Diary: SPY AGENCIES OUTSOURCING TO FILL KEY JOBS

DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> FOR FULL ARTICLE, PASTE ARTICLE LINK(S) INTO YOUR BROWSER - OR GO TO: http://www.truthout.org Spy Agencies Outsourcing to Fill Key Jobs http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706b.shtml At the National Counterterrorism Center - the agency created two years ago to prevent another attack like September 11 - more than half of the employees are not US government analysts or terrorism experts. Instead, they are outside contractors. ----- Bush Says GOP Rebels Are Putting Nation at Risk http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706a.shtml President Bush made an impassioned defense on Friday of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects, warning that the nation's ability to defend itself would be undermined if rebellious Republicans in the Senate did not come around to his position. ----- FOCUS | Frank Rich: The Longer the War, the Larger the Lies http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706y.shtml Rarely has a television network presented a more perfectly matched double feature. President Bush's 9/11 address on Monday night interrupted ABC's "Path to 9/11" so seamlessly that a single network disclaimer served them both: "For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, as well as time compression." ----- Who's the Next Target in the Abramoff Probe? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706e.shtml Former Ohio Congressman Bob Ney has admitted his role in Washington's influence-peddling scandal, but prosecutors still have other politicians in their sights. ----- FOCUS | The View From Guantanamo http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706z.shtml Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Abu Bakker Qassim writes about 9/11 attacks, saying: "I too was its victim. I would never have experienced the ordeal and humiliation of Guantanamo if this horrific event had not taken place." ----- FOCUS | Africa Action: The Tale of Two Genocides: The Failed US Response to Rwanda and Darfur http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706x.shtml Two years after the anniversary of the Bush administration's acknowledgement that the slaughter in Darfur constitutes genocide, the killing continues. Africa Action, the oldest Africa advocacy organization in the US, documents the differences between the reaction of the American public and US policymakers, and chronicles the deadly inadequacy of their response. ----- Major Problems at Polls Feared http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706d.shtml ----- CIA in Middle of Election-Year Battle http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706f.shtml _________________________________ BUSH MAKES TERRORIST THREAT TO NYT REPORTER by Carol Wolman "I'll never forget your face! I will kill you, your brothers, your mother, and sisters!" HEAR IT HERE! http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_carol_wo_060916_bush_makes_terrorist.htm _________________________________ Excerpts from: http://onlinejournal.com Inside the iron theater | By Joe Bageant | Online Journal Contributing Writer Nobody talks about it out loud, but a few million Americans are seriously doubting their sanity these days. Or having their sanity doubted. Or both. They seldom speak their minds because what is going on in there is a vision of society that conjures grave doubt, if not outright horror. It is the kind of stuff that will get your ass kicked off the island in a heartbeat. Nobody wants to hear it. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1188.shtml ----- Terrorist democracy? | By Frank Scott | Online Journal Contributing Writer The world is watching a frightening reality show, as both the US and Israel threaten to mutually freak out, and, in the process, destroy much of what passes for civilization. They work in tandem to strangle Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, calling their murderous assaults democracy. This, while they feverishly depict Iran as the mirror of themselves: a menace to the human race. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1195.shtml ----- No mercy | By Sheila Samples | Online Journal Contributing Writer A year after triumphantly declaring that work in the Gulf Coast region would be "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen," after promising that "Americans will look back at the response to Hurricane Katrina and say that our country grew not only in prosperity, but also in character and justice," George Bush had the audacity to return to New Orleans. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1189.shtml ----- Israeli trap for Lebanon | By Linda S. Heard | Online Journal Contributing Writer Following Israel's military defeat in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is attempting to woo Beirut, offering to negotiate over the Shebaa Farms as a precursor to a possible peace treaty. In response, his Lebanese counterpart Fouad Siniora promised Lebanon would be the last Arab country to sign a peace deal with Israel. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1196.shtml ----- Keith Olbermann's finest hour | By Bill Berkowitz | Online Journal Guest Writer On Wednesday, August 30, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had his Edward R. Murrow moment and he made the most of it. In a thoughtful and hard-hitting six-minute commentary, Olbermann, the host of "Countdown," responded to the new campaign launched by the Bush administration branding opponents of the war in Iraq as appeasers and confused enablers of terrorism. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1199.shtml ----- Mr. Rove's Opus of Deception: 9/11 and the Lonesome Ballad of Blind Willie McMansion | By Phil Rockstroh | Online Journal Contributing Writer At present, 46 percent of the American people hold the delusion that Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1193.shtml ----- Ten anti-Castro "journalists" in South Florida on US government payroll By Luciana Bohne | Online Journal Contributing Writer During the Mercosur summit in Argentina, WJAN-TV South Florida reporter, Manuel Cao, asked Cuban President Fidel Castro why his government didn't allow a prominent doctor and dissident to leave the country. Quick as lightning, Castro shot back, "Who pays you?" http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1207.shtml _________________________________ from: http://jblankfort@earthlink.net Haaretz: The Israeli Factor: Ranking the US Presidential Candidates Reagan was considered the best US president Israel ever had (and GWH Bush, who came after him, the worst), then Clinton, who took Reagan's mantle, and now it is Dubya. This makes Israel the only country in the world, including the US, where the majority of the people like him. It looks like who ever wins, the White House will still be Israeli Occupied Territory. Read here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerpage.jhtml ----- For more than a year and well before Ahmadinehad was elected, the Jewish Zionist lobby has been the only sector of US society that has publicly pushed for a confrontation with Iran as it was the only sector that pushed for the US war on Iraq and was the only sector (other than the Congress that it controls) that publicly called on Resident Bush to allow Israel to continue to bombard Lebanon until its war lust was satiated. Jeff _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.grist.org --------------------------------------Sounds like a job for Captain Planet In one Florida county, taking out the garbage just got interesting. At a soon-to-be-built landfill, superpower-wielding workers will vaporize trash with "lightning-like plasma arcs." By their powers combined, the gaseous byproducts will run the facility and a nearby Tropicana plant, and the solids will be used to build roads. 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