Tag: white house
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taxday 2009 & the great american econocrash
white house locked down after threat from tea bag 2,000 crowd capitol ‘tea party’ to protest taxesfrom oregonian: On a day already loathed by tax haters, 2,000 people crowded the Capitol steps to protest corporate bailouts, higher taxes and the state of government in both Oregon and in the United States. The demonstration in Salem…
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bush/obama regimes to run transition/terror drill in january
from usa today: What would happen if terrorists attacked the United States at the start of Barack Obama’s presidency? The Bush administration doesn’t want to wait to find out. It’s planning to test the incoming government’s readiness next month in a series of tabletop exercises involving top Bush and Obama officials. Concerned about the first…
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totalitarian olympic updates
white house press corps plane detained in chinafrom ap: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a…
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7th anniversary of osama ‘determined to strike’ memo
from thinkprogress: Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (See the pdf memo here.) At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001. Here’s how the administration reacted,…
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white house briefed for ‘potential for life’ on mars
from universe today: It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the…
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bush aide caught offering access for donations
from raw replay: The Times of London reports: “A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.” Stephen Payne is a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to…
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change we can spy on
obama supports telecom amnestyfrom threat level: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama supports the spy bill compromise passed by the House Friday, despite having opposed retroactive amnesty to telecoms that helped with the President’s secret, warrantless wiretapping. The measure expands the government’s ability to install blanket wiretaps inside domestic communication infrastructure and frees the nation’s…
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does the white house have a secret laser defense?
from danger room: There are all kinds of stories about how the White House is defended. One urban legend says Stinger anti-aircraft missiles are supposedly perched on the roof. According to this 1998 report by Human Rights Watch, Pennsylvania Avenue may be protected by a laser weapon, meant to ward off 9/11-style suicide attacks… The…
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do americans even care about big brother?
from time: Pity America’s poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of…
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white house torture advocate william haynes resigns
from thinkprogress: Defense Department General Counsel William Haynes, who was a “prime mover” in the Bush administration’s efforts to bypass the Geneva Convention, announced today that he “is returning to private life next month.” Already a controversial figure due to his torture advocacy, the negative spotlight on Haynes increased last week when former Gitmo prosecutor…
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still catapulting the propaganda
rummy resurfaces & calls for US propaganda agencyfrom danger room: One of the many things I love about Donald Rumsfeld is that he’s totally unrepentant. Back in 2001, the Pentagon under his leadership created the controversial Office of Strategic Influence, which was closed down just a few months later after its existence became public. Rightly…
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white house ‘reused e-mail tapes’
from ap: The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages – including those pertaining to the CIA leak case – have been taped over and are gone forever… The disclosure came minutes before midnight Tuesday under a court-ordered deadline that forced…
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cia man ‘can take white house down’
from press tv: Former head of the CIA’s clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal. Rodriguez said he may testify before the House Intelligence Committee if he is granted immunity from prosecution, The Sunday Times reported. Intelligence sources believe Rodriguez is now quite determined not…
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white house compound catches on fire
from ap: Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday on the White House compound in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The blaze appeared to be located in Vice President Dick Cheney’s suite of ceremonial offices on the second floor of the building. Cheney and President Bush were across the street in the West Wing…