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Comment #1: Ohiodem1 said on 3/31/06 @ 10:05pm ET...

I have not been a big supporter of the Censure Resolutions simply because I believe they do not go far enough. However, if we cannot expect to get more than that this year, which seems to be a realistic assessment of the situation, I say let's go for it.

The failure of the Republican leadership to stand up for their constitutionally mandated responsibilities provides a great risk for them at the polls in November.

If the Chicken Stonewalling Republican Congress fails to live up to its responsibilities, then it is the job of Americans to hold them to account for their inaction, or more correctly their refusal to act.

Comment #2: cali said on 3/31/06 @ 11:35pm ET...

Thank you for all you do Congressman Conyers
The only thing that I hope we can consider someday, is going to the Senate to let them know how we feel.
Somehow going to protest at the White house doesn't seem to me to be where we should be putting our efforts. I would love to see thousands at the Senate's doorstep with signs and demands for them to do their job

Comment #3: UL said on 3/31/06 @ 11:49pm ET...

Rove, once again, is ghost writing for the New York Times:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=811391&mesg_id=811391

nuf' said.

Thank you for your continued courage and leaderhsip, Congressman Conyers - we have so little of it.

Comment #4: tahoebasha1 said on 3/31/06 @ 11:51pm ET...

Spring is almost here -- and that means spring-cleaning! I can't think of a better place to start than the White House. All we need are good ole' Americans to ban together and roll up their sleeves!

Comment #5: D Grace Reid said on 4/1/06 @ 1:25am ET...

Congressman, as one of the plaintiffs of Doe v. Bush I think the following letter will have some special meaning for you. I am sending it around trying to get feedback.

Censure: Absent A Declaration of War

NO DECLARATION OF WAR
March 31, 2006

Dear Senator Feingold,

Am listening to the Senate Judiciary Committee Censure Hearing.... And I hope it's the first in a series.... No matter what legal justification opponents to the Censure Resolution are looking for, ABSENT A DECLARATION OF WAR.... none of the other provisions for the Commander In Chief, and the President's Article II authority fall into line. It occurs to me that these cases that the President has the inherent authority to surveill at will and without oversight can not be pressed.... as he cannot claim Constitutional protection while violating the Constitution at the same time. As was pointed out in today's hearing, the President has derived his concept of inherent, plenary, and unitary power from a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel by Jay Bybee and John Yoo... a memo that has since been withdrawn and rewritten. As Mr. Fein has said, this is a war without end, whose battleground is the whole world..... but we are involved in an UNDECLARED WAR, so all other Constitutional provisions for the Commander In Chief during a time of war do not pertain.

Also, might I add, it is my perception, as one out of 300 million Americans, that it is the general opinion of the people that the President has lied and lied and lied again, and that he has broken the law in violation of the FISA court and violation of our 4th amendment protections.... That he lied and broke the law in pursuit of his program of pre-emptive illegal strike on Iraq which he has pursued to the exclusion of all his other duties as the President of the US. So he is incompetent, negligent and criminal..... but the majority of people seem to believe that this is business as usual, that they are powerless to do anything about it, and that at best, the President did these things because it was his priority, and that priority is his and his alone -- unchecked, imbalanced and not covered by pre-existing law.... All this because he created in the public's mind the idea that this is a New Kind of War, against a New Kind of Enemy, necessitating a New Kind of Executive Authority, and that authority he found through Ashcroft, Bybee, Yoo, and Gonzales.

More power to you, Senator,

I sent a copy of the above letter to President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, to Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, and John Yoo, too. I sent it to all the members of the Senate Judiciary, to all the members of Daily Kos, all the members of Booman Tribune... and I sent it to my daily newspaper, the Sacramento Bee..... For good measure I sent it to Byron Calame of the New York Times, and I sent it to all my political action committees.....

I am now taking a break before sending it to all the other members of the Congress.... That's for tomorrow.... Also tomorrow, I will send a copy to John Bonifaz, lead attorney in Doe v. Bush & Rumsfeld. I may be so bold as to send a copy to Kofi Annan who said in September of 2004 that the war on Iraq is illegal. I will most certainly be sending it to John Dean, and Mr. Fein who were witnesses today. I will send it to Discourse.net, and to the Center for Constitutioal Rights.

All in all, it looks like a busy weekend.

Comment #6: Nolip said on 4/1/06 @ 7:57am ET...

Many blogs (as well as some thousand bodies and billion dollars) ago I suggested that the Bush administration is really a case of his monarchy taking this country "through the looking glass" and, just like Alice, we followed Bush's rabbit as well as the March Hare (Rumsfeld) and Mad Hatter (Cheney) down the hole into Wonderland...now that were on the wrong side of the mirror, it's encouraging to hear one of the leading Democrats pick up on that metaphor...

"The Congressional resolution of force passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, makes no mention of surveillance, Mr. Leahy said, yet "the administration claims now that Congress unconsciously authorized warrantless wiretaps."

"This is 'Alice in Wonderland' gone amok," Mr. Leahy said. "It is not what we in Congress said, and it certainly was not what we in Congress intended." "

Senate Debates Resolution to Censure the President

Comment #7: Nolip said on 4/1/06 @ 8:07am ET...

Under Bush, gas prices are through the roof, the treasury is gutted (anyone hear those pennies rolling around in that huge vault?) and big business continues to outsource offshore (does anybody have a job anymore?) and drug companies, like Pfizer, continue to abuse their status of earning more than most third world countries, by leveraging that power against the poor...shades of "The Constant Gardener"...

"What is Pfizer up to? Well, they sell a drug, amlodipine besylate, that is marketed by Pfizer in the United States under the trade name Norvasc. It is used to treat hypertension, angina and myocardial ischemia. The drug is sold in two dosage formats: 5 mg. and 10 mg. tablets, and typically taken once a day.

In the Philippines, Pfizer charges from $.88 to $1.46 per day for Norvasc (more for the larger dose). In 2004, the average per capita income in the Philippines was $3.20 per day. Eighty percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day. Pfizer knows this. They have calculated that they can make greater profits selling Norvasc at a high price to a small number of the wealthiest Filipinos (less than 5 percent of the population can afford the drug), than a larger number of people with lower incomes."

Terrorism, Pfizer Style

Comment #8: unspun said on 4/1/06 @ 9:47am ET...

Yesterday I watched the Censure Hearings and wondered "what has happened to the democratic party?" I have been disappointed with them in the past, but yesterday I was outraged. Whether or not they agree with Senator Feingold, the Judiciary Committee democratic members should have been in attendance to hear the testimony and to ask questions.

Repeatedly our democratic leaders have made public statements about needing to "investigate" whether warrant less wiretapping was illegal. Yesterday's hearing was a public beginning to an investigation, yet the democratic members of the Judiciary Committee were missing in action. Senator Kohl showed up late, but at least showed up. Senators Kennedy, Feinstein, Biden, Durbin, and Schumer were absent. They left Senators Feingold and Leahy alone to try to defend our democracy in the face of ignorant rabid tirades by Senators Graham and Sessions. Mr. Fein and Mr. Dean's testimony was interrupted and abruptly cut off by Senator Specter. Where were the democrats? Why were they not there to ask questions that we all want answered?

I called all the offices of the MIA democrats and registered my opinions of their lack of leadership.

I'm sure they will give plausible reasons for their absence. I know there are other important issues to be dealt with. They don't seem to "get it": This President uses "Signing Statements" to basically tell congress "I don't care what laws you pass, I will only enforce them as I wish."

Apparently they are content with giving up their power to the Executive Branch. If that is the case, why do we need them at all? We could send them all home and use their salaries to reduce the deficit. At least the country should benefit from them in some way.

Comment #9: Truth_in_action said on 4/1/06 @ 10:00am ET...

C-SPAN MEDIA ALERT.

Sorry for this off topic subject, but it could be meaningful.

I was watching C-SPAN this morning (4-1-06) and something caught my eye.

At 8:30 am, the C-SPAN moderator was Pedro and his guest was Joshua Denbeau, Co-Counsel for Tunsian Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. I noticed that for this 8:30 am show, C-SPAN changed the way they listed phone numbers on the screen for callers to call in to the show, and Pedro announced them this way as well:

Call (202) 737-0001 Support Pres. Bush
Call (202) 737-0002 Support Democrats
Call (202) 628-0205 Support Others

Following that interview, at 9:15 am, Pedro interviewed Louis Uchitelle, Author, “The Disposable American” & New York Times, Business Reporter. For that show, C-SPAN listed phone numbers on the screen the way they are normally listed on C-SPAN, as follows:

(202) 737-0001 Republicans
(202) 737-0002 Democrats
(202) 628-0205 Independents

Why on earth would C-SPAN change the call-in lines for different shows?

Could it be that C-SPAN wanted to keep people from calling in to the first show and saying they were on the Republican Line but were opposed to Bush/Guantanamo Bay issues?

Comment #10: Patriot said on 4/1/06 @ 12:30pm ET...

Out-Sourcing the Presidency

Congress today announced that the office of President of the United
States of America will be out-sourced to India as of March 21, 2006.

The move is being made to save the President's $400,000 yearly salary, and also a record $521 billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead the office has incurred during the last 5 years.

"We believe this is a wise move financially. The cost savings should be significant," stated Congressman Thomas Reynolds (R-WA). Reynolds, with the aid of the Government Accounting Office, has studied out-Sourcing of American jobs extensively. "We cannot expect to remain competitive on the world stage with the current level of cash outlay," Reynolds noted.

Mr. Bush was informed by email this morning of his termination.
Preparations for the job move have been underway for sometime. Gurvinder Singh of Indus Teleservices, Mumbai, India, will be assuming the office of President as of the 1st April 2006.

Mr. Singh was born in the United States while his Indian parents were vacationing at Niagara Falls, thus making him eligible for the position. He will receive a salary of $320 a month but with no health coverage or other benefits. It is believed that Mr. Singh will be able to handle his job responsibilities without a support staff, particularly as he speaks English so well. Due to the time difference between the US and India, he will be working primarily at night, when few offices of the US Government will be open. "Working nights will allow me to keep my day job at the American Express call center,” stated Mr. Singh in an exclusive interview. "I am excited about this position. I always hoped I would be President someday."

A Congressional spokesperson noted that while Mr. Singh may not be fully aware of all the issues involved in the office of President, this should not be a problem cause Bush was not familiar with the issues either. Mr. Singh will rely upon a script tree that will enable him to respond effectively to most topics of concern. Using these canned responses, he can address common concerns without having to understand the underlying issues at all.

“We know these scripting tools work," stated the spokesperson. President Bush has used them successfully for years." Mr. Singh may have problems with the Texas drawl, but last year Bush abandoned the "down home" persona in his effort to appear intelligent and on top of the Katrina situation.

Bush will receive health coverage, expenses, and salary until his final day of employment. Following a two week waiting period, he will be eligible for $240 a week unemployment for 13 weeks. Unfortunately he will not be eligible for Medicaid, as his unemployment benefits will exceed the allowed limit.

Mr. Bush has been provided the out-placement services of Manpower,
Inc. to help him to write a résumé and prepare for his upcoming job transition. According to Manpower, Mr. Bush may have difficulties in securing a new position due to limited practical work experience, and an inability to speak English properly. A Greeter position at Wal-Mart was suggested due to Bush's extensive experience shaking hands and phony smile.

Another possibility is Bush's re-enlistment in the Texas Air National Guard. His prior records are conspicuously vague but should he choose this option, he would likely be stationed in Waco, TX, for a month, before being sent to Iraq, a country he has visited. "I've been there, I know all about Iraq," stated Mr. Bush, who gained invaluable knowledge of the country in a visit to the Baghdad Airport's terminal and gift shop.

Sources in Baghdad and Falluja say Mr. Bush would receive a warm reception from local Iraqis. They have asked to be provided with details of his arrival so that they might arrange an appropriate welcome.

Author unknown

Comment #11: Patriot said on 4/1/06 @ 6:34pm ET...

Locker Room Pep Rally and planning session. Sunday, April 2, 9pm Central Time. Please join us for a workshop on how gain support for HR635 and other issues threatening our democracy.

Comment #12: Truth_in_action said on 4/1/06 @ 10:37pm ET...

Rawstory reports that a group took out a quarter page ad in the NY Times on Friday 3-31-06 about Bush/Iran war adding a boost to his popularity. It's an interesting read.

Comment #13: Truth_in_action said on 4/1/06 @ 10:45pm ET...

Remember, JC Bloggers, to set your clocks one hour ahead tonight. Otherwise you might be late for the Locker Room Pep Rally!

Comment #14: clapton said on 4/2/06 @ 9:02am ET...

I have debated replying to Patriot's comments on this blog regarding a private conversation I had with her, but after much consideration I believe a response
is appropriate.

While I mean no disrespect to Patriot, or SB4T, her decision to post one comment out of a lengthy conversation created a misrepresentation.

While I will not post a private conversation here in the message boards, I assure everyone that I was nothing less than polite in my conversation with
Patriot.

Patriot did indeed take offense to my comments regarding what I consider to be a "fence" policy regarding endorsements, but at no time did I mean that in a derogatory manner. Furthermore, I am surprised that Patriot would take such offense to my request that she direct all future correspondence to my chief of staff Ryan Oddey. This was by no means a degrading comment, as it was a simple request that would help both of us as Mr. Oddey would be able to respond faster than I can due to my busy schedule. I fail to see what is degrading about such a request.

Lastly, at no time have I ever said that people who serve our nation in the House of Representatives are "beneath me". I apologize to Representative Conyers and all of the people on the board for being subjected to something that detracts to the causes we are all working towards.

It is my sincere hope that this post will be the last one regarding this matter so that we can all continue to focus on what is important.

Regards,
M

Comment #15: Patriot said on 4/2/06 @ 2:07pm ET...

Dear Mike Masters,

Thank you for your response and it is diplomatic, indeed, and a very good save. I compliment you on your abliity to respond in a civil and dignified manner.

However, after all of my explainations that we have no policy at all other than we would be pleased someday to be powerful and informed enough to have a policy, you still said, '... what I consider to be a "fence" policy...' in the present tense. Are you unable to understand what I'm saying? I'm disturbed that you accuse us of having a policy that is intentionally indecisive, as your "fence policy" reference implies. That is a slap, however you wish to explain it. I assure you, we are not indecisive.

And you certainly did indicate that the House is less than worthy of your consideration. You seem to believe that it is of less value and prestige than the Senate. Your exact words, I can't remember... something that brings the word "losers" to mind. I don't remember if you actually said that or if that's the indication I got. You can deny it as much as you wish, but I stand firmly on what I learned about you from our conversation.

And on your "busy" schedule, you certainly had plenty of time to talk my ear off prior to our discussion to remove the link.

The link was offensive in that it didn't even give us the dignity of having our own name and was slightly mistated enough that we appeared to be your grassroots activist group, which we are not.

The most serious error was your assumption that it was ok to put the link there without asking. All I got was "Congratulations! You've been listed on my site!" as though we should be thrilled to have such an honor! Mr. Masters, if there should ever come a time when we decide to endorse you, I assure you it will be your being grateful to us, not our being grateful to you.

And what are the "causes we are all working towards?" I fail to understand from your web sites or from talking to you what causes we have in common. I'm not at all interested in insuring that Senators have jets on call to travel between home and Washington and I certainly don't agree with your denying non-G8 countries a share in global prosperity. I don't even understand how you are going to make billions selling free blog setups.

There's nothing about you I understand and, personally, I will not endorse you as the Democratic candidate for Senator in the 2008 Georgia election nor for any other office for which you may decide to run. As for SoapBox or TeamConyersBlog members, IF we had a policy, we would take a long, serious look at any candidate who REQUESTED endorsement and would look to Mr. Conyers for guidance before making any decision.

I'm sorry to bring this issue up here, too, but it was you who have tried to pull Mr. Conyers' supporters into endorsing you unawares, even after indicating your superiority.

I bid you good day. You are free not to endorse me should I choose to run for public office.

Comment #16: Nolip said on 4/2/06 @ 2:49pm ET...

As expected, Libby's lawyers are shooting the messenger...in true Rethuglican modus operendi...

"Washington - Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is narrowing the description of his powers in an effort to counter calls for dismissal of the criminal case he brought against Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, defense lawyers said Friday.

In a 24-page filing in federal court, the legal team for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said Fitzgerald and the former Justice Department official who appointed him, James Comey, are changing the broad mandate the prosecutor was handed to probe the leak in the Valerie Plame affair."

Libby's Lawyers Want Fitzgerald to Step Down

Comment #17: Patriot said on 4/2/06 @ 4:20pm ET...

"When the House returns to the Democrats, I will have the power to subpoena Bush Administration officials to answer questions and face the consequences for their abuses of power."

This is the focus of our efforts. We must return the House to Democratic control and we must get Mr. Conyers to fulfill this statement. Our democracy depends on it, our world depends on it.

Join us in our first general members meeting of TeamConyersBlog.

We'll be in the chat room at 9pm Central Time tonight, Sunday, April 2. Join us.

Comment #18: Patriot said on 4/2/06 @ 10:03pm ET...

General members meeting is starting now in the TeamConyersBlog locker room.

Comment #19: Alma said on 4/2/06 @ 11:36pm ET...

The locker Room meeting is still going for anyone that would like to join us.

Comment #20: Patriot said on 4/2/06 @ 11:59pm ET...

It's robust and informative! Really rocking with commitments and ideas.

Comment #21: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 2:59am ET...

#14 Clapton, you called our conversation private. These are my definitions of private and non-private conversations.

Private: Hey girl! How was your date last night?

Non-private: Hello, I'm Mike Masters and I'm running for Senator of the great state of Georgia in 2008. These are the issues that are important to me and this is why I'm not running for US Representative.

Comment #22: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 3:34am ET...

The minutes of the meeting in the locker room have been posted for all members. They can be found by logging in and following the path below.

members : soapbox4truth : *more* : minutes

Thanks to everyone who attended and made it a success. You can see how successful it has been because it's still going. We're out of the business part and into the "nonsense because we've been up all night chatting" part.

Comment #23: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 4:24am ET...

Zinni: ...I heard the case being built to go to war right away- I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew. There was no solid proof that I ever saw that Saddam had WMD....

ZINNI: I saw the - what this town is known for, spin, cherry-picking facts, using metaphors to evoke certain emotional responses or shading the context. We know the mushroom clouds and the other things that were all described that the media has covered well. I saw on the ground a sort of walking away from 10 years’ worth of planning. You know, ever since the end of the first Gulf War, there’s been planning by serious officers and planners and others, and policies put in place - 10 years' worth of planning were thrown away. Troop levels dismissed out of hand. Gen. Shinseki basically insulted for speaking the truth and giving an honest opinion.

The lack of cohesive approach to how we deal with the aftermath, the political, economic, social reconstruction of a nation, which is no small task. A belief in these exiles that anyone in the region, anyone that had any knowledge, would tell you were not credible on the ground. And on and on and on, decisions to disband the army that were not in the initial plans. There’s a series of disastrous mistakes. We just heard the Secretary of State say these were tactical mistakes. These were not tactical mistakes. These were strategic mistakes, mistakes of policies made back here. Don’t blame the troops. They’ve been magnificent. If anything saves us, it will be them.

Video General Zinni: the lead up to war

Comment #24: hpcharlie said on 4/3/06 @ 5:07am ET...

HELLO EVERYONE: HERE IT IS "IN YOUR FACE!" I HAVE WARNED REPEATEDLY SINCE AUGUST '05

IT WILL BE A COMPLETE "JIHAD RETALIATION ON THE USA" IF WE LET "W" AND THE NWO SUCCEED IN THEIR GOAL~! THIS IS NO B.S.!!!




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Government in secret talks about strike against Iran
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 02/04/2006)
The Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment programme.

A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence
Tomorrow's meeting will be attended by Gen Sir Michael Walker, the chief of the defence staff, Lt Gen Andrew Ridgway, the chief of defence intelligence and Maj Gen Bill Rollo, the assistant chief of the general staff, together with officials from the Foreign Office and Downing Street.
The International Atomic Energy Authority, the nuclear watchdog, believes that much of Iran's programme is now devoted to uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, technologies that could provide material for nuclear bombs to be developed in the next three years.
The United States government is hopeful that the military operation will be a multinational mission, but defence chiefs believe that the Bush administration is prepared to launch the attack on its own or with the assistance of Israel, if there is little international support. British military chiefs believe an attack would be limited to a series of air strikes against nuclear plants - a land assault is not being considered at the moment.
But confirmation that Britain has started contingency planning will undermine the claim last month by Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, that a military attack against Iran was "inconceivable".
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, insisted, during a visit to Blackburn yesterday, that all negotiating options - including the use of force - remained open in an attempt to resolve the crisis.

General Sir Michael Walker
Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from US navy ships and submarines in the Gulf would, it is believed, target Iran's air defence systems at the nuclear installations.
That would enable attacks by B2 stealth bombers equipped with eight 4,500lb enhanced BLU-28 satellite-guided bunker-busting bombs, flying from Diego Garcia, the isolated US Navy base in the Indian Ocean, RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Whiteman USAF base in Missouri.
It is understood that any direct British involvement in an attack would be limited but may extend to the use of the RAF's highly secret airborne early warning aircraft.
At the centre of the crisis is Washington's fear that an Iranian nuclear weapon could be used against Israel or US forces in the region, such as the American air base at Incirlik in Turkey.
The UN also believes that the production of a bomb could also lead to further destabilisation in the Middle East, which would result in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia all developing nuclear weapons programmes.

I got this directly from the Huffington Post!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/02/wiran02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/02/ixportaltop.html

Comment #25: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 5:19am ET...

Clinton era: peace and prosperity

Bush II era: recent and real threat of nuclear war

Iran 2004: "We favor Bush to win the election because under his lax control of sanctions, we've been able to develop nuclear power." That statement is somewhere in internet space.

Comment #26: Reed31463 said on 4/3/06 @ 6:51am ET...

--Dissemination of Lies and Fake Stories--

Comment #27: Truth_in_action said on 4/3/06 @ 6:58am ET...

Reed, you beat me to posting this story by seconds! And I checked the JC blog first before working on putting this together. I had wanted to put it up yesterday and didn't have time.

GM buddy, yet again.

Comment #28: Nolip said on 4/3/06 @ 7:52am ET...

Bush math...$200 million for Iraq after WE bombed it into the stone age but chump change for those who lost everything in the wake of Katrina...what's wrong with that picture?

"BAGHDAD -- A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million, with no more than 20 clinics now expected to be completed, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says."

U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters

Comment #29: Nolip said on 4/3/06 @ 10:27am ET...

"But in early February 2004, a month after he started the investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald shifted gears and started to build a perjury and obstruction of justice case against White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby according to several attorneys close to the investigation.

That month, Justice Department investigators working on the leak case approached a senior official in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney who had been identified by witnesses as having played a major role in the Plame Wilson leak.

The Bush administration official was given an ultimatum: either cooperate with the special counsel's probe or face criminal charges for his involvement in the leak, attorneys close to the case said.

The senior official decided to cooperate with the investigation and told Fitzgerald that Libby and Rove spoke to reporters about Plame Wilson, the attorneys said.

The official has been identified by attorneys and four current and former White House officials as John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton."

Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start

Comment #30: Nolip said on 4/3/06 @ 12:52pm ET...

After almost three years and countless deaths the MSM finally reveals photographic evidence of the human cost of Bush's folly...

A three-part Los Angeles Times series following the lives of soldiers wounded in Iraq

Comment #31: Frosted Flake said on 4/3/06 @ 12:53pm ET...

Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal
Reading Padilla's Tea Leaves

I haven't fully absorbed the implications of this, but this do not look good. The pourpose of the court is to stand between the People and the powers delegated by them to thier government. It would appear the Justices would rather not. An executive exercising power without review is the definition of dictatorship. The bright spot here is, we still have our guns.

And you can forget about taking them away.
Frosted Flake

Comment #32: Ron said on 4/3/06 @ 12:59pm ET...

"And you can forget about taking them away".
Frosted Flake

Got your back on that one!

IRAN

MORE DEATH , MORE DESTRUCTION = MORE TERRORISTS!!!!

I SAY no George , you do not have my permission to invade ANYTHING else!

Comment #33: tahoebasha1 said on 4/3/06 @ 1:39pm ET...

More from General Zinni:

April 2nd, 2006 6:58 pm

"Former US general says Rumsfeld should quit over Iraq

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former senior US military commander, Anthony Zinni, called for the dismissal of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over critical mistakes made in the Iraq war. . . . "

Zinni

Comment #34: Nolip said on 4/3/06 @ 5:27pm ET...

"Letting Senator Feingold hang out to dry only cements the Republican lie about our spinelessness for the as-yet undecided electorate. Just as John Kerry lost the election by not immediately tearing the Swift Boaters a new one, we might lose again by not seizing this moment. As Josh Marshall wrote then about Kerry, “If you can’t defend yourself against this attack how can we trust you to protect the country.” The same will be asked about Democrats and Feingold. “If you won’t protect one of your own, how can we trust you to protect the rest of us.” "

Leaving Feingold to Hang Out to Dry Is Asinine

Comment #35: Reed31463 said on 4/3/06 @ 5:41pm ET...

I am so glad Frosty Wooldridge, not Frosted Flake, wrote this article. His tolerance, compassion, and his benevolence comes shining through as bright as Christmas morning. I wish the whole world were as kind and understanding.

Los Angeles becomes a modern day parody to The Wizard of Oz, as Wooldridge would have us not pay any attention to that man behind the curtain.

TEN TRAITORS PLUS ONE

Likewise, New York stands in historical contrast, with the city's biggest and most famous gift looking proudly over the city. Inscribed at the base of this symbol of freedom is the famous words:

Comment #36: cali said on 4/3/06 @ 7:19pm ET...

Congratulations!!! This couldn't have been given to a more deserving person
Thank you!

Rep. John Conyers Presented Backbone Award For Bold Leadership
Six grassroots citizen groups unite in an expression of gratitude

Comment #37: Alma said on 4/3/06 @ 7:24pm ET...

Do you have a url for it Cali?

Comment #38: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 7:26pm ET...

#36 cali LINK! do you have the link? We'd love to see the full story.

Congratulations, sir!

Comment #39: Patriot said on 4/3/06 @ 7:26pm ET...

Dang it, Alma, you beat me.

Comment #40: Alma said on 4/3/06 @ 7:28pm ET...

But you beat me to the Congratulations Patriot. In my excitement I forgot, so CONGRATULATIONS! Representative Conyers!

Comment #41: cali said on 4/3/06 @ 8:06pm ET...

I can't find a link. I got an email about it. I'll keep checking

Comment #42: cali said on 4/3/06 @ 8:12pm ET...

DU has it up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x829441

Comment #43: unspun said on 4/3/06 @ 8:49pm ET...

Contratulations Congressman Conyers.

Comment #44: Alma said on 4/3/06 @ 9:43pm ET...

Thank you Cali,
That was a wonderful presentation and the comments are great too.

Comment #45: tahoebasha1 said on 4/3/06 @ 9:45pm ET...

Congratulations, Congressman Conyers -- we couldn't be more proud, or more happy for you to have won such an Award. We have been WITH YOU, we are WITH YOU, and we will continue to be WITH YOU! You truly are "one in a million!"