04:38 - Wednesday, Apr. 19, 2006
dont mind me i been up 24 hours!
well, i been workin all night, moocher called yesterday afternoon and asked me to work, so i been up over 24 hours.
theres a gougeing gas station in brooklyn thats charging over 4 bucks a gallon for gas. figures.
back in the days of nixon, there was a gas station that tryed to charge 4 bux a gallon for gas. the owner got arrested. same thing happens today? meh!
well tom cruise's bedtime flop spit out her baby. no mention wether or not he ate the placenta. at the same time brooke shields spit out baby # 2. remember when she was the all american virgin?
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and now, straight from the crack reporters here at the offices of who did it and ran, ink!!! is another chilling story of how the FBI is becoming more like the Gestapo uner the reign of KIng George The Bushwacker, and eroding more of our FREEDOMS!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!
FBI wants muckraker Jack Anderson's papers!!
WASHINGTON -- Jack Anderson turned up plenty of government secrets during his half-century career as an investigative reporter, and his family hoped to make his papers available to the public after his death last December -- but the government wants to see and possibly confiscate them first.
The FBI believes that the columnist's files may contain national security secrets, including documents that would aid in the prosecution of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, who have been charged with disclosing classified information.
Lawyers for the family are preparing a letter refusing to comply with the FBI, said the columnist's son, Kevin N. Anderson.
"He would absolutely oppose the FBI rifling through his papers at will," Anderson said.
While some of the documents may be classified, he said, they do not contain national security secrets, only "embarrassing top secrets -- hammers that cost a thousand dollars and things like that."
Anderson said it was unlikely his father had papers relevant to the AIPAC case, since he had done little original reporting after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1990.
The FBI contends that classified documents belong to the government and cannot be retained as part of a private estate.
"The U.S. government has reasonable concern over the prospect that these documents will be made available to the public at the risk of national security and in violation of the law," FBI spokesman Bill Carter said Tuesday.
Anderson said the FBI would remove anything that was classified from the papers, which have not been cataloged. Confiscated documents would then be reviewed by the originating federal agency before being declassified and returned to the family, which has promised the papers to the George Washington University.
The FBI's attempt to seize papers of the Washington muckraker, first reported Tuesday by the Chronicle of Higher Education, comes as civil libertarians have decried growing limits on freedom of information since the Sept. 11 attacks. It also follows Monday's announcement by the National Archives that it would end agreements with federal agencies that want to withdraw records from public shelves.
The case also spotlights press freedoms in the post-Sept. 11 era. Journalists have been questioned and subpoenaed in the investigations of who in the Bush administration leaked a CIA officer's identity and how the press learned of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program and CIA's secret prisons in Eastern Europe. The former AIPAC lobbyists, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, also are accused of sharing their information with reporters.
Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at George Washington University and Anderson's biographer, said he felt "intimidated" after two FBI agents showed up at his house. They asked if he had seen any classified documents or knew about how they could be accessed, and they wanted the names of all of his graduate students who had seen the papers.
"It smacks of a Gestapo state," said Feldstein, who spent 20 years as an investigative reporter and producer for ABC, NBC and CNN.
Agents also asked Lizanne Payne, executive director of the Washington Research Library Consortium, if the papers were located in the storage space that the consortium maintains for George Washington University. She said she told them that she did not know; had she known, she said, the FBI might have been able to obtain the papers through her with a court order.
"If the FBI can persuade a court that there is probable cause that there are stolen records in that collection, then they should go to court," said Steven Aftergood, who directs the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists. "They cannot bully or attempt to intimidate the family or the university into surrendering private records."
While press freedom advocates have called for a federal shield law to protect journalists from revealing their sources, Aftergood said this episode suggests that reporters "may need a posthumous privilege to prevent the government from poking through their records after they're dead."
At its height, Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column appeared in nearly 1,000 newspapers with more than 40 million daily readers. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his coverage of U.S. relations with India and Pakistan, and his scoops included the involvement of five senators in the savings-and-loan collapse of the late 1980s, the CIA plot to use the Mafia to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro, Iran's role in the 1983 U.S. embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, and investigations into the Iran-Contra scandal. He was also at the top of President Nixon's famous "enemies" list.
The younger Anderson said he feared that the FBI's seizure of his father's files would destroy their political value.
"He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used," Anderson said. "And I suspect he would think this was a continuing abuse of the secrecy stamp to try to remove embarrassing documents from the public eye."
well, how ya like THEM apples??
hay, golfwidow u aint updated in 10 daze. are you ok? i seen ya comment someplace yesterday. i hope ya allrighty!!!!
hava swell day folks, i will be sleeping most of the day!! hay hay!!
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