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Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border: No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post Staff Writer, Friday, August 1, 2008; Page A01 (see sig)

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"The policies . . . are truly alarming," said Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who is probing the government's border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin.

DHS officials said that the newly disclosed policies -- which apply to anyone entering the country, including U.S. citizens -- are reasonable and necessary to prevent terrorism. Officials said such procedures have long been in place but were disclosed last month because of public interest in the matter.

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How the hell did you do that?

Anyway, although tiny-URL is a good thing, I don't think it is necessary here. But how did you do that? If the system doesn't accept URLs in the text, you can't "break it" with a long URL, right? Hmmm. Must be magic.

Not that a couple pistols would actually stop whoever will be sent to start rounding us up, but I'd hate to be the first agent who busts through my door.

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter"- Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon"

Why, cause they'll have to watch you shit yourself?

I'm sure this case is like Bush's Kangaroo courts in Guantanamo, if you can make it look like a suicide, you can close the case.

AND this after all the lies from ABC and the rest of evidence that Iraq did it.

Bush is so ugly, so ugly.

naschbac said:

... the act itself is an assassination attempt apparently perpetrated by the Army and/or the Executive.

Coup d'état causes contrecoup and my head hurts.

How about appealing to their sense of outrage for being targeted for extermination?

I ultimately think this is going to be the best angle, but I doubt seriously the democrats will cooperate. The leadership knew this story was coming and couldn't get the hell out of Dodge fast enough. The upside is they finally learned how to stand up the republicans:)

In addition to my earlier comment, I would like to point out that the Bush "administration" has a well-documented Unitary Executive theory of how our Federal government should be run. It also had a well-documented lying propoganda campaign to sell an unjust Iraq war to a public that, overall, has always been much more peaceful and moderate than the violent, radical neo-con warmongers in the White House. Therefore, I think that we have to ask the logical question: was the FBI merely incompetent, or was it ordered to focus on not-Ivins?

It should be noted that Brian Ross has been responsible for other false terror stories. He was responsible for running tons of terrorism stories from Alex Debat before Debat was busted for placing fake interviews with the likes of Obama & Clinton in French papers.

Instead of allowing an independent investigation into the 100's of terrorism related stories that of Alex Debat wrote for ABC (and was the sole source for). Brian Ross took it upon himself to internally fact check Debat stories.

Not surprisingly, Ross claimed that all of the stories Debat wrote for ABC news were factual. What I find most amazing is that no major TV network or newspaper did an investigation into Debat, Ross or these very questionable ABC news stories. It’s especially interesting when you look at the HUGE investigation into the New Republic/Beauchamp scandal.

Jean Duley, who sought the protective order, said this guy had "a history dating to his graduate days of homicidal threats, actions, plans, threats & actions towards therapist." Either that is true or not. If it is not true, it smacks of an outrageous disinformation effort. But suppose it is true. How the hell did a guy with this "history" get to handle anthrax for all those years? C'mon MSM, ask a few obvious questions here!

The key here, I think, will be to try to devise the right strategy to induce the right Congressional Committee to hold hearings on the false ABC News stories and the anthrax issue generally. I hope to have more details on that effort shortly.

Either the Executive, the Army, or both crafted a plan which included the attempted murder of Congressional leaders via biological weapons; presuming Ivins guilt and the validity of false statements coming from defense officials.

That's a pretty big deal to get figured out, as it would point to members of Congress and the Media as having a contract out on them by military and/or government officials.

I'd think it'd be pretty easy to get the non-ABC media and a good chunk of Congress interested in sorting that out. If somebody was plotting to kill me, I'd sure as hell want to know about it.

The #5 story in a form that will be better than any other M$M report is airing right now. I will provide link when it is available.

If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, and the same facility was coordinating false claims of bentonite present in the samples, then doesn't that lead to a reasonable deduction of an overall coordinated effort by U.S. Army personnel at Ft. Detrick to fabricate a smoking gun held by Saddam Hussein?

If so, then doesn't that also mean that the same U.S. Army personnel looking to craft this reality --as well as those who ordered them to do so-- were explicitly meaning to murder top Congressional members via biological weapons as a key component to this manufacturing process?

If we're to accept the premise of Ivins' guilt, and take it with the complicity of other army officials to corroborate false facts, then it would seem the story here is more that somebody in the chain of military command is responsible for ordering a biological weapons attack on members of Congress, and failed to succeed in murdering them due to little more than luck.

That is rather unpleasant. The whole thing as a catalyst for war is certainly worthy of derision, but damn it man... the act itself is an assassination attempt apparently perpetrated by the Army and/or the Executive.