The Entire World Knows The Bush Administration Should Be Put On Trial And We Are Still Talking About Why It Doesn’t Happen. What Is Wrong With U.S.A.

The Entire World Knows The Bush Administration Should Be Put On Trial And We Are Still Talking About Why It Doesn’t Happen.  What Is Wrong With America?

 

 

                            

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The Problem That Is Developing Is That Slowly And Surely The Information Is Leaking, Seeping Out Like Blood From A Wound, And The Attitude Of “The Truth Be Known” Is Being Fashioned; The Only Problem We Have Is That Action On The Truth Is Being Swept Under The Carpet.  We Shall Know The Villains And The Extent Of Their Villainy But They Shall Escape Justice And Be Merely Tarnished In The History Books. The Tools Of Abuse Are Still In The Tool Box To Be Used Again, And Again.

That Is The Problem!

There was a story this week that Republican senators were threatening to "go nuclear" and filibuster EVERYTHING (as if they were not already doing that) if the Justice department released the secret memos that the Bush administration had drafted to their own evil specifications to say that torture was OK. If these apparently flimsy, self-serving documents were supposed to stand as a get out of jail free card for the Bush/Cheney torturers, they must be pretty damning stuff.

Indeed, if this was supposed to be their defense for war crimes, war crimes that have made us all dramatically less safe by exponentially ramping up hatred for the U.S. all over the world, they should be proud to display their defense in the full light of day. But it is Republican members of Congress who are desperately trying to get Obama to keep their filthy, treasonous secrets with them, so must speak out to them in particular. Shame on the so-called rule of law crowd ... for abject, irredeemable shame. And on us as well if unless we demand the immediate release of these legal hack jobs.

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REMEMBER THIS?

TERROR WATCH | Michael Isikoff | ‘We Don’t Want A Fishing Expedition’

A key senator nixes a commission to look into Bush's war on terror policies.

The campaign for a "truth commission" to investigate Bush administration interrogation and detention policies appeared to pick up fresh momentum this week with the disclosure of internal Justice Department memos asserting far reaching presidential powers to override constitutional protections in the war on terror. But a key Republican senator Wednesday threw a dose of cold water on the idea, underscoring the huge political obstacles to gaining approval for such a panel.

Even while he called the newly released Justice memos "shocking," Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he saw no need for Congress to create a special commission to investigate such matters when the Obama Justice Department could do the job on its own. "We don't want to go off helter-skelter … on a fishing expedition," said Specter at a Judiciary Committee hearing called by chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy to generate support for the idea. "It seems to be [that] we want to follow regular order here. You have the Department of Justice that is fully capable of doing an investigation. They re not going to pull any punches on the prior administration."

The negative comments by Specter were especially significant because, as a moderate, the Pennsylvania senator's backing is often seen as key to winning bipartisan support for controversial proposals. As if to underscore those hurdles, a senior Obama administration official told NEWSWEEK that, even in the wake of the new revelations, there was still little enthusiasm within the administration for the idea. "It's a distraction," said the official, who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive political matters. "At a time when we are trying to get heath-care, energy and other proposals through—and you need bipartisan support—looking backward only generates more partisan opposition and noise."…

 

And That’s All We Got…NOISE!

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And Now We Have This In Front Of Us!

 

 

This Was Very Problematic Yesterday When Impeachbush.org released this message and it circulated like wildfire.  The failure to provide any linkage to the Isikoff piece sent the opposition into a frenzy of accusations of lying and “moonbat” pipe dreams and fantasy.  Well; that’s taken care of here!

 

Breaking news: Indictment of Bush Officials May Come in Days

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CIA May Have Tortured More Detainees And Hid Them From Red Cross---

 

Written by Jason Leopold

 

The Bush administration may have abused or tortured many more detainees at secret CIA prisons than the 14 “high-value” terror suspects already known, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a confidential report.

 

The 43-page ICRC report, dated Feb. 14, 2007, and published in full this week at the Web site for the New York Review of Books, cited a Sept. 6, 2006, speech by President George W. Bush saying “many” suspected terrorists held at secret CIA prisons “have been returned to their home countries for prosecution or detention by their governments” after it was determined they lacked intelligence value.

 

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But the ICRC said the U.S. government had not disclosed where the detainees were sent, so the organization, which monitors international compliance with the Geneva Conventions and other human rights laws, could not determine the detainees’ fate or investigate their treatment in CIA custody.

 

Due to the “inhuman” treatment of the 14 known detainees, the ICRC said it “remains gravely concerned by the fact that a significant number of other persons have passed through this detention program and may have been subjected to similar, if not the same, conditions and treatment.”

 

Because the ICRC’s report is more than two years old – and because the ICRC still considers its contents confidential – it is not clear if the CIA has since provided more information on the whereabouts of those transferred detainees. The ICRC report noted that the organization – as of February 2007 – “has been able to begin discussions with the CIA on this question.”

 

However, documents that were released in other investigations reveal that the Bush administration conducted a kind of shell game with ICRC representatives to conceal the treatment and even the existence of some detainees.

  

TERROR WATCH | Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball | The Disappeared 

What happened to terror suspects Washington turned over to foreign governments?

Apr 8, 2009

 

The CIA quietly moved scores of detainees out of its own "black site" prisons in recent years and turned them over to foreign governments, refusing to provide the Cross any information about their treatment or whereabouts, according to a report made public this week.

 

Although President Bush made a brief public allusion to the transfers in September 2006, the U.S. government has never offered any accounting of precisely how many detainees were moved and what became of them. The issue became a major bone of contention between the Red Cross and the CIA, according to little-noticed language in the Feb. 14, 2007, Red Cross report to CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo that was publicly posted on a magazine Web site this week.

 

There is substantial reason to believe that these "ghost detainees" included some high-profile suspects, including Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan-born jihadist captured in Afghanistan whose claims about ties between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were prominently used by top Bush administration officials to justify the war in Iraq, according to human-rights activists who have closely followed the issue. Following the U.S. invasion, al-Libi recanted those claims, saying he fabricated his story about Iraq-Qaeda ties in order to get his interrogators to stop their abusive treatment of him. After his recantation became known in 2004, U.S. government officials dropped all public references to him and he was never heard from again—even though he was once hailed as the U.S. military's first big "catch" after the 9/11 attacks.

 

When Red Cross officials later pressed for information about what happened to such "ghost" detainees, U.S. government officials insisted they were returned to their country of origin under assurances they would be given "humane" treatment, the report states. But the Red Cross was never given access to the detainees—nor told anything about what happened to them after they were sent back Nor were U.S. State Department officials given details of the transfers or details about the nature of the "assurances" of humane treatment provided by foreign intelligence services to the CIA, according to a former top Bush administration official who was aware of the transfers but who asked not to be publicly identified because the issue remains highly classified.

 

"This issue has been hiding in plain sight—but nobody has connected the dots," said the former official.

 

The Red Cross remains "gravely concerned" that a "significant number" of these prisoners may have been subjected to abusive treatment—and that the organization "has not received any clarification of the fate of these persons," the report states. The long-secret 41-page Red Cross report received national attention last month after journalist Mark Danner obtained a copy and wrote about it in considerable detail for The New York Review of Books. (The report was posted in its entirety this week on The New York Review of Books' Web site.)

 

The report includes graphic and at times gruesome accounts by high-value detainees at Guantánamo Bay—including Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others—describing how they were suffocated during waterboarding, locked in coffinlike boxes, had collars wrapped around their necks and then were smashed into the walls of their cells. The detainees also described to Red Cross interviewers how they had cold water poured over their bodies, were placed in frigid interrogation rooms, were forced to stand naked in painful stress positions for hours on end and were denied toilet access, resulting in the detainees' having to defecate and urinate on themselves, according to the report.

 

The Red Cross concluded, based on the "consistency" of the accounts of the detainees in separate interviews, that the prisoners had been subjected to what "amounted to torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."

 

But the report documents the treatment of only those 14 high-value CIA detainees whom President Bush publicly announced in September 2006 had been transferred to Guantánamo. Because the Bush administration had a preexisting arrangement to permit the Red Cross access to detainees at Guantánamo, the transfer to the U.S. detention facility in Cuba allowed the organization to question those prisoners for the first time. At the time of the transfer, Bush said the CIA interrogation program had provided valuable intelligence in the war on terror and had taken "potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to kill." Without offering any numbers, he also said that the CIA detention program had involved "only a limited number of terrorists at any given time." But Bush said the detention program was being ended, adding: "Once we have determined that the terrorists held by the CIA have little or no additional intelligence value, many of them have been returned to their home countries for prosecution or detention by their governments."

 

In fact, agency officials have confirmed that as many as 100 detainees had gone through the detention program after it was created following the 9/11 attacks. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged late last year that 33 of those detainees were subjected to "enhanced interrogation" techniques under the program. As the former Bush official pointed out, "You can do the math"—meaning that most of the detainees in CIA custody (and who were being held in secret sites around the globe) were never sent to Guantánamo. A footnote in the Red Cross report suggests that it inquired about the status of as many as 38 detainees who were in agency custody. The report concludes that the "majority" of these detainees were instead sent back to their countries of origin.

 

Many of these countries—such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Syria—have long been criticized by the U.S. State Department for their human-rights violations, particularly in their treatment of terror suspects. That has only heightened the concerns among human-rights groups about the fate of the prisoners.

 

"The majority of the people in the CIA program are unaccounted for," said John Sifton, a human-rights investigator and lawyer who has closely monitored the CIA program. "We don't know what happened to them."

 

The CIA refused to comment on any aspect of the Red Cross report. A CIA spokesman, Paul Gimigliano, added, however, that the agency under its new director, Leon Panetta, "has taken decisive steps to ensure that the CIA abides by the president's executive orders," which forbid cruel or inhumane treatment of detainees. Panetta "also has stated repeatedly that no one who took actions based on legal guidance from the Department of Justice at the time should be investigated, let alone punished."

 

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General Ray Odierno: we may miss Iraq deadline to halt al-Qaeda terror

The activities of al-Qaeda in two of Iraq’s most troubled cities could keep US combat troops engaged beyond the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, the top US commander in the country has warned.

US troop numbers in Mosul and Baqubah, in the north of the country, could rise rather than fall over the next year if necessary, General Ray Odierno told The Times in his first interview with a British newspaper since taking over from General David Petraeus in September.

He said that a joint assessment would be conducted with the Iraqi authorities in the coming weeks before a decision is made.

Combat troops are due to leave all Iraqi cities by the end of June. Any delay would be a potential setback for President Obama, who has pledged to withdraw all combat forces from Iraq by August 2010 as he switches his focus to Afghanistan.

 

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As Media Matters for America has documented, since President Obama's inauguration, "Number One voice for conservatism" Rush Limbaugh has made numerous ominous, even apocalyptic claims about the impact policies pursued by President Obama and other progressives might have on the United States, often while invoking fears of rising socialism, communism, and tyranny. For example, on the February 12 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh "thank[ed]" Obama for "doing the job that everybody expects of you, taking every tradition and institution that defined this country's greatness and trying to rip it to shreds." Similarly, on March 18, Limbaugh claimed that "everyone in the White House" is "[p]erfectly timed, perfectly programmed, perfectly educated to destroy capitalism ... and they're in the process of doing it." And on March 30, Limbaugh stated, "Based on what we've seen with General Motors and the banks, if [Obama] fails, America is saved. Barack Obama's policies and their failure is the only hope we've got to maintain the America of our founding." Over the past month, other prominent conservative voices have followed Limbaugh's lead in making increasingly dire predictions about the consequences that policies sought by Obama and other progressives might have for the country.

This alarmism is part of a recent eruption of extremist rhetoric in the conservative media; as Media Matters has noted, since January, conservatives in the media have also warned of impending socialism, fascism, communism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and Marxism, or used such language to describe Obama or other Democrats. Moreover, since Obama's inauguration, conservative media figures have asserted orsuggested that U.S. sovereignty may give way to a one-world government and have warned their audiences that Obama will seize their guns. And Fox News has actively promoted what it has branded "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties."

Sean Hannity

• On the April 7 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Sean Hannity said, "Robert Gates ought to resign, and resign now. Because if Robert Gates wants to preside over the single dumbest defense scale-down in American history that puts us on a pre-9-11 footing, I would not want that on my watch. I wouldn't accept it on my watch. And for him to be, you know, wanting this position more than standing up for what's right is frankly surprising to me, and I thought that was one of the better choices of Obama."

• On the April 7 edition of his Fox News program, Hannity comparedthe rhetoric of Obama to that of Franklin Roosevelt and asked, "Was that rhetoric similar in terms of the class warfare and the idea that America's no longer the land of the free and the land of opportunity, but the land of the nanny state, where the government will take care of all -- take away all your fears?"

• On the April 6 edition of his Fox News program, Hannity falsely claimed that Obama plans to cut the defense budget, saying, "[H]ow dangerous is this road we're now on? You know, overseas contingency operation and you know -- what's the other one? -- man-caused disasters, if we believe [Homeland Security Secretary] Janet Napolitano. How dangerous is the mentality? We're going to cut defense." Earlier in the broadcast, Hannity said, "President Obama's trip to Europe culminated this morning with a speech that could have disastrous implications for America as it reveals a pre-9-11 appeasement mentality and approach to national security that is a threat to the United States."

• On the March 30 edition of his Fox News program, while discussing the Obama administration's auto bailout plan with syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Dick Morris, Hannity said, "The federal government -- and I don't think I overstate this for our audience -- is destroying our economic system as we currently know it. You have written that it's socialism, and it's mismanaged socialism."

• Also on the March 30 edition of his Fox News program, Hannitysaid of the Obama administration's auto bailout plan, "[T]his is just the beginning. The administration is on a mission to hijack capitalism in favor of collectivism, to turn health care into a nationalized affair, and to redistribute the wealth of America. The Bolsheviks have already arrived, and they're here."

• A March 26 Hannity promotion asked, "Is the budget a way to completely control our lives? And could it destroy us?"

• On the March 24 edition of his radio show, Hannity said, "If the government takes too much money and nationalizes everything, I'm telling you, there are gonna be dire consequences, because we're gonna -- just like if it was a terror attack against America, Americans will get hurt."

• On the March 25 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity said to guest Newt Gingrich, "So if we put all these things together -- that they control executive pay, that they can take over firms, retroactively tax people or target individuals as they did -- you used the term 'dictatorship.' That moves America towards a dictatorship?" Gingrich responded, "Look, it absolutely moves you towards a political dictatorship."

• On the March 16 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity said, "If we can't use the term 'war on terror,' if we can't use the term 'enemy combatants,' it sounds to me like in many ways, even linguistically, we have literally, you know, surrendered."

Glenn Beck

• On the April 6 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Glenn Beck warned that Obama "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun. He will make them more expensive; he'll tax them out of existence. He will because he has said he would. He will tax your gun or take your gun away one way or another."

• On the March 30 edition of his Fox News program, Beck aired a graphic portraying Obama and other Democratic leaders as vampires, and said, "The government is full of vampires, and they are trying to suck the lifeblood out of the economy." Beck then suggested "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers."

• On the March 27 edition of his Fox News program, Beck said, "Yesterday, the Senate passed a watered-down version of the AmeriCorps bill, a.k.a. the GIVE Act, which apparently we have problems with now. It basically indoctrinates your child into community service through the federal government."

• On the March 10 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Beck said, "I read an article on Bloomberg last night that said the Manchurian Candidate couldn't destroy us faster than Barack Obama. If you were planning a sleeper to come in and become the president of the United States and dismantle us and take us down, this is how he would do it."

• On the March 2 edition of his Fox News program, Beck claimedthat Obama's proposal to reduce the tax rate at which families earning more than $250,000 per year can take itemized deductions (including charitable giving) to 28 percent "involves enslaving people" and is "evil."

Dick Morris

• On the April 9 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, Morrisreiterated his false claim that Obama ceded U.S. sovereignty to international economic regulators at the G-20 summit, and said, "What has been driving me crazy in the last few days is that last week, the president basically gave away our economic sovereignty to Europe."

• On the April 6 edition of Hannity, Morris falsely claimed that in signing the G-20 communiqué establishing a new Financial Stability Board (FSB) at the Group of 20 economic summit in London, Obama had ceded U.S. sovereignty to international economic regulators: "Basically, from an economic standpoint, he's repealed [the Declaration of Independence]. We no longer have economic sovereignty."

• On the April 3 edition of America's Newsroom, Morris falsely claimed of the FSB, "[I]t effectively ceded massive areas of American sovereignty to Europe and to the global economic mavens." Morris later claimed that "this literally is a massive surrender of sovereignty to an essentially European body."

• On the March 31 edition of Fox News' Your World, Morris discussed his theory that Obama ceded sovereignty at the G-20 summit, andsaid, "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case."

Michael Savage

• On the March 20 edition of The Savage Nation, Savage said, "Obama has a plan to force children into a paramilitary domestic army. It was exposed yesterday on WorldNetDaily."

• On the March 9 broadcast of The Savage Nation, Savage declaredthat the American people are "watching a dictatorship emerge" out of Obama's presidency and added: "I think it is time to start talking about impeachment. Somebody's got to get this guy under control. He's out of control."

Frank Gaffney

• On the April 7 broadcast of KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Program,Washington Times columnist Frank Gaffney said of Obama's call to seek "broader engagement" with the Muslim world based on "mutual respect," "It seems as though how Barack Obama spells respect is S-U-B-M-I-S-S-I-O-N."

• On March 17, Gaffney wrote in The Washington Times, "President Obama on Friday reiterated for the umpteenth time his determination to develop a 'new relationship' with the Muslim world. On this occasion, the audience were the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that, in so doing, he will be embracing the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood -- an organization dedicated to promoting the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah and that has the self-described mission of 'destroying Western civilization from within.' "

Other conservative cable figures

• On the April 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly asked, "Is President Obama selling out America? That is the subject of this evening's 'Talking Points Memo.' " O'Reilly later added, "Key question: Where does Barack Obama stand? Are the right-wing pundits correct? Is he down with the global-justice jihad?"

• On the 31 March edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs said of the Pay for Performance Act, "We are moving toward a combination of corporate power and political power that is so disturbingly similar to what we witnessed in Italy in the 1930s that it's not funny."

• On the March 31 edition of America's Newsroom, Fox Business Network contributor Stuart Varney said of the Obama administration's plan to extend further federal government aid to GM, "[N]ow you're in the position where the government somehow has to coerce or force us all into buying the small cars that it insists Detroit puts out."

• On the March 24 edition of Fox News' Studio B with Shepard Smith, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano discussed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's financial bailout plan andsaid, "I would now argue that the Obama administration is trashing the Constitution in order to micromanage the economy, Soviet-style. Remember when the Soviet Union managed the economy from Moscow? There were empty shelves on all of their stores, and nobody prospered, and there was no incentive to get ahead. Without the profit motive -- without the opportunity to get ahead, your economy will collapse, and Tim Geithner should know that."

• On the March 4 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough asserted, "This crisis that we're in is a crisis of where we spent too much and borrowed too much. By Republicans, right? So the Democrats' answer to that is spend more and borrow more." He later added that "both parties have -- are bankrupting us. They're moving us closer to European-style socialism, according toNewsweek. That's not a right-wing claim, it's the truth."

Other conservative radio hosts

• On the April 6 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, radio host Steve Malzberg said of Obama, "I would think that most independent-minded people would understand what this man is all about, that this man does not love this country, that this man is trying to do what Hugo Chavez has done to Venezuela."

• During the April 5 edition of the syndicated program The McLaughlin Group, radio host Monica Crowley claimed the G-20 communiqué is the "the first step to abrogating American sovereignty here, because ... it is going to allow European bureaucrats to step in, not just on the hedge fund regulation and the other explicit things that they agreed to, but buried deep down in this communiqué was the ability for European bureaucrats sitting in Brussels to decide what kind of executive compensation American executives should -- ", at which point Financial Times U.S. managing editor Chrystia Freeland interjected, "No, there was no authority like that there, Monica." Crowley responded, "I read it in the communiqué this morning."

• On the April 6 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Mark Steyn said of the White House's accidental distribution of a phone-sex telephone number, "[I]t seems to be the rest of the world getting nasty and we're the ones hanging upside down in the bondage dungeon being flogged and humiliated by the rest of the planet."

• On the April 1 edition of Hannity, nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin said of "the Obama plan" for the economy, "I view it as economic child abuse. I've been calling it that for the longest time because our children are being compelled to work for generations that will be dead for money that's already spent. Their opportunities will be limited. Their liberty will be limited. And we're enslaving them to a future that our ancestors didn't create for us."

• On the March 18 broadcast of The Lee Rodgers Program, Rodgers discussed "Obama's relationship with the Islamic world" and said, "I don't make any bones about it. I think the guy's out to sell us out. I really do."

• On the March 10 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Lars Larson said of Obama, "A lot of us want him to fail in most of what he's asking the country to do because we view it as an existential threat."

Scarborough is not the only NBC-affiliated media figure to echo the gloom and doom rhetoric. On the March 23 edition of CNBC's Street Signs, anchor Erin Burnett said that a proposed tax on recipients of bonuses whose employers have received government bailouts "to some echo[es] the Russian and French Revolutions." She continued, "Here's a question: Is America starting to look like Venezuela?" And on the March 3 edition of NBC's Today, CNBC host Jim Cramer assertedthat Obama has a "radical agenda" and declared that Obama's budget "basically put a level of fear in this country that I have not seen ever in my life." He later claimed that Obama's policies are "the most, greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a president."

How should true patriots reclaim the media from Republican/Fascist interests?

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You can't reclaim the media until you reclaim the political process. George Bush has destroyed this country, and has turned our 'Fourth Estate' into nothing more than a puppet for his puppet regime (that's really controlled by Big Dick Cheney).

Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." That time is way past due!

Until the most corrupt administration and U.S. Congress in history are either impeached or tried for high treason, the media will remain a shell of its former self, without any integrity and without any credibility.

 

Fox News is throwing a party! This week's top story: Fox News is throwing a party!

 

This week, Media Matters for America released a damning new report that documents in startling detail how Fox News has been promoting anti-Obama "tea party" protests across the country scheduled for April 15. That's right, despite its repeated insistence that its coverage is "fair and balanced" and its invitation to viewers to "say 'no' to biased media," in recent weeks, Fox News has frequently aired segments encouraging viewers to get involved with tea-party protests, which the "news" network has often described as primarily a response to President Obama's fiscal policies.

Specifically, Fox News has in dozens of instances provided attendance and organizing information for future protests, such as protest dates, locations, and website URLs. Fox News websites have also posted information and publicity material for protests. Fox News hosts have repeatedly encouraged viewers to join them at several protests that they are attending and covering. Tea-party organizers have used the planned attendance of the Fox News hosts to promote their protests. Fox News has also aired numerous interviews with protest organizers. Moreover, Fox News contributors are listed as "Tea Party Sponsor[s]" on TaxDayTeaParty.com.

For his part, Glenn Beck, Fox's conspiracy theorist in chief, isn't just helping with turnout. Discussing his participation in the upcoming protest at the Alamo in San Antonio on his syndicated radio program, Beck announced, "I'm going to do a fundraiser for them" to help defray costs. "So you can come and you can have lunch with me. ... I don't know any of the details, but I've heard it's like $500 a plate or something like that."

Of course, the gang over at Fox hasn't taken kindly to Media Matters' pointing out its shameless promotion of these blatantly, unabashedly political events. On April 9, one day after the release of Media Matters' report, Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Beck discussed how"left-wing organizations like Media Matters" are "angry ... at us for covering these protests." Jeez, why would anyone be angry that a "news" outlet is promoting, fundraising for, and taking part in political protests?

Perhaps sensing that people might be catching on to the major role Fox is playing in the events, Cavuto pre-emptively critiqued news coverage of the tea-party protests, essentially panning the evil liberal media for their coverage of the events before they've even taken place.

Other major stories this week

"Where on earth could he have gotten that idea?" -- Glenn Beck edition

Discussing Richard Poplawski, who allegedly shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers, Beck stated this week, "Before they found out about the dog-peeing story, the press, the blogs, everybody immediately went to, 'This guy's a conservative with guns that says Obama's coming.' " Indeed, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Poplawski was "convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry."

Where on earth could Poplawski have gotten such an idea, since neither Obama nor Congress has introduced gun-control legislation or indicated an intention to do so?

Later, Beck went on to say that Obama "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun. He will make them more expensive; he'll tax them out of existence. He will because he has said he would. He will tax your gun or take your gun away one way or another." Beck, of course, is not alone -- since Obama's election, several conservative media figures have similarly warned that Obama would seize their guns or have suggested that a government effort to ban guns is likely.

Eric Boehlert, a Senior Fellow atMedia Matters, appeared this week on CNN to discuss how Fox News is "painting ... this doomsday scenario" and "mainstreaming ... this militia movement and this militia rhetoric." Indeed, after weeks of promoting the bizarre fringe conspiracy theory that the White House is using FEMA to set up "concentration camps" in an effort to establish totalitarian rule, Beck finally set the record straight, debunking the myth with the editor of Popular Mechanics. Don't forget, Beck once claimed he wasn't sure the FEMA camp story was true, but at that point, his "research" was simply unable to "disprove" it. Who's to blame for these nasty conspiracy theories? If you're Glenn Beck, you blame the media without a hint of irony.

Picking up on the work of Beck and the right of late, MSNBC's David Shuster hosted a discussion on whether "the right-wing megaphone" is "pushing violence," while Ed Schultz, the new host of MSNBC's 6 p.m. Eastern show, called the Fox personality a "conspiracy theorist" who "definitely qualifies for Psycho Talk," a new segment on The Ed Showdedicated to "some of the crazy things being said by conservatives."

The "blame Obama first" crowd

Anyone paying attention during the Bush administration will remember the deafening chorus of conservative media figures who accused progressives opposed to Bush's foreign policies as the "blame America first" crowd. Well, that chorus is back for an encore.

Leading the charge is Fox News' Sean Hannity, who recently played a clip of Obama saying in an April 3 speech in Strasbourg, France: "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America's shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." Hannity then said: "And the liberal tradition of blame America first, well, that's still alive," later asking, "Why is there this anti-Americanism in Europe?" In fact, immediately after the part of the speech Hannity played, Obama criticized anti-Americanism in Europe as well as Europeans who "choose to blame America for much of what's bad."

As CNN's Howard Kurtz noted, Hannity's editing job on Obama's Strasbourg remarks was "not quite fair." That's the nice way of saying it was dishonest and deceptive. Don't hold your breath waiting for Hannity to correct the public record.

All week long, conservative media figures have been trashing the president for supposedly betraying some hidden anti-American agenda or wanting to be "liked" by our allies. On Fox,The Weekly Standard's Mary Katherine Ham said she "hate[s] to generalize," but liberals "enjoy apologizing for America." Rush Limbaugh, turning to birther conspiracy theories, falsely told listeners Obama says "his country, the United States -- I don't think he's talking Kenya here -- the United States is responsible for most of the problems in the world."

Conservative attacks on Obama were not isolated to the seemingly crazy one-liners of right-wing pundits and blowhard hosts. Some media figures advanced the more nuanced false claim that in signing the G-20 communiqué establishing a new Financial Stability Board, Obama had ceded U.S. sovereignty to international economic regulators. (Of course, the FSB referenced in the communiqué does not have any authority over U.S. policy.)

Some in the media this week sought a more responsible tone, pushing back against the baloney being pushed around by conservatives. Case in point: CNN's Christiane Amanpour shot down claims that Obama is "outsourcing American foreign policy" to Europe, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said that "conservatives or Americans should [not] be concerned" about Obama's "humility" abroad because "admitting your mistakes" to "your partnerships overseas" is "a good thing."

 

This Week's Media Columns

This week, Media Matters Senior Fellows Eric Boehlert, Jamison Foser, and Karl Frisch take a look at Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News' militia media, the military-media-industrial complex, and a special warning that tea may cause severe damage to journalistic integrity, respectively.

 

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Since President Obama's inauguration, conservative media figures have asserted or suggested that U.S. sovereignty may give way to a one-world government. Their alarmism is part of a recent eruption of extremist anti-government rhetoric in the conservative media; as Media Matters for America has noted, since January, conservatives in the media have warned of impending socialism, fascism, communism, Nazism, McCarthyism, and Marxism, or used such language to describe Obama or other Democrats. Conservative media figures have also warned that Obama will seize their guns or have suggested that a government effort to ban guns is likely. And Fox News has actively promoted what it has branded "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties."

 

The one-world government rhetoric has been advanced by some of Fox News' most familiar faces. For instance, in an April 6 column headlined, "The Declaration of Independence has been repealed," Fox News contributor Dick Morris claimed, "On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London" -- an assertion Morris repeated on that night's edition of Fox News' Hannity. Additionally, on the April 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly stated that "[s]ome believe Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA], Senator Harry Reid [D-NV], and President Obama himself are sympathetic to the one-world, global-justice view," which O'Reilly had earlier described as "requir[ing] that a one-world government seize private property and distribute it so that every human being has roughly the same amount of resources." O'Reilly then demanded to know: "Where does Barack Obama stand?" And on the April 1 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Glenn Beck asserted, "The Constitution is being taken apart piece by piece through international coalitions, through international law, and through the United Nations."

 

Other examples, including statements by Morris, O'Reilly, and Beck, follow:

 

• As Media Matters documented, following the conclusion of the Group of 20 economic summit in London, Morris and syndicated radio host Monica Crowley falsely claimed that in signing the G-20 communiqué establishing a new Financial Stability Board (FSB), Obama ceded U.S. sovereignty to international economic regulators. In addition to his column, Morris stated on the April 6 edition of Hannity, "Basically, from an economic standpoint, [Obama's] repealed [the Declaration of Independence]. We no longer have economic sovereignty." During the April 3 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, Morris claimed of the FSB, "[I]t effectively ceded massive areas of American sovereignty to Europe and to the global economic mavens." During the April 5 edition of the syndicated program The McLaughlin Group, Crowley claimed the G-20 communiqué is the "the first step to abrogating American sovereignty here." In fact, the FSB referenced in the G-20 communiqué does not contain cross-border authority and thus does not in any way limit or eliminate U.S. sovereignty. Indeed, an April 3 New York Times article reported, "While the leaders agreed to create a new Financial Stability Board to monitor the financial system for signs of risks, they stopped well short of giving regulators cross-border authority, something France has long advocated."

• On the April 6 broadcast of the nationally syndicated radio show The Savage Nation,Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid asserted that Obama's nomination of Yale Law School dean Harold Koh as legal adviser to the State Department "is beyond worrisome. This is terrifying that -- the thought of this kind of guy with these views becoming the top lawyer at the State Department. But seen in the light of the some of the other appointments Obama has made, it's consistent with his push, which is now out in the open, for the U.S. to become really subsumed into this, quote, 'new world order' that everybody keeps talking about, in which our sovereignty has been sacrificed for the, quote, 'greater good.' "

• On the April 2 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly read from an April 1 Wall Street Journal op-ed in which former Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen wrote, "We must keep up the pressure by demanding a globalization that works for everyone, and forge new alliances and new lines of communication across national boundaries. We must develop new, progressive ways to achieve global justice." O'Reilly then commented: "Well, Karl Marx could not have said it better. Global justice requires that a one-world government seize private property and distribute it so that every human being has roughly the same amount of resources. The Denmark guy's vision is nothing new, but it's now being recycled as justice." After stating that "[s]ome believe Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid, and President Obama himself are sympathetic to the one-world, global-justice view," O'Reilly added: "Key question: Where does Barack Obama stand? Are the right-wing pundits correct? Is he down with the global-justice jihad? There's no hard evidence to suggest that he is, but he has not repudiated the false vision either. Until President Obama does, speculation will rage."

• On the April 1 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Beck stated that Koh "believes in internationalism. He believes that we should not have a Constitution, that the Constitution is trumped by international law." Beck later added: "[T]he idea is, have our courts answer to international law. Forget about the Constitution. Forget about your sovereignty."

• On March 30, The Fox Nation linked to a March 30 New York Post article using the headline "Scary! Obama nominee wants one world order." In the article, Post reporter Meghan Clyne asserted that Koh is a "fan of 'transnational legal process,' arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish."

• On the March 27 edition of his radio show, Beck hosted Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to discuss her proposed constitutional amendment "to prohibit the President from entering into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States." During the interview, Beck stated: "I don't want to believe that there are people in our country that would trash our dollar like this. And what's going to happen is if you start to talk about a global currency, which I'm telling you, there's no way out of what we're doing now besides devaluing the dollar to pay off our debt and then have a new currency. There's just no other way." He added, "[W]hat happens is when you stand up, and when you say those things, then you're deemed a kook. Then you're deemed a militia member." Later in the interview, Bachmann asserted: "The president is committing us so much now, and Congress is committing us to so much spending, that the only way out will be for him to continue to print money and have wild inflation. And once that collapses, then it's a global currency. Well, then we are no more as a nation. We cease at that point." Beck responded, in part, "I have something that I wish somebody in Washington would consider, that they would be willing to just fall on their sword to show the American people this is real," and "I believe it. But convincing everybody else may be a different story."

• On the March 24 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Charles Payne asserted: "Listen, one day I think that we are heading toward a one-world sort of government. I think Obama probably likes that."

• During an interview with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on the March 24 edition of his Fox News program, Beck asserted, "Ambassador, everybody is calling for global currency. I think part of this is a game, but I think, also, part of it is a -- I mean, now the U.N. is saying, you know what? We should have a global currency. It's also a movement to tie the entire globe together into one big government. Am I wrong or right?" Later during the interview, Beck stated: "So -- so help me out on this. You're known as a fighter. I mean, you are a guy in there, man, you were just taking the fight right to them. So, what does the average person do? I mean, the average person, they hear, you know, I might be losing my sovereignty. ... What -- who do -- who's on our side?" Bolton responded: "Well, you know, I think it's important we understand what we mean by sovereignty. To Europeans and many left-wing intellectuals in this country, it's just kind of an abstract concept that doesn't mean much. But I think to most Americans, sovereignty means our control over our own government. It's about self-government." Later in the interview, in response to Beck's statement, "Ambassador, when you say world government, it does sound nuts. And because everybody knows, nobody is for world government," Bolton responded: "That's why they don't call it world government anymore. And they'll try and find these other phrases. But you have to look underneath of it. And it's on a range of issues, not just the money supply, but gun control, the death penalty, abortion, all -- global warming -- all of which are issues we can and should debate in our -- in our constitutional democratic framework. We don't need to decide them internationally. But that's what the agenda is of many people very close to the Obama administration."

• In an interview with Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano on the March 18 edition of FoxNews.com's online program Freedom Watch, syndicated radio hostAlex Jones stated that he was talking about "how hundreds of mainstream news articles a week are saying there is a new world order, a global government. It will be run by the very banks that are collapsing society by design, and we will pay carbon taxes to them." He later stated: "[T]he good news is, I've never seen an awakening this big. And I'm seeing, you know, people like Glenn Beck talk about the new world order on Fox. I'm seeing you talk about it for years before him. We're seeing [CNN host] Lou Dobbs talk about it. We're seeing, you know, mainline talk-show hosts -- [radio host Rush] Limbaugh is even talking about global government now. [Radio host] Michael Savage is talking about how he thinks, you know, Obama may stage crises to bring in martial law."

• On the March 17 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, National Review deputy managing editor Kevin Williamson asserted that Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, belonged to a group that was "arguing for ... the same stuff that the left is always arguing for, which is transferring wealth and power out of citizens' hands and into the government's hands." Williamson went on to state, "You know, the left always needs an emergency because they can't get this stuff done through normal democratic means. So, in the '30s, it was the Depression, and then it was World War II. Then it was the Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation. And then after the Soviet Union fell apart, it became the environmental movement." Beck responded: "Right. Let me -- I'm going to have them take you someplace that I like to call 'one-world government.' " Beck later stated that Browner "was involved in a socialist organization" that "wants one-world government." Williamson replied, "Yeah, they're big on what they call, you know, global architecture, transnational architecture, which is just another way of saying sort of U.N.-style bureaucracies that would be international in nature and would de-emphasize American power and global leadership."

• In a February 10 Human Events Online article, contributor Thomas Kilgannon wrote: "Globalists were dismayed because [President] Bush's rejection of the ICC [International Criminal Court] was a vote for American sovereignty -- a refusal to cede authority to international government and a court that is not bound to the principles of the U.S. Constitution, far less our laws. That could change under the Obama administration. Two weeks ago, hope returned to the House of Hammarskjold when U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, in a closed Security Council meeting, voiced support for the ICC."

From April 6 edition of the nationally syndicated radio show The Savage Nation:

KINCAID: And the main gripe about Harold Koh is that he doesn't believe in the supremacy of U.S. law and the U.S. Constitution. Instead, he wants to subordinate our legal system to what is euphemistically called international law. Well, that's worrisome enough. But what we've discovered is that his mentor -- in fact, his law professor -- was a guy named Louis Sohn, S-O-H-N. And I have the whole story up on AIM.org about this relationship.

And Louis Sohn, although he carries some fancy academic titles and was a professor and international lawyer himself for many decades -- was even in on the founding of the U.N. -- that he's been called a respected scholar, but he really is a crackpot. And I mean that, because this guy Louis Sohn -- and remember, here's the guy who taught Harold Koh everything he knows about international law -- Louis Sohn was a believer in world government. I mean, that's not just my opinion. This is what he believed. And he was a major figure in creating and crafting the Law of the Sea treaty and other so-called global constitutions for U.S. and human affairs. Sohn, who was a professor at Harvard, wrote a book, and I got a hold of it. It's an incredible book, hard to find, but it's called World Peace Through World Law.

KINCAID: This is the guy who was the teacher and mentor for Obama's nominee as the top legal adviser for the State Department -- again, Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of Yale Law School. And, I mean, this is beyond worrisome. This is terrifying that -- the thought of this kind of guy with these views becoming the top lawyer at the State Department. But seen in the light of some of the other appointments Obama has made, it's consistent with his push, which is now out in the open, for the U.S. to become really subsumed into this, quote, "new world order" that everybody keeps talking about, in which our sovereignty has been sacrificed for the, quote, "greater good."

From the April 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: Some conservative pundits actually believe President Obama is a star chamber guy, a man who secretly wants to turn America into a progressive country modeled on Western Europe. Also, they think, he wants to lessen the power of America and sign up for a one-world combine of governance. In the past, that kind of thinking was labeled loony, but that's changing.

Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, the former prime minister of Denmark says, "In Europe, we have been protected from the worst effects of the economic crisis thanks to welfare states built up over the past 60 years to cushion citizens from the threats" -- from the threats, from the threats -- "posed by the free market. We can all count on state health care, social housing, education, unemployment support, and other universal tax-funded services. The simplistic dictum of more markets and less government championed by Reagan, Thatcher, and their ideological heirs has failed on a momentous scale. I am hopeful that the G-20 will make progress. We must keep up the pressure by demanding a globalization that works for everyone and forge new alliances and new lines of communication across national boundaries. We must develop new, progressive ways to achieve global justice."

Well, Karl Marx could not have said it better. Global justice requires that a one-world government seize private property and distribute it so that every human being has roughly the same amount of resources. The Denmark guy's vision is nothing new, but it's now being recycled as justice.

In America, there are a number of powerful people who subscribe to the theory, including billionaire George Soros, former Obama and Clinton adviser John Podesta, and Vermont Senator -- a senator -- Bernie Sanders.

Some believe Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid, and President Obama himself are sympathetic to the one-world, global-justice view. By the way, I wrote about this in my book Culture Warrior. And now, the far-left movement is gaining power, as I predicted it would.

Key question: Where does Barack Obama stand? Are the right-wing pundits correct? Is he down with the global-justice jihad? There's no hard evidence to suggest that he is, but he has not repudiated the false vision either. Until President Obama does, speculation will rage. And that is the "Memo."

From the April 1 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: We have a guy now that is -- is been nominated by our president to be the head of the legal for the State Department. This is the guy that's going to be brokering all of our treaties. This is the guy that's going to oversee all the legal things at the State Department. International relations.

This man does not believe -- he's from the -- he's the former head of Yale Law. He believes in internationalism. He believes that we should not have a Constitution, that the Constitution is trumped by international law. He believes that the judges in this country -- if you can't get same-sex -- this sounds crazy, but it's happening.

California. How many times now have you said no to same-sex marriage? That doesn't make you a hatemonger. That doesn't mean that you hate gay people or you don't want gay couples to be together. I mean, this is Barack Obama's position. Barack Obama's position is no gay marriage, but civil unions. Fine. Absolutely fine.

Now, California has said that twice. Both times it went to the court. Now, the first time the court decided, "No. You've got to throw that out because you're overreaching here in the language." Fine. So what they did is they redefined it. I believe Proposition 8 was, like, one sentence. "Marriage is defined between a man and a woman." It doesn't say, "No civil unions," it says nothing. It just -- "Marriage is defined between a man and a woman." Done. People vote on it, they pass it yet again, and what happens? They throw it into the courts.

Now, if the court doesn't reject it this time, what recourse do the people who want gay marriage to be a law -- what recourse do they have? Well, in any republic, what they do then is just try to keep changing people's minds. But that's not what happens. There is another show. And I'm only using this as one example. There's a different show that's going on, and it is at the international level.

The international level says gay marriage is acceptable. That's international law. So, now we're in violation of international law. So, the idea is, have our courts answer to international law. Forget about the Constitution. Forget about your sovereignty. Your sovereignty and your Constitution -- you can vote on whatever you want to vote on. That's cute. That'll keep everybody happy. You vote on whatever you want. But if it's in conflict of international law -- where you've had nothing to do with international law. You didn't vote for the people who are making those laws over in Europe or anyplace else. No -- you have no -- absolutely no contact with international law. You abide by the Constitution.

The Constitution is being taken apart piece by piece through international coalitions, through international law, and through the United Nations. Now, if that's what you want, it is your right as Americans to stand up and say, "You know what? I think the Constitution was good for 1789, and it's not necessarily good today. And I think we should be international -- we should have international law. And if the rest of the world says no to the death penalty -- well, then, if that's what they've decided at the Hague, then I'm totally fine with that. If the rest of the world says we can't do these things, well, that's fine. If the rest of the world says, 'You're going to run your economy this way,' well, then I'm totally fine with it."

If you're -- if you feel that way, then now is the time to rise up and stand up and say, "Yes. I am for international law." But I am telling you, the British are coming, the British are coming.

From the March 27 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: May I just say, the frustration that I think most Americans have, or the same frustration that I have -- I don't want to believe that there are people in our country that are intentionally doing these things. I don't want to believe that there are people in our country that would trash our dollar like this.

And what's going to happen is if you start to talk about a global currency, which I'm telling you, there's no way out of what we're doing now besides devaluing the dollar to pay off our debt and then have a new currency. There's just no other way.

BACHMANN: Well, but we can stop that. I --

BECK: Wait a minute. Congresswoman, what happens is when you stand up, and when you say those things, then you're deemed a kook. Then you're deemed a militia member. And there are too many people in America that will still listen to the mainstream media. They will still listen to, you know, to those in Washington on both sides of the aisle that say, "Oh, no, well, that's never gonna happen."

And so they sit there and do nothing. And those who would do want to do something are afraid because they don't want to be deemed a kook. And they also are tired of being played by politicians in Washington.

BACHMANN: Well, Glenn, I have experienced that throughout my political career -- being labeled a kook. It just happened yesterday again in a big story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. But all we have to do is point to the Treasury secretary on tape -- on camera. This is not Michele Bachmann being a kook. This is our Treasury secretary on tape and on camera.

And also we now have countries across the world asking for this. That's why I went to my fellow colleagues, and I dropped a bill the day before yesterday that would bind the president's hands, that wouldn't allow him to enter into a treaty or an international agreement to take us off the dollar and put us on an international currency, because once that -- you've exactly stated it right. The president is committing us so much now, and Congress is committing us to so much spending, that the only way out will be for him to continue to print money and have wild inflation. And once that collapses, then it's a global currency.

Well, then we are no more as a nation. We cease at that point. So we still are at a point of pulling back, but, I mean, right now the secondhand is right up to midnight on our freedom, and so people have to act. This is not -- this is not just a radio show call or this is not a gimmick. This is reality now. This is our call to arms. So that's why I dropped this bill, so that -- which means I filed this bill on the floor -- so that we can get this passed so we can bind the president or his designee, so they cannot put us --

BECK: All right.

BACHMANN: -- into a global currency.

BECK: Congressman, I -- we -- we're up against a hard network break, but I have to tell you -- do you have time? Could I -- I don't have time even on the other side. Could I -- do you have something at 10? Could we call you back about 10:05?

BACHMANN: Yeah, you can. I'm just cleaning the house today.

BECK: Oh, you are? OK. You know what? I see that I have Senator [Jim] DeMint [R-SC] on, but maybe I'll put you on with Senator DeMint.

BACHMANN: Sure.

BECK: Could I put the two of you on together? Because I -- I have to tell you, that I have something that I wish somebody in Washington would consider, that they would be willing to just fall on their sword to show the American people this is real. Because I think everybody still think -- a lot of people still think that this is a game.

BACHMANN: Oh, no, no, no.

BECK: And if you don't mind --

BACHMANN: This is real.

BECK: I -- I know that.

BACHMANN: This is it now.

BECK: I know you -- I know you believe it --

BACHMANN: This is it.

BECK: -- and I believe it. But convincing everybody else may be a different story. So hang on the phone. We'll -- we'll try to get you back.

From the March 24 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

BECK: Joining me now is former ambassador to the United Nations and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Ambassador John Bolton.

Ambassador, everybody is calling for global currency. I think part of this is a game, but I think, also, part of it is a -- I mean, now the U.N. is saying, you know what? We should have a global currency. It's also a movement to tie the entire globe together into one big government. Am I wrong or right?

BOLTON: Well, I think there are a lot of different motivations. If you look at China, they are worried about U.S. inflation, devaluing the debt that they hold. And they're unwillingness to buy more of it actually may help save us from ourselves.

BECK: Yes.

BOLTON: But I do think there are other people in Europe, many in the United States as well, who don't prize sovereignty, particularly American sovereignty, as much as most Americans do. And the real test I think we're going to see here in the next few years is where the Obama administration comes out on some of these globalization proposals.

BECK: You know, he wrote a paper. I'm trying to remember. I mean, his plan is like the next big plan or something like that, but there was a -- there is a secondary title to it. Do you know what I'm talking about? The Obama --

BOLTON: Well --

BECK: Go ahead.

BOLTON: A lot of his advisers have talked about concepts like responsible sovereignty -- whatever that means -- and it's a way of preconditioning people to get used to a lessening of the decision making that we do in Washington, of transferring responsibility to international organizations.

Now, they're never going to say that. They're never going to say, "You know, we think we need less American sovereignty." They are going to characterize it very differently. But the net impact of moving in a number of these directions will have exactly that effect.

BECK: Yeah. OK. So -- so help me out on this. You're known as a fighter. I mean, you are a guy in there, man, you were just taking the fight right to them. So, what does the average person do? I mean, the average person, they hear, you know, I might be losing my sovereignty.

How do we -- how do we fight that, especially when -- there was a story today about [Gov.] Haley Barbour [R-MS]. I mean, here's a guy who's a Republican. Haley Barbour is not -- originally, I saw the headline, I thought he was fighting against eminent domain. I thought he was actually going in and saying, hey, hey, now eminent domain is important for some stuff but not for new casinos. And the Republicans aren't even standing up against eminent domain. What -- who do -- who's on our side?

BOLTON: Well, you know, I think it's important we understand what we mean by sovereignty. To Europeans and many left-wing intellectuals in this country, it's just kind of an abstract concept that doesn't mean much. But I think to most Americans, sovereignty means our control over our own government. It's about self-government.

BECK: Yes.

BOLTON: So, preserving sovereignty means keeping control over what the politicians are doing. And I have to say, I am optimistic on this score, because I think when Americans understand what the risks are, they will stand up and tell their members of Congress --

BECK: But --

BOLTON: -- "Don't even think about it." But we've got to get organized. There's no about it.

BECK: Ambassador, when you say world government, it does sound nuts. And because everybody knows, nobody is for world government. But again, if you add the emergency --

BOLTON: And that's why they don't call it world government.

BECK: Pardon me? I know.

BOLTON: That's why they don't call it --

BECK: I know.

BOLTON: That's why they don't call it world government anymore. And they'll try and find these other phrases. But you have to look underneath of it. And it's on a range of issues, not just the money supply, but gun control, the death penalty --

BECK: Global warming.

BOLTON: -- abortion, all -- global warming -- all of which are issues we can and should debate in our -- in our constitutional democratic framework. We don't need to decide them internationally. But that's what the agenda is of many people very close to the Obama administration.

BECK: OK. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, Ambassador.

From the March 18 edition of FoxNews.com's Freedom Watch:

NAPOLITANO: OK, New York hears you loud and clear. Welcome to Freedom Watch, Alex. What are you talking about today?

JONES: Oh, just how hundreds of mainstream news articles a week are saying there is a new world order, a global government. It will be run by the very banks that are collapsing society by design, and we will pay carbon taxes to them.

Here is a Time magazine headline "New World Order," and they say a new bank of the world will rule the United States. Here is the Financial Times of London: "And now for a world government" is the headline. They're openly announcing that the banks will rule the planet and we'll pay our carbon taxes to them for the phony global warming.

And I just had a state rep on confirming the modern militia movement document, MIAC, saying Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, anybody with a Ron Paul bumper sticker are dangerous terrorists, that the North American Union doesn't exist, that anybody that talks about freedom or liberty issues is basically an evil terrorist. So, we're exposing the new world order here, Judge.

NAPOLITANO: I appreciate what you're exposing. And Ron Paul, whom you just mentioned, will be on Freedom Watch with me in about 20 minutes.

I must tell you that there was a time when the types of things that you are warning against was not discussed openly and publicly. But I was scandalized when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tipped his hand when he spoke to a joint session of Congress two weeks ago and said he was looking for -- these are the words that caused me a couple of sleepless nights, Alex, and I bet you as well and many of the folks watching and listening to us -- "a global new deal."

Now, what under the sun is a global new deal, unless it consists of the type of thing that you have just warned against? In which American taxpayers will be enriching banks and banks will be deciding what we can pay, but it will be happening irrespective of the boundaries of the United States of America and other countries as well.

JONES: This is the birth of the new world order, and so you've got all these different honchos from the private central banks, the private Federal Reserve and others, all meeting, deciding on the final architecture of the world government. The very banks that have engineered the economic collapse are now posing as our saviors, bringing this in.

But the good news is, I've never seen an awakening this big. And I'm seeing, you know, people like Glenn Beck talk about the new world order on Fox. I'm seeing you talk about it for years before him. We're seeing Lou Dobbs talk about it. We're seeing, you know, mainline talk-show hosts -- Limbaugh is even talking about global government now.

NAPOLITANO: Right.

JONES: Michael Savage is talking about how he thinks, you know, Obama may stage crises to bring in martial law. So, all the things that I was talking about in the wilderness 10-plus years ago is now hitting mainstream, and it is great.

So, it shows me the sleeping giant that is the United States and all of this liberty and freedom -- we're rediscovering our roots, our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution. You called for states to -- not secede, but, you know, re-declare their 10th Amendment, Ninth Amendment. You're a judge; you know the Constitution well, constitutional scholar. And so they're trying to get the feds back in line. The battle lines are being drawn here.

NAPOLITANO: Right.

JONES: And the American people are finding out that Washington's been seized by offshore banks.

From the March 17 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

BECK: And what was it they wanted? I mean, besides the world to be able to --

WILLIAMSON: Well, if you go back and look at, you know, what they're arguing for, it's the same stuff that the left is always arguing for, which is transferring wealth and power out of citizens' hands and into the government's hands.

You know, the left always needs an emergency because they can't get this stuff done --

BECK: Sure.

WILLIAMSON: -- through normal democratic means. So, in the '30s, it was the Depression, and then it was World War II.

BECK: Mm-hmm.

WILLIAMSON: Then it was the Cold War and the threat of nuclear annihilation. And then after the Soviet Union fell apart, it became the environmental movement.

BECK: Right. Let me -- I'm going to have them take you someplace that I like to call "one-world government."

WILLIAMSON: Yeah.

BECK: Yeah. We'll do that here in just a second.

BECK: OK. So she's the climate czar.

WILLIAMSON: It is, yes.

BECK: And she said in U.S. News & World Report that she wants to get to a system where they can control the temperature in your house and make sure you that can't run your air conditioner --

WILLIAMSON: Yeah.

BECK: -- as high as you want?

WILLIAMSON: Essentially, that you would fire up your A/C real high and the power company would just cut down your power supply to counteract what you were doing.

BECK: Yeah. OK. When I said that over a year ago, people said, "Oh, that's crazy." They were talking about it in California. "That's crazy. That'll never happen."

Here you have somebody in government -- a czar -- that wants that to happen and can't wait for the smart grid. But she's also -- was involved in a socialist organization.

WILLIAMSON: Sure. Yeah.

BECK: She she's been scrubbed off this website. But this socialist organization wants one-world government.

WILLIAMSON: Yeah, they're big on what they call, you know, global architecture, transnational architecture, which is just another way of saying sort of U.N.-style bureaucracies that would be international in nature and would de-emphasize American power and global leadership.

 

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"Fifty-eight members of Congress earned a perfect score in the report, including Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Representatives John Lewis (D-GA-5), George Miller (D-CA-7) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7). Fifty-nine scored 90 percent. Members of Congress who earned top marks voted on such critical issues as opposing a blank check for the occupation of Iraq, blocking the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons, and fully funding nonproliferation programs, foreign assistance and other important civilian security tools. Peace Action and Peace Action West's Congressional Scorecard for the 110th Congress is available for download here:

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Mistaken detentions and deportations of U.S. citizens draw increased attention as ICE mounts workplace roundups and jailhouse sweeps in search of undocumented immigrants, the Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Becker and Patrick J. McDonnell survey. While CBP inspectors’ mission “is fun and rewarding, it’s much more complex than just walking a dog,” a Washington Post video report from Akira Hakuta reminds — while KFOX 14 News’ Jessica Molinar has a New Mexico CBP agent arrested for obstructing an investigation involving his live-in illegal immigrant girlfriend.

 

Feds: Half a dozen investigators conducting security-clearance checks for federal agencies have been accused of lying in reports submitted to the Office of Personnel Management, the Post’s Del Quentin Wilber relates. FBI agents were called in yesterday to help secure release of an American captain held by Somali pirates who tried to commandeer his cargo vessel, The Washington Times’ Sara A. Carter recounts — while the L.A. Times’ Rebecca Cole notes that the bureau is no stranger to overseas hostage negotiations. What happened to the “ghost detainees,” terror suspects the CIA renditioned to foreign governments? Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball wonder — while the McClatchy Newspapers’ Jonathan S. Landay has Leon Panetta saying yesterday the CIA is decommissioning its secret prisons overseas, while The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman has the agency chief also banning interrogations by outside contractors.

 

The New Broom: “The core strategic shift of Obama’s presidency has been away from the with-us-or-against-us rhetoric of the war on terror toward a rapprochement with the Muslim world as the basis for isolating terrorists,” The New York Times’ Roger Cohen comments. Overtures from three of the four official state sponsors of terrorism — Cuba, Iran and Syria — “pose a test” to the Obama administration, FOX News’ Judson Berger and Nina Donaghy analyze. “Is the Age of Obama threatening America’s safety?” FOX’s Sean Hannity asks and (predictably) answers. “The post-War on Terror anti-terrorist policy will require reforms . . . in how we locate the campaign against the terrorist threat in our broader foreign, and domestic, policy,” Lincoln Mitchell maintains in The Huffington Post.

State and local: DHS inspector general investigators are in Fayetteville, Ark., reviewing local government participation in an ICE immigration enforcement program, The Morning News notes. Guam’s Homeland Security/Civil Defense shop winds up a seminar today looking at the homeland security implications of the territory’s ongoing military buildup, The Pacific Daily News notes. ICE plans to shift “criminal alien program” offices from Roanoke to Salem, Va., The Roanoke Times tells — while WSLS 10 News finds Salemites less than thrilled to see even a four-cell maximum security facility sited downtown. Delaware has won a DHS grant enabling launch of a Community Cyber Security Training and Exercise Program, TheSussex Countian relays.

 

Chasing the dime: When a 20-year-old college student allegedly tried to scam a Danbury (Conn.) store out of $9,600 worth of iPhones, he briefly caused a stir among federal counterterrorists, the News-Times notes. The Manhattan DA’s office“has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks,” The New York Daily News notes. A nonprofit shuttered last year for financing terrorism paid three Montreal fundraisers to collect money for the Tamil Tigers terror group, the Gazette relates. Court-appointed lawyers representing six men linked to a defunct Islamic charity seek court permission to seek testimony from a designated terrorist living in Jordan, The Kansas City Star says.

 

Bugs ‘n bombs: A Florida utility has paid a $130,000 NRC fine for security guards caught napping at a nuke plant, The Gainesville Sun relays. Last week’s Florida hospital anthrax hoax was ‘terrorism.’ It doesn’t take a plane flying into a building for the definition to fit,” The Tampa Tribune editorializes — as Reuters has “a suspicious package containing white powder” turning up in New York’s financial district last Friday. “If enemies deliberately contaminated food, correctly tracking the food through the supply chain would be necessary . . . to potentially identifying the terrorists,” a Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress editorial advises. Indonesia’s conspiracist health minister exhorts researchers “to avoidexploitation from developed countries and the possibility of a future biological attack,” The Jakarta Globe reports — while The Times of India quotes a Pakistan official testifying that the “al Qaeda-Taliban combo” has developed expertise in making biochemical weapons.

 

Air defense: A TSA officer at Orlando’s airport was arrested Wednesday after detectives found drugs and weapons at his home, the Sentinel says. New Jersey’s State Police and Homeland Security Office hosted 50 local, state and federal officials for a “wide-ranging strategy session” gaming a plane crash scenario, The Newark Star-Ledger relates. “The naked body scanners are taking over,” a Slate columnist leads, noting that when whole-body imagers “first appeared, I endorsedthem, [but] now I’m having second thoughts” — while Jaunted, the travel blog, concludes “Your body belongs to TSA now.” On air security, often, “our only choice is to trust that the authorities know what they are doing,” but Canadians now “havecause to think that trust has been misplaced,” a Victoria (B.C.) Times Colonist columnist contends.

 

Coming and going: Thanks to West Virginia’s very senior senator, Huntington’s Public Port Authority is in line for $2.3 million from DHS’s Port Security Grant Program, WOWK 13 News notes — and check Global Security Newswire on FEMA’s apportioning of $970 million in fiscal 2009 preparedness grants. “If there is a reason that Port Townsend [Wash.] needs such a large increase in Border Patrol, I would be glad to hear it,” a Leader reader recriminates — while AP learns that illegal immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border have climbed despite a nearly 25 percent drop in Border Patrol arrests. Salt Lake City’s opting out of a new law authorizing local police to enforce federal immigration law infuriates itslegislative sponsor, the Tribune tells.

 

Courts and rights: Terrorism charges have been dropped against eight defendants accused of conspiracy to disrupt last summer’s GOP convention, The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. An anti-Castro Cuban militant is under federal indictment for lying about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings of Cuban tourist spots, The Miami Herald reports. Dismissal of contempt charges against the much-charged Sami Al-Arian would undercut the ability of grand juries to investigate terrorist financing, IPT News insists. A Counterterrorism Blog contributor proposes “a special new Federal Bar of Attorneys pre-cleared and enabled to be available as co-counsel in cases involving access to classified information.”

 

Over there: Britain’s top counterterrorist resigned yesterday after an embarrassing security leak that forced premature launching of a major anti-terror op, The Guardian reports. A former Toronto man who had joined Somalia’s fundamentalist al-Shabab was killed this week when, surrounded by Ethiopian troops, he refused to surrender, The National Post learns. Osama bin Laden’s ancestral homeland faces a rising tide of terrorist attacks as militants strengthen their base in Yemen,Bloomberg surveys. An 11-year-old would-be Taliban suicide bomber arrested in Afghanistan may be the youngest terror recruit authorities have encountered, The Daily Mail mentions.

 

Kulture Kanyon: Phoenix police tell The New Times’ that last month’s questioning of a local photographer for taking pictures at a transit station was strictly SOP. With “Waterboarding Blues,” the Subversive Theatre “turns its laser focus on the war in Iraq (or ‘the global war on terror,’ or, lately, ‘overseas contingency operation’) infusing it with stylized language and moralistic premise,” The Buffalo News reviews. “24,” FOX’s torture-happy dramatic series, “embraced by the right for its unflinching assault on terrorism and lack of moral hand wringing,” has taken a left turn, Human Events fears. The Home Office has removed a link from its counterterrorism Web site after being alerted by BBC News that it led to a Japanese pornography site. Actor Kal Penn — of “Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay” (Mandate) — has left the cast of FOX’s “House” to join the White House office of public liaison, Entertainment Weekly informs.

 

Let the games begin: Reassuring Olympics officials on security for the city’s bid to host the 2016 games, Windy City securicrats said the goal “is to not have a Chicago Games feel as though they’re taking place in a police-state,” ABC 7 Newsnotes. “Every specialist police officer in West Yorkshire will be drafted in to protect the public from terror attacks” during London’s 2012 Olympic Games, The Evening Post reports. “This is nothing more than ecoterrorism,” The Lake County (Calif.) News has a letter to local motor sports dealers alleging off-road trails have been booby-trapped asserting of illegal ATV incursions. The scenario for “Resident Evil 5” hinges upon “reports of the same virus encountered in Spain breaking out in Africa. It’s a matter of terrorism and biological weaponry at work,” GamePlasm previews — and check USA Today on the furor greeting the Iraq War video game, “Six Days in Fallujah.”

 

A tweeting bird told us: “U.S. Special Forces were closing in on Osama bin Laden last night, after intercepting an injudicious message from the terror chief on the social networking Web site Twitter,” The Spoof spoofs. “ ‘OBL2001 is... relaxing at his favourite cave in good old Tora Bora. You know — the one with minimal security that is exactly 50 kilometers due west of the Khyber Pass. Praise Allah!’ the message read — prompting a team of crack soldiers to move into the mountains from their base in Kabul. Pentagon officials are certain it is genuine having ‘followed’ the mysterious OBL2001 on the Twitter site for some months — although this is the first time they have managed to pinpoint his exact location. ‘We were very excited back at the end of last year when we first came across this individual through our covert operatives in the “Al-Qaeda 4eva” Facebook group,’ said CIA spokesman Bob Dawson.”

 

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