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What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 12 30.04.2006 Boston Globe 1 President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research - the president's job is not to make laws or interpret the constitution but to enforce the laws and protect the constitution 30.04.2006 The Nation 1 the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, as laid out in the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States and reiterated in 2006, claims for the President the power to attack other countries--like Iran--simply because he asserts they pose a threat 30.04.2006 X 1 Bush is aggressive about declaring his right to ignore laws he believes infringe on his power as commander in chief 30.04.2006 X 1 For the Silent Majority - You may not have to be bothered anymore ... You cannot ignore politics, because politics will not ignore you 01.05.2006 Boston Globe 1 Since taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution ... Here are 10 examples and the dates Bush signed them 01.05.2006 Huffington 1 George Bush has crossed the Rubicon. These are not the powers of a presi-dent. Post They are the powers of a dictator. You cannot say you weren't warned 01.05.2006 Raw Story 1 US Social Security fund exhausted in 2040-trustees - Want to know WHY Social Security is running out of money? Because the Federal Government has been "borrowing" from the Social Security trust fund and spending that money as general funds to balance the books 02.05.2006 Boston Globe 1 3 Democratic senators blasted President Bush for having claimed he has the authority to defy more than 750 statutes enacted since he took office, saying that the president's legal theories are wrong and that he must obey the law 03.05.2006 Boston Globe 1 Over the past 5 years, Bush has stated that he can defy any statute that conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution ... often following ceremonies in which the president made no mention of the objections he was about to raise in the bill, even as he signed it into law ... Bush is also the first president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill 03.05.2006 Breitbart 1 actor/director Tim Robbins: "We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanours of the president of the US 03.05.2006 Dailykos 1 Rove's Unexplained Personal Wealth - Have you ever wondered how a man who owns a $1,500,000 house in DC, a $1,000,000+ house in Florida and a $48,000 cottage in Texas manages to survive on $161,000 a year .. salary? 04.05.2006 X 1 I told the FBI that the Anderson papers in our collection were "ancient history," literally covered in dust. That didn't matter, the agents replied. They were looking for documents going back to the early 1980s 04.05.2006 Asian Times 1 At some $440 billion for 2007, the Pentagon's defense budget would exceed the combined military budgets of the world's 25 next most-powerful nations 05.05.2006 NY Times 1 No one since Thomas Jefferson has stayed in the White House this long without rejecting a single act of Congress ... Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply declares his intention not to enforce anything he dislikes ... The founding fathers never conceived of anything like a signing statement 05.05.2006 Boston Globe 1 CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly 05.05.2006 NY Times 1 C.I.A. Director Porter Goss Resigns - so what is about to happen that Goss does not want to be around for? 06.05.2006 X 1 A 10-year-old Coral Springs girl won't be allowed to sing a controversial President Bush-bashing ballad at her school talent show after her principal deemed it inappropriate and too political 08.05.2006 Wash Post 1 Bush's potential choice of Gen. Michael Hayden, deputy to .. John Negroponte, to head [CIA] ... behind a disputed domestic spying program 08.05.2006 Alternet 1 In A. 2004, as a routine court procedure, the FBI provided the lawyers and defendants with documents relating to the trial ... accidentally released a document that showed the government had used logs of conversations between the lawyers and their clients ... The catch is that the logs were obtained without a warrant 08.05.2006 New York Sun 1 Pentagon Is Winner Over CIA - The pending appointment of General Michael Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency will pave the way for the agency's emasculation and for the Pentagon to assume full authority over paramilitary operations
08.05.2006 Huffington Post What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 13 1 Career appointees at the Dept. of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush adm. "talking points" -- saying things such as "President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq" -- in every speech they give for the department 09.05.2006 Wash Post 1 The President's nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to be CIA director ... Donald Rumsfeld winning the final battle over who will control US intelligence 09.05.2006 X 1 After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3 Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic, $6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter 10.05.2006 Reuters 1 Diebold Inc. .. said staff at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have begun an informal inquiry into how the company recognizes revenue 10.05.2006 Yahoo 1 [acting president] Bush suggested that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb ... Jeb Bush [53] has repeatedly said he is not going to run in 2008 10.05.2006 Raw Story 1 The gov. has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the NSA refused to grant Justice Dept. lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter {accused blocks justice} 11.05.2006 Berlingske 1 Millioner af amerikanere får hemmeligt registreret telefonopkald - NSA er i gang med at opbygge verdens største database 11.05.2006 USA today 1 Responding quickly to a USA TODAY report that his adm. has collected information on tens of millions of domestic phone calls, Bush said everything the NSA has done is legal, protects the privacy of Americans and helps guard the nation against terrorist attacks ... NSA's efforts "strictly target al-Qaeda and their known affiliates." 11.05.2006 X 1 Former AT&T technician Mark Klein has come forward to support the EFF's lawsuit against AT&T for its alleged complicity in the NSA's electronic surveillance. Here, Wired News publishes Klein's public statement in its entirety 11.05.2006 ABC 1 Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the NSA, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet ... the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used ... he was a source for the Times' reporters ... The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance .. called psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice .. says that's the way the NSA deals with .. whistleblowers 12.05.2006 Pravda 1 George W. Bush has a crowd of skeletons in his closet 12.05.2006 WRH 1 ECHELON 12.05.2006 X 1 Qwest Communications was the only major telecommunications company to refuse a NSA request to secretly turn over phone records of Americans 12.05.2006 NY Times 1 The telecommunications company Qwest turned down requests by the National Security Agency for private telephone records because it concluded that doing so would violate federal privacy laws 12.05.2006 LA Times 1 Latest NSA revelations show that the White House can't be trusted to draw the line on liberties 12.05.2006 USA today 1 The government is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Ameri-cans ... It means that your phone company (if you are a customer of AT&T, BellSouth or Verizon) tossed your privacy to the wind and collaborated with this extraordinary intrusion ... The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requires a court order to gather a person's current phone records. A 1934 law requires phone companies to protect customers' privacy. And the Fourth Amendment forbids "unreasonable searches and seizures." 12.05.2006 X 1 Tom Mustric ... was talking to another teacher in the lunchroom and said that he believes that there may have been US Government involvement. Apparently, the other teacher told this to the Principal of the school [who wants] him fired (He is already on a blacklist of sorts, where other schools in 12.05.2006 Huffington Post his district are advised not to call on him for work) 1 NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify .. that not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg ... former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden .. oversaw more illegal activity that has yet to be disclosed 12.05.2006 News.com 1 Patriot Act's amendments authorize that type of easily obtainable surveillance of e-mail. All that's required is that prosecutors claim the surveillance could conceivably be "relevant" to an investigation
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30.04.<strong>2006</strong> Boston Globe 1 President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws<br />
enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute<br />
passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.<br />
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations,<br />
affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration<br />
services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections <strong>for</strong> nuclear regulatory officials, and<br />
safeguards against political interference in federally funded research - the president's<br />
job is not to make laws or interpret the constitution but to en<strong>for</strong>ce the laws and<br />
protect the constitution<br />
30.04.<strong>2006</strong> The Nation 1 the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, as laid out in the 2002 National<br />
Security Strategy of the United States and reiterated in <strong>2006</strong>, claims <strong>for</strong> the<br />
President the power to attack other countries--like Iran--simply because he<br />
asserts they pose a threat<br />
30.04.<strong>2006</strong> X 1 Bush is aggressive about declaring his right to ignore laws he believes<br />
infringe on his power as commander in chief<br />
30.04.<strong>2006</strong> X 1 For the Silent Majority - You may not have to be bothered anymore ... You<br />
cannot ignore politics, because politics will not ignore you<br />
01.05.<strong>2006</strong> Boston Globe 1 Since taking office in 2001, President Bush has issued signing statements on<br />
more than 750 new laws, declaring that he has the power to set aside the<br />
laws when they conflict with his legal interpretation of the Constitution ... Here<br />
are 10 examples and the dates Bush signed them<br />
01.05.<strong>2006</strong> Huffington 1 George Bush has crossed the Rubicon. These are not the powers of a presi-dent.<br />
Post<br />
They are the powers of a dictator. You cannot say you weren't warned<br />
01.05.<strong>2006</strong> Raw Story 1 US Social Security fund exhausted in 2040-trustees - Want to know WHY<br />
Social Security is running out of money? Because the Federal Government<br />
has been "borrowing" from the Social Security trust fund and spending that<br />
money as general funds to balance the books<br />
02.05.<strong>2006</strong> Boston Globe 1 3 Democratic senators blasted President Bush <strong>for</strong> having claimed he has the<br />
authority to defy more than 750 statutes enacted since he took office, saying that the<br />
president's legal theories are wrong and that he must obey the law<br />
03.05.<strong>2006</strong> Boston Globe 1 Over the past 5 years, Bush has stated that he can defy any statute that<br />
conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution ... often following<br />
ceremonies in which the president made no mention of the objections he was<br />
about to raise in the bill, even as he signed it into law ... Bush is also the first<br />
president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill<br />
03.05.<strong>2006</strong> Breitbart 1 actor/director Tim Robbins: "We have right now a media that is willfully<br />
ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanours of the president of the US<br />
03.05.<strong>2006</strong> Dailykos 1 Rove's Unexplained Personal Wealth - Have you ever wondered how a man who<br />
owns a $1,500,000 house in DC, a $1,000,000+ house in Florida and a $48,000<br />
cottage in Texas manages to survive on $161,000 a year .. salary?<br />
04.05.<strong>2006</strong> X 1 I told the FBI that the Anderson papers in our collection were "ancient<br />
history," literally covered in dust. That didn't matter, the agents replied. They<br />
were looking <strong>for</strong> documents going back to the early 1980s<br />
04.05.<strong>2006</strong> Asian Times 1 At some $440 billion <strong>for</strong> 2007, the Pentagon's defense budget would exceed the<br />
combined military budgets of the world's 25 next most-powerful nations<br />
05.05.<strong>2006</strong> NY Times 1 No one since Thomas Jefferson has stayed in the White House this long without<br />
rejecting a single act of Congress ... Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply<br />
declares his intention not to en<strong>for</strong>ce anything he dislikes ... The founding fathers<br />
never conceived of anything like a signing statement<br />
05.05.<strong>2006</strong> Boston Globe 1 CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly<br />
05.05.<strong>2006</strong> NY Times 1 C.I.A. Director Porter Goss Resigns - so what is about to happen that Goss<br />
does not want to be around <strong>for</strong>?<br />
06.05.<strong>2006</strong> X 1 A 10-year-old Coral Springs girl won't be allowed to sing a controversial<br />
President Bush-bashing ballad at her school talent show after her principal<br />
deemed it inappropriate and too political<br />
08.05.<strong>2006</strong> Wash Post 1 Bush's potential choice of Gen. Michael Hayden, deputy to .. John Negroponte,<br />
to head [CIA] ... behind a disputed domestic spying program<br />
08.05.<strong>2006</strong> Alternet 1 In A. 2004, as a routine court procedure, the FBI provided the lawyers and<br />
defendants with documents relating to the trial ... accidentally released a<br />
document that showed the government had used logs of conversations<br />
between the lawyers and their clients ... The catch is that the logs were<br />
obtained without a warrant<br />
08.05.<strong>2006</strong> New York Sun 1 Pentagon Is Winner Over CIA - The pending appointment of General Michael<br />
Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency will pave the way <strong>for</strong><br />
the agency's emasculation and <strong>for</strong> the Pentagon to assume full authority over<br />
paramilitary operations
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