The Associated Press
Wednesday 07 June 2006 Jakarta - Indonesia warned US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday that Washington risked triggering a backlash if it tried to force its approach to fighting terrorism on the rest of the world.
Rumsfeld, wrapping up a three nation tour of the region, held talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono and other senior government officials. Topics discussed included improved ties between the two nations' militaries, security in the Malacca Strait and ways to boost cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Juwono said he told Rumsfeld that, "as the largest Muslim country, we are very aware of the perception ... that the United states is overbearing," and advised against trying to force its tough anti-terror approach on other nations. "It's best that you leave the main responsibility of anti-terrorist measures to the local government in question and not to be overly insistent about immediate results arriving from your perception of terrorists," he said at a joint news conference. ------- |
By William M. Arkin
Washington Post June 4, 2006; Page B01 On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Comment: Well, maybe they know something they aren't telling?
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Steve Sabludowsky
6/7/2006 What does it tell you when the President Bush pulls a surprise with his Marriage Protection Amendment barring same-sex marriages and he can't muster the votes in the U.S. Senate. Looks like its time to clean his government once again for such a lame brain trick and perhaps he should send Karl Rove to Siberia to check on the Arctic melting.
The invincible armor once worn by President Bush is gone. He is politically naked and it shows. |
Last Updated Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:55:10 EDT
CBC News The United States is beefing up traffic checks along the Canada-U.S. border following the arrests of 17 Canadians accused of plotting to bomb targets in Ontario.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said Monday that patrol stations, particularly those along the border with Ontario, are on high alert. Comment: Gosh, now the US will need to "secure" its southern and northern border...
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The Associated Press
Tuesday 06 June 2006 Washington - In a new jab at the Bush administration over its use of executive power, the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that the Justice Department explain the agency's investigations of journalists who publish classified information.
Specifically, Republicans and Democrats want to know more about the FBI's effort to obtain a half-century's worth of papers kept by columnist Jack Anderson - a member of President Nixon's "enemies list" - who died in December at 83. |
By PATRICK QUINN
Associated Press 7 June 06 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki released nearly 600 detainees Wednesday, making good on a pledge intended to ease feuding between Sunni Arabs and Shiites.
The detainees were the first of 2,000 prisoners whom al-Maliki promised would be freed from Iraq's most notorious prisons in an apparent effort to ease anger among minority Sunnis over allegations of arbitrary detentions and mistreatment of prisoners. |
By Jerome Taylor
07 June 2006 The bodies of 6,000 people, many of whom died violently, have been brought to Baghdad's main mortuary this year, officials from Iraq's health ministry said.
In May alone one of the bloodiest months in the city so far this year 1,400 bodies were received by the mortuary. According to health ministry officials who spoke anonymously to the BBC, the vast majority of victims brought to the morgue were the victims of sectarian killings, which have increased dramatically since the bombing of a Shia shrine earlier in the year. Comment: And that's just Baghdad.
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Facing Waves of Litigation, Invoking Secrets Privilege Becomes a More Popular Legal Tactic by Illegal U.S. Gov
By SCOTT SHANE
NY Times June 4, 2006 WASHINGTON, June 3 - Facing a wave of litigation challenging its eavesdropping at home and its handling of terror suspects abroad, the Bush administration is increasingly turning to a legal tactic that swiftly torpedoes most lawsuits: the state secrets privilege.
In recent weeks alone, officials have used the privilege to win the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a German man who was abducted and held in Afghanistan for five months and to ask the courts to throw out three legal challenges to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program. But civil liberties groups and some scholars say the privilege claim, in which the government says any discussion of a lawsuit's accusations would endanger national security, has short-circuited judicial scrutiny and public debate of some central controversies of the post-9/11 era. |
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