World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/07/17-1

Human Rights Group Seeks Probe of Mass Graves in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/17-2

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Physicians for Human Rights: Afghan General Dostum Denies Allegations of Massacre of Taliban Prisoners; Confirms Their Joint Surrender to US and Afghan Forces.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/17-19

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Obama administration: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes

Memphis Commercial Appeal

07/22/09

Obama administration officials said today they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces. The mass deaths were brought up anew today in a report by The New York Times on its Web site. It quoted government and human rights officials accusing the Bush administration of failing to investigate the executions of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of prisoners...

http://tinyurl.com/m2e8te


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/17-9



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/17-1

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Journalist Imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay to Sue George Bush

Gwladys Fouche, The Guardian UK: "An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US President George Bush and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities."

http://www.truthout.org/071909Y?n



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http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/c5330e31ab1f3fea?hl=de



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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Alzheimer

http://tinyurl.com/ldaljl

Corporations Sponsor Wolf-Killing "Derbies": Take Action to Stop Them
http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=F4rhdNocnBKBG7q-6l4i5w..



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wolves

http://news.google.de/news?q=Natalya+Estemirova

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Condemn Murder of Russian Human Rights Defender
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=crJQL4OzFbKML7I&s=7gILLWPvH9LJK0OCJmE&m=bnJFJTOpGdKVH



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Politkowskaja
http://news.google.de/news?q=Stanislav+Markelow
http://news.google.de/news?q=Anastasia+Barburowa

CounterPunch
by Evan Knappenberger

07/16/09

Amy made a decision to go AWOL. It was a decision made not out of fear, but out of courage. She simply refused to participate in something she considered to be immoral. A young, beautiful woman with an intellect to match, Amy now chooses to hide in anonymity rather than to turn herself in and be readmitted into a system full of implicit and explicit violence. She cannot drive, rent housing, keep a bank account or phone, or visit her family. But what Amy lacks in lifestyle choices, she more than makes up for in integrity. ‘Not hurting people is worth it’ she claims...

http://counterpunch.org/knappenberger07162009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AWOL
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deserter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Evan+Knappenberger

Christian Science Monitor
by Paul Lamb

07/16/09

Can social capital redeem our financial souls? At a time when financial markets have clearly let us down, we can’t afford to breathe new life into a carcass. Social capital offers the solution we have been looking for. What is social capital? It refers to the worth of our social networks, individual skills, and even things like the time we invest in volunteering. For example, the time I put into helping a neighbor paint a fence (free of charge) is a form of social capital. Its value equates to the time I spent and the ‘worth’ of an enhanced relationship. In traditional economics, the nonfinancial contributions we make are basically worthless. Financial transactions and our monetary net worth are all that really matter. Sadly, we have sunk to measuring our individual and national value through debt, surpluses and productivity gains. But what if we looked beyond investments and financial capital and began taking social capital seriously?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0716/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/17/09

Only Richard Nixon, whose political career was launched and sustained by an ostensibly militant anti-communism, could have traveled to China, and — with conservative support — effected a de facto strategic alliance with a country long considered an implacable enemy. This Nixon-to-China meme is regularly invoked as aphoristic evidence that we must expect the unexpected, and it comes to mind when considering the prospects of an impending military conflict with Iran: it occurs to me that only Barack Obama, who won the White House in large part due to his opposition to the Iraq war, could take us to war with Iran, and rally liberals and much of the left behind it. Oh, I can hear the outraged howls of protest from the Obama cult, but consider: The president has already set a September deadline for Iran to respond to our as-yet-informal proposal to negotiate over the completely phony nuclear issue — an oddly confrontational approach to opening the first on-the-record high level talks with the Islamic Republic since the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/07/16/obamas-war-signals/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
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Miami Herald

07/16/09

U.S. military personnel at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, actively helped Chinese interrogators question members of China’s Uighur minority, including physically restraining them so they could be photographed against their will, according to testimony presented Thursday to a congressional subcommittee. The testimony is certain to add to the controversy over how the U.S. government has handled the Uighurs, who were turned over to U.S. troops in Afghanistan by bounty hunters who were paid $5,000 per captive...

http://tinyurl.com/nl5bkp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Uighur
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/szasz3.1.1.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance177.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/vance

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano6.1.1.html

We’re Going Away
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer194.html

The US Is Dying
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan113.html



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Kapitalismus-Recycling
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30734/1.html



"Konsistente Umverteilungsergebnisse"

Die Idee des Sozialstaats hat in den vergangenen Monaten neue Freunde gefunden. Auch und gerade in arbeitgebernahen Kreisen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30723/1.html



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Published Date: 17 July 2009

By ALASTAIR DALTON

A JUMBO jet changed direction because of interference from a passenger's mobile phone, air safety officials have told The Scotsman.

The revelation came as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) attempted to avert a surge of air rage incidents involving mobiles by warning holidaymakers that most airlines do not yet permit their use in flight.

Read More...
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Phone-causes-jet-to-change.5468755.jp

http://groups.google.com/group/omeganews/t/560034a8d8d24bf6?hl=de



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bird+flu
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Secretary of State happy she doesn't have to travel as far to get her orders

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s opening remarks during her speech to the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday will have done little to dampen accusations that the elitist CFR pulls the strings of the U.S. government.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/hillary-clinton-cfr-tells-government-what-it-should-be-doing.html



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Camden News - by TOM FOOT

Published: 16 July 2009

HUNDREDS of objections have met plans to erect a huge mobile phone mast in historic Hampstead.

The telecommunications giant Orange has applied to erect a 22-foot reception-boosting pole outside a historic wall, which once protected an ancient orchard, in Fitzjohn’s Avenue near the junction of Lyndhurst Road.

A campaign has been launched with residents, councillors, parents and schools, arguing that the mast – taller than a fully grown giraffe – will destroy the charm of the conservation area and damage children’s health.

Read More...
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2009/071609/news071609_12.html

Jobs data paint a discouraging picture of more pain to come.
http://snipurl.com/nd5gh



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=US+economy

Constitution Project
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/16-12



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Constitution+Project

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/16-1

Attorney General Holder Should Order Comprehensive Torture Investigation, Says ACLU
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/22-9



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Holder
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/16-2

Time to Pay Our Climate Debt
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/16-0



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/16-5



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ann+Jones

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-0

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Detainees Protest in Bagram Prison

Greg Jaffe and Julie Tate, The Washington Post: "The prisoners at the largest US detention facility in Afghanistan have refused to leave their cells for at least the past two weeks to protest their indefinite imprisonment, according to lawyers and the families of detainees."

http://www.truthout.org/071609L?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bagram
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-10

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Holding Paulson accountable for this mess

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by John Berlau

07/16/09

As much as conservatives criticize President Obama, legitimately in my view, for federal meddling in business and dictating who should serve on the auto industry boards, we must never forget that it was Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson who made the federal government go where it had never gone before in its dealings with private corporations. That is why the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee performed a valuable service in its hearing Thursday that got to the truth about Paulson’s threats to remove the CEO and board members of a private corporation if it didn’t do what Paulson arbitrarily deemed best for the ‘financial system’...

http://tinyurl.com/lz6oc8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paulson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Anne+Flaherty
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-1



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/16-8



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Whitehaven News - Whitehaven, England, UK

By Andrew Clarke

MOBILE phone company O2 has announced it will delay the building of a controversial mast close to Hensingham School. ...

http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/news/school_wins_mast_reprieve_1_583523?referrerPath=news/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=school+mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Whitehaven

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/16/Major-Expose-on-Swine-Flu-by-60-Minutes.aspx



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=swine+flu

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have thrown post-traumatic stress disorder into stark public light. As of the end of March, 346,393 US veterans were being treated for PTSD, and that number continues to grow rapidly. However, PTSD symptoms don't always wait to emerge until soldiers return home. For active-duty soldiers like Airman Steven Flowers, stationed in Aviano, Italy, it can take years to receive even minimal care. And once treatment begins, the soldiers are often punished for revealing their problems."

http://www.truthout.org/071509R?n



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PTSD
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maya+Schenwar

CounterPunch
by Joanne Mariner

07/14/09

In a high-profile national security speech he gave in May, President Obama asserted that the military prison at Guantanamo held some number of terrorism suspects who could not be convicted of a crime, but who were nonetheless too dangerous to release. According to a report in the Washington Post on Saturday, the Obama administration has now drafted an executive order that would allow such prisoners to be held indefinitely without charge. To disguise its plans for relying on a practice that is more characteristic of repressive governments than of constitutional democracies, the Obama administration has even invented its own euphemism. In his May speech, President Obama spoke only of ‘prolonged’ detention, not of indefinite detention, or preventive detention, or detention without charge...

http://counterpunch.com/mariner07142009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joanne+Mariner

Fox News

Researchers are now experimenting with developing insect cyborgs or ‘cybugs’ that could work as spies. Miniature robots could be good spies, but researchers now are experimenting with insect cyborgs or ‘cybugs’ that could work even better. Scientists can already control the flight of real moths using implanted devices. … Developing such robots has proven a challenge so far, with one major hurdle being inventing an energy source for the droids that is both low weight and high power. Still, evidence that such machines are possible is ample in nature in the form of insects, which convert biological energy into flight...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532511,00.html



The surveillance state threatens all of us

Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

07/16/09

When you hear the word ’security’ or ’safety’ watch out. They are the two buzz words that are most often used by the government, whether federal or local, to fearmonger. Fear can be used to drive bad policies that otherwise would be rejected. It has consequences, internationally, nationally, and locally. Around the world Americans fight wars because they are afraid that if they do not do so they will be attacked by terrorists. Nationally, the Department of Homeland Security grows and grows, compiling extensive data bases on citizens who have done no wrong...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=138


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=cyborg
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Giraldi

Bloomberg

07/16/09

U.S. foreclosure filings hit a record in the first half, a sign that job losses and falling property prices deepened the housing recession, according to RealtyTrac Inc. More than 1.5 million properties received a default or auction notice or were seized by banks in the six months through June, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a statement. That’s a 15 percent increase from the year earlier. One in 84 U.S. households received a filing...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHAbmgVoHjA4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreclosure
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss

US Senator Bernie Sanders: Demanding an End to Fed Secrecy, Sanders Questions Bonuses at Goldman Sachs and Other Big Banks.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/15-2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Goldman+Sachs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/15-10



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/15-9



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Graff

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/15-2



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=homelessness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Gorman

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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson258.html

Preparing for the New Economy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bonner/bonner396.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/anderson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bonner

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff301.html



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rozeff

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/jobs-problem124.html

Should We Absolve the Fed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods119.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rockwell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/woods

http://groups.google.de/group/freepage-news/t/29596f58a69407d3?hl=en



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bilderberg

Asse säuft ab und neue strahlende Laugensümpfe wurden gefunden, Notabschaltung von Krümmel führte zum Blackout in Gorleben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/30/30730/1.html



Mehrheit für Ausstieg

Bei den Bundesbürgerinnen ist mit der Atomkraft kein Blumentopf zu gewinnen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/142061



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Atomkraft
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Krümmel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gorleben

The coup's leaders complained that the country's president, Jose Manuel Zelaya, was attempting to extend his presidency with a referendum on the constitution which if passed, would have facilitated his potential re-election. Much of the mainstream media have repeated this view but it is simply false.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2619530.htm



Obama Handshake Snubbed

Video



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1C_NWMRs8Q


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zelaya
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Honduras

If you thought the end of American intervention in foreign wars was nearing, think again. President Obama has been replacing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with private contractors-some 250,000 are currently deployed overseas-including Black Water (operating under another alias.)

http://snipurl.com/nb1to


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jenny+Kakasuleff

BLOOD and dirt spattered across his comrades' faces, Trooper Anthony Matthews tried to ignore their screams.

http://snipurl.com/nb1qi


From Information Clearing House

Can The Economy Recover?

By Paul Craig Roberts

There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical "New Economy."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23068.htm



How Bad Will the Economy Get?

Really, Really Bad

By Thomas Greco, Jr.

Historically, every financial and economic crisis has been used to further centralize power and concentrate wealth. This one is no different, and in fact the moves being promoted by the Obama administration and the central banks of the Western powers will take the whole world to the pinnacle of financial despotism -- unless enough people wake up and claim their own "money power."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23062.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Thomas+Greco

By Bill Van Auken

The revelation that the CIA initiated a covert program, apparently involving assassinations, and kept it secret from the US Congress on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney marks a deepening of the crisis in the American state apparatus and an indication of the degeneration of democratic processes within the US.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23059.htm



Revealed: How CIA set up secret hit squad

The CIA spent at least $1 million on a secret intelligence programme that aimed to develop hit squads to kill Al Qaeda leaders, it has emerged.

http://snipurl.com/nb1zz



Cheney Sweats Out the Summer

By Ray McGovern

So far the summer has been mild in the Washington, D.C., area. But for former Vice President Dick Cheney the temperature is well over 100 degrees. He is sweating profusely, and it is becoming increasingly clear why.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23066.htm



The US Assassinates People All The Time

Rachel Maddow interviews Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

"We're killing the wrong people and we're killing the wrong people in the wrong countries".

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23073.htm



Bush's Hit Teams

By Robert Parry

The facts are already clear that his "global war on terror" had morphed into an international "dirty war" with Bush now having passed off command to President Obama.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23075.htm



Video Shows British Army Officer Screaming at Hooded Iraqi Civilians

By Daily Mail Reporter

The men were scalded with boiling water, urinated on, kicked, punched and hooded while in British military custody, the hearing chaired by retired Court of Appeal judge Sir William Gage was told.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23072.htm



Our Wartime Propaganda

By Seumas Milne

From the way official Britain pontificates about the war in Afghanistan, you'd never know that most British people want troops withdrawn by the end of the year and only a minority have supported the US-led campaign for years.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23074.htm


From Information Clearing House

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The most important questions to ask about the CIA’s targeted killing program

Slate
by Shane Harris

07/15/09

What have we learned this week about the once-secret CIA plan to target and kill members of al-Qaida? It stemmed from George Bush’s secret order in 2001 that allowed the CIA to capture and, if necessary, take out members of the terrorist network. The plan reportedly focused on killing terrorists at close range rather than blowing them up with remote-guided bombs. And former Vice President Dick Cheney told the CIA not to inform Congress about the program. What don’t we know? Much more. As the probing continues into what, precisely, this program was all about, here’s a list of the most important outstanding questions. The answers will determine whether this episode fades or turns into the first full-blown intelligence fiasco of the young Obama administration...

http://www.slate.com/id/2222934/



The back door way to ignore the Bill of Rights

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

07/15/09

Among the most shocking aspects of Barack Obama’s presidency so far has been his embrace of the power that George W. Bush assumed to incarcerate people suspected of terrorism for the rest of their lives, without a jury trial to determine whether they are in fact guilty of the offense. There is absolutely no reason why Obama and any future president cannot expand that power to other federal criminal offenses, including drug crimes and gun crimes...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-07-15.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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