inignoct wrote:
] ] In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in
] ] decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn
] ] over records about a gathering of anti-war activists.
] ]
] ] In addition to the subpoena of Drake University,
] ] subpoenas were served this past week on four of the
] ] activists who attended a Nov. 15 forum at the school,
] ] ordering them to appear before a grand jury Tuesday, the
] ] protesters said.
] ]
] ] Federal prosecutors refuse to comment on the subpoenas.
]
] [ awesome. stunningly awesome. -k]

McCarthy is probably square dancing in hell right about now. Speak of the devil, I got this little gem from senate.gov...

"S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54). Closed according to Senate rules for 50 years, these hearings are now available to researchers and the public./This five-volume collection of Senate hearings is available online (in PDF format). Volumes 1-4 cover the 1953 hearings, and 1954 hearings are found in volume 5."

(http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/McCarthy_Transcripts.htm)

Amazing, it only took the public of 1953 a year to realize the abject corruption of McCarthy and his goons. How long is the basic rights rejection of this administration going to proliferate until the supposedly better-informed 2004 public finally turn the guns on the Big Giant Head? Let's all pray to God, Buddha, the planetary alignment, karma and/or nihilism that it doesn't take them much longer than it already has.

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Jan 26, 1953 Hearing
This has to do with the procurement practices in stockpiling. Today we are talking almost exclusively, I understand, about the feather buying project./At first blush, it does not seem that feathers are a strategic product, but I understand you just cannot fight a war without them. You need them for the sleeping bags, the flying jackets; so it is a very strategic material.
--Vol. 1, page 97