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“It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried”
-- Robert Townsend
News and Opinion
Is Obama Stalling Until Republicans Can Bury the CIA Torture Report?
Continued White House foot-dragging on the declassification of a much-anticipated Senate torture report is raising concerns that the administration is holding out until Republicans take over the chamber and kill the report themselves.
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s intelligence committee sent a 480-page executive summary of its extensive report on the CIA’s abuse of detainees to the White House for declassification more than six months ago.
In August, the White House, working closely with the CIA, sent back redactions that Feinstein and other Senate Democrats said rendered the summary unintelligible and unsupported.
Since then, the wrangling has continued behind closed doors, with projected release dates repeatedly falling by the wayside. The Huffington Post reported this week that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, a close ally of CIA Director John Brennan, is personally leading the negotiations, suggesting keen interest in their progress — or lack thereof — on the part of Brennan and President Obama.
Human-rights lawyer Scott Horton, who interviewed a wide range of intelligence and administration officials for his upcoming book, “Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Foreign Policy,” told The Intercept that the White House and the CIA are hoping a Republican Senate will, in their words, “put an end to this nonsense.”
Stalling for time until after the midterm elections and the start of a Republican-majority session is the “battle plan,” Horton said. “I can tell you that Brennan has told people in the CIA that that’s his prescription for doing it.”
European Privacy in the Age of Snowden: We Need a Debate About What Intelligence Agencies Are Doing
Canada considers 'preventative detention' in wake of Ottawa attack
The Canadian government indicated on Thursday that it intends to speed up proposals to toughen the country’s anti-terror laws in the wake of the attack on parliament in Ottawa, including a measure that would allow “preventative detention”. ...
The governing Conservatives have made no secret of their plan to install new anti-terror powers, giving the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) more powers to track, investigative and detain would-be homegrown terrorists. Harper promised the proposals would be brought forward. ...
Details of those new powers have yet to be released, but justice minister Peter MacKay indicated to reporters that they will include measures to allow the preventive detention of suspected would-be terrorists. ...
When asked about the schedule for the new legislation, government House leader Peter Van Loan refused to say exactly when a bill would come forward, acknowledging only that Wednesday’s events had changed the context. A security bill, was originally due to be tabled on Wednesday morning.
The Harper government contends that Canada’s security agencies, tasked with thwarting attacks, are demanding greater powers, arguing that the current arrangements for judicial oversight hampers their ability to deal with imminent threats.
Canada: Harper using “terror attack” to impose anti-democratic measures
Canada’s Conservative government and corporate media are seizing upon a purported terrorist attack to advance the ruling elite’s agenda of war, reaction, and attacks on democratic rights. ...
[T]he government and big business media intend to exploit the tragedy to whip up support for Canada’s participation in the new US-led war in the Middle East and to delegitimize opposition to further anti-democratic amendments to the country’s anti-terrorism laws
Just a few hours after the CAF soldiers were run over and before the press had drawn any connection to Islamacism or terrorism, Harper in an obviously scripted exchange responded to a Conservative backbencher’s question about “unconfirmed reports” of a “possible terror attack,” by declaring, “We are aware of these reports. They’re obviously extremely troubling … We’re closely monitoring the situation and obviously we will make available all of the resources of the federal government.”
Thereafter, the Prime Minister’s Office played a major and rare, if not unprecedented, role in releasing police-security information to the media. This included the fact that the driver of the vehicle was “known” to the federal government’s “Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.” ...
In a rightwing “war on terror” screed, National Post columnist Michael den Tandt claimed the death of Warrant Officer Vincent was confirmation of Harper’s claims “we live in dark and dangerous times.” He then cynically added, “The Conservatives have been angling for months for a foreign policy and security wedge to set them apart from their opponents; they now have it ...”
As in the US, in Canada, under Liberal and Conservative governments alike, a “bogus war on terror” has been systematically invoked since 2001 to stampede public opinion and justify imperialist aggression and sweeping attacks on democratic rights, including the state’s arrogation of the right to spy on Canadians’ electronic communications at will.
'I don't trust politicians & corporations in this country' - Russell Brand
Top senator demands explanation from Whisper after user tracking revelations
The chair of the Senate commerce committee has said revelations about how the “anonymous” social media app Whisper is tracking its users raise “serious questions” over privacy and demanded an explanation from the company.
Senator Jay Rockefeller wrote to the chief executive of Whisper to ask for a detailed, in-person briefing for his committee staff. He emphasised his concern over the location tracking of supposedly anonymous users of the app and demanded documents from Whisper.
Rockefeller’s intervention comes a week after the Guardian revealed how Whisper is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed by opting out of geolocation services. Privacy experts have already called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to examine the app’s business practices. ...
The senator noted in his letter the Guardian’s report that Whisper tracked the approximate location of some of its users who opted out of geolocation services – despite a provision in its privacy policy that stated access to location-based information was “purely voluntary”. ...
The letter, first obtained by Politico, also raises concerns about Whisper’s processing of data by setting up an offshore site in the Philippines which, the Guardian revealed, was occurring while the company told its users all their information is stored and processed in the US.
Iraqi forces 'months away' from sustained offensive against Isis
Iraqi forces are months away from being able to start waging any kind of sustained ground offensive against Isis and any similar effort in Syria will take longer, officials at the US military’s Central Command said on Thursday.
In Iraq, the timing will depend on a host of factors, some out of the military’s control – from Iraqi politics to the weather. Iraqi forces also must be trained, armed and ready before major advances, such as one to retake the city of Mosul, which fell to Isis in June.
“It’s not imminent. But we don’t see that that’s a years-long effort to get them to a place to where they can be able to go on a sustained counter-offensive,” a military official said, instead describing it as a “months-long” endeavour.
The officials, briefing a group of reporters, said the priority in Iraq was halting the Isis advance but acknowledged Iraq’s western Anbar province was contested, despite US-led air strikes.
Iraq’s main military divisions in Anbar – the seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th – have been badly damaged. At least 6,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed through June and double that number have deserted, say medical and diplomatic sources.
Islamic State among world's richest militant groups
The Islamic State has fast become one of the world's wealthiest terror groups, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ransoms and extortion, officials said.
It earns $1 million a day alone by selling crude oil from fields captured when the group swept across Iraq and Syria earlier this year, said David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
Because the group, also known as ISIL, has "amassed wealth at an unprecedented pace" from different sources than most terror groups, it presents a particular challenge to the US working to choke off money flows. ...
Unlike Al-Qaeda, IS does not attract most of its funds from deep-pocketed rich donors, often in Gulf countries, or from state sponsors.
Yet "with the important exception of some state-sponsored terrorist organizations, ISIL is probably the best-funded terrorist organization we have confronted," Cohen said, warning its revenue sources were "deep and diverse."
US Official: Bombing Oil Pipelines in Syria a 'Viable Option'
Critic warns move would be 'foolhardy' and lead to civilian casualties, massive spills and environmental damage
Julieta Valls Noyes, the US deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, was in London and her comments were first reported by the British press. Citing figures that estimate ISIS is generating nearly $2 million every day by selling crude oil reserves it now controls, Noyes said that the U.S. may expand targeting of oil-related infrastructure inside Syria to include "kinetic strikes against some of the pipelines" and other "physical action to stop the flow." ...
Reacting to Noyes' comments, Michael T. Klare, a professor at Hampshire College who has written extensively on energy resources and U.S. foreign policy, told Common Dreams that any attempt to bomb oil pipelines in Syria would be a serious mistake with potentially far-reaching implications.
"Bombing oil pipelines to get at ISIS's financing would be a very foolhardy move," Klare stated in an email. "First of all, it would be almost impossible to determine that the pipelines were carrying oil produced by oilfields under ISIS's control, and second, there could be a considerable risk of civilian casualties from the resulting explosions. Bombing pipelines could also lead to massive oil spills and resulting environmental damage."
In addition, he said, attacking pipelines in any manner "would provide anti-American groups anywhere in the world with a rationale for bombing pipelines on which we and our allies depend. The result could be global economic havoc."
Kurdish Fighters Move to Regain Kobani
Iraqi Kurdish fighters heading to Kobani
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today reported that a deal has been reached that will see 200 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters allowed to travel through Turkey to enter the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, under siege by ISIS. The Peshmerga reported only 150 are coming.
The Peshmerga also denied that the deal was finalized, saying that the talks are still ongoing on the details of how the troops would be allowed through and the exact numbers.
It’s hard to imagine how 150 or even 200 Peshmerga will be a game-changer with reports of around 2,000 Kurdish militia fighters already in and around Kobani, but Erdogan insisted they’ll be allowed to take heavier weapons than what the existing fighters have.
Iraqi Defense Ministry: ISIS Using Chlorine Gas in Attacks
Iraqi Defense Ministry officials have reported three separate incidents recently in which security forces, either police or military, have fallen suddenly ill in clashes with ISIS, and were hospitalized with symptoms consistent with chlorine poisoning. ...
Iraqi officials are acting like this is unprecedented, but it really isn’t. ISIS was bragging about its chemical weapons capabilities over a year ago in Syria, and those incidents the US were so eager to blame on the Assad government sickened Syrian troops fighting ISIS.
At the time, the Obama Administration was focused on trying to launch a war with Syria, so the possibility that ISIS was the culprit was loudly dismissed, seemingly for being politically inconvenient.
Obama Promised a "World Without Nuclear Weapons," But May Now Spend $1 Trillion on Upgrades
Whistleblowers Expose USAID's Pervasive Hidden Failures
Internal documents and whistleblowers reveal that the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, which is tasked with overseeing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s billions in civilian foreign aid, is abrogating its watchdog duties by censoring audits and reports to hide findings that reflect negatively on that agency, according to an investigative article published Wednesday in the Washington Post. ...
The Post obtained a dozen draft audits, which are not publicly shared, from the OIG covering international projects between 2011 and 2013, ranging from a program to address waste and fraud in U.S. aid to Pakistan to an agricultural program in Haiti to a $4.6 million payment to free detained NGO workers in Egypt. The audit drafts were then compared with the publicly released final reports. According to the Post's analysis, "more than 400 negative references were removed from the audits between the draft and final versions."
USAID tamped down internal criticism over Egypt work
Auditors and employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development say critical assessments of the agency's work in Egypt were removed from a report before it was released by the agency's inspector general, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The 21-page report was trimmed to nine pages and among the details cut was the payment of $4.6 million in what was described as bail money to the Egyptian government in 2012 to free 16 American non-government workers who had been arrested, the newspaper said.
The Americans were from organizations that USAID had hired to promote democratic programs in Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak was forced from office in 2011. The son of Ray LaHood, who was then U.S. transportation secretary, was among them.
The inspector general's office (OIG) of the USAID, the government agency that administers foreign civilian aid, put together a confidential draft audit of the agency's work in Egypt that the Post said questioned the wisdom of the program and whether it was legal to use government money to post the bail.
The final report released five months later had excised those findings and other criticisms, the newspaper said.
The American dynasties dominating the midterm elections
The US seems to be drawing its political leadership from an increasingly shallow puddle of genes. For the sake of brevity this can be illustrated solely by the Senate races that are considered “in play” this year. The race in Georgia is between Michelle Nunn, whose father used to be a Georgia senator, and David Purdue, whose cousin Sonny Purdue was once Georgia’s governor; Alaska Democratic senator Mark Begich’s father, Nick, was the state’s congressman; Arkansas Democratic senator Mark Pryor’s father David was himself once senator.
It goes on: Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon, and sister of current New Orleans mayor Mitch; Kentucky Democratic senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is the daughter of Jerry Lundergan, former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic party; Colorado Democratic senator Mark Udall is the son of late Arizona congressman Morris, and cousin of current New Mexico senator Tom, who is himself the son of late interior secretary Stewart; Kansas Republican senator Pat Roberts is the son of Charles, who was briefly the chairman of the Republican national committee; North Carolina Democratic senator Kay Hagan is the niece of former Florida senator Lawton Chiles.
Such are the dynasties; such is the democracy. This, remember, is just from the Senate races in play. It says nothing of the Senate races that are not closely contested (in West Virginia, Republican Shelley Moore Capito, daughter of former governor Arch Moore, is likely to fill the seat vacated by retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller, whose uncle Nelson was vice-president and New York governor) and the gubernatorial races (Georgia Democrat Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy; New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, son of governor Mario; California Democratic governor Jerry Brown, son of former governor Pat). ...
The electoral reality, however, suggests a narrow plutocracy in which the privilege of birth outranks ideology, charisma or achievement. And if the trend contradicts the nation’s founding credo it nonetheless confirms its current trajectory in which stagnant wages, increasing college tuition fees and growing inequality is leading many Americans to doubt the nation’s meritocratic credentials.
“In spite of the enduring belief that Americans enjoy greater social mobility than their European counterparts,” argues Joseph Stiglitz in The Price of Inequality, “America is no longer the land of opportunity.” Americans clearly sense this. The same Pew poll illustrates how people’s lived experience has begun to erode the myth, with Americans being the most likely to say that “belonging to a wealthy family” and “knowing the right people” were the most important attributes to getting ahead in life.
Hillary Clinton’s nightmare: Elizabeth Warren opens the door to a presidential run
Oh, boy. Here we go. The Hill reports that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has opened the door more than a crack to a presidential run. Just like then-junior Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 cycle (who first discounted presidential talk and then embraced it), Warren doesn’t sound opposed to the idea:
“If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.”
“Right now,” she said, “I’m focused on figuring out what else I can do from this spot” in the U.S. Senate.
Ready For Warren campaign manager Erica Sagrans said that the People interview “leaves more wiggle room” in Warren’s answer about a presidential campaign.
For Hillary Clinton, this is déjà vu. In 2008, a relatively unknown liberal popped up in Iowa and knocked her off her perch. When her inevitability disintegrated, there was not enough to recommend her to voters.
Has anyone looked at Clinton’s favorability rating in Iowa? The Des Moines Register has: “Clinton remains a polarizing figure in Iowa. Her favorability rating is upside down: 49 percent of likely 2014 voters have a negative view of her, 2 percentage points more than those who view her favorably (47 percent). ‘Importantly, her unfavorables bend toward ‘very unfavorable’ — 30 percent,’ said the pollster for the Iowa Poll, J. Ann Selzer. ‘That’s not the highest we tested. Sarah Palin’s very unfavorable number is 39 percent and (President Barack) Obama’s is 38 percent.’ ” Ouch.
Should Warren jump in, others surely would follow — and then we have a real race.
Hedges and Wolin (3/8): Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?
From London to New York, the bonus party may finally be over for highly-paid bankers
Bonuses, and the culture of bonuses, are responsible for much of Wall Street’s past indulgences. Bonuses immediately reward bankers with cash, which the bankers never given back when mistakes are made. Bonuses reward short-term successes without regard to long-term consequences. It is an asymmetry that, not surprisingly, encourages reckless behavior. ...
Six years after the financial crisis, the bonus soap opera might finally be coming to an end. On Monday, William Dudley, the president of the New York Fed, unleashed a blistering attack on the culture of banks and bank bonuses.
Dudley advocates for an overhaul in bank compensation. He wants to eliminate the immediate cash bonuses, and replace them with bonds that take into regard the long-term consequences of bankers’ actions. ...
Immediate cash bonuses immediately absolve bankers of anything that came before, allowing them to move forward and forget. It further distances the fiduciary responsibility between banker and the firm. It makes them hired guns, encouraging them to think for themselves, and rewards short-sighted thinking.
It encourages an attitude of “take the money and run”.
The US regulators, with Dudley’s speech on Monday, understand this.
His suggested changes will finally force bankers, and banks, to live with the consequences of their decisions.
Why we should give everyone a basic income
Ferguson protests: Amnesty report criticises police excesses
Rights group raises concerns about heavy-duty equipment, ammunition, curfew and children affected by teargas
An excessive police response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the death of an unarmed 18-year-old earlier this year ran the risk of killing demonstrators and impinged on their human rights, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
The report, by Amnesty observers deployed to monitor the protests, found that the militarised reaction to a small minority of violent demonstrators “impacted the rights of all participating” to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly under the US constitution and state law.
Heavily armed police clashed with demonstrators in Ferguson on successive nights in August after Michael Brown was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson. Teargas, stun grenades and rubber and wooden bullets were shot at crowds to force them to leave the streets.
Noting that the so-called “less-lethal” ammunition that was shot at crowds in Ferguson “can result in serious injury and even death”, Amnesty’s 23-page report said on Friday that “at least two children were treated for exposure to teargas” during the protests.
Ferguson Protests Grow Tense Once Again, as Leaks Multiply and Questions Pile Up
Tensions between protesters and police grew once again in St. Louis last night, as demonstrators knocked over barricades outside the Ferguson Police Department, protesting a series of leaks in the high-profile investigation of Darren Wilson's killing of Mike Brown, and demanding the officer's indictment. ...
Late on Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the leaked official autopsy report performed by the county's medical examiner on Brown, and suggested it backed Wilson's account of a confrontation in the car. The Post-Dispatch and the New York Times also published reports citing unnamed sources familiar with the investigation, who recounted Wilson's detailed testimony on the incident.
Then, on Wednesday, the Washington Post cited unnamed sources familiar with the investigation as saying that "more than a half-dozen unnamed black witnesses have provided testimony to a St. Louis County grand jury that largely supports Wilson's account of events."
The leaks and lack of transparency have infuriated protesters, but also drew the condemnation of the Department of Justice, which is running its own independent investigation into the shooting, as well as a separate investigation into possible civil rights violations in the practices of the Ferguson Police Department. ...
"The department considers the selective release of information in this investigation to be irresponsible and highly troubling," Dena Iverson, a spokesperson for the DOJ, told VICE News. "Since the release of the convenience store footage there seems to be an inappropriate effort to influence public opinion about this case," she added, citing the Ferguson Police Department's decision to release a video implicating Brown in a robbery, despite the incident not being linked to Wilson's encounter with Brown, and after DOJ recommendations that police refrain from releasing the footage.
The Evening Greens
Climate Needs 'Radical Shock Treatment'; EU Pledges Only 'Smelling Salts'
If the non-binding pledges announced by European governments in Brussels on Friday morning are an indication of the global response to climate change, say green campaigners, the world and its inhabitants are in big, big trouble.
Members of the European Commission and European Council championed the commitments for emission reductions, energy conservation, and the increase of renewable power sources that were contained in the agreement, but expert critics say the targets simply are not strong enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the rate demanded by the science of climate change. ...
"To describe 40 percent emissions cuts as adequate or ambitious, as EU leaders are doing, is dangerously irresponsible," said Brook Riley, climate justice and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe. "40 percent is off the radar of climate science. This deal does nothing to end Europe's dependency on fossil fuels or to speed up our transition to a clean energy future. It's a deal that puts dirty industry interests ahead of citizens and the planet."
Oxfam International's Natalia Alonso welcomed the 40 percent goal but said the EU details of the agreement fall "far too short of what the EU needs to do to pull its weight in the fight against climate change." She added, "Insufficient action like this from the world's richest countries places yet more burden on the poorest people most affected by climate change, but least responsible for causing this crisis."
GMO labelling campaign hugely outspent in Colorado and Oregon ballot
Biotech and supermarket giants are spending more than $25m (£15.6m) to defeat ballot initiatives in two western states that would require labelling of foods containing genetically modified organisms.
In Colorado, Dupont and Monsanto food companies are outspending supporters of mandatory labelling by 22-1 ahead of the 4 November vote, according to state campaign finance records.
In Oregon, meanwhile, industry is outspending supporters of the ballot measure by about 2-1.
The heavy industry spending resembles the last-minute infusions of cash for television ads, direct mail, and campaign staff that helped defeat earlier campaigns for mandatory GM labelling in California and Washington state.
“It is like David vs Goliath,” Larry Cooper, director of Colorado’s Right to Know campaign said.
He said the pro-labelling campaign had raised $625,000 by Thursday afternoon. Cooper’s opponents, meanwhile, amassed $14m, after Dupont this week gave an additional $3m to the campaign, and were advertising heavily on local television.
'Stop the Toxic Treadmill': EPA Sued for Approving Controversial Herbicide
Green groups on Wednesday sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its recent approval of Dow AgroSciences' herbicide Enlist Duo, which farmers and scientists warn threatens human and environmental health.
"The toxic treadmill has to stop," said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides. "EPA and USDA cannot continue to ignore the history, science, and public opinion surrounding these dangerous chemicals so that a failed and unnecessary system of chemically-dependent agriculture can continue to destroy our health and environment."
The EPA last week approved Enlist Duo for use on corn and soybean crops that are genetically engineered to survive exposure to the herbicide. Wednesday's suit charges the approval was unlawful because the agency failed to adequately consider the human impacts and did not consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Enlist Duo's key ingredient, known as 2,4-D, was also used in Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used as a weapon by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Studies find 2,4-D interferes with hormonal and reproductive function and is linked to cancer, liver disease, Parkinson's disease, and other health problems. Scientists warn that 2,4-D builds up in the environment and spreads from one field to another, posing a risk to animals as well as people.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
‘Cleansing the stock’ and other ways governments talk about human beings
Cornel West’s New Book, Black Prophetic Fire, Drives Home His Critique of Obama
182 Square Foot Micro Apartment in Seattle
Ottawa terror attack triggers massive police-military mobilization
In St. Louis, the Torch of the Civil Rights Struggle is Passed to a New Guard
Citizenfour’s Escape to Freedom in Russia
Transgender in the Workplace
WaPo’s Snowden Docs Tech Pro Hired As FTC’s New CTO; Hayden, et al, Freak Out
A Little Night Music
Bruce Springsteen + Sam Moore - Hold On/Soul Man
Tower of Power w/Sam Moore - I Thank You/Mr. Pitiful
Sam Moore with The Funk Brothers - Higher and Higher/Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Blues Brothers Band & Sam Moore - I've been loving you
Sam Moore - Plenty Good Lovin
Springsteen, Sam Moore, Irma Thomas - In the Midnight Hour
Sam And Dave - Soothe Me
Sam And Dave - You Don't Know Like I Know
Sam And Dave - Don't Turn Your Heater Down
Sam And Dave - You Got Me Hummin'
Sam And Dave - Wrap It Up
Sam and Dave - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Sam and Dave - Broke Down Piece of Man
Sam and Dave - I Need Love (Their first record, 1962)
Sam Moore and Nu-Blu - Jesus & Jones
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