Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4701)	8/12/2005 8:09:19 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

These people are sick..... Abortion rights group pulls anti-Roberts ad Lawmaker, watchdog group call ad misleading Friday, August 12, 2005; Posted: 6:24 a.m. EDT (10:24 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- NARAL Pro-Choice America said late Thursday it was pulling a controversial advertisement in which the abortion rights group accused Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of "supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted bomber." The decision to withdraw the ad came after Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a scathing letter to the group, calling the 30-second ad "blatantly untrue and unfair." The bombing shown in the video occurred seven years after Roberts filed a legal brief cited in the ad, according to Annenberg Political Fact Check. The non-profit group added that the brief also dealt with abortion clinics' ability to use an anti-discrimination statute against anti-abortion demonstrators. In a response to Specter, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League President Nancy Keenan wrote, "Unfortunately, the debate over that advertisement has become a distraction from the serious discussion we hoped to have with the American public. "We also regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," Keenan said. She told Specter the group "will continue to educate the public about the threat we firmly believe Mr. Roberts' elevation to the Supreme Court would have on American women's reproductive health and, ultimately, their lives." The ad is being replaced, Keenan said, by another that "examines Mr. Roberts' record on several points, including his advocacy for overturning Roe v. Wade, his statement questioning the right to privacy, and his arguments against using a federal civil rights law to protect women and their doctors and nurses from those who use blockades and intimidation." The original ad aired on CNN, which also ran an ad supporting Roberts' candidacy by the Progress for America group. The NARAL ad had criticized Roberts, saying he had "filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted court bomber." "America can't afford a justice whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans," the ad said. Specter, who supports abortion rights, urged the group to cancel the ad because it "unfairly attacks" Roberts. "In our free society, anyone can speak out as they choose on any subject. I am concerned that the Roberts nomination, or others to follow, may provide an occasion for such advertising to get out of hand," Specter said. "The NARAL television advertisement is blatantly untrue and unfair. ... " "May I also suggest that the NARAL advertisement is not helpful to the pro-choice cause which I support. When NARAL puts on such an advertisement, in my opinion it undercuts its credibility and injures the pro-choice cause." President Bush nominated Roberts, a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The 50-year-old appears to have wide bipartisan support as he heads toward the confirmation process. During the Reagan administration, Roberts was a special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith and later served in the White House counsel's office. In the administration of Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, Roberts served as principal deputy to Solicitor General Ted Olson, whose job was to advocate the administration's legal position in court, including before the Supreme Court.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4701)	8/12/2005 12:38:46 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

more BS from the WHITE HOUSE EXPOSED Sources: CIA finds Iranian president likely not hostage-taker Friday, August 12, 2005; Posted: 10:35 a.m. EDT (14:35 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages in 1979, two government officials told CNN. The officials insisted on anonymity, saying they did not want to speak for the CIA about its report. Several of the 52 former hostages said that Ahmadinejad was one of the students who held them captive at the U.S. embassy in Tehran 26 years ago, after they saw him celebrate his election victory on television. Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials denied the allegation. A CIA analysis of one hostage-taker found two weeks ago that the individual was not Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad's official biography says that as a student, he was a member of the Office for Strengthening Unity, the student organization that planned the embassy takeover. It does not say he was an organizer of the seizure. The two U.S. government officials who told CNN about the report said the State Department has been conducting additional interviews over the past week with former hostages. Most of the former hostages have said Ahmadinejad was not present during the hostage-taking, the officials said. The November 4, 1979, embassy takeover followed protests demanding that the United States return the Shah of Iran to Tehran for trial. He had been overthrown by the Islamic revolution 11 months before and was receiving cancer treatment in New York at the time. The embassy seizure lasted 444 days and resulted in a botched rescue mission that left eight U.S. soldiers dead.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4701)	8/13/2005 2:34:48 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

just keep changing players to stop THE INVESTIGATION.... ROVE...TRAITORGATE DOJ Shakeup Clouds Plame Probe By Mark Sherman The Associated Press Saturday 13 August 2005 Career lawyer at the Justice Department given oversight of CIA leak investigation. David Margolis, a lawyer at the Justice Department for 40 years, was named Friday to oversee a special prosecutor's investigation of who in the Bush administration disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer. Margolis, whose title is associate deputy attorney general, is taking the place of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, whose last day of work was Friday. Comey will be Lockheed Martin's new general counsel. Comey made the designation of Margolis. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has stepped aside from the probe because he was White House counsel when Valerie Plame's name was leaked in 2003 and he has testified to the grand jury investigating the unauthorized disclosure. Comey gave broad discretion to US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago when he was appointed to investigate the leak in December 2003. Margolis is not expected to alter Fitzgerald's mandate in what are likely to be the final months of his investigation. The grand jury ends its term in October. No one has been charged in the Plame case. However, it's known that Karl Rove, a top aide to President Bush, and Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, discussed Plame with reporters before her name was first published by columnist Robert Novak in July 2003. New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to tell prosecutors to whom she talked about Plame. The departure of Comey, who had been second in command at the Justice Department since 2003, leaves vacancies in two key posts. Christopher Wray resigned as head of the Criminal division in May. President Bush has nominated Timothy E. Flanigan, once Gonzales' deputy in the White House, to take Comey's job. Alice Fisher has been nominated to lead the criminal division. Neither has been confirmed. Flanigan faced tough questioning in his Senate confirmation hearing about his role in allowing aggressive interrogation techniques be used on detainees from Afghanistan and Iraq and his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the Judiciary Committee chairman, indicated he might oppose Flanigan's confirmation because he didn't like his answers. A committee vote on Flanigan has not been scheduled, and the committee will begin hearings on John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court when Congress returns to work in September. Fisher's nomination had been held up through July by at least two senators, one Republican, one Democrat. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was seeking to question an FBI agent about a delay in obtaining a wiretap in a terrorism financing investigation. Grassley lifted his objection after meeting with Gonzales. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., also met with Gonzales, but he continues to hold up Fisher's nomination because he wants to talk directly to an agent who wrote an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility. "In my weekly meetings with DOJ we often discussed (Defense Department) techniques and how they were not effective or producing intel that was reliable," the agent wrote. In his next sentence, he said Fisher, then the No. 2 in the criminal division, was among department officials who attended all the meetings. Fisher has said she did not recall taking part in such discussions and Justice officials have said the agent did not intend to say she had. But Gonzales has refused to let senators question the agent, saying it violates long-standing policy. After failing to persuade Levin to let Fisher's nomination proceed, Gonzales went public with the dispute, saying the vacancy was especially inopportune following terror attacks in England and Egypt in July. Comey's departure "makes it imperative that key national security officials, such as Ms. Fisher, be confirmed so that the department is able to adequately respond to whatever emergencies may arise," Gonzales said in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. -------