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Consortium News
Thanks to Peter Werbe
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My earlier filtering: A control F for filter.

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This just out of my email, from Truthout.org:

Spectre on Gonzalez: "Bombshell" from The Hill.
THIS SHOULD WARRANT INVESTIGATION.

It depends on what your definition of "execute" is:
from The Washington Post.

Consumption: the mean meal deal? or to execute the laws.

Someone recently used a meal metaphor* but it depends on what your definition of "disagreement" is, or was it "serious"? The "administration" or was it "Justice" had a "program" we will call "Meal TSP". There was no "serious disagreement" of the meal being called "Terrorist Surveillance Program" there was only a disagreement over the recipe, which of course is not for public or even congressional consumption, only a recipe for consumption.


* Someone on one of these "programs" where you get the real meal deal,(non-fasting?) for real.

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ABA RENEWS CALL FOR FULL SENATE INVESTIGATION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE,BEFORE MOVING LEGISLATION

Investigations and Impeachment
Truth Blocks
Speaking of... stick

Just a little look back at what may be coming down.

Bupkis or Zilch?

Thank You Randy Rhodes.
And Senator Leahy, and The Washington Post

TSP? Terrorist Surveillance Program or something else?
Thanks Think Progress
The Swamp. Just about says it all, without reading at all. Thanks Chicago Tribune

My original google of "bupkis": beans
Googled without Snow.

With Snow:
Thank you Editor and Publisher

Old Beans.
For Tony Snow, bupkis is nothing new.

NOW...
[I was originally concerned with the usage of bupkis as Randi had noted as being Yiddish for "goat droppings". Not exactly what she said but it is not nothing. I thought maybe I didn't know beans about it, but thought it meant zilch.
Here I have closed a loop,
but had not made my point yet.

ATTENTION POWER BROKERS AND BRAKERS!
Congress MUST clarify the difference between what Tony Snow is dropping and what the Administration means by providing funding of zilch for such propaganda.

Meaning? All funding for press related offices should be cut, until the administration addresses congress's questions.]

[The only way that may happen anyway is by the process of impeachment, and several from the right are well ahead of too many that should be left.
Thom Hartmann has had three guests in the last week or so that believe it is not only the proper tool of inquiry, but the judgement if facts merit.
See MP3s here:
Bruce Fein Getting Ahead
Paul Craig Roberts Another Righty!* Bob Barr ]

*Impeach Now

Eating Their Own?

Perfect Presidents, or Perfect Politicians?
The Forum Part A, and Part B.
To be broadcast on the Seattle Channel.

It has been complained that Democrats have a problem of eating their own, meaning beating each other up in the political races, but compared to Mike Malloy who sometimes wants to eat his own arm, it is all relative. I call it dialogue and debate and impassioned perspectives, and just what politics needs. Not that anyone should be eating anyone, for Republicans who view things as "Us and Them", there is probably no problem with eating others. But if one just looks at the Democrats and the amount of "dialogue", who needs Republicans? [One always needs loyal opposition, but loyal followers? That was just answering a rhetorical with a rhetorical.]

Another Righty!

Now the reputed father of Reagonomics calls for Impeachment.

Paul Craig Roberts claims that Democrats are not following through for the potential landslide that will result in '08, but...

Again. Thanks to Thom Hartmann for his guest.

Getting Ahead

I previously noted the chance that Republicans may get ahead of the Democrats on the front of impeachment. Now another conservative, Bruce Fein has proposed the only remedy to check the administration is impeachment. (Interviewed by Thom Hartmann)
Anyone who considers impeachment off the table, has put the constitution off the table. Democrats and independents alike can wonder, if an administration is not held accountable by opposition, how will it hold it's own accountable?

www.bcimpeach.com
links to Bill Moyers Tough Talk on Impeachment

Divided Government!

Accountability:
Rachell Maddow on Olbermann

Olbermann Redux? GoLeftTV

What is divided government? The Constitution. The three branches of government; the legislative, the executive and the judicial.

"We the people..." begins the preamble.

The first amendment notes the press and a fine example here of the press

Perfect Presidents or Perfect Politicians?

Perfect Hosts?
No such thing, they might agree.
The host of this panel of talk show hosts aside, the rest are the closest to what this country needs and were all at Seattle Town Hall this last evening. (This is a flip-flopped if not awkward complement to the host.)

As introduced:
The Young Turks
Mike Malloy
Ed Schultz
Stephanie Miller
And the moderator/host Thom Hartmann

One thing it reminded me of, is that with all the ideas and great personalities, not to mention candidates, who needs Republicans. That is especially represented in the sometimes heated discussions. Seriously, who needs Republicans?

Especially when it comes to leadership and unity, who needs Republicans? The American voter should remember that as well as the so-called base of either party. The idea of divided government is not about pitting parties against each other, but each branch doing its job. But if congress is not going to do its job, it may be best to have divided Democrats. And still, who needs Republicans.

OK, this was just a quick rant, to make a point. One I am not sure hit its mark. I think it's that Congress should do its job, and Democrats will get elected. And if there are some Democrats that upset some of the people, who needs Republicans?

Well I will close with this. It was a really hot show.

What Is The Point?

Prosecutions!
It should be remembered that impeachment as a political tool is too political. If wrongs have been done they must be pursued. The process is political, of course. But if the political process is not utilized, what is the alternative? To let wrong stand, or for wrong to walk? Or the choice between anarchy and tyranny?

Impeachment is a tool that must be used. Politics is a tool that must be used. But either may be used for good as well as wrong.

Well... I was going to head for a different point. That being the starting point, or at least the start of the latest falling apart. Well... maybe not the latest, but the point that congress is focusing. U.S. Attorneys... who are in charge of prosecutions. The underlying crimes? Caging. Election Fraud. And the lack of prosecutions.

Warnings On Al-Qaeda

Over There? and
Over Here?
Gut-coded.

I hope to review these later, but it does not seem to be a good sign for the "so-called" war on terror. If it is political hype it contributes to the fear, if it is a reliable fear, then...

After struggling for ways to express the concern in a proper non-partisan manner, it then struck me. Maybe there will be the terrorist attack that is all we need *for nay sayer to come around on Bush.

* see facetious, more important see irony of Link "all we need". More than the non-partisan attempt I was making was the untwisting of the irony in the coming around.

On The Table!

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said "Impeachment is off the table", I am sorry if I do not have the exact wording, but I had the feeling that it was said calculated to get a response to put the people on the table.

Stephanie Miller has Cindy Sheehan discussing impeachment, and giving her two weeks or she will file to compete for her seat.

As I indicated earlier, for Pelosi impeachment may not be on the table but investigations are now on the table of many committees. And reliable sources, if I may filter through progressive talk radio, say two things. A. What is going on now is what would be going on, if impeachment were on the table. B. That Pelosi has gotten the message. No more funds for Iraq, that do not also withdraw the troops.

One progressive host has interpreted this pressure as a negotiation to keep the administration in line, much as a bargaining chip to further other issues. That does not seem to be in the spirit of actually holding criminals accountable.

Breaking News: Republicans filibuster Webb/Hagel support for troops. Republicans vote to not put issue up to vote, meaning not enough votes to end debate. I hope the debate continues.

Bring 'em On!

Guests like Michael Moore that is!
As reported on THE STEPHANIE MILLER SHOW(not yet a link there), Michael Moore made quite a scene on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer over the "track record" of mainstream media, in particular CNN. To his credit, Wolf Blitzer maintains his cool under a blistering but righteous attack by Michael Moore, and promised to tape a segment to be aired unedited today. [see Crooks and Liars]

Having seen Sicko this weekend, I highly recommend it, along with remembering that this is his fourth docudrama. Roger and Me. Bowling for Columbine. Farenheit 911. and now Sicko. Now that is a track record. As for Dr. Sanjay Gupta, his bias as a journalist has been apparent to me, and now his accuracy has been questioned. In particular he points to a $7000 per person for health care in the U.S. in the movie countered by actually $6096, while pointing at Moore's $25 per person in Cuba should be $229. But I recall and Moore confirms that the movie used the figure $251, not $25.

So "bring 'em on". Along with the likes of Stephanie Miller and the rest progressive crowd.

More Belated Commentary

By Keith Olbermann
BUSH AND CHENEY SHOULD RESIGN

Updated:
Congress
v.
Bush / Cheney

[In labels below I have added Olbermann*, and here is a "Best of" of recently edited, though not brought up to date.]
* don't forget the convenience of search blog which now alleves me of needing to add it to the others.

Belated News/ and Breaking.

From The Hill, Congressman calls for Cheney to resign or face impeachment.
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If one continues to read a bit further of the previous post's first link:

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

That is the first of the "the causes which impel them".

IT MUST BE ASKED: With the early defense plans for Scooter Libby to call the Vice President, and the subsequent reversal, and with no one held accountable for the leak of a CIA agent and other assets, is it appropriate that the administration interfere with justice in this matter?

To Congress: Tag You're It.

[Post portion added later in the day]Simultaneously (tape delayed show] wegoted.com guest host Tony has CAP representative on. [OK... the links are not to the rep but representative of "hard work".]

But previously Ed Schultz writes on the Libby commutation and had Ambassador Wilson on the subject.

When in the course...

of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed,...(
continues the declaration.)
Bold added, but the rest is worth a read.

But it must be remembered on this Independence Day that the country did not have a foundation until "We the people..."

Commuted Sentence

Obstruction of Justice and Perjury Convictions for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
"hardly a slap on the wrist"

Law and Order?
Two Stars. The DA and the EDA
One in support of leniency.The other in support of Unity.
Thompson and Waterston, that is.
The Special Victims Unit?
William and Valerie Wilson Support dot org

Tangents from Angler

From the Now-disclosed Bunker Branch lead link.
Authorization For Use of Military Force
Military Commissions PO
Terrorists Not POW

"Pushing the Envelope" Chapter II
War Crimes Act
Memorandum on Standards... "prohibits only the worst".
Tortured Memo
Warner Administration Policies

Gonzalez Memorandum to the President

This was a little deeper and less sorted than I intended, but I must move on.

But Echoes of Watergate:
What did the president know and when did he know it?

But I would ask: What did the president not know and when did he let Cheney know he did not want to know it?
There is more embedded history or future here. [*] The fact that Hillary was a lawyer advising during Watergate as was Fred Thompson.

If the 2004 election was a rehashing of Vietnam, then the 2008 rehash may be about Watergate, if it is Clinton v. Thompson.

[8-11-07: link below added]

[*] [8-12-07: foward link below and more added there, I must note that what tipped me to this loop is lost or found by further review, but possible just luck or making sense or trying to dig into what someone said, quite likely on, given the time of the original post... The Stephanie Miller Show, but I further note that the recent additions of links were just found and dated in the days following my original post. ] Today 9:55 AM]
[Note: Throughout this blog any [] bracketed material is usually an indication and dated such of an amendment to a link, and no other temporal funny business or editing of posts occur, except minor grammar and spelling. 8-12-07]
[What I am saying above is that I would love to know where the Nixon mole story leaked into my filter. Now 10:03 AM]

Catching Up.

I am still on a semi-sabbatical. Meaning: attending other issues closer to home. But the point of this post is that others are catching up.
Raw Story subpoenas
Wired blog network subpoenas
2 political junkies suubpoenas
Bloomberg subpoenas

Old News from Centor for Democracy and Technology on subpoenas

OK, I've not caught up. The old news is off target but goes back to the 2003 changes on wire taps, but the prior two are more recent and comprehensive. I hope to catch up...
later.