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March 29, 2006 Verdict: The New York Times Blew the Story Yesterday, five former judges of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of the amendments to FISA that have been proposed by Senator Arlen Specter. Earlier today, we noted a remarkable contrast in the reporting on the hearing by the Washington Times and the New York Times. The Washington Times headlined its story, "FISA Judges Say Bush Within Law," and reported:A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did...

Nine Convicted in Dutch Terrorism CaseBy TOBY STERLING Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch judges convicted nine men Friday of belonging to a terrorist group, a landmark verdict that concludes promoting a violent version of Islam can itself be an act of terrorism.The case opens a new way for prosecutors to stop potential terrorists and for the Netherlands to tackle the broader problem of the spread of radicalism among Muslim youth.Lawyers for the men said they will appeal.Two men received 15- and 13-year prison terms for attempted murder after a clash with police during...

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration's original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.At that appearance, Gonzales confined his comments to the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, saying that President Bush had authorized it "and that is all that he has...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law carried out a suicide bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf that killed a leading Iraqi cleric, according to two senior Kurdish intelligence officials. The attack in August 2003 killed more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, who led Iraq's largest Shia political party. The bombing was carried out with an explosives-laden ambulance driven by Yassin Jarad, the father of al-Zarqawi's second wife, the Kurdish officials said. Jarad had slipped into Iraq several weeks before the bombing from the Jordanian town of Zarqa, where al-Zarqawi was born, said the officials,...

'Philly 5' lose round in federal court, prosecutors get away with calling defendants' words 'hateful' Posted: February 4, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com In another blow to the "Philly 5" – the Philadelphia Christians facing possible 47 year jail terms for evangelizing at a homosexual event – a federal judge has refused a request to stop the local prosecution of the group. Judge Petrese B. Tucker, for the second time, has refused to sanction the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office for what the Christians' attorneys say are "retaliatory criminal proceedings." According to the American Family Association Center for Law...

The amount of damage is simply staggering! That this boat ever made it back to port is a tribute to its designers, builders, and especially to the crew and captain. How does America keep finding men like these? High resolution version here High resolution version here

By ROBERT A. HAMILTONDay Staff Writer, Navy/Defense/Electric Boat Published on 1/11/2005 Photographs of the USS San Francisco returning to Apra Harbor in Guam Monday show the submarine's sonar sphere and forward ballast tanks were heavily damaged when it hit an undersea mountain, experienced submariners said. One man was killed in the collision, and 23 others, about one of every six crewmen on board, were injured and evacuated from the submarine, making the incident one of the most serious undersea accidents in memory. “This is the first time in my memory that anyone was ever killed in one of these accidents,”...

(Note the date of publication and refer to post #1) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered an emergency redeployment of the country's nuclear arsenal to at least six secret new locations and has reorganized military oversight of the nuclear forces in the weeks since Pakistan joined the U.S. campaign against terrorism, according to senior officials here. Pakistan's military began relocating critical nuclear weapons components within two days of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, fearful of possible strikes against the country's nuclear facilities, military officials said. Another reason for the movement, officials added, was...

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - It may be wise to check out a stranger's ears before picking a fight, U.S. researchers advised on Monday. They found that women and men with asymmetrical extremities -- ears, fingers or feet of different sizes or shapes -- were more likely to react aggressively when annoyed or provoked. This could make sense, the team at Ohio State University said. Factors such as smoking or drinking during a pregnancy could stress a fetus in various ways, causing not only slight physical imperfections but also poorer impulse control. "Stressors during pregnancy may lead to asymmetrical body...

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The John Batchelor Show WABC 770 AM News Talk Radio New York City Thursday, June 3, 2004 7:35pm, EST On Thursday night's broadcast of the John Batchelor Show, long-time intelligence gadfly, John Loftus accused that "the President himself approved the leaking of the name of the CIA agent". What follows is an exact transcription of the relevant portions of the show. (Transcription begins 3:52 minutes into The Loftus Report segment of the John Batchelor show. [transcriber's notes in brackets]) Batchelor:   And I'm certain that Patrick O'Donnell and John Loftus have now convinced you all that the landings on Normandy,...

<p>WASHINGTON, DC, May. 29 (UPI) -- An investigation into the November 2001 crash of an Airbus A-300-600 in New York has found an unrelated potentially lethal design flaw, the New York Times reports.</p> <p>The newspaper says the National Transportation Safety Board does not believe that problems with the rudder control system caused the crash of American Airlines Flight 287 [should be: 587]. The plane came down shortly after taking off from Kennedy International Airport en route to the Dominican Republic, killing all 260 people on the plane and five on the ground.</p>

Associated Press Tuesday May 25, 6:10 PM Taliban militants on motorcycles killed an Afghan soldier in an attack on troops guarding a shipment of aid in an impoverished southeastern province, while a rocket attack farther west killed two people, officials said. Militia ambushed the convoy carrying tractors and generators Saturday as it drove toward Waza Khwa, a remote town in Paktika province, about 170 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul, provincial police chief Abdul Rahim Khan said Monday. "Taliban opened fire on the vehicle carrying the soldiers," Khan said. "One of them was killed and another was wounded." He said...

SUSPECT IN GIRL'S DEATH EQUATES CONTRITION, HYPOCRISY By Elise Banducci and Matthai Chakko Kuruvila Mercury News Convicted child molester and murder suspect Curtis Dean Anderson regrets nothing he's done and feels no pity for the people he's hurt. On the other hand, he doesn't blame his victim's family for wanting revenge. "If my sister came home with a chunk out of her leg" from a dog bite, he said in a jailhouse interview Saturday, "I'd shoot the dog." Welcome to the world according to Curtis Dean Anderson. It's a world, however twisted, with its own code of conduct -- one...

Associated Press Friday May 21, 4:49 AM The general who commanded the Guantanamo Bay prison for seven months in 2002 says he was under constant pressure from military intelligence officers to bend his "by-the-book" rules on how to treat al-Qaida and Taliban suspects. In interviews with The Associated Press, Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus said military intelligence wanted him to make the suspects' lives less comfortable to get them to cooperate with interrogators. Baccus said he could not go into detail about everything military intelligence wanted. But he said it generally involved "putting the detainees in isolation, or in different locations....

HEAD NOTES: John Loftus made two references in his report tonight about Nick Berg in relation to the Enemies List situation as well as some derogatory comments about this website. Those quotes are highlighted below in red.   THE JOHN LOFTUS REPORT The John Batchelor Show WABC 770 AM News Talk Radio New York City Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:35pm, EST [transcriber's notes in brackets] JOHN BATCHELOR:   I'm John Batchelor, ABC radio. John Loftus is "The Secret War Against the Jews" at John Loftus, [pause] John hyphen Loftus dot org, joins me. We have several stories. We are...

HEAD NOTES:What follows is an exact transcription that I made of the most recent broadcast of The Loftus Report, by John Loftus, a self-proclaimed intelligence expert, which was hosted on The John Batchelor Show on WABC, 770AM out of New York City. There exists a controversy on FR as to whether Loftus represents a reliable source of wartime intelligence. I think he does not, but others disagree. My purpose in posting this thread is that never before has there been a hard documentary record of just exactly what claims he makes, on his nightly report. I was hoping that...

This story is just beginning to break, but the so-called Japanese hostages may actually be a staged event by leftist Japanese anti-war protesters operating inside Iraq. Read the following post from the LittleGreenFootballs.com website and be sure to follow the links. #8 zombie 4/9/2004 12:32AM PST I emailed this to Charles but it's worth posting here too: Many new and (potentially) extremely disturbing and ironic details have emerged on the Japanese-kidnapped-in-Iraq situation. Firstly, and most importantly, is the post by A Japanese Reader (#102 in this earlier LGF thread.) The second is Allah's postings of the victims in captivity and...

The Wana Campaign -- Maps, Place Names and Participants An FReference Thread [This thread was designed primarily as a reference tool. Please limit posts to necessary additions, corrections, questions and pings. Thank you.] This thread is a reference source of basic information on the Wana (Pakistan) anti-terrorist campaign. It inlcudes maps, locations of geographic place names, ethnic, religious and population information that can benefit the FReeper trying to get a handle on what's happening in this major battle of the War on Terror. Map #1, Pakistan As can be seen on the map below, Pakistan is comprised of 4 provinces...

<p>A plot is being organized to replace Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf with the nuclear engineer who sold the country's secrets to America's self-avowed enemies, according to one of the political and religious leaders involved.</p> <p>Details of the plan were discussed at a meeting in late February in Akora Khattak, near Peshawar, following the death of the wife of Sen. Sami ul-Haq, vice president of a coalition of six religious parties known as the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said a politician who attended the meeting.</p>