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When Eric Massa and a large contingent of veterans announced their campaigns for Congress earlier this year, award-winning filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud took notice. Arkansas natives, the Renaud brothers were intrigued that the veterans - most with no prior political experience or aspirations - wanted to serve their country again. Not by going to war this time, but by going to Washington. "It was an interesting idea to us. There were so many veterans coming together, led by Massa, and they were basically coming together in opposition of the way the war [in Iraq] was being run," said Brent...

Lynne F. Stewart, the firebrand lawyer known for defending unsavory criminals, now faces the possibility of living out her life like many of them, in maximum-security lockdown in a federal prison. Today, 20 months after she was convicted on terror charges, Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants who were convicted of conspiring with her will be sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors, arguing that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of an imprisoned terrorist client, have asked Judge John G. Koeltl to condemn her to 30 years in prison. That would be a life...

Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general who is one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers, said that any death sentence against the former Iraqi president would increase violence in the strife-torn country. "It seems clear that a guilty verdict will set off catastrophic violence" and that a death sentence would be even worse, Clark told a Washington press conference. "It's hard to know how many Iraqis, dozens, hundreds, thousands, will die because of the sentence," he said.

OK, Condi: Stop lying about the plans your administration inherited. Or rather, declassify NSPD-9 so everyone can know whether you're telling the truth. Let me explain. Bill Clinton pounced on Chris Wallace on Sunday for implying that he didn't do enough to take out Al Qaeda. In his response, he singled out plans that then-counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and the CIA drew up at the end of the Clinton administration for attacking the jihadis in Afghanistan. Those plans, which the Bush administration inherited, were never acted upon before 9/11, despite Clarke's and CIA Director George Tenet's sense of urgency. Instead,...

When Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark out on their famous journey, he took extraordinary steps to provide for their safety. He provided them with a blank check backed by the United States government to purchase any ship they might figure they needed on the west coast, assuming they felt such a need, and he provided them with the ultimate small arm of the time. It appears as if this ultimate small arm might have been a major factor in the expedition not having been annihilated by Indians. Not that tribes were wiped out with the weapon, nonetheless...

August 28, 2006 Join us Wednesday 6 - 9 pm United Nations Church Center 777 UN Plaza - 44th St. & 1st Ave, NYC Momentum for the Campaign for Accountability for U.S./Israeli War Crimes is building. The campaign has received thousands of endorsements from across the globe over the past weeks as the world learns more and more about the horrific crimes committed by the U.S. and Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. A recently released report from Amnesty International accuses the Israeli Army of deliberately attacking civilian targets -- a crime under international law. Even the U.S. has been forced...

Former NATO commander, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, said during a visit to the Denver area Wednesday that he believes the United States should help shape any United Nation's force that's sent to the Middle East to separate Israel and Lebanon. Clark added that he supported Israel's military action after the kidnapping of two soldiers by Hezbollah militants. "I've talked to people from Lebanon," Clark said. "Hezbollah is like a cancer on the body politic of Lebanon. But they're so strong and so powerful Lebanon itself can't get rid of them." He added that is was important for the U.S. and...

Alan Colmes, last night: “Jim Angle, who reported this for FOX News, quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they’d already been degraded ..." Here's what you find when you do some digging on the Internet about mustard gas: a letter from two United Nations weapons inspectors to the President of the Security Council from 1999: " a dozen mustard-filled shells were recovered at a former CW storage facility in the period 1997-1998. The chemical sampling of these munitions, in April 1998, revealed that the mustard was still...

. NEVER FORGET After being put on suspension from practicing Law for the 2nd time in his career Civil Rights Attorney STEPHEN YAGMAN told KNX Los Angeles Radio News that he was going to go on vacation for a month on his own Ranch/Farm in Communist Cuba. Yesterday now Federal Grand Jury-indicted Attorney STEPHEN YAGMAN, who has been doing all he can to shut down the Los Angeles Police Department and America's War on Terrorism, had his Passport pulled while paying $100,000 bail on charges Federal Tax Evasion. NEVER FORGET .

The former US general who commanded NATO's 1999 air war against Serbia predicted its southern province of Kosovo would become independent within months. Wesley Clark told Kosovo Albanian leaders in Pristina he had confidence in their "strong, positive and visionary proposals" to find a solution for Kosovo, which has been run by the United Nations and NATO since 1999. "I am confident that this issue will be solved very soon, and probably in few months, Kosovo will become independent and will respect the rights of all citizens," said Clark. "I believe that Kosovo will be welcomed into the family of...

If Mary O. McCarthy should ever be so desperate as to need a character witness, or to require one so badly that she must stoop to my level, I declare in advance that I shall step forward pro bono. I am quite willing to accept that whatever she did or did not do or say about the surreptitious incarceration of al-Qaida suspects overseas (and let's not prejudge this), she did it from the most exalted motives. I accept this because, however much of her hard-earned money she threw away on making a donation to the John Kerry presidential campaign, she...

Despite bombs, boats and rubber bullets, dozens of sea lions are continuing to kill salmon near the Bonneville Dam. This month, biologists are trying one last time to scare off the problem sea lions, but if that doesn't work, they may try to kill them. Sea lions could kill as much as 10 percent of this spring's salmon run and biologists say if they cannot get the problem solved soon, the situation could get ugly. The problem is that the salmon are disappearing. An estimated 8,000 salmon will be lost this spring at Bonneville Dam. "The difficult part about it...

"No one now disputes that stopping Slobodan Milosevic was the right thing to do,” wrote the Wall Street Journal this week, several days after the deposed Serbian strongman expired in his cell in The Hague. It’s an appealing sentiment, suggesting as it does that the man who presided over the deaths of 250,000 people in Yugoslavia in the 1990s died unsung and unmourned. In reality, however, even Slobodan Milosevic had his defenders. What is more, they are the same voices--largely on the far Left but also on the isolationist Right--who have now taken up the cause of Saddam Hussein. Many...

O.J. Simpson's daughter is expected back in court today. Sydney Simpson, 20, was granted a continuance last month on charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct stemming from an incident at Everglades School last year. She was arrested in January 2005 after refusing to stop yelling at officers outside the school. Witnesses said that Simpson got into a scuffle after she thought someone had made negative comments about her mother.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—February 06, 2006—Rodman & Renshaw Holding, LLC today announces the appointment of General Wesley K. Clark (ret.) as Chairman of the Board and Head of the Advisory Board. General Wesley K. Clark is one of the nation's most distinguished retired military officers. During his thirty-four years of service in United States Army, he held numerous staff and command positions and rose to the rank of 4-star general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander. A candidate for the presidency in 2003, General Clark is now chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and...

Sandy Berger: Bush 'Breaking' the Military Disgraced former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger is blasting President Bush for undermining U.S. defenses by "breaking" the military. A just-released report co-authored by Berger and several other top Clinton administration officials complains: "We believe that the Bush administration has broken faith with the American soldier and Marine." According to the web site ISN Security Watch, the report by Berger & Co. contends that the Bush administration's poor planning ahead of the Iraq war, a shortage of troops and not enough equipment or protection for troops could result in "breaking the force." The disgraced...

ROCHESTER, NY - Did Bishop Matthew H. Clark of Rochester, NY prohibit lay preaching at Sunday Masses in his diocese? According to several reports, at two mandatory - and highly secret - meetings for “all homilists” in the Diocese of Rochester, on January 4 and 5, Bishop Matthew H. Clark allegedly informed lay preachers whom he had previously authorized to preach at Sunday Masses, that the illicit practice must stop. But the practice did not stop, and probably will not, since lay preachers preached at least at two Masses on January 8 at St. John of Rochester and St. Patrick’s...

Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2006--GlobalOptions Group, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOI), a leading provider of domestic and international risk management services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA), based in Washington, D.C., for $6 million in cash and stock, the assumption of certain liabilities and an earn out based upon achieving certain revenue goals. The transaction, which is subject to financing and other conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2006. "James Lee Witt Associates is a major force within the public safety and crisis management...

Nominees For Special Election Get Ready For Short Race For 37th Seat (LOUISVILLE) -- The special election for the open 37th District seat now has its two candidates. On Sunday Republicans nominated former teacher Debbie Peden a day after Democrats nominated State Rep. Perry Clark. They replace Republican Dana-Seum Stephenson and Democrat Virginia Woodward who faced off in the last election. WAVE 3's Frances Kuo reports. Four Republican candidates had stepped up to the plate with three-minute pitches including Doug Hawkins, Betty Drexler, Debbie Peden, and Tommy Riddle. Forty ballots from the Republican party's executive committee revealed their choice: Debbie...

NEW YORK -- There was more to celebrate than the ball dropping in Times Square for Dick Clark _ the personality who's been ringing in the New Year for decades made his first television appearance since a stroke in late 2004. Clark, sitting behind a desk with the street scene in the background, sounded hoarse and occasionally was hard to understand, but he said, "I wouldn't have missed this for the world." "Last year I had a stroke," he explained. "It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk again. It's been a...

When Ramsey Clark joined the Saddam Hussein defense team I knew things would start to get interesting. Clark is just one more example as to why liberals should never be allowed to run the country. After a stint as the United States Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson, Clark would take up a new hobby as a defender of the peace and virtue of terrorists and dictators across the globe. Even before declaring Hussein’s innocence, Clark had more than enough on his resume to at least compete with Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. Among his...

Latonia Wilson says she was only trying to do something nice for jurors. “I just thought it would be fun,” she said. “Especially at Christmastime.” Ken Clark, though, thought it was an obvious effort to buy campaign materials with taxpayers’ money. “I’m just amazed that she would even try it,” he said. Wilson is a Democrat who will be seeking her second term next year as district clerk. Clark is a Republican who will be seeking a third term as Precinct 4 commissioner. “Everything is going to be looked at politically,” Wilson said. “I’m not sure what the issue necessarily...

On the Today Show this morning, Katie Couric said: “Now to another big story going on in Iraq: the trial of Saddam Hussein. And an unlikely member of his defense team: Former U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark. He is here for his first interview since visiting his client in Baghdad last week. Mr. Clark, good morning.” Yes, Katie, what a shocker! I mean, Ramsey Clark defending a bad guy? You could have knocked me over with a feather. Of course, there may be just a little teeny-tiny bit of precedent for this. Clark did defend Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavia president...

by Mark Finkelstein December 12, 2005 - 08:06 "Allies Establish Beachhead in Normandy: Could Troops be Home Sooner?" Somehow, I doubt that was the headline in the wake of D-Day. Yet this morning, the Today show viewed the impending Iraqi elections largely through the prism of bringing US troops home. The graphic read "Iraq Votes: What Elections Mean to America", and Matt Lauer set the tone, introducing reporter Richard Engel in Baghdad by asking "what does [the election] mean for the future of US troops there?" Engel picked up theme: "Sunni participation in this election could reduce violence over time,...

Saddam Hussein's lawyer, Ramsey Clark, has yet to present his defense against allegations that the Iraqi dictator used gruesome torture techniques and mass executions to keep his people in line. But two years ago, Clark was claiming that brutality charges against the Butcher of Baghdad had simply been made up. Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was eaten alive by dogs while Saddam watched, Clark told KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel, "That's the most absurd story I've heard in a long time." "Propaganda can be pretty vicious," he warned.

International Law: Everyone has the right to an attorney. But as Ramsey Clark rushes to the side of Saddam Hussein, this may be a case where both the defendant and his counsel can plead insanity...."Clark has been using and aiding mass murders and other American enemies for the last 30 years," conservative pundit David Horowitz said in 2003 of a Clark trip in Iraq. "He should give it a rest." But that is unlikely. ...Clark has defended the who's who of mass murderers — not just Milosevic, but also Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, also accused of war crimes, as...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs in the northern city of Kirkuk for allegedly plotting to assassinate the investigating judge who prepared the case against Saddam Hussein, a senior police commander said Sunday. The announcement came as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad, airport officials said, apparently to aid in Saddam's defense. Clark has been advising nearly a dozen international lawyers on Saddam's defense team. He has contended that Saddam's rights have been violated in the legal process following his capture. But a U.S. government official close to the court said the defense...

MIDI - TICKET TO RIDE Hello, our friend, Ramsey Clark...how are you today? Saddam is needing your help...I think right away We'll buy your ticket to fly-y We'll buy your ticket to fly-y-y We'll buy your ticket to fly...do not delay It seems another defense attorney's been whacked Saddam is pleading to you...it's time to come back We'll buy your ticket to fly-y We'll buy your ticket to fly-y-y We'll buy your ticket to fly...do not delay We know he's a mass-murdering slime But there are rules...he gets a chance to be heard For you to just sit home...

Bush touts Iraq vote; Democrats want clear U.S. strategy Both see hope in poll on draft constitution Saturday, October 15, 2005; Posted: 11:17 a.m. EDT (15:17 GMT) (CNN) -- Calling Saturday's constitutional referendum "a critical step forward in Iraq's march toward democracy," President Bush said the vote will "deal a severe blow to the terrorists" striking out at the struggling democratic system. A leading Democrat, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, sent out a cautionary message about the larger context of what he says is expected to a "large turnout for the referendum: While it "seems to be an important step" for...

Tracking Down A Fifth Column FrontBy Edward ImmlerFrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 Vietnam-era anti-war protestors continue their demonstrating today, most recently in San Francisco against a potential Iraq war, but the sponsorship, partnerships, and funding of these groups raise questions about their real purpose. They are very organized, have a significant Internet presence, and actively raise large amounts of money. This all started when I saw the name of a protest group listed in an AP wire story. I wondered a bit about this and tried to find out about this group via the Internet. I found that I could...

IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana June 3, 2004IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Arkansan James Lee Witt, the former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bill Clinton, joined the Louisiana government Saturday to help direct the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Witt, who ran FEMA from 1993 to 2001, said he will stay as long as he as needed. "He will sit at the table for me, and he will be my voice at the table," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said. Louisiana officials are getting stretched too thin and need help, she said. "I like to hire the smartest people in the country," she added. Witt...

In the old, familiar fashion, mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq have mobilized increasing public doubts about the war. More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq -- a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate. From the outset of the U.S. post-invasion efforts, we needed a three-pronged strategy:...

Monsignor Eugene Clark has kept a low profile since the scandal broke last week, but now says nothing improper happened in that hotel room. You'll recall that Clark, the former rector at St. Patrick's Cathedral, is accused of having a long-running affair with his secretary, Laura DiFilippo. In July, the two of them spent five hours together at the White Sands Motel in Amagansett, caught on video by a private eye hired by Laura's husband. But a source tells CBS 2's Tony Aiello that Clark insists nothing improper went on, saying they merely stopped to rest after a long lunch...

I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence...[I resolve] In the future to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself." -Meriwether Lewis on his 31st birtday August 18, 1805 Camp Fortunate (Near present day Dillon, MT.) Captain Meriwether Lewis, along with Captain William Clark and the Corps of Discovery had left St. Louis 15 months earlier. Under his leadership, the Corps had traveled...

The archdiocese of New York has just announced that Msgr. Clark's resignation from the Rectorate of St. Patrick's Cathedral has been accepted.

Democratic presidential hopeful Wesly Clark is now appearing on Fox to trash the president for his recess appointment of John Bolton. He predicted that Bolton would have a difficult time because of the lack of senatorial support.

The Brooklyn Connection By Julia Gorin Albanian-American roofer Florin Krasniqi has been living in Brooklyn and smuggling American guns into Kosovo to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army--this time for war against its erstwhile saviors, NATO and the UN....Realizing Albanians could lose the good will of Americans once they see the documentary, Krasniqi went on "60 Minutes" last Sunday, to paint himself as a concerned citizen promoting anti-gun legislation...

From Wesley Clark's securingamerica.com - July 8, 2005 Returning soon.

Tape Shows General Clark Linking Iraq and Al Qaeda NY Times ^ | Jan. 12, 2004 | EDWARD WYATT MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 11 — Less than a year before he entered the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Gen. Wesley K. Clark said that he believed there was a connection between the Iraqi government and Al Qaeda. The statement by General Clark in October 2002 as he endorsed a New Hampshire candidate for Congress is a sign of how the general's position on Iraq seems to have changed over time, though he insists his position has been consistent. "Certainly...

Stop Blaming the Troops - Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces. Today, the reports of abuse and humiliation at detainment facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba are distracting the world from focusing on winning the war on terror. Although the military chain of command seems to have properly investigated the role of its personnel and held accountable those in the wrong, the civilian leadership in...

Stop Blaming the Troops -- Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces. For generations, the United States has been a powerful voice of moral authority in the world. After World War II, we led the world in creating the Geneva Conventions and prosecuting war criminals at Nuremberg, and later became one of the first nations to ratify the Convention Against Torture. Even today, Slobodan Milosevic is being...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark will do military and foreign affairs analysis for FOX News Channel, the cable news company announced Wednesday. Clark, of Little Rock, has 34 years of military service and rose to the rank of four-star general. He was supreme allied commander of NATO from 1997-2000. He made an unsuccessful bid last year for the Democratic nomination for president. Clark graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and has a master's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He also is author of "Waging Modern War: Bosnia,...

Most of you have seen the picture of a priest baptizing a naked baby by dipping its butt into a baptismal "pool". It constituted a thread here on FR and we all wondered where this had taken place. The full story appeared today in The Wanderer. Here it is, hand transcribed. * * * * * ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Diocese of Rochester’s Sacred Heart Cathedral, which Bishop Matthew Clark insists is the model for Catholic worship for the entire diocese, was the setting for a bizarre baptismal ritual of questionable validity on Pentecost Sunday, as Rainbow Sashers received Communion....

ITHACA NY--Retired U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark aimed several jabs at President Bush's leadership during a speech Saturday to Cornell University's graduating class. "We don't need the kind of leadership that is so hackneyed that George Lucas quotes it in "Star Wars:" 'If you're not with us, you're against us,' " Clark said to an over-capacity crowd in Barton Hall A small group protested Clark's speech before the event. They said they didn't object to his anti-Bush stance, but they saw the former NATO commander as a symbol of the same sort of "bullying kind of leadership" that Clark attributed to...

When Wes Clark ran for President, I was all for it. Here was a guy, the former commander of NATO who wanted to become the President. Soon thereafter I realized that just because Clark came from the military, he certainly was not a conservative. Clark took the pulpit to criticize Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea without really putting together any ideas of what he would have done differently except that he would have built a 'coalition'. In a speech to the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Clark said that because of the recent round of military...

FORT STEWART, Ga. - A soldier who said he refused to return to duty because he opposes the war in Iraq left his unit as its job became more dangerous, his commanding officer testified Thursday. Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, an infantryman with the Florida National Guard, is charged with desertion after failing to return to his unit in Iraq after a two-week furlough in October. He said his experiences in Iraq turned him against the war, and he claims he deserted his unit partly to avoid orders to abuse Iraqi prisoners. Capt. A.J. Balbo, the lead prosecutor, said in his...

Ex-Contestant Says He Got Coaching From, Had Relationship With, Judge Paula AbdulMay 3, 2005 -- A former "American Idol" contestant told ABC News' "Primetime Live" that Paula Abdul, one of the judges for the hit reality television show, provided him with off-camera tips and assistance while he was a contestant, even helping him select some of the songs he would sing. "She was opening my eyes to like, 'Look, you sing this stuff. This is how you're going to get through,'" said Corey Clark, one of the 12 finalists during the Fox show's second season. Clark, then 22, said that...

Speculation mounted yesterday that ``American Idol'' judge Paula Abdul may be voted off the hit reality show after ABC airs a damning investigation tomorrow night. Abdul, who has been under fire for erratic on-air behavior, may voluntarily vacate the judge's podium after ``Primetime Live'' airs answering-machine messages she left for a 24-year-old contestant. The Drudge Report says Abdul personally coached the contestant and then tried to cover it up. Speculation surrounds Corey Clark, who was run off the show last season after it was revealed he assaulted his teenage sister. Clark is peddling a tell-all biography in which he claims...