[political-research] Iraq: the people have their say. And it's bad news for Tony Blair (Independent)
Iraq: the people have their say. And it's bad news for Tony Blair By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor Published:24 October 2006 72 per cent predict that Iraq will descend into civil war if British and American troops withdraw 61 per cent believe Britain's experience in Iraq makes them less likely to support military intervention 72 per cent say that Tony Blair's support for George Bush calls into question his political judgement 62 per cent believe that British troops should be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible 72 per cent believe that the war in Iraq is unwinnable --- Demands for an urgent Commons debate on pulling British troops out of Iraq were stepped up last night at Westminster after an opinion poll found that 62 per cent of voters support a withdrawal before the country has been made stable. The poll dealt a blow to efforts by Tony Blair to shore up his strategy of keeping British forces in Iraq "until the job is done". In talks in Downing Street with the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Salih, Mr Blair again said Britain had to "hold its nerve". More at link ... __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Settlements growing, despite vow to U.S.
Settlements growing, despite vow to U.S. A secret, two year investigation by the defense establishment shows that there has been rampant illegal construction in dozens of settlements and in many cases involving privately owned Palestinian properties. .. Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=778767contrassID=1subContrassID=1 __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Interview with David Ray Griffin
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[political-research] Time for the Neocons to Admit It? The Iraq War Was Wrong From the Start
Time for the Neocons to Admit It? The Iraq War Was Wrong From the Start The good ship Neocon is going down. She has struck the Iraqi rocks, the engine room is awash, and on the deck in anxious pursuit of something to float them away is a curious assembly. The former hawks of press and politics now scramble for the status of visionaries let down by functionaries. This is a lifeboat that will not float Source: http://digg.com/political_opinion/Time_for_the_Neocons_to_Admit_It_The_Iraq_War_Was_Wrong_From_the_Start __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] With Demand Red-Hot for Text Analytics, Attensity Expands Suite
With Demand Red-Hot for Text Analytics, Attensity Expands Suite - Enterprise Systems If black is the new blonde, then text mining is—in a similar sense—the latest and greatest of killer apps. ... ... Source: http://www.esj.com/business_intelligence/article.aspx%3FEditorialsID%3D8153 __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement
Brutality and Reality: The American-Israeli Arrangement - Atlantic Free Press Excerpt: As a side note – or maybe even a main note – I'm not one of those who subscribe to the Israel made us do it meme that seems to loom large in the dissident blogosphere. I just can't buy the idea that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the gang are somehow being jerked around by wily Zionists – as if they wouldn't be following their unitary executive-global domination-war profiteering agenda even if Israel didn't exist. I think this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the American ruling class – and yes, Virginia, there is an American ruling class and a pretty vicious, voracious, self-serving lot they are, too. The idea that these factions of gargantuan wealth and privilege – much of it, as with the Bushes, going back for generations – could be induced to act against their own narrowly defined but passionately held interests by the arguments of third-rate hacks like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, or Douglas Feith seems fairly risible. Source: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/89/32/ [Comment: but: powerful components of the American ruling class, including the Bush 41 circle, opposed the Iraq War and the neocon Global War on Terror, but were run over like a steamroller by Israel's assets in the mainstream media, think tanks and two major political parties. How does one explain this?] __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] A Deeply Stupid Neocon War
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/24/DDG6PKE8E21.DTLtype=printable Jon Carroll: The principal sin of the neoconservatives is overbearing arrogance. It is not so much that they have been wrong. It is that nobody has ever convinced them that they've ever been wrong. I didn't say that. Oh, I said stuff like it a few times, but that particular quote come from David Keene, who is the chairman of the American Conservative Union. Like a lot of people on the rightish side of the political spectrum, he bought the rhetoric, he accepted the brilliance of Donald Rumsfeld's idea for a brand-new downsized smart army, he hung in there when things appeared to be going wrong -- and now he's angry This war was an unnecessary failure. If we had not invaded Iraq, if we had just let the U.N. inspectors do their work, if we had neutralized Saddam Hussein by other means, the world would be better. It's not that we fought the right war in the wrong way; we fought a deeply stupid war in a deeply stupid way. Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061024/2006-10-24T102931Z_01_L19402119_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENVIRONMENT-WWF-PLANET-DC.html BEIJING (Reuters) - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday. Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report. For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path, WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report. If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need five planets to support us, Leape, an American, said in Beijing. Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[political-research] Introducing Knover- The Ultimate Place to Learn About People
Introducing Knover- The Ultimate Place to Learn About People - Business Wire (press release) Knover, taking its name from the site's underlying innovation as a knowledge rover, brings the best of text mining, associative search, and artificial ... ... Source: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20061024005052%26newsLang%3Den __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Murdoch's FOXNEWS sics FBI on 9/11 scholars
Murdoch's FOXNEWS sics FBI on 9/11 scholars Sir Rupert Murdoch, agent of the Crown, is using his American propaganda outlet to urge the FBI to jail 9/11 dissidents. Murdoch's agent Bill O'Reilly has previously had the FBI jail an Arab engingeering professor named Sami Al-Arian.From Scholars for 9/11 Truth October 23, 2006: [Fox News Channel commentators] have maliciously compared the 9/11 scholars to terrorists and suggested that the... Source: http://www.total911.info/2006/10/murdochs-foxnews-sics-fbi-on-911.html __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Gore Vidal Assured Military Would Prevent Staged Terror
Gore Vidal Assured Military Would Prevent Staged Terror Gore Vidal Assured Military Would Prevent Staged Terror Literary giant says 9/11 allowed to happen, slams Bush administration coup de 'tat of American freedom... Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/1132 __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Sibel Edmonds Vindicated by Turkish Dirty Ops
Sibel Edmonds Vindicated by Turkish Dirty Ops October 24, 2006... Source: http://cryptome.org/edmonds-turks.htm __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] New 9/11 summary page
New 9/11 summary page I would like to introduce a web page created for the purpose of introducing and summarizing 9/11 questions to newcomers who are not yet familiar with the topic. News of Interest.TV is a human interest website which combines summaries of important political information along with helpful interesting and entertaining content. News of Interest.TV's 9/11 page makes use of select audio and video clips relying heavily on the works of Alex Jones, along with reprints of information from such websites as www.911truth.org and Alan Miller's website www.PatriotsQuestion911.com. You may find website here:http://www.newsofinterest.tv/ News of Interest.TV's 9/11 page is here:http://www.newsofinterest.tv/911.html Source: http://www.911blogger.com/node/4010 __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] SEARCHING FOR MR BIGSKI
http://madcowprod.com/SEARCHING FOR MR BIGSKI The biggest lie told about the September 11th attack was the first one: "19 hijackers moved through Europe and America unnoticed." WORLD EXCLUSIVE Oct 24 2006--Venice FL. by Daniel Hopsicker A Venezuelan man busted with forty-three pounds of heroin on a Lear jet belonging to the owner of the Venice FL flight school at which Mohamed Atta and his bodyguard Marwan Al-Shehhi were enrolled is a major kingpin in an international drug trafficking network run by the Russian Mob. Edgar Valles Diaz was arrested on Wally Hilliard's Lear jet (N351WB) at Orlando Executive Airport on July 25, 2000, in what the Orlando Sentinel called "the biggest bust in Central Florida history." The paper quoted officials stating it was "the largest find of its kind in the southeastern United States in recent years." Court documents revealed that Valles Diaz was a major narcotics trafficker in his native Venezuela who had flown Hilliard's Lear jet for thirty-nine weeks in a row. Each flight originated in Venezuela, stopping in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando before flying to New York. According to one of the flight crew on the Lear jet, Valles Diaz would be greeted upon arrival by an organized crime figure from the Russian enclave in Brighton Beach named Igor Borisovich Rabaev. "When we landed in New York Valles-Diaz would be met by his 'boyfriend,'" a member of the Lear jet's flight crew stated. "He gets picked up at the airport by an Uzbek named Igor Rabaev, his heroin connection from Central Asia." www.madcowprod.com __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Lani Kass: Israeli Defense Force veteran heading up Air Force Cyberpace warriors.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ October 24, 2006 -- US Air Force official's past raises eyebrows. On December 7, 2005, the US Air Force officially recognized "cyberspace" as one of its warfare domains -- along with air and outer space. In early November, Air Force officials will gather in Washington to form a new US Air Force Command -- the Air Force Cyberspace Command. It will have authority to launch wars in cyberspace. The new command is largely the brainchild of Dr. Lani Kass, director of the Air Force Cyberspace Task Force. Kass' past has many US government computer security officials puzzled and concerned. From 1979 to 1981, Kass served as a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces. This was at a time when Israel was targeting America's most closely held secrets through its Navy spy, Jonathan Pollard. After her service in the IDF, Kass integrated into the Washington national security establishment, the private sector serving as an entree. From 1982 to1985, Kass was Director of the Russian Research Center at Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Bethesda, Md. (an odd name considering that Russia was then called the Soviet Union by every national security entity). From 1985 to 2005, Kass was Professor of Military Strategy and Operations at National War College at National Defense University in Fort McNair, Washington. Kass previously served in the Dick Cheney Defense Department, having worked from 1992 to 1993 as Special Assistant to the Director, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5), Joint Staff at the Pentagon. She returned to the Pentagon under Defense Secretary William Cohen and continued to serve under Donald Rumsfeld. From 2000 to 2001, Kass was Senior Policy Adviser and Special Assistant for Strategic Initiatives to the Director, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5) and from January 2006 to the present, she has been the Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, and Director of CSAFs Cyberspace Task Force. Lani Kass: Israeli Defense Force veteran heading up Air Force Cyberpace warriors. __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Two post-election factions emerging in the White House -- only one will survive.
The other is the faction coalescing around the other potential scapegoat -- George W. Bush. This is the most interesting faction as it consists of George H. W. Bush and his closest friends -- James Baker III, Lee Hamilton, former CIA Director Robert Gates, Alan Simpson, Sandra Day O'Connor, and other past luminaries of the George H. W. Bush administration. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ October 24, 2006 -- There is something afoot, in a very Shakespearean way, in the White House. Preparing for a post-election massacre of the GOP and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary, two factions are emerging within the White House. One is the neo-con faction surrounding potential scapegoat Vice President Dick Cheney. This faction includes Cheney's own staffers and his and Rumsfeld's sympathizers in the Pentagon, National Security Council, State Department, and media and think tanks. The other is the faction coalescing around the other potential scapegoat -- George W. Bush. This is the most interesting faction as it consists of George H. W. Bush and his closest friends -- James Baker III, Lee Hamilton, former CIA Director Robert Gates, Alan Simpson, Sandra Day O'Connor, and other past luminaries of the George H. W. Bush administration. George W. Bush has had to admit that his presidency has been a failure and now must have his father and his father's friends bail him out. The Iraq Study Group of Baker and Hamilton, which is negotiating with the Iraqi Resistance, Iran, and Syria against the wishes of Cheney's faction, was a step in the direction of bailing out Junior. This editor was recently approached by someone close to George W. Bush and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow who made it clear that George W. Bush was fighting elements "further to his right." Flabbergasted, I responded that I didn't think many people were further to the right than Bush. But that was before the impending scapegoating issue became clear. "Further to the right" means Cheney, some members of the Christian fundamentalist Right, and their followers. Two post-election factions emerging in the White House -- only one will survive. But with the long knives soon to be out for scapegoats -- what will happen in the White House will be one of the the nastiest political purges in U.S. history. Cheney, whose ideological fervor knows no bounds, is not about to concede that Iraq was a failure. He and his neo-con advisers do not intend to be scapegoated. The Bush faction, eager to protect the Bush family name during a series of intensive congressional investigations but more likely to admit to mistakes, does not intend to bear the brunt of blame for the Cheney faction's misadventures. 2007 may turn out to be a dangerous year for America. The scapegoating will not be limited to the two emerging White House factions. If Joseph Lieberman wins re-election and then decides to accept the invitation of replace Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, thus allowing a Governor Jodi Rell in Connecticut (a good reason not to re-elect her) to appoint a Republican replacement, that could tip a 50-50 Senate or a 51-49 Democratic Senate to either total Republican control or turn it over to Cheney's gavel-wielding tie breaking vote. Any such scenario could result in an American version of the infamous Dreyfus affair in France. America must be on guard against those with secret agendas to find scapegoats where they do not exist. __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Altova Introduces Version 2007 of World’s Leading XML Tools with ...
Altova Introduces Version 2007 of World's Leading XML Tools with ... - Business Wire (press release) Altova SemanticWorks is the ground-breaking visual RDF/OWL editor for the Semantic Web, enabling users to visually design and edit RDF instance documents, RDF ... ... Source: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20061024005812%26newsLang%3Den __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] 902D Military Intelligence Group Overview
902D Military Intelligence Group Overview October 24, 2006... Source: http://cryptome.org/902d-mig/902d-mig.htm __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Factiva Taxonomy Warehouse
Factiva Taxonomy Warehouse Taxonomically speaking in KMWorld (Oct 23)Factiva has introduced an enhanced version of its Taxonomy Warehouse, a community directory and information source for taxonomies, thesauri and classification schemes. It is said to provide enterprises, as well as academic and government organizations, the information required to categorize internal and external data collections and ensure that relevant answers to search queries are found with speed and precision, Factiva reports.View and search the Taxonomy Warehouse at http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com/index.asp ... Source: http://taxonomy2watch.blogspot.com/2006/10/factiva-taxonomy-warehouse.html __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Hariri Assassinated by Israel
Hariri Assassinated by Israel October 24, 2006 -- A senior French DGSE -- Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure -- intelligence officer has told WMR that Lebanon's ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a car bombing arranged by Israel's Mossad. The revelation from French intelligence is significant as the French government of Jacques Chirac joined the Bush administration and the neo-con policy establishments in Washington and Israel in blaming Syria for the attack. According to the DGSE officer, Israel and its American backers wanted to blame Syria for the assassination of the popular Lebanese leader in order to blame Syria for the attack thus forcing the popular Lebanese revolt that saw the withdrawal of Syrian forces. That left Lebanon defenseless for the Clean Break attack launched by Israel, with US support, against Hezbollah and Lebanon's infrastructure. Assass... Source: http://mparent.livejournal.com/13860766.html __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Power elite Power team elite Intelligence Social network Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[political-research] Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents (AP)
Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago A drug bust at a trailer park in New Mexico turned up what appeared to be classified documents taken from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory, authorities said Tuesday. Local police found the documents while arresting a man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his mobile home, said Sgt. Chuck Ney of the Los Alamos, N.M., Municipal Police Department. The documents were discovered during a search of the man's records for evidence of his drug business, Ney said. Police alerted the FBI to the secret documents, which agents traced back to a woman linked to the drug dealer, officials said. The woman is a contract employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to an FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case. The official would not describe the documents except to say that they appeared to contain classified material and were stored on a computer file. FBI special agent Bill Elwell in Albuquerque, N.M., confirmed that a search warrant was executed on Friday night, but he refused to discuss details. We do have an investigation with regard to the matter, but our standard is we do not discuss pending investigations, Elwell said. A spokesman for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, N.M., declined to comment. Los Alamos has a history of high-profile security problems in the past decade, with the most notable the case of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. After years of accusations, Lee pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets at the lab. In 2004, the lab was essentially shut down after an inventory showed that two computer disks containing nuclear secrets were missing. A year later the lab concluded that it was just a mistake and the disks never existed. But the incident highlighted sloppy inventory control and security failures at the nuclear weapons lab. And the Energy Department began moving toward a five-year program to create a so-called diskless environment at Los Alamos to prevent any classified material being carried outside the lab. Even though Los Alamos is now under new management, Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, said the lab has not done much to clean up its act. Los Alamos has always seemed to be rewarded for its screw-ups, Brian said. We're waiting with bated breath to see if anything has changed. The idea that police found classified documents at a home where a drug sting was being conducted is disturbing, she said. The problem is when you actually have those materials that are supposed to be protected inside the lab and you find them outside the lab in the hands of criminals that should worry everybody, Brian said. The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Albuquerque were evaluating the information obtained as a result of the search warrant, Elwell said. The federal charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. ___ Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington and Sue Holmes in Albuquerque contributed to this report. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
