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9/11 Panel Outs CIA Spymaster Raising further questions about whether it's doing more harm than good, the commission probing the Sept. 11 attacks has revealed the identity of the CIA's top spymaster, a position considered so sensitive that in the entire history of the agency the anonymity of the person who holds it has never before been breached. Called to testify on Wednesday, James L. Pavitt, head of the CIA clandestine operations unit, told the panel, "I am not a public person." In a story headlined "Clandestine, Or at Least He Was Until Yesterday," the New York Times noted that...

I have always admired Edward Luttwak, one of the clearest American thinkers in the strategy/security game, and I have nothing but contempt for the U.S. Homeland Security Department (Heimatsicherheitsabteilung, in the original German) and its ridiculous color-coded threat levels. So I started reading a recent article by the former on the latter with genuine pleasure, anticipating that Luttwak was going to condemn Homeland Security for its habit of running up the levels from puce to magenta and back down to mauve, shredding Americans' nerves with warnings nobody can respond to in a useful way, for no better reason than to...

CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke expressed readiness Sunday, December 14, to act as defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, with western analysts suspecting the captured leader would be given fair trial. "Certainly, why not. I am ready to act in his defense," Clarke told IslamOnline.net shortly after the U.S. confirmed the detention of Saddam near Tikrit. Clarke, currently in Cairo to attend a two-day international anti-occupation conference, stressed that Saddam – however brutal – should be give a "fair, objective and impartial trial". "Saddam must be domestically prosecuted first and - if...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The comedian David Cross once remarked that our country must be in trouble because we have to read other countries' newspapers to find out what is going on in our own nation. Last Saturday, community activists convened at a small house on the west side of Ann Arbor, Mich., to witness video footage compiled by independent journalists of the police brutality at the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas conference in Miami last month. The footage, and the lack of media exposure of what actually happened, is living proof that our country's media is currently divorced...

MIT Project Undertakes Intelligence War Abandoned By the Govt To Monitor Everyone In the US Citizens Strike Back in Intelligence War Citizens Strike Back in Intelligence War With the recent demise of the Bush administration's controversial Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) programme to monitor everyone in the US, citizens now have a chance to get their own back. A website to be launched later in 2003 will allow people to post information about the activities of government organisations, officials and the judiciary. The two MIT researchers behind the project face one serious problem: how to protect themselves against legal action...

Bands Rock Against Bush Concerts and tours to raise awareness about 2004 election Sonic Youth, the Donnas, the Liars, the Locust and Erase Errata are among the groups who have pledged their support for Bands Against Bush, a self-explanatory new artistic collective dedicated to lending its support to the "struggle against a world of perpetual fear and violence bolstered by the Bush administration." BAB has set up more than twenty regional chapters in the U.S. and abroad, with a directory of groups willing to participate in various events to raise voter awareness. Among the events planned is an October 11th...

<p>Burning Man, the wild counterculture festival held annually in one of the nation's most remote areas, is coming to cities across America.</p> <p>It's time to try to influence the very culture against which this year's record 30,500 Burning Man participants rebelled, the phenomenon's founder and resident visionary said in an interview.</p>

Fascinating…but Warped Free Republic Makes Outrageous Anarchist Database (Fascist Webs)- http://www.breakyourchains.org/fascist_websites.htm Database of Websites Deemed to be Fascist or Brownshirt by the Resistance …….We are creating the Anarchist Defense League. The @DL will become an intelligence agency in service of the anarchist movement. Our goal is to provide useful intelligence to anarchists concerning threats to the anarchist movement (e.g. brownshirt organizations, brownshirts, anarchist hating law enforcement officers, anarchist hating politicians, etc.). For more information, visit this new website: The Anarchist Defense League

FORT HUACHUCA -- As a precaution, a small part of a housing area was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a resident there received an unsolicited package with anti-government messages. The package was one of three anti-government mailings received this week by families on post, Fort Huachuca officials said this morning. The packages did not contain powder or other hazardous materials but did have "unsolicited anti-American government propaganda," said Frank Shirar, the post's deputy public affairs officer. The fort's emergency response team and the FBI responded around 3:45 p.m., and traffic to the area around Stedman Street was stopped, said Lt. Col....

<p>OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - Animal cruelty charges were filed against an Oxnard man who allegedly tortured and dissected his 6-year-old daughter's guinea pig because he thought it was a camera-equipped robot placed in his home by government agents.</p> <p>Benny Zavala, 34, was ordered to stand trial Oct. 1 on two counts of felony animal cruelty and one count of being under the influence of methamphetamine, Deputy District Attorney Tom Connors said.</p>

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