CIA covered for Nazi war criminals during Cold War
Efforts to use former Nazis as spies led the CIA to keep mum about the location of criminals such as Adolf Eichmann.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 7, 2006
WASHINGTON - Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released Tuesday.
The 27,000 pages released by the National Archives are among the largest post-World War II declassifications by the Central Intelligence Agency. They offer a window into the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence - and the efforts to use former Nazi war criminals as spies, sometimes to detrimental effect.
The war criminals "peddled hearsay and gossip, whether to escape retribution for past crimes, or for mercenary gain, or for political agendas not necessarily compatible with American national interests," Robert Wolfe, an expert on German history and former archivist at the National Archives, said at a news briefing announcing the document release.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/07/Worldandnation/CIA_covered_for_Nazi_.shtml
Angelides to Face Schwarzenegger in November
Westly Concedes; Brown Wins and Preschool Plan Fails
By Michael Finnegan and Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writers
10:49 AM PDT, June 7, 2006
California's general election season started today, hours after state Treasurer Phil Angelides claimed the Democratic nomination to oppose Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After months of vitriolic campaigning, Angelides early this morning claimed victory and his challenger, state Controller Steve Westly conceded.
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The Democratic nominee had a few hours to catch his breath before beginning a victory tour in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland. He planned to spend Thursday in Boston, where his daughter is graduating from Harvard.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-060706elex,0,4755486.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Senators challenge probe of columnist
FBI is seeking Anderson archives
By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press | June 7, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee gave the Bush administration a new lashing yesterday over its use of executive power, citing the FBI's posthumous probe of columnist Jack Anderson, and questioning the notion that espionage laws might allow the prosecution of journalists who publish classified information.
``It's highly doubtful in my mind that that was ever the intent of Congress," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said.
The World War I-era espionage laws, countered Justice Department criminal division chief Matthew Friedrich, ``do not exempt any class of professionals, including reporters, from their reach.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/07/senators_challenge_probe_of_columnist/
Officer at Fort Lewis calls Iraq war illegal, refuses order to go
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
In a rare case of officer dissent, a Fort Lewis Army lieutenant has refused orders to head out to Iraq this month to lead troops in what he believes is an illegal war of occupation.
1st Lt. Ehren Watada was scheduled to make his first deployment to Iraq this month. His refusal to accompany the Stryker brigade troops puts him at risk of court martial and years of prison time.
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration," Watada said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Fort Lewis. "It is the duty, the obligation of every soldier, and specifically the officers, to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every order — including the order to go to war."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003044627_nogo7m.htmlReport: Europe assisted CIA terrorist detentions
By Hannah K. Strange
UPI U.K. Correspondent
Published June 7, 2006
PARIS -- Fourteen European countries colluded with the United States in the covert transfer of terror suspects, while two may have harbored secret CIA prisons, according to a key European Union report published Wednesday.
"It is now clear -- although we are still far from establishing the whole truth -- that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know," the Council of Europe report concluded.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060607-114756-5692r
More than 590 prisoners freed in Iraq - TV
June 07, 2006, 09:45
About 594 prisoners were released in Iraq today, state television reported, a day after Nuri al-Maliki, the new prime minister, said a total of 2 500 would be freed to help foster national reconciliation. More than 100 of them were freed in the capital.
State television, citing the justice ministry, said 594 had been freed across the country. Officials at the ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. Maliki, who has pledged to heal sectarian wounds and crush a Sunni Arab insurgency, said in a televised statement yesterday that the prisoner release would free those who had no clear evidence against them or had been detained mistakenly.
Initially, 500 people would be released today, he said, but did not give details. Many of those in prison are from ousted president Saddam Hussein's once dominant Sunni community. Maliki had cited the release of those imprisoned without just cause as one of his priorities when his cabinet took office in May. Such detentions, by Iraqi and US security forces, have been a major source of popular discontent with government.
Rueters
http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,128937,00.html
U.N. Study Concludes Migration Can Be OK
By NICK WADHAMS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 6, 2006; 5:53 PM
UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. report unveiled Tuesday concluded migration can be good for all countries involved, and contradicted fears that migrants steal jobs from native workers or push down wages on a large scale.
The 90-page report sounded a positive note about the world's 191 million migrants and urges nations to take better advantage of the huge spurt in their numbers _ 36 million in the last 15 years.
"The report makes a strong case that international migration, supported by the right policies, can be highly beneficial for the development both of the countries they come from and of those where they arrive," Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. General Assembly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060601094.html
Scientists sideline Bush opposition to stem cell research
Harvard plans to cure disease with private cash
By Chris Williams
Published Wednesday 7th June 2006 15:02 GMT
Harvard scientists have said they will bypass President Bush's moratorium on state funding of embryonic stem cell research by using privately sourced cash.
It's thought it will be the first non-commercial enterprise to work on human embryos in the US. An executive order from Bush in 2001 banned the use of public money for research on human embryonic stem cells other than just 22 old lines which have since been branded useless because of contamination.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/harvard_stem_cel_projects/
Dobbs: Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Lou Dobbs says Washington shouldn't be spending its time on issues like same-sex marriage.
RELATED
Previous Lou Dobbs commentaries
NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush this week urged Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, at a time when the United States faces some of the greatest challenges in our nation's history.
So, logically, what could possibly better ensure the prosperous and bright future of working men and women and their families than for the Senate to work on a constitutional amendment that is guaranteed to fail?
It's clear that cynical, patronizing White House political strategists are trying to rally a conservative base that they believe is more base than conservative. They're wrong on all counts.
We're fighting a war against radical Islamist terrorists with ongoing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're drowning in debt from our growing record trade and budget deficits and we're watching our public education system fail a generation of students. Congress has yet to act on an effective solution to our illegal immigration crisis as millions of illegal aliens flood our borders every year, and our nation's borders and ports are still woefully insecure, four and a half years after the September 11 attacks.
I believe most Americans are far more concerned about their declining real wages and the lack of real creation of quality jobs than the insulting insertion of wedge issues into the national dialogue and political agenda.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/
I think that the “ Bush/Condi “ thing will take a while to peak, like the Valerie Plame issue, so it’ll be a good filler, but I think the outrage over the Gay Rights issue, as well as the fact that we have a extremely vibrant glb population here in Buffalo( last week was the pride parade on elmwood) that it might not be bad to broach this subject, but I would try to play it into stories about Iraq and the other stories that actually matter. Ususally, bush and co. only throw out smokescreen issues like these, ( Gay rights, Abortion, Immigration, ect…) when they’ve got something bigger to hide. We know that the plame affair will have lasting consequences once the facts and verdicts are in, so it may be a smokescreen for that, but really it could be for george & condi, the war, the vulnerability of our reaction time to disasters. The key is finding the issue they are trying to hide and exploiting it. I’d concentrate on Iraq and maybe use the story about the officer who is calling the war illegal.
Efforts to use former Nazis as spies led the CIA to keep mum about the location of criminals such as Adolf Eichmann.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 7, 2006
WASHINGTON - Determined to win the Cold War, the CIA kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released Tuesday.
The 27,000 pages released by the National Archives are among the largest post-World War II declassifications by the Central Intelligence Agency. They offer a window into the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence - and the efforts to use former Nazi war criminals as spies, sometimes to detrimental effect.
The war criminals "peddled hearsay and gossip, whether to escape retribution for past crimes, or for mercenary gain, or for political agendas not necessarily compatible with American national interests," Robert Wolfe, an expert on German history and former archivist at the National Archives, said at a news briefing announcing the document release.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/07/Worldandnation/CIA_covered_for_Nazi_.shtml
Angelides to Face Schwarzenegger in November
Westly Concedes; Brown Wins and Preschool Plan Fails
By Michael Finnegan and Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writers
10:49 AM PDT, June 7, 2006
California's general election season started today, hours after state Treasurer Phil Angelides claimed the Democratic nomination to oppose Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
After months of vitriolic campaigning, Angelides early this morning claimed victory and his challenger, state Controller Steve Westly conceded.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Democratic nominee had a few hours to catch his breath before beginning a victory tour in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland. He planned to spend Thursday in Boston, where his daughter is graduating from Harvard.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-060706elex,0,4755486.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Senators challenge probe of columnist
FBI is seeking Anderson archives
By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press | June 7, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee gave the Bush administration a new lashing yesterday over its use of executive power, citing the FBI's posthumous probe of columnist Jack Anderson, and questioning the notion that espionage laws might allow the prosecution of journalists who publish classified information.
``It's highly doubtful in my mind that that was ever the intent of Congress," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said.
The World War I-era espionage laws, countered Justice Department criminal division chief Matthew Friedrich, ``do not exempt any class of professionals, including reporters, from their reach.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/06/07/senators_challenge_probe_of_columnist/
Officer at Fort Lewis calls Iraq war illegal, refuses order to go
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
In a rare case of officer dissent, a Fort Lewis Army lieutenant has refused orders to head out to Iraq this month to lead troops in what he believes is an illegal war of occupation.
1st Lt. Ehren Watada was scheduled to make his first deployment to Iraq this month. His refusal to accompany the Stryker brigade troops puts him at risk of court martial and years of prison time.
"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration," Watada said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Fort Lewis. "It is the duty, the obligation of every soldier, and specifically the officers, to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every order — including the order to go to war."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003044627_nogo7m.htmlReport: Europe assisted CIA terrorist detentions
By Hannah K. Strange
UPI U.K. Correspondent
Published June 7, 2006
PARIS -- Fourteen European countries colluded with the United States in the covert transfer of terror suspects, while two may have harbored secret CIA prisons, according to a key European Union report published Wednesday.
"It is now clear -- although we are still far from establishing the whole truth -- that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know," the Council of Europe report concluded.
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060607-114756-5692r
More than 590 prisoners freed in Iraq - TV
June 07, 2006, 09:45
About 594 prisoners were released in Iraq today, state television reported, a day after Nuri al-Maliki, the new prime minister, said a total of 2 500 would be freed to help foster national reconciliation. More than 100 of them were freed in the capital.
State television, citing the justice ministry, said 594 had been freed across the country. Officials at the ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. Maliki, who has pledged to heal sectarian wounds and crush a Sunni Arab insurgency, said in a televised statement yesterday that the prisoner release would free those who had no clear evidence against them or had been detained mistakenly.
Initially, 500 people would be released today, he said, but did not give details. Many of those in prison are from ousted president Saddam Hussein's once dominant Sunni community. Maliki had cited the release of those imprisoned without just cause as one of his priorities when his cabinet took office in May. Such detentions, by Iraqi and US security forces, have been a major source of popular discontent with government.
Rueters
http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,128937,00.html
U.N. Study Concludes Migration Can Be OK
By NICK WADHAMS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 6, 2006; 5:53 PM
UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. report unveiled Tuesday concluded migration can be good for all countries involved, and contradicted fears that migrants steal jobs from native workers or push down wages on a large scale.
The 90-page report sounded a positive note about the world's 191 million migrants and urges nations to take better advantage of the huge spurt in their numbers _ 36 million in the last 15 years.
"The report makes a strong case that international migration, supported by the right policies, can be highly beneficial for the development both of the countries they come from and of those where they arrive," Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. General Assembly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060601094.html
Scientists sideline Bush opposition to stem cell research
Harvard plans to cure disease with private cash
By Chris Williams
Published Wednesday 7th June 2006 15:02 GMT
Harvard scientists have said they will bypass President Bush's moratorium on state funding of embryonic stem cell research by using privately sourced cash.
It's thought it will be the first non-commercial enterprise to work on human embryos in the US. An executive order from Bush in 2001 banned the use of public money for research on human embryonic stem cells other than just 22 old lines which have since been branded useless because of contamination.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/harvard_stem_cel_projects/
Dobbs: Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Lou Dobbs says Washington shouldn't be spending its time on issues like same-sex marriage.
RELATED
Previous Lou Dobbs commentaries
NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush this week urged Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, at a time when the United States faces some of the greatest challenges in our nation's history.
So, logically, what could possibly better ensure the prosperous and bright future of working men and women and their families than for the Senate to work on a constitutional amendment that is guaranteed to fail?
It's clear that cynical, patronizing White House political strategists are trying to rally a conservative base that they believe is more base than conservative. They're wrong on all counts.
We're fighting a war against radical Islamist terrorists with ongoing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're drowning in debt from our growing record trade and budget deficits and we're watching our public education system fail a generation of students. Congress has yet to act on an effective solution to our illegal immigration crisis as millions of illegal aliens flood our borders every year, and our nation's borders and ports are still woefully insecure, four and a half years after the September 11 attacks.
I believe most Americans are far more concerned about their declining real wages and the lack of real creation of quality jobs than the insulting insertion of wedge issues into the national dialogue and political agenda.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/06/dobbs.june7/
I think that the “ Bush/Condi “ thing will take a while to peak, like the Valerie Plame issue, so it’ll be a good filler, but I think the outrage over the Gay Rights issue, as well as the fact that we have a extremely vibrant glb population here in Buffalo( last week was the pride parade on elmwood) that it might not be bad to broach this subject, but I would try to play it into stories about Iraq and the other stories that actually matter. Ususally, bush and co. only throw out smokescreen issues like these, ( Gay rights, Abortion, Immigration, ect…) when they’ve got something bigger to hide. We know that the plame affair will have lasting consequences once the facts and verdicts are in, so it may be a smokescreen for that, but really it could be for george & condi, the war, the vulnerability of our reaction time to disasters. The key is finding the issue they are trying to hide and exploiting it. I’d concentrate on Iraq and maybe use the story about the officer who is calling the war illegal.
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