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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, the subject of a criminal investigation over the disappearance of terrorism documents, stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. "Mr. Berger does not want any issue surrounding the 9/11 commission to be used for partisan purposes. With that in mind he has decided to step aside as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign until this matter is resolved," said Lanny Breuer, Berger's attorney. The investigation had threatened to become a political problem for Kerry a week before his nominating convention in Boston in...

MIDI - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN I went in the archives room...poor Slick Willy's sensing doom I knew I must do something right away My decision had been smart...keep them by my private parts But I must make sure there's no DNA I must know, have you seen the missing files? I must know, have you seen the missing files? They're last seen safe down in my pants I must take a load, you know...in my small portfolio I knew Willy put all his faith in me I thought that nobody'd seen...that included snitch John Dean My...

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http://www.geocities.com/~goldenoldies/jukebox5060.htm MIDI - LAST KISS I came back home and was quite surprised...I could hardly believe my eyes Some files were gone pertaining to Ketchup Boy...is Terry Lenzner thug and scumbag still in Clinton's employ I had written the book that's called "Home to War"...and to this story, there's much more FOIA gave me stuff...for Ketchup Boy, it might become rough As Desi'd say -- "There's some 'splaining to do"...if people know, he could be through 'Cause Scott Camil foamed at the bit...that was the day that Kerry quit Oh where oh where can the files be...some thugs took them...

A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday rejected the Justice Department's attempt to obtain abortion records from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a ruling likely to halt demands for as many as 1,000 patient files from clinics around the country, including the Washington area, according to Justice officials and the family-planning group.

The White House hardened its defence of President George W. Bush's National Guard service Wednesday, saying his critics are "trolling for trash." Yet, several members of an Alabama unit Bush was assigned to said they couldn't recall ever seeing him. The Associated Press contacted more than a dozen people who were members of the Montgomery-based 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in 1972. All were quick to point out that the unit had as many as 800 members and Bush was not yet famous. Bush, who spent most of his service in Texas, received permission to perform his duties in Alabama while...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Terri Carlin wants to make Janet Jackson's bare breast into a federal case. Carlin filed a proposed class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court this week against Jackson, singer Justin Timberlake, broadcasters MTV and CBS and their parent company, Viacom. Carlin alleges in the Feb. 4 suit that she and others who watched the halftime show during the Super Bowl were injured by the performers' lewd actions when Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her breast. In the lawsuit, Carlin charges that the exposure and "sexually explicit conduct" by other performers during the show injured...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US intelligence experts are examining tonnes of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s intelligence files hoping to trace the regime's alleged weapons of mass destruction, press reports said. The documents seized after the fall of Baghdad were a trove comparable to the files of Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, which collapsed in 1989, an anonymous source told The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to comment on the reports. According to The Wall Street Journal, some information gleaned from...

Wed October 15, 2003 01:07 PM ET By Greg Frost WORCESTER, Mass. (Reuters) - A civilian translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for al Qaeda and Taliban suspects had hundreds of documents labeled "secret" in his possession when he was arrested last month, an FBI agent said on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Ahmed Fathy Mehalba last month of lying to federal officials about classified information he was carrying when he arrived in the United States from Egypt, where he had been visiting relatives. The arrest of Mehalba, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Egyptian descent, brought to three the number of...

Two Bank of Montreal computers containing hundreds, potentially thousands, of sensitive customer files narrowly escaped being sold on eBay.com late last week, calling into question the process by which financial institutions dispose of old computer equipment. Information in one of the computers included the names, addresses and phone numbers of several hundred bank clients, along with their bank account information, including account type and number, balances and, in some cases, balances on GICs, RRSPs, lines of credit, credit cards and insurance. Many of the files were dated as recently as late 2002, while some went back to 2000. The computers...

Kohl loses battle to keep Stasi files secret By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 18/09/2003) The former German chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday lost a legal attempt to prevent the publication of thousands of pages of potentially explosive records compiled about him by the East German secret police, the Stasi. A court in Berlin decided that, as a public figure, Mr Kohl's files should be made accessible to researchers. The ruling, which overturns an earlier decision, is in line with a new law passed by parliament last year. Lawyers for Mr Kohl, who did not appear in court, said they would...

Despite aggressive challenges by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to on-line music suppliers like the defunct Napster, two-thirds of Internet users in the US who copy digital music on-line say they don't care if the music is copyrighted, according to the report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, entitled "Music Downloading, File-sharing and Copyright," also found that 27 percent of users who download music files are concerned about copyright, while 6 percent said they don't know enough or don't have a position on the issue. The number of users who share files on-line and...

From leaky roofs to secret agents: how the files I found in Iraq's looted foreign ministry cast light on the paranoid world of Saddam Hussein How many Iraqi officials does it take to fix the leaky roof of a diplomat's house in London? How long does a skilled translator need to convert one of George Galloway's parliamentary speeches into Arabic? In almost 1, 000 pages of Arabic prose, each stamped with the Eagle crest of Iraq, the files found inside the foreign ministry in Baghdad cast a somewhat surreal light on the questions that turned the bureaucratic wheels of Saddam...

A DUTCH electronics firm provided Iraq with technology and training that were used to spy on Nato, documents unearthed in Baghdad have revealed. Hoka Electronic, which makes data decoding equipment, supplied items to Baghdad as recently as 2000. It taught Iraqi intelligence officers how to use them in a Bulgarian security service “safe house”. Horst Diesperger, the company’s director in Oude Pekela, a village in northeastern Holland, confirmed last week that he had travelled to Bulgaria to carry out training, but said the clients had told him they came from Jordan and Syria. He said Hoka “supplied the equipment not...

<p>Following is a transcribed excerpt from Fox News Sunday, April 27, 2003.</p> <p>SNOW: Mr. Chalabi, last week you told me you believed that Saddam Hussein is still alive and somewhere in Iraq. Do you still believe that's the case?</p> <p>CHALABI: Yes, I do.</p>

Transcipts of documents linking Iraq to Bin LadenDocument 1, dated February 19, 1998 Marked "Top Secret and Urgent" in the margin and signed by "MDA", thought to be the codename for the director of one of the intelligence sections within the Mukhabarat. "The envoy is a trusted confidant and known by them. According to the above mediation we request official permission to call Khartoum station to facilitate the travel arrangements for the above-mentioned person to Iraq. And that our body carry all the travel and hotel expenses inside Iraq to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and...

FRANCE gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with American officials, documents unearthed in the wreckage of the Iraqi foreign ministry have revealed. The first Iraqi files to emerge documenting French help for the regime show that Paris shared with Baghdad the contents of private transatlantic meetings and diplomatic traffic from Washington. The information, said in the files to have come partly from "friends of Iraq" at the French foreign ministry, kept Saddam abreast of every development in American planning and may have helped him to prepare for war. One report warned of an American "attempt to involve...

Iraqis Discover Secret Dissident Files By NIKO PRICE .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The file drawers fill room after room, papers spilling out. Inside, recorded with chilling bureaucratic detail, are the informants' reports, court records, confessions and execution orders for thousands of Iraqi dissidents. The government files, shown Thursday to The Associated Press, could be the basis for Iraqis to begin to come to terms with their past - or could be the catalyst for a new wave of bloodletting. ``Saddam Hussein kept these files because he thought he would rule forever,'' said a dissident who was...

The Saddam Files At the Iraqi Intelligence Service, a man walked up with a grimy sack of documents and tapes. ‘Tell the world what happened here,’ he said By Melinda Liu, Rod Nordland and Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK April 28 issue — After 9-11, as talk of war against Iraq picked up in Washington, the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) became jittery. ON OCT. 29, 2002, a memo from Directorate 14 (in charge of special operations and “wet work” like assassinations) reported that “one of our sources in the United States, with a high level of reliability, says the CIA and the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In a city where marauding mobs have carried off everything from furniture to priceless cultural artifacts, one building seems oddly untouched, at least by looters. It's Iraq's Directorate of Special Security, or secret police headquarters, the one place in Saddam Hussein's Iraq that people who spoke against him or his government tended to visit. Many people were held there during investigations and proceedings or were incarcerated there after receiving sentences for criticizing the regime. Located in a heavily fortified compound in eastern Baghdad, the directorate was battered by U.S. bombs during the war. The Marines are standing...