Tag: alberto gonzalez
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harman, wiretaps, doj & aipac: more massive corruption
major scandal erupts involving congress, cabinet & corruption download greenwald & stein interview [10.5mb mp3]wiretap recorded rep harman promising to intervene for aipacfrom cqpolitics: Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department…
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cheneyacs, pnac2, the controlled opposition & yoo
…both wings of this phony bird are ratcheting up the rhetoric, but let’s not get too distracted by the false left/right paradigm… hersh: cheney left ‘stay-behind units’ in obama govt hersh: cheney has moles in obama govtfrom raw replay: Investigative report Sy Hersh talks about his interview with Dick Cheney in which the former vice…
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cheney & gonzales indictment moves forward in south texas
from ap: A Texas judge has set an arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials accused of involvement in prisoner abuse. Presiding Judge Manuel Banales (buh-NAHL’-ehs) said Wednesday he will allow them to waive arraignment or have attorneys present rather than appear in person Friday. Banales also said…
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gonzales mishandled 18 classified docs on his 1st day
from washington times: The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Tuesday that former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales had only been on the job a few hours the first time he mishandled highly classified documents. All told, a report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine concluded, Mr. Gonzales failed to properly secure 18 top-secret…
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alberto ‘torture’ gonzales resigns
from raw story: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation Monday, ending months of calls that he would step down from the Justice Department over his role in the dismissal of federal prosecutors and role in expanding the power to spy on Americans. In a news conference Monday morning, Gonzales did not address the reasons…
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july clearinghouse
ron paul’s quixotic campaign confuses career pols gonzales’s truthfulness long disputed california city to transform red light cameras into spy cameras US agrees to $30bn defence aid deal with israel flying robots of destruction support our robots k-what? unbuilt maui tv station lands questionable call letters US army eyes truck-mounted laser captured & killed al-qaeda…
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March Clearinghouse
terror database has quadrupled in four years feds select new nuclear warhead design new autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible uk children to be mass fingerprinted fbi: extremists seek school bus work why the towers fell: two theories 10 false flags that changed the world reuters counts 9/11 hijackers as 9/11 victims how 9/11 skeptic…
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gonzales: ‘focused on protecting our kids’
‘protecting our kids’? … that’s what mark foley said from thinkprogress: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced this morning: “I’m not going to resign. I’m going to stay focused on protecting our kids.” Speaking before a Project Safe Childhood event, Gonzales told reporters he plans “to go up to the Congress and provide further clarification” about…
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white house may be turning on gonzales
from raw story: Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says that he won’t resign, but his fate is out of his hands, a New York Times article reveals. Gonzales acknowledged that “mistakes were made” in his handling of the dismissal of several U.S. Attorneys, a case that has put the nation’s chief law enforcement officer in…
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fbi misused patriot act powers
from ap/yahoo: The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday. And for three years the FBI underreported to Congress how often it forced businesses to turn over the customer data, the audit found.…
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attorney general promises to detail spying program
from npr: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tells Congress that he will hand over some legal documents describing the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program. The pledge ends a two-week standoff between Congress and the White House. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), the senior members on the panel, asked for more details about documents…
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pentagon & cia involved in domestic spying
from wired: Just a day before the nation celebrated the life of the once-federally-spied-upon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the New York Times reported that both the Pentagon and the CIA have been issuing subpoenas to domestic financial institutions to investigate possible terrorism. Although the military and the CIA are largely barred from spying on…