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Posted: 06 Sep 2009 01:39 AM PDT






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Administration Seeks to Keep Terror Watch-List Secret


Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:26 PM PDT




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The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of
terrorist watch-list information it routinely shares with federal, state
and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficult
for people who have been improperly included on such lists to challenge
the government.


Intelligence officials in the administration are pressing for
legislation that would exempt “terrorist identity information” from
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Such information — which
includes names, aliases, fingerprints and other biometric identifiers — is
widely shared with law enforcement agencies and intelligence “fusion
centers,” which combine state and federal counterterrorism resources.


Still, some officials say public disclosure of watch-list data
risks alerting terrorism suspects that they are being tracked and may help
them evade surveillance.


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Oregon Preppers Stockpile And Prepare For Calamity


Posted: 05 Sep 2009 10:16 PM PDT




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Veterinarian Richard Kimball of Burns has noticed a disturbing
trend among some of his friends. A Rockaway Beach couple has stockpiled
food and assembled survival backpacks for their three adult children in
Portland and Eugene. “If chaos arises, they can put the backpacks on so
they can get home,” said Kimball, 72. “There is a pistol in each of the
backpacks.”


Another longtime friend, a Harney County cattle rancher,
recently bought an AK-47 assault rifle and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
“Does that tell you anything?” Kimball asked. “He’s scared.”


La Grande welder and gunsmith Jim Rector, meanwhile, said he
has supplies and a jetboat at the ready to carry him and his wife to a
secluded hideout along the Snake River.


They’re all signs that the survivalist movement, slumbering
since the Y2K scare and, before that, Jimmy Carter’s bumpy presidency, has
been shaken awake.


Government officials, academics, authors and others in
addition to those doing the stockpiling say a growing number of
people are independently building caches of food, weapons and precious
metals such as gold.


As in earlier movements, survivalists are centered in
conservative, rural areas such as eastern Oregon. Only this time, many
prefer to be called “preppers for preparedness and are driven by fears,
stoked by Barack Obama’s presidency, that economic catastrophe, sweeping
technological failure and societal upheaval are just around the
corner.


And though the movement intersects with a wave of weapon and
ammunition hoarding among some who fear that Obama will clamp down on gun
rights, there’s little talk of forming militias as in past survivalist
movements.


“People fear change; people get angry when they don’t
understand something,” said La Grande City Councilman Steve Clements, 52,
who teaches finance and information systems at Eastern Oregon University.
“I think there is a lot of fear associated with having the first black
president.”


La Grande’s Mike Sirrine, a Vietnam veteran and retired human
resources manager who has added guns to his arsenal and is stockpiling
beans and rice, said it’s not that clear-cut.


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