In this piece Ray McGovern shares his one on one encounter with Norm Mineta and confronts him about Cheney’s “stand down order” that Mr Mineta recounted to the 9/11 Commission on May 22, 2003 (also included in this clip). He relays Norm’s response as “puzzling” at best. Previously, Ray confronted Donald Rumsfeld in a public forum as to Rumsfeld’s lies concerning the location of Iraq’s WMDs.
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Great speech by former President John F Kennedy about freedom of the press and those that try to suppress this dynamic. Is it any wonder most of us have never heard this speech. I am not exactly sure what the number one reason was for JFK’s assasination: hesistancy to go to war, taking back control of money creation, or this speech, but his words have increased importance in our present era few of us would have anticipated.
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Playing Politics at School
by HASDAI WESTBROOK
“The passage of HR 5295 was an expedited affair. On September 19, the Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2006 went to the floor of the House of Representatives without a hearing or vote in committee and was passed by a voice vote of the two dozen or so Representatives in the chamber at the time. “School officials should have the authority to handle potentially dangerous situations and take the steps necessary to intervene when the safety of our children is in jeopardy,” said House majority leader John Boehner, praising Kentucky Republican Geoff Davis, the bill’s author, in a statement released the same day. But because there was no roll call, there is no way of knowing whether Boehner or the seventeen Republicans who joined Davis as co-sponsors actually turned up for the vote……
………..As he and his colleagues trumpet their achievements on children’s safety on the campaign trail, his bill remains stalled in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Opponents like Steven Crawford are hoping that is where it will stay. “It’s a waste of our time and their time,” says Crawford. “It won’t make schools safer at all.”
full article: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061106/westbrook
On November 5, 2003, police raided a high school in Goose Creek, South Carolina, in an effort to purge the school of drugs. After rounding up the students and searching their lockers, no drugs were found and no charges have been filed.
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