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Doctors turn detective, suspect UCSF colleague

Jim Herron Zamora, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF

Published 4:00 am, Thursday, August 19, 1999

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doctors-turn-detective-suspect-UCSF-colleague-3071314.php#ixzz2EtoW7c4dAn anesthesiologist has been charged with stealing the credit cards of her fellow physicians from their UC-San Francisco lockers and then charging designer dresses at Macy's.
Wanda Heffernon, 40, of Richmond, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 23 felony charges, including grand theft, possession of stolen property forgery and unauthorized use of a credit card.
Heffernon was arrested Tuesday after her fellow doctors initiated their own investigation and noticed that her dress size was the same as the dresses purchased at Macy's using the stolen credit cards, according to the San Francisco district attorney's office. Ultimately, police also found dresses purchased with the stolen cards during a search of Heffernon's home, prosecutors said.
Between February and July, four doctors had one credit card each taken from their bags, which had been left in UCSF hospital's Fellows Room. The doctors each have a locker but at the time the same key could open any locker.
The doctors talked with one another and realized they were all victims of unauthorized charges at Macy's, prosecutors said. The doctors contacted the department store and photographed items similar to those that had been charged to their cards, according to prosecutors.
"They noticed (Heffernon) wearing what appeared to be some of the items purchased at Macy's with the stolen cards," district attorney's spokesman Clarence Johnson said in a statement.
At a party at Heffernon's home in June, several other doctors also noticed items that appeared to have been illegally charged to their accounts, including a Ralph Lauren quilt, prosecutors said. At another party attended by Heffernon at a fellow doctor's home, a jewelry box containing family heirlooms was taken. When police searched Heffernon's home on Aug. 10, they found the missing jewelry box and its contents, prosecutors said.
"The doctors did this work on their own and then brought everything to UC police," said prosecutor Alan Kennedy.
"The investigation confirmed their suspicions."


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Doctors-turn-detective-suspect-UCSF-colleague-3071314.php#ixzz2EtoLf3QNIssue date: February 02, 2000 Wanda Heffernon

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Physician arrested; elderly women robbed

By ANNE H. KIM   A former UCSF Stanford Medical Center anesthesiologist, out on bail in a previous felony arrest, was arrested again January 27 on charges of robbing two elderly Portola Valley women.
Wanda Newbreast Heffernon, 41, of Richmond, had been out on a $45,000 bail in December when she allegedly stole diamond rings from a 94-year-old and bookends from an 80-year-old, said San Mateo County Sheriff's Detective Gregory Eatmon. Ms. Heffernon, who has licenses to practice medicine, surgery and physical therapy, was employed with Dublin-based Career Staff Unlimited, a temporary physical therapy agency, and hired as a temporary therapist at The Sequoias retirement community in Portola Valley where the two elderly women lived, said Detective Eatmon. Investigators with the Sheriff's Office arrested Ms. Heffernon after they found the stolen items in her home in the 3000 block of Hull Drive in Richmond, said Detective Eatmon. Ms. Heffernon faces charges of strong-arm robbery, elder abuse, possessing stolen property, and committing a felony while out on bail for another felony. Bail was set at $350,000 and Ms. Heffernon was to appear in court on January 31. A staff person with the temporary agency said a statement on the agency's background check policy would be faxed, but it was not received by the Almanac before press time. Ms. Heffernon is already facing up to 14 years and eight months in state prison, up to $40,000 in fines and total restitution for losses if found guilty and convicted for another felony arrest in August of last year. In that case, Ms. Heffernon is being charged with burglary, grand theft, credit card fraud, and forging signatures to gain controlled substances, said Alan Kennedy, an assistant district attorney in San Francisco. Ms. Heffernon allegedly used the stolen cards to purchase at least $8,000 worth of clothing, jewelry and housewares at Macy's department store, said Mr. Kennedy. Police also found in Ms. Heffernon's home jewelry that had been reported stolen, said Mr. Kennedy.

Doctor Who Preyed On Elders Sentenced / Ring pried from woman's finger

Marshall Wilson, San Francisco ChronicleCopyright 2012 San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Marshall Wilson, Chronicle Staff Writer

Published 4:00 am, Saturday, December 2, 2000

A judge sentenced a former University of California at San Francisco anesthesiologist to state prison yesterday for prying the diamond wedding ring off the finger of a frail 94-year-old woman.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles said Wanda Newbreast Heffernon preyed upon an "extremely vulnerable" victim while working temporarily as a physical therapist in a nursing home. Foiles sentenced Heffernon to spend two years in state prison and pay $2,000 in restitution.
Heffernon, 42, had pleaded no contest to elder abuse and receiving stolen property, both felonies. Prosecutors dropped a charge of strong-arm robbery in exchange for her plea.
Heffernon -- out on bail and facing criminal charges in San Francisco -- was working at a Portola Valley nursing home in late 1999 when she pried the wedding and engagement rings from a woman who had worn them for more than 65 years. Foiles said there "is a dark side to Ms. Heffernon that is difficult to fathom."
With credit for time served in San Mateo County Jail since her arrest, Heffernon could be released in a matter of weeks by the state Department of Corrections, Deputy District Attorney Kathy Rogers said.
Heffernon worked as an anesthesiologist and taught at UC San Francisco until her arrest by San Francisco police in September 1999. She is suspected of forging prescriptions and stealing credit cards and jewelry from colleagues,
San Francisco Assistant District Attorney Alan Kennedy said.
While out on bail, she went to work as a physical therapist for a medical service that sent her to the Portola Valley nursing home. While there, a 94- year-old woman reported that her rings were stolen and another said a valuable set of bookends was missing.
San Mateo County Sheriff's Department investigators found the stolen property at Heffernon's Richmond home, along with
a substantial amount of stolen prescription medication, court records show.
Sidney Liebes, whose mother's rings were stolen, recounted yesterday the pain his mother felt both physically and emotionally. He said the rings "had enormous sentimental value," and he expressed frustration that Heffernon was not convicted of more-serious crimes.
Once she is out of state prison, Heffernon faces prosecution on 44 criminal charges in San Francisco, 41 of them felonies, Kennedy said.
Heffernon, who has been in custody in lieu of $350,000 bail, told the court she is "sorry" for her actions. Her attorney, Colin Cooper, said Heffernon is in a recovery program from drug addiction while in jail and asked that she be given probation rather than a prison sentence.


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Physician pleads no contest to thefts at The Sequoias

Wanda Newbreast Heffernon, a 41-year-old former UCSF Stanford Medical Center anesthesiologist from Richmond, faces up to two years in state prison for stealing from two elderly women while working last December as a physical therapist at the Sequoias retirement community in Portola Valley. Ms. Heffernon, who has licenses to practice medicine, surgery and physical therapy, pleaded no contest last week to one count of theft embezzlement of an elder or dependent adult by a caretaker, and to one count of receiving stolen property. Other charges were dismissed after she negotiated a plea bargain. A sentencing hearing is set for November 7 in Superior Court. Sheriff's deputies arrested Ms. Heffernon in January after she stole a wedding and engagement ring from a 94-year-old and bookends from an 80-year-old, both residents at the Sequoias. Ms. Heffernon had been working as a physical therapist at the retirement community when the thefts occurred. During the investigation, sheriff's investigators also arrested Rebecca Shante Askew, 28, of Hayward and Mountain View, a nursing assistant who admitted to stealing from several residents and a co-worker at the Sequoias last year.
Anesthesiologist convicted of elder abuse, gets two years
SAN MATEO – An anesthesiologist who stole a wedding ring from the finger of one of her patients was sentenced to two years in state prison.
Wanda Newbreast Heffernon, 42, of Richmond was convicted of felony charges of elder abuse and receiving stolen property. She must also pay $2,000 in restitution.
Heffernon pleaded no contest to the charges.
Heffernon was working at a Portola Valley nursing home in late 1999 when she stole a diamond wedding ring and engagement ring from a 94-year-old woman.


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VEDANTA: What is Vedanta? Vedanta is considered one of the world's most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. It is based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India. Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. Vedanta is the philosophical foundation of Hinduism; but while Hinduism includes aspects of Indian culture, Vedanta is universal in its application and is equally relevant to all countries, all cultures, and all religious backgrounds. "Vedanta" is a combination of two words: "Veda" which means "knowledge" and "anta" which means "the end of" or "the goal of”. "Knowledge" means the knowledge of the God as well as the knowledge of our own divine nature. Vedanta shows the way to the search for Self-knowledge as well as the search for God. According to Vedanta, God is spoken in terms of infinite existence, infinite consciousness, and infinite bliss. This impersonal, transcendent reality is Brahman. Vedanta also maintains that God can be personal as well, assuming human form in every age. Most importantly, God dwells in the hearts of all individuals as divine Self or Atman. The Atman is never born nor does it ever die. The Atman is not subject to grief or despair or disease or ignorance. Pure, perfect, free from limitations, the Atman, Vedanta declares, is one with Brahman. The greatest temple of God lies within the human heart. Vedanta asserts that the goal of human life is to realize and manifest our divinity. Not only is this possible, it is inevitable. Our real nature is divine; God-realization is our birthright. Sooner or later, we will all manifest our divinity either in this or in future lives-for the greatest truth of our existence is our own divine nature. Finally, Vedanta affirms that all religions teach the same basic truths about God, the world, and our relationship to one another. Thousands of years ago the Rig Veda declared: "Truth is one, sages call it by various names." The world's religions offer varying approaches to God, each one true and valid, each religion offering the world a unique and irreplaceable path to God-realization. The conflicting messages we find among religions are due more to doctrine and dogma than to the reality of spiritual experience. While dissimilarities exist in the external observances of the world religions, the internals bear remarkable similarities.

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Homelessness, an extra extra credit paper
(with a digression to the injustice of the Justice System)
William Carl McLean
Psychology 101
Summer Session 2, 2001
The year 2001
(America is consuming a disproportionate amount of the world's resources; one of the "Big 7"; "Gluttony". The Bureau of Land Management controls 250 million acres. See current National Geographic, 9-01. Every child born should have "birth rights". A system of disproportional wealth and privilege should be thoughtfully looked at and perhaps reevaluated).

SO YOU WANT TO HELP THE HOMELESS?..BUT THEY'RE NEVER HOME ("home is where you lay your head"- David Thoreau)

Lynn and I urban camped in Austin, Texas.

We had met "on the streets" in Houston. My friends and I had the bridge at Alabama and Main Street there. There was society and sub-culture with-in this setting. Most people had alcohol or drug usage, some didn't, and there were various degrees. Lonnie, who was a Montrose local legend/relic from the '60's, sold news papers at the corner of Westiemer and Montrose Blvd. He has shaggy white hair and a beard to match. After being on the corner in the morning, you could find him at "CAMP" (a term that you will hear frequently hear from the urban "homeless"); an overgrown vacant lot not far from "the work corner". There was Lonnie sitting on one of the two old couches salvaged ("keepers"/"scores") from a nearby apartment dumpster along with whoever else was "visiting", stopping in to drink a beer, smoke some herb, socialize or listen to Lonnie play his old beat up guitar. His on again/off again girlfriend/"sister" would sometimes be there harmonizing. Other people would bring an instrument or use a 5-gal. bucket (a must for the urban camper; suitcase, chair, dish/clothes wash tub, ice-chest, card table if sitting Indian-style on the ground, and musical instrument) as a drum or two sticks hit together (playing the bones). One of these people who was there usually was Danny, a Vietnam Vet, until one night, drunk, he walked in front of a car on Westiemer and was killed. Lonnie had been doing this since the '60's when Montrose was reputed as Bohemian/artsy/hippies. Pacifica radio station was on Lovett Blvd. and you would go to the Montrose to score some weed or see a concert or midnight movie. The head shops, antique and art stores were there.

(back to 1992) Just north on Montrose Blvd. from Lonnie's paper corner was another "homeless" person of a different nature. For years he stayed in the median of the road, hair in dreds, wearing old clothes. People would bring him food. (Lonnie was welcome at the back door of a number of restaurants as was I and there were other ways of getting food)) During the day he would sit cross-legged as if in meditation or pace in a 14-foot wide median. I guess he might still be there. He would more likely be labeled mentally ill. People on the streets slept at camps in vacant or pubic lands, vacant buildings, under bridges or other structures or where ever they ended up that night. Some worked at "day labor", some begged, some had small public assistance, some live just off of the fat/or garbage of the city, some survived solely through charity feeding programs, some "hustled" or thieved. There were also the prostitutes, "crack heads" and street kids.

As well as some of the above methods of survival, I knew people who worked at businesses or lived in the neighborhood. Papa Jim (died 3 yrs ago-heart attack) worked at the Chevron on Alabama and Montrose. Papa Jim lived rent-free in an old 2-story house on Marshall street. The house was gutted and had no electricity. He had arrangements with the owner. He lived simply ("LIVE SIMPLY THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE") and gave away any extra money after minimal living costs to one of his adopted kids. This was his choice between him and "God". I spent many a night visiting with Jim as he cut up vegetables by the light of a kerosene oil lamp or candle. He had at one time a problem with alcohol but had not drank in years. He would feed whoever showed up. He always told me "Have some more, Son". I loved him for his integrity. (I tried often to bring him something he could use or needed) He was a friend, as was Lonnie and Danny (and many others). Garland was another friend in the neighborhood. He lived in an old 2 story as a long time bachelor/widower. In his house it was filled with boxes of things and memories of years past. He was a retired city councilman who had few friends besides the birds and the squirrels he would feed everyday. He would pay me $20 to do a little yard work (his yard was very overgrown and unkempt but homey) but mostly we would share company (he had lots of stories and memories) when I would stop by on my walks abouts. He was the only one who gave Lynn and I a card (a little cash inside) when we were married (1993, I think we still have it amazingly, it says "God cares for even the sparrows")

Our bridge could be quite the place of activity. It actually is the overpass for the entrance to downtown from highway 59. At one time we had 10 to 20 people, depending on the night. (with tents, mattresses and an American Flag) Other times it was me alone or just me and Bobby Clark who ended up there after his wife died. "Duke" Davis (also dead-hit by a speeding teenager while he was riding a bike to a store) was another friend/brother of the streets. He was the one that first introduced Lynn and I. He was like a kid that never grew up (last year when he was killed he was listening to "Kid Rock" and still living to "party"). He came from a rich family (Memorial) and made lots of money in the seventies selling computers. He had wrecked 7 corvettes by age 25. Whenever he had money he would impulsively spend it. His drink of choice was Thunderbird wine. After we were married (at Lakewood Church, got there by city bus and slept in a large vacant grass field under the stars our wedding night, free Doobie Brother's concert July 4th, Allen's Landing) we chose to move to Austin. Lynn's ex-boyfriend, "crying Brian" said he put a $1000 bounty on me. He was broke and "homeless" but there was still a possibility of conflict. Also my x, "bicycle Laura" (an old heroin user turned cocaine/speed user who used to deliver on a bicycle in the Montrose-also one of the most intellectually and musically gifted people that I've ever met) told Lynn she was going to kill her (she had killed before)(she was an "outlaw chick"), but it was though Plexiglas at the county jail, a drug charge. So for a new start we moved to Austin.

We got off the Greyhound in north Austin at the Highland Mall and that is the area (north Guadeloupe) in which we remained in the 3 years we lived there (before coming to Nacogdoches). Getting off the bus, I went and found a shopping cart. We had wheels. Our first "camp" there was in bushes and trees by some railroad tracks behind a convenience store with a outside water spigot. There was a phone, coffee, tobacco and beer available. We would wake up in the morning with birds and squirrels above us and around us. We were there about a month before we were asked to move by the police. We had found out that there is a large population of urban campers in Austin. Moving Day! (again!) Our next campsite was further down the railroad tracks. There was about 5 acres that belong(ed?) to the family of someone we had met and he gave us "permission". We set up a tent, a fire pit, clothes line and found a couch, some carpet and chairs.

There were some other "homeless" people camped there. There was a 24-hour poolroom nearby, the "Q Club". They live in "the tree house", a room made of pallets and plastic tarps with carpet, couches and mattresses. Their deal was cocaine and that costs money. They would bring in money, sometimes a lot but they would very quickly be broke without even a cigarette. They had scams such as shoplifting and returning merchandise or else working day labor all day just to briefly get high on coke(illegal=high cost). Christmas Day we got flour tortillas, chicken leg quarters and pork "country style" ribs and cooked for everyone (we had "company" visiting). The day after Christmas one of the "homeless" broke, mad at himself and the world, coming down off cocaine attacked us in our camp. This was a continuance from a incident earlier when he had asked us for money and when we refused he pulled a knife. Later that night he started to yell that he was going to burn us as we slept. He ran into our camp and I hit him right between the eyes and he got dizzy and went down. To keep him down, and in fear of personal injury, I did a Mexican hat dance on his face with my tennis shoes. He had swollen bruised eyes, swollen cut lip and a cut ear. He looked bad. An ambulance was called out and he went to the hospital where he had 3 stitches on his ear and was released. The police were also called out and I was arrested and taken to jail.

I thought for disturbing the peace or fighting in public, but I was very wrong. One of the other people "living in the woods", made a statement to the police that "It sounded like he hit him with a steel pipe". In spite of no other evidence in the physical injuries or any other and on the word "one of the vagrants", I was indited by a grand jury for felony aggravated assault. The indictment read that "I formed and fashion the said steel pipe with intent for serious bodily harm and or death and I did so used such weapon to inflict serious bodily harm on said victim, Kenneth?..". The victim "Ken" turned out to be wanted and left town two weeks later after an incident where he and his buddy got in a fight with someone at a nearby apartment and their neck was broke. He was arrested in Arizona for other crimes. I was stuck in jail facing time accused of something I did not do. It would be 4 months before I got out. Lynn was out in the woods in a city she didn't know and no family of her own to turn to and with my parents, not knowing them well yet, she didn't get help either (they would have done what ever they could but there was communication problems).

There are some big flaws in our justice system. Recent overturning of convictions by DNA evidence shows this. Prosecutors are rewarded and the "legal system" makes money whether there is a conviction or not, whether valid or false. Somebody makes money! Once the "ball is rolling" there is little incentive to say "Ops, we were wrong". Recent cases have proven false even with "signed confessions" show this. As in class, we learned that people will do what they think they would never do under certain circumstances (such as hours of "interrogation" and shady ways, i.e., taking polygraph and passing but being told that "you failed". Police do not have to play fair)(a easy partial solution: require video taping) I was caught in this system. I was assigned a "Public Defender" who recommended I get money from my parents to bail me out (10K bail). I refused this and made a complaint to the state bar, which they said was valid (soliciting moneys from my parents). I wrote letters to Government elected officials (up the line) asking that my case be investigated. After 4 months, they were all of a sudden in a hurry to "reduce charges" (they still didn't want to admit mistake) and immediately released me. This was because the right people made inquiry. (it could have gone different if I hadn't taken action)(Scary!!!)

This put Lynn in danger and our relatively new relationship in danger or at least serious strain. We had moved to Austin with hope of new start. Lynn was vulnerable to crime (things happened) while in the woods and I was mostly restricted and powerless to help in jail. A Church of Christ couple we had met tried to help by delivering mail and messages and brought Lynn to see me a few times in the county jail outside of the city. Also, J.T. ("the Gentle Giant"), a 6-foot plus black, country (caring and laid back) Vietnam Vet. helped out Lynn by letting her stay on the couch at his modest apartment the last month I was in jail (caged like an animal). Our first embrace when I got out was beyond words and will never be forgotten.

We found 17 acres of vacant land right at the interchange of 290 and I-35. There were a number of temporary agencies in the area and we got some work. I got a job transferring info. from topographical to computer mapping programs. We got a car from a used car lot and started making payments. It got hit by a college student, and replaced with a Murcur X4TI, a German/Ford Sports Coupe. There was a creek running though the property and our "camp" was under the large trees by the creek. I found a truck tarp that was 30 x 40 feet, which we hung from the tree branches. Under that we had individual dome tents. I could park the car under it. We had a large fire pit built with Austin limestone where we cooked. We had restaurants that would feed us regularly. One sandwich shop always left us bread to feed the family of raccoons that came daily to our camp. A nearby hotel got new pool furniture and we got the old stuff ("score");~10+ chairs and loungers. We had lots of company and friends that would come visit. A friend Cruz gave us a wolf that he couldn't keep at his house or farm (it killed his farm animals). We kept it on a 20 foot chained and warned people not to pet him. A few people didn't listen and got bit. Our camp was generally open to new people and what we had was shared. We especially tried to be hospitable to "travelers" (homeless on the road). We were there almost two years. Also staying out there was "Railroad". His birth given name was Luis Gardner. He was a Eastern Orthodox Monk. When living away from the monastery (located in the remote Hill country), which he called sabbatical, he lived in the woods where he could play guitar and sing old country music and drink beer. We took him back to the monastery to stay (at least for some time) and spent a weekend with the monks eating their homegrown vegetarian diet and being included in some of their prayer and study time.

Before, i met Lynn i had been married for 10 years. I was a Medic, Nurse and then Nuclear Medicine Technologist in the U.S. Army from 1981 to 1985. After getting out the Army, my "X" and i returned to Houston where i worked at M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital. I worked the second shift and my "x" went the University of Houston. She joined the University Karate club, which met in the evenings when i was still working. Her instructor became more than that and she became pregnant by him and filed for divorce from me. That same year, i was hit in the head with a pistol while being robbed near the Houston Medical Center. My left eye was hanging by the optic nerve and i spent 3 weeks in Ben Taub Hospital for the Head Injury and having facial reconstruction and my eye being repaired. I lost my job at the Cancer Hospital and had concentration and memory problems that are often associated with Head Injuries. She (my "X") went on to have 3 children and married the person who she was pregnant by. They now are running a Karate School and she also got her Master's and taught for a while at U of H and now works for Baylor College of Medicine. I wish her and her family all the best and all of God's Blessings. Sometimes Life involves "hard chapters" which this was one for me.

Lynn also was divorced not of her choosing, after 15 years of marriage, raising two beautiful boys and being the primary income source working in the grocery business. He declared bankruptcy and their house was foreclosed and she was left wondering what happened.

There is a painting of two children holding hands crossing a dangerous bridge over rocks and swiftly running water. They seem unaware of their danger or of the safety of the Angel watching over them or the watchful eye (grace) of God (whoever/whatever that may be) on them. On a good day that is how I feel.

Homelessness is caused by people unable to, or refusing to run the rat race. There is a large variation in the details of these two cases. Drugs and alcohol may be a part of this, or hard circumstances, or illness, physical or mental, or in some cases a choice to be that way (the Buddha, Jesus, John the Baptist and many, many others) or just "giving up". The people living through and in these conditions have different perspectives and schemas than those of them that have not this experience. Sometimes, when you are homeless the world and God's Universe can become your home.

WELCOME HOME!!!

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Wech Baghtu wedding party attack

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Wech Baghtu wedding party attack
Date 3 November 2008 Location Wech Baghtu village, Shah Wali Kot District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan Result 37 civilians killed including 23 children and 10 women, another 27 wounded

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Wech Baghtu wedding party attack refers to the killing of a large number of Afghan civilians mostly women and children who had gathered to celebrate a wedding when coming under attack by US warplanes dropping bombs on a housing complex in the village of Wech Baghtu, Shah Wali Kot District of Kandahar province, Afghanistan.^[1][2][3]

An investigation found that a total of 37 civilians were killed in the incident including 23 children and 10 women, another 27–35 including the bride were wounded. The bombing wasn't the end of the ordeal, the villagers said. When the air strikes were over, international troops arrived, intimidated the villagers and prevented them from leaving to seek medical treatment while the soldiers took pictures. The Afghan government report also accused the Taliban of seeking shelter near the wedding party.^[4][5][6]

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After a ten hour firefight including the use of helicopters and fighter planes. At least 37 village residents were dead, including women and children. Many were injured, among them was the bride.^{[7][8][9][6][10][11]}

[edit] Reactions

President Hamid Karzai demanded that U.S. President Barack Obama end civilian deaths.^[12][13][14]

Our demand is that there will be no civilian casualties in Afghanistan. We cannot win the fight against terrorism with airstrikes... This is my first demand of the new president of the United States — to put an end to civilian casualties.

—Hamid Karzai, 5 November 2008

[edit] See also

• Deh Bala wedding party bombing 47 civilians mostly women and children killed in Nangarhar province, 2008
• Granai airstrike up to 145 civilians, mostly children killed in Farah province in 2009
• Azizabad airstrike 78–92 mostly children killed in Herat province in 2008
• The Narang night raid were 10 Afghan civilians including 8 school boys were killed on 27 December 2009.
• Uruzgan helicopter attack 27–33 civilians killed in Orūzgān province, 2010
• List of massacres in Afghanistan

[edit] References

1. ^ "Karzai says air strike kills 40 in Afghanistan". Reuters. 5 November 2008. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4A44EW20081105. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
2. ^ Wafa, Abdul Waheed; McDonald, Mark (5 November 2008). "Deadly U.S. airstrike said to hit Afghan wedding party". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/asia/05iht-afghan.3.17553439.html.
3. ^ "U.S. Strike Reportedly Kills 40 at Afghanistan Wedding". Fox News. 5 November 2008. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,447205,00.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
4. ^ Canada. "Air strikes kill dozens of wedding guests". Globe and Mail. Canada. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/article719745.ece. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
5. ^ "Afghanistan: US Missile Strike Kills 37 Civilians". Huffington Post. 7 November 2008. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/afghanistan-us-missile-st_n_142087.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
6. ^ ^{a b} Yunlong, Zhang (5 November 2008). "Villagers say 37 Afghan civilians killed in US-led air strike on wedding party". RAWA News. http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/11/05/villagers-say-37-afghan-civilians-killed-in-us-led-air-strike-on-wedding-party.html?mggal=2=3. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
7. ^ "Deaths in Afghanistan: Air Force Report Confirms Rising Civilian Toll". Spiegel. 13 November 2008. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,590234,00.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
8. ^ Associated Press in Wech Baghtu. "Alleged US air raid 'kills 37' at Afghan nuptials". The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/afghanistan-wedding-air-raid-kandahar. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
9. ^ Font size Print E-mail Share 6 Comments (5 November 2008). "Afghanistan: U.S. Bombing Kills 37". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/world/main4574432.shtml. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
10. ^ "40 Afghan civilians killed as U.S.-led air strike hits wedding party_English_Xinhua". Xinhua. 6 November 2008. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/06/content_10313627.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
11. ^ Farmer, Ben (5 November 2008). "US warplanes bomb wedding party, Afghans claim". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/3386273/US-warplanes-bomb-wedding-party-Afghans-claim.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
12. ^ "Karzai Demands Obama End Civilian Deaths". Huffington Post. 20 January 2009. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/06/karzai-demands-obama-end_n_141842.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
13. ^ "Karzai to Obama: Stop killing Afghan civilians; U.S. airstrike reportedly kills 37 at wedding party". Cleveland Plain Dealer. 5 November 2008. http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2008/11/karzai_to_obama_stop_killing_a.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
14. ^ "Karzai 'demands' Obama end civilian deaths after latest incident". USA Today. 5 November 2008. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-05-afghanistan-violence_N.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2011.

[edit] External links

• Reuters video U.S. strike kills wedding party goers -Afghan officials.
• Uncomfortable Others: Afghan Civilians Wounded by America Marc W. Herold
• Examples of the US ‘liberation’ of Afghanistan

 

U.S. intelligence hurt when Libya base was abandoned

By Mark Hosenball | Reuters – 6 hrs ago

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence efforts in Libya have suffered a significant setback due to the abandonment and exposure of a facility in Benghazi, Libya identified by a newspaper as a "CIA base" following a congressional hearing this week, according to U.S. government sources.

The intelligence post, located 1.2 miles from the U.S. mission that was targeted by militants in a September 11 attack, was evacuated of Americans after the assault that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Three other Americans died in the attacks on U.S.-occupied buildings, including two who were hit in a mortar blast at the secret compound.

The publication of satellite photos showing the site's location and layout have made it difficult, if not impossible, for intelligence agencies to reoccupy the site, according to government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The post had been a base for, among other things, collecting information on the proliferation of weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, including surface-to-air missiles, the sources said. Its security features, including some fortifications, sensors and cameras, were more advanced than those at rented villa where Stevens died, they said.

The sources said intelligence agencies will find other ways to collect information in Libya in the aftermath of last year's toppling of long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi.

"Benghazi played a critical role in the emergence of the new Libya and will continue to do so. It makes sense that we would return there to continue to build relationships," one U.S. official said.
Public discussion of the top-secret location began with a contentious Wednesday hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which was investigating whether security lapses put Americans at risk.

The State Department displayed a satellite photograph showing two locations - the rented villa that served as a special diplomatic mission and the compound that officials had cryptically described as an "annex" or "safe house" for diplomatic personnel.

Both compounds were attacked by militants believed to be tied to al Qaeda. After the diplomatic complex was overrun, U.S. and Libyan personnel rushed by car to the second site, where they fought off two more waves of assaults, officials said.
Charlene Lamb, a top official in the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, told lawmakers that the secret compound took "as many as three direct hits."
Two U.S. security officials, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, were killed there in what U.S. officials described as an unlucky mortar strike. As many as 37 people eventually escaped to Benghazi's airport.
When the satellite photo was displayed, a senior committee Republican, Representative Jason Chaffetz, complained that the discussion was drifting into "classified issues that deal with sources and methods," and the photo was removed from public display. No one at the hearing used the term "CIA base" to describe the facility.
'BONEHEADED QUESTIONING'

The next morning, Dana Milbank, a Washington Post columnist, wrote that the committee's "boneheaded questioning" of State Department witnesses left little doubt that the compound in the pictures was a "CIA base."

The Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank with ties to the Obama White House, followed up with a blog post accusing Republicans of revealing the "Location Of Secret CIA Base."

On Friday, Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, accused Republicans of mishandling secret information.

Spokespeople for the State Department and White House had no comment. The CIA also had no comment.

Oversight committee spokesman Frederick Hill said committee Democrats made matters worse by asking questions about the satellite photos. "Even after Republicans objected, Democrats continued to ask questions that led State officials to put even more sensitive information about who worked there into the public realm," Hill said.

The dispute over who was responsible for identifying the base is the latest case in which intelligence agencies - particularly the CIA - have been dragged into a political fray over the Benghazi attack.

The Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks has become fodder for criticism from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan ahead of the November 6 election.

Intelligence officials are not happy at being drawn into the political battle. Paul Pillar, one of the CIA's former most senior analysts, said the agency is sure to be dismayed at how its sensitive work has been dragged into the debate.

"They're trying to do the best they can with fragmentary and incomplete information. No doubt they are very unhappy that this issue is now being exploited for political purposes," Pillar said.

(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson and Will Dunham)

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Pat Tillman

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Patrick Daniel Tillman
Specialist Patrick Daniel Tillman
Nickname	"Pat"
Born	(1976-11-06)November 6, 1976 Fremont, California
Died	April 22, 2004(2004-04-22) (aged 27) Sperah, Afghanistan (KIA)
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	2002 - 2004
Rank	Specialist
Unit	2nd Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment
Battles/wars	War on Terror Iraq War War in Afghanistan
Awards	Silver Star Purple Heart Meritorious Service Medal

Specialist Patrick Daniel "Pat" Tillman^[1] (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks. He joined the Army Rangers and served several tours in combat before he died in the mountains of Afghanistan. The Army at first reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire, and Lieutenant General Stanley A. McChrystal approved the award of a Silver Star. The actual cause of Tillman's death was later ruled by the Pentagon as friendly fire.

Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Family and friends 3 Football career 4 Military career and death 5 Awards and decorations 6 Aftermath 6.1 Cover-up surrounding Tillman's death 6.2 Congressional inquiries 6.3 Memorials and tributes 6.4 Controversial criticisms 6.5 Media analyses 7 Religious and political beliefs 8 See also 9 References 10 Books 11 External links

Early life

Tillman was born on November 6, 1976, in Fremont, California. The oldest of three sons, Tillman excelled at football in high school. He helped lead Leland High School to the Central Coast Division I Football Championship. Tillman then went to Arizona State University on a football scholarship.^[2]

Family and friends

Tillman was very close to his family and high school friends. He repeatedly mentioned in his personal journals during wartime service that he drew strength from and deeply valued his closest friendships, parents, wife and family. Tillman was very committed to his high-school sweetheart whom he married just prior to enlistment in the Army Rangers, Marie Ugenti Tillman. He also was very close with his brother, Kevin Tillman, who enlisted with and served alongside him.^[3]

Football career

He started his college career as a linebacker for Arizona State University in 1994, when he secured the last remaining scholarship for the team. Tillman excelled as a linebacker at Arizona State, despite being relatively small for the position at five-feet eleven-inches (1.80 m) tall. As a junior, he helped his team go undefeated that season as well as helping them make it to the Rose Bowl that year. In 1997, he was voted the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year. Academically, Tillman majored in marketing and graduated in three and a half years with a 3.85 GPA. He also earned many academic awards including: the Clyde B. Smith Academic Award in 1996 and 1997; the Sporting News Honda Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1997; and the 1998 Sun Angel Student Athlete of Year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

Pat Tillman

No. 40
Safety
Personal information
Date of birth: (1976-11-06)November 6, 1976
Place of birth: San Jose, California
Date of death: April 22, 2004(2004-04-22) (aged 27)
Place of death: Sperah, Afghanistan
Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Weight: 202 lb (92 kg)
Career information
High school: Leland High School
College: Arizona State University
NFL Draft: 1998 / Round: 7 / Pick: 226
Debuted in 1998 for the Arizona Cardinals
Last played in 2001 for the Arizona Cardinals
Career history
Arizona Cardinals (1998–2001)
Career highlights and awards
NFL All-Pro selection (2000) Arizona Cardinals #40 retired Arizona State Sun Devils #42 retired
Career NFL statistics as of 2001
Tackles 238 INT 3 Sacks 2.5 Forced Fumbles 1 Stats at NFL.com
College Football Hall of Fame

In the 1998 National Football League Draft, Tillman was selected as the 226th pick by the Arizona Cardinals. Tillman moved over to play the safety position in the NFL and started ten of sixteen games in his rookie season.
At one point in his NFL career, Tillman turned down a five-year, $9 million contract offer from the St. Louis Rams out of loyalty to the Cardinals.^[4]
Sports Illustrated football writer Paul Zimmerman (Dr. Z) named Tillman to his 2000 NFL All-Pro team after Tillman finished with 155 tackles (120 solo), 1.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries, 9 pass deflections and 1 interception for 30 yards.
Tillman finished his career with totals of 238 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 3 interceptions for 37 yards, 3 forced fumbles, 2 pass deflections, and 3 fumble recoveries in 60 career games. In addition he also had 1 rush attempt for 4 yards and returned 3 kickoffs for 33 yards.^[5]
In May 2002, eight months after the September 11 attacks and after completing the fifteen remaining games of the 2001 season which followed the attacks (at a salary of $512,000 per year),^[6] Tillman turned down a contract offer of $3.6 million over three years from the Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army.^[7]

Military career and death

Tillman and his brother Kevin enlisted on 31 May 2002. Kevin gave up the chance of a career in professional baseball as he had already signed to play for the Cleveland Indians. In September 2002, they completed basic training together.^[8][9] The two brothers completed the Ranger Indoctrination Program in late 2002 and were assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion in Fort Lewis, Washington. Tillman resided in University Place with his wife before being deployed to Iraq. After participating in the initial invasion of Operation Iraqi Freedom, in September 2003, he entered Ranger School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and graduated on November 28, 2003.^[10]
Tillman was subsequently redeployed to Afghanistan. On April 22, 2004, he was killed by friendly fire. An Afghan Militia Forces Allied soldier was also killed in the action. Tillman’s Platoon Leader First Lieutenant David Uthlaut and his RadioTelephone Operator, then 19-year old Jade Lane, were wounded in the incident. The specific details of his death and its aftermath were investigated by the US Congress.
The Army initially claimed that Tillman and his unit were attacked in an apparent ambush on a road outside of the village of Sperah about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Khost, near the Pakistan border. An Afghan militia soldier was killed, and two other Rangers were injured as well.
The Army Special Operations Command initially claimed that there was an exchange with hostile forces. After a lengthy investigation conducted by Brigadier General Gary M. Jones, the U.S. Department of Defense concluded that both the Afghan militia soldier's and Pat Tillman's deaths were due to friendly fire aggravated by the intensity of the firefight.
An investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command concluded that Tillman and the Afghan militia soldier were killed by friendly fire when one allied group fired upon another in confusion after nearby gunfire was mistakenly believed to be from enemy combatants. The CID Report summary, dated 19 March 2007, stated that: "during their movement through the canyon road, Serial 2 [Tillman's platoon had to split up because of a broken Humvee; the parts were called Serial 1 and 2] was ambushed and became engaged in a running gun battle with enemy combatants. Serial 1 [Tillman's portion of the platoon] had just passed through the same canyon without incident and were approximately one kilometer ahead of Serial 2. Upon hearing explosions, gunfire, and sporadic radio communication from Serial 2, Serial 1 dismounted their vehicles and moved on foot, to a more advantageous position to provide overwatch and fire support for Serial 2's movement out of the ambush." Upon exiting the gorge, and despite attempts by Serial 1 to signal a "friendly position," occupants of the lead vehicle of Serial 2 opened fire on Tillman's position, where he was fatally shot.^[11]

Awards and decorations

	Silver Star
	Purple Heart
	Meritorious Service Medal
	Army Achievement Medal
	National Defense Service Medal
	Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
	Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
	Army Service Ribbon
	Presidential Unit Citation
	Joint Meritorious Unit Award
	Army Superior Unit Award

Aftermath

Cover-up surrounding Tillman's death

Misleading tribute to CPL. Tillman at the National Infantry Museum. The plaque inaccurately says he was killed in an enemy ambush.

A report described in The Washington Post on May 4, 2005, prepared at the request of Tillman's family by Brigadier General Gary M. Jones revealed that in the days immediately following Tillman's death, Army investigators were aware that Tillman had been killed by friendly fire, shot three times in the head.^[12] Jones reported that senior Army commanders, including General John Abizaid, knew of this fact within days of the shooting but nevertheless approved the awarding of the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and a posthumous promotion to the rank of Specialist.^[13]
Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal approved the Silver Star citation on April 28, 2004, which gave a detailed account of Tillman's death including the phrase "in the line of devastating enemy fire," but the next day he sent a P4 confidential memo warning senior government members that Tillman might actually have been killed by friendly fire.^[14] Top commanders within the US Central Command, including former Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) General John Abizaid, was notified by the P4 memo,^[15] which described Tillman's "highly possible" fratricide, four days before Tillman's nationally televised memorial service during which he was lauded as a war hero for dying while engaging the enemy.^[16][17]
Jones reported that members of Tillman's unit burned his body armor and uniform in an apparent attempt to hide the fact that he was killed by friendly fire.^[18] His notebook, in which – according to author Jon Krakauer – Tillman had recorded some of his thoughts on Afghanistan, was also burned; "a blatant violation of protocol".^[19] Several soldiers were subsequently punished for their actions by being removed from the United States Army Rangers. Jones believed that Tillman should retain his medals and promotion, since, according to Jones, he intended to engage the enemy and behaved heroically.^[18]
Tillman's family was not informed of the finding that he was killed by friendly fire until weeks after his memorial service, although at least some senior Army officers knew of that fact prior to the service.^[18] According to Krakauer in his book Where Men Win Glory, the extensive cover-up that followed his death included the military's order to Tillman's comrades to lie to his family at the funeral.^[19] Tillman's parents have sharply criticized the Army's handling of the incident; Tillman's father charges that the Army "purposely interfered in the investigation" because of the effect it could have on their recruiting efforts, while Tillman's mother charges that "this lie was to cover their image."^[20]

After it happened, all the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this. They purposely interfered with the investigation; they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realized that their recruiting efforts were going to go to hell in a handbasket if the truth about his death got out. They blew up their poster boy.^[20]

He also blamed high-ranking Army officers for presenting "outright lies" to the family and to the public.^[21]
On March 4, 2006, the US Defense Department Inspector General directed the Army to open a criminal investigation of Tillman's death. The Army's Criminal Investigative Division will determine if Tillman's death was the result of negligent homicide.^[22]
On March 26, 2007, the Pentagon released their report on the events surrounding Tillman's death and coverup. The report reads in part:

...we emphasize that all investigators established the basic facts of CPL Tillman's death – that it was caused by friendly fire, that the occupants of one vehicle in CPL Tillman's platoon were responsible, and that circumstances on the ground caused those occupants to misidentify friendly forces as hostile. None of the investigations suggested that CPL Tillman's death was anything other than accidental. Our review, as well as the investigation recently completed by Army CID, obtained no evidence contrary to those key findings.^[23]

On April 24, 2007, Iraq veteran Jessica Lynch, who had been captured by the Iraqis after a fire fight, gave testimony before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the Pentagon had erroneously portrayed her as a "Rambo from the hills of West Virginia," when in fact, she never fired a shot after her truck was ambushed.^[24] Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman testified at the same hearing that: "The deception surrounding this [Tillman] case was an insult to the family: but more importantly, its primary purpose was to deceive a whole nation. We say these things with disappointment and sadness for our country. Once again, we have been used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise."^[25]
After Kevin's testimony Pete Geren, acting secretary of the Army stated to reporters, "We as an Army failed in our duty to the Tillman family, the duty we owe to all the families of our fallen soldiers: Give them the truth, the best we know it, as fast as we can."^[25]
Tillman's diary was never returned to his family, and its whereabouts are not publicly known.^[26]
One investigation of the autopsy report and photographs by two forensic pathologists in November 2006, concluded that Tillman was most likely killed as a result of fire from a M249 light machine gun. The M249 uses the same ammunition as the M16 rifle and M4 carbine but is capable of greater accuracy during higher rates of fire. This would allow a competent user to place three bullets within a several-inch target from forty or fifty yards away more easily, even from a moving vehicle.^[3]
On July 26, 2007, Chris Matthews reported on Hardball that Tillman's death may have been a case of deliberate murder by Tillman's fellow soldiers – specifically that the bullet holes were tight and neat, suggesting a shot at close range. Matthews based his speculation on a report from the doctors who examined Tillman's body. The following day the Associated Press reported that a doctor who examined Tillman's body after his death wrote, "The medical evidence did not match up with the scenario as described,"^[27] also noting that the wound entrances appeared as though he had been shot with an M16 rifle from fewer than 10 yards (9 m) away. A possible motive was not identified. When officers and soldiers were asked during a criminal investigation, they said they were certain the shooting was accidental. According to one of his fellow soldiers, Tillman "was popular among his fellow soldiers and had no enemies."^[27][28]
In addition, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Associated Press, the Defense Department released 2,300 pages of documents which were reported to indicate:^[27]

• There has never been evidence of enemy fire found on the scene, and no members of Tillman's group had been hit by enemy fire.
• The three-star general, who withheld details of Tillman's death from his parents for a number of months, told investigators approximately 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn't recall details of his actions.
• Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
• Army doctors told the investigators that Tillman's wounds suggested murder because "the medical evidence did not match-up with the scenario as described."^[29]
• There were special forces snipers in the group immediately behind Tillman's platoon.^[29]

Despite his fame, Tillman did not want to be used for propaganda purposes. He spoke to friends about his opposition to President Bush and the Iraq war, and he had made an appointment with notable government critic Noam Chomsky after his return from the military. The destruction of evidence linked to Tillman's death, including his personal journal, led his mother to speculate that he was murdered.^[30] General Wesley Clark agreed that it was "very possible".^[31][32]

Congressional inquiries

On April 24, 2007, Specialist Bryan O'Neal, the last soldier to see Pat Tillman alive, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he was warned by superiors not to divulge information that a fellow soldier killed Tillman, especially to the Tillman family. Later, Pat Tillman's brother Kevin Tillman, who was also in the convoy traveling behind his brother at the time of the 2004 incident in Afghanistan but did not witness it, testified that the military tried to spin his brother's death to deflect attention from emerging failings in the Afghan war.^[33]
On August 13, 2007, Sports Illustrated reported that twenty U.S. military veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan asked the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, to help secure the release of all documents relating to the death of Pat Tillman.^[34]
On July 14, 2008, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a proposed report titled "Misleading Information from the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes".^[35][36] The committee stated that its "investigation was frustrated by a near universal lack of recall" among "senior officials at the White House" and the military. It concluded:

The pervasive lack of recollection and absence of specific information makes it impossible for the Committee to assign responsibility for the misinformation in Specialist Tillman’s and Private Lynch’s cases. It is clear, however, that the Defense Department did not meet its most basic obligations in sharing accurate information with the families and with the American public.

Memorials and tributes

Tillman's portrait – Faces of the Fallen gallery – Arlington National Cemetery.

After his death, the Pat Tillman Foundation was established to carry forward its view of Tillman's legacy by inspiring and supporting those striving for positive change in themselves and the world.
A highway bypass around the Hoover Dam has a bridge bearing Tillman's name. Completed in October 2010, the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge spans the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona.
Lincoln Law School of San Jose has established the Pat Tillman Scholarship in honor of Tillman. Tillman's father, Patrick Kevin Tillman, earned his Juris Doctor from Lincoln in 1983.
On Sunday, September 19, 2004, all teams of the NFL wore a memorial decal on their helmets in honor of Pat Tillman. The Arizona Cardinals continued to wear this decal throughout the 2004 season. Former Cardinals quarterback Jake Plummer requested to also wear the decal for the entire season but the NFL turned him down saying his helmet would not be uniform with the rest of the Denver Broncos. Plummer later grew a full beard and his hair long in honor of Tillman, who had such a style in the NFL before cutting his hair and shaving his beard off to fit military uniform guidelines. Plummer, now retired from the NFL, has since gone back to cutting his hair short but maintains the beard.

Pat Tillman Memorial, Glendale, Arizona

A memorial to Pat Tillman was created at Sun Devil Stadium, where he played football for the Sun Devils and the Cardinals.

The Cardinals retired his number 40, and Arizona State did the same for the number 42 he wore with the Sun Devils. The Cardinals have named the plaza surrounding their University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale Pat Tillman Freedom Plaza. Later, on November 12, 2006, during a Cardinals game versus the Cowboys, a bronze statue was revealed in his honor. ASU also named the entryway to Sun Devil Stadium the "Pat Tillman Memorial Tunnel" and made a "PT-42" patch that they place on the neck of their uniforms a permanent feature.
Pat Tillman's high school, Leland High School in San Jose, renamed its football field after him.
In 2004, the NFL donated $250,000 to the United Service Organizations to build a USO center in memory of Tillman. The Pat Tillman USO Center, the first USO center in Afghanistan, opened on Bagram Air Base on April 1, 2005.^[37]
Forward Operating Base Tillman is close to the Pakistan border, near the village of Lwara in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.^{[38][dead link]}
On Saturday, April 15, 2006, more than 10,000 participants turned out for 1st Annual Pat's Run (the annual, central fundraising event for the Pat Tillman Foundation) in Tempe, Arizona. The racers traveled along the 4.2-mile (6.8 km) course around Tempe Town Lake to the finish line, on the 42-yard line of Sun Devil Stadium in order to commemorate the number which he wore as a Sun Devil and which was later retired in his honor. A second "shadow" race took place in San Jose, CA, around the country at the same time as Pat's Run. Sponsored by the Pat Tillman Foundation, a total of 14,000 runners took part. In 2005, about 6,000 took part in a single race in Tempe. Since then, Pat's Run has continued to grow every year, with more than 28,000 attendees in April 2010. Various "shadow races", in locations such as Austin, TX, take place around the country at the same time as Pat's Run.
Just south of San Jose, CA, in the small community of New Almaden where Pat Tillman grew up, a memorial was constructed near the Almaden Quicksilver County Park. This memorial was dedicated in September 2007 during the annual New Almaden Day celebration.^[39][40]
The skateboarding bulldog featured on YouTube and in an Apple iPhone commercial was named after Tillman.^[41]
Two books about Tillman were published in 2009. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, chronicles Tillman's story in Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, published by Doubleday on September 15. Meanwhile, Tillman's mother, Mary Tillman, also wrote a book about her son, Boots on the Ground by Dusk, which was released in April 2008.
Following Tillman's death, the Ohio State Linebackers Corp consisting of A.J. Hawk, Bobby Carpenter and Anthony Schlegel, as well as center Nick Mangold grew their hair in tribute to Tillman, imitating Tillman's trademark locks.^[42]
In September 2008, Rory Fanning, a fellow Army Ranger who was stationed with Tillman in Fort Lewis, Washington, began his "Walk for Pat" — a walk across the United States in an effort to raise money and awareness for the Pat Tillman Foundation. The stated fundraising goal is $3.6 million — the value of the contract Tillman turned down when he decided to enlist in the military.
The Pacific-10 Conference renamed its annual defensive player of the year award in football to the Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year.^[43]

Controversial criticisms

After reports of Tillman's anti-war views became public, Ted Rall who had previously written a comic calling Tillman a "fool" and "idiot," said that he was wrong to have assumed Tillman to be a "right wing poster child" when Tillman regarded the invasion of Iraq as illegal.^[44][45]
Then-Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, Regimental Executive Officer at Forward Operating Base Salerno on Khost, Afghanistan, under which Tillman was serving at the time of his death, and who led the second investigation into Tillman's death, made statements about the Tillman family’s search for the truth based on Tillman's atheism. In comments to ESPN, Kauzlarich said: "These people have a hard time letting it go. It may be because of their religious beliefs" and "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly a better life, right? Well, if you are an atheist and you don’t believe in anything, if you die, what is there to go to? Nothing. You are worm dirt. So for their son to die for nothing and now he is no more... I do not know how an atheist thinks, I can only imagine that would be pretty tough."^[46]
Kauzlarich conducted the second investigation into Tillman's death which lasted a week, from May 8 to May 15, 2004.^[47] Brigadier General Rodney Johnson, the Commanding General of the United States Army Criminal Investigations Command, testified before Congress that he found these statements "totally unacceptable." Acting Department of Defense Inspector General Thomas Gimble also testified that he was "shocked" that Lieutenant Colonel Kauzlarich would make these statements.^[48] According to AP analysis, there are three lower level officers expected to be punished, and Kauzlarich may be one of the three. Tillman's mother continues to reject the Pentagon's characterization of the officers' offenses as "errors" in reporting Tillman's death, because several officers have said they made conscious decisions not to tell the Tillman family that friendly fire was suspected.^[49]

Media analyses

A review by New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins of Jon Krakauer's book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman noted that the book did well to compile the facts and "nauseating" details regarding the cover-up of Tillman's death. "After Tillman’s death, Army commanders violated many of their own rules, not to mention elementary standards of decency, to turn the killing into a propaganda coup for the American side," Filkins wrote.^[50]
A documentary film The Tillman Story was shown at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2010, and was released in August 2010.^[51]
On October 19, 2006, Tillman's brother Kevin broke his silence about his brother's death, lashing out at the Iraq War in a 660-word essay published on Truthdig, a progressive online journal of news and opinion.^[52] The essay was widely distributed and was cited in The New York Times and Associated Press.^[53]

Religious and political beliefs

Krakauer described Tillman as "agnostic, perhaps an atheist",^[54] while later news reports state he was an atheist.^{[55][56][57][58]} According to speakers at his funeral, he was very well-read, having read a number of religious texts including the Bible, Qur’an and Book of Mormon as well as transcendentalist authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. However, responding to religious overtones at the funeral by Maria Shriver and John McCain, his youngest brother, Richard, asserted that "He's not with God, he's fucking dead. He's not religious." Richard added, "Thanks for your thoughts, but he's fucking dead."^[59] Another article quotes Tillman as having told then-general manager of the Seattle Seahawks Bob Ferguson in December 2003, "You know I'm not religious."^[60]
The September 25, 2005, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported that Tillman held views which were critical of the Iraq war. According to Tillman's mother, a friend of Tillman had arranged a meeting with author Noam Chomsky, a prominent critic of American foreign and military policy, to take place after his return from Afghanistan. Chomsky has confirmed this.^[61]

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[edit] Books

• Krakauer, Jon (2009). Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. Doubleday (September 15, 2009). ISBN 978-0-385-52226-7.
• Tillman, Mary; Narda Zacchino (2008). Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman. Modern Times. ISBN 1-59486-880-8.
• Tillman, Mary; Narda Zacchino (2010). Boots On The Ground By Dusk: Searching for Answers in the Death of Pat Tillman. Blurb, Inc..

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• A Cover-Up At The Highest Levels
• "New Documents Shed Light on Pat Tillman's Death"
• "Kiss the Sun (A Song for Pat Tillman)", a song written by Ellis Paul.
• Gwen Knapp (May 4, 2004). "True hero athlete — Day's theme: Challenge yourself". San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate.com). http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/05/04/SPG5K6FD091.DTL. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
• Mike Mount (May 4, 2005). "Report: Evidence destroyed after Tillman's death". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/04/tillman.death/index.html. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
• Mike Fish (Spring 2006). "Pat Tillman Timeline". http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tillmantimeline. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
• Mike Fish. "An Un-American Tragedy". ESPN. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=tillmanpart1. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
• Joe Strupp. "ESPN.com Tillman Coverage Wins Top Military Reporters Prize". Editor and Publisher. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003627404. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
• Gary Smith (September 5, 2006). "Remember His Name". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/05/tillman0911/. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
• Scott Lindlaw and Martha Mendoza (Associated Press) (November 9, 2006). "Startling findings in Tillman probe". Yahoo News. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_re_us/inquest_for_a_warrior. Retrieved 2006-11-09. ^{[dead link]}
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• Justin Raimondo (July 30, 2007). "Who Killed Pat Tillman? And why?". AntiWar.com. http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11367. Retrieved 2007-07-30.
• "Information regarding the death of Pat Tillman". Office of the US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). July 31, 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4018. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
• "Text of letter censuring general in Tillman case". Pete Geren, Under Secretary of the US Army. July 31, 2007. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/31/tillman.friendly.fire.letter.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText. Retrieved 2007-08-02. ^{[dead link]}
• Jon Krakauer (October 14, 2009). "Gen. McChrystal's Credibility Problem". http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-14/gen-mcchrystals-credibility-problem/?cid=hp:mainpromo3.
• Robert Collier (San Francisco Chronicle) (August 1, 2007). "New questions raised over timing of Army's disclosure of killing by friendly fire". SFGate.com. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/11/MNGAVP6GKF1.DTL. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
• "Key events in the weeks following Pat Tillman's friendly fire death". Associated Press. Mercury News. August 1, 2007. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6523534?source=rss. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
• "The Tillman Fratricide: Investigation Chronology". US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. August 2, 2007. Archived from the original on July 25, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070725184448/http://oversight.house.gov/investigations.asp?ID=256. Retrieved 2007-08-10.
• "Mild reprimands in Tillman case won’t be in officers’ records". Associated Press. Kansas City Star. August 10, 2007. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071015232400/http://kansascity.com/news/nation/story/227548.html. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
• Monica Rhor (Associated Press) (2007-09-12). "2 Soldiers Who Wrote Op-Ed Died in Iraq". Federal News Radio. http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=80&sid=1246450. Deaths of Sgt. Omar Mora and Sgt. Yance T. Gray
• Inside Pat Tillman's Life, and the Bush Administration's Cover-Up of His Death
• Tillman Story movie web site
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Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal. Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. Section. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place. No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office. Section. 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Section. 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. Article. II. Section. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States. No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Section. 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Section. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. Section. 4. The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Article III. Section. 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. Section. 2. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;-- between a State and Citizens of another State,--between Citizens of different States,--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. Section. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted. Article. IV. Section. 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. Section. 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. Section. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress. The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence. Article. V. The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate. Article. VI. All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. Article. VII. The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. The Word, "the," being interlined between the seventh and eighth Lines of the first Page, the Word "Thirty" being partly written on an Erazure in the fifteenth Line of the first Page, The Words "is tried" being interlined between the thirty second and thirty third Lines of the first Page and the Word "the" being interlined between the forty third and forty fourth Lines of the second Page. Attest William Jackson Secretary done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independance of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names, G°. Washington !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Impeach Obama/Osama  !!!!!!!!!!!!!! He was the "Actor" of the Fictional "Osama bin Laden" Osama bin Laden, A.K.A. CIA Asset "Tim Osman" (AKA Barack Hussain Obama) Propagada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1998 (Obama is Osama!) Propaganda (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Insider - CIA created al-Qaeda and gave $3 BILLION to Osama ... How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it? Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today? Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists? Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today. Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries. * There are at least two editions of this magazine; with the perhaps sole exception of the Library of Congress, the version sent to the United States is shorter than the French version, and the Brzezinski interview was not included in the shorter version. The above has been translated from the French by Bill Blum author of the indispensible, “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower” Portions of the books can be read at: <http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm> CIA – Osama bin Laden controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Obama with a beard and head scarf !!! (and "Actor"=Fictional!) (Lori is a Friend of lynn and i from Tampa/St Petersburg) Writings of CLG Editor-in-Chief, Lori Price "They don't 'hate us for our freedoms.' They hate us for our war crimes." --LRP "Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts." William S. Burroughs "Every time I turn on 'Law & Order,' I get nervous." --Anonymous Guess Who's Building Nuclear Power Plants in Iran? Hey, US, those nuclear power plants in Iran? You built that. Posted by Lori Price 26 Sep 2012 Facebook issues 'mental health' warning to CLG editor over posts --'You're receiving this message because a friend is concerned about something you posted on Facebook.' By Lori Price 11 Sep 2012 Democrats 'talking up' Simpson-Bowles aka the Cat Food Commission By Lori Price 04 Sep 2012 USociopaths caught photoshopping events in Syria Posted by Lori Price 30 Jul 2012 (Photo) Translation of headline: "Assads (sic) Tanks roll through the streets to the 'Mother of all Battles.'" Aurora, Colorado Shooting 'Oddities' By Lori Price 20 Jul 2012 DHS Analyst's Desktop Binder --Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability Desktop Reference Binder - 2011 Posted by www.legitgov.org 31 May 2012 List of Keywords and Phrases DHS Uses to Monitor Social Networking Sites and Online Media for Signs of Terrorism and Threats Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org (I'm sure, also a keyword.) 27 May 2012 'Snow' 'Blizzard' 'H1N1' 'Vaccine.' Whoops! I'm now under surveillance. Drone Hunting Permit Posted by www.legitgov.org 22 May 2012 Washington Post Reports 2010 Pentagon-CIA Drone Target Criteria as 'New' By Lori Price 06 May 2012 CLG:FBI Seizes a Server Used by CLG's Webhoster in Bomb Threat Investigation --MayFirst: FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility --Server seizure 'plainly extra-judicial punishment and an attack on free speech and anonymity on the Internet' Posted by Lori Price 20 Apr 2012 CLG:FBI Agents Approach CLG's Webhoster in Bomb Threat Investigation --'Even if we could cooperate, we wouldn't.' Posted by Lori Price 12 Apr 2012 Navy simulated Virginia Beach jet crash in December drill By Lori Price (Lori is a Friend of lynn and i from Tampa/St Pete 09 Apr 2012 AntiSec again knocking snitches' doors cause treason is something we don't forgive Posted by www.legitgov.org 08 Mar 2012 Panda Pwned (Lulz Security lives!) By voice 06 Mar 2012 Alan Colmes Blasts Pro-Israel Media Pushing for Iran War By Lori Price 05 Mar 2012 Facebook Disables CLG Editor's Account Name, Claiming It Is 'Illegitimate' --'The name you entered was not approved by our system.' 17 Feb 2012 Anonymous: 'Israeli government, expect us.' --'You are unworthy to exist in your current form, and will therefore face the wrath of Anonymous... Step one will be initiated after the release of this video and will be comprised of systematically removing you from the Internet.' Video and text of message from Anonymous to the state of Israel --Posted by www.legitgov.org 11 Feb 2012 Komen for [Preventing] the Cure reverses course on Planned Parenthood funding cut By Lori Price 04 Feb 2012 Obama's Office, CIA repeatedly accessed CLG H5N1 'secret lab' article Posted by Lori Price 17 Jan 2012 Kobe University lab creates 'novel' H5N1 in 'secret' lab --Emails from Kobe virologist and H5N1-H1N1 virus creator, Teridah Ernala Ginting --Story in e-mails: Kobe University PhD student Teridah Ernala confesses to creating H1N1-H5N1 "novel" viruses; Kawaoka's virus thief Akiko Makino lies to Indonesian authorities to avoid arrest for attempted smuggling of H5N1 out of Indonesia, gives authorities another university as research facility she works for By Robert S. Finnegan 05 Jan 2012 'Fast and Furious' Hypocrisy: Where Was Fox News When the Pentagon 'Lost' 200,000 Weapons in Iraq? --Faux News and Darrell Issa - not so fast, not so furious when it came to investigating the Bush regime for hundreds of thousands of weapons that went missing in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and likely landed in the hands of insurgents! By Lori Price 10 Oct 2011 MSNBC Covers Yemen Protest, but Not Wall Street Occupation By Lori Price 20 Sep 2011 US Gives People All Over the World Their Own '9/11s' Daily, Via Killer Drone Strikes By Lori Price 11 Sep 2011 Obusha is about to speak. Should I watch 'Criminal Minds' or 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent?' By Lori Price 08 Sep 2011 Tree Meets Pool By Lori Price 29 Aug 2011 Columbia University Blocking CLG Newsletters with Links to Press TV By Lori Price 23 Aug 2011 TSA.DHS Visits CLG Website --Is the CLG Website on the 'No-Fly' List? Posted by Lori Price 10 Aug 2011 Stop the Super Dictatorship By Lori Price 07 Aug 2011 GOP Debt Ceiling Plan to Be 'Last One Standing' - to Obama's Delight By Lori Price 26 Jul 2011 Secret Service visits CLG member, asks about Seize DC --In two-hour session, Secret Service agents ask, 'What do you know about SeizeDC?' By Lori Price 03 Jul 2011 News of Bin Laden's Death and Funeral - December 2001 Posted by Lori Price 02 May 2011 CLG Under Surveillance -- CLG Sunshine Project - Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) will post .gov and .mil IPs visiting the Seize DC webpage, and others! Seize DC --Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) calls for protest – SEIZE DC! SEIZE DC will begin on September 10, 2011, at noon, until finished. MSNBC: Wall-to-wall coverage of Charlie Sheen's meltdown, silent on nuclear meltdown--GE: 'We Bring Good Censorship To Life.' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 12 Mar 2011 FBI Thriller, Published in 1999, References 9/11 --A 1999 best-selling thriller makes explicit references to 9/11 By Lori Price and Michael Rectenwald 10 Mar 2011 Done with MSNBC, its vaccine pimping and Lindsay Lohan --Open letter to Steve Capus, President of NBC News, from Lori Price, Editor-in-Chief of Citizens for Legitimate Government 23 Feb 2011 GOP State Sen. Wants Return to Era of 'the Condition of England Question' By Lori Price 17 Feb 2011 9/11: 'Awkward gaps and contradictions in official explanations' - You betcha! By Lori Price 26 Jan 2011 U.S. Rep Wants Assange Declared 'Banned Person,' Recalling South Africa's Internal Security Act--Banning Orders Should be Banned By Lori Price 15 Jan 2011 SarahPac Called for Ariz. Congresswoman to be 'Targeted' By Lori Price 09 Jan 2011 GOP Push to Shutter TSA Will Bring Blackwater Groping Goons By Lori Price 21 Nov 2010 U.S. 'Notice to Mariners' Report May Explain Mystery Missile Launch Posted by Lori Price 11 Nov 2010 How Did UT Shooter Tooley Get Mohammed Atta's Eyes, Eyebrows? Another CIA Photoshop PSYOP? By Lori Price 29 Sep 2010 H1N1 Flu Expo Group Hosts Unmanned Aircraft Defense Summit By Lori Price 22 Jul 2010 CLG:Media Reports Death of Al-Qaeda No. 3 Killed in 2008 By Lori Price 01 Jun 2010 "Hope-and-Change," A Hoax By Michael Rectenwald and Lori Price 27 May 2010 Arrest Terror Suspect Tony Hayward - No Miranda Rights By Lori Price 26 May 2010 Obama Linguistically Morphing Into Bush 'War is tough!' It's tough, I tell you! By Lori Price 13 May 2010 The 'greening ' of al-Qaeda: More recycled al-Qaeda emerge --US Attorney General Eric Holder celebrates Earth Day with more al-Qaeda recycling: Al-Qaeda Member 'Rises From Grave' to Plan NY Subway Attack By Lori Price 26 Apr 2010 Recycled al-Qaeda: Ayyub al-Masri 'killed' on Sunday, captured in 2008 By Lori Price 19 April 2010 Obama Is Out-Bushing Bush and the Quote, Unquote Left Will Not Act By Lori Price 30 March 2010 Obama Moves to Unravel Twenty Years of 'Law & Order' Episodes, Seeks Optional Miranda By Lori Price 13 Feb 2010 "Lori Price makes whole departments in the federal government shiver with fear of exposure." --Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. 29 Dec 2009 CLG:Pope Ratzinger and the Bushes: Two Peas In a Pedophile Protection PodBy Lori Price 05 Apr 2010 Pentagon Shooting 'Oddities' By Lori Price 05 Mar 2010 1997 DoD Briefing: 'Others' can set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely using electromagnetic waves By Lori Price 28 Feb 2010 RiverGlass: CLG's Biggest Fan By Lori Price 22 Feb 2010 Austin, Texas Plane Crash 'Oddities' By Lori Price 22 Feb 2010 Obama Moves to Unravel Twenty Years of 'Law & Order' Episodes, Seeks Optional Miranda By Lori Price 13 Feb 2010 CLG:Aetna Announces CT Layoffs on Free Health Care Clinic Day In Hartford By Lori Price 04 Feb 2010 Use the 200 Million Dollars to Try Bush-Cheney-Blair For War Crimes Instead of KSM By Lori Price 01 Feb 2010 CLG:US to Pay Taliban Fighters to 'Lay Down Their Arms' --I've covered a lot of BULLSH*T since Coup 2000, but this takes the cake bakery. By Lori Price US as 'Facehugger' By Lori Price I've come to the conclusion that the US government most resembles the 'facehugger,' a stage in the life cycle of an alien, the 'primary antagonist' of the film series 'Alien.' 19 Jan 2010 CLG:Obama asks 'Heckuva job, Brownie' George W. Bush to help with Haiti relief efforts By Lori Price 15 Jan 2010 CLG Exclusive: Source: Ford Paying Tea Partiers to Protest Detroit Auto Show By Lori Price 07 Jan 2010 CLG:Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities' By Lori Price 27 Dec 2009 Blackwater/Xe in Pakistan By Lori Price 31 Oct 2009 Fort Hood Shooting 'Oddities' --'Three people are involved. That, by definition, means it is a conspiracy.' By Lori Price 05 Nov 2009 (Updated) CLG:ABC Series 'V': Invading, Fascist Lizards Arrive With 'Universal Health Care' and 'Message of Hope' --ABC Network Portrays Aliens, Hell-bent on Destroying Planet Earth, as the Obama Administration By Lori Price 04 Nov 2009 CLG:Silence On the Senator -- The Lieberman Lie Pie is growing, and Connecticut's largest newspaper is ignoring it. By Lori Price 28 Oct 2009 The Obusha AfPak Money Pit: Unlike the 'public option,' Congress doesn't ask if funding the Taleban to blow up contractors' bridges will add to the US deficit By Lori Price 03 Oct 2009 (Updates) U.S. Flu Vaccine Updates Refuse and Resist Mandatory Flu Vaccines (Petition) CLG: Are You One of Obama's 'Lone Wolf' Suspects? By Lori Price, Citizens For Legitimate Government 18 Sep 2009 CLG Action Alert! 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The National Defense Authorization Act is the Greatest Threat to Civil Liberties Americans Face

tasher8 This act astounds me. It’s like steps following up to one of George Orwells book 1984. The thing that gets me is barely any Americans KNOW about this. I fe [...] southernwoman343 It is scary to me as well. We have let our freedom be eroded in the name of protection from terror. Most Americans are asleep to what is happening in our c [...] diannna3 I feel the exact same way as you. And I believe that Americans aren’t acting upon this Act, because, like you said, the government is trying to keep this o [...]

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If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists.
So much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government. What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire project in the name of security as we wage, endlessly, this futile, costly, and ultimately self-defeating War on Terror.
Over at Wired, Spencer Ackerman gives us the long and short of things:

There are still changes swirling around the Senate, but this looks like the basic shape of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Someone the government says is “a member of, or part of, al-Qaida or an associated force” can be held in military custody “without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.” Those hostilities are currently scheduled toend the Wednesday after never. The move would shut down criminal trials for terror suspects.

But far more dramatically, the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”

An amendment that would limit military detentions to people captured overseas failed on Thursday afternoon. The Senate soundly defeated a measure to strip out all the detention provisions on Tuesday.

So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.

I seriously don’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or a Zen anarchist. So long as you aren’t Carl Levin or John McCain, the bill’s architects, you can join the Civil Liberties Caucus. Spencer writes:

Weirder still, the bill’s chief architect, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), tried to persuade skeptics that the bill wasn’t so bad. His pitch? “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill would just letthe government detain a citizen in military custody, not force it to do that. Reassured yet?
Civil libertarians aren’t. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said it “denigrates the very foundations of this country.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) added, “it puts every single American citizen at risk.”

This is what I mean: Give me Rand Paul and Al Franken any day of the week over the Levins and McCains of the Senate. We need more elected officials with the sensibility of Ron Wyden or Al Franken* on the left, or Rand Paul on the right. Right and left are such shoddy, ad hoc descriptors these days anyways.
What’s truly at stake when we start talking about Big Government and such is far more dangerous and preposterous than high marginal tax rates.
We’re talking about the stripping away of our most basic freedoms. We’re talking about a potential state that can call me a terrorist for writing this blog post and then lock me up and throw away the key.

What’s the line from Batman? The night is always darkest just before the dawn. I like to think that’s true, because times seem awfully dark these days.
* Update: Actually, Franken voted for the NDAA so never mind. He’s also sponsoring the PROTECT IP Act which would clamp down on free speech online.
Second Update (Dec. 17th): The National Defense Authorization Act passed. Senator Al Franken withdrew his support from the bill, stating:
“I voted against this bill because it contains provisions on detention that I find unacceptable. While I voted for an earlier version of the legislation, I did so with the hope that the final version would be significantly improved. And that didn’t happen.

“The bill that came before the Senate today still includes several troubling provisions, the worst of which could allow the military to detain Americans indefinitely, without charge or trial, even if they’re captured in the U.S. What’s more, provisions like these could ultimately undermine the safety of our troops stationed abroad. And just yesterday, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in a Senate hearing that I attended about his deep concerns with the detention provisions and their potentially harmful effects on our counterterrorism efforts.

“Today is the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and this wasn’t the way to mark its birthday.”
I will have a follow-up post to address this and other arguments surrounding the controversial legislation up soon. Please don’t hesitate to send me thoughts, tips, and feedback.
You can follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.

Erik KainContributorSo much for innocent until proven guilty. So much for limited government. What Americans are now facing is quite literally the end of the line. We will either uphold the freedoms baked into our Constitutional Republic, or we will scrap the entire project in the name of security as we wage, endlessly, this futile, costly, and ultimately self-defeating War on Terror.
Over at Wired, Spencer Ackerman gives us the long and short of things:

There are still changes swirling around the Senate, but this looks like the basic shape of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. Someone the government says is “a member of, or part of, al-Qaida or an associated force” can be held in military custody “without trial until the end of the hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.” Those hostilities are currently scheduled toend the Wednesday after never. The move would shut down criminal trials for terror suspects.

But far more dramatically, the detention mandate to use indefinite military detention in terrorism cases isn’t limited to foreigners. It’s confusing, because two different sections of the bill seem to contradict each other, but in the judgment of the University of Texas’ Robert Chesney — a nonpartisan authority on military detention — “U.S. citizens are included in the grant of detention authority.”

An amendment that would limit military detentions to people captured overseas failed on Thursday afternoon. The Senate soundly defeated a measure to strip out all the detention provisions on Tuesday.

So despite the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a right to trial, the Senate bill would let the government lock up any citizen it swears is a terrorist, without the burden of proving its case to an independent judge, and for the lifespan of an amorphous war that conceivably will never end. And because the Senate is using the bill that authorizes funding for the military as its vehicle for this dramatic constitutional claim, it’s pretty likely to pass.

I seriously don’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative or a libertarian or a Zen anarchist. So long as you aren’t Carl Levin or John McCain, the bill’s architects, you can join the Civil Liberties Caucus. Spencer writes:

Weirder still, the bill’s chief architect, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), tried to persuade skeptics that the bill wasn’t so bad. His pitch? “The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill would just letthe government detain a citizen in military custody, not force it to do that. Reassured yet?
Civil libertarians aren’t. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said it “denigrates the very foundations of this country.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) added, “it puts every single American citizen at risk.”

This is what I mean: Give me Rand Paul and Al Franken any day of the week over the Levins and McCains of the Senate. We need more elected officials with the sensibility of Ron Wyden or Al Franken* on the left, or Rand Paul on the right. Right and left are such shoddy, ad hoc descriptors these days anyways.
What’s truly at stake when we start talking about Big Government and such is far more dangerous and preposterous than high marginal tax rates.
We’re talking about the stripping away of our most basic freedoms. We’re talking about a potential state that can call me a terrorist for writing this blog post and then lock me up and throw away the key.

What’s the line from Batman? The night is always darkest just before the dawn. I like to think that’s true, because times seem awfully dark these days.
* Update: Actually, Franken voted for the NDAA so never mind. He’s also sponsoring the PROTECT IP Act which would clamp down on free speech online.
Second Update (Dec. 17th): The National Defense Authorization Act passed. Senator Al Franken withdrew his support from the bill, stating:
“I voted against this bill because it contains provisions on detention that I find unacceptable. While I voted for an earlier version of the legislation, I did so with the hope that the final version would be significantly improved. And that didn’t happen.

“The bill that came before the Senate today still includes several troubling provisions, the worst of which could allow the military to detain Americans indefinitely, without charge or trial, even if they’re captured in the U.S. What’s more, provisions like these could ultimately undermine the safety of our troops stationed abroad. And just yesterday, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in a Senate hearing that I attended about his deep concerns with the detention provisions and their potentially harmful effects on our counterterrorism efforts.

“Today is the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and this wasn’t the way to mark its birthday.”
I will have a follow-up post to address this and other arguments surrounding the controversial legislation up soon. Please don’t hesitate to send me thoughts, tips, and feedback.
You can follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Read my Forbes blog here.

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