The Activist's Prayer

Thanks, Karen.

Yup, that's why I'm here!

Repost from last thread:

Posted by: on.to.victory4Dems at July 15, 2005 06:56 PM

OTV4D,

Thanks. Ahh, yes, now I do remember reading about the White House spin cycle, and Rove heading that too.

Thanks for reminding me of that. You always have provided alot of information, and I value your posts and insight very much.

Sounds like in order to "be in the know" reporters are expected to jump through hoops. On a similar note, I saw last night on some news program that U.S. guards made a male detainee wear a bra, dance with another male, and act like a dog. That in my mind explains why Jeff Gannon was allowed to be part of the White House Press Corp.

Great photo, Karen! In keeping with the protest theme of the photo:::::::

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0715-10.htm

Published on Friday, July 15, 2005 by the Associated Press
Anti-Bush Protester Sues Houston Cops

An anti-Bush protester has sued several police officers, accusing them of violating his free-speech rights after he was arrested last year for carrying a sign that read, "No more Bush-it."

Chris Kelly, 43, filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday against officer David Weaver, 37, 10 unidentified officers and an unidentified supervisor of the Houston Police Department.

Kelly was holding the cardboard sign near a crowd of Houston Astros baseball fans on Oct. 18 when police approached him. Police handcuffed him, put him into a police car and drove through downtown before releasing him without explanation, the lawsuit alleges.

A municipal judge later dismissed the misdemeanor citation.

The lawsuit asks U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt to declare that Kelly's rights were violated under the U.S. and Texas constitutions.

Kelly, represented by the Texas Civil Rights Project, said he filed the lawsuit "so that I and other Houstonians can feel free to express our political views about our government without the threat of assault and arrest and bogus prosecution by the police."

Police spokesman Alvin Wright said Weaver could not comment because he had not been served with the lawsuit.

Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said Kelly's arrest was part of a pattern in Texas of discouraging protests against the president.

Similar incidents include five protesters who were jailed two years ago as they headed to protest the Iraq war at Bush's ranch. The city of Crawford agreed to a $43,000 settlement in the case.

And in a case pending in Travis County, protesters are suing Austin police for keeping them from crossing a street to reach the front of the Governor's Mansion in 2001, Harrington said.

© 2005 Associated Press

Hi Karen Hi Truth

Did yall see those bus pics?...omg thats so creepy

Hi Nonny

Thanks Karen for the blessings.

We surely need this!

Christy,

I saw the bus pic, but I must not be seeing what you saw in the picture. Is it the gray matter you circled?

Thats the Kingstar van

The pics prove the van itself was right in front of the bus when it blew

Karen knows.

Check out this article found on Yahoo news.

Memo to Mehlman Interviewers: RNC Chair Tells the Same Lies Over and Over About Rove Controversy

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050715/pl_usnw/memo_to_mehlman_interviewers__rnc_chair_tells_the_same_lies_over_and_over_about_rove_controversy209_xml

OMG OMG OMG i have another pic from ABOVE the bus scene EVERYTHING is the SAME EXCEPT the kingstar van has been removed!!!!!!

Christy,

Now I see what you mean.

Good work on your blog. Keep it up.

Lawrence O'Donnell (who first broke the story that Rove was Cooper's source) was just on CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight. I'm waiting for the transcript to be posted.
Very interesting. O'Donnell is convinced (from reading the judges written opinions on this case) that its a big story, possibly compromise of national security, and that Plame was covert. Its possible several people will be charged, on different charges, but the most serious charge is for who first outed Plame, to Novak, to discredit Wilson....that brings this back to WMD/ Niger, and the run up to the war.
My new favorite reporter David Gregory is correct: Its about selling Bu$h's war on Iraq:
For anyone who missed this story:

Root of the Rove controversy is the war in Iraq
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8562589/

more Breaking news::::the circle gets bigger::

Rove E-Mailed Security Official About Talk

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer
44 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - After mentioning a CIA operative to a reporter, Bush confidant Karl Rove alerted the president's No. 2 security adviser about the interview and said he tried to steer the journalist away from allegations the operative's husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.

The July 11, 2003, e-mail between Rove and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley is the first showing an intelligence official knew Rove had talked to Matthew Cooper just days before the Time magazine reporter divulged CIA officer Valerie Plame's secret identity.

continue~
http://tinyurl.com/ceuaq

OTV4D,

Can you or I repost your last post on previous thread on this thread?

LOL,

You just did. Thanks. :)

ok in this pic the van IS still there but its been moved( OBVIOUSLY moved)....i still dont get it

any theories out there...?

transcript from CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight, speaking to Lawrence O'Donnell on Rove/Plame:

Lawrence, good to have you here. What made you decide to go public?

LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I knew about what was in the "TIME" magazine e-mails for several months, but I didn't want to reveal it at a time when it would interfere with the litigation and interfere with the appeals process that was going on. So Lou, I decided to reveal it actually within the hour that "TIME" magazine was handing over its e-mails to the prosecutor.
There are two reasons for that. One is I avoided any subpoena by the prosecutor for that.

DOBBS: Right.
O'DONNELL: If I had revealed it months before, the prosecutor would have been right to subpoena me and ask me how I knew it. And I was just revealing something that the prosecutor was going to know within the hour of reading those documents at that point.

DOBBS: You also said categorically on "The McLaughlin Group" television broadcast that Karl Rove was the source of the Matthew Cooper report. How long have you known that?

O'DONNELL: I've known it for several months, Lou. And one of the amazing things about that secret is how loosely it was actually held.

I just -- all I'll say about it is, it wasn't that hard for me to come by. And I didn't work hard at it. I was able to pick it up, though. And then after I revealed it publicly, I picked up a couple more confirming sources about it, highly authoritative sources.

DOBBS: Lawrence, as you may suspect, I'm dying to ask you what your sources are for that.

O'DONNELL: And I'm in that "can't reveal my sources" game, Lou, just like the other reporters in this case.

The difference is -- one difference, though, is that what I've done is I've actually tried to advance public knowledge of what's going on in the story as opposed to Judy Miller and Matt Cooper. They have actually been making efforts to prevent the public from discovering what's going on in the story, which is understandable from their perspective.

DOBBS: And certainly, to prevent rather than the public not knowing to at least expand the body of public knowledge and to do that, sometimes it is absolutely necessary, certainly in the case, Judith Miller and her views and her principles, which most of us in this craft adhere to. She thinks she has the right to protect her sources, and so do I, and so do a lot of other journalists.

O'DONNELL: Well, Lou, one of the judges -- one of the judges on the appeals court does, too. One of the judges, in an ignored opinion by the press, found that there is indeed a federal shield law, but what he said was, the gravity of the suspected crime in this case is so serious that it overwhelms any right to privilege that these reporters have.

He went so far as to say that if the leak involved was less harmful to national security, that's a quote from the judge, if it was less harmful to national security, he would not order the reporters to testify.

DOBBS: It's interesting that the investigation into this case, and particularly as the principal victims here now appear to be in this order Judith Miller, "The New York Times" Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who is now in, I believe, her eighth full day of being in prison. And basically the American taxpayer is paying for an investigation that so far has led nowhere.

It's a remarkable period. And we now know that Karl Rove was both a leaker and a leakee, if you will. That we're in this sort of bizarre situation in which apparently Karl Rove -- well, the press was leaking to the government in this case, Robert Novak talking to Karl Rove. Are you astounded by that development?

O'DONNELL: No Lou, over a year ago, one of the lawyers in the case indicated to me that he expected it to be one that included the echo effect. Which is to say Rove's information may well have come to him first from the press. That turns out to be apparently the structure of the story now.

But Lou, this is a very serious case. And I say that based exclusive on the judges' opinions. You can't read the judges' opinions in this case and think that this prosecutor is chasing his tail. These judges were reluctant to order these reporters to testify or into jail. And they have said that they have done so, because the underlying suspected crime is so serious. And they're talking about the leak case.

In fact, Lou, one of the judges refers to, quote, "the plot against Wilson." One of the appeals court judges sees this case as a plot against Joe Wilson. That's not spin from a political source, that's one of the judges' reading of the case.

DOBBS: And my readings of those judges' opinions frankly, somewhat constrained, because so much is redacted.

O'DONNELL: That's right.
DOBBS: And that is hardly helpful in this case either. Reports today that the neighbors of Valerie Plame, for example, and this is all part of the spin war that is underway, obviously, but reports today that Valerie Plame was well-known to her neighbors and friends as an employee of the CIA. This story compounds itself with complexity, contradiction, as well as talking points, of course.

O'DONNELL: Well, there are other neighbors who say they never knew she worked for the CIA.

But Lou, witness No. 1 in this grand jury had to be an administrator from the CIA who clearly established, legally, that Plame fits the definition of covert agent according to the statute. If witness No. 1 did not say that to the grand jury, no one would call witness No. 2.

And when the you read these judges' opinions, they are constantly referring to this being case about revealing the identity of a covert agent.

DOBBS: All right -- I'm going to turn to you right now. We're out of time. But I've got to ask you the last question. And that is what happens in your judgment, is Karl Rove in serious trouble here? What will be the consequences in conclusion when the special prosecutor wraps this up?

O'DONNELL: Well, his lawyer says he hasn't been a target of the case, but he is a subject of the case. That's one step below target. He could switch to target depending what Matt Cooper's testimony is.

The prosecutor's going to have to wrap this up, because after Cooper, there's no one else to talk to. And every indication from the prosecutor's conduct of this case is that he is going after a very serious crime. Who the criminal is remains the mystery.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/15/ldt.01.html

Daniel Schorr "Gets it":

Rove Leak is Just Part of Larger Scandal

by Daniel Schorr

Let me remind you that the underlying issue in the Karl Rove controversy is not a leak, but a war and how America was misled into that war.

snip~
The role of Rove and associates added up to a small incident in a very large scandal - the effort to delude America into thinking it faced a threat dire enough to justify a war.

continue~
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0715-02.htm

Judith Miller went to jail because she KNEW she was planting FALSE Iraqi WMD stories Which helped 'sway public opinion' for an illegal invasion...SHE COMMITTED TREASON..Yes, KNOWINGLY..

Thats why she refuses to talk. She wont implicate HERSELF.

The criminal hes after is no secret..all roads lead to bush

Christy,
I'm beginning to believe you are correct on Miller. She is into this up to her eyeballs.
I KNOW you are correct on Bu$h...and let's add Cheney.

Thank you Karen for those words of inspiration,words of comfort in this time of great duress.
Sometimes as I've had time to think about what kind of world we are building or tearing down, and all the rhetoric spewn about "culture of life over one that chooses death I would like to share this thought.
First and foremost "christians" profess we have built a church upon a rock. This rock offers strength,steadiness and power....but it is also unyielding. Churches and governments over the centuries..all of them aligned themselves with the powers of the world,seeking wealth and wordly influence.

And now as the world changes around us,many cling to that "ROCK" as if they cannot believe that God would save them if they were to let go.

It is our duty to build a new world where we lift one another up,that people (not dogma) really matter,where every person would be honored as brother or sister in the Lord,and that the gifts of each would be recognized..and respected.
This new world encourages and fosters openess,honesty in all dealings with others and they are accountable for their actions! All except this one!
As we gather on this site and others we know we are the voice of the poor,the underprivleged,the abused and we MUST continue to speak on their behalf as well as our own for peace and justice.
I would say we ARE building that new world,that real community of how we were meant to live our lives to the fullest and why we are here in the first place.
We must also show forgiveness,for FATHER,they know what they do!
Let's hold hands,put up our swords and get that new day in a new world.
GREAT JOB ALL !!

On To Victory

Your so damn sexy when in agreement with me.

Miller HAD to know those stories were bunk..if you focus on miller it seems she would be the one hiding the REAL issues. I think she knew damn good and well they were 'fixing the facts' cause she IS the 'fixer'

I think the best thing the Democrats could do at this moment is DIRECTLY link Judith miller to the Downing Street memos...

After that it all clicks neatly into place and could very well mean the fall of an empire.

OUR empire.

To clarify..I am anti empire

I cant wait till we just become America The Nation again.

The ideal

Patti,

Thanks for the words of encouragement, too.

"First and foremost "christians" profess we have built a church upon a rock. This rock offers strength,steadiness and power....but it is also unyielding. Churches and governments over the centuries..all of them aligned themselves with the powers of the world,seeking wealth and wordly influence.

And now as the world changes around us,many cling to that "ROCK" as if they cannot believe that God would save them if they were to let go."

That is so incredibly true, and so incredibly sad.

It is baffling, because if people just lay down the dogma, (or as Indy says - 'kick the dogma')
the message is pretty straight forward. Unfortunately human beings have always found it to be boring and to not produce the rewards they want, so they decide to do it their way, then greed and the lust for power takes over. They become consumed with how to aquire more money and more power, and lose contact with that part of themselves that consists of character and character building principles. They become shallow and hardened to people who genuinely have needs, and I believe we are seeing what it looks like when they cross the line of decency and compassion, and conscience. We have lamented about how they just don't care about people, and now that is a given.

I was telling DiAnne when we met one day, that she would probably really enjoy watching the movie "Seven Years In Tibet". It tells the story of the Dali Lama in Tibet at the time the Communist Chinese took it over, and it deals alot with the peaceful gentle doctrine of the Buddhist religion. It has gorgeous scenery, too, along with Brad Pitt.

I am glad we are fortunate enough to have each other to share information and motivate and encourage each other. The year I knew there was something rotten in Denmark but didn't know where to go to find the truth was some of the longest and most frustrating months in my life. I hated being lied to through the media.

If yall were not here...I would swear I was either crazy or dillusional.

I love you people.

The Canadian Artic registered a temperature of 98 farehnheit Today !!!!

OMG
www.rawstory.com

Christy..exactly..that's why we ARE here!

Patti...I love you

But 98 f in the ARTIC!!!????

WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

RUNN PEOPLE RUNNNN!!!!!!!!

C,

You are neither crazy OR dellusional...

But you are a really adorable freak! LOL!

IRCed yet?

Com back for more...

OH THOSE BLOODY BASTARDS

www.bradblog.com

The BRAD BLOG has learned that cable company and Internet service provider, Comcast Corporation has been automatically deleting email sent to Comcast customers with the text "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the email.

AfterDowningStreet.org ("ADS") is the citizen's coalition advocacy group organized to raise awareness of the leaked British memos and minutes referred to as the "Downing Street Documents". Those documents, first reported by Michael Smith of the Sunday Times suggest that the Bush Administration had determined to topple Saddam Hussein by military means and planned to "fix" the facts and intelligence around the policy" at least eight months prior to receiving authorization of the U.S. Congress to wage war in Iraq. At the same time, George W. Bush and administration officials were routinely telling both Congress and the American people that no tactical decisions had yet been made regarding regime change in Iraq.

OMG comcast has been whawhawha?????

Indy..is the alternate reality falling down around our ears or is that just the pain of being a freak im feeling?

You are still a freak...

But...

If they are doing so, it is a violation of privacy and Comcast should lose their IP's...

Please send all complaints to ARIN:

http://www.arin.net/

http://www.arin.net/abuse.html

American Registry for Internet Numbers

Phone: (703) 227-9886

Appeals court says Guantanamo trial can proceed
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-16T014031Z_01_N15169871_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-GUANTANAMO-DC.XML

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard could be tried by a military tribunal, reversing a lower court decision that such a trial was unlawful and would violate his rights.

In a victory for the government, the three-judge panel said the military tribunal process at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was the proper forum for Salim Ahmed Hamdan to be tried.

If Hamdan were convicted, he could then contest his conviction in federal court after exhausting his options through the military justice system, the panel said.

snp~

Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said in a statement he was pleased with the ruling.

"The president's authority under the laws of our nation to try enemy combatants is a vital part of the global war on terror, and today's decision reaffirms this critical authority," Gonzalez said.

snp~

Hamdan can appeal the decision to the full appeals court or to the U.S. Supreme Court.

im going to go hang me a banner at day break tomorrow

a big one

I just sent myself an email with afterdowningstreet.org in the body of the email & Comcast wouldn't let me receive it, yet I have the "sent email."

Afterdowningstreet.org

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

Like Father,like son,one's no different than the other one!
This isn't any different than Iran-contra,when Bush 41 said;"I was out of the loop." His son took lessons very well! Shortly after Bush 41 took office indeed we learned he was in the loop. How soon we forget and this is one reason why I want the dems to stay on this one. Perhaps the dems need to remind everyone of past times!

Now I forwarded the 'sent email' to myself and I received it, along with the original email, but after a longer than usual delay.

Not sure whether to be paranoid or not.

Hey DiAnne!

The interview went really well...especially after I explained the sundial in the front lobby of the school...CHA CHING! ;]

As for Comcast...

If they are doing so, it is a violation of privacy and Comcast should lose their IP's...

Please send all complaints to ARIN:

http://www.arin.net/

http://www.arin.net/abuse.html

American Registry for Internet Numbers

Phone: (703) 227-9886

This Post will self-destruct in five seconds...

DiAnne,

No Paranoia...just the Nation we live in...

I sent myself this limerick I wrote at work after reading about "Rove's Adventures" and guess what?

It never got to my email...even though I sent it from work to my hotmail as I do on a regular basis to work on files...

Imagine that?!?!?

Limerick for Karl:

There once was a fellow named Rove
Who became bolder with each lie he told
To a reporter he exclaimed
A CIA agent's name
Committing treason for all to behold.

Posted by: DiAnne at July 15, 2005 11:20 PM

Nah........won't do any good.

LOL.

Peoples,

Watching CNN Lou Dobbs right now. Lawrence O'Donnell is on. It is a rerun from the earlier broadcast that OTV4D posted about.

Patti,

Was it you who said you just finished reading the Bush family book by Kitty Kelley?

Truth..YES and what a read it is! Connect ALL the dots...they are there. Too bad M.B. Cahill didn't get to read this before the election,but the first print was 9/04..timing is everything!

Patti,

I will get a copy! I remember several people from the Kerry blog were reading it right before the election, and were loving it. Some of them took it on their business flights and read it then.

When the book first came out, Wal-Mart had it, but it was funny....as soon as they sold out of their original stock, they never restocked it. Might have been because Wal-Mart is red. I hate to pay full price for a book, retail is 40% over wholesale prices. I will see what I can do at Amazon.

Lou Dobbs just invited Hillary,Biden and Kerry on his show!~ Now that one would be worth watching..let's get them on. I can't even tolerate C-Span when a rep is present!

Does that Kitty Kelley book say anything about bush being ORDERED by a judge to appear in texas on RAPE charges in 2003?

You know, about the same time we wound up in Iraq.

Patti,

I can't figure Lou Dobbs out. He used to sound like a moderate conservative. The last few weeks he's been sounding more moderate. But tonight, he looked like (to me) he was putting the Dems down, and delivering from a conservative right stance.

?

Christy...

Interesting is it not...

The Alleged vicitim allegedly ended up allegedly dead...

How is that for alleged justice?

Ahem...

Christy you have Monkey Mail...

Oh Queen of the World...

that alleged bullet in her alleged brain NINE MONTHS after allegedly alledging the sitting US president is a RAPIST...Thats quite an alledslation of events..

Ever wonder where bush visible injuries ACTUALLY came from..?

Indy,

Was that alleged victim the 50 something aged babysitter of a Bush brother's children, who got allegedly pinned between her car and the building?

Indy from now on hit me up here

simpson1962@bellsouth.net

my other has been comprimised by unimaginative trolls.

Ever wonder where bush visible injuries ACTUALLY came from..?

Posted by: Christy at July 16, 2005 12:27 AM

The Bush Family Gene Pool...

Got Chlorine?

Christy are you saying he hasn't really been falling off his bike?

No Truth the 'alleged victim' WAS named Margie Schoedinger..Noteless suicide right up the road from the enron wistleblower suicide happened..ALSO noteless

Margie Schoedingers story is STRANGE and eeerie and TWISTED and after accusing bush publicly a judge ORDERED him to court in texas to face rape charges we invade iraq he ignores judeg the day bush made his unapplauded UN speech Margie Schoedinger got a 9 mm bullet in her brain

OHHH and shes from Tom Delays hometown..

Hows that for rich..?

Thank you Christy,

I am off to google Margie Schoedinger.

Truth...

Alleged Bullet in the Alleged brain...

It is a matter of public record in Texas...just look it up.

This is not the first nor the most heinous of the Bush Family crimes...not to take away from the pain this poor woman suffered...

One life destroyed for selfishness and greed is more than enough.

Bush must be IMPEACHED!!!

One By One The Truth Shall Prevail.

Amen.

BTW I have no idea how bush keeps getting injured but him raping someone makes a hell of alot more sense than the pretzle did it.

Christy,

Have you gotten ANY of the emails I have sent?

Just paranoid...I mean curious...

There's a lot about the Bushies in that K.Kelly book,even Rove. Things in there would make your head spin. I oftentimes needed to remember this wasn't a novel! These people are low-lifes of the worst kind. Interestingly enough,the Bushies NEVER contested any of it!! She has the foot notes and facts to back up everything.
ENJOY!!

Just paranoid...I mean curious...

Posted by: Indy at July 16, 2005 12:39 AM

LOL

Yes darlin check yours

Thanks C!

Good Word and Cool Art..check out: http://www.rebellenation.blogspot.com/

Now back to bid-ness...

A fact sheet released today by Rep. Waxman explains that the nondisclosure agreement signed by Karl Rove prohibited Mr. Rove from confirming the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Wilson to reporters. Under the nondisclosure agreement and the applicable executive order, even "negligent" disclosures to reporters are grounds for revocation of a security clearance or dismissal.

Karl Rove's Nondisclosure Agreement Today, news reports revealed that Karl Rove, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and the President's top political advisor, confirmed the identity of covert CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson with Robert Novak on July 8, 2003, six days before Mr. Novak published the information in a nationally syndicated column. These new disclosures have obvious relevance to the criminal investigation of Patrick Fitzgerald, the Special Counsel who is investigating whether Mr. Rove violated a criminal statute by revealing Ms. Wilson's identity as a covert CIA official.

Independent of the relevance these new disclosures have to Mr. Fitzgerald's investigation, they also have significant implications for: (1) whether Mr. Rove violated his obligations under his "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement" and (2) whether the White House violated its obligations under Executive Order 12958. Under the nondisclosure agreement and the executive order, Mr. Rove would be subject to the loss of his security clearance or dismissal even for "negligently" disclosing Ms. Wilson's identity.

KARL ROVE'S NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

Executive Order 12958 governs how federal employees are awarded security clearances in order to obtain access to classified information. It was last updated by President George W. Bush on March 25, 2003, although it has existed in some form since the Truman era. The executive order applies to any entity within the executive branch that comes into possession of classified information, including the White House. It requires employees to undergo a criminal background check, obtain training on how to protect classified information, and sign a "Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement," also known as a SF-312, promising not to reveal classified information.1 The nondisclosure agreement signed by White House officials such as Mr. Rove states: "I will never divulge classified information to anyone" who is not authorized to receive it.2

THE PROHIBITION AGAINST "CONFIRMING" CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
Mr. Rove, through his attorney, has raised the implication that there is a distinction between releasing classified information to someone not authorized to receive it and confirming classified information from someone not authorized to have it. In fact, there is no such distinction under the nondisclosure agreement Mr. Rove signed.

One of the most basic rules of safeguarding classified information is that an official who has signed a nondisclosure agreement cannot confirm classified information obtained by a reporter. In fact, this obligation is highlighted in the "briefing booklet" that new security clearance recipients receive when they sign their nondisclosure agreements:

Before confirming the accuracy of what appears in the public source, the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified. If it has not, confirmation of its accuracy is also an unauthorized disclosure.3

THE INDEPENDENT DUTY TO VERIFY THE CLASSIFIED STATUS OF INFORMATION

Mr. Rove's attorney has implied that if Mr. Rove learned Ms. Wilson's identity and occupation from a reporter, this somehow makes a difference in what he can say about the information. This is inaccurate. The executive order states: "Classified information shall not be declassified automatically as a result of any unauthorized disclosure of identical or similar information."4

Mr. Rove was not at liberty to repeat classified information he may have learned from a reporter. Instead, he had an affirmative obligation to determine whether the information had been declassified before repeating it. The briefing booklet is explicit on this point: "before disseminating the information elsewhere ... the signer of the SF 312 must confirm through an authorized official that the information has, in fact, been declassified."5

"NEGLIGENT" DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION

Mr. Rove's attorney has also implied that Mr. Rove's conduct should be at issue only if he intentionally or knowingly disclosed Ms. Wilson's covert status. In fact, the nondisclosure agreement and the executive order require sanctions against security clearance holders who "knowingly, willfully, or negligently" disclose classified information.6 The sanctions for such a breach include "reprimand, suspension without pay, removal, termination of classification authority, loss or denial of access to classified information, or other sanctions."7

THE WHITE HOUSE OBLIGATIONS UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 12958

Under the executive order, the White House has an affirmative obligation to investigate and take remedial action separate and apart from any ongoing criminal investigation. The executive order specifically provides that when a breach occurs, each agency must "take appropriate and prompt corrective action."8 This includes a determination of whether individual employees improperly disseminated or obtained access to classified information.

The executive order further provides that sanctions for violations are not optional. The executive order expressly provides: "Officers and employees of the United States Government ... shall be subject to appropriate sanctions if they knowingly, willfully, or negligently ... disclose to unauthorized persons information properly classified."9

There is no evidence that the White House complied with these requirements.

ENDNOTES

* 1 Executive Order No. 12958, Classified National Security Information (as amended), sec. 4.1(a) (Mar. 28, 2003) (online at www.archives.gov/isoo/policy_documents/executive_order_12958_amendment.html).
* 2 Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, Standard Form 312 (Prescribed by NARA/ISOO) (32 C.F.R. 2003, E.O. 12958) (online at http://contacts.gsa.gov/webforms.nsf/ 0/03A78F16A522716785256A69004E23F6/$file/SF312.pdf).
* 3 Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration, Briefing Booklet: Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement (Standard Form 312), at 73 (emphasis added) (online at www.archives.gov/isoo/training/standard_form_312.pdf).
* 4 Executive Order No. 12958, sec. 1.1(b).
* 5 Briefing Booklet, supra note 3, at 73.
* 6 Executive Order No. 12958, sec. 5.5(b) (emphasis added).
* 7 Id. at 5.5(c). 8 Id. at 5.5(e)(1). 9 Id. at 5.5(b).

Awww Indy Pimped my site..

thats soo sweet.

resend that contemplation one to my simpson acct

i like that one i got up now its snazzy

Mission Accomplished: Iraq Is Broken
It’s hard to believe that supposedly intelligent people like Senators Joseph Biden (DE), Hillary Clinton (NY) and John Kerry (MA) call for “staying the course” in Iraq and acting responsibly by] sending more US troops with more fire power over there.
by Saul Landau
Don’t they understand that American soldiers break, not fix? The more US soldiers in Iraq, the more damage they will do and the more enemies they will make. To limit damage, to act morally and responsibly, remove the cause of violence and chaos in Iraq: the US military presence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9478.htm
{{VERY good article!}}

Love Me Tender
Money and power, grabbed through violence and deceit: that's the real point -- the only point -- of Bush's "war on terror
By Chris Floyd
Some of the loot will be skimmed by Bushist-favored bagmen in the new Baghdad regime. Some will be siphoned off to fund the death-dealing, torture-happy goon squads now operating on behalf of various factions in the government. Some will be kicked back to the oil barons. And some will be smuggled into slush funds for covert ops, mercenaries, campaign hijinks in the Homeland and "retirement packages" for good and faithful servants of the Bush war machine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9479.htm
{{Greed, Money, Power, Executive Order.....}}

Karl Rove's Nondisclosure Agreement
A fact sheet released today by Rep. Waxman explains that the nondisclosure agreement signed by Karl Rove prohibited Mr. Rove from confirming the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Wilson to reporters. Under the
nondisclosure agreement and the applicable executive order, even "negligent" disclosures to reporters are grounds for revocation of a security clearance or dismissal.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505Q.shtml
{{FASCINATING!}}

Americans Want a Woman to Replace O'Connor
A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released today found that three out of four Americans want President Bush to name a woman to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. The poll also found that 68 percent of Americans don't want Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case legalizing abortion, overturned.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/071505WB.shtml

Chinese General Threatens Nuclear Retaliation if US Helps Taiwan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505A.shtml
China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the American military intervenes in any conflict over Taiwan, said a senior Chinese military official.
{{Gee, thank you pResiDunce Nitwit. Now Americans can know how Iraqis felt when you were looking for a threat between 9/11 and Saddam.......... China holds the loans that finance the American government....}}

Review Finds Scientists with Ties to Companies
Forty-four government scientists have violated ethics rules on collaborating with pharmaceutical companies, a preliminary review by the National Institutes of Health shows. Nine of the scientists may have violated criminal laws, the report said.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/071505HA.shtml

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050715/ap_on_go_co/social_security/nc:1278
Social Security Bill Would Hike U.S.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505R.shtml
It Didn't Take Long, Did It?
By Greg Palast
GregPalast.com
Friday 15 July 2005

Well, it didn't take long, did it?

In the USA, the curtain opened on new anti-terror follies Wednesday when three Senate committees, in blustery response to the London bombings, voted to extend the power of the FBI under the Patriot Act to obtain library records without a subpoena. Exactly what suicide bomber or sleeper cell has so far been exposed by this powerful new intelligence weapon, we are not told. Did Osama fail to return his copy of 'Harry Potter'? Or 'Hijacking for Idiots'?

What we have here is the great con: to get us to pull each other's hair over the sanctity of library card privacy. We're dragged into some nit-wit debate over the "balance between security and civil liberties" - with the defenders of America against terrorism sneering at the sissies from the ACLU.

Civil libertarians are all shook up that the FBI is going through our summer reading list. My concern is deeper. What I want to know is, who at the FBI is poring over my choice of novels, how much do we pay this guy and why isn't he reviewing Swiss and Pakistani bank transfer records instead?

If our nation's safety depends on enlisting Miriam the Librarian for anti-terror espionage, then I'm checking out.

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Subscribe to his commentaries or view his investigative reports for BBC Television at www.GregPalast.com.

US Appeals Court Says Guantanamo Trial Can Proceed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071505C.shtml
Reversing a lower court decision, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a military tribunal could try a Guantanamo prisoner accused of being Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.
{{CBS did a story on this on the evening news. The CBS news anchor's disgusted voice ended with the sentence that the appeals court said the prisoner was not covered by the Geneva Convention. Gee, thank you, Alberto Gonzilla....}}

Bin Laden's driver to face "trial" :
A US appeals court in Washington has ruled that the "trial" at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden can go ahead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4687279.stm
{{The story made the news across the pond, too.}}

The New York Times | The Women of Gitmo
There is one abuse surrounding Gitmo which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President Bush: the exploitation and debasement of women serving in the United States military. This practice must come to an immediate end, and the Pentagon must make it clear that such things as turning an American soldier into a pseudo-lap-dancer, will never be tolerated again.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/071505WA.shtml

http://www.msnbc.com/comics/daily.asp?sfile=nq050715&vts=71520052351
Non Sequitur cartoon

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071501855.html
FDA Nominee to Get Vote; Agency to Act on Plan B Pill

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap07-15-135014.asp?t=apnew&vts=71520052332
Government will decide by Sept. 1 on contraceptive pill
{{This link is to a shorter, less complete, version of the story, but gives Crawford's occupation before he has temporarily been the acting FDA commissioner for the last three years: Veterinarian.}}

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050716/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
11 American Soldiers Charged With Abuse
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. command on Saturday announced charges against 11 U.S. soldiers for assaulting detainees but provided few details of what happened other than to say the soldiers served in the Baghdad area but are now off duty pending the investigation.
{{When will this insanity end?!?!?}}

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16memo.html
State Dept. Memo Gets Scrutiny in Leak Inquiry on C.I.A. Officer
The memo might have been the original source of information for whoever leaked the officer's identity to Robert D. Novak.