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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:19 PM
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White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'
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White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue


Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies.

The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President.

The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration.

Capitol Hill Blue has spoken with a number of current and former administration officials who acknowledge existence of the enemies list only under a guarantee of confidentiality. Those who have seen the list say it is far more extensive than Richard Nixon’s famous “enemies list” of Watergate fame or Bill Clinton’s dossiers on political enemies.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml

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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:20 PM
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1. Abuse of Power!!!!
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951-Riverside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:27 PM
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2. Is CHB a credible source?
If they are this is HUGE!!!!!
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:29 PM
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5. Far less credible than the Weekly World News,
but just as entertaining!
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Clara T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:35 PM
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10. But more credible than?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:33 PM
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8. did you know you miss-spelled Hugh!!!!1?
:rofl:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-31-05 08:02 AM
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27. don't you mean HUGH!!!11!!1!
and, no, usually CHB is not credible
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:28 PM
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3. Sign me Up!
When the rapture comes, I want to be on that list so I can go! O8)
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:28 PM
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4. I hope I'm on that list
Every person on that list is an American patriot.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:38 PM
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11. then you won't mind getting audited by the IRS. Nixon did this and
got impeached for it. If we have a dem in 2008, no one will pardon his sorry ass.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:41 PM
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14. Well, it's out there now.
All we have to do is wait for a second source.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:57 PM
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18. The IRS has already fucked with me n.t
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:31 PM
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6. I wonder if I'm there?
Don't think I'm important enough to worry about, but have been rather outspoken over the last 6 yrs. Probably be a good listto be on. I wonder, do others dream about being disappeared because I do.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:32 PM
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7. If you are not on this list you are nobody n/t
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:34 PM
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9. Geez. Didn't they rake Hillary over the coals for something similar?
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:40 PM
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12. Recommending because I believe it.
Though I'm sure it's more than 10,000.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:40 PM
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13. I hope I am on the list! What an honor that would be!
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man4allcats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:53 PM
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16. I doubt that I'm on it, but
I keep trying.

"Hey, White House! Bush is an ignorant, warmongering, fascist asshole!"


Do you think that might do it?

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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:42 PM
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15. Bush--making Nixon seem more reasonable everyday.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:00 PM
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tx_dem41 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 10:56 PM
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17. I knew this was a Doug Thompson special, before I even clicked..
the thread.
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grateful581 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:10 PM
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20. Is this the list
of domestic spying targets. I was wondering who the bush crime family was spying on.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:11 PM
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21. Only 10,000? I'm insulted. I would have thought most of us would be
on that list.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:37 PM
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22. Let me guess about just who they wiretapped...
Whatchawannabet that all 10,000 have been tapped and monitored?

Doug D.
Orlando, FL
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:48 PM
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23. Time to put this cartoon to use:
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SillyGoose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-30-05 11:51 PM
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24. Even though I've heard CHB is not the most reliable of sources, this
would not surprise me in the least. The group of thugs currently occupying the White House are notorious for nasty political gamesmanship. I would be more shocked to find out that there was NO list.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-31-05 12:43 AM
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25. Those are OUR files....
Edited on Sat Dec-31-05 12:44 AM by C_U_L8R
and I don't mean that we're in the files (though we probably are)
but those dossiers BELONG to us... the people.. we paid for em
and we paid the salaries of those who compiled them and we paid
for the computers that they currently reside on. They are ours.

And since these documents belong to us... it's only fair that
they become public... afterall we're not nazi germany.. are we ???
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-31-05 10:51 AM
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28. Absolutely. And our taxpayer dollars are paying for the "research".
n/t
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-31-05 07:59 AM
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26. Damn, this looked like great stuff
Until I saw the source. It's fun to dream but that's all we can do if CHB is the source.
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