2005.10.16=7[#289]:9.14=#(60x4+10)[US#70] Venezuela, Unclothed? Taiwan's live fall election debate, Hakka Sch., shopping. #0."Expendable Elite"?

Americans for Vnzla: http://tinyurl.com/85449 Unclothed PresBush?: http://tinyurl.com/anfew Starving USA? http://tinyurl.com/d26gp Fair cool to mild: Up 6:50, hair bath shaving, Mei moves Chen's boxes to a corner, then picks fruit, off to Hakka School first. ETTV [[ http://tinyurl.com/9vb38 > http://tinyurl.com/ax596 ]] live Taiwan's first local election debate: 4 candidates for Miaoli governor. 10:43am still on, for H.S.: cha-cha, then simple lunch & Dju et al talk about medical insurance. To o.h., miso-soup lunch & enjoy NHK's Korean drama, "Winter Sonata", then to Hub for their shopping. Home: Jun & missed dog, Snow Ball are back today. From an email to "#0", one example of defending the US Constitution's 1st Amendment? Bed 12:40 immediately. #0. US Press Freedom challenged? A. "Expendable Elite", by Daniel Marvin: 1. Daniel Marvin: http://tinyurl.com/79482 ""Daniel Marvin is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces and former Green Beret who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. He lives in Cazenovia, New York."" 2. "Expendable Elite: One Soldier's Journey into Covert Warfare" (Special Forces Secret Tales series) (Paperback), by Daniel Marvin; Trine Day (June 1, 2004): http://tinyurl.com/7lef5 3. "Expendable Elite: One Soldier's Journey into Covert Warfare" (Hardcover), by Martha Raye (Foreword), Daniel Marvin; Trine Day (May 1, 2003): http://tinyurl.com/cnl6w http://tinyurl.com/74fy3 "" Editorial Reviews: Book Description: This true story of a special forces officer in Vietnam in the mid-1960s exposes the unique nature of the elite fighting force and how covert operations are developed and often masked to permit—and even sponsor—assassination, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force, and bizarre methods in combat operations. Expendable Elite reveals the fear that these warriors share with no other military person: not fear of the enemy they have been trained to fight in battle, but fear of the wrath of the U.S. government should they find themselves classified as “expendable.” This book centers on the CIA mission to assassinate Cambodian Crown Prince Nordum Sihanouk, the author’s unilateral aborting of the mission, the CIA's dispatch of an ARVN regiment to attack and destroy the camp and kill every person in it as retribution for defying the agency, and the dramatic rescue of eight American Green Berets and hundreds of South Vietnamese. "" 4. http://expendableelite.com/lawsuit1/index.html or http://tinyurl.com/7msx5 " "Lt. Colonel Marvin-TrineDay: Legal Defense Fund We Are Fighting For Our Lives!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harassment lawsuit threatens to bankrupt small publisher and silence a citizen's First Admendment Rights. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our lawyers say they need $15,000 before our Halloween court date to proceed. Please Help Us!! We are just regular folk, already stretched thin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 72 Year-Old Lt. Col. "Dangerous Dan" Daniel Marvin and TrineDay, an Oregon publishing house, are defending themselves in a costly legal battle to excercise their first admendment rights in Federal District Court beginning this October 31, 2005 in Charleston, South Carolina. Lt. Colonel Marvin's book, Expendable Elite – One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare, is a Vietnam wartime story of his experience commanding an independent Special Forces operation in 1966 in the An Phu District among the Hao Hoas (Wha Hows), a militant Buddhist sect. The book was written in 1988 and published in 2003 by TrineDay. The Special Forces Association (SFA), a veterans' fraternal organization has tried to brashly influence these legal proceedings. The SFA has bankrolled the plantiff's action, supplying lawyers, and apparently even advancing expense money to the plantiffs. The SFA has intruded into our private legal meetings, and the SFA has a history of "steamrolling" other historical revelations. "" B. Miller Story: http://tinyurl.com/cx6by "" 'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman "", by E&P [Editor & Publisher] Staff; Published: October 16, 2005 4:00 PM ET: http://tinyurl.com/cx6by "" NEW YORK Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday, much of the Web has been abuzz with the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq at one point. The issue came to the fore after Miller, in recounting her grand jury testimony, wrote about how her former classified status figured in her discussions with I. Lewis Libby. She was even pressed by the prosecutor on this matter. E&P columnist William E. Jackson Jr., had first raised this issue last year. On Sunday, former CBS national security correspondent Bill Lynch posted his views in a long letter about it at the Romenesko site at poynter.org. Here is the letter: * There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller's Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller's revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded with the WMD search team in Iraq in 2003. This is as close as one can get to government licensing of journalists and the New York Times (if it knew) should never have allowed her to become so compromised. It is all the more puzzling that a reporter who as a matter of principle would sacrifice 85 days of her freedom to protect a source would so willingly agree to be officially muzzled and thereby deny potentially valuable information to the readers whose right to be informed she claims to value so highly. ""