iraq under false pretenses, is once again rattling the sabers of war against Iran with the same intent to drive America into another war, again based on false pretenses.

That despite all evidence to the contrary, the vice president actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and the Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

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Dennis and the 3% got no where with this attack because it is a difference of opinion and not a Crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-demons-of-david-horow_b...

I guess it will be up to the 3% to make the case for Impeachment. It's clear everyone else is in on cover-up.

The 3% has goods on the Bush crime family. After all it was Bush himself who planned 911. He even bought insurance on the building 7 and then blew it up.

For that alone Bush should not only be impeached but tried and exicuted.

It should be easy to make the case.

Two Democrats move to outlaw waterboarding
By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers

What is water-boarding?

WASHINGTON — The practice of waterboarding would be outlawed specifically, along with other extreme interrogation techniques, under legislation pushed by two Democratic senators.

The measures would repudiate the Bush administration’s policy on torture. The CIA reportedly has used waterboarding — or simulated drowning — when questioning terrorism suspects. It’s also used exposure to extreme temperatures and other methods that are expressly forbidden by the Army Field Manual. The proposed bills would require that all U.S. personnel — including the CIA — use only interrogation techniques authorized by the Army manual.

Last month, President Bush’s choice for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, refused to say whether waterboarding was torture and therefore illegal. And an executive order that President Bush released in July on what techniques the CIA could use was silent on whether waterboarding and other extreme measures were among them.

Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., have offered separate bills that make the Army manual the standard for all U.S. interrogators. All members of the military by law already must abide by the manual. The proposed law would require civilians to do the same.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/21198.html

"If you look close enough you can see history altered before your eyes. Pick up the latest Guinness Book of World Records, flip to page 123 and you will see what I mean. Under the section 'Cults, Fans and Followers' the police bombing of the MOVE Organization in 1985 is listed as the sixth most deadly mass suicide in recent history…. Yes, you did read that correctly. A deliberate massacre, in which police dropped a bomb on a house, intentionally allowed the fire to burn and shot at those that dared attempt an escape, was labeled as mass suicide," writes MOVE supporter Kevin Price in his recent essay "MOVE's Battle With Guinness."

97 you and me?

How Blackwater Sniper Fire Felled 3 Iraqi Guards
Witnesses Call Shooting From Justice Ministry Unprovoked, But State Dept. Cleared Its Security Team After a Brief Probe

By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01

BAGHDAD -- Last Feb. 7, a sniper employed by Blackwater USA, the private security company, opened fire from the roof of the Iraqi Justice Ministry. The bullet tore through the head of a 23-year-old guard for the state-funded Iraqi Media Network, who was standing on a balcony across an open traffic circle. Another guard rushed to his colleague's side and was fatally shot in the neck. A third guard was found dead more than an hour later on the same balcony.

Eight people who responded to the shootings -- including media network and Justice Ministry guards and an Iraqi army commander -- and five network officials in the compound said none of the slain guards had fired on the Justice Ministry, where a U.S. diplomat was in a meeting. An Iraqi police report described the shootings as "an act of terrorism" and said Blackwater "caused the incident." The media network concluded that the guards were killed "without any provocation."

The U.S. government reached a different conclusion. Based on information from the Blackwater guards, who said they were fired upon, the State Department determined that the security team's actions "fell within approved rules governing the use of force," according to an official from the department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Neither U.S. Embassy officials nor Blackwater representatives interviewed witnesses or returned to the network, less than a quarter-mile from Baghdad's Green Zone, to investigate.

The incident shows how American officials responsible for overseeing the security company conducted only a cursory investigation when Blackwater guards opened fire. The shooting occurred more than seven months before the Sept. 16 incident in which Blackwater guards killed 17 civilians at another Baghdad traffic circle.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR200711...

More reservists report job problems

With Extended Iraq Tours, More Reservists Report Problems Returning Back to Work

Strained by extended tours in Iraq, growing numbers of military reservists say the government is providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return home, Defense Department data shows.

The Pentagon survey of reservists in 2005-2006, obtained by The Associated Press, details increasing discontent among returning troops in protecting their legal rights after taking leave from work to fight for their country.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/11/more_reservists_report_job_pro...

They Want Us To Go Away…
By: Phoenix Woman

The Corporate/Bush Dog Wing of the Democratic Party - the one that our friends in the GOP/Media Complex like to portray as “reasonable” and “sensible” and “moderate” Democrats (”reasonable” meaning “rolls over for Bush and the GOP”) - would very much like us to go away.

They want to be able to keep the actual Democrats like Feingold outnumbered and shackled. They want to pass their GOP buddies’ Debt Peonage Bill (aka “Bankruptcy Reform”) and to put Peru under the NAFTA shadow without any fuss from us. Hell, why should they care about us? They can get more money from their corporate buddies than they do from little old us.

Which is exactly why we shouldn’t go away.

Oh, I’m not talking about just shutting up and being submissive ATMs for them. Or just giving up on politics altogether. Oh, no.

Here’s what I’m talking about:

We’ll “go away” from the DCCC and the DSCC, as they don’t need our money anyway, not with their corporate sugar daddies. Instead, we’ll back individual candidates, as well as outfits like DFA and BlueAmerica and Howard Dean’s DNC.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/07/they-want-us-to-go-away/

This news release announces an article on the Bush administration covering up and ignoring dissenting Pentagon wargames analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf.

Press Release - Former Professor Claims Bush Administration Intends To Sacrifice US Fifth Fleet By Attacking Iran

But I know Mr. Bait has something to get off his chest. And I am look forward to learning "The Crime" that Bush has committed.