Keith Olbermann described last night on Countdown concerning Bill O'Reilly. Someone had called into O'Reilly's radio program, and after saying, "thanks for taking my call," asked O'Reilly about Keith Olbermann. Instead of responding, O'Reilly immediately hung up, and blustered, "Alright, we won't take this harrassment on my show. We have your phone number. So whoever called to harrass me, just know this, Fox has your phone number, and we're going to turn it over to the authorities." No joke! Olbermann actually played O'Reilly's comments! And moreover, O'Reilly actually had someone from Fox News security call the person to badger him about why he had called O'Reilly's radio program to ask about Keith Olbermann!

While this incident is in no way as serious as the information you have posted, it shows the mindset of these neocons. Crush anyone who questions you with the heal of your boot so you won't have to answer for your conduct.

second round of hearings on the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq? The intended purpose was to look into whether the intelligence services were manipulated by the White House and the Pentagon to produce the intel consistent with the desire to invade. There was a parliamentary kerfuffle about this last November and the Republicans said we are just now geting around to scheduling these hearings and it ended at that.

I've got complete contact info for the key players in this fiasco -- Frist, Reid, Roberts, Rockefeller, Snowe, Hagel -- plus talking points and a "game plan", at Vichy Dems.

That's just the specific post; surf to the main site for updates, a link to what Rockefeller's motion for a hearing actually says, etc.

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Someone asked about the second round of hearings. The report is in draft in the Intelligence Committee, but the Rs are dragging their heels. I spoke at length with an Intelligence Cmte insider last week and plan to have a post up about it on vichydems.blogspot.com early next week.

Sean,

I thought I would share my personal experience with warantless surveillance. Currently, there is a culture of paranoia within the FBI because they have not adequately developed intelligence assets who can integrate into and infiltrate terrorist groups. Subsequently, they have used U.S. citizens (specifically, my former Pakistani neighbor), under threat, to get involved in the baiting of terrorists to the U.S. As a result of my knowledge of this, I was forcibly and illegally hospitalized and detained by the FBI in Sandy Springs, Georgia. You can read my true account on the independent media center's network by going to: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/241503/index.php

or indymedia.org (Title: Bush Administration Directs FBI to outsource human rights violations in Sandy Springs, Georgia.)

If anyone out there is a human rights attorney, please help me!

Deborah Lloyd
deb98126@yahoo.com