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	A Pretext for War - by Kevin B. Zeese
		Pretext also takes the only minute-by-minute look (about one-third of the book) at the confusion and chaos taking place among senior officials in Washington and elsewhere in the hours following the 9/11 attack.
		Finally, Pretext closely examines the numerous lies and deceptions presented to the Congress, the American public, and the world in order to justify the war in Iraq.
		And they are succeeding to a remarkable degree, largely because of the nonstop drumbeat of fear and paranoia generated over the issue and the steady, numbing regularity of their attacks on civil liberties.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/zeese.php?articleid=6054 (2623 words)

	PRIMER FOR INVESTIGATIVE PRETEXT \| A guide for today's investigator. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		pretext n 1: something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason [syn: stalking-horse] 2: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretence]
		While not endorsing pretext, it did establish that the mere use of a ruse was not sufficient to create damages.
		In this instance of suspected arson, the adjuster posed as a state policeman, threatened the insured with prosecution (in the role of adjuster) and implied to neighbors that the insured had set the fire.
	www.floridadetectives.com /art_pretext.htm (1567 words)

	Pretext Seizures: The Constitutional Question
		Finding that the defendant had been treated as a murder suspect when arrested and not as a minor traffic offender,7 the trial court concluded without precedent that the arrest was unlawful because it was pretextual and that the evidence obtained as a result of that arrest were fruits of the poisonous tree.
		The district court found that the pretext nature of the seizure was evidenced by officers' testimony that traffic stops often were used to confiscate weapons from organized crime figures and that the stop was made more than 2 miles from the traffic violation.
		Unless the Supreme Court resolves the issue of pretext seizures by adopting the "could have" test, these accurate, detailed records may be the governemnt's best defense to claims of pretext.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/cri17.htm (2151 words)

	Pretext Services, Inc. - Corporate Investigations
		In keeping with the trend of litigation, Pretext has specialists to handle investigative assignments in workplace matters involving sexual harassment, job discrimination, wrongful discharge, organized theft, embezzlement and intellectual property crimes.
		Since its inception in 1977, Pretext has been called upon to detect or investigate franchise, copyright and patent violations in more than forty states and twenty countries.
		This area of expertise has separated Pretext from the competition, particularly in high profile cases involving wrongful death claims, product liability or patent litigation where the damages claimed are often catastrophic.
	www.pretextpi.com /corporate.html (713 words)

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		Pretext callers may contact financial institution employees, posing as their customers, in order to access customers' personal account information.
		Pretext calling-The GLBA prohibits the making of false or fraudulent statements or representations to an officer, employee, or agent of a financial institution, or to a customer of a financial institution, to obtain customer information (15 USC 6821).
		While this statute is generally aimed at persons who victimize banks and their customers by attempting to obtain customer information through pretexting, banks could themselves be in violation of this statute if they use the services of any person who obtains customer information in violation of the statute.
	www.occ.treas.gov /ftp/advisory/2001-4.txt (4453 words)

	Pretext Services, Inc. - Media Clips
		PRETEXT aids defense counsel in the successful acquittal of defendant through the preparation of witness biographies for cross-examination in a twenty five year historical conspiracy case.
		PRETEXT founder develops evidence resulting in the indictment of federal agents and co-conspirators in a major drug trafficking organization responsible for smuggling more than 50 tons of cocaine.
		The PRETEXT investigation caused concern to plaintiff counsel as to the damage claims and original representations of plaintiff witnesses.
	www.pretextpi.com /media.html (1202 words)

	Part 29: Iraq Occupation, anatomy of pretext
		Pretext, comes from the Latin, “praetextus,” which is the past participle of the verb, “prae-texere”; where the prefix “prae” means, in front, and the word “texere: means, weave.
		That is, a person who using a pretext to implement a plan, would like you to believe that his premise is right and verifiable by facts (his own facts,) thus “empowering” you to confer your own sense of legitimacy to it.
		Pretext, however, is a negotiable commodity when political expediency or overwhelming international contingency dictates the decision to accept or reject it.
	onlinejournal.com /artman/publish/article_120.shtml (2695 words)

	Pen & Inc UK - Poetry Books, Fiction Books, Pretext - Contribute to Pretext and Reactions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pretext is a literary magazine of debate and criticism and, most importantly, a magazine of the imagination.
		Submissions to Reactions and Pretext must be your own original work and not accepted for publication anywhere else (although poems due to appear in a first collection will be considered).
		Submissions for Pretext and Reactions should be sent to: The Editor, Pen and Inc Press, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK.
	www.inpressbooks.co.uk /penandinc/penandinc_contribute.aspx (350 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush wrong to use pretext as excuse to invade Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While the administration is under increasing pressure to make its case for invasion, using as pretexts supposed instances such as these carries grave dangers.
		One of the most outrageous uses of pretext took place during the Kennedy administration after the failed Bay of Pigs operation, in which the CIA wrongly underestimated the amount of internal support for Fidel Castro.
		History is layered with the bodies of those who have died when someone mistakes zealotry for patriotism and pretext for truth.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2002-08-29-usat-opin-bamford_x.htm (993 words)

	Robert Douglas - Pretext Calls - Identity Theft
		Pretext calling is associated with many of the 750,000 reported cases of identity theft each year, Douglas said, “It’s happening to all banks, large and small.
		It is occurring hundreds if not thousands of times each day across the country.” Put in monetary perspective, pretext calling certainly is associated with a significant portion of the $17 billion lost from check fraud alone last year.
		Pretext calling was made illegal by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which requires bank regulators to make sure all financial institutions have policies and procedures in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of customer financial information and to deter and detect fraudulent access to such information.
	www.privacytoday.com /bankersnews2.htm (813 words)

	SSRN-Pretext, Transparency and Motive in Mass Restitution Litigation by Anthony Sebok
		I argue that the "pretext" upon most of the litigation was based - that the states could pursue claims for compensation based on their health care expenditures for smokers without running into the same problems that doomed smokers' personal injury cases - obscured a deeper, more dangerous legal claim based on consumer fraud statutes.
		These statutory consumer fraud claims still depended on controversial assumptions about proximate cause, but were sufficiently strong from a legal point of view that they could have persuaded the tobacco industry to accept "legal peace" with the states.
		I conclude by suggesting that the structure of the MSA, which employs a set of public-law remedies, is a fitting response to the litigation, which cloaked laudatory political aims within the pretext of a claim for redress under private law.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=627441 (489 words)

	Pretext #18 - Employment Law 101
		Pretext: Jane will provide evidence that the non-discriminatory reason relied on by the employer is really a pretext for sex discrimination.
		Usually she needs to have proof that the employer's reason was manufactured, or the employer shifted from one reason to another, or something else to indicate that the employer's reason is false (that is, it's a pretext).
		If Jane can provide evidence of pretext, she should be able to move to Step Two - the Trial.
	www.lawmemo.com /101/2006/01/pretext_18.html (511 words)

	FRB: Supervisory Letter SR 01-11 (SUP) on identity theft and pretext calling -- April 26, 2001
		To prevent pretext callers from using pieces of personal information to impersonate account holders in order to gain access to their account information, the Guidelines require banks and other financial institutions to establish written policies and procedures to control access to customer information.
		Other measures that may reduce the incidence of pretext calling include limiting the circumstances under which customer information may be disclosed by telephone.
		In the event the only known or suspected criminal violation detected is the identity theft or pretext calling, then write in "identity theft" or "pretext calling," as appropriate, in the "Other" category in Part III, Box 35, and provide a description of the activity in Part V of the SAR.
	www.federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/srletters/2001/sr0111.htm (1363 words)

	Amazon.com: A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies: Books: James Bamford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After 9/11, he asserts, the Bush administration used the attacks as a pretext for a long-planned invasion of Iraq; a Defense Department intelligence unit was set up to tout trumped-up evidence against Saddam, which, Bamford says, CIA analysts were pressured into endorsing.
		Lest we forget, the first 60 pages of A Pretext for War give a harrowing replay of the hijackings of 9/11, as seen first from the Air National Guard's Northeast Air Defense Sector, tracking the planes on radar as they pursue their deadly course.
		It was simply a pretext for war long advocated by a small group of hard-line neoconservatives'.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385506724?v=glance (3149 words)

	Pretext
		Pretext (YN–89) was laid down 1 May 1943 by American Car and Foundry Co., Wilmington, Del.; reclassified AN–76 on 17 January 1944; launched 23 May 1944; completed and delivered to the Navy 5 August 1944.
		Pretext (AN–76) was transferred tinder Lend Lease to the United Kingdom 5 August 1944.
		Upon completion of wartime duty with the United Kingdom, she returned to the U.S., arriving Norfolk, Va., 22 November 1945.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p11/pretext.htm (171 words)

	Inventing a Pretext for War - DemocracyRising.US
		In addition to writing, he spent most of the decade of the 1990s as the Washington Investigative Producer for the ABC News program World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
		Ironically, at the same time the CIA was unwilling to penetrate al Qaeda, during the summer of 2001 about seven or eight Americans joined up with little difficulty, including John Walker Lindh, a college drop out from Northern California.
		And they are succeeding to a remarkable degree, largely because of the non-stop drumbeat of fear and paranoia generated over the issue and the steady, numbing regularity of their attacks on civil liberties.
	democracyrising.us /content/view/226/164 (2415 words)

	Jacket 18 - Charles Alexander reviews The Pretext by Rae Armantrout
		A pretext is something put forward as a reason or excuse.
		Armantrout, perversely, may be literal (can the literal be perverse?), in which case pretext is pre-text, before the text.
		But I’ve gone off on a tangent when what I wanted to do was swallow my own pretext.” And in that ending sentence Armantrout has done just that, swallowed her own pretext.
	jacketmagazine.com /18/alex-arma.html (1034 words)

	A Pretext for War by Kevin B. Zeese
		A Pretext for War by Kevin B. Zeese
		His most recent book, A Pretext For War:9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, examines intelligence-gathering related to the Iraq War and 9/11.
		Zeese: Tell me about your current book, A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/zeese1.html (2564 words)

	The Pretext by Edith Wharton : Arthur's Classic Novels
		The Pretext Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library About the electronic version The Pretext Wharton, Edith Creation of machine-readable version Judy Boss Conversion to TEI-conformant markup University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center ca.
		A pretext -- she had been a pretext.
		He had used her name to screen some one else -- or perhaps merely to escape from a situation of which he was weary.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/wharton/pretxt10.html (8918 words)

	txp:global variable pretext \| Textpattern \| rDS
		However, as compooter have checked, all parts of the pretext array can be called this way.
		Outputs the sitename specified in the TXP preferences.
		Old article I know, but just thought it worth adding that you need to explicitly declare the global variable before you can use it – so in your PHP you must do “global $pretext;” before referring to any of its array parts.
	rise.lewander.com /textpattern/97/txpglobal-variable-pretext (338 words)

	Part 30: Iraq Occupation, pretext, encroachment, and colonialism
		Parading naked inmates, leashing them, raping them, and forcing them to perform sexual aberrations, are all expression of a line of command and mentality that goes from the president down and implicates the majority of the American society.
		As far as it concerns violence with sexual connotations, the relation is dialectical, i.e., the U.S. of George W. Bush is intentionally exercising the sex aberration options as a part of war.
		Actively, however, Bush’s defiance was a pretext to intensify his own personal hate and lust for violence against the Iraqis whom he regards as terrorists.
	onlinejournal.com /artman/publish/article_121.shtml (2705 words)

	How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989) RICHARD SANDERS / Coalition to Oppose the ...
		Perhaps the most common pretext for war is an apparently unprovoked enemy attack.
		Pretext incidents, in themselves, are not sufficient to spark wars.
		We now face another broad thematic pretext for war, the so-called “War Against Terrorism.” We are told it will be waged in many countries and may continue for generations.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2002/How-To-Start-A-WarMay02.htm (5724 words)

	Inside the failed Air Force scramble to prevent 9/11 - Books - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 'A Pretext for War,' James Bamford argues that Bush policies weakened U.S. ability to defend against attacks such as 9/11.
		In a new book, "A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies," investigative journalist James Bamford takes the Bush administration to task for allegedly weakening American defenses and for trying to justify the invasion of Iraq by making connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.
		Once in the school, the President ducked into an empty classroom and spoke on the phone with his national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, and asked her to keep him informed.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5315883 (4860 words)

	Opertaion Detect Pretext
		In each of the three cases the courts temporarily enjoined the defendant from continuing the illegal practices and imposed a partial freeze of assets pending a hearing.
		The Commission has been actively involved in the fight against pretexting since April 1999, when it filed suit against Touch Tone Information Systems, Inc., alleging that pretexting is deceptive and unfair in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
		In January 2001, the Commission announced the kickoff of "Operation Detect Pretext." As part of this effort, FTC staff, after screening 1,000 Web sites and reviewing more than 500 print media advertisements, identified approximately 200 firms that offered to obtain and sell asset or bank account information to third parties.
	www.ftc.gov /opa/2001/04/pretext.htm (888 words)

	Pen & Inc UK - Poetry Books, Fiction Books, Pretext - Pen & Inc Press
		It now publishes literary magazine âPretextâ, poetry anthology âReactionsâ, and a showcase of the Universityâs MA studentsâ writing.
		Pretext 11: This Little World features exclusive new writing that examines how the world talks via literature.
		Pretext 10: On The Market features exclusive new writing that explores the relationship between business and creativity.
	www.inpressbooks.co.uk /penandinc (245 words)

	Identity Theft - Pretext - Financial Privacy - Information Brokers
		H.R. Although I was specifically asked to address the use of pretext and other deceptive techniques to access confidential financial information, I would like to make a few brief observations concerning HR 4311.
		He says the law lets licensed investigators use such tricks as "pretext calling," fooling company employees into divulging customer data over the phone (legal in all but a few states).
		As with the pretext of financial institutions two years ago, the presenters of these classes and the developers of this database claim that this is all legal.
	www.privacytoday.com /bankingtestimony2000.htm (10041 words)

	Martial Law: The Pretext Is Now Set
		Along with forced gun grabs and evacuation, we have further exposed the intricacies of the operative federalized Police State, with the presence of foreign troops, SWAT teams, privately employed security mercenaries, the treatment of citizens as "insurgents" and evacuees as "internees" and the euthanization and inoculation of survivors.
		The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was all incompetence or part incompetence and part malevolence, the lasting pretext is the same.
		FEMA is clearly using this human catastrophe as a means of executing its decade long plans and providing the pretext for future takeover scenarios of all major American cities.
	infowars.net /Pages/Sept05/280905Martiallaw.htm (2170 words)

	Reviewing “A Pretext for War” by James Bamford
		In this book there are two arguments I am going to go cracked-logic hunting for- the ‘pretext’ argument and the ulterior motives arguments.
		It's this kind of responsibility evading that is a good example (among many) of why the Left deserves it's bad image and disdain.
		I'd like to see the comparative studies, but I know there are none, and that the author is spewing out Leftwing clichés, again playing to the ignorant element of his Leftwing audience.
	maui.globat.com /~waynebiro-creations.com/Book_Review_A_Pretext_For_War.html (4194 words)

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