7 Arrested in Sears Tower Plot, Santorum Debunked on WMD Claim & Army Raising Enlistment Age in Today's Details
-The Earth is the hottest it has been in at least 400 years, probably even longer. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia." DETAILS
-Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., a federal law enforcement official said. (Sadly, I don't trust my governments take on this. This story makes me think of the 2004 election cycle and the use of 'terror alerts'. I suspect this is the same thing - except NOW it also involves the presidents illegal wiretapping policy. Designed to make it palatable to the public in the WEEKS before the election. Im not a conspiracy theorist - I just don't trust them - and neither should you.) DETAILS
- The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people. DETAILS
-The U.S. Army, aiming to make its recruiting goals amid the Iraq war, raised its maximum enlistment age by another two years on Wednesday, while the Army Reserve predicted it will miss its recruiting target for a second straight year. DETAILS
-Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials. DETAILS
-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) are hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions that were already acknowledged by the White House’s Iraq Survey Group and dismissed. The Defense Department has already knocked the story down. But on Fox this is big news, proving that Saddam Hussein had WMD, just as the administration claimed. DETAILS
-The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by year's end, as the two parties sought to define their election-year positions on a war that has grown increasingly unpopular. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada portrayed Republican leaders as blindly following President Bush's "failed" stay-the-course strategy. "It is long past time to change course in Iraq and start to end the president's open-ended commitment," he said. DETAILS
posted by EAPrez @ 12:55 AM
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rick, rick, go away- don't come again another day. bye bye rick.
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, there has been a lot made on Capitol Hill about these chemical weapons that were found and may be quite old. But do you a real concern of these weapons from Saddam's past perhaps having an impact on U.S. troops who are on the ground in Iraq right now?
RUMSFELD : Certainly. What has been announced is accurate, that there have been hundreds of canisters or weapons of various types found that either currently have sarin in them or had sarin in them, and sarin is dangerous. And it's dangerous to our forces, and it's a concern. So obviously, to the extent we can locate these and destroy them, it is important that we do so. And they are dangerous. Anyone - I'm sure General Casey or anyone else in that country would be concerned if they got in the wrong hands. They are weapons of mass destruction . They are harmful to human beings. And they have been found. And that had not been by Saddam Hussein, as he inaccurately alleged that he had reported all of his weapons . And they are still being found and discovered.
via http://snookerswamp.blogspot.com/2006/06/rumsfeld-they-are-wmds.html
I dont understand your point david since these are useless weapons that were already a matter of public record. These aren't the weapons stockpiles which posed an impending threat to our national security. Thanks for playing "Distort Reality" though!
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