http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug2008/fbi-a25.shtml

Bush administration widens domestic spy agency powers

By Naomi Spencer
25 August 2008

In recent weeks, Bush administration officials have introduced a number of provisions that substantially widen the powers of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to conduct spying and other operations within the US against American citizens.

Last week, several news outlets reported that the Justice Department had drafted new rules on intelligence gathering operations which it plans to ratify on October 1, the first day of the new fiscal year and one month before the November elections.

Excellent interview. Good job Mike. - Jon

Source: 911truth.org

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Talk radio station CKNX in Wingham, Ontario hosted a discussion with Dr. Sunder and Dr. MacQueen on Monday morning. MacQueen had this to say of the talk;

This moderated discussion between Shyam Sunder and me took place beginning at 11:05 a.m. on August 25, 2008. The talk show host, Bryan Allen of CKNX Radio, had interviewed Barrie Zwicker and me previously, and I found him very reasonable and open, so when he asked me if I would appear with Shyam Sunder I agreed. I thought Bryan did a good job in this discussion.

I don't offer this radio appearance as proof of my prowess or as a claim of "victory." I think things are much more complex than that. Sunder is a cool customer and in this interview he does well, I think, especially given what I regard as the absurdity of what he's defending. I have no idea how this show would have come across to the average listener: maybe they'd be reassured by him and would conclude I'm a nut. But the questions of both the interviewer and the call-in guy are encouragingly good and suggest that the new report will not be passively accepted by everyone.

In any case, we need to do these debates when we can and after they’re finished we need to listen to them to see where NIST's strong and weak points are and how we might improve our own position and method. It is in this spirit that I offer the audio of this discussion.

Graeme MacQueen

Streaming Putfile here;
http://media.putfile.com/Dr-Graeme-MacQueen-and-Dr-Shyam-Sunder

Download here (8mb);
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/macqueen-sunder-8-25-2008.mp3

Previous presentation by Macqueen; (3.19.2008)
http://www.911blogger.com/node/15793

"WTC 7 explanation falls short" {Letter to the Editor of The Houston Chronicle}

After I read Friday's Page A8 article, "Sept. 11 building enigma solved in investigation," and reviewed the National Institute of Standards and Technology Web site http://www.nist.gov/, I can only conclude that the "final" and official government explanation of why World Trade Center tower 7 collapsed is a far cry from a plausible explanation.

WTC 7, which was not struck by a plane and had only minor isolated fires, collapsed in perfect symmetry at literally free-fall speed. Prior to 9/11 no steel structured building had ever collapsed or even come close to collapsing due to fire. The official explanation that this symmetrical eight-second collapse was due to "thermal expansion" of the steel structure because of scattered and isolated fires defies common sense and the most elementary laws of physics. The computer model presented on the NIST Web site does not even match the video of the actual collapse.