FEATURED ARTICLES
- Enron Traders Caught On Tape, CBS/AP
- Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name, Capitol Hill Blue
- Tip of the Iceberg? probe into alleged Chalabi leaks, Newsweek
- US cities say they short-changed in war on terror, Reuters
- Code Red (States), Ray McGovern, TomPaine.com
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"For the Bush administration, the nightmare is losing the November election-a prospect believed to be unlikely until just recently. For many of us citizens, the nightmare is the president and his associates resorting to extra-legal measures to ensure that there is no "regime change" in Washington for four more years. Logic and human nature would suggest that possible liability to prosecution under the War Crimes Act are among the more weighty factors they take into account."
- - Ray McGovern (from today's Bottom Line)
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - JUNE 4th
1966 -- James Meredith, the 1st black student at the University of Mississippi, is shot & wounded by a sniper while working on a voter registration drive, in a lone 220-mile "march against fear". Civil rights leaders rallied to the cause & came to continue the march from the point at which Meredith fell. He recovered & later completed the march on June 7. Out of this event emerged Stokely Carmichael's advocacy of "Black Power":
1989 -- The Chinese army massacres at least 2,000 peacefully protesting students & workers in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The Chinese government still officially denies any deaths occurred; thousands arrested "disappear" & remain unaccounted for.
1997 -- India: Activists protest Enron, building a power station in the South Maharashtra region. 39 arrested.
RHINO HERE:
Blood continues to splash from the fan, into the faces of the shrub gang, making some of them look like wounded animals. A sampling today includes "The Enron Tapes," being called a smoking gun in linking Kenny Boy Lay & Georgie Boy Bush to the ill gotten Enron gains; the shrub hiring counsel to rep him regarding the Valarie Plume treason investigation; evidence that neo-con wonder boy Chalabi turns out to have assisted the Iranians in manipulating the US into overthrowing Saddam with hopes they'd replace the Bathists with an Islamic fundamentalist regime; and last but one that really hits home, the mismanagement of Homeland Security funding keeping US urban emergency services under funded& pissed off about it.
The problem with wounded animals is that they're desperately unpredictable. Today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is by Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years from the John F. Kennedy administration to that of George H. W. Bush. In his essay, McGovern ponders, "How far the administration will go. An elevated threat level justifying martial law and postponement of the election?" Rhino asks, "What would we put past them?"
Enron Traders Caught On Tape
CBS/AP, June 1, 2004
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released two Enron memos describing company plans to inflate energy prices during California's energy crisis of 2000. The practices were considered so outrageous, that an attorney with the California Public Utilities Commission dubbed them a "smoking gun memo." When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, "Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," a trader sang about the massive fire...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620626.shtml
Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name
Capitol Hill Blue, June 3, 2004
Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq. Their damning testimony has prompted Bush to contact an outside lawyer for legal advice because evidence increasingly points to his involvement in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to syndicated columnist Robert Novak...
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4629.shtml
Tip of the Iceberg?
The probe into alleged Chalabi leaks to the Iranians may widen.
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, 02 June 2004
The Iraqi exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi - formerly a key ally of the Bush administration - is suspected of leaking confidential information about U.S. war plans for Iraq to the government of Iran before last year's invasion to oust Saddam Hussein... Last week... a spate of media reports alleging that Chalabi or one of his associates told the Iranians that U.S. intelligence had cracked a secret code system used by the Iranian intelligence service. U.S. political activists close to Chalabi have told reporters in recent days that Chalabi learned about the code breaking in Baghdad from a drunken U.S. official...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060404B.shtml
"SEND THIS ARTICLE TO A REPUBLICAN!"
US cities say they short-changed in war on terror
By Grant McCool and Charles Feldman, Reuters, 03 June 2004
Almost three years after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, many American cities complain that federal money to train and equip police, fire and other emergency workers is still merely trickling through to those who need it most. The biggest U.S. cities say they are being short-changed in the fight against terrorism by red tape and flaws in the system for handing out federal funds to prepare for future attacks...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N02389138.htm
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