Secret Service Agents Seek Immunity From Suit Over Steven Howards Arrest For Confronting Dick Cheney

By DAN ELLIOTT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/26/secret-service-agents-see_n_937705.html

DENVER -- Two Secret Service agents on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to rule that they are immune from a lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who claims they violated his First Amendment rights when he was arrested for confronting then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

Steven Howards was arrested in the resort town of Beaver Creek in 2006 after he touched Cheney on the arm and told him his Iraq War policies were "disgusting." The lawsuit claims that agents Virgil D. "Gus" Reichle Jr. and Dan Doyle arrested him in retaliation for criticizing Cheney.

Howards originally sued several agents, claiming they violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as his right to free speech. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled all the agents were immune on the Fourth Amendment claims, and that all the agents except Reichle and Doyle were immune on the free speech claim.

The widely distributed German popular science magazine "Welt der Wunder" published in its new september edition a 9-page article with critical questions about 9/11. The magazine which sells about 250.000 copies and is edited by "Bauer Verlag", one of Germany´s biggest publishing houses, focuses on questions arising from the "9/11 Commission Report", especially regarding the failure of the air defense and for example the case of "main witness" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to whom the "9/11 Commission" had no access at all. The article´s headline reads "11 truths about 9/11". The author of the text contacted me a few weeks ago, because of my recently published book "Inside 9/11", and consulted with me during writing. Hopefully the article causes more people to think about the issue. For German speaking readers I have posted a scan of it here: http://www.inside-911.de/wdw.pdf

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/25/303774/newscorp-911-bush-promo/

By Lee Fang on Aug 25, 2011

News Corp. employee Sean Hannity rides along with the former president in his truck on the Bush "ranch"

After spending over a decade promoting President Bush, the PATRIOT Act, and the Iraq War, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation appears to be up to the same tricks, this time with an hour-long promotional video about Bush’s leadership during the 9/11 attacks. Although News Corp. is perhaps best known for its Bush cheerleading through its Fox News subsidiary, the Bush documentary is airing on another News Corp. company with a better brand image, National Geographic.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/dick-cheney-betrays-george-bush-new-boo

By John Amato
August 26, 2011

Dick Cheney is once again telling everyone how much he loves waterboarding and torture. NBC is teasing an in-depth interview about Cheney's new book, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, which is being released at the end of August. Other bits and pieces are coming out to help promote the sales of the book like this article in the NY Times today: Cheney Says He Urged Bush to Bomb Syria in ’07

During George Bush's entire presidency the question of how much influence and authority VP Dick Cheney was given was always been part of the discussion. Cheney openly disdained rules, conventions and laws, pushing the concept of the Unitary Executive further than Nixon ever dreamed. Was Cheney making all the important policy decisions? Cheney once believed he was highly qualified to be president and threw out a trial balloon in 1996.