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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Bush's Garroting of Democracy

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Bush's Garroting of Democracy

By Robert Parry
May 24, 2006

Over the past weekend, George W. Bush and his Justice Department signaled to the U.S. press corps and Congress that they are not beyond the reach of Bush’s “plenary” – or unlimited – powers as Commander in Chief or his authority as “unitary executive,” deciding what laws to enforce and how.

On May 21, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told ABC’s “This Week” that news organizations like the New York Times could be prosecuted for publishing classified information about the “war on terror,” such as the disclosure of Bush’s secret program of warrantless wiretapping inside the United States.

The night before that TV interview, the FBI conducted an extraordinary raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson of Louisiana as part of a bribery investigation, raising bipartisan concerns about the Executive Branch trampling congressional rights and intimidating members of Congress.

“The actions of the Justice Department in seeking and executing this warrant raise important Constitutional issues that go well beyond the specifics of this case,” House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a statement.

“Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night crossing this Separations of Powers line, in order to successfully prosecute corruption by members of Congress,” Hastert said. [Washington Post, May 23, 2006]

The FBI appears to have strong evidence against Jefferson – including allegedly finding $90,000 in bribe money hidden in his home freezer – but the Capitol Hill raid sent a message that the President and his Attorney General will cross any line when dealing with allegations of wrongdoing that might apply to members of Congress from both parties.

The implicit chilling effect on congressmen and senators, who might otherwise consider holding Bush accountable for his own abuses, could not be missed.

Gonzales delivered a similar warning to the news media, that the administration is dusting off the 89-year-old Espionage Act as a legal justification for prosecuting journalists and their sources when stories appear citing classified information, such as the New York Times article about Bush authorizing wiretaps of some American communications without court warrants.

“We are engaged now in an investigation about what would be the appropriate course of action in that particular case, so I’m not going to talk about it specifically,” Gonzales said. But he cited “some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility.”

Though Gonzales did not mention a specific statute, he apparently was referring to the Espionage Act, which was passed in 1917 during World War I and bars an unauthorized person from receiving defense information and passing it on to others.

The rarely used statute generally has been interpreted as applying to spies for other nations, but the Justice Department is relying on it to prosecute two ex-lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who received classified information from a Defense Department employee, who has pleaded guilty and got a 12-year sentence.

Besides the Times wiretap story in December 2005, administration officials have complained about a Washington Post story on secret overseas CIA prisons where suspected terrorists are allegedly tortured and about a USA Today story about a Bush-approved plan to build a vast database of phone calls in the United States.

While some experts doubt the administration would bring Espionage Act charges against journalists, it appears the Justice Department at least will examine phone records of reporters involved in the stories as part of investigations to identify government leakers.

Plame Case

Even if not prosecuted directly, journalists could face jail time if they are hauled before grand juries and refuse to identify their sources.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald used that hardball tactic in the investigation of who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, a probe that has revealed that the leak was part of a “concerted” White House effort to “discredit, punish or seek revenge against” Plame’s husband and Iraq War critic, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Fitzgerald sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for 85 days on contempt charges until she relented and agreed to testify about one of her sources on Plame’s identity, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis Libby.

In October 2005, Fitzgerald indicted Libby on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators. Court filings also have connected Cheney and Bush at least to the broader White House effort to release classified information to counter Wilson’s accusation that the administration “twisted” intelligence to justify the Iraq War.

Though the Plame Affair has revealed the White House leaking a sensitive secret – the identity of an undercover CIA officer – the Bush administration is now turning the case to its own advantage, as a precedent to go after reporters and sources who reveal possible criminal actions by Bush, such as the warrantless wiretaps and the torture of detainees.

Bush and his supporters have claimed that disclosure of the warrantless wiretaps did serious damage to U.S. national security by alerting al-Qaeda and other terrorists to the U.S. capability to electronically intercept communications.

However, skeptics of this argument cite evidence that al-Qaeda has long been aware that its phone calls were targeted by U.S. electronic surveillance. Even Gonzales conceded that point under questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2006. [See Consortiumnews.com's “Torture Boy Signals More Spying.”]

As for the secret “black site” prisons where torture allegedly occurred, administration officials say the Washington Post article makes it less likely that U.S. allies will cooperate with such projects in the future – even though the Post withheld the names of East European countries where the prisons were located.

‘Plenary’ Powers

Though it’s arguable whether “secrets” like the U.S. capability to do electronic spying are really secrets, the Bush administration apparently has decided to use their disclosure to advance a broader strategy for building an authoritarian system inside the United States.

In defending the warrantless wiretaps earlier this year, Gonzales and other administration lawyers asserted that the “war on terror” justified Bush using his “plenary” – or unlimited – powers as Commander in Chief to override laws and constitutional safeguards.

Bush also has claimed that he has powers as the “unitary executive,” meaning that he alone can decide what laws and regulations to enforce. Through so-called “signing statements,” Bush has announced that he has the authority to ignore hundreds of laws, including many that he’s signed.

For instance, after evidence surfaced about abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, Congress enacted a law in December 2005 barring degrading and inhumane treatment of these terrorism suspects. After first opposing the legislation, Bush signed the law, but he then declared in a “signing statement” that he would not be bound by the law.

A similar theory applies to Bush’s claim to “plenary” powers, which supposedly let him as Commander in Chief brush aside constitutional provisions, including the Fourth Amendment requirement of a court warrant based on “probable cause’’ to justify government searches and the constitutional right to habeas corpus, a fair trial.

In regard to national security wiretaps, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act also spells out procedures for the Executive to obtain secret warrants for eavesdropping on the communications of suspected enemy agents.

Though the FISA law even lets the Executive start the wiretaps before seeking a court warrant, Bush not only ignored those provisions but lied to the American people about his continued need to get warrants. In a speech in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 20, 2004 – more than two years after signing an order for warrantless wiretaps – Bush said:

“By the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires – a wiretap requires a court order,” Bush said. “Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so.”

Later that year, before Election 2004, Bush managed to keep his new authority – and his lie – hidden by persuading the New York Times to withhold the warrantless-wiretap story. Only after the Times finally ran the article on Dec. 16, 2005, did Bush admit that he had authorized wiretaps without a court order.

Under his “plenary” powers, Bush also has asserted the right to jail without trial people he calls “enemy combatants,” including U.S. citizens. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “Bush’s Grimmer Vision” and “The End of Unalienable Rights.”]

Presidential Excesses

While Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and other previous presidents have used lies and claims of national security to conceal embarrassing or controversial decisions before, Bush may have gone further than any of his predecessors in institutionalizing these powers.

By mixing in his control over government secrecy – with the “plenary” powers and the concept of “unitary executive” – Bush also is extending to himself the power to limit the free press and thus manage what Americans see and hear.

The administration’s position seems to be that if Bush classifies his abrogation of laws and the Constitution – as in warrantless spying on Americans and torturing detainees – he can then have his Justice Department investigate, prosecute and jail the whistleblowers who expose these controversies.

As part of this trend, the Bush administration also has moved to reclassify historical information previously released and stored at the National Archives. Plus, his CIA has clamped down on what former CIA officials can write and the FBI is even trying to seize old documents from the estate of the late investigative reporter Jack Anderson.

In what could be almost an enunciation of an Official Secrets Act, FBI spokesman Bill Carter declared about the Anderson case, “no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them.” [NYT, April 30, 2006]

While that prohibition may seem reasonable to some Americans, the clinker is that Bush gets to decide what is secret and what isn’t, which means that he can make selective disclosures of sensitive information to help himself and punish the exposure of innocuous secrets that might embarrass him.

In the ABC-TV interview, Gonzales made clear that the administration believes government secrecy supercedes the First Amendment.

“I understand very much the role that the press plays in our society, the protection under the First Amendment we want to promote and respect,” Gonzales said, “but it can’t be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity. … We have an obligation to enforce the law and to prosecute those who engage in criminal activity.”

In many of these cases, however, Gonzales appears determined to prosecute people involved in exposing what might be considered “criminal activity” by himself, President Bush and other senior administration officials.

Gonzales’s message to both government whistleblowers and the press corps is hard to escape. If you disclose apparent misconduct by the Bush administration in areas of national security, you will be hunted down and punished.

As Bush said after a meeting with the four top congressional leaders on Dec. 18, 2000, “I told all four that there were going to be some times where we don’t agree with each other. But that’s OK. If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”

If Bush’s theories of unlimited presidential power are carried much further, his dictatorship comment might end up looking less like a joke and more like evidence of premeditation.

There will be little left of traditional American democracy, beyond perhaps periodic elections in which a thoroughly deceived or uninformed electorate traipses to the polls and pushes buttons on electronic voting machines that may or may not record the votes.

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/052306.html

The Bush administration’s steady garroting of American liberties – already strangling the right to a fair trial and protections against warrantless searches – is now tightening its chokehold around the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press and respect for Congress as a co-equal branch of government.

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Osama Bin Distractin

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Osama Bin Distractin

By George Washington

The day after the first national poll showed that 70 million Americans support a new 9/11 investigation, and 55% of Americans disapprove of the way in which the media has covered questions surrounding 9/11, what does the mainstream media do?

They covered the poll, and apologized for their terrible coverage of the evidence that 9/11 was an inside job or allowed to happen on purpose! Finally, it only took them 4 and a half years, but they've finally started reporting the truth!

Uh ... no. Instead, all of the major networks are ignoring the poll and instead running a story about how Osama directed 9/11. Specifically, the top story at all of the MSM websites is something like "Osama bin Laden says Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorists attacks", that Osama directed the 19 hijackers on exactly what to do, and crazy old Moussaoui wasn't one of them.

How convenient of Osama to distract attention away from the poll. What a helpful chap. It doesn't matter that the Osama videos about 9/11 are fake, or that he might be dead.

...

Don't look at the man behind the curtain, folks.

Osama Bin Distractin, once again."

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - When you want war -- call BENADOR

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When you want war -- call BENADOR

By Joseph

The whiff of war pervades the air, and we all know what the first casualty is. emptywheel at the Next Hurrah notes that

...Judy is back on the Neocon payroll (or at least some faction thereof), and that John Bolton is pursuing regime change. And that, by association, Judy got her toes wet on the Iran warmongering at the same time as her former speakers bureau, Benador Associates, started placing outrageously fraudulent stories to justify a war.

The reference is to Amir Taheri, the guy behind the recent propaganda yarn that Iran had passed a law to make Jews wear identifying insignia. From Greg Sargent at The Horse's Mouth:

Meanwhile, Amir Taheri, the fellow who penned one of the original stories, has posted a press release on the site of his rep Benador Associates that is anything but a mea culpa. Taheri seems to be standing by the story, though he concedes that his "column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun." He doesn't address the small problem that the law appears to have made no mention of religious minorities, only saying that his "sources" are telling him that the ideas of special markers for followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism are "being discussed," though we're not told by whom.

Obviously, Taheri still hopes to convince the gullible that his fiction is factual.

Here is the web page for Benador. And here is a very revealing quote about Benador from the Asia Times of August 15, 2003 :

When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months.

New York-based Benador Associates is less than two years old, but has a star-studded client roster of 38 people, most of them Middle East specialists. Benador estimates that she arranges for her clients each week between 15 and 30 interviews on US and foreign television. In the same period, she places an average of about five op-eds by them in the most influential newspapers, such as the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.

She acquired that kind of clout in two years? Such things do not happen by accident. Hard work alone won't do the trick. This woman is connected. I would bet that someone else -- some larger organization -- set up Benador.

Her husband, you may be intrigued to learn, is a Swiss art dealer. I don't yet know his name, but I feel fairly sure that he owned the Galerie Benador in Geneva. He may be Emmanuel Benador, the Picasso expert. If that guess is correct, then perhaps Arianna Huffington -- who wrote a book about Picasso -- can tell us more about the Benadors.

I wonder if Eleanor made her initial connections with neocon "parapoliticians" (if I may be allowed such a term) via her involvement in the art world?

Incidentally, another Benador-linked neocon is the well-known propagandist Laurie Mylroie, who co-wrote a book on Saddam Hussein with Judith Miller. Dr. Barry Rubin, the proprietor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (often considered a MOSSAD front) is also in the Benador orbit.

(Whaddya think of my headline? I told you I worked in advertising...!)

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Iran Zonar: “Real Sign of a Disinformation Operation”

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Iran Zonar: “Real Sign of a Disinformation Operation”

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Juan Cole, president of the U.S. Middle East Studies Association and thorn in the side of neocons far and wide, has nailed it—the fake news story circulated last week accusing Iran of forcing Jews and other religious minorities to wear identifying badges, thus kindling imagery of Nazis and the Holocaust, was “typical of black psychological operations campaigns.” A former U.S. intelligence official, cited by journalist Jim Lobe, “described the article’s relatively obscure provenance as a ‘real sign of [a] disinformation operation,’” in fact a fairly transparent and crude “disinformation operation,” as I noted on the day the article appeared with disgusting fanfare in the corporate media. Naturally, the neocon press, most notably the New York Sun, refused to publish a retraction after it was demonstrated, without much effort, the story was gibberish (although it did mention the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa denied the report). As Lobe reminds us, the New York Sun “has consistently taken positions consistent with the right-wing Likud Party in Israel on Middle East issues.”

Meanwhile, Amir Taheri, the Iranian neocon described as “a prominent Iranian journalist under the Shah” by the Financial Times, who initially floated the story in Canada’s neocon friendly National Post, stands by his story. “Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. As far as my article is concerned I stand by it,” Taheri writes on the Benador Associates website. “I raised the issue not as a news story, because news of the new law was already several days old, but as an opinion column to alert the outside world to this most disturbing development.”

In other words, it is Mr. Taheri’s opinion that the Iranian mullahs will force “followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism” to wear “special markers, known as zonnars” (a zonar is a belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Muslims, known as Mohammedans in the day). Taheri’s opinion, however, has absolutely no basis in reality, although the corporate media treated the baseless zonar accusation as a fait accompli (as they treated the neocon lies about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction likewise).

Benador Associates is a neocon clearing house of sorts, a public relations firm that handles the likes of Frank Gaffney, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, and other members of the criminal neocon rabble. In order to put Taheri and Benador into perspective, consider the latter promoted “Khidhir Hamza, an Iraqi nuclear scientist who fled to the United States in the early 1990s, where he wrote a book claiming that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear bomb. When pressed on the issue, he denied saying that Iraq had a bomb, despite the fact that he says exactly that in his book’s opening pages” (see Catherine Auer, “A View from Inside,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March-April 2001). Hamza and the neocons should be walking the line in orange jumpsuits, convicted of facilitating war crimes of Nazi caliber, but instead they are allowed to walk free, and the neocons are emboldened to pedal more nonsense about Iran in a calculated lead-up to attacking that country.

Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, no stranger to war crimes (under Clinton, she oversaw the murder of over 500,000 Iraqi children), has “suggested that an official high in the Bush administration should give a speech in response to a letter that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent” to Bush, a letter our appointed ruler apparently used as toilet paper. “The last thing we need is to invade another country,” Albright told an audience of 800 people during a speech earlier this month. Of course, it is not that Ms. Albright is morally opposed to mass murder and wanton slaughter, but rather that the “nation’s military forces are overstretched,” as the Associated Press notes.

For the Straussian neocons, breaking the U.S. military is of little concern—in fact, it can be argued this is precisely what they intend to do, and thus pitch the nation into a larger conflagration, necessitating increased militarization of society and eventually conscription, otherwise known as bullet stopper slavery. As Paul Craig Roberts wrote in late 2004, the “neoconservative godfather Norman Podhoretz…. is worried that mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq and growing public doubt about the wisdom of the failed Iraq invasion will derail the scheme to conquer the Muslim Middle East and to deracinate Islam.”

Podhoretz gives his assurances that “the obstacles to a benevolent transformation of the Middle East—whether military, political or religious—are not insuperable.” He writes that “there can be no question that we possess the power and the means.” The only question is whether we have “the stomach to do what will be required”…. To make sure that we have the stomach, Podhoretz blames the 9-11 terrorist attack on American cowardice. He argues that four U.S. presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton) spent 24 years convincing Muslims that America is a wimp…. We will suffer more devastating attacks, Podhoretz says, unless we find the stomach to fight WW IV…. To pursue the insane agenda of conquering and occupying the Middle East not only requires the stomach for inhumane acts, but also demands millions of Americans taking up arms. Here come the draft and a generation of casualties.

Of course, there is nothing “benevolent” about Podhoretz’s “transformation,” as it will arrive in the guise of cruise missiles, bunker-busters, depleted uranium, and possibly even the use of “mini-nukes” against Iran. In fact, the neocons hate Muslims of all stripes, as do their fascist Jabotinsky mentors in Israel, and wish only to sow destruction and misery within their societies. For as the late Israel Shahak warned in the foreword to Oded Yinon’s Zionist Plan for the Middle East, the “idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking,” and this cruel and criminal idea is at the center of the Straussian neocon ideology.

Amir Taheri’s propaganda ploy against Iran—once again portraying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs as latter-day Nazis determined to shove Jews in gas chambers and crematoria—is yet another entrée in the fetid pièce de résistance of the Straussian neocon plan to demonize all Muslims and eventually decimate their society and culture. No doubt, in the weeks ahead, we will endure more of this crude propaganda as the neocons prepare for a terrible shock and awe campaign against Iran, a plan designed not only to topple the mullahocracy but also transform American society into a warrior culture the neocons plan to use in their crusade against the enemies of Israel and the Jabotinsky Zionists.

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[World News Headlines - FT.com] Zoellick 'ready to quit' White House

Robert Zoellick, the US deputy secretary of state, is preparing to leave the Bush administration and has held talks with Wall Street investment banks on job options, according to people close to the administration.
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[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 23 May 2006 - Part One]

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What happened in Kurdish Halabja?

...Of course, if Saddam had ordered the gassing of his own Iraqi Kurds, even one who died of poison gas would be enough to convict. But the official reports of our own Intelligence Community conclude that there was an exchange of gas attacks between the Iraqi and Iranian armies at Halabja and those civilians who died were caught in a crossfire... and were most likely casualties of the Iranians, using a cyanide agent that the Iraqis were not known to possess. A Marine Corps repor! t of December 10, 1990, on chemical weapons used in the war also "finds no evidence whatsoever that the Iraqis have ever employed blood gasses," which the Army war college says were used by the Iranians and caused the civilian deaths at Halabja... (Jude Wanniski)

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Massacre in Kandahar
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News

...And here in Kandahar we have the same story repeating itself. The U.S. military says, "The purpose of this operation was to detain individuals suspected of terrorist and anti-Afghanistan activities." But it's kind of hard to "detain" people when you are dropping bombs on them from the air. The U.S. military also says, "These individuals were active members of the Taliban network and have conducted attacks against coalition and Afghan forces as well as civi! lians" (note how the word "suspected" suddenly disappears; between the last sentence and this one the individuals went from being "suspected" of certain activities to having "conducted attacks," no question about it). And to top it off, this was a night-time operation. The assertion that, even with the best night-vision goggles, a pilot could identify "individuals" is implausible to put it mildly (...) So "massacre" -- the murder of a group of people who were not in the process of fighting back -- is definitely the right word...

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Stinkin' yellow badges and Israel's Nuremberg Race Law
Xymphora

You have to wonder what the National Post was up to, when it published its amazing lying articles on alleged Iranian sumptuary laws involving identification of minority groups. By publishing the original front-page article with a huge picture from Nazi Germany (front page reprinted here and here, but the article itself appears to have disappeared; by the way, is there an uglier front page design in the world?), it explicitly connected the current Ir! anian government with Nazi Germany...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 22 May 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

In a bulletin posted at 9pm Makkah time Monday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier the Iraqi Resistance had opened fire on an American Apache helicopter gunship over the al-'Ubaydi area near al-Qa’im in western Iraq near the Syrian border. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the helicopter was struck by medium machinegun! fire as it was hovering at low altitude. The witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the helicopter could be seen going down with smoke coming out of its underside. It made a forced landing in the al-Bu Jum'ah Gardens area...

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Sharon's Legacy in Action
Prof Tanya Reinhart

At the present, Western world seems still under the spell of the legend of Ariel Sharon, who, so the story goes, has brought a gigantic change in Israeli policy - from expansion and occupation to moderation and concessions a vision to be further implemented by his successor, Ehud Olmert. Since the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlements, the dominant Western narrative has been that Israel has done its part towards ending the occupation and declared its readiness to ! take further steps, and that now it is the Palestinian’s turn to show that they are able to live in peace with their well intending neighbor. How did it happen that Sharon, the most brutal, cynical, racist and manipulative leader Israel has ever had, ended his political career as a legendary peace hero?...

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Palestinian Catastrophe: Myths Revisited
Prof. Ramzy Baroud

Palestinians and their faithful supporters throughout the world commemorated May 15, as Nakba Day, the day when Israel was declared a state atop the ruins of Palestinian homes and hundreds of ethnically cleansed towns and villages, 58 years ago. Many writers, mostly Palestinians, attempted to once again articulate a solid position, reinforce an alternative reading to an intentionally confused history, reminisce on what was lost and on the very little tha! t remains...

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GI Special 4E22: Last Letter Home - May 22, 2006
Thomas F. Barton

Hours after he buried his soldier son, David Timmons Sr. said yesterday that people should ask questions about the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I think I need answers," he said. "We ask questions, that's what America's all about." Army Spc. David "J.R." Timmons Jr., 23, of Lewisville was one of 10 soldiers killed May 5 in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan. The soldiers were conducting combat operations in a mountainous area as par! t of a search for al-Qaida and Taliban militants. The Army is still investigating the crash. Timmons said that Army officials told the family that the helicopter crashed during a sandstorm...

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Implementing Israel’s Strategy
Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar ,Pravda.ru

... This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right. Here we see that Israel’s strategy as presented in the document is the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Israel could not do this on its own. But again Israel didn’t have to. United States achieved the strategic objective of Israel, without Israel spending a single dollar. So far Israel has achieved most of its main ob! jective except completely neutralising Hezbollah, Iran and Syria...

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The Storm over the Israel Lobby
Michael Massing

The nasty campaign waged against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has itself provided an excellent example of the bullying tactics used by the lobby and its supporters. The wide attention their argument has received shows that, in this case, those efforts have not entirely succeeded. Despite its many flaws, their essay has performed a very useful service in forcing into the open a subject that has for too long remained taboo...

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Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah
Andra Jackson

EVIDENCE to support controversial claims that napalm has been used by US forces in Iraq has been brought to Australia by an Iraqi doctor. Dr Salam Ismael, of the Baghdad-based group Doctors for Iraq, said the evidence pointed to the use of napalm on civilians during the second siege of Fallujah in November 2004. It is contained in film and photographs that doctors took of bodies they collected when they were finally allowed to enter the city after! being barred for three days of the military operation. "We said that napalm had been used, because napalm is a bomb which is a fuel bomb that burns only on the exposed part of the body, so that the clothes will not be affected," Dr Ismael said from Perth at the start of a speaking tour...

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Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children
Dahr Jamail

...That women and children suffer the most during times of war is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality as old as war itself. What Rumsfeld, Rice and other war criminals of the Cheney administration prefer to call "collateral damage" translates in English as the inexcusable murder of and other irreparable harm done to women, children and the elderly during any military offensive. US foreign policy in the Middle East manifests itself most starkly in its impact on the! children of Iraq. It is they who continue to pay with their lives and futures for the brutal follies of our administration. Starvation under sanctions, and death and suffering during war and occupation are their lot. Since the beginning of the occupation, Iraqi children have been affected worst by the violence generated by the occupying forces and the freedom fighters...

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Photographs From Iraq: May 1 - 20, 2006
combat - Indymedia

A selection of recent photos from the war in Iraq.: Riots in Basra, resistance in Ramadi, killing everywhere.

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To Impeach or not to Impeach-That shouldn’t even be a question!
Ben Frank

To anyone who has read the Constitution and and has any sort of need for justice, it has become blatatly obvious that the only way to uphold our Constitution and stop these criminals with sinister intentions is to Impeach Bush and Cheney immediately to stop them from committing any more atrocities, looting the treasury and prevent them from being in charge during any more national emergencies. We have been given a line of excuses as to why ! this hasn’t happened which goes something like this 1.We cannot impeach unless there is an investigation. 2. We cannot have an investigation unless we have a democratic majority...

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Don't Attack Iran petition delivered to White House - video, audio and photos available
Charles Jenks, Traprock Peace Center

On May 18th, hundreds rallied against war in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, and a large delegation led by Cindy Sheehan delivered the Don't Attack Iran petition, with over 42,000 signatures, to the White House. Administration officials would not take the petition from the delegation, so the delegation left the petition at the gate. Watch videos of this historic event, including! the dramatic delivery of the petition to the White House, download mp3 audio of the rally and see the 75 photograph album of the rally and petition delivery at http://www.traprockpeace.org/iran_petition_video.html...

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

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1. Re: Would Flight 77 Have Really Thrown Cars & People Off The Highway
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Message 1
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
Date: Tue May 23, 2006 0:12am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Would Flight 77 Have Really Thrown Cars & People Off The Highway

It might have hurt their ears, but there are a lot of airports where the jets are only 30-4eet above the cars when they come in. This aircraft was suppose to be coming in at a really large angle anyway, not in a landing pattern, remember, it just did something like a 170 deg turn to hit the newly reinforced portion of the pentagon rather than the part of the pentagon that wasn’t reinforced and had lots of people in it (Like Rummy and Wolfie)……..

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Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] Would Flight 77 Have Really Thrown Cars & People Off The Highway

landing planes aren't travelling that fast.

watson is really offbase here
On 5/22/06, Neo Mulder < neomulder1@yahoo.com <mailto:neomulder1@yahoo.com> > wrote:
Wake turbulence argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com <http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html>

Would Flight 77 Have Really Thrown Cars & People Off The Highway?

Wake turbulence argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 22 2006 <http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html> http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/220506flight77.htm <http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/220506flight77.htm>

One of the pieces of evidence skeptics cite to claim that Flight 77 could not have hit the Pentagon is that the plane's incredibly low altitude would have thrown people and cars around the highway on the approach path like rag dolls by means of wake turbulence. How accurate is this assumption?

The scope of this short article is to raise questions, not debunk either side of the argument.

Wake turbulence is a problem for air traffic controllers and they have to schedule landings and take-offs carefully to ensure that planes do not adversely affect each other's balance by means of vortices created by wake turbulence. Wake turbulence takes around two minutes to clear.

Photographs and eyewitness accounts are consistent with the plane having an altitude of around 20 feet and traveling at 530 miles an hour, clipping lamp posts as it descended towards the Pentagon.

Many skeptics point to the 1999 movie Pushing Tin as an example of the effects of wake turbulence. At the end of the film, the main characters, played by Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack, stand beneath a large commercial airliner as it comes in to land. The plane passes overhead and then lands on the runway, at which point both men are lifted up into the air and tossed a significant distance off to the side of the runway.

While a movie scene created by special effects can by no means be held up as empirical scientific evidence of the effects of wake turbulence it can at least be accepted that such a big budget production would go to great lengths to accurately portray what would happen.

Therefore it's salient to note that the two men are only thrown off the runway when they are in direct line of sight with the engines of the plane (after or just as the plane is landing) and are not affected when the plane is overhead.

So is it reasonable to conclude that wake turbulence is not going to cause significant problems for any object or person standing a reasonable distance below a jetliner?

Many point to the clipping and downing of lamp posts as evidence of the object's incredulous altitude. The damage of the lamp posts is consistent with a jetliner having a wingspan of over 100 feet, as can be seen in this illustration <http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/docs/path_map3.jpg> . A Boeing 757 has a wingspan of 125 feet.

Should cars and people have been tossed around the highway if a large commercial airliner whizzed by 20 feet above their heads?

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Look at this photograph of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747 (click to enlarge) coming in to land at St. Maarten-Princess Juliana Int'l Airport in the Netherlands. The photographer claims the plane only cleared the fence by about 10 feet and we can estimate that it is not more than 30 feet above the people stood on the beach, yet there is no sign of waves or even sand plumes being lifted off the ground by any wake turbulence caused by the aircraft.

<http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5715560>

This is a photograph of an American Airlines 757-200, the exact same model as Flight 77, flying over the same beach. Though the aircraft appears slightly higher than the KLM jet, one would expect air traffic controllers would compensate for an unusually low approach angle and be satisfied that any wake turbulence would not under any circumstance throw people around the beach.

<http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5694358>

Here is another shot of a Boeing 757. Again, not even grains of sand are affected by the low approach. Click any of these photos for enlargements.

<http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5730659>

Here is another example.

It is also understood that wake turbulence and wing vortices are far stronger when the plane is flying at a slow speed, as it would be coming in to land in these photographs. The fact that Flight 77 was traveling at an estimated 530 MPH would decrease the strength of wake turbulence.

One eyewitness claims that the object that hit the Pentagon was just six feet off the ground as it clipped a generator and even a car antenna before impacting on the building. In this instance one would surely expect the wake turbulence to have some affect and photographs do show the damaged generator <http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/docs/generator_gouge_small.jpg> immediately in front of the building.

While further confirmation will obviously be necessary in closing the case, it appears the argument that the lack of damage from wake turbulence does not prove that anything other than a large commercial airliner hit the Pentagon on September 11 2001.
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Date: Tue May 23, 2006 4:03am(PDT)
Subject: Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investi

Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation
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The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with 8% unsure).
Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- 911Truth.org urges 2006 reform candidates to recognize a powerful new constituency.

Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated.

The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible U.S. government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with 8% unsure). The poll of American residents was conducted from Friday, May 12 through Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/- 2.9. All inquiries about questions, responses and demographics should be directed to Zogby International.

According to Janice Matthews, executive director of 911truth.org, "To those of us who have followed the mounting evidence for US government involvement in 9/11, these results are both heartening and frankly quite amazing, given the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to cover the most critical questions of that day. Our August 2004 Zogby poll of New Yorkers showed nearly half believe certain U.S. officials 'consciously' allowed the attacks to happen and 66% want a fresh investigation, but these were people closest to the tragedy and most familiar with facts refuting the official account. This revelation that so many millions nationwide now also recognize a 9/11 cover up and the need for a new inquiry should be a wake up call for all 2006 political candidates hoping to turn this country around. We think it also indicates Americans are awakening to the larger pattern of deceit that led us into Constitutional twilight and endless war, and that our independent media may have
finally come of age."

Poll co-author W. David Kubiak concurs, saying "Despite years of relentless media promotion, whitewash and 9/11 Commission propaganda, the official 9/11 story still can't even muster 50% popular support. Since this myth has been the administration's primary source of political and war-making power, this level of distrust has revolutionary implications for everyone working for peace, justice and civil liberties. If we ever hope to reclaim this country, end aggression and restore international respect, we all must finally scrutinize that day when things started to go so terribly wrong. The media and movement leaders ignore this call at their peril, because tens of millions are clearly telling us here they are ready for 9/11 truth."

SCOPE: The poll covered five related areas: 1) Iraq - do Americans think the Bush administration exploited 9/11 to attack Iraq? (44% do, 44% don't); 2) Cover up - did the government and its 9/11 Commission conceal or refuse to investigate evidence that contradicts their official story? (only 48% said no); 3) The collapse of WTC 7, which was not even mentioned by the 9/11 Commission and has seldom been reported in the media -were respondents aware of this collapse and, if so, did they think it should be investigated (only 52% knew about it, but over 70% of this group believe it should have been investigated); 4) new investigation of official complicity - do respondents think we need one? (only 48% said no); and 5) mass media - how do people rate its performance, including its coverage of alternative 9/11 theories, unanswered questions and inquiry issues? (43% rate it positively, 55% negatively).

(Poll sponsors see knowledge of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 as a bellwether issue, because if people do not know this elementary fact, they have probably not been exposed to any independent 9/11 research at all. Since only 52% of respondents had ever heard of this collapse and 45% support a reinvestigation, it may be reasonably inferred that a public fully informed of all the unreported 9/11 facts might support a new investigation by a margin of 80% or more.)

SPONSOR: 911truth.org is a coalition of researchers, journalists and victim family members working to expose and answer the hundreds of still unresolved questions concerning 9/11, especially the nearly 400 questions that the Family Steering Committee filed with the 9/11 Commission. Initially welcomed by the commissioners as their "road map", these queries cut to the heart of 9/11 crimes and accountability, specifically raising the central issues of motive, means and cui bono (who profited?). The Commission ultimately ignored 80% of these issues, however, opting only to explore system failures, miscommunications and incompetence. The victim families' most incisive questions remain unaddressed to this day.

For more information on the Chicago "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming our Future" conference and other developments, see http://www.911revealingthetruth.org and http://www.911truth.org or contact 911truth.org media spokesman, Michael Berger at 314-308-4893.

*Numerical computations conservatively based on 2000 Census data citing 174 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64. NOTE: Given US Census Bureau data projecting 184 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 in 2005, the actual number of Americans who distrust the official 9/11 story is, then, over 80 million.

Survey Methodology: Zogby America, 5/12/06 through 5/16/06

This is a telephone survey of adults nationwide conducted by Zogby International. The target sample is 1,200 interviews with approximately 81 questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone Cd's of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. As many as six calls are made to reach a sampled phone number. Cooperation rates are calculated using one of AAPORï¿½s approved methodologies1 and are comparable to other professional public-opinion surveys conducted using similar sampling strategies.2 Weighting by region, party, age, race, religion, and gender is used to adjust for non-response. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

Zogby Internationalï¿½s sampling and weighting procedures also have been validated through its political polling: more than 95% of the firmï¿½s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.

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Iran shuts newspaper over cartoon - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

OpinionJournal - Outside the Box: Global Warming....

OpinionJournal - Outside the Box

Don't Be Very Worried
The truth about "global warming" is much less dire than Al Gore wants you to think.

[home - eitb24.com] ORDERED SUICIDE BOMBINGS: Israel captures West Bank leader of Hamas

Palestinian security officials said Hammad surrendered without a fight after Israeli forces surrounded his home shortly after dawn.

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1. NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400
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2. It's time to go [Barry Chamish]
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Message 1
From: "smacko" smacko9@comcast.net
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 3:22pm(PDT)
Subject: NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400

NSA's and AT&T's Big Brother Machine, the Narus 6400
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From: "norgesen" norgesen@yahoo.com
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 3:38pm(PDT)
Subject: It's time to go [Barry Chamish]

IT'S TIME TO GO by Barry Chamish

If any of my readers haven't heard from me for the past three weeks, it's because I've been dying. On the night of Independence Day, I was driving home from Jerusalem when I was hit head-on
by a so far unknown driver. Except for eight seconds when the brave ambulance drivers from ZAKA permitted me to use the phone to call home., I remember almost nothing for the next four days.
But other people helped me put it together. Visitors such as Iris Mersel, were forcibly removed from near my presence while I was forced to fight for my life. My body was punctured in the chest and lungs and in fact I had reached the point of traumatic shock.I was barely kept alive by one lung which had turned atelectic. When the lung chose to breath out, my body chose to die, or look a lot like it.
I am not going to tell you my suspicions as I hadn't after my recent stroke, But the police are putting up every barrier to an honest investigation by my insurance company and my attorney Dov
Even Or.
During my time in the hospital, Baruch from Kedumim persuaded me that I had to leave the country to save my life and prevent tragedy to my children.
I know he is right and I plan to take a year off to write the ultimate book on popular Judaism...
if there is somewhere for me to go.
Over the years people have offered me places to stay that is their home. I have rejected this for fear of smelling like a stale fish. At this moment I am invited to Toronto for the same reasons, and am rejecting the offer for the same pretexts.
There are two options; one is you find a way to invite me which I pay for through a lecture. The
second is that I'm offered work in Canada where I hold citizenship. If you can help me, phone me at
011-97289752937.

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After coming home from the hospital I received over three thousands e-mails and dozens of phone calls. To the e-mails I say be patient. To the phone callers, please call again.

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Preview of new 911 Eyewitness

Preview of new 911 Eyewitness By somebigguy

Rick Siegel post at LetsRoll911.org:

911 Eyewitness Hoboken, which just stunned the audience on a sneak preview in London, shows absolute proof that explosives were used. Several different kinds.

Absolute Proof only a click away

911 Eyewitness has evidence you can take to court. We are ready. Let's go.

This clip has proof fires were out, OUT DAMNIT!
This clip shows thermite CUTTING CHARGES!!! DAMNIT!
This clip shows the explosives on the outside the firemen describe!
This clip shows they used WMD on their own people! DAMNIT!
This clip shows victims who KNEW the fire was out and were waiting for rescue as the evildoers blew them to kingdom come! DAMNIT!

This will be the most controversial release ever.

I am mad as hell and wont take this anymore!

How $45m secretly bought freedom of foreign hostages - World - Times Online

The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is it Really?

Implementing Israel�s Strategy - Pravda.Ru

I can even agree with the American Thinker when they point out the fool Dick Morris is

The American Thinker

The Anchoress � Caveat Emptor?

The American Thinker, Unhinged

The American Thinker

Pinch, unhinged

New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr, known to friend and foe alike as Pinch, seems to have experienced a bit of a meltdown on the podium at graduation ceremonies for the State University of New York, New Palz. He began by apologizing for not making the world perfect. From The Freeman]

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ABC News: FBI: Computer Maps Found in Sniper's Car

ABC News: FBI: Computer Maps Found in Sniper's Car

FBI Expert Says Computer in Sniper's Car Had Maps to Shootings
By STEPHEN MANNING
The Associated Press
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A laptop computer found in convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad's car held maps plotting routes to the scenes of shootings that were marked by skull-and-crossbones symbols, including one with the comment "good one," an FBI computer analyst said Monday.

John Hair testified before jurors who are hearing six murder charges against Muhammad, already on death row in Virginia for a sniper shooting there.

Hair said the digital maps had marks for locations ranging from Maryland to North Carolina. Some had notations such as "good spot" and "possible hit."

The "good one" skull and crossbones marked the Home Depot in Fairfax County, Va., where FBI analyst Linda Franklin was shot in the head on Oct. 14, 2002. The .223-caliber bullet used in that shooting was linked to the rifle found in Muhammad's car when he and Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested Oct. 24, 2002.

Prosecutors are nearing the end of their case against Muhammad for six of the 13 Washington-area sniper shootings in October 2002.

Hair testified as prosecutors presented evidence from the laptop, an electronic organizer and a voice recorder that were in the car.

The organizer held a file that listed "People to die later," which included names from two radio stations, an FBI tip line staffer and people at CNN. It also listed a Montgomery County police officer who had answered a cryptic call from the snipers, calling him the "first resipiant of the Muhamma.ad negotiations." During the three-week-long series of attacks, police received several calls and found notes at shooting scenes demanding money in return for ending the killings.

Muhammad, 45, who is acting as his own attorney, challenged the validity of the records, implying they may have been planted or altered by authorities to implicate him.

Malvo, who was 18 when the two were arrested, was sentenced to life in prison in Virginia. The two also are linked to shootings in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and Washington state.

Malvo is expected to testify against Muhammad and could take the stand as early as Tuesday, according to a person close to the case who spoke on condition of anonymity because the trial is still underway. Malvo is likely to plead guilty to the same six murders Muhammad faces.

Muhammad steadfastly maintains his innocence, saying he will prove that he and Malvo had no role in the sniper killings. His defense strategy has revolved around showing that no one actually saw him or Malvo fire the fatal shots.

He also claims he is not getting a fair trial, and on Monday he complained to Circuit Judge James Ryan that prosecutors were trying to limit his defense by quashing his subpoena of a witness.

If the state continues interfering with his defense, Muhammad told Ryan: "You don't need me. You can send me the verdict in the mail. The way it's going, that might as well happen."

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I don't claim to know what he was up to and whose side he was on. I think this review is on the harsh side. For all of us who need truth tellers more than ever, it's understandable that misleading tales leading to nowhere might be enraging.

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