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Scrapbook 'Domestic Spying' for $500, Alex As THE SCRAPBOOK enjoyed an afternoon walk down Washington's M Street last week, it passed an array of newspaper vending machines, for the N^-w Yo'rk...
...Make of this what you will...
...Negroponte, The Scrapbook has learned, is not enthusiastic about this idea...
...Pete Hoekstra has his way, we may finally begin to get answers to these questions and others...
...A scan of the headlines found the words "Domestic Spying" on all the front-page headlines...
...A University of Michigan annual survey found that overall teen drug use has declined 19 percent since 2001, which means that 700,000 fewer teens are using illegal drugs today...
...Equally intriguing is the fact that the papers couldn't turn up any innocent victims of this "domestic spying" program...
...He started off 2005 watching the Bush Inauguration, having squandered tens of millions on Kerry for President, Inc...
...What happened at the "Secret Meeting Between Taliban Representative and Iraqi Government" in November 2000...
...This was the artful shorthand America's top editors came up with to describe the president's decision, after 9/11, to intercept calls "from outside the country to in the country, or vice versa," when one of the parties to a call was someone with known ties to al Qaeda or its affiliates—without the benefit of a court warrant...
...They further recommended creating an international commission of experts and academics to study the documents...
...Hoekstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, like our colleague Stephen F. Hayes, is pushing the Bush administration and the intelligence community to release documents captured in postwar Iraq...
...SEN...
...the Czar Global financier George Soros, bankroller of Democrats, liberal activists, and drug legalizers, had a lousy year...
...Vlasak, you approve of these dastardly acts in the name of liberation, of a liberation movement...
...Hoekstra continued: "These documents, stored in more than 35,000 boxes in a warehouse in the Persian Gulf, could constitute a treasure trove of intelligence related to Saddam Hussein and actions taken by his regime prior to the war in Iraq...
...SEN...
...This page quoted his testimony at the time, but here's a bit more, in which he defends the assassination of medical researchers who experiment on animals: SEN...
...The animal rights movement is a large and diverse one, and includes some violent groups and some apologists for terror...
...Despite the possibility that these documents may contain critical information, a vast and untold amount dating back to Operation Desert Storm in 1991 still remains untranslated...
...Right Hoekstra Did Saddam Hussein destroy stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in February 2003, as an internal Iraqi Intelligence document captured by the U.S...
...The investigations of these groups—most prominently PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals—came to light thanks to an ACLU lawsuit against the FBI, news of which, the Post helpfully reported, came "amid recent revelations about the extent of domestic spying...
...LAUTENBERG: [You practice at several hospitals] but you are willing to take lives...
...And as the year winds down, Soros faces the news that significant progress has been made in the "war on drugs" he opposes...
...Scrapbook 'Domestic Spying' for $500, Alex As THE SCRAPBOOK enjoyed an afternoon walk down Washington's M Street last week, it passed an array of newspaper vending machines, for the N^-w Yo'rk Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, among others...
...Cord Accord It is indeed a season of miracles: Congress has set partisan posturing aside and passed a bill that will facilitate the collection and dissemination of life-saving umbilical cord blood stem cells throughout the country...
...But decency—and perhaps even a sense of shame—prevailed...
...As Wesley J. Smith reported in these pages three weeks ago, the bill was being held hostage in the Senate by Democrats to leverage a floor vote on a bill to increase funding of controversial and speculative embryonic stem cell research, even though umbilical cord blood treatments have already proven to be efficacious...
...He's an ohio truck driver named lyman Faris, now serving 20 years in federal prison for "supporting Al Qaeda by planning to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with blowtorches," as the New York Times described this particular activist's agenda...
...So "domestic spying" it was...
...LAUTENBERG: Dr...
...Consider Jerry Vlasak, a California physician and spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front—a group funded by PETA in the past—who testified before a Senate committee last October 26...
...But give credit to the Washington Post...
...The proposal is also being pressed by Senator Rick Santorum and Rep...
...Since Frist had already promised a vote on the embryonic stem cell bill next year, Harkin removed his objection, and the bill passed both houses overwhelmingly...
...Soros vs...
...one of the Americans whose privacy was invaded by the Bush dragnet was described...
...His boss, George W. Bush, should be...
...Tom Harkin initially refused...
...As is usually the case, the FBI had nothing to say about why it might or might not be monitoring PETA and the other aggrieved groups...
...SEN...
...There was a particularly sharp decline in methamphetamine use...
...VLASAK: These are not innocent lives...
...INHOFE: So you call for the murder of researchers and human lives...
...Hmmm...
...They found the next best thing to some innocent victims—an utterly unrelated bunch of ACLU clients who are being "monitored" (no mention of wiretaps) by the FBI in utterly unrelated investigations...
...Intriguingly, when a similar controversy arose in 1994, with the Clinton administration claiming a similar duty to engage in warrantless surveillance for national security purposes, the headline writers, at least at the Washington Post, found a different way to describe what was going on...
...If Rep...
...Hoekstra, along with Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, called on Director of National Intelligence John Negro-ponte to declassify and release all of the documents...
...Writing last week in the Washington Times, Hoekstra demanded access to this "vast array of foreign papers, documents, electronic media and other materials...
...INHOFE: Including murder, is that correct...
...Indeed...
...Majority Leader Bill Frist forced the issue by bringing the bill to the floor and requesting unanimous consent for passage...
...VLASAK: I said that would be a morally justifiable solution to the problem...
...military seems to suggest...
...You are willing to say that somebody you don't know, somebody's kid, somebody's parent, somebody's brother, somebody's sister—take that life, that's okay...
...Arguably, it would have better served public understanding of Bush's policy had the headlines last week said that the administration is "Backing No-Warrant Al Qaeda Searches...
...Administration Backing No-Warrant Spy Searches," was how the Post put it then...
...This good news comes on the watch of—and we suspect partly due to the efforts of—Drug Czar John P. Walters, who became director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in 2001 despite fierce opposition from Soros's legalization crowd...
...That is the anomaly here...
...Dana Rorhabacher...
...Full disclosure: We should note that THE SCRAPBOOK'S Christmas shopping also came "amid recent revelations about the extent of domestic spying...
...on second thought, maybe the Post was more right than it knew to link these two stories...
...VLASAK: I said in that statement and I meant in that statement that people who are hurting animals and who will not stop when told to stop, one option would be to stop them using any means necessary and that was the context in which that statement was made...
...Were France and Russia actually providing satellite images to the former Iraqi regime on the eve of war...
...But you can see how describing it that way might damp down enthusiasm for impeaching Bush...
...We have a different idea...
...The Post couldn't come up with any clues, either, but gave the ACLU and PETA lots of room to speculate that this might be part of the well-known Bush administration plan to violate the First Amendment rights of its opponents and crush dissent in America...
...Vlasak: Yes...
Vol. 11 • January 2006 • No. 16
