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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (695364)	8/4/2005 2:36:44 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush Administration continues to bag Jewish/Zionist traitors in our midst: (Will Bush turn out to be the secret patriot who manipulated the Jewish power in America through his love fest with Sharon and Israel simply to get elected and then turn the power of the presidency on the Zionist traitors and Israel-Firsters who were trying to use him for the benefit of Israel? Since the last election, Bush has demanded that Israel: dismantle their nuclear weapons, that Israel recognize a Palestinian state, that Israel stop spying on America, that Israel pullout of Gaza, that Israel stop builiding illegal settlements. No other president has ever made such an about face in the direction of our foreign policy, a direction that favors American interests. Despite our invasion of Iraq, Bush's new policy could politically recapture the sympathies of the entire Arab/Moslem world and at the same time restore a balanced and just AMERICAN foreign policy in the Middle East._) Truth and the wheels of justice continue to expose Jewish/Zionist Trojan Horse in Washington. ============================================= U.S. expected to announce indictment of two senior AIPAC officials By Shmuel Rosner and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents The United States Department of Justice is expected to announce the indictments Thursday of two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee officials. Details of the indictment are to be released at a press conference in Virginia. Indictments are expected to be filed against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman for involvement in a case that involved receipt of classified defense information from Larry Franklin, a Pentagon official, and its transfer to the representative of a foreign country, Naor Gilon, of the Israeli embassy in Washington. Gilon heads the political department at the embassy. Advertisement Israeli officials say Gilon was never questioned in the affair. According to sources familiar with the case, the grand jury will submit indictments against Rosen, the former head of foreign policy for the lobbying organization, and against Weissman, who was responsible for the Iranian brief in AIPAC. The classified material is said to involve information about Iranian intentions to harm American soldiers in Iraq, and it was supposedly given to the two the former AIPAC staffers during lunch in Virginia on June 26, 2003. Suspicions against Rosen and Weissman focus on a meeting a year later, on July 12, 2004. Franklin was cooperating by then with the FBI, which had threatened him with an indictment after tracking his earlier meetings with the AIPAC men, discovering the alleged hand-over of secret information. He agreed to take part in a sting operation in which he would give the two information and the investigators would then follow them. Franklin called Weissman and asked for a meeting to discuss an important subject. At the meeting, in a mall near the Pentagon, Franklin told Weissman that Iranian agents were trying to capture Israeli civilians working in the Kurdish area in northern Iraq. Around the same time there had been conflicting reports in Washington about an Israeli presence in Kurdish Iraq. Journalist Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker had written that Israelis were operating there, but Israel - and the Americans - denied it. At the meeting, Franklin told Weissman that the information was classified. This is significant in terms of the investigation, since it prevents the AIPAC men from claiming in their defense that they did not know they were dealing with state secrets. Weissman left the meeting and went straight to Rosen's AIPAC office at Capitol Hill. He said it was a matter of life or death, and that Israeli lives were in immediate danger. The two made three phone calls: to an administration official, to Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post, and to Gilon, at the embassy. Rosen told Gilon about the information and the Israeli official promised he would look into it. All those calls were wiretapped by the FBI and are part of the case against Rosen and Weissman. The fact that Rosen and Weissman, as American citizens, handed information to an official representative of a foreign power while knowing it was classified is incriminating under the 1917 Espionage Act, which defines as a crime receipt of classified information for the purpose of helping any foreign entity. AIPAC's decision to cooperate with the investigators' demands and to fire the two officials was made after it became evident that the FBI had tape-recordings showing that Franklin explicitly said that the material was secret. AIPAC's assessment was that it would be difficult for the organization to continue working on Capitol Hill, and with the administration, while

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (695364)	8/5/2005 1:16:08 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

After Ohio, Dems Map 50-State 'Virtual Victory' Plan Satire from ScrappleFace by Scott Ott (2005-08-04) -- Encouraged by their close loss in this week's special election for a vacant House seat in Ohio, the Democrat National Committee (DNC) has mapped a 50-state "virtual victory" strategy for 2006 and 2008. "It feels so good to almost win," said DNC chairman Howard Dean. "We now believe we can rally our base around the hope of down-to-the-wire losses in traditionally Republican districts coast-to-coast." While the concept of virtual victory is familiar to the party that nearly won the presidency in 2000 and 2004, this is the first time the DNC will stake millions of dollars on advertising explicitly promoting narrow defeats. The ad campaign is tentatively titled "Close Counts." "People need something to believe in," said Mr. Dean. "And while it's tough to believe that a party with no coherent platform can return to power, most progressives still believe this is the party of the little guy. Of course, the little guy usually loses, but we want our major donors to be able to say, in the words of Maxwell Smart, 'missed it by that much.'" In related news, America Coming Together, the progressive fundraising group backed by billionaire George Soros which failed to make a difference for Democrats in swing states in 2004, today announced it would disband and form a new, leaner organization with the narrow mission of handling money transfers from wealthy contributors to political strategists and consultants. "America Coming Together fulfilled that mission in 2004," said Mr. Soros. "As a businessman, I focus on results. So we have moved the goalposts to reflect the results we achieved." scrappleface.com