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HOW TRENT LOTT AND ORRIN HATCH HELD UP CLINTON'S EFFORTS TO PASS ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS. HATCH WAS DOING THE DIRTY WORK OF THE NRA, WHICH OPPOSED TAGGANTS.	Archived 5/20/02 7:54am Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n!
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ACCUSES BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM OF HAVING "UNTREATED BIPOLAR DISORDER"


Bush Knew of Terrorist Plot to Hijack Planes 5/20 In 2000, Pentagon Simulated Plane Crash. (NOTE TO BUZZFLASH READERS. BECAUSE OF THE LARGE VOLUME OF 9/11 ARTICLES, WE HAVE POSTED, WE ARE LEAVING SOME OF THEM UP FOR SEVERAL DAYS. WE HAVE MORE THAN 150 HEADLINES AND ORIGINAL CONTENT PIECES TODAY) 5/20 IF YOU VALUE TODAY'S BUZZFLASH NEWS REPORTING, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT COSTS MONEY TO COUNTERACT THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT BY CORPORATE MEDIA AND THE RIGHT WING THINK TANKS. DONATE NOW. Business Week Presents Five Questions Bush Must Answer 5/20 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Cheney, Who was the Bush Administration Point Person on Anti-Terrorism Efforts Prior to September 11th, Tries to Scare Americans Away from the Truth with New Fright Tale 5/20 Bush's Game of Politics with the War on Terror 5/20 Message to Dick Cheney: Go Back Into Your Rabbit Hole. 5/20 "Dick Cheney suggested that Democrats asking questions were unpatriotic. But that suggestion is anti-American," By Maureen Dowd 5/19 Cheney is Simply Disgusting. He Ran from the Vietnam War with a Cover Story. Now He's Got a Sudden Warning to Keep America from Pointing Fingers at Him as Bush's Pre-Semptember 11th Anti-Terror Czar. 5/20 Rice Bascially Says, Why Would We Want Any American to Know How Badly We Goofed While George Was Taking a Month's Vacation in Texas? 5/20 The Training Wheel President 5/20 Clinton Targeted Terrorism 5/20 NOTE CNN REPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 11th. BUSH WAS SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON RIGHT AWAY (BUT HE RAN FOR COVER INSTEAD, EVEN THOUGH THE EXCUSE THAT THERE WAS A THREAT TO AIR FORCE ONE WAS LATER DISPROVEN). FROM ARCHIVES. 5/20 Support Independent News Sources! Read What BuzzFlash Readers are Saying. SPECIAL 9/11 Betrayal BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American --- The Bush 9/11 Edition, Part II The Bush Lie Gets Deeper: "Federal regulators did not ask airlines to tighten security, and the FBI's regional office in Miami said it received no advisory from headquarters to check out any Middle Eastern students in flight schools before the attacks." YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS: Here is Bush's "Trifecta Joke." Disgusting and Inexcusable. (Requires Audio Player) 5/18 Who Could Have Saved Eddie? 5/20 REPOSTED: Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban 5/20 BUSH INCORPORATED WAGS THE DOG AND LEAKS STORY ABOUT POTENTIAL NEW AL-QAEDA ATTACK, ALTHOUGH, IN THEIR NEED TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM 9/11 FAILURE, THEY ADMIT THEY STILL DON'T KNOW MUCH OF ANYTHING 5/19 In Ari Vs. Hillary, We'll Bet on Hillary. She's the One with the Cojones. Ari's Just a Toy Terrier on a Tight Leash. 5/19 "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock What are Tenants Supposed to Do About a Vague Terror Warning? 5/20 We are Paying for Bush's Fundraising for Himself and the Grand Hypocrisy Party 5/20 The President Who Was Up in the Air on September 11th 5/20 ABOUT THE BUZZFLASH MAILBAG 5/19 BOMBSHELL: FEINSTEIN ASKED CHENEY'S STAFF LAST SUMMER TO REFORM OUR TERRORISM PREVENTION STRATEGY AND WAS BLOWN OFF U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan 5/20 Connect the Dots on Bush News.com. Read Past the Messages. 5/20 Another Report that U.S. Marines were "Used" to Take Sides in a Local Warlord Dispute, Resulting in an Attack on a Wedding 5/20 BUSH IS LYING: A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS W's Mind Was on Vacation 5/20 Bush Believes the Buck Never Stops With Him. Let the Servants (FBI) Take the Blame, or the Rulers Not Born of Royal Lineage (Clinton). 5/20 DON'T OVERLOOK ANOTHER REHNQUIST POLITICAL ACTION FOR THE GOP: Rehnquist Personally Saves the North Carolina Redistricting Map for the Republicans 5/18 The CIA Army Accountable to Whom? 5/20 "Let me just spend a couple of minutes on the domestic side. And why are we concerned about the domestic side?" A Speech by John O'Neill, the Man the Bush Administration Ignored. 5/20 Boy George is Working REAL Hard to Pander to the Florida Cuban Exile Vote so Jeb Can Get Their Money and Votes 5/20 It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son" Homeland Security Warnings, a Cartoon 5/20 NYC Vulnerable to Attack on Water Supply 5/20 Message to the Democrats: Don't Let the Bullies Force You to Back Down. Show Some Backbone and Fight for the Truth and for America! 5/19 F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training: But, Like Bush, They Are Claiming They Were Too Slow to Connect the Dots. If You're an Employer, Don't You Fire People Like Bush and the the People Who Led Our "Intelligence" Efforts? 5/19 Bush Throws a Creepy Temper Tantrum That Went Unreported by the Mainstream Press. Also Good Photo of Boy George on His Throne. 5/19 Gun Guy Tries to Give Himself a Poor Man's Vasectomy in Montana 5/19 White Supremacist Rally Set for Memorial Day in Missouri 5/20 WHAT I KNOW NOW: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/19 News Blackout on Afghan Battle 5/20 The Hierachy of Decency, by Jimmy Breslin. Excellent Take on the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Church. 5/20 The Bi-polar Bush and Jim Hatfield's Warning (Just Before He Committed Suicide) About Suicide Hijackers 5/20 An American Who Was Murdered Under the Pinochet Regime. The Story Finally Emerges. 5/20 THE BUZZFLASH REMEDIAL CLASS FOR BUSH: Connecting the Dots (REPOSTED) 5/16 IS SHELBY BEING USED TO SET UP THE FBI AS THE FALL GUY, SO BOY GEORGE COULD CONTINUE HIS REIGN OF INCOMPETENCE?	A contingent of Green Beret trainers landed in this ex-Soviet republic Sunday, adding Georgia to the list of countries where U.S. troops have deployed in the 8-month-old counter-terror campaign. 5/20 Some Airport Workers Bypass Security: There's a Hole in the System Bigger Than a Barn Door 5/19 The Man Behind the Hot Memo 5/20 World Bank Chief in Talks on Afghanistan Pipeline 5/20 BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! This is What Passes for Diplomacy in the Bush Administration: Tommy Thompson Gets Into a Fight with a Chinese Diplomat 5/19 Another Suicide Bombing Attack in Israel 5/20 What's up with this bin Laden Video? 5/20 WHAT'S A PRESIDENT TO DO: TAKE A VACATION 5/19 Church stalling on sex claims, group alleges 5/20 British Marines Chief Under Fire for Afghan "Farce" 5/20 The "If I Had Not Been on Vacation" Excuse 5/19 Remember Those Republican Chickenhawks, Beginning with Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft, Who Are Such Fairweather "Patriotic Warriors" Now. 5/19 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Knew In July, 2001 5/16 The U.S. Bomb that Nearly Killed Karzai 5/20 John Ashcroft has become the kind of ideological attorney general his critics warned us he would be 5/19 End Game, from the Daily Brew 5/19 Around the Bush White House, There is the Stench of Partisan Politics 5/19 The Politics of Trying to Intimidate Through an Offer of "Bi-Partisanship" While Being as Partisan as a Junkyard Dog. That's the Bush Game Plan. Will the Democrats Let Him Keep Getting Away with It? 5/19 When It Comes to 9/11, the Responsibility Era Can Wait for Bush Incorporated 5/19 Now is the Time to Ask Questions 5/19 ARI IS LYING 5/18 FEDERAL REPORT WARNED OF SUICIDE HIJACK PLANE ATTACKS 5/18 MUST READ: "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House." 5/18 What did the press know and why didn?t they tell us? 5/19 Judge Takes on the White House on Mountaintop Mining 5/19 Another Suicide Bomber in Israel 5/20 Feeling the Pain of History: A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 5/19 "Look," Fleischer said, "you know I don't say anything unless I hear it from his mouth. Ever." Ho Kurtz Interviews Ari -- and Ari Admits He's Just a Dummy with W. as His Ventriloquist 5/19 GOP TEAM LEADER ALERT QUOTES THE SO-CALLED LIBERAL PRESS 5/18 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: It's Time for a Commission to Tell the Truth 5/18 ABC said the memo claimed "the purpose of this communication is to advise the bureau and New York of the possibility of a coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation universities and colleges."5/18 Secretary of the Army Thomas "Enron" White's Unit at Enron Allegedly Ripped California Off for $1Billion 5/19 FRESH SEPTEMBER 11TH REVELATIONS ROCK BUSH The Bush Administration Plays Politics With America's National Security. When are the Democrats Going to Get a Real Backbone and Stand up to the Bullying Tactics of the Bush Team for the Long Haul? This is a War for the Future of Democracy. 5/19 "While Democrats demanded answers, the Bush administration sought to put criticism of how the president handled advance information out of bounds" Out of Bounds? This Isn't a Monarchy, Little Prince George! 5/18 Who Was the Bush Point Person on Security? Dick Cheney. No Wonder He Doesn't Want An Investigation. 5/18 To Please the Little Havana Cuban Exile Vote, Bush Shortchanges Cuban Citizens and America 5/19 Why September 11th Was No Surprise 5/18 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: I Hit the Trifecta 5/15 FROM THE BUZZFLASH NO EXCUSES DEPARTMENT: Bush Claims He Really Knew Nothing Much, So Didn't Do Anything Much, Which is His Standard Operating Procedure After All. 5/18 But Bush, We've Got You Caught Lying: "U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations" (ARCHIVES) 5/18 FROM THE BUZZFLASH ARCHIVES: Investigate The Non-Evacuation of Booker Elementary School 5/16 F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training 5/18 The Drudge/O'Reilly Feud. It's Probably a Publicity Stunt to Boost Both Their Ratings. 5/19 The Mystery of the Trifecta 5/18 Democrats Attack GOP on Tax Havens 5/19 Scenario of Suicide Plane Crashes Was Nothing New 5/18 Jeb Only Believes in Drug Rehabilitation for His Daughter, Not for Others. Typical Bush Sense of Personal Privilege. 5/19 Buy "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" And Help Out Buzzflash.com Signs of an Al-Qaeda Attack that Bush Ignored 5/18 How the Bush Administration Stymied the Hart-Rudman Anti-Terrorism Recommendations by Putting Dick Cheney in Charge of Doing Nothing 5/18	Cheney's Conflict of Interest in Halliburton Making Money Off of September 11th Security Issues 5/18 Despite Ari's and Condoleezza's Misleading Statements, the August Memo Indicated bin Laden was Determined to Strike IN the U.S., Not Overseas as They Implied 5/18 Under the Yoke of the Bush Administration, America Needs a Renewed Outbreak of Democracy 5/19 Aide Admits that Cardinal Law Promoted Child Molestor Priest to Vicar 5/19 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Greg Palast: Bush Blocked bin Laden Probes (needs video player) 5/18 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: The Twilight Zone 5/17 The BuzzFlash Barf Story of the Week: Time Picks Ari Fleischer as the Person of the Week and Feels Sorry for Him 5/18 REPOSTED: "Notes from the Grassy Knoll," by BuzzFlash Guest Writer William Rivers Pitt 5/18 Cheney's Pawns 5/20 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Why Is America Behaving This Way? A Letter to European Friends 5/17 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Could Have Done UPDATED From the Archives: Gore's White House Commission on Aviation and Security: The Final Report 5/18 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN." 5/17 BUZZFLASH.COM PRESENTS THE FIFTH COLUMNIST: "One can imagine the blistering conservative outrage, the foaming right-wing oral cavities, the high Falwellian cynicism and sarcasm to erupt were Bill Clinton or Al Gore..." 5/18 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he warned the United States that "something would happen" 12 days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. 5/17 Grand Hypocrisy Party Won't Stop Selling Photo of Bush Running Like a Yellow Streak Away from D.C. on September 11th and Barely Saying a Word to a Nation in Crisis. Thinking of Saving His Own Butt First Makes Him a Hero to the GOP. 5/17 REPOSTED: And the Dick Award Goes to.... 5/19 A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: The Middle East Conflict Arrives at San Francisco State University 5/18 Bush, According to Peggy Noonan. A Withering Satire. 5/18 IT SHOULD BE A CRIME: "Federal regulators were tipped off in mid-August 2000 that Enron Corp. was manipulating the California power market to boost its profits, but the regulators largely ignored the information until the end of the year" 5/18 Was Limbaugh Really Going Deaf? Or Did He Really Just Have Liposuction? (Read to Bottom of Story) 5/18 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Bush Vacationed While They Planned 5/16 Knowing Much, Bush Did Little To Protect America 5/17 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ashcroft Flying High: "Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet" NOW WE KNOW WHY! HE WAS WARNED! 5/16 A Newly Recaptioned Bush 911 Photo 5/16 Despite the statements that U.S. officials had no warnings of suicide attacks with airplanes, The Associated Press reported in March that Filipino police turned over just such a warning to the U.S. 5/17 U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings 5/17 The May 17th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Agent: Moussaoui 'could fly ... into the WTC' 5/17 FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Bush Administration was advised in August of 2001 that as many as 200 terrorists were coming to U.S. as part of plot FROM THE ARCHIVES: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOLD U.S. AGENTS TO BACK OFF BIN LADENS 5/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks 5/16 Airlines Disagree with White House : "There was no warning offered to American, United or any other carrier that we are aware of," said American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan. "We had no notification regarding hijackers last summer." 5/17 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Hijackers Travel to and Within the United States 5/14 The Danger of the Radical Right Wing that Controls the Supreme Court 5/16 *The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex* by Dr. Helen Caldicott A BuzzFlash Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive REPOSTED: BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. THE CAMPUS VOICE: Own a Piece of History? from the Hoosier Review 5/17 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Top Ten Conservative Idiots 5/20 Buy This Parchment from King George! 5/19 Bush Knew: Steal This Graphic 5/19 Ignorance is Us -- the Bush/Cheney Ticket 5/20 Has Bush Crossed the LIne? A BuzzFlash Eric Harrison Cartoon. 5/17 Barnabas the toy poodle has been a registered Republican for two years but never got a chance to vote. 5/18 Dubya's Dayly Diary 5/20 Don't Blame Me! 5/18 Still My Best Fundraiser 5/18 That Quacking Sound You Hear is from Elizabeth Dole 5/17

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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ACCUSES BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM OF HAVING "UNTREATED BIPOLAR DISORDER"