Posted by bg on September 19, 2007
Update 9/19
Michael Mukasey
This Judge supports the “Patriot Act” and also did not force the government to try Padilla in a court of law. This is a terrible appointment.
Raising money for *settlements* is disturbing. It is one thing to be pro-Israel, it is another thing to tolerate the settlements, but to PROMOTE settlements by raising money. That is too right wing for even many Israelis.
Update 9/18
In introducing his new pick for Attorney General, Judge Michael Mukasey, President Bush put great emphasis on Mukasey’s performance during a crucial criminal case: the trial of the “blind sheikh” found responsible for the bombing of a New York landmark in 1993. The target, of course, was the World Trade Center, and prominent mention of that case brings up a nagging question: why was that attack on the WTC treated, successfully (to hear President Bush tell it), as a criminal matter, while the 2001 attack was treated as a casus belli–not one war, but two? A British author published an opinion column over the weekend that raised the question anew, but it’s a question that has been pushed to the margins of our political discourse: to question the very necessity for a “war on terror” at this point in time is now regarded as kooky.
9/17
Bush Nominates 9-11 Zionist Judge as Attorney General
It is widely reported that President George W. Bush will nominate former Manhattan federal Judge Michael [Bernard] Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.
Harry Reids Sucks:
| Reid: ‘I’m glad Bush listened to Congress’ |
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) gave a tentative thumbs-up to President Bush’s pick of federal judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general.
“I’m glad President Bush listened to Congress and put aside his plan to replace Alberto Gonzales with another partisan administration insider,” Reid said in response to the nomination.
The White House on Monday touted Mukasey’s “fresh perspective” and “non-political background.”
Picking Mukasey as AG should help the GOP and Rudy and should scare civil libertarians.
The selection of terror-case judge Michael Mukasey, a pal of Rudy Giuliani’s, as the next AG broadly hints at the GOP’s strategy for next year’s elections: Terror 24-7.
Mukasey’s close ties to Rudy make him a simply fabulous choice as attorney general. He’s practically a running mate for Giuliani during the next year of campaigning.
What about Mukasey and the rest of us? For the next year as lame-duck AG, Mukasey, who presided over the trial of the World Trade Center’s 1993 bombers, will be a constant and sympathetic/heroic reminder of the “war on terror.” Maybe that will stoke enough fear in us that we’ll forget the war of terror we’ve created in Iraq.
Ex-Judge Is Said to Be Pick At Justice
Democrats Likely To Accept Him as Attorney General
9/16/07 8:58 pm
Huffington Post adds little:
WASHINGTON — President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president’s decision said Sunday evening.
Mukasey, who has handled terrorist cases in the U.S. legal system for more than a decade, would become the nation’s top law enforcement officer if confirmed by the Senate. Mukasey has the support of some key Democrats, and it appeared Bush was trying to avoid a bruising confirmation battle.
This shows why Glenn Greenwald is sometimes not much help.
Mukasey
If the Bush(Cheney) White House is willing to put Judge Michael Mukasey between them and a clutch of felony indictments I come into the discussion more than a little skeptical of the guy. But Glenn Greenwald notes that as Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York, the very conservative Mukasey repeatedly sided with the rule of law over the Bush White House in the Padilla case. Worth a read.
A Democratic Party aide said Mukasey may have an easier time winning Senate confirmation than some others who had been mentioned, including Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff.
Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who led the drive to force Gonzales out, mentioned Mukasey in March as a possible and acceptable replacement for the attorney general, describing him as among those “conservative Republicans” who “put the rule of law first” and was above partisan politics.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “I know the name (Mukasey), but I don’t know anything about him.”
However, if Mukasey can convince him that as attorney general he would be the nation’s lawyer, not the president’s, “I could support him,” Biden said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Mr. Mukasey would bring a familiarity with legal issues surrounding terrorism. In 1993, he presided over the prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik, whom he sentenced to life in prison for his role in a plot to blow up New York landmarks and tunnels. In 2003, as chief judge, he ruled that Jose Padilla was an enemy combatant but entitled to access to his lawyers.
President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, two sources familiar with the decision said Sunday.
Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General…
The most contentious fights over the next year are likely to be on war-on-terror issues. And as Andrew McCarthy (no liberal softy on such matters!) explained on National Review Online, Mukasey is first-rate on these: “He deftly handled the enemy-combatant detention of Jose Padilla (recently convicted of terrorism crimes), forcefully endorsing the executive branch’s wartime power to protect the United States from an al Qaeda operative dispatched to our homeland to conduct mass-murder attacks, but vindicating the American citizen’s constitutional rights to counsel and to challenge his detention without trial through habeas corpus.” Judging also by what Mukasey has written and said outside the courtroom about the Patriot Act and related matters, we can be confident he’ll be effective at making the case before Congress and the public for tough legislation and sound policies on national security issues.
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9/16/07
Ex-N.Y. judge to be tapped as AG? – Politics – MSNBC.com: “Mukasey”
Blogger Thoughts: It makes perfect sense…..
A dispute over whether as much as $525 million in insurance proceeds has been jeopardized by an agreement reordering ownership rights at the reconstructed World Trade Center site must be decided in state court, a federal judge ruled last week.
In Port Authority of New York and New Jersey v. Allianz Insurance Co., , Southern District Judge Michael B. Mukasey rebuffed a bid by seven insurance companies to remove to federal court a state lawsuit brought by the Port Authority and developer Larry A. Silverstein seeking a ruling that the new ownership arrangement does not affect the insurers’ payment obligations.
The dispute stems from the decision of the Port Authority to take back from Silverstein ownership of the $2 billion Freedom Tower, which will be the centerpiece of the new trade center.
Tags:
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Posted by bg on September 19, 2007
Update 9/19
Michael Mukasey
This Judge supports the “Patriot Act” and also did not force the government to try Padilla in a court of law. This is a terrible appointment.
Raising money for *settlements* is disturbing. It is one thing to be pro-Israel, it is another thing to tolerate the settlements, but to PROMOTE settlements by raising money. That is too right wing for even many Israelis.
Update 9/18
In introducing his new pick for Attorney General, Judge Michael Mukasey, President Bush put great emphasis on Mukasey’s performance during a crucial criminal case: the trial of the “blind sheikh” found responsible for the bombing of a New York landmark in 1993. The target, of course, was the World Trade Center, and prominent mention of that case brings up a nagging question: why was that attack on the WTC treated, successfully (to hear President Bush tell it), as a criminal matter, while the 2001 attack was treated as a casus belli–not one war, but two? A British author published an opinion column over the weekend that raised the question anew, but it’s a question that has been pushed to the margins of our political discourse: to question the very necessity for a “war on terror” at this point in time is now regarded as kooky.
9/17
Bush Nominates 9-11 Zionist Judge as Attorney General
It is widely reported that President George W. Bush will nominate former Manhattan federal Judge Michael [Bernard] Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.
Harry Reids Sucks:
| Reid: ‘I’m glad Bush listened to Congress’ |
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) gave a tentative thumbs-up to President Bush’s pick of federal judge Michael Mukasey for attorney general.
“I’m glad President Bush listened to Congress and put aside his plan to replace Alberto Gonzales with another partisan administration insider,” Reid said in response to the nomination.
The White House on Monday touted Mukasey’s “fresh perspective” and “non-political background.”
Picking Mukasey as AG should help the GOP and Rudy and should scare civil libertarians.
The selection of terror-case judge Michael Mukasey, a pal of Rudy Giuliani’s, as the next AG broadly hints at the GOP’s strategy for next year’s elections: Terror 24-7.
Mukasey’s close ties to Rudy make him a simply fabulous choice as attorney general. He’s practically a running mate for Giuliani during the next year of campaigning.
What about Mukasey and the rest of us? For the next year as lame-duck AG, Mukasey, who presided over the trial of the World Trade Center’s 1993 bombers, will be a constant and sympathetic/heroic reminder of the “war on terror.” Maybe that will stoke enough fear in us that we’ll forget the war of terror we’ve created in Iraq.
Ex-Judge Is Said to Be Pick At Justice
Democrats Likely To Accept Him as Attorney General
9/16/07 8:58 pm
Huffington Post adds little:
WASHINGTON — President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president’s decision said Sunday evening.
Mukasey, who has handled terrorist cases in the U.S. legal system for more than a decade, would become the nation’s top law enforcement officer if confirmed by the Senate. Mukasey has the support of some key Democrats, and it appeared Bush was trying to avoid a bruising confirmation battle.
This shows why Glenn Greenwald is sometimes not much help.
Mukasey
If the Bush(Cheney) White House is willing to put Judge Michael Mukasey between them and a clutch of felony indictments I come into the discussion more than a little skeptical of the guy. But Glenn Greenwald notes that as Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York, the very conservative Mukasey repeatedly sided with the rule of law over the Bush White House in the Padilla case. Worth a read.
A Democratic Party aide said Mukasey may have an easier time winning Senate confirmation than some others who had been mentioned, including Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff.
Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, who led the drive to force Gonzales out, mentioned Mukasey in March as a possible and acceptable replacement for the attorney general, describing him as among those “conservative Republicans” who “put the rule of law first” and was above partisan politics.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, “I know the name (Mukasey), but I don’t know anything about him.”
However, if Mukasey can convince him that as attorney general he would be the nation’s lawyer, not the president’s, “I could support him,” Biden said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Mr. Mukasey would bring a familiarity with legal issues surrounding terrorism. In 1993, he presided over the prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik, whom he sentenced to life in prison for his role in a plot to blow up New York landmarks and tunnels. In 2003, as chief judge, he ruled that Jose Padilla was an enemy combatant but entitled to access to his lawyers.
President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, two sources familiar with the decision said Sunday.
Michael Mukasey to be Attorney General…
The most contentious fights over the next year are likely to be on war-on-terror issues. And as Andrew McCarthy (no liberal softy on such matters!) explained on National Review Online, Mukasey is first-rate on these: “He deftly handled the enemy-combatant detention of Jose Padilla (recently convicted of terrorism crimes), forcefully endorsing the executive branch’s wartime power to protect the United States from an al Qaeda operative dispatched to our homeland to conduct mass-murder attacks, but vindicating the American citizen’s constitutional rights to counsel and to challenge his detention without trial through habeas corpus.” Judging also by what Mukasey has written and said outside the courtroom about the Patriot Act and related matters, we can be confident he’ll be effective at making the case before Congress and the public for tough legislation and sound policies on national security issues.
——————————————————————————–
9/16/07
Ex-N.Y. judge to be tapped as AG? – Politics – MSNBC.com: “Mukasey”
Blogger Thoughts: It makes perfect sense…..
A dispute over whether as much as $525 million in insurance proceeds has been jeopardized by an agreement reordering ownership rights at the reconstructed World Trade Center site must be decided in state court, a federal judge ruled last week.
In Port Authority of New York and New Jersey v. Allianz Insurance Co., , Southern District Judge Michael B. Mukasey rebuffed a bid by seven insurance companies to remove to federal court a state lawsuit brought by the Port Authority and developer Larry A. Silverstein seeking a ruling that the new ownership arrangement does not affect the insurers’ payment obligations.
The dispute stems from the decision of the Port Authority to take back from Silverstein ownership of the $2 billion Freedom Tower, which will be the centerpiece of the new trade center.
Tags:
“National Review”, 1993_wtc_bombing, 9/11 Truth, AG Scandal, Charles Schumer, Joe Biden, Larry A. Silverstein, Michael B. Mukasey, Rudy Giuliani, wtc, Andrew C. McCarthy, Rahman, Jose Padilla
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Posted by bg on July 13, 2007
7/13/07
U.S. Secretly Met With Followers of Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman Before Controversial Visa Application
Followers of Omar Abdel Rahman made overtures to U.S. diplomats one year before the radical sheikh entered the United States on a visa approved by a CIA agent.
6/18/07
Let the record show….
that a person identifying himself at Alex Constantine left a comment for this entry. I have no reason to doubt that it was the “real” AC. The reader may have noticed that this blog entry references AC’s blog.
The comment submitted attacked this blog author, and did not contribute to any topic of debate that seems to be in the interest of the readership.
The comment ( not accepted ) was the first sign this author which confirms AC is aware that this blogger has taken great exception to the possible motives and methods of AC.
6/17/07
FRIENDLY FIRE – THE 1993 WTC BOMBING – ALLIED SIGNAL, EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE, ABDUL RAHMAN YASSIN, NIDAL AYYAD, AND STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM
§ Abdul Rahman Yasin and Nidal Ayyad were co-defendents in the 1993 bombing of the World Trace Center. When he met Ramzi Yousef – who has in common with 911 terrorist Mohammed Atta ties to Pakistan’s ISI and, as we shall see, they all have a significant German connection – Ayyad was employed by Allied Signal, Inc. in New Jersey – an intelligence front.
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Posted by bg on July 13, 2007
7/13/07
U.S. Secretly Met With Followers of Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman Before Controversial Visa Application
Followers of Omar Abdel Rahman made overtures to U.S. diplomats one year before the radical sheikh entered the United States on a visa approved by a CIA agent.
6/18/07
Let the record show….
that a person identifying himself at Alex Constantine left a comment for this entry. I have no reason to doubt that it was the “real” AC. The reader may have noticed that this blog entry references AC’s blog.
The comment submitted attacked this blog author, and did not contribute to any topic of debate that seems to be in the interest of the readership.
The comment ( not accepted ) was the first sign this author which confirms AC is aware that this blogger has taken great exception to the possible motives and methods of AC.
6/17/07
FRIENDLY FIRE – THE 1993 WTC BOMBING – ALLIED SIGNAL, EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE, ABDUL RAHMAN YASSIN, NIDAL AYYAD, AND STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM
§ Abdul Rahman Yasin and Nidal Ayyad were co-defendents in the 1993 bombing of the World Trace Center. When he met Ramzi Yousef – who has in common with 911 terrorist Mohammed Atta ties to Pakistan’s ISI and, as we shall see, they all have a significant German connection – Ayyad was employed by Allied Signal, Inc. in New Jersey – an intelligence front.
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Posted by bg on December 9, 2006
YouTube Broadcast Yourself™
Video Description
For more info see wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC_bombing
Allegations of FBI foreknowledge
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, a former Egyptian army officer named Emad A. Salem. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992. Salem’s role as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of the hundreds of possible suspects.
Salem, initially believing that this was to be a sting operation, claimed that the FBI’s original plan was for Salem to supply the conspirators with a harmless powder instead of actual explosive to build their bomb, but that the FBI chose to use him for other purposes instead. [4] He secretly recorded hundreds of hours of telephone conversations with his FBI handlers; reported by Ralph Blumenthal in the New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993, secton A,Page 1.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITIC S/OK/wtcbomb.html
The FBI allowed the 1993 WTC bombing to happen
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Posted by bg on December 8, 2006
YouTube Broadcast Yourself™
Video Description
For more info see wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC_bombing
Allegations of FBI foreknowledge
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, a former Egyptian army officer named Emad A. Salem. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992. Salem’s role as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of the hundreds of possible suspects.
Salem, initially believing that this was to be a sting operation, claimed that the FBI’s original plan was for Salem to supply the conspirators with a harmless powder instead of actual explosive to build their bomb, but that the FBI chose to use him for other purposes instead. [4] He secretly recorded hundreds of hours of telephone conversations with his FBI handlers; reported by Ralph Blumenthal in the New York Times, Oct. 28, 1993, secton A,Page 1.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITIC S/OK/wtcbomb.html
The FBI allowed the 1993 WTC bombing to happen
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Using YouTube
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Copyright © 2006 YouTube, Inc.
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clipped from today.reuters.com
