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Secret Service Facing Lawsuit For Arresting Cheney Protestor

NY Times   |  Kirk Johnson   |   January 18, 2008 09:36 AM


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The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in Iraq might have seemed, at the time, no more than a blip on the vice president's schedule.

But now the blip has become a blowup, with Secret Service agents -- under oath in court depositions -- accusing one another of unethical and perhaps even illegal conduct in the handling of Mr. Howards's arrest and the official accounting of it.

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- FigaroJones See Profile I'm a Fan of FigaroJones permalink

Go Steven Howards!! I hope he gets millions out of that lawsuit and the FBI agents responsible are disciplined or fired. The people of this country will NOT bend to Fascism.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:05 PM on 01/23/2008
- dana94591 See Profile I'm a Fan of dana94591 permalink

A guy approaches an elected official and views his opinion and he is arrested!!! What planet does the Bush administration live on??? This is America, for Christ's sakes!! We are not to let them know that we don't like what they doing and we disagree with them about the direction of this country and the frigging war they got us into (which they don't have to fight, I might add) and he is treated as if he were in some dictatorship???? This stuff burns my a--!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:33 AM on 01/21/2008
- sugarmoes See Profile I'm a Fan of sugarmoes permalink

arrest this criminal vice president.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:04 AM on 01/21/2008
- JTurn See Profile I'm a Fan of JTurn permalink

Guy speaks his mind to Cheney, he gets arrested, Bush/Cheney commit crimes for 8 years and pardon themselves before they're ever charged with anything, that just goes to show that they knew they were commiting great crimes, otherwise, why would they pardon themselves, not a joke!......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQ7Prwh7Gc

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:44 AM on 01/21/2008
- mrJJ See Profile I'm a Fan of mrJJ permalink

January 20, 2008

FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft

The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets


She says the FBI was investigating a Turkish and Israeli-run network that paid high-ranking American officials to steal nuclear weapons secrets. These were then sold on the international black market to countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist.

But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.

Edmonds believes the crucial file is being deliberately covered up by the FBI because its contents are explosive. She accuses the agency of an "outright lie".

"I can tell you that that file and the operations it refers to did exist from 1996 to February 2002. The file refers to the counterintelligence programme that the Department of Justice has declared to be a state secret to protect sensitive diplomatic relations," she said.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:57 AM on 01/20/2008
- hockeynut See Profile I'm a Fan of hockeynut permalink

GEORGE BSH IS A SERIAL KILLER AND SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR THE MURDERS OF 3000 PLUS IN NEW YORK AND THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE IN IRAQ AND OF COURSE FOR THOSE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED NOT KNOWING WHAT THERE GOEVERNMENT HAS DONE TO THEM

I HOPE HE GETS THE SAME FATE SADAAM GOT

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:24 AM on 01/20/2008
- dax49 See Profile I'm a Fan of dax49 permalink

yet another criminal act which congress will fail to act on, which sening idiotic newsletters to their constiuents patting themselves on the back

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:06 PM on 01/19/2008
- CAPTAINSKIPPY See Profile I'm a Fan of CAPTAINSKIPPY permalink

Yet another distraction to help convince us that the empty shell of a government now left behind is still our America as we remember it.
Practically, America is now a subsidiary of Halliburton, a FOREIGN corporation! Dick & Dumbya have pulled the biggest flimflam ever - IMPEACH now!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:11 PM on 01/19/2008
- dr7854 See Profile I'm a Fan of dr7854 permalink

As long as Bush is in office, impeaching Cheney will only result in a pardon. Same if Bush was to be impeached, and convicted. Once they leave office, however, if they were to be charged, and convicted of crimes, who do they have to save their asses? This would be the only way to make them pay for the many crimes they have committed, and a year from tomorrow, we are DUE to swear in a new President, and V.P. I highlight DUE, because they, Bush, and Cheney, know this as well, so who knows what they may be planning. There is NOTHING I would put past them! NOTHING!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:53 PM on 01/19/2008
- realitytrumpsbull See Profile I'm a Fan of realitytrumpsbull permalink

It's kind of a wierd thing that they'd actually come forward and say 'we did wrong'...

The Cheney deal is a building groundswell of dissent that's been coming for a while.
I think he should be asked to resign on the simple grounds of conflict of interest.
If you read the history, the back-story and all, then you realize he was CEO of Halliburton.
Halliburton is one of the companies raking in the mad cash over in Iraq. Hand over fist.
Problem with that? Well, OTHER than bare-naked war profiteering, Cheney also recieved compensation from Halliburton while in public office. Does that constitute a conflict of interest, being able to set national policy that benefits a company that then pays you money? Does that constitute payola etc., some kind of illegal/unethical arrangement, there?
I think it does.


War is a racket, Ike warned about it, Butler warned about it, Greenspan, Abazaid, and Biafra(Jello) have all said 'oil war', if it walks like an oil war, talks like an oil war, quacks like an oil war, it's an oil war. And, if these guys are going to turn OUR Constitution into toilet paper so that THEY can drill oil wells and perpetuate policy that profits them personally as WELL as their industrial cronies/pals/etc., well, then it's time for that resignation statement. Congress should be asking for that daily instead of serving up waffles and other evidence of incompetence to the public at-large. They got elected for a reason, one of those reasons was to carry out the 'oh, shit' clause in the Constitution. Nevermind Iraq, let's have regime change in D.C.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:46 PM on 01/19/2008
- oogabooga See Profile I'm a Fan of oogabooga permalink

The young agents got caught up in Cheney's Nazi-Gestapo-style of governing. Cheney is a throwback to the fascist movements in Europe and South America in the thirties. His crime syndicate has had its heydey. They got their money. Now, just go away and line your coffins with it. Take it with you to Hell.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:41 PM on 01/19/2008
- ImpeachmentNOW See Profile I'm a Fan of ImpeachmentNOW permalink

For anybody wondering why, day after day, the citizens of American are outraged, disgusted and embarrassed by the actions of the DickNBush government, here's a key reason: Nancy "Impeachment-is-off-the-table" Pelosi, who unilaterally granted these criminals immunity from prosecution for their high crimes and misdemeanors.

This utterly incompetent political hack will go down in history as the worst Speaker of the House ever. She will live in infamy for openly declaring to the most criminal president and vice president ever that "You can do whatever you want, we in Congress won't do our constitutional duty and stop your high crimes and misdemeanors. H'ell, we won't even bother to open an impeachment investigation, and we'll just ignore Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment for Cheney, HR #333. So go ahead, destroy the Constitution, abuse the Bill of Rights and make a mockery of the American democracy. We'll look the other way."

Any rational person will hope and pray and do all they can to ensure that Cindy Sheehan defeats Pelosi in the next election.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:52 PM on 01/19/2008
- kellygrrrl See Profile I'm a Fan of kellygrrrl permalink

every person who works for Cheney is nothing but a Future Fall Guy. How many have thrown away their life's career and reputation for this maniac? How many will continue to fall on their sword for the king?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 AM on 01/19/2008
- SunshineDaydream See Profile I'm a Fan of SunshineDaydream permalink

Kucinich: There has to come a moment of awareness. Something will happen to cause people to become aware of what's happening, of what's happened to the government. This is why impeachment is so important. Impeachment would bring up the whole train of abuses that have caused our government to become less democratic. The lies to take us into wars, the eavesdropping, the wiretapping, the rendition, the torture, I mean it all becomes one piece. If people see the whole thing at once, it then creates a kind of awareness that will create some change. I have no doubt about that at all, none whatsoever. What's happened is that people just see bits and pieces and it is never being tied together. I feel we are losing our democracy to lies that took us into war, lies that caused the destruction of essential civil liberties, lies that are driving us into debt, corruption on Wall Street and a Democratic Party that has lost its will to fight these people.
http://www.alternet.org/story/74268/?page=3

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 AM on 01/19/2008
- totaldisbelief See Profile I'm a Fan of totaldisbelief permalink

cheney will go unpunished unprosecuted and unidicted.He will never see a courtroom.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:06 AM on 01/19/2008
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