They lie. They lie, and we have to be mericful for those who lie.
- At April 09, 2004
- By Bob Howe
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The Center for American Progress parses National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission on Thursday in its report, Claim vs. Fact: Rice’s Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission:
CLAIM: “I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons.” [responding to Kean]
FACT: Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. There, “U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner” into the summit, prompting officials to “close the airspace over Genoa and station antiaircraft guns at the city’s airport.” [Sources: Los Angeles Times, 9/27/01; White House release, 7/22/01]
In The Future, Things Will Be Different
- At April 08, 2004
- By Bob Howe
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The Associated Press reports this morning that the U.S. Government has licensed the first private manned rocket:
April 8, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) –- — Burt Rutan wants affordable space travel for the public to be a reality within 10 years.
The government helped the aviation maverick take a big step toward that goal Wednesday by awarding his company the first license for a manned suborbital rocket.
Freedom of Speech, Except for You, You and You…
- At April 08, 2004
- By Bob Howe
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El Nino struck again yesterday, according to the Associated Press: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia forced two journalists to destroy recordings of a speech he gave at a Mississippi high school:
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Two reporters were ordered Wednesday to erase their tape recordings of a speech by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Mississippi high school.
Last year, Scalia was criticized for refusing to allow television and radio coverage of an event in Ohio in which he received an award for supporting free speech.
“The Constitution of the United States is extraordinary and amazing. People just don’t revere it like they used to,” Scalia told a full auditorium of high school students, officials, religious leaders.