A press release on the Texas Department of Public Safety website identifies the person in the video as the arsonist, yet no video has been released showing anyone starting a fire. The general public gets to see a video of a person walking down the sidewalk carrying an unidentified object and another video of a person running, and are told that this is the arsonist or arsonists. The building was under renovation at the time of the incident. Now an unconvincing video is released. Reminds me of the Pentagon on 9/11.
President Bush’s drug warriors must really, really want to protect their ability to throw non-violent marijuana users in jail.
The White House sent at least three party crashers to a press conference Wednesday with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who has introduced a pot-decriminalization bill.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s “chief scientist” and two aides who were dispatched to provide instant rebuttal to Frank and the bill’s cosponsors, all of whom acknowledged that marijuana was likely to remain very much illegal in the foreseeable future.
Given the bill’s essentially non-existent chances of passage, ONDCP’s Dr. David Murray’s impassioned arguments that seemed more appropriate in Reefer Madness were greeted with plenty of puzzled glances.
Why did the White House feel it necessary to send at least three staffers to Capitol Hill to place in every reporter’s hand a copy of its 20-page, color-copied “2008 Marijuana Sourcebook?” RAW STORY posed this question to Murray.
Two years ago Jane Mayer wrote a groundbreaking investigative piece titled "The Hidden Power" on vice-presidential legal counsel and chief-of-staff David Addington and internal battles over Guantanamo, tribunals, rendition, and torture. On July 15, she releases the culmination of years of investigative journalism to uncover the mechanics and consequences of the policy shifts and practices that composed what Vice President Dick Cheney referred to as "the dark side."
The issue is debated on Larry King Live July 18, 2008. 4-Part video is
below. Guests are Robert Hastings, Bob Salas, Bob Jamison, Bob Jacobs,
Bill Nye, Stanton Friedman, James Fox and Seth Shostak.
