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Fair use for education/discussion purposes: Yahoo! News News Home - Help AFP CIA renditions of terror suspects are 'out of control:' report Sun Feb 6, 5:57 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)'s 'rendition' of suspected terrorists has spiralled 'out of control' according to a former FBI (news - web sites) agent, cited in a report which examined how CIA (news - web sites) detainees are spirited to states suspected of using torture. Michael Scheuer a former CIA counterterrorism agent told The New Yorker magazine "all we've done is create a nightmare," with regard...

   Washington Democrat Election Fraud is falling Apart... To: ONETWOONE. Boxer has always been grateful to Washington. Thanks to PattyMurray, she's only the second dumbest member of the US Senate. ... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/813268/posts The essence of Murray's mindWorldNetDaily.com | Saturday, December 28, 2002 | Letters to the editors Sen. Murray exemplifies those decrepit generations who really and truly believe that love is something you buy, respect is something you rent, and character can be marked down as an after-holiday sale item.     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812774/posts Patty Murray, material girl: Farah slams Sen for cloaking bin Laden's actions in fake compassionWorldNetDaily.com ^ |...

July 27, 2004 Pg. 1 Senators Satisfied With Their 'No' Vote On Iraq ‘We were all firmly convinced we’d done the right thing’ By Lauren Shepherd By 1 a.m. that Friday morning, almost every senator had left the Capitol for home. Three Democrats, though, were still on the Senate floor, waiting for the final vote count on a resolution that would allow President Bush to launch a pre-emptive strike on Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) — had voted against the resolution along with 18 other Democrats, one independent and one...

One former CIA official told NEWSWEEK that [Porter Goss' aide]Murray leaned on him more than once to declassify information so he could use it to "embarrass the Democrats." Murray was irritated when the agency declined.

Posted November 16, 2004 An internal war at the CIA By Faye Bowers | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON - A public war between a president and his intelligence arm is never good news. But with the war against the insurgency in Iraq at a critical juncture, and Osama bin Laden making his ominous presence known, it is perhaps the worst of times for the Bush administration and its spies to be at odds. Still, government officials and outside experts say, the long-simmering tensions between the White House and CIA are erupting into an unseemly period of...

‘Anonymous’ resigns from CIA * Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday. Michael Scheuer wrote the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” under the pen name “anonymous” and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service. In a statement to the press, Scheuer said that he blamed...

CIA plans to purge its agency Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush BY KNUT ROYCE WASHINGTON BUREAU November 14, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources. "The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior...

Three days after Election Day, Democrat Christine Gregoire clung to a narrow lead Friday in the nation's last undecided race for governor - a cliffhanger contest that could drag on for weeks while the votes are counted. Gregoire, Washington's attorney general, led Republican former state Sen. Dino Rossi by about 18,000 votes out of nearly 2.2 million counted. Election officials figured more than 600,000 absentee and provisional ballots remained to be counted before a Nov. 17 deadline. A Gregoire victory would mean the Democrats would preserve their 22 governorships nationwide. The Republicans already are assured of at least maintaining their...

by Craig E. Richardson U.S. Senate Majority Hangs in Balance The Republicans currently control the Senate by a margin of 51-49 and issues such as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay “marriage,” and judicial nominations are key factors in many races. As a result, Catholic voters will play an important role in settling which party controls the Senate for the next two years. South Dakota tops the list of senate races to watch and it represents one the Republican’s best opportunities to pick-up a seat held by a Democrat. Minority Leader Tom Daschle, the top Democrat in the Senate, is...

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has canceled more than $1 million worth of Seattle-area television advertising scheduled on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate George Nethercutt in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 election. Advertising representatives at Seattle network affiliates KING, KIRO and KOMO confirmed that the committee this week canceled all the time it had reserved for ads between next week and Election Day. Dan Allen, NRSC spokesman, said, "it doesn't mean we can't do it in the future. We're assessing on a daily basis the entire playing field. We know he [Nethercutt] is a running a...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has ``a different view of Osama bin Laden,'' her campaign rival charged Wednesday in an attack ad that uses a picture of the al-Qaida leader and the senator's words to challenge her credentials in the war on terror. ``She did not praise Osama bin Laden and we should stop playing politics with the war on terror and get on with winning it,'' countered Alex Glass, a spokeswoman for Murray. She called the commercial a ``desperate political attack'' by GOP rival George Nethercutt, who trails in the polls. The ad shows Murray telling an audience in 2002...

(Note: I'm going to send out a fundraising email to raise money for George Nethercutt who is running against Patty (ossamamomma)Murray for US Senate. You are welcome and encouraged to use this email or any derivation there off for your own fund raising efforts.) KENNETH FOLEY: USAID Representative On October 28thth, 2002 Kenneth Foley was shot dead in front of his wife in Amman, Jordan by assailants who are now believed under the direction of Ansar al Islam’s Al-Zarqawi. Mr. Foley had a 40 year career working in public service starting as a Peace Corp’s volunteer in India in 1965....

The blizzard of new polls out Tuesday left our eyes clouded and our heads spinning. But it’s worth taking a look at The Pew Research Center poll to understand where the election stands, and why John Kerry is currently on a road to defeat. The Pew poll shows the public is losing confidence in President Bush’s handling of a number of issues: Only 39% of respondents said Bush was the best candidate to handle the economy’s problems – down from 43% just two weeks earlier. Only 46% thought Bush was the best candidate to handle Iraq – down from...

Does anyone have an active url that has a video of the infamous Patty Murray speech praising "Osama as a great philanthropist"? If not a link, then where can I download the video directly to use an attachment in an email? I want to send it out as part of a fund raising email for Nethercutt. These will be non Washington residents so I figure hearing it from the horses mouth is better than just sending a quote to get the blood boiling again. Thanks in advance.

With 87 percent of precincts reporting, Murray had an overwhelming 92 percent of the Democratic vote, with two little-known candidates splitting the rest.

President Missouri 8/18/2004 Bush (R) 48% Kerry (D) 47% Other/Undecided 5% Data Collected 8/15/04 - 8/17/04 Geography State of Missouri Sample Population 643 Likely Voters Margin of Error 4.0% Client KSDK-TV St. Louis KOMU-TV Columbia President -- Washington 8/18/2004 Kerry (D) 51% Bush (R) 43% Nader (I) 2% Other/Undecided 3% Data Collected 8/15/04 - 8/17/04 Geography State of Washington Sample Population 602 Likely Voters Margin of Error 4.1% Client KING-TV Seattle KHQ-TV Spokane Senate - Missouri U.S. Senate, MO 8/18/2004 Bond (R) 55% Farmer (D) 38% Other/Undecided 8% Data Collected 8/15/04 - 8/17/04 Geography State of Missouri Sample Population 639...

First we had Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) praising the great community activist and benefactor Osama bin Laden: http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/Dec_2002/us_senator.htm "We've got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?," said Murray, who faces re-election in 2004. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries … that are riddled with poverty? "He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that. "How would they look at us today if we had been...

ALBANY, Ga. -- A high school English teacher resigned after school officials found notes and a racy poem she allegedly wrote to a 17-year-old student. "It pleases me that you want me as much as I want you," read one of the 13 notes attributed to Carla Murray, 32. The notes were found in the male student's locker after other students tipped authorities. The notes were released Tuesday after The Albany Herald and TV station WALB sued to have them made public. The notes were unsigned, but school investigators concluded Murray wrote them after a handwriting expert read the notes...

Take a break as you fill out your 1040 form, and play this game: suppose you could choose which government entities your tax dollars support — and in what proportion. Since it's a thought experiment, let's assume that local and state government functions are part of the list. What percentages will you assign to which departments, agencies and programs? Some people will split their taxes between the local police and national defense and leave it at that. Some will assign it all to the Environmental Protection Agency. Taxpayers from red states will choose differently from taxpayers from blue states. But...

Without mentioning she's running for a third six-year term this year, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray told a Vancouver audience Tuesday her tenure has given her clout. "Seniority means a lot in the Senate. When you first come in, you think it's a terrible thing. But every year, it gets better and better," said Murray, a Democrat. Murray spoke about the economy, transportation and other issues while a Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce crowd of 150 lunched on chicken at the Heathman Lodge. The name of her main Republican opponent, Spokane Congressman George Nethercutt, never came up. Murray did criticize the...

Congressman George Nethercutt of Spokane is making this perfectly clear as he wages his campaign to unseat two-term U.S. Sen. Patty Murray of Seattle: The two biggest concerns facing the country are international security and the cost and accessibility of health care, and he and Murray are poles apart on how best to fix those problems. Campaigning in Vancouver on Wednesday and Thursday, he said the best way to deal with both is President Bush's way, while Murray is headed in the opposite direction. For example, Nethercutt cited Murray's opposition to limits on medical malpractice judgments. Consequently, malpractice insurance is...

STARTING IN THUNE Dick Wadhams, who in past years successfully steered the initial campaigns of Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard and Gov. Bill Owens, jumped on board the South Dakota Senate campaign of former Rep. John Thune on Monday, in what may be a pivotal race for Republicans. Thune, in announcing his decision to challenge the troubled sitting Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, said he could not take the easy way out and run for a winnable seat in the House of Representatives, when a historic opportunity awaited him in a Senate run that could tip the scales more solidly for...

Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., said Monday he has hired a veteran political strategist from Minnesota to manage his Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Patty Murray. Tom Mason now serves as chief of staff for Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and was a consultant to Coleman's victorious 2002 campaign. He will return to Coleman's staff after the election. Mason also has served as director of communications and research for the National Republican Senatorial Committee and as press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn. "We need a campaign manager who understands a diverse state like ours," Nethercutt said. "Minnesota and Washington...

WASHINGTON — Election night is a little less than a year away, but already fingers are pointing in the race for U.S. Senate. The charge? Which candidate in Washington state is going to run the most negative campaign. While supporters of Democratic incumbent Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Spokane, say they will stick to the issues, the first volleys in the contest have been about tactics that, for the most part, have yet to be seen. Already, even staffing decisions are becoming campaign fodder. Nethercutt is said to be close to hiring veteran political operative Dick Wadhams as...

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer supported blame-America-first Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray after her praise of mass-murdering terrorist Osama bin Laden, who, in her sick fantasy world, built "day-care centers" for those liberated career gals of Afghanistan, which "we haven't done." Now her challenger, Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., has taken out ads noting the paper "deliberately distorted" and "massacred" a comment he made about American efforts in Iraq. At a forum at the University of Washington on Oct. 13, the GOP Senate candidate said the reconstruction of Iraq was "a bigger and better and more important story than losing a couple of...

Supporters of Washington's Republican U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt rushed to the ramparts last week to defend their man from the dastardly liberal media. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who watched from sidelines, must have enjoyed the show. One of Nethercutt's defenders called me Friday, irate about a Maureen Dowd column in our opinion section that morning. In her trademark wicked style, Dowd had figuratively dragged 3-inch nails across Nethercutt's exposed skin. In the course of a column mocking the administration's attempts to counter bad press on Iraq, she wrote: "On Monday, Rep. George Nethercutt Jr. (R-Spokane), who visited Iraq, chimed in...

The election of Tuesday past put on display, in Seattle and other places across our state, a desire by voters to throw open the windows of local government and let in some fresh air. It should be going to my head, since at the 36th District Democrats' debate, Seattle City Councilwoman Judy Nicastro singled out yours truly as responsible for the "negative, throw-the-rascals-out" atmosphere. Candidly, however, no Seattle columnist can take credit for the primary election defeat of Spokane Mayor John Powers, or that high-profile Bellingham Mayor Mark Asmundson trailed a challenger and took only 28 percent of the vote....

WASHINGTON -- While most of the nation was stooped in silence Thursday morning to commemorate the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Sen. Patty Murray was holding a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising breakfast in the nation's Capitol. The event, which raised $10,000 for Murray's campaign against George Nethercutt, was denounced by Republicans as tawdry. Even some Democrats privately questioned the wisdom of holding a fund-raiser on what is still a mournful day. "I think this says a great deal about Senator Murray's judgment and priorities," Washington state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said. A senior Republican strategist in Washington, D.C., expressed...

While other Americans spent the second anniversary of 9/11 remembering those who died, Patty Murray held a $1000 a plate breakfast.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is warning K Street donors that she will interpret PAC contributions to Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) as a hostile act, even if the donors also give to her campaign. Shortly after Nethercutt announced his challenge against the incumbent senior senator, Rick Desimone, Murray’s chief of staff and the architect of her 1998 landslide reelection, began contacting lobbyists with Washington State interests, K Street sources say. He explained that his boss would be watching PAC donations closely, report several lobbyists who have interpreted the conversation as arm-twisting to prevent their donating to Nethercutt. The warnings come as...

<p>MURRAY, Ky. — Restaurant owner Skip Chambers remembers when socializing usually meant dinner at a friend's house.</p> <p>But that has changed, he said. Three years ago Murray passed an ordinance allowing alcohol sales by the glass at restaurants. "It's time for us to catch up to the rest of the world," said Chambers, owner of the Big Apple Café.</p>

<p>SPOKANE, Wash. — Republican Rep. George Nethercutt (search), who in 1994 toppled U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley, said Wednesday he will challenge Democratic incumbent Patty Murray (search) for the Senate in 2004.</p> <p>Click to learn more... Nethercutt, 58, a favorite of the White House, will give up his congressional seat to make the run. He said he met last week with President Bush, who encouraged him to get into the race.</p>

In The Northwest: Nethercutt warms up for race against Murray By JOEL CONNELLY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST After dancing for months around a prospective challenge to Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Republican Rep. George Nethercutt of Spokane appears to be lacing up his running shoes. Nethercutt has enjoyed past flirtations with statewide races, including a Senate run in 1998, always to pull back. In recent days, however, he has begun to quietly call Republican leaders with word that he wants to go against Murray, according to well-placed Washington, D.C., sources. The five-term congressman from Eastern Washington -- who once promised to serve...

July 8, 2003   TRIAL LAWYERS FIRST! (PATIENTS CAN WAIT.)Democrats’ Contributors More Important Than Quality Of Care __________________________________________________________ “[T]he Association of Trial Lawyers of America opposed the [medical liability] measure strenuously. ATLA has funneled millions of dollars into Democratic campaigns in recent years, and become an increasingly important and reliable pillar of the party’s political structure.”   (David Espo, “Senate Partisanship May Doom Bill To Cap Medical Malpractice Awards,” The Associated Press, 7/8/03)TRIAL LAWYERS CONTRIBUTE MILLIONS TO DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Personal Injury Trial Lawyer Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) Has Received More Than $9.1 Million In Trial Lawyer-Related Donations Throughout His...

Cold feet: Every few months, it seems, Rep. George Nethercutt of Spokane tells the pliant Olympia bureau of The Associated Press that he may run statewide for senator or governor. The AP makes a big deal of it, only to watch Nethercutt later decide to keep the House as home. He may do it again, though Republicans say the nomination to oppose Murray is his for the asking. Guests at a recent fund-raiser co-hosted by ex-Sen. Slade Gorton chief of staff Tony Williams came away convinced Nethercutt won't take on Murray. Absent Nethercutt, local conservative activists are pushing Seattle Pacific...

Continued criticism by Democrats of President Bush's visit to the supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln a week ago isn't shared by this state's party members. Of course, six state Democrats flew by helicopter to greet the warship as it headed into Everett on Monday. U.S. Reps. Norm Dicks, Jay Inslee and Rick Larsen, who all represent districts that include Navy installations, said they don't begrudge Bush's landing and national address on the aircraft carrier May 1. They said the nation's focus should be on the economy and today's tax-cut vote, not Bush's visit to the Lincoln. The House trio was accompanied...

Murray Praises Crew at U.S.S. Lincoln Homecoming Celebration For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 6, 2003 WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray addressed the crew of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln as it returned home to Everett from a ten-month deployment. The Abraham Lincoln was scheduled to return home in December 2002 after completion of a six-month mission in the Persian Gulf supporting the Global War on Terrorism when it was ordered to make a “U-Turn” back to the Gulf to support what would later become Operation Iraqi Freedom. Over the ship’s public address system, Rear Admiral John M. Kelly...

Hey everyone, Patty Murray is planning to be back in Spokane on Tuesday, April 15th at the Doubletree next to the downtown Convention Center. I think we should greet her again and let her know how we feel about her vote to cut our tax break in half, and her vote to keep taxing Social Security benefits, and her vote against giving President Bush the power to take action in Iraq, and her idiotic comments about how we should do good deeds like Osama bin Laden... Please help spread the word! Forward this e-mail to everyone on your list -...

WASHINGTON — Ending months of speculation, Rep. Jennifer Dunn has decided not to challenge Sen. Patty Murray in 2004, clearing the way for Rep. George Nethercutt or another Republican to take on the two-term Democrat. "While it is key that we elect more Republicans at the local, state and national levels, I have decided that I can be most effective by remaining in the U.S. House of Representatives," Dunn said last night in a statement. The Bellevue Republican has long been considered the party's first choice to challenge Murray, with encouragement for a Dunn candidacy coming from as high as...

Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.) is expected to announce this week that she will not challenge Democratic Sen. Patty Murray next year. Dunn’s office declined to comment on her plans Tuesday. But Republican sources close to the congresswoman said an announcement is likely this week, and Democrats say Dunn is bowing out. Chris Vance, head of the Washington state Republicans, said he’d heard “that Jennifer will be saying something Thursday.” By late Tuesday afternoon, Democratic congressional staffers said, a consensus had emerged about Dunn’s Senate plans. “Conventional wisdom has it that she’s not running,” one staffer said. “But nothing official.” Dunn’s...

Senator Patty Murray Freep, After Action Report, Inland Power Company Luncheon, Saturday, March 29th. About 25 - 30 people were there at the height of the "action". We even had the King Weasel that haunted Representative George Nethercutt a couple of years ago. Lots of good creative signs and KXLY showed up and did a short interview with a well-spoken guy who had his ducks in a row. We are hoping that this is the beginning of a regular occurrence for Patty and that other groups and individuals take up the cause of constantly reminding her and the public of...

Saturday, March 29th at 11:00AM, Spokane, WA Patty Murray was one of the few Senators to vote against a resolution giving President Bush support of the Senate in case he felt it necessary to take military action against Iraq. Patty Murray stated that the US should be more like Osama bin Laden (building roads, hospitals, and day-care centers??) in our dealings with the middle east. Patty Murray is an Embarassmsment. Patty Murray is scheduled to be the lunch speaker at the Inland Power and Light annual meetings at the Doubletree Hotel at Sullivan and the freeway, this Saturday the 29th....

Back in December, I remember reading about Washington Sen. Patty Murray praising Osama bin Laden for being "out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that." Although she received quite a bit of scorn from some parts of the press, it was during the Trent Lott fiasco and no one really cared about what some "out-there" senator thought about bin Laden. She continued: "How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that...

"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purposes are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British Crown," Eleven term U.S. Representative, Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), as quoted in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, March 1, 2003 (Illus: Ethan Allen, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, saying, "Come out of there, you goddam old rat!" takes Ft. Ticonderoga from the British -- the first American victory of the Revolutionary War. It was a fine example of how rudeness to tyrants can save ammunition.) Astounding. Representative Kaptur thinks Al-Queda and...

Which stories got 'spiked' last year? Readers, WND editors pick most underreported events of 2002 Posted: February 10, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As it does every year at this time, WorldNetDaily.com has compiled its annual list of the most "spiked" stories of the past year – those major news events of 2002 that were either underreported or unreported by the mainstream media. While most news organizations present year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months, WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a...

N.C. Congressman OK With Internment Camps HIGH POINT, N.C. - A congressman who heads a homeland security subcommittee said on a radio call-in program that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Rep. Howard Coble (news, bio, voting record), R-N.C., made the remark Tuesday on WKZL-FM when a caller suggested Arabs in the United States should be confined. Another congressman who was interned as a child criticized Coble for the comment, as did advocacy groups. Coble, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said he didn't agree with the caller but did...

To the cheers of immigrant-rights advocates, the Seattle City Council yesterday adopted a "don't ask" policy prohibiting police and other city workers from asking about the immigration status of people they come in contact with. The ordinance, sponsored by City Councilman Nick Licata, was touted as a symbolic rejoinder to the Bush administration's war on terrorism, which critics argue has eroded important civil liberties, especially for recent immigrants, both legal and illegal. "It is just an incredibly frightening time," said City Councilwoman Judy Nicastro. While there was no visible opposition to the ordinance yesterday, some police officers have questioned the...

Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington State, expressed concern about the attitude of some allies such as France, which is pressing for U.N. weapons inspectors to be given more time to finish their operation. "I think it would be very difficult for us to pursue this without military and monetary support from U.S. allies," declared Murray.

Sound Transit to receive $50 million from federal government THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE -- Sound Transit will receive $50 million from the federal government to build a light rail line from downtown Seattle to the edge of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Sen. Patty Murray says. In a statement issued Thursday from Washington, D.C., Murray, D-Wash., said she was notified by the Department of Transportation about the release of funds she and former Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., secured in an appropriations bill in 2001. Release of the money indicates federal transportation officials are now satisfied with the progress of Sound Transit. This...

'Osama Mama' Murray Cancels Phoenix Fund-Raiser Patriotic Arizonans needn't bother protesting at tonight's scheduled fund-raiser for Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray. She won't show her face. It's Her Party and She'll Cry if She Wants To Claiming she could not miss a budget vote, Murray, D-Wash., canceled a controversial reception that Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza had planned at the downtown Hyatt Regency. "Local conservative and veterans groups had planned to picket the event, claiming Murray was an enemy sympathizer for suggesting the United States should emulate Osama bin Laden's charity to the Arab world," the Arizona Republic reported today. Rimsza...