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Judge Demands Information About Missing White House Emails
Lucas123 writes "A District Court judge has ordered the Executive Office of the President to tell the court by May 5 whether any e-mail server backup tapes were kept for a period from March to October 2003 to cover controversial issues such as reasons for starting the war in Iraq, the release of a former CIA operative's name and the US Department of Justice's actions. The White House has been working for months trying to fend off a lawsuit filed last May in federal court in Washington by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. The judge cited what he called an apparent contradiction by White House CIO Theresa Payton as to whether backup tapes had been preserved. He also recommended that White House employees be ordered to turn over any flash drives or other portable media that may contain e-mails. The White House missing email scandal has been developing for some time now."
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_5843.html
H.R. 5843 is described as an "Act to Remove Federal Penalties for Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults". The bill has been introduced by US Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and co-sponsored by US Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX). If passed, this legislation would legalize the possession, use and non-for-profit of up to 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of Marijuana. Under this legislation, adults who consume Marijuana would no longer face arrest, prison or civil fines.
This bill will not affect federal laws prohibiting the sale of Marijuana for profit, nor the import, export and cultivation of Marijuana. It will also not alter the legal status of Marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug according to the Controlled Substances Act.
It seems that on 4/17/08 the act was referred to House committee as well as the Committee on Energy and Commerce, we will keep a close watch on this one. We'd have a kinder, gentler America with legalized Marijuana, as well as a cash surplus from taxing it.
"Not only should it be legalized, it should be mandatory." -Bill Hicks
http://smokedot.org/08/04/25/act-to-remove-federal-penalties-for-personal-use-of-marijuana
Perhaps someone could submit this as a Slashdot story? I'm too sober to do it because I just know the fucking anti-marijuana dipshits will vote this down and vote some spam article or worthless shit like "advice for math geek party" shit in..
Although the RIAA has a lot to answer for, I think the real snakes in all this are the companies monitoring and the Lawyers going after people.
What I think is REALLY happening is that the said aforementioned companies/lawyers are selling the RIAA that they can truthfully get people AND make a difference in piracy when THEY (the lawyers and monitoring companies) probably are telling fibs.
Basically they see a way to make some dough at the RIAA's ineptitude and greed by cooking numbers at their meetings with the RIAA telling them how good they are doing at getting people.
That's just my theory, that the lawyers and companies like mediasentry are driving this primarily.
this administration believes itself above law Lay off the kool-aid, dude. At least this administration hasn't had the FBI files of the opposing party "somehow" appear in the White House.
infected large portions of other parts of the government with it's political appointees
Gharsh! That's something NO OTHER President/Governor/Mayor has EVER DONE!!
administration is so incompetent that they can't make back-ups of data they're required to Huh? It's the government! Do you really expect gov't to be efficient or do things correctly? Seriously. Private companies don't/cant always back up everything that they're "required" to. If they can't, what makes you think any gov't department can?
And you probably want those same people to manage our health care!
Sheesh.
-john
Slashdot: you'll not find a more wretched collection of villainy and disreputable types...
Wow.. A hit and run job that couldn't be more them wrong. Better luck next time. Perhaps if you left your name, we could point to links showing how wrong and perhaps brain washed you are