"until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws...nothing to hide"

Michael Moore blasts Bush over federal probe
Filmmaker says he’s targeted because of new health-care documentary
Updated: 2:20 p.m. ET May 11, 2007
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18615496/

LOS ANGELES - Filmmaker Michael Moore has asked the Bush administration to call off an investigation of his trip to Cuba to get treatment for ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers for a segment in his upcoming health-care expose, “Sicko.”

Moore, who made the hit documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” assailing President Bush’s handling of Sept. 11, said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Friday that the White House may have opened the investigation for political reasons.

“For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community,” Moore said in the letter, which he posted on the liberal Web site Daily Kos. “These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves, without coverage and without care.

“I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me — I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide.”
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NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/us/11moore.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

U.S. Queries Filmmaker on Cuba Trip for Movie
By LAURA M. HOLSON
Published: May 11, 2007

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The letter from the Treasury Department asked for detailed information about the trip, including evidence that Mr. Moore was employed as a journalist. Journalists can secure permission to go to Cuba.

The government also sought the name and address of the travel agent who made the reservations, and receipts, and the names and addresses of all of those who went on the trip. News of the letter was first reported by The Associated Press.

Chris Lehane, who was press secretary to Vice President Al Gore and has been retained by the Weinstein Company, the film’s distributor, said the Treasury Department had been aware of the trip for a long time.

“We feel comfortable with the terms with which we went to Cuba,” Mr. Lehane said.

but Bush goes after Michael Moore for bringing the heroes of 9/11 to get medical treatment.

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil'

By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com staff writer
Thursday, February 3, 2005; 8:00 AM

The award for oddest geopolitical couple of 2005 goes to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Houston-based Halliburton.

You might not think that a charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil" could enlist the oil-services firm once run by Vice President Cheney to bolster its bargaining position with an international community intent on curbing its nuclear ambitions.

But that is apparently what happened last month.

The story began on Jan. 9 when the Iran News ran a Reuters story reporting that Halliburton "has won a tender to drill a huge Iranian gas field."

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58298-2005Feb2.html



Business As Usual?
Halliburton’s CEO says his company is pulling out of Iran. But a corporate subsidiary is still going ahead with a deal to develop Tehran’s natural gas fields
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 6:10 p.m. ET Feb 16, 2005

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6982444/site/newsweek/






Cheney/Halliburton sold Iran nuclear equip. in '04 to justify '05 Cheney planned attack

Still receiving a million dollars a year from the corporation, Cheney's Halliburton supplied the nuclear components to Iran in 2004 that neocon's are now screaming about as "justifying" (sic) their own empty "threat" that promotes pre-emptive war attacks in 2005. Note that a year later, it is Cheney's very hands on order to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to craft a "response to the next terror" that means AUTOMATIC targeting of Iran regardless of where the source of terror comes from! Additional notes from below: FOUR STAR GENERAL BYRNES REFUSES TO GO ALONG WITH THE NORTHCOM NUCLEAR TERROR DRILL THAT WAS TO 'GO LIVE', ONCE IT WAS SHIFTED TO BE UNDER HIS JURISDICTION AT HIS FT. MONROE, VA, BASE ; SO, NEOCON TERRORISTS IN PENTAGON FIRE BYRNES, HE'S REPLACED BY RUMSFELD CRONY --- Neocons still PLANNING FOR TERROR to kick off Iran attack: All Army Leaves has been cancelled after September 7, 2005, right as Bush's "33 day vacation" closes is likely when they pre-plan for the attack to kick off --- CNN already 'in training' to report FROM NORTHCOM to manipulate the truth and misguide the immediate public reaction to disguise neocon's NORTHCOM/PENTAGON THAT SET OFF next state terror hit on their OWN MOBILIZATION SCHEDULE. It's "Operation Northwoods" updated strategies all over the place. See links for more information and updates:

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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/322950.shtml




Halliburton pulling out of Iran
Houston Chronicle
Midland Reporter-Telegram
04/15/2007
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18212853&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=474112&rfi=6


(05/04/2007)
Closing The Halliburton Loophole
New Senate legislation would block American companies from using subsidiaries to do business with Iran.
James D. Besser/Washington - Washington Correspondent

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This week Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) introduced legislation intended to close a loophole in existing Iran sanctions that has allowed some American companies — including Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former employer — to continue doing business with Iran’s oil sector despite U.S. and international sanctions.

At hearings of the Senate Commerce Committee on Monday, Lautenberg focused on Iran’s role in encouraging Palestinian terrorism, and cited the case of a 22-year-old Teaneck, N.J. woman, Sara Duker, who was killed by Hamas terrorists in 1996.

“Without Iranian financial support, Hamas and other terror groups would not be able to carry out their attacks,” Lautenberg told Senate colleagues. “As President Bush has said, ‘money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations.’ So it’s stunning to me that some American companies like Halliburton have conducted business with terrorist states like Iran, in defiance of laws against it.”

Lautenberg said his Stop Doing Business with Terrorists Act would toughen existing sanctions and close the loopholes that have allowed foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to continue doing business with rogue nations.


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http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13996



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