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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (45047)	1/23/2006 4:15:07 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

It is amazing that 36% of Americans are looney tunes. Or fellow crooks. But the ratings will probably go up a bit as Bush trotted out another fake Osama tape for the gullible to believe in. He does some sort of flim flam with his ally every time his ratings drop.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (45047)	1/23/2006 5:46:54 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116555

Metamorphosis of Bush wire tapping lies No wiretapping can take place in America without a judge signing a warrant. It was only used on thirty calls coming from outside the US. Well maybe they tapped a few foreign calls from inside the US but it was for your security. For security reasons Bush didn't have time to get warrants. Well they did have three days to get warrants afterwards but Bush told congress so that made it OK. Well maybe the two or three congressmen that were told about it were threatened with treason if they said anything about it but the constitution gives Bush the power to ignore the FISA courts. Well maybe every respected jurist and constitutional scholar said Bush didn't have the authority but we are at war and it was only thirty calls and Clinton did it too. Well maybe Clinton didn't do it illegally and maybe it was as many as 500 calls but Bush is just concerned about your safety. Well maybe it was 500 calls simultaneously but again Bush is fighting terror. Well maybe it was millions of calls but do you want to wait for a mushroom cloud? Well maybe it was used on every last call made in America and transcripts of your calls can be bought online but it wasn't used on Bush's political opponents. Well maybe it was used on one democrat but he was accidentally caught up in the NSA “key word search” but only because he used the word “impeach.” Well maybe it was used on every living democrat, their third cousins twice removed, liberal newspapers and the Quakers but why not if they have nothing to hide? Well maybe it was used on Hillary's dog groomer, hair stylist, chauffeur, every black person she has ever met and possible lesbians at Smith College but don't you feel safer?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (45047)	1/23/2006 7:11:31 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

Look how easy this pu&&y fooled Bush - and I thought clinton was pushy whipped. Boy did they sucker him - they did a heckuva job. DJ US: Woman Sold US Tech To China After Release From Prison ARLINGTON, Va. (AP)--A woman who was freed from a Chinese prison with President George W. Bush's help sold sensitive U.S. technology to Chinese military affiliates after her release, U.S. government lawyers said Monday. Gao Zhan, of Herndon, Va., received a hero's welcome in 2001 when China deported her to the U.S. after six months in jail. China accused her of spying for Taiwan, a charge her supporters denied. Bush intervened in the case directly, asking then-President Jiang Zemin to free Gao and another U.S.-based academic who had been jailed. Now Gao is a convicted felon fighting efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to deport her to China. An immigration hearing began Monday to determine whether Gao is a national security risk. When Gao returned to the U.S. in 2001, she used her celebrity status to criticize the Chinese government on human rights. But, in private, Gao resumed her business exporting various technologies to China, Homeland Security attorney Maryellen Meymarian said Monday. Gao previously admitted she sold technology with possible military applications to the Chinese government before her arrest in China in February 2001. But Meymarian's claim that the export business continued even after her return to the U.S. was a new accusation. "The first thing she was concerned with was putting her business back together," Meymarian told Immigration Judge Paul Schmidt. "She was doing business when she got back, doing business with people with connections to Chinese military institutes." Gao's attorney, Ladan Mirbagheri Smith, told the judge that none of the items exported by Gao after her August 2001 return constituted a technical violation of the law. Generally, her attorney said, Gao was trying to get out of the export business altogether but had some remaining inventory she needed to sell. The judge seemed skeptical, comparing the situation to a drug dealer who claims to have reformed his ways but sells his remaining stash. "I don't see documentation that this is someone who had a life-changing experience" when she returned from China, Schmidt said. "It was pretty much business as usual. Her epiphany was not in China. Her epiphany was when she got indicted." It is not clear what Gao was exporting to China. After about an hour, reporters were turned out from the hearing at the request of Gao. She participated by video hookup from a jail in Portsmouth, Va., where she is being held. Gao's case is unique because Homeland Security wants to deport her despite a recommendation from the Department of Justice that she be allowed to stay in the U.S. Gao struck a plea bargain in 2003 with federal prosecutors in which she received a seven-month sentence for the export violations that occurred before her imprisonment in China. Because Gao cooperated with prosecutors' investigation, the Justice Department agreed to recommend against deportation. But DHS has disregarded the recommendation and says Gao's actions show that she poses a threat to national security. If Schmidt determines Gao is a national security risk and his ruling is upheld, Gao will almost certainly be deported. If he determines that she is not a risk, a hearing is scheduled for next month on Gao's application for asylum. (END) Dow Jones Newswires January 23, 2006 16:41 ET (21:41 GMT) Copyright (c) 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.- - 04 41 PM EST 01-23-06