From: Pubkeybreaker on
Clinton Administration. It is as far-reaching an assertion of executive
# power to keep secrets from Congress as any president has ever made: the
# power to cover up crimes of the state.
#
# The Administration's position was set out last Nov. 26 in a legal
# memorandum, from the Justice Department to the CIA saying anyone
# disclosing classified information to a member of Congress would
# be violating the Constitution.
#
# James Madison must be rolling in his grave at that claim.
#
# The principal of separation of powers, which he wrote into the
# Constitution, was designed to let each of the three branches of
# Government check abuse by the others.
#
# Congress does not like to tangle with the executive on claims of
# national security.
#
# But will it lie down before this claim of exclusive, imperial power?

The New York Times, June 20, 1997

President Threatens Veto of Senate Bill for CIA

By TIM WEINER

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday passed a secret
spending bill for U.S. intelligence, but the White
House threatened to veto it over a provision that would
protect whistleblowers.

The Senate bill would let employees of the Central
Intelligence Agency and other branches of the
government tell members of Congress classified



From: Risto Lankinen on
association meeting...

It was amazing how often he was pulled over, and the cheesy reasons the
officers gave.

"Your tail light was broken"

He got out with the camera still on, showed the tail light was fine, and
asked the officer what he was talking about.

"Oh, you're right. Sorry."

He was pulled over again and again and again.

----

The New Jersey State Police admitted they were targeting black drivers.

Pulling them over, and searching their vehicles inch-by-inch.

----

* The New York Times, December 14, 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
* Six officers - five whites and one Asian-American - have plead guilty
* to corruption charges, including illegal searches, lying under oath
* and planting false evidence.
*
* The guilty pleas have led to a review of more than 1,600 arrests of
* mostly black and Hispanic suspects that were made by the officers
* from 1987 to 1994.
*
* Fifty-six convictions have already been overturned.

----

* The New York Times, November 26, 1995
* "Several Blacks Sue Beverly Hills, Asserting Bias by the Police"
* by Kenneth B. Noble
*
* Saying they had been victims of a callous police force, six blacks
* filed suit this week against the City of Beverly Hills, including
* the Police Chief and the Mayor.
*
* The plaintiffs include a handyman at a local church and the mother



From: Nick Wedd on
" Pratt said after walking out of jail
: on $25,000 bail. "You have political prisoners on top of political
: prisoners. I'm only one of a great many that should be exposed,
: should be addressed."
:
: The same judge who presided over Pratt's original trial set him free.
: Johnny Cochran said Pratt spent the first eight years of his sentence
: in solitary confinement.

That's a long time to sit in jail just because the FBI didn't want to
reveal its monitoring operations, isn't it? It's 1997 now: same as it
ever was. And his imprisonment had the same slimy quality as the vicious
attack on Qubilah Shabazz, whom the government at first claimed they
"had enough on her to put her away for 90 years".


And just how do domestic civil rights organizations get labelled terrorist
or under the influence of foreign agents? Why was Qubilah Shabazz's father
considered a terrorist?

: "Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency"
: by Stephen F. Knott, 1996, ISBN 0-19-510098-0
:
: Both presidents Johnson and Nixon had been convinced that Communist
: nations were bankrolling or directing the antiwar movement and had
: ordered investigations into this possibility.
:
: The CIA's investigations, which included operation CHAOS, found no
: evidence of external control or funding of the antiwar movement, the
: Black Panthers, or the Students for a Democratic Societ


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The first one is where an ex-worker ("Dumb") asks a current employee for
something proprietary, in this case written by the ex-co-worker, and the
current employee ("Dumber") gives it to them.

It happened again and again and aga


From: Dik T. Winter on
test, yet allow truck after truck after truck to
just wander right in knowing HUGE drug shipment after HUGE drug
shipment is crossing? Gosh, there's no drug problem with Mexican
police, military and even their president.

* The New York Times, February 19 1997
*
* Brig. General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, Mexico's top Military Drug War
* point man, was arrested on charges of receiving payoffs from Jaurez
* cartel kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Defense Minister Enrique Cervantes
* announced.
*
* U.S. Drug Czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey had weeks earlier called General
* Gutierrez "a guy of absolute unquestioned integrity."


And what if some terrorists wanted to sneak in an atom bomb?

Put a NAFTA sticker on it and drive right on in, y'all. Welcome to the USA.

If you want to really be certain, hide the A-bomb in a truck full of cocaine.

If a terrorist nuclear bomb ever goes off in this country,
it drove in from Mexico.

Meanwhile, Los Alamos National Laboratories developed technology that
allows an officer walking or driving down the street, as shown on MSNBC TV
6/9/97 www.TheSite.com, to determine whether anyone on the sidewalk is
carrying a gun.

The priorities are all out of whack.

Apply Military technology towards securing the border, not by spending
billions and billions and billions each year to secure each and every
one of us.

We don't put governing-monitors on