It's HAMMER time Sen. Kerry...push these stories tommorrow!

medical draft ready, federal workers pensions raided and CIA report held back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially the CIA story.....what are you hiding Smirky??????
NO MORE SECRETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



October 19, 2004

U.S. Has Contingency Plans for a Draft of Medical Workers
By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 - In a confidential report this summer, a contractor hired by the agency described how such a draft might work, how to secure compliance and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health care professionals, whose lives could be disrupted.

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Under the plan, Mr. Flahavan said, about 3.4 million male and female health care workers ages 18 to 44 would be expected to register with the Selective Service. From this pool, he said, the agency could select tens of thousands of health care professionals practicing in 62 health care specialties.

"The Selective Service System plans on delivering about 36,000 health care specialists to the Defense Department if and when a special skills draft were activated," Mr. Flahavan said.

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The Selective Service and Widmeyer held focus groups this summer to sample public opinion toward registration and a possible draft including medical personnel. People from a variety of professions, including doctors and nurses, were questioned.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics/19draft.html...
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer19oct19...

The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket
The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.
Robert Scheer

October 19, 2004

It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."
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sorry, I don't have a link to the raiding of federal pensions.

Poppy did the same thing. This was the first link I could find, but I know there are others. There was one posted in the Stock Market Watch Thread last week.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/15/1097784046643.html?oneclick=true

Less than a day after President George Bush implied that his Democratic challenger John Kerry lacked "fiscal sanity", the Administration said it had hit the debt ceiling set by Congress and would have to borrow money set aside for federal employees' pensions until after the election.

Federal operations are unlikely to be affected because Congress is certain to raise the debt limit in a lame-duck session in November. Since Mr Bush took office in January 2001, the federal debt has increased about 40 per cent, or $US2100 billion ($A2800 billion), to $US7400 billion.

Congress has raised the debt ceiling three times in three years, raising it most recently by $984 billion in May 2003.

On Thursday, Treasury Secretary John Snow said the Federal Government was about to breach the limit again and would be able to keep operating only if it started tapping money intended for the civil service retirement fund, the pension system for federal workers.

"Given current projections, it is imperative that the Congress take action to increase the debt limit by mid-November," Mr Snow warned, saying that his arsenal of financial tools "will be exhausted" at that point.

the TSP

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqxsrqeidDxmTzMvKDw5PB25Z

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The National Treasury Employees Union said the borrowing is to keep government spending below the congressionally mandated debt limit.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary John Snow, NTEU president Colleen Kelley asked for an update on actions the secretary has taken so far "to avoid breaching the federal debt limit," as well as his assessment of "the expected duration of the current crisis."

Kelley said this the third time in three years that the economic policies of the administration and its inability to secure a timely increase in the national debt limit have led to borrowing from the federal Thrift Savings Plan.

The TSP represents the savings of federal employees and retirees.

Why don't they leak it?

They keeping their powder dry?