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Demonstrator's day in court: Cases tossed against 8 who protested visit by Cheney
MIKE SIMONS / Tulsa World
Judy Ramsey (left) reads a statement as Angela Spotts and Carl “Huti” Hoyt listen outside Municipal Court on Thursday. The three were among 10 people who were charged with illegally refusing a police order during an April 27 protest against Vice President Dick Cheney in Tulsa. The charges were dismissed Thursday after the police officers failed to appear in court.


By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
6/22/2007
Last Modified: 6/22/2007 2:47 AM

Misdemeanor charges were dismissed Thursday against eight of 10 demonstrators who were arrested during Vice President Dick Cheney's April 27 visit to Tulsa.

The two others had previously pleaded no contest to the same charges.

The 10 were spelling out the word "impeach" with their bodies by lying down in Sixth Street while Cheney was speaking at a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe in the Doubletree Hotel Downtown.

The 10 were charged with illegally refusing a police order.

Greg Bledsoe, an attorney for the eight who were scheduled to appear Thursday afternoon in Municipal Judge Brad Powers' courtroom, said the case was dismissed after the arresting officers failed to appear.

In similar fashion, charges were dismissed earlier this month against author Billie Letts for her part in the demonstration.

Seven of the defendants addressed reporters on the plaza outside the police and municipal courts building.

Judy Ramsey of Tulsa said, "I took the actions I did in the hopes of bringing some attention to the facts -- that this administration, and specifically the vice president, manipulated the American
public into this war . . . (and) is disregarding the Constitution.

"I will submit to the rule of law but believe the real criminals in this case are running the country," she said.

The other statements were in much the same vein. Several also mentioned Inhofe, with one, Joni LeViness of Tulsa, saying the senator "continues to use his position of power to perpetuate falsehoods and downright willful ignorance."

Charges were dismissed Thursday against Ramsey, LeViness, Carl "Huti" Reynolds, Jean McMahon, the Rev. Valerie Mapstone Ackerman, Angela Spotts, the Rev. Melinda Foster and the Rev. Jay Hoyt.

Mapstone Ackerman, who has since moved to New York, was not present Thursday.

Clark Inkanish and Harry Allison had earlier pleaded no contest in the case.

Cheney says US law doesn't apply to him

Cheney says US law doesn't apply to him
Cheney says US law doesn't apply to him
June 22, 2007

Washington, D.C. - Vice President Cheney's office tried to abolish the National Archives' office after catching him circumventing the system for overseeing classified documents, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman reported Thursday.
Vice President Cheney's office tried to abolish the National Archives' office after catching him circumventing the system for overseeing classified documents, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman reported Thursday.

According to letters released by the committee, the vice president's office said it was not an "entity within the executive branch" and was therefore exempt from rules established in a presidential order for the National Archives to oversee classified information.

After receiving repeated requests to comply by the oversight office at the National Archives, and a follow-up request to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asking that he help resolve the matter, Cheney's office instead retaliated, recommending the National Archives office be disbanded, the Waxman letter said.

William Leonard, head of the National Archives office in question, told the Oversight Committee that Cheney's team attempted to get a provision in the presidential order -- which is currently being revised -- that would have prevented the National Archives from appealing to the attorney general.

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White House Defends Cheney's Refusal of Oversight - washingtonpost.com

ONE MORE REASON TO IMPEACH CHENEY!!!

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 23, 2007; Page A02

The White House defended Vice President Cheney yesterday in a dispute over his office's refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified information as Democrats and other critics assailed him for disregarding rules that others follow.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Cheney is not obligated to submit to oversight by an office that safeguards classified information, as other members and parts of the executive branch are. Cheney's office has contended that it does not have to comply because the vice president serves as president of the Senate, which means that his office is not an "entity within the executive branch."

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"This is a little bit of a nonissue," Perino said at a briefing dominated by the issue. Cheney is not subject to the executive order, she said, "because the president gets to decide whether or not he should be treated separately, and he's decided that he should."

Democratic critics said Cheney is distorting the plain meaning of the executive order. "Vice President Cheney is expanding the administration's policy on torture to include tortured logic," said Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.). "In the end, neither Mr. Cheney or his staff is above the law or the Constitution."

The dispute stems from an executive order, issued in 1995 by President Bill Clinton and revised by President Bush in 2003, establishing a uniform, government-wide system for protecting classified information. Cheney's office, like its predecessor, filed reports about its handling of classified information to the National Archives and Records Administration oversight office in 2001 and 2002 but has refused to do so since. His office also blocked an on-site inspection to examine its handling of classified data.

The Archives' Information Security Oversight Office sent two letters to Cheney requesting compliance but never received a response. The office then asked Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in January to decide whether Cheney was violating the executive order, but he has not responded either. Instead, according to Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), Cheney's staff tried to get the oversight office abolished this year.

Perino said the president does not think the office should be eliminated, "and I don't think that anyone has suggested that." Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride would not comment on the record yesterday about whether the office targeted the oversight office or why Cheney's staff complied with the order in 2001 and 2002 and then decided not to in 2003.

The argument that Cheney's office is not part of the executive branch prompted ridicule by many administration critics. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a group that has been highly critical of the White House, suggested that Cheney is "attempting to create a fourth branch of the government." If he is not governed by executive branch security requirements, the group asked if he is covered by Senate rules.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) said he plans to propose next week, as part of a spending bill for executive operations, a measure to place a hold on funds for Cheney's office and official home until he clarifies to which branch of the government he belongs. Emanuel acknowledged that the proposal is just a stunt, but he said that if Cheney is not part of the executive branch, he should not receive its funds. "As we say in Chicago, follow the money," he said.

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Impeachment PROGRESS Update: Kucinich News, Google Words and More

KUCINICH ADDS THE NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL TO HIS OWN SITE!!

dear Friends and Activists,

We have huge news. Dennis Kucinich, the man who had the courage to
call for the impeachment of Cheney when nobody else would raise their
hand, has now FURTHER stepped up to the plate to add an action button
for the National Cheney Impeachment Poll to his own presidential
campaign web site in a prominent position on ALL pages. So many of
you have written us to ask if there wasn't more we could do to
support Dennis, and so at our end we have set up a donations page
dedicated specifically for his campaign.

KUCINICH DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

This special page will send you directly the Kucinich Act Blue
gateway, or you can simply and easily print out a page to make a mail
donation from the same form. We're asking all our participants who
can to really step up themselves and support the campaign of this man
who is fighting so hard for the policy change we want. Let's show
Dennis how much we appreciate someone who is standing up for what we
all believe.

For our part we want to continue to run the blog ads which have given
this initiative so much visibility so far. There are now more than
70,000 votes in the poll, of which 99.22 percent say YES, Cheney
should be impeaced. And we want to add Google ads into the mix to
reach an even wider audience. They are quoting us 10 cents a click,
which at that price means we need $1,000 for each additional 10,000
votes done that way. If some of you can kick in a little something
extra, please do so now so we can keep moving the numbers up.

AD DONATIONS: http://www.usalone.com/donations.php

We would also like to thank the more than 200 sites and blogs who
have responded to our call to add action buttons for the National
Cheney Impeachment Poll to their own pages. We're sure we have at
least a thousand more participants who could follow the lead of
Dennis Kucinich and do the same thing too. If it's good enough for
his site, what about YOUR page? Please get the code for the action
buttons from this page and you can even display a dynamic count of
the votes as they come in.

ACTION BUTTONS: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment2.php

Let's make the National Cheney Impeachment Poll a prominent feature
of the political landscape by putting it on all our pages, and you
will automatically get a link BACK to your site from the main action
pages.

NEW SIMPLIFIED CANVASSING VOTE SHEETS

Some of you have been very active collecting votes in your local
communities in person. But we have had feedback that some of the
people you approach may not have email addresses, and some have
suggested they could get more votes if that were not required. As a
result we have decided to greatly simplify the process. With the new
voting gathering sheet you can get a street address instead. Or if
the previous version is working for you keep up with that.

CANVASSING SHEETS: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_votesheet.php

By the way, you may have heard it reported that Cheney is himself
even now pressuring Bush to pardon Scooter Libby, to keep him from
spilling the beans on the rest of their constitutional crimes. Well,
John Dean, who ought to know a little something about impeachment,
says THAT interference standing alone constitutes an impeachable
obstruction of justice, whether the president has the technical power
to grant a pardon or not. It is still an obstruction of justice to
exercise that power to frustrate an ongoing investigation.

Wow, that's a lot of news in just one week. And we're just getting
warmed up folks.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
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