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Author: VTRVTR
Date: Jun 30, 2008 23:49
Ex-Agent Says CIA Ignored Iran Facts
Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
A former CIA operative who says he tried to warn the agency about faulty intelligence on Iraqi
weapons programs now contends that CIA officials also ignored evidence that Iran had suspended
work on a nuclear bomb.
The onetime undercover agent, who has been barred by the CIA from using his real name, filed a
motion in federal court late Friday asking the government to declassify legal documents
describing what he says was a deliberate suppression of findings on Iran that were contrary to
agency views at the time.
The former operative alleged in a 2004 lawsuit that the CIA fired him after he repeatedly
clashed with senior managers over his attempts to file reports that challenged the conventional
wisdom about weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. Key details of his claim have not
been made public because they describe events the CIA deems secret.
The consensus view on Iran's nuclear program shifted dramatically last December with the
release of a landmark intelligence report that concluded that Iran halted work on nuclear
weapons design in 2003. The publication of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran
undermined the CIA's rationale for censoring the former officer's lawsuit, said his attorney,
Roy Krieger.
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Author: johnturmeljohnturmel
Date: Jun 30, 2008 21:50
JCT: Terry Parker, who won the original invalidation of the
marijuana prohibition in Canada before Alan Young won its
revalidation, had his marijuana seized by Canada Post and he
filed a Section 24 application for the return of his
controlled substance.
The Crown argued that his exemption expired at some point in
the past and that he should go doctor-shopping since there
are some doctors in Ontario who will sign though the most
will not,
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Author: skepticl1skepticl1
Date: Jun 30, 2008 19:33
SO LET US POSE A CHALLENGE: Spin a globe. Take almost any area in
Latin America, Africa, Asia, or the Middle East and try to find a
place where you could not find a similar—or even worse—record of
American brutality, murder, and horror as we have sketched here. From
Central Asia to southern Africa; from Central America and the
Caribbean to Indonesia; from the Congo to Southeast Asia…and beyond.
Or take U.S. history over the past 100 or so years, and show us a time—
just a 10-year stretch even—when the U.S. has NOT been murdering
people wholesale, or financially and politically sponsoring such
murder (either through puppets or proxies), or carrying out military
aggression or occupation, in one or another oppressed nation. We don’t
think you can.
A July 4th Challenge
In 1890 the U.S. Army massacred 300 Lakota Native American people at
Wounded Knee.
In 1945 the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people.
In 1968 U.S. soldiers massacred 400-500 unarmed people in the
Vietnamese village of My Lai.
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Author: Seon FSeon F
Date: Jun 30, 2008 19:23
Just pointing out not all 911 truthers believe the "Jews did it" some
believe it was aliens!
"St Georges Day April 23rd" googlemail.com> wrote in
message
news:9d0a15d3-b34e-4cbf-ab57-a8e97643c984@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
When you dissect the real events and official statistics of World War
2 and, of course, World War 1, you find that what you’ve been told is
not what was… not at all. You can take what you find and consider it.
You can turn it around and look at it from all sides. You can hold it
up to the light to see where the light passes through and where the
shadows are formed. The more you look, the more you study, the more a
particular influence presents itself.
Every now and then as time approaches for a new entry here… every now
and then I just don’t know what to say. So I sit here and I think
about it and it isn’t very long before my thoughts return, as they
always do, to 9/11 and the prima facie evidence of both Zionist
involvement in the act and the cover-up in the aftermath.
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Author: 0ZNB00ZNB0
Date: Jun 30, 2008 19:17
"Earl Evleth" wrote in message
news:C48F0EB9.12E780%%evleth@wanadoo.fr...
> Austin Hits Record Heat
> 6/29/2008
>
> Newsroom
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> Austin has set an all time record for the hottest year since 1925. The
> Lower Colorado River Authority's Meteorologist, Bob Rose, says Austin
> surpassed the 18 day record set in 1925, as of Friday making it the
> 20th day
> austin has seen a 100 degree temperatures. Rose says the good news is
> an
> unusual cool front today is expected to drop the temperature. Due to
> the
> widespread drought across the state, the LCRA is urging everyone to
> conserve
> water as much as possible.
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Author: JTJT
Date: Jun 30, 2008 17:51
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union are near
a deal on letting law enforcement and security agencies obtain private
information like credit card transactions and travel histories about
people on the other side of the Atlantic, The New York Times reported
on Saturday.
(Advertisement)
The newspaper, which obtained an internal report on the potential
agreement, said it would amount to a diplomatic breakthrough for U.S.
counterterrorism officials after a history of clashing with the EU
over demands for personal data.
It was unclear when the agreement could be completed, the Times said,
citing officials, but the Bush administration wants to resolve the
issues before leaving office in January and is hoping for an agreement
that would not require congressional approval.
Negotiators, meeting since February 2007, have mostly worked out draft
language for 12 major issues at the heart of a "binding international
agreement," according to the report. Among other things, the pact
would make clear that European governments and companies could
lawfully exchange personal information with the United States.
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Author: St Georges Day April 23rdSt Georges Day April 23rd
Date: Jun 30, 2008 17:37
When you dissect the real events and official statistics of World War
2 and, of course, World War 1, you find that what you’ve been told is
not what was… not at all. You can take what you find and consider it.
You can turn it around and look at it from all sides. You can hold it
up to the light to see where the light passes through and where the
shadows are formed. The more you look, the more you study, the more a
particular influence presents itself.
Every now and then as time approaches for a new entry here… every now
and then I just don’t know what to say. So I sit here and I think
about it and it isn’t very long before my thoughts return, as they
always do, to 9/11 and the prima facie evidence of both Zionist
involvement in the act and the cover-up in the aftermath.
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Author: Rimmer2k8Rimmer2k8
Date: Jun 30, 2008 14:21
The End of the Anglo-American Empire?
by Richard C. Cook
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9473
Much of the world’s history over the last century has been
dominated by the United States . But by the turn of the
millennium in 2000-2001, the “American Century” had begun to
descend into a chamber of horrors.
The years since then have been marked by the huge financial
bubbles engineered by the U.S. Federal Reserve System and
the virus of predatory global capitalism. We have the
looming worldwide economic crisis with rising bankruptcies,
credit disruptions, and soaring fuel and food prices.
Alongside has been the thinly-disguised but continuing
attempt by the U.S. to conquer the Middle East by force of
arms under the heading of the “War on Terror.”
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Author: fxfx
Date: Jun 30, 2008 12:34
Too Poor To Parent?
Posted June 30, 2008 | 11:29 AM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gaylynn-burroughs/too-poor-to-parent_b_109971.html
A child accidentally falls off his top bunk. His mother worries. The
child says his knee hurts, and it looks like a bruise is forming on his
arm. His mother wants a doctor to see the child, but hesitates for a
moment about taking her son to the hospital emergency room.
She is afraid that her child's treating physician will not believe her
when she says that her child was hurt in an accident. She knows that a
social worker will call child-welfare authorities. She knows that she
will be subject to an investigation. She is fearful that those
child-welfare authorities may remove her child from her care and charge
her with neglect. She knows that it may take several months before her
child is returned to her care, and she also knows that during that time
she may only be able to see her child once or twice a week. Even then,
those visits may be supervised by an agency caseworker.
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