The death of habeas corpus - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com: "On “Countdown” Keith Olbermann examined the Military Commission’s Act of 2006 and what it does to something called habeas corpus.

The following is a transcript of Keith Olbermann's special report on habeas corpus, as reported on Tuesday, October 10th:

The president has now succeeded where no one has before. He’s managed to kill the writ of habeas corpus. Tonight, a special investigation, how that, in turn, kills nothing less than your Bill of Rights. Because the Mark Foley story began to break on the night of September 28, exploding the following day, many people may not have noticed the bill passed by the Senate that night. "

Exclusive: Book says Bush just using Christians - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com: "More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider’s tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.

The office’s primary mission, providing financial support to charities that serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to succeed, according to the book.

Entitled “Tempting Faith,” the book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 16, but MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” has obtained a copy.

“Tempting Faith’s” author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo’s previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft."

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The two faces of Rumsfeld:
"Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the 'axis of evil' and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons.

Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $200m (£125m) contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. The current defence secretary sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush administration.

The reactor deal was part of President Bill Clinton's policy of persuading the North Korean regime to positively engage with the west.

The sale of the nuclear technology was a high-profile contract. ABB's then chief executive, Goran Lindahl, visited North Korea in November 1999 to announce ABB's "wide-ranging, long-term cooperation agreement" with the communist government.

The company also opened an office in the country's capital, Pyongyang, and the deal was signed a year later in 2000. Despite this, Mr Rumsfeld's office said that the de fence secretary did not "recall it being brought before the board at any time".

In a statement to the American magazine Newsweek, his spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said that there "was no vote on this". A spokesman for ABB told the Guardian yesterday that "board members were informed about the project which would deliver systems and equipment for light water reactors".

Just months after Mr Rumsfeld took office, President George Bush ended the policy of engagement and negotiation pursued by Mr Clinton, saying he did not trust North Korea, and pulled the plug on diplomacy. Pyongyang warned that it would respond by building nuclear missiles. A review of American policy was announced and the bilateral confidence building steps, key to Mr Clinton's policy of detente, halted.

By January 2002, the Bush administration had placed North Korea in the "axis of evil" alongside Iraq and Iran. If there was any doubt about how the White House felt about North Korea this was dispelled by Mr Bush, who told the Washington Post last year: "I loathe [North Korea's leader] Kim Jong-il."

The success of campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq have enhanced the status of Mr Rumsfeld in Washington. Two years after leaving ABB, Mr Rumsfeld now considers North Korea a "terrorist regime _ teetering on the verge of collapse" and which is on the verge of becoming a proliferator of nuclear weapons. During a bout of diplomatic activity over Christmas he warned that the US could fight two wars at once - a reference to the forthcoming conflict with Iraq. After Baghdad fell, Mr Rumsfeld said Pyongyang should draw the "appropriate lesson".

Critics of the administration's bellicose language on North Korea say that the problem was not that Mr Rumsfeld supported the Clinton-inspired diplomacy and the ABB deal but that he did not "speak up against it". "One could draw the conclusion that economic and personal interests took precedent over non-proliferation," said Steve LaMontagne, an analyst with the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington.

Many members of the Bush administration are on record as opposing Mr Clinton's plans, saying that weapons-grade nuclear material could be extracted from the type of light water reactors that ABB sold. Mr Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and the state department's number two diplomat, Richard Armitage, both opposed the deal as did the Republican presidential candidate, Bob Dole, whose campaign Mr Rumsfeld ran and where he also acted as defence adviser.

One unnamed ABB board director told Fortune magazine that Mr Rumsfeld was involved in lobbying his hawkish friends on behalf of ABB.

The Clinton package sought to defuse tensions on the Ko rean peninsula by offering supplies of oil and new light water nuclear reactors in return for access by inspectors to Pyongyang's atomic facilities and a dismantling of its heavy water reactors which produce weapons grade plutonium. Light water reactors are known as "proliferation-resistant" but, in the words of one expert, they are not "proliferation-proof".

The type of reactors involved in the ABB deal produce plutonium which needs refining before it can be weaponised. One US congressman and critic of the North Korean regime described the reactors as "nuclear bomb factories".

North Korea expelled the inspectors last year and withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in January at about the same time that the Bush administration authorised $3.5m to keep ABB's reactor project going.

North Korea is thought to have offered to scrap its nuclear facilities and missile pro gramme and to allow international nuclear inspectors into the country. But Pyongyang demanded that security guarantees and aid from the US must come first.

Mr Bush now insists that he will only negotiate a new deal with Pyongyang after the nuclear programme is scrapped. Washington believes that offering inducements would reward Pyongyang's "blackmail" and encourage other "rogue" states to develop weapons of mass destruction.

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Keith speaks it like a man should . This guy has bigger balls than all of us. He puts into eloquent words all my ocn opinions.

Independent Online Edition > Business News:

"US private equity giant Carlyle is in talks to acquire Libya's state-controlled oil refining and marketing operation, Tamoil.

Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the country's long-time leader, said Carlyle was one of four or five groups involved in an international tender to buy 100 per cent of Tamoil. It is thought the business will fetch close to €3bn (£2bn).

Mr Gaddafi added that the other candidates included groups from Poland, Hungary and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, he said the Italian energy group ERG might have 'increased their bid a little bit. So maybe they will come back.'

Neither ERG nor Carlyle would comment."

Mr. Gaddafi is a known terrorist. Wasn't it recently he paid his dues to the people he bombed? Wasn't there a cash settlement even? Funny, I wondered then what that was about. Why did Gaddafi come clean after all those years?

George Bush Sr was on the board with Carlyle Group. He was meeting with one of Bin Ladens brothers on 9/11/01 as the planes struck the towers. They were partners in Caryle Group, a major US defense contractor. So less then one year after Gaddafi makes amends and is forgiven on the world stage he is negotiating a deal to sell his countries oil firm to who else but the Caryle Group.

Does anyone else find that strange? Should the father of our sitting President be negotiating deals with admitted terrorists? Is there something wrong with them putting this much money in that mans hands after what he has admitted to doing. Is an apology enough to allow trust in a man who blows up airplanes?

These people are two faced pigs. They took our country to war to free the world from terrorists that blow up airplanes and at the same time are doing business with terrorists that blow up airplanes.

Seems terror pays for the Bush Regime.

TIME.com: Why the Bush Administration May Let a Terror Suspect Go Free:
"The Bush Administration prefers to paint the War on Terror in stark terms of good and evil, but the reality is not all terror suspects are considered equal. That much was clear on the same day that the nation solemnly recalled the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when a federal magistrate recommended freeing a man being held on immigration charges who is also awaiting retrial in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago that resulted in the death of all aboard, including the Cuban national fencing team.

Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles has been fighting for his release since May 17, 2005, when Department of Homeland Security officials arrested him in Miami for entering the country without having a visa or passing through passport control at the border. But in a move that may come back to haunt the U.S. government Posada, despite his suspected terrorist past, was held on immigration violations, not terror-related charges."

Anyone want to know why the Bush Regime cannot let this man be tried for his crimes? Do you think they have somehting to hide? The answer lies in the same article. The Bush Regime can't send Posada to face his crimes because they know he will tall. He'll talk and George Bush Sr doesn't want that. It will open up a can of worms he sealed a long time ago and has no desire to face again.

"After his escape from the Venezuelan prison in 1985, he went to El Salvador, where he reunited with the CIA. He went to work assisting Oliver North in providing the Nicaraguan Contras with weapons and supplies. After his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, Posada worked as a spy for then Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte."

That's right this guy was working with Bush Sr and the CIA selling drugs for guns. Nuff said.

CNN.com - Toobin: Bush 'playing chicken' with senators - Sep 15, 2006:
"So even if the president gets his proposal through, it is not at all clear that the court will approve it, especially given one provision we didn't discuss much ... secret evidence. And this is something that Sen. Lindsey Graham has focused on a lot. And he said, 'Look, there's no court in America, especially the Supreme Court, that is going to uphold executing somebody ... based on evidence he never saw.'"

Thats right assfuck. You can't sentence a man to death on secret evidence. It violates the basic tenets of our society. There is no government that can be trusted with the life of any man woman or child. They simply do not value life so much as to be trusted to keep secrets of any kind much less those that a life depends on.

The Bush Regime is looking for a way out of the shit they have done already and he's putting up a hard fight because he knows his ass is going down for war crimes and if he can't protect those under him then they will turn on him. You see this shit runs up the chain all the way to the top. If he can't cover the CIA boys that went out and did what he asked them to do then those charges run all the way up to him. He will be sentenenced based on his commands and their actions.

He is not fighting for the CIA but for his own ass. I hope the Senate kicks his balls down his throat. I hope they hang his ass on the White House lawn for the murder he promotes. Impeach George Bush Now and Save America.

Iran 'aggressively seeking atom bomb' | | The Australian:

"IRAN is 'aggressively' trying to build atomic bombs and the time has come for sanctions to back diplomacy aimed at reining in Tehran, the US told the UN nuclear watchdog's board of governors today.

'Given Iran's history of deception, lack of transparency, provocative behaviour and disregard for its international obligations, we must take further steps to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions,' US envoy Gregory Schulte said in a board debate.

'We are convinced that Iran is aggressively pursuing the technology, material and know-how to build nuclear weapons,' Mr Schulte told the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35 nation board of governors in Vienna.

'The time has come for the (UN) security council to back international diplomacy with international sanctions,' he said.

'Sanctions will not signal an end to diplomacy' aimed at getting Iran to stop enriching uranium in exchange for trade incentives, he said.

'Iran's leaders must understand that their choices have consequences and that their best choice remains the course of cooperation. The United States remains committed to a diplomatic solution. But the world cannot accept a nuclear-armed Iran.'

Iran said its uranium enrichment program is meant solely to generate electricity but years of IAEA investigations have been unable"

We'll be in Iran in less than one year. No doubt a new war will be the catalyst they need to win the 2008 election.

"The Rant" by Tom Degan: A Strong Case For Impeachment

Tom breaks it down in plain in simple terms why Bush should e impeached.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power:

"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president"