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Rep. Jerrold Nadler: President and Attorney General are engaged in a criminal conspiracy

Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, said today that there is no question that the warrantless wiretaping engaged in by the Bush Administration is a felony offense and that the President and Attorney General engaged in a criminal conspiracy worse than Watergate.  Nadler was referring not to the mysterious program that the Acting Attorney General refused to support, but rather to the program the Attorney General approved of.  Nadler said he finds the lack of attention to the obvious criminality of the President "incredible."  The same could be said of Nadler's failure to support impeachment.

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MARSHALL: Hi, this is John Marshall from TPM Media. We're here this morning with Congressman Jerrold Nadler of the 8th District of New York, which covers...lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn?

Farm & nature guides needed at Stratford Ecological Center

This 236 acre organic farm and nature preserve is dedicated to educating children and adults toward understanding the relationships between living things and their environment. Stratford is looking for summer volunteer guides to lead small groups of children on adventures around the farm and nature preserve in June, July & August.  No experience is necessary, but guides need to have a love of nature, children and adventures.  Training will be June 14th—1-4pm.  If you would like to become a Stratford Farm & Nature Guide, please contact Jane at 740-363-2548 or SECVolunteer@aol.com or visit www.StratfordEcologicalCenter.org.

Begging your pardon, Guvnor

While Scooter Libby packs his toothbrush, and maintenance crews resurface the tennis courts at Allenwood Prison Farm in preparation for a distinguished class of incoming freshmen, the news industry speculates on when a presidential pardon might be forthcoming. This speculation is discussed with such conscientious ardor that news-consumers might be excused if they mistake it for fact.

The fact is that Libby, under a sentence of imprisonment, is a potential witness against the very president who is supposedly poised to pardon him. Pardoning such a witness, though within the authority of the president, would also be a crime, and that's a fact. If Bush is not ready to commit obstruction of justice in public, he won't pardon a witness against him.

U.S. terror Laos

BANGKOK, Thailand -- After a U.S. Justice Department undercover agent displayed a Stinger air-to-surface missile in a bugged Hilton Hotel room in Sacramento, California, paranoia began to spread.

A mysterious woman named Lisa -- "last name unknown" -- was allegedly tasked to find out who the man with the Stinger really was, and if a gang of desperate Americans in California, and ethnic Hmong from Laos, was about to be busted.

The furtive Americans and Hmong allegedly boasted that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency "was standing by and ready to roll" to ensure success for their clumsy coup attempt in Laos.

They didn't realize their California restaurant meetings, anxious telephone conversations, and hurried chats in urban parking lots would appear in a 90-page affidavit on June 4 by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

Weapons and ammunition, bought for 100,000 U.S. dollars, were to be smuggled into Bangkok next Tuesday (June 12), followed by delivery of at least two Stinger missiles designed to shoot down aircraft, the ATF affidavit said.

Action Alert—Support efforts to protect Ohio public lands from corporate abuse

There's still time to contact your state representatives. The Buckeye Forest Council (BFC) applauds Representative Mike Foley (D-Cleveland) for addressing the abuses of clear-cutting along utility easements through public property. The BFC helped shape a proposal with Representative Foley that would give Ohioans the opportunity to formally voice concerns over clear-cutting and pipeline maintenance activities occurring on state lands. We need your help right away to build support for this effort.

Representative Foley’s memo calling for co-sponsors announces: “I will soon be introducing legislation that will require the Director of Natural Resources to hold a public hearing before entering into a lease or granting an easement for any of specified purposes or allowing clear-cutting of trees on lands owned, controlled, maintained, or administered by the Department of Natural Resources.

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Conyers challenges Bush for G8 action on vultures, Palast reports from London on BBC Newsnight

Congressman John Conyers, still in the thick of his hearings on the firing of US Attorneys, is preparing a new target for investigation: Vultures.

We're not talking about the feathered birds of prey, but predators with allies in the White House and Swiss bank vaults full of untraceable currency. These speculators buy up the debt of the poorest nations on the planet for pennies on the dollar -- then use legal extortion or less-than-legal bribery to extract payments from these nations - payments equal to five, ten or twenty times what the vultures "invested."

Conyers has personally informed George Bush that he expects the President to join the other G8 leaders to put the vultures out of business.  "I'm counting on the President to do the right thing," Conyers told BBC reporter Greg Palast.  But if the President doesn't, Bush can expect another set of investigations and hearings on the Administration's inaction and ties to vultures.

The conscience of Los Alamos

I looked up when Ed pointed to the butte that loomed suddenly in the bend of the mountain road and said, “See. That’s where they should go, right there.”

And for an instant I imagined them towering against the big sky over Los Alamos, N.M.: two white granite “peace obelisks” 30 feet high, signaling to everyone entering or leaving the Atomic City, birthplace of The Bomb and home for 60-plus years of the national weapons lab that bears its name, that a counter-consciousness has staked its claim in the heart of the nuclear weapons industry. Their inscription begins:

“Welcome to Los Alamos, New Mexico, the United States of America, the city of fire. Our fires are brighter than a thousand suns. It was once believed that only God could destroy the world, but scientists working in Los Alamos first harnessed the power of the atom. The power released through fission and fusion gives many men the ability to commence the destruction of all life on earth. . . .”

Reaganite Rudy's bad memory

The only way for Rudolph Giuliani to protect his status as the Republican Party's leading presidential aspirant is to distract his party's primary voters from the long list of issues that divide them from him. So he constantly seeks to balance his moderate record on abortion, homosexual rights, gun control and immigration, which the Republican base abhors, with his authoritarian style and his grim enthusiasm for war, which the base admires.

            But the war in Iraq is increasingly unpopular, so lately Giuliani is talking more about supply-side economics -- and about Hillary Rodham Clinton, who irritates Republicans almost as much as taxes. During a campaign visit to California's Silicon Valley on May 30, he resorted to familiar rhetoric in attacking his old rival.

Stop the U.S. destabilization campaign against Venezuela!

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