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What I Really Meant to Say Was… Internet News Record 03/09/09 - 04/09/09 LibertyNewsprint.com U.S. Edition Friday Poll: MMS is Former AG Gonzales: what I really meant to say iphone-bound; now what? - CNET News was… (Most Popular - Google News) By Jeremy Pelofsky (Front methods were developed and Submitted at 9/4/2009 7:01:39 AM Row Washington) used. Submitted at 9/3/2009 1:24:31 PM But Gonzales called the Report offensive content: Washington Times back on If you believe this comment is Say what? Thursday to say that he actually offensive or violates the CNET's Former Attorney General did not support Holder’s decision Site Terms of Use, you can report Alberto Gonzales threw folks for but rather his right to order the it below (this will not another loop on Thursday investigation, nothing more. automatically remove the by saying he doesn’t really “I’m just saying I would have comment). Once reported, our support further investigation of exercised my discretion in a staff will be notified and the CIA prisoner abuses after all. different manner, given the comment will be reviewed. That was after the earlier loop information I have,” Gonzales Select type of offense: when he said he did not see a said, adding that the matter had Offensive: Sexually explicit or problem with investigating already been examined and that offensive language interrogation methods that ran no further investigation was Spam: Advertisements or over set boundaries. warranted. commercial links He explained in a second “It’s no different than when a Disruptive posting: Flaming or interview with the Washington police officer sees someone offending other users Times that what he really perhaps speeding, there is Illegal activities: Promote meant in his first interview was discretion in the law enforcement cracked software, or other illegal that he doesn’t really back the community, given the content decision last week by current (Sounds like the rollercoaster approved limits, “I think it is circumstances, whether to Comments(optional): Report Attorney General Eric Holder to ride is back on the conservative legitimate to question and investigate or to prosecute,” he Cancel launch a review. track.) examine that conduct to ensure told the newspaper. “And again “I don’t support the investigation Just three days ago, Gonzales people are held accountable for this is a matter that has already by the department because this is said on the newspaper’s radio their actions, even if it’s action in been looked into thoroughly.” a matter that has already been program “America’s Morning prosecuting the war on terror.” Sounds like someone got the reviewed thoroughly and because News” that the Bush Those remarks won praise from talking points memo between I believe that another administration set rules and human rights groups and caused interviews… investigation is going to harm our parameters for interrogating some head-scratching among Click here for more Reuters intelligence gathering capabilities terrorism suspects and that Holder conservatives, especially since political coverage. and that’s a concern that’s shared appeared to only be focused on Gonzales was considered a loyal - Photo credit: Reuters/Jonathan by career intelligence officials and the 1 percent of those who went soldier to former President Ernst (Gonzales being sworn in so for those reasons I respectfully beyond the approved techniques. George W. Bush, serving as the during congressional testimony in disagree with the decision,” And then he added that if White House counsel and attorney 2007) Gonzales told the newspaper. interrogators went outside the general when the interrogation 2 Politics/ Internet News Record Zelaya struggles to convince U.S. his ouster was military coup By David Alexander (Front agrees the scenario is a coup but the situation in his country. He’s 150 bullets into a metal door at Three armed military men in Row Washington) maybe not a military coup since done the speech so often it has the house. fatigues with hoods on their heads Submitted at 9/3/2009 4:03:11 PM the legislative and judicial become a routine, delivered with a He had his cell phone as he left accompanied him on the plane. branches were involved as well. dry sense of humor. his room, and made an effort to “Perhaps they were thinking they Ousted Honduran President The Honduran president met “In Honduras, on the 28th of call his wife to let her know. would throw me out of the plane. Manuel Zelaya is having a hard Thursday with Secretary of State June, barely two months ago, a “When they saw my cellular, I mean, why so much force in a time convincing the Obama Hillary Clinton to prod her on the cruel coup d’etat took place,” he they didn’t want me to make a small plane? administration he was deposed by issue. told a George Washington call to let the people know “I asked the one that was closer a military coup. He was rewarded with a pledge University audience Wednesday. perhaps,” he said. “They to me, I asked, ‘Officer, where are Zelaya argues that being to cancel $30 million in aid to the It was a poorly managed affair, surrounded me, 10 military men we overflying?’” Zelaya said. awakened at 5 a.m. by soldiers in de facto government, but did not Zelaya said, citing a Spanish with their rifles. “And he said, ‘I don’t have any your presidential palace, flown to get a formal military coup constitutional law expert who “They were saying, “This is a orders to advise you of another country by hooded and declaration. Zelaya said the U.S. labeled it “anti-aesthetic.” military order. If you do not let go anything.’” armed military guards and decision was nonetheless a sign “I can say that it was obscene of your cellular, we will shoot “Forty minutes later we were deposited on the tarmac in your the region is unified against the and not aesthetic to pull out a you. landing at San Jose, Costa Rica. I pajamas pretty much fits the coup government. president at 5 a.m., raiding his “I was dragged in my pajamas, thought it was strange that they description of a military coup. While he awaits his restoration, residence, shooting guns,” Zelaya as we say. I was put in a plane by The Obama administration Zelaya speaks out frequently on said, adding that soldiers pumped force,” Zelaya said. ZELAYA page 3 Internet News Record Politics/ 3 Pinky finger bitten off in healthcare reform fracas By Steve Gorman (Front Row he felt threatened, Buschow said. Washington) Rice gave investigators a Submitted at 9/3/2009 4:54:04 PM photograph (above) taken just before the altercation. Rice is The healthcare reform debate wearing a khaki T-shirt and olive just reached a new level of vitriol, drab shorts; his opponent is in with a pro-reform protester biting black at right. off the fingertip of a counter- Depending on the outcome of demonstrator in a fistfight counter-protester, 65-year-old the investigation, the biter could between the two men, according William James Rice, realized that be charged with mayhem, an to police in California. the last third of his left pinky had offense by which the perpetrator The Ventura County Sheriff’s been bitten off, Buschow said. He deprives another person of a body Department says the brawl drove himself to a nearby part, and Rice could be charged erupted Wednesday evening emergency room, and a bystander with battery for throwing the first outside a shopping mall in the Los who scooped the severed digit off punch. Angeles suburb of Thousand the pavement and put it in a bag “This isn’t a clear-cut situation,” Oaks. followed Rice to the hospital. Buschow says. “These are two Biden follows dollars to Dozens of protesters holding a A hospital spokeswoman said people who by all appearances rally in support of President Rice ultimately chose not to have willingly engaged in a fight with Obama’s healthcare reform plan doctors reattach the fingertip. each other, and that fight ended Yellowstone toilets got into a shouting match with a Instead, his wound was cleaned very badly. Had this happened in By Steve Holland (Front Row efficiency of every government smaller group of anti-reform and sewn up in the emergency the context of a bar, we wouldn’t Washington) program that is administered from demonstrators across the street. room and he was sent home that be talking. It’s all about the Submitted at 9/3/2009 8:43:56 AM Washington in order to increase The conflict escalated as a night. She added that Rice was politics behind it. accountability and transparency. member of the pro-Obama group covered by Medicare, the “I’m sure that’s not what the Vice President Joe Biden is Which brings us to the and a member of the counter- government’s health insurance Founding Fathers intended for offering some encouraging words Yellowstone example. demonstration confronted each plan for the elderly. public debate in a democracy,” he for those who would like to know “If you were to try to determine other and a physical fight Police said the biter has not added. how much it costs the government whether or not the toilet in ensued, sheriff’s spokesman Eric been identified. Rice has For more Reuters political news, to build, for instance, a toilet at Yellowstone Park in a rest area Buschow said. admitted to throwing the first click here. Yellowstone National Park, home had actually been built and how The fisticuffs ended when the punch but says he did so because of the “Old Faithful” geyser and much it cost and how many lots of critters such as grizzly people it employed and you went ZELAYA bears.
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