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50 USC Sec. 1802 01/06/03 TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER 36 - FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE SUBCHAPTER I - ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE Sec. 1802. Electronic surveillance authorization without court order; certification by Attorney General; reports to Congressional committees; transmittal under seal; duties and compensation of communication common carrier; applications; jurisdiction of court -STATUTE- (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that - (A)...

BERLIN - Workers on Tuesday began removing a field of crosses at Berlin's former Checkpoint Charlie after a privately run museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people killed at the East German border during the Cold War. Workers in blue overalls began unscrewing the 1,067 crosses after covering the plaques with the victims' names and carrying them away. "No, no, you have to listen to me," said museum director Alexandra Hildebrandt, imploring the court bailiff without effect as workers arrived at the site and began work. Several hundred protesters jeered and whistled derisively in the rain...

On Memorial Day weekend, three Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were joined by 300 other service members for a wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit of Ground Zero. The broken pieces of the Twin Towers have long ago been cleared away. There are no faded flags or hand-painted signs of national unity, no simple tokens of remembrance. So why do they come? What do they hope to see? The World Trade Center Memorial will break ground this year. When those Marines return in 2010, the year it is scheduled to open, no doubt...

West Bend Man Accused Of Pretending To Be Marine Another Veteran Noticed Michael Schuster Wore Medals, Ribbons Wrong POSTED: 12:07 pm CST March 9, 2005 WEST BEND, Wis. -- A man accused of impersonating a Marine Corps officer is facing federal charges. Michael Schuster is well known in veterans circles in West Bend. He's played taps at dozens of veterans' burials, wearing a Marine uniform with military decorations and medals. He was the featured speaker at last year's Memorial Day observance. The 52-year-old claimed to have served in Vietnam, achieving the rank of major. But at least one veteran who...

Special Dispatch Series - No. 834 December 24, 2004 No.834 Saudi Government Daily Accuses U.S. Army of Harvesting Organs of Iraqis In the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, a n article from Brussels written by Fakhriya Ahmad charges that, based on alleged secret European military reports, the U.S. military in Iraq is harvesting and selling human organs. The following day, the story was also published in the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Islami, [1] as well as the Syrian daily Teshreen. [2] The following are excerpts from the article: [3] "Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the transformation of the American humanitarian mission...

‘Anonymous’ resigns from CIA * Says will now serve the national interest by talking publicly about Bin Laden and 9/11-Commission Report WASHINGTON: A CIA analyst who wrote a book criticising the US war on terror resigned from the spy agency after it banned him from publicly discussing his views, his publicist said on Thursday. Michael Scheuer wrote the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror” under the pen name “anonymous” and formally resigned from the intelligence agency on Friday, after 22 years of service. In a statement to the press, Scheuer said that he blamed...

George Tenet George Tenet is the type of guy that real hardcore CIA officers typically love to hate: a lifelong politico with no experience doing intelligence work who waltzes in at the behest of a president and takes over the show. But whatever points he may have lost for being a bureaucratic schmuck, the real test of loyalty lies ahead. If Tenet decides to take the hit for those pesky missing Weapons of Mass Destruction, he'll go down in Company history as a hero. If he pawns it off on his case officers and analysts, he'll be remembered not only...

In his first major foreign-policy action as a U.S. senator nearly 20 years ago, John Kerry accused the United States of "funding terrorism." Fresh from a trip to the Far East, Kerry made his sensational allegation in Washington before flying to Nicaragua, then in the grip of a Marxist-Leninist junta, to coauthor a propagandistic peace proposal designed to disarm the U.S.-backed forces fighting to oust the Soviet-backed Sandinista regime. Barely three months after being sworn as a senator, Kerry made his mark, and he made it big, as one of the leading opponents of President Ronald Reagan's effort to defeat...

S.RES.255 Title: A resolution to honor Admiral Jeremy M. "Mike" Boorda. Sponsor: Sen Lott, Trent [MS] (introduced 5/21/1996) Cosponsors (44) Latest Major Action: 5/21/1996 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COSPONSORS(44), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date) Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] - 5/21/1996 Sen Biden Jr., Joseph R. [DE] - 5/22/1996 Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 5/21/1996 Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 5/21/1996 Sen Bradley, Bill [NJ] - 5/21/1996 Sen Bryan, Richard H. [NV] - 5/21/1996 Sen Bumpers, Dale [AR]...

Major Garret on fox just reported YET ANOTHER CONG RECORD (A 1998 EULOGY) WHEREIN KERRY STATES A MINE WENT OFF UNDER his pcf, BLOWING IT 2 FT OUT OF THE WAYER.

Admiral speaks out, disputes Kerry's account of 1st wound NEW YORK -- Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in Charleston, S.C. He said, "Kerry requested a Purple Heart." Schachte, also a lieutenant junior grade, said he was...

Some of the honorable members of big media are now doing some solid reporting on the subject. The Washington Post's David Broder in this week's column reported: "In a 2002 conversation, Kerry told me he thought it would be doubly advantageous that 'I fought in Vietnam and I also fought against the Vietnam War,' apparently not recognizing that some would see far too much political calculation in such a bifurcated record." Indeed, some of us would think that sounded remarkably like "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it." If big media returns to its duty to...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The nation's top Navy officer, Adm. Jeremy Michael Boorda, died Thursday from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after learning Newsweek magazine was raising questions about the legitimacy of some of his combat medals........in the typewritten note to the sailors, Boorda explained that he took his life because of the questions raised about his wearing of "V" for valor medals on his combat ribbon from Vietnam. http://www.cnn.com/US/9605/16/boorda.6p/

at minimum-- jane fonda--> VVAW and its phony "vets" and "testimony"-->COSVN fonda's hubby tom hayden-->Students for Democratic Society (SDS)-->Weathermen-->Weather Underground-->Black Panthers-->CPUSA FBI Memo re: the above http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/fbi51468.html ***************************************

The 5 swiftboat deck logs for 13MAR69 ought not to be at odds. If the logs are actually available, the light they would shine on what really happened and who wrote what could be stunning, considering the entries required for these logs.

“The staff of military personnel of the Classified Operational Archives created an arrangement system based on the Navy's command structure going from the President, fleets, forces, type commands, shore establishments, individual ships, non-Navy commands, non-US commands, to individual personnel. Within each section, the records are arranged alphbetically by the name of the originating command. All of the documents from one command are arranged chronologically by the date of the document. This system of arrangement was used for the war diaries, action reports, and operation plans received by the Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. From the beginning these...