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NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Eavesdropping and the 2004 Presidential Election
New York Times: Eavesdropping and the Election: An Answer on the Question of Timing
THE NEW YORK TIMES’S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about the once-secret program. And the decision to write about the program in the face of White House pressure deserved even more praise than I gave it in a January column, which focused on the paper’s inadequate explanation of why it had “delayed publication for a year.â€
Long and short of it Bill Keller LIED.
Let’s see political manipulation of national security leaks…….
Credibility of Keller and the New York Times = Sub ZERO.
And these MSM types wonder why folks are voting with their feet and canceling subscriptions.
Captain Ed has a longer analysis.
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Global War on Terror Watch: Recipients of “LEAKS†May be Prosecuted Under the Espionage Act
Global War on Terror Watch: Bill Keller on Face the Nation
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Begins Monday
Smoke billows from a destroyed clothing factory, following an Israeli air strike early Friday, in the Hezbollah stronghold suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006.
AP: Annan: Mideast cease-fire starts MondayU.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that a cease-fire in the Hezbollah-Israel fighting will take effect at 8 a.m. Lebanese time (1 a.m. EDT) Monday.
Annan said in a statement distributed in Beirut early Sunday that he had been in touch with Prime Ministers Fuad Saniora of Lebanon and Ehud Olmert of Israel to discuss the exact time and date when the cessation of hostilities called for by a U.N. Security Council resolution will enter into force.
“I am happy to annouce that the two leaders have agreed that the cessation of hostilities and the end of the fighting will enter into force on 14 August, at 0500 hours GMT,” the statement said.
Ok, let’s take a look at the cease-fire agreement.
JPost: Analysis: Not so bad in theory
Read it all……
It really comes down to compliance by Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.
This agreement may buy two or three years of peace. Time for the Bush Administration to be out of office and the Iran nuclear program settled.
Thus, the ceasefire agreement is not necessarily a disaster for Israel though it certainly isn’t a solution either. It may provide some years of peace.
For Lebanon, though, it is a political disaster. Certainly, the terms are not going to let a strong Lebanese government emerge or stymie Syrian and Iranian ambitions. It will permit an end to the current war and reconstruction, but only until Hizbullah, Damascus, and Teheran decide they want to fight on Lebanese territory again.
Now it is onto Iran’s nuclear program and the August 31 deadline to end uranium enrichment. A Hezbollah threat against Israel as the United States tightens the screws on Tehran is now over. And the world now recognizes Iran’s duplicity in helping Hezbollah as a proxy against Israel.
How will Israel and the United States team up directly to confront Iran on the nuclear issue?
Stay tuned…….
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Troops Reach Latani River – Will Cease-Fire 7 AM Monday
Israel at War Watch: Israeli Prime Minister Olmert Has Accepted United Nations Cease-Fire Deal
Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Resolution to End War?
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Michael Ramirez on Hating the JEWS
With the Israel-Hezbollah War winding down, the world’s attention will be drawn to Iran and its nuclear program.
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California Election 2006 Watch: DNC Chairman Howard Dean Campaigns for Phil Angelides
Howard Dean (right), chairman of the Democratic National Committee, hugs Phil Angelides during a campaign stop in San Francisco on Friday.
SF Chronicle: Dean bangs drum for Angelides
If Democrats are getting antsy about the current governor’s race between state Treasurer Phil Angelides and Republican incumbent Arnold Schwarzenegger, it wasn’t evident Friday at a charged-up “unity” rally in San Francisco.
Several hundred union members, supporters and party faithful turned out to support Angelides — and to hear from the always-fiery Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign staff must be laughing their ASSES off. If there was a problem in Arnold’s campaign it was motivating conservatives to vote in November.
Flap can see this photo (in targeted direct mail pieces) being prepared as this is posted.
Phil Angelides is TOO LEFT for California.
Schwarzenegger will continue to lead in the polls- all the way to victory in November.
Maj. Gen. William H. Wade II, the Adjutant General of the California National Guard, answers a question concerning the deployment of guard members to the state’s largest airports during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, activated the National Guard at the state’s largest airports to bolster security for the first time since the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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California Election 2006 Watch: Latest PPIC Poll has Schwarzenegger Leading Angelides by 13 Points
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Troops Reach Latani River – Will Cease-Fire 7 AM Monday
AP: Israeli troops reach the Litani River
Israeli army units reached the Litani River on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the government ordered an operation to march toward the river in a final push against entrenched Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel Radio reported.
The units were part of a massive force that flooded into Lebanon, trying to seize as much territory as possible before a U.N. cease-fire comes into effect. The objective was to control southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, about 18 miles from the Israeli border, before handing over the area to the Lebanese army and U.N. troops.
Meanwhile, both sides in the war indicated they would accept a U.N. cease-fire plan to stop heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon.
And the Israelis will continue to gobble up territory and clean out pockets of Hezbollah as they ready the takeover from the United Nations peacekeeping troops.
What is not clear is when Hezbollah will stand down?
Israeli media is reporting that Israel plans to cease fire on Monday at 7 AM.
A senior Israeli official, meanwhile, said Israel expects a Mideast cease-fire to take effect either late Sunday or Monday, depending on an Israeli Cabinet decision Sunday morning and consultations with the U.N. and input from the Lebanese government. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the sensitive matter with reporters.
Israeli media reported that the truce would go into effect at 7 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) Monday but gave no source for the information.
Israeli paratroopers gather near the border before advancing inside southern Lebanon from Israel Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. Israel stepped up its airstrikes and continued its incursions across the border early Saturday, not long after the U.N. Security Council voted on a resolution to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said his militia would abide by the cease-fire blueprint, but said the guerrillas would keep battling Israeli troops while they remained in Lebanon, calling that “our natural right.”
His address was televised as Lebanon’s Cabinet met to vote on the U.N. plan. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora signaled the Cabinet would accept, saying it serves the interests of his country and “shows that the whole world stood by Lebanon.”
The Israeli Cabinet was expected to approve the cease-fire Sunday, but Israel appeared ready to keep up its full-scale military campaign until the U.N. plan worked its way through the region’s political leadership over the weekend.
Which countries will be supplying the 15,000 troops for the United Nations?
The resolution approved Friday night by the U.N. Security Council would create a peacekeeping force by combining a beefed-up version of ineffective U.N. units already in the war zone and 15,000 soldiers from the Lebanese army. The force, which could number around 30,000, would stand between Israel and Hezbollah’s militia.
France, New Zealand, Italy and Ireland said Saturday they were ready to provide troops and Turkey said it was inclined to do so.
Flap awaits Nazrallah’s pronouncement that Hezbollah has beaten the IDF.
Stay tuned for the fireworks in the Israeli cabinet and the fall of Prime Minister Omert’s government.
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Israel at War Watch: Israeli Prime Minister Olmert Has Accepted United Nations Cease-Fire Deal
Israel at War Watch: United Nations Security Council Resolution to End War?
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Sheehan Hospitalized in Waco – To Be Released Later Today
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan continues her protest near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. Monday, Aug. 7, 2006.
AP: Sheehan: Hospital stay won’t stop me
Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn’t stop her protest against the
Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush’s Crawford ranch.Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford.
She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters’ campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004.
“Everything will still go on,” Sheehan, 49, told The Associated Press. “I hope I can get there soon.”
Cindy Sheehan works the media like Ahmadinejad. Now, you suppose that she is dehydrated from all of those plane flights in and out of Texas? She arrived on August 6th posed from some photos and then left for Seattle – a definite cooler and more weather friendly locale in the summer.
Anti-war activists Cindy Sheehan and Jeff Paterson at the Veterans for Peace convention at the University of Washington. (August 10, 2006)
And why did Cindy leave Crawford/Waco, Texas?
Because……it is hotter than HELL there and why not pick up an appearance fee in cool, near the ocean Seattle, Washington.
While at the Veterans for Peace convention Sheehan offered her land in Texas as a refuge for war deserters? Can Flap be reading this Cindy-fawning piece right?
Now almost 40 days into her fast supporting war resisters and their families, Sheehan, though weak, announced that she is offering land she bought in Crawford near Bush’s ranch as a refuge for U.S. troops who desert to resist the war in Iraq.
Please send the military police and the FBI to Crawford and arrest those scum-bag deserters.
Line them up please.
Cindy is WEAK?
Weak? We know ALL about Cindy’s all liquid fast.
Ok, back to yesterday and Waco.
Sheehan returned to Texas on Friday after a few days in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace convention. She planned to resume the war protest she started Aug. 6, the first anniversary of the beginning of her 26-day peace vigil that drew thousands of anti-war demonstrators and spurred counter demonstrations by Bush supporters.
Instead, friends took her from the airport to the hospital. After being on a liquid diet as part of the nationwide “Troops Home Fast” hunger strike, Sheehan had been treated at a Seattle emergency room Thursday, and ate for the first time in about 37 days, said her spokeswoman Tiffany Burns.
Oh, please. She ate for the first time in 37 days? With those high caloric shakes and other crap she has been drinking it looks to Flap that she actually has been doing fine. Since she is hospitalized it is probably from exhaustion from her travel schedule or her GYN problem. Likely, it is a combination of both.
Doctors in Waco stopped uterine bleeding, gave her a blood transfusion and planned a biopsy, she said. Sheehan was dehydrated again Friday, but said it was probably from the bleeding.
But, a hunger strike martyr for Iraq War protests she is NOT.
Feed her quick because President Bush leaves tomorrow and will not be returning to Crawford this summer.
Sheehan’s protest ends September 3.
Anyone want to bet how long she remains in Texas after the President leaves?
NOT long……
Flap wonders if she will try to get a refund on her land purchase?
Stay tuned……
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan flashes a peace sign during a roadside protest opposite a security checkpoint leading to U.S. President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas August 7, 2006.
Michelle Malkin has Your Cindy Sheehan snort of the day
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Day By Day by Chris Muir August 12, 2006
