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Tuesday, February 8, 2005


The New Yorker: "Dan Coleman, an ex-F.B.I. agent who worked for a decade on counterterrorism and retired last July, asserts that torture 'has become bureaucratized' by the Bush Administration. After September 11th, rendition 'really went out of control', he adds. 'Now, instead of just sending people to third countries, we're holding them ourselves. We're taking people, and keeping them in our own custody in third countries. That's an enormous problem.' At least with Egypt, Coleman suggests, there was an established legal system, however harsh its methods. 'There was a process there. But what's our process? We have no method over there other than our laws - and we've decided to ignore them. What are we now, the Huns? If you don't talk to us, we'll kill you?'
One former State Department lawyer tells Mayer, 'Lawyers have to be the voice of reason and sometimes have to put the brakes on, no matter how much the client wants to hear something else. Our job is to keep the train on the tracks. It's not to tell the President, 'Here are ways to avoid the law'."
And the madness continues:
LA Times: "The Senate Intelligence Committee has launched what its chairman called a 'pre-emptive' examination of U.S. intelligence on Iran as part of an effort to avoid the problems that plagued America's prewar assessments on Iraq."
History repeats itself. At a time when the Pentagon has its own secret service, it's no use examining the CIA. They should examine the Bush administration.
And militarism is now 'politically correct' in certain regions of the States:
Tennessean: "A Cookeville (Tenn.) High School administrator said Veterans for Peace and a Quaker group can't come back into his school with materials considered 'anti-American' and 'anti-military'."
So Thomas Jefferson is an anti-American now?

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?"
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

Thomas Jefferson
12:31:46 PM    


TheNation: "When George W. bragged at the State of the Union address about having 'prosecuted corporate criminals', it was akin to Bill Clinton's infamous and equally absurd 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'. It might sound comforting, but it simply isn't true.
Last September, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) found that 82 leading corporations paid no federal taxes in one or more years since Bush took office in January of 2001. Now CTJ has a new report out disclosing that corporate tax dodging is even worse in the states than at the federal level. Of the 252 Fortune 500 companies that disclosed their state income taxes, 71 paid no state income tax at all in at least one year from 2001 through 2003. On average, two-thirds of the companies' profits went untaxed, cheating state governments of $41.7 billion in revenue during 2001-2003. Toys 'R' Us, AT&T, Boeing, Eli Lilly, Merrill Lynch, and ITT Industries are among the highly profitable corporations that avoided paying state income taxes altogether."
12:06:51 PM    

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