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MISSING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:
Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?

President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint Resolution authorizing the use of American military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake - acts of war against another nation. Now it is clear that many of his statements appear to be false. In the past, Bush's White House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues like this under the carpet, and out of sight. But it is not clear that they will be able to make the question of what happened to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) go away - unless, perhaps, they start another war. That seems unlikely. Until the questions surrounding the Iraqi war are answered, Congress and the public may strongly resist more of President Bush's warmaking. Presidential statements, particularly on matters of national security, are held to an expectation of the highest standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch, twist or distort facts and get away with it. President Lyndon Johnson's distortions of the truth about Vietnam forced him to stand down from reelection. President Richard Nixon's false statements about Watergate forced his resignation.

Excerpted from 6-6-03 Findlaw.com article by JOHN W. DEAN, former Counsel to the President of the United States.

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OUR RIGHT TO SECURITY

Weve been exposed to a lot of interesting approaches to improving our security since 9/11. One of the most prominent of these actions is the Patriot Act, which has placed some severe limitations on the civil rights of certain individuals, including incarceration without charge in some circumstances. Recently, domestic spying has been substantiated by the administrations statements that it is done to combat terrorists. A January 30th New York Times (nytimes.com) article by Debra Burlingame comments on the delicate balance between the need for security and civil rights. We have taken considerable strides in the areas of transportation, civil defense, law enforcement and the like since 9/11, but we need to be careful not to create a police state in the process.

Excerpted from article first published on PRLaw Inc Lawyers and Business Executives website, on 2-1-06 at prlawinc.typepad.com/, ghost-written by LORI CARANGELO, founder of Americans For Open Records (AmFOR), to promote attorneys who defend victims of malpractice and civil rights violations.

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Excerpted from Washington Post, 12-6-05, page A01, by BARTON GELLMAN:
THE FBI's SECRET SCRUTINY
In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans

The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said. Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer at a library branch some distance away. Christian, who manages digital records for three dozen Connecticut libraries, said in an affidavit that he configures his system for privacy. But the vendors of the software he operates said their databases can reveal the Web sites that visitors browse, the e-mail accounts they open and the books they borrow. Christian refused to hand over those records, and his employer, Library Connection Inc., filed suit for the right to protest the FBI demand in public. The Washington Post established their identities -- still under seal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit -- by comparing unsealed portions of the file with public records and information gleaned from people who had no knowledge of the FBI demand....

....At the ACLU, staff attorney Jameel Jaffer spoke of "the profound chilling effect" of this kind of surveillance: "If the government monitors the Web sites that people visit and the books that they read, people will stop visiting disfavored Web sites and stop reading disfavored books. ...... The CIA is generally forbidden to keep such files on Americans. Data mining intensifies the impact of national security letters, because anyone's personal files can be scrutinized again and again without a fresh need to establish relevance.

.....The Department of Homeland Security declared an orange alert on Dec. 21 of that year, in part because of intelligence that hinted at a New Year's Eve attack in Las Vegas. The identities of the plotters were unknown. The FBI sent Gurvais Grigg, chief of the bureau's little-known Proactive Data Exploitation Unit, in an audacious effort to assemble a real-time census of every visitor in the nation's most-visited city. An average of about 300,000 tourists a day stayed an average of four days each, presenting Grigg's team with close to a million potential suspects in the ensuing two weeks.

A former stockbroker with a degree in biochemistry, Grigg declined to be interviewed. Government and private sector sources who followed the operation described epic efforts to vacuum up information. An interagency task force began pulling together the records of every hotel guest, everyone who rented a car or truck, every lease on a storage space, and every airplane passenger who landed in the city. Grigg's unit filtered that population for leads. Any link to the known terrorist universe -- a shared address or utility account, a check deposited, a telephone call -- could give investigators a start....Early in the operation, according to participants, the FBI gathered casino executives and asked for guest lists. The MGM Mirage company, followed by others, balked. "Some casinos were saying no to consent [and said], 'You have to produce a piece of paper,' " said Jeff Jonas, chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, who previously built data management systems for casino surveillance. "They don't just market 'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They want it to be true."

....Under what scenario could a person protest a search of his personal records if he is never notified? "People have to depend on their elected representatives to do the job of oversight they were elected to do," Caproni said. "And we think they do a fine job of it."

Researcher JULIE TATE and research editor LUCY SHACKELFORD contributed to this report.

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RECORDS SOUGHT FOR CIA LEAK CASE MAY BE MISSING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

...Arianna Huffington, sitting on her Brentwood perch, writes an interesting newsletter with provocative headlines designed to be a perpetual thorn in President Bushs side relative to his handling almost everything. The newslettter can be obtained by clicking on to www.HuffingtonPost.com to view a sample issue. Arianna wants to continue to be a political power in this state and beyond. Her newsletter is a means of giving her a voice to quietly chip away at the presidential armor, hoping to find a weak spot to provide the killing blow to his administration. Ms. Huffington is especially adamant about the Valerie P. Plame outing by Scooter Libby, along with the fact that she had told Cheney and Libby that the weapons of mass destruction data on Iraq was bogus. If enough disclosures begin to emerge, some people might even believe it.

Excerpted from article first published on PRLaw Inc Lawyers and Business Executives website, on 2-6-06 at prlawinc.typepad.com/, ghost-written by LORI CARANGELO, Founder of Americans For OPen Records (AmFOR), to promote attorneys who defend victims of malpractice and civil rights violations

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"UNDUE RISK" by J. Moreno - Review From Publishers Weekly:

Between 1949 and 1969, the U.S. Army conducted over 200 "field tests" as part of its biological warfare research program, releasing infectious bacterial agents in cities across the U.S. without informing residents of the exposed areas, Moreno reveals in this chilling, meticulously documented book.

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"More than 40 million Americans say they have seen or know someone who has seen an unidentified flying object."
-Peter Jennings,ABC-TV,"I Believe in UFOs" 2-25-05

Americans For Open Records (AmFOR), a worldwide voluntary network of citizens, supports the National Press Club's "DISCLOSURE PROJECT", an international alliance of most credible witnesses who are speaking out (and will testify to Congress under oath, and request the UN accept a mandate) regarding their documented observances of heretofore Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and Extra Terrestial beings (ET).

For a FREE DOWNLOAD of the National Press Club's May 9, 2001 "Disclosure Project Launches Huge NPC Event" is available at NPC's web-site at www.disclosureproject.org

DISCLOSURE PROJECT GOALS

• Full, open Congressional hearings to investigate the ET/UFO subject, including witnesses testimony with release from security oaths;
• Presidential action to de-classify the ET/UFO subject;
• De-classification and release of currently classified technologies that could ameliorate the environmental and energy crises.

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For further information, contact:
Steven M. Greer, MD, Director
PO Box 265
Crozet AV 22932
Phone: (434) 245-6006
Fax: (434) 245-6008
Email: info@diclosureproject.com
Web-site: www.disclosureproject.org

It's estimated that as many as 2 million Americans believe they have experienced an alien abduction. The pioneering work of Dr John E Mack (Abduction: human encounters with aliens, Simon & Schuster, 1994, ISBN 0-671-85194-2) and Whitley Strieber (Communion, Transformation et al) has opened our eye to the possibility that the physical world which dominates our lives may be only a part of our existence. Gifted individuals may, knowingly or unknowingly, be part of a greater plan which our denial mechanisms have hitherto prevented us perceiving. John Mack's book challenges our earth-bound paradigms of normality (that our three-dimensional world view is all that there is). Whether you're interested in the UFO phenomenon or not, his book offers an excellent study of trauma and its consequences for the individual.

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LINKS TO OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT SECRET RECORDS

• American Antigravity - www.americanantigravity.com/einstein.shtml
• Church, State and Adoption - www.amfor.net/church.html
• Freedom of Information Act (Federal) - www.usdoj.gov/04foia/
• Pfund Memo (U.S. OKs Child Theft) - www.amfor.net/childtheft.html

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