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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8199)	8/18/2006 10:02:30 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

I believe the NSA program is what helped nab the 24 would be bombers in last weeks London raid.....and they want to do away with this? God help us all from the moronic left.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8199)	8/18/2006 10:04:38 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

Who's afraid of Anna Diggs Taylor Power Line ^ \| August 18, 2006 \| Scott Johnson Anyone who knows what legal analysis and argument looks like -- anyone who knows the requisites of legal reasoning -- must look at the ( handiwork: mied.uscourts.gov ) of Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in the NSA case in amazement. It is a pathetic piece of work. If it had been submitted by a student in my second year legal writing class at the University of St. Thomas Law School, it would have earned a failing grade. On the issue of the legality of warrantless interception of enemy communication, for example, it is entirely conclusory. It does not address precedent. It assumes its conclusion, framing the issue as whether the president can break the law. It simply asserts that the NSA eavesdropping program is "obviously in violation of the Fourth Amendment" -- apparently because it is warrantless. (Wrong.) She sagely observes that the "President of the United States is himself created by that same Constitution" -- you know, the one with the Fourth Amendment that she apparently thinks requires warrants in all cases. Judge Taylor is like the big bad wolf in the fairly tale. She huffs and she puffs. I think she's facing the brick house that can't be blown down -- she at least can't blow it down -- but the end of this unedifying fairy tale has yet to be written by a higher and presumably more competent authority.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8199)	8/18/2006 10:11:46 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Enough is enough! Fundamentalist Muslims, Hezbollah, Israel canadafreepress.com Much has been said about who's at fault in the current conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah assassins. In general I will say all the finger-pointing is wrong. It is OUR fault. Wait a minute Joseph, are you blaming me for what is going on in the middle east, you might say? Damn right I am, IF you have done nothing to stop the real culprits. O.K. you say, who are the real culprits? That's the easiest question to answer nowadays. The lib-left. Well, there you go again, blaming the left for all our troubles! No. not all, but many of them. For instance. What did you do, assuming you're an American citizen, when your president of the day bombed Kosovo, just to distract you from his under-the desk frolickings? Probably nothing. What did we all do when the lib-left of the whole world, declared war on Christianity? I was doing my part fighting the imposition of the new state religion, that is, secular fundamentalism. Where were you? Probably buying the lies of the lib-left media who selectively decides what you should be told about anything, solely on the basis of what suits their hidden agenda, not on the rules of reporting. There are plenty of examples of the way the fundamentalist Muslims fabricate history, regardless of what is going on. The manipulation of photos, the false declarations we're shown on T.V.,

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8199)	8/18/2006 10:30:02 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Must be the Mormons at it again...... Report: UK bomb suitcase found Airline terror plot suspects stay detained Thursday, August 17, 2006; Posted: 8:38 p.m. EDT (00:38 GMT) LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police investigating an alleged plot to bomb trans-Atlantic airline flights are reported to have found a suitcase containing items which could be used to construct a bomb, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The suitcase is reported to have been found in woodlands in High Wycombe, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north-west of London. BBC quotes an anonymous police source as saying a suitcase holding "everything you would need to make an improvised device," had been found. The wood is near the home of one of two dozen suspects arrested on August 10 in connection with the alleged bomb plot. The Metropolitan Police have refused to comment on the BBC report, saying it could not discuss anything found during the searches. Police said Thursday they were searching 14 homes and businesses and had searched 49 locations since the August 10 raids in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham, central England, The Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, service returned almost to normal at British airports Thursday, a week after they were thrown into chaos by the terrorist alert. British Airways, the worst-affected airline, said it had almost cleared a backlog of 5,000 pieces of luggage separated from their owners amid hundreds of delayed and canceled flights. The airline canceled 19 short-haul services from Heathrow Airport Thursday, and said it planned to operate a full service on Friday. Earlier, a British judge allowed police to continue holding 23 of the 24 suspects, Metropolitan Police said late Wednesday. The ruling gives police the authority to hold two of the suspects until August 21, and the rest until August 23. Afterwards, Scotland Yard said that a person arrested on Tuesday as part of its investigation was released without charge, The Associated Press reports. Another suspect was released without charge on August 11. Wednesday's ruling was largely a procedural move. Under British anti-terrorism laws, police can hold suspects for up to 28 days without filing charges, but they must put the detention before a judge periodically. The hearing was held behind closed doors and attended only by the suspects' lawyers, investigators and government officials, The Associated Press reports. Experts say the primary reason police could use nearly a month to complete a probe is because of the complexity of investigations into the alleged plot to smuggle liquid explosives hidden in hand luggage aboard flights. "You've got laptops. You have to bring in translators to translate all the documents in there. And sometimes it's inopportune to release all your suspects -- particularly terrorism suspects -- while all that is being downloaded and translated," Cliff Knuckey, a retired police detective who has worked on terrorism investigations, told the Associated Press. "Terrorism investigations are different, simply because you're dealing with people who will do their best not to compromise their plans and who will do anything not to be compromised." Previously, police were able to detain people suspected of terrorism offenses for 14 days only. But the new legislation, which became law earlier this year, also created new offenses, including preparing a terrorist act, giving or receiving terrorist training, and selling or spreading terrorist publications. Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to receive parliamentary approval for his own plan to interrogate terrorist suspects for up to 90 days. Authorities said the suspects plotted to use liquid explosives to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic flights, using commercial electronic devices as detonators. The plot's disclosure last week sparked heightened terror alerts in both Britain and the United States. Authorities have banned passengers from bringing nearly all liquids or gels aboard aircraft and tightened passenger screening rules, snarling airports on both sides of the ocean. Home Secretary John Reid, Britain's top law-and-order official, acknowledged that some suspects would likely not be charged with major criminal offenses but said there was mounting evidence of a "substantial nature" to back the allegations. (Full story)