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Double Standards?
A Justice Department memo proposes that the United States hold others accountable for international laws on detainees
This is from the April 25, 2004 program of
Meet the Press.
Bob Woodward and Prince Bandar On Meet The Press.
Each interview is available in two parts. (About 35 MB each)
This ties in with the Bob Woodward On 60 Minutes footage from a few weeks ago.
Check out Bob Woodward’s new book,
Plan of Attack.
This just in from a friend of mine:
As the September 11th Commission grills President Bush and Vice President Cheney about their contradictory statements today, we wanted to alert you to a powerful new tool to help journalists, activists and the public compare the Bush administration’s claims against well-documented facts.
The Center for American Progress today launched a comprehensive
Claim vs. Fact database that documents statements from conservatives like President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress and Fox News personalities, and compares those statements to the facts.
Each fact is sourced, and in many cases includes a web link directly to that source.
This is from the April 6, 2004 program.
Jon brings up the brilliant point that the Shrub hasn’t seemed to figure out yet who the country will be handed over to. But “the date remains firm” that it’s being handed over to somebody.
Daily Show On The Shrub’s Iraq Transition Strategy (Small – 13 MB)
The Daily Show (The best news on television.)
…very politely, of course.
This is from the March 25, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW.
Wish I had more time to comment, but I think this one speaks for itself. (Like most stuff from Bill.)
Bill Moyers:
Mr. Bush clearly believes what he said: The War On Terror is an in escapable calling of the generation now in charge. Like many of you, I want to support him in that work. I want to do my part. But the President makes it hard. He confused us by going after Sadaam Hussein when villian behind the mass murder of 911 was Osama Bin Ladin. He seems not to realize how his credibility has been shredded by all the false and misleading reasons to put forth to justify invading Iraq.
Lyndon Johnson never recovered from using the dubious events at the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to go to war in Vietnam, and even if Mr. Bush wins reelection this November, he too will eventually be dragged down by the powerful undertow that inevitably accompanies public deception.
The public will grow intolerant of partisan predators and cronie capitalists indulging in a frenzy of feeding at the troughs in Baghdad and Washington, and there will come a time when the President will have no one to rely on except his most rabid allies in the right wing media. He will discover too late that you cannot win the hearts and minds of the public at large in a nation polarized and pulvarized by endless propaganda in defiance of reality.
Bill Moyers: What Now? (Small – 11 MB)
This is from the March 21, 2004 program of 60 Minutes.
Richard Clarke, former top advisor on Counterterrorism for the Shrub, Clinton Terrorism Czar, and an appointed expert for both Daddy Shrub and Reagan, has written a book Against All Enemies that exposes a number of different things going on over at the old White House during the days after 911.
I’ve made the files available in one and four parts.
911 Before and After
(Richard Clarke on 60 Minutes – March 21, 2004)
This is from the January 11, 2003 program of 60 Minutes.
Former Shrub Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill was the major source for the book The Price Of Loyalty.
I’ve made the files available as a single download or in three smaller parts.
Inside The Bush White House
Leslie Stahl does it again. Go Leslie Go!
True Majority (Requires Flash)
This is from the December 12, 2003 program of NOW With Bill Moyers.
Bill Moyers:
Everywhere you look today, or try to look, our right to know is under assault. In the name of fighting terrorists, the government is pulling a veil of secrecy around itself. Information that used to be readily accessible is now kept out of sight.
To cover this story, NOW is collaborating with U.S. News and World Report. Their five month investigation finds that, although the government regularly cites 911 as the basis for secrecy, the true reasons, in many cases, have nothing to do with the War On Terror.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: The untold story of the Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy
How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye
Here’s the t r u t h o u t archive of the complete U.S. News and World Report article: Keeping Secrets, written by Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound.
This segment was produced by David Brancaccio and Peter Meryash.
Veil of Secrecy – Complete (Small – 40 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 11 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 16 MB)
Veil of Secrecy – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 13 MB)
Here’s some technical information about getting quicktime going to watch these movies.
The Shrub’s own experts are telling us we’re all hosed. (Over the next 3-20 years).
What do you think guys? Is this for real? Or are they just trying to freak us out?
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
By Mark Townsend and Paul Harris for the Observer.
and
Leaked Pentagon report warns climate change may bring famine, war: report
By AFP.
Here’s a clip from the AFP story:
The report, quoted in the paper, concluded: “Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life…. Once again, warfare would define human life.”
Its authors — Peter Schwartz, a CIA (news – web sites) consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network based in California — said climate change should be considered “immediately” as a top political and military issue.
It “should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern”, they were quoted as saying.
Some examples given of probable scenarios in the dramatic report include:
— Britain will have winters similar to those in current-day Siberia as European temperatures drop off radically by 2020.
— by 2007 violent storms will make large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable and lead to a breach in the acqueduct system in California that supplies all water to densely populated southern California
— Europe and the United States become “virtual fortresses” trying to keep out millions of migrants whose homelands have been wiped out by rising sea levels or made unfarmable by drought.
— “catastrophic” shortages of potable water and energy will lead to widespread war by 2020.
Randall, one of the authors, called his findings “depressing stuff” and warned that it might even be too late to prevent future disasters.
“We don’t know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,” he told the paper.
Experts familiar with the report told the newspaper that the threat to global stability “vastly eclipses that of terrorism”.
Taking environmental pollution and climate change into account in political and military strategy is a new, complicated and necessary challenge for leaders, Randall said.
“It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat,” he said.