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Archive for June 18th, 2007

18 Jun

Defense Attorneys Argue Padilla Co-Defendant Rejected Violence

QuestionGirl 11:51 pm (Terrorism)

By Matt Sedensky
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A man standing trial with accused al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla rejected the type of violence prosecutors have claimed he supported, his attorney argued Monday.
William Swor sought to prove his client Kifah Wael Jayyousi was driven by his compassion for his fellow Muslims, a defense that began last week [...]

18 Jun

Bush Nominates new Census Director

QuestionGirl 10:12 pm (Miscellaneous)

WASHINGTON –President Bush has nominated the state demographer of Texas, Steven Murdock, to be director of the Census, the White House said Monday.
Murdock would replace current Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon, who said late last year he would leave the agency when a new director was confirmed. Kincannon said at the time he felt he [...]

18 Jun

Bush to Congress: Drop Dead

Jim Swanson 10:04 pm (Bush, Congress)

How the president gets to sign a law and kill it too.
By Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium
from “Mother Jones Magazine”
Well, it’s official: President Bush doesn’t much respect the laws Congress passes. A Government Accountability Office report-commissioned by Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and released today-confirms that Bush’s use of presidential signing [...]

18 Jun

club blue - “jaded” - Aerosmith

Jim Swanson 10:00 pm ((Unspecified))

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18 Jun

Chirstiane Amanpour Receives CBE

QuestionGirl 7:47 pm (Miscellaneous)

I’ve always admired this woman. Her coverage of the first Gulf War was astonishing.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for her services to journalism.
Amanpour, the network’s chief international correspondent, said: “I am proud to be part of this tradition. I am stunned [...]

18 Jun

Mom wants answers in dragster deaths

Jim Swanson 7:28 pm (Miscellaneous, News)

By WOODY BAIRD, Associated Press Writer
from Yahoo! News
SELMER, Tenn. - A tearful mother of two teenage girls killed when a speeding dragster skidded into a crowd demanded answers on Monday, saying the high-powered car should never have been on a city street.
“Somebody’s got to take responsibility for this. I’ve got to bury my two girls,” [...]

18 Jun

Supreme Court Embraces Rights for Car Passengers

Jim Swanson 7:24 pm (The Supreme Court)

from the “Haven’t They Got Anything Better To Work On” Department:
By DAVID STOUT
from The New York Times

WASHINGTON, June 18 - A passenger as well as a driver has the right to challenge the legality of a police officer’s decision to stop a car, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today.
The ruling came in the case of [...]

18 Jun

Healing wounds at World Bank not easy: Zoellick

Jim Swanson 7:15 pm (Financial, World Bank)

By Raymond Colitt
from YAHOO! NEWS

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Healing the wounds and conflicts at the World Bank will be a difficult task in the aftermath of an ethics scandal, Robert Zoellick, the bank’s likely next president, said on Monday.
“My role as a potential CEO is to try to heal this institution, overcome some of the conflicts, [...]

18 Jun

Annals of National Security: The GeneralÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Report

Jim Swanson 5:37 pm (Abu Ghraib, DOD, Rumsfeld)

How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
by Seymour M. Hersh
from The New Yorker

On the afternoon of May 6, 2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, for the first time, with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his Pentagon conference room. Rumsfeld [...]

18 Jun

So Whatcha Gonna Do About It?

QuestionGirl 4:43 pm (Congressional Hearings, RNC)

WASHINGTON –E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday.
The Bush administration may have committed (emphasis mine) “extensive” violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, said the committee’s Democratic chairman, adding that the [...]