From http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/07/22/7909099:

For Immediate Release

Statement from Kansas Mutual Aid Legal Collective July 22, 2004

Today we received news from friends and activists in Denver, Colorado pertaining to incidents involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation and possibly local law enforcement agencies.

It was communicated to us, that two houses ...   more »

By Monique E. Stuart
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published July 25, 2004

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In an attempt to strengthen traditional marriage, a group ...   more »

Although Cheatey Cheney has refused to cooperate with any investigation of his energy policy for conflicts of interest, there are others who have done indepth research and found much that Vice President Potty Mouth et al. do not want the voters to know and just how deep the corruption is.  The Center for Public Integrity just released their report and had a conference that is on video for us, on their  great website.  Bill Moyers did a piece on this report, there is an audio section.  Julian Darley covers this report as well as other audio interviews on this subject and others on his very informative site.

From http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040725/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/shelby_leak

Sen. Shelby Probe Referred to Ethics Panel

By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department  has referred to the Senate Ethics Committee an investigation into whether Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama or his staff leaked classified information, indicating that criminal charges are highly unlikely, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday.
 
The referral Thursday means that it is now up to the ethics panel to decide if any action is warranted against Shelby, a Republican who was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Both the House and Senate intelligence committees were also briefed by prosecutors and the FBI about the findings of the investigation, said the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe remains officially open.

The investigation concerned the 2002 disclosure to news reporters of two messages intercepted by the National Security Agency a day before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Those messages contained the words "the match begins tomorrow" and "tomorrow is zero day" but they were not translated from Arabic until Sept. 12.

The intercepts had been disclosed by the NSA director, Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, during a private meeting of a joint House-Senate intelligence committee that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. Shelby was on the panel at the time.

Shelby has adamantly denied any wrongdoing and said he and his staff cooperated in the investigation. His spokeswoman, Virginia Davis, refused comment Saturday night and referred reporters to the senator's statement issued in January.

"My position on this issue is clear and well-known: At no time during my career as a United States Senator and, more particularly, at no time during my service as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have I ever knowingly compromised classified information," Shelby said in that statement.

It is a felony to intentionally leak classified information, but leak investigations rarely produce criminal charges because there are few witnesses and little or no paper trail to follow. Prosecutors also must prove that the person leaked the information with full knowledge it was a government secret.

The specificity of the wording in the 2002 leaks was particularly troubling to intelligence officials because it could tip off terrorists that a particular channel they were using had been compromised and thus dry up a valuable source of information by prompting them to use alternative means of communication.

The ringleader of three Americans on trial for torturing Afghans at a private jail in a freelance counter-terror mission denies any wrongdoing and claims they had active support from the US Defence Department.

An official at the Defence Department said there was no evidence of the group's contact with the agency.

Jonathan K Idema, Brett Bennett and Edward Caraballo were arrested when Afghan security forces raided a house in Kabul on July 5.   more »

I hope you all have gone vegan!  A second US cow tested positive for BSE.  Of course the USDA ...   more »