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Dems Ponder Political Fallout of Retirements

The announcement that three prominent Democrats won't be seeking reelection has the party pondering its position in the midterm elections. AP correspondent Julie Pace reports. (Jan. 6)

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U.K. legal system “absurd situation”

clipped from www.haaretz.com

Britain's attorney general said Tuesday that she was aware of the urgent need to address the slew of arrest warrants being issued in her country against Israeli official over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Attorney General Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland made her remarks after a delegation of senior Israel Defense Forces officers canceled a planned visit to the U.K. for fear they would be arrested upon landing.

Plan to Send Alleged Sept. 11 Conspirators to New York Court

This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in detention at Guantanamo Bay. The picture was allegedly taken by the Red Cross. AP

clipped from www.foxnews.com

Mohammed and the four others -- Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali -- are accused of orchestrating the attacks that killed 2,973 people on Sept. 11, 2001, and will now be tried in a courtroom down the street from the where the twin towers fell.

"The Department of Justice will pursue prosecution in federal court of the five individuals accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 attacks. Further, I have decided to refer back to the Department of Defense five defendants to face military commission trials, including the detainee who was previously charged in the USS Cole bombing," Holder said at a Justice Department briefing.

The decision drew outrage from some lawmakers and victims' families.

By:FoxNewsChannel

Patriotic People by Hi_Caliber (TEAPARTYMOVIE.COM)

TPM_logo185 Conservative rapper, Hi-Caliber, the only rapper to rock on Capitol Hill at the 9/12 Tax Payer's March on Washington D.C. This music video features scenes from TEA PARTY: The Documentary Film coming Thanksgiving 2009. Liberty's march has a new generation of patriots! Find out why at www.TEAPARTYMOVIE.COM

GTB Blogburst: Dirty Johnny Sutton

By Heidi Thiess We are still closely watching the Border Patrol case, especially after last week's explosive news that the DHS had lied to Congressmen who were looking into the case. Close on the heels of that shocking revelation, we noted that US Attorney Johnny Sutton, the prosecutor in this case, has lied openly and repeatedly about this case to the media. In an effort to counter Sutton's lies, here is one of his favorite public statements about Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean deconstructed:

"These guys did very serious crimes and once anybody who knows all the facts of this case — the fact that they shot at an unarmed guy 15 times, lied about it, covered it up, destroyed the evidence ... it's hard for me to imagine a prosecutor would look the other way," he said.

1. It has not been proven that the drug smuggler was unarmed. Sutton has been unable to prove it, yet he states it like it's a fact. Furthermore, two of the drug smuggler's own family members have made statements that he has been running drugs since he was 13 or 14 and has never smuggled drugs without being armed. 2. Compean and Ramos DID NOT LIE about shooting the drug smuggler. They didn't know that they had until almost a month later! And it's still not proven that Ramos is the one who shot the drug smuggler. 3. The DID NOT try to "cover it up". They verbally reported to their superiors that they fired their weapons. 4. They DID NOT destroy evidence. Sutton has been harping on this because he claims that the site of the shooting was a "crime scene" and that the BP agents knowingly altered the scene of the crime by picking up their shell casings. That is FALSE. The agents, including the agents that were with them at the time of the shooting, did NOT designate the area a crime scene, since they did NOT know that the drug smuggler had been shot. 5. In fact, far from lying about the incident or "covering it up", Ramos and Compean followed procedures exactly: