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An elongated strip of a sheetlike substrate bearing microelectronic elements such as semiconductor chips is advanced in a downstream direction through one or more folding stations where successive portions of the substrate are folded so as to form a strip including a plurality of fold packages, each including confronting top and bottom runs and a fold region with one or more of the runs bearing one or more microelectronic elements. The strip incorporating the plural fold packages can be wound on a reel or otherwise handled, stored and shipped to a subsequent manufacturing operation, where individual fold packages can be severed from the strip.
1. A method of forming a plurality of microelectronic packages including the steps of:
(a) advancing a strip of a sheetlike substrate in a downstream direction through one or more folding stations so that in the advancing step, the strip moves relative to the one or more folding stations to thereby convey successive portions of the substrate through the one or more folding stations; and
(b) at said one or more folding stations, folding said substrate so that plural portions of the substrate form plural folded packaging elements, each including a top run and a bottom run.
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(a) providing a substrate having a one or more elongated, relatively weak sections, each said weak section having an axis of elongation, each said weak section being less resistant to bending about its axis of elongation than adjoining sections of said substrate;
(b) securing one or more microelectronic elements to said substrate; and
(c) folding portions of said substrate at said relatively weak sections to form one or more package elements, each said package element including a top run, a bottom run and a fold connecting said top and bottom runs, said securing and folding steps being performed so that each said package element has one or more of said microelectronic elements attached to one or both of said top and bottom runs.
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This application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/561,211, filed Apr. 9, 2004, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
The present invention relates to microelectronic packaging and more particularly relates to fold packages for microelectronic elements, methods of making such packages and semi-finished assemblies and sets of such packages.
Microelectronic elements such as semiconductor chips or "dies" commonly are provided in packages which protect the die or other element from physical damage, and which facilitate mounting of the die on a circuit panel or other element. One type of microelectronic package includes a substrate, also referred to as a "tape" incorporating a dielectric layer such as a layer of a polyimide, BT resin or other polymeric material with electrically-conductive features such as terminals on the dielectric element. The die is mounted on the substrate so that a face of the die confronts the substrate, typically with a layer of a die attach adhesive between the die and the substrate. The terminals are exposed at an outer surface of the substrate, but are electrically connected to contacts on the die itself. A protective material commonly referred to as an overmolding may surround the die itself, but desirably does not cover the terminals. Such a package can be mounted on a circuit board with the outer surface of the substrate facing toward the circuit board, and with the terminals aligned with contact pads on the circuit board. Conductive bonding materials such as solder balls can be used to bond the terminals to the contact pads, so as to physically mount the package in place on the board and connect the terminals to the circuitry of the board, thereby connecting the die to the circuitry. When the package is mounted to the circuit board, the substrate lies beneath the die, between the die and the circuit board.
As disclosed, for example, in copending, commonly assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/281,550, filed Oct. 28, 2002 and published on Sep. 11, 2003 as Publication No. US2003/0168725; Ser. No. 10/077,388, filed Feb. 15, 2002; Ser. No. 10/654,375, filed Sep. 3, 2003 and published on Jun. 17, 2004 as Publication No. US2004/0115866; Ser. No. 10/655,952, filed Sep. 5, 2003 and published on May 27, 2004 as Publication No. US2004/0099938; Ser. No. 10/640,177, filed Aug. 13, 2003; Ser. No. 10/656,534, filed Sep. 5, 2003 and published on Jul. 29, 2004 as Publication No. US2004/0145054; Ser. No. 10/448,515, filed May 30, 2003 and published on Dec. 2, 2004 as Publication No. US2004/0238931; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/969,527, filed Oct. 20, 2004; in commonly assigned Published PCT International Application Nos. WO 2004/017399, filed Aug. 13, 2003 and published on Feb. 26, 2004; WO 2004/023546, filed Sep. 5, 2003 and published on Mar. 18, 2004; and WO 2004/025699, filed Sep. 8, 2003 and published on Mar. 25, 2004, and in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,121,676 and 6,699,730, the disclosures of all of the foregoing issued patents and pending applications being incorporated by reference herein, a package referred to herein as a "fold" package incorporates a generally similar substrate or tape. However, the substrate or tape in a fold package is folded so as to define a pair of superposed runs extending in generally parallel planes. One such run extends below the die, in the position occupied by the substrate of the conventional package, whereas the other run extends above the die, with tho die disposed between the runs. The bottom run typically bears terminals used to mount the package to a circuit panel or other larger substrate. In some variants of the fold package, electrically conductive components on the top run include terminals exposed at the outer surface (the surface facing upwardly away from the die and away from the bottom run), so that other packaged or unpackaged microelectronic elements can be mounted on the top run of the fold package. Fold packages of this type can be stacked, one on top of the other. The features on the top run are interconnected with the terminals or other electrically-conductive features on the bottom run by traces extending along the dielectric element. These traces extend around the fold formed in the dielectric element. In some embodiments, the contacts on the die disposed between the runs are connected to bond pads on the top run, and the traces connect these bond pads to terminals on the bottom run.
In a further variant, two or more microelectronic elements such as two or more semiconductor dies are mounted in the space between the top and bottom runs.
Still other fold packages combine these approaches, so that two or more microelectronic elements are disposed in the space between the top and bottom runs of the package, and the package has exposed terminals on both the top run and the bottom run, and hence can be stacked or otherwise combined with additional packages of the same or different types and/or with additional microelectronic elements.
Fold packages provide certain significant advantages. The traces which extend between the top and bottom runs can be formed in the normal tape-fabrication process at little additional cost, so as to provide low-cost, reliable interconnections between the two runs. The folded substrate substantially surrounds the die or other elements between the runs, and thus provides additional physical protection to these elements. Also, the substrate can include electrically conductive elements which provide electromagnetic shielding around the die or other elements disposed between the runs.
As described in certain embodiments of the co-pending, commonly assigned U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/549,176, filed Mar. 1, 2004, and naming Giles Humpston, Phillip R. Osborn and Jesse Thompson as inventors, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein, a micro-electromechanical device incorporated in a die may be mounted in a fold package. Where the device includes a microphone or other transducer, the fold package may be provided with an opening in one run of the substrate for admitting sound waves or other phenomena to be detected or measured by the transducer. The fold package may additionally define an acoustic cavity for use in conjunction with a microphone. As disclosed in certain embodiments of the co-pending commonly assigned U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/561,210, filed Apr. 9, 2004, naming Giles Humpston as the inventor, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein and a copy of which is attached hereto as Attachment 2 and forms a part hereof, a fold package used with a die sensitive to electromagnetic radiation may include a window transmissive to such radiation but adapted to physically protect the die.
Despite all of these advances in the art, however, still further improvement would be desirable. In particular, it would be desirable to provide methods of fabricating and using fold packages which facilitate fabrication and use of such packages in large volume production at low cost.
One aspect of the invention provides methods of forming a plurality of microelectronic packages. A method according to this aspect of the invention desirably includes the steps of advancing a strip of a sheetlike substrate in a downstream direction through one or more folding stations; and, folding the substrate at the folding stations so that portions of the substrate form folded packaging elements, each including a top run and a bottom run.
The folding step may include engaging successive regions of the sheet referred to herein as lift regions with at least one lifting element defining at least one surface extending in the downstream direction and sloping in an upward direction transverse to the downstream direction and transverse to the lateral or widthwise direction of the strip. In this arrangement, as each such lift region moves downstream, such lift region will be lifted progressively upwardly by the lifting element. The folding step may further include engaging guide regions of the substrate laterally offset from the lift regions with one or more guide elements disposed above the sheet. The guide elements limit upward movement of the guide regions, so that the substrate is folded about one or more fold axes extending in the downstream direction.
In other methods according to this aspect of the invention, the strip may have flaps defined by gaps extending through the thickness of the strip. The gaps may be formed during the downstream advance of the strip. The gaps may extend around three sides of a generally rectangular flap so that the flap has a juncture with the other portions of the strip, such juncture extending along the fourth side of the rectangular flap. The folding step may include lifting the flaps so that each flap is bent relative to other regions of the substrate about a juncture between the flap the other regions and so that portions of the flap remote from such juncture are lifted upwardly away from the other regions of the strip. The lifting operation may be performed by advancing a tool upwardly, transverse to the thickness of the strip.
Alternatively or additionally, where the flaps point in the downstream direction and the junctures extend in the lateral direction, the lifting operation may include moving the strip around a drum or other element so as to bend the strip about an axis extending laterally. As the strip is bent, the flaps will project upwardly from the other regions of the strip. Further advance of the strip may cause the downstream ends of the flaps to engage a flattening tool so that the downstream motion of the strip causes the flattening tool to bend the flaps back upstream relative to the other regions of the strip.
Methods as discussed above can be applied to continuous strips of indefinite length. The strips can be fed downstream in continuous or intermittent motion. The most preferred methods according to this aspect of the invention provide economical and efficient ways of forming fold packages. Prior to folding, the strip may bear the microelectronic elements to be included in the fold packages.
A further aspect of the present invention provides an article including a plurality of microelectronic packages, each such package incorporating a package element including a portion of a substrate folded so as to include top and bottom runs and a fold portion connecting said runs, each said package further including at least one microelectronic element attached to at least one of said runs, the packages being connected to one another so as to form a flexible strip of indefinite length. Such a strip of fold packages may be formed, for example, by the processes discussed above. The strip of fold packages may be bent or wrapped in spiral fashion, as, for example, on a reel. Such an article provides fold packages in a form well suited to automatic feeding in subsequent manufacturing operations. In the subsequent manufacturing operations, the strip can be advanced and individual packages can be severed from the strip.
A further aspect of the present invention provides further methods of producing microelectronic packages. Methods according to this aspect of the invention include forming first and second sets of packages. Each package includes a package element having a top run, a bottom run, a fold connecting said top and bottom runs and terminals on one of said runs, as well as a semiconductor die attached to one of said runs and electrically connected to the terminals of that package. The terminals of the packages in the first and second sets desirably are disposed in the same pattern. The packages of the first set include first semiconductor dies, whereas the packages of the second set include second semiconductor dies substantially identical in function to the first dies but having at least one horizontal dimension smaller than a corresponding horizontal dimension of the first dies. Thus packages of both sets can be mounted interchangeably, despite differences in die sizes. Methods according to this aspect of the invention thus can effectively deal with "die shrink" or changes in die dimensions due to improved die manufacturing processes while still maintaining interchangeability between packages containing different dies.
The package elements in the second set may be substantially identical to the package elements in the first set of packages. The terminals of the package elements, and bond pads used to connect the dies to the package elements, may be disposed in zones of the package elements adjacent the folds. The package elements may include energy-transmissive windows such as openings for transmitting acoustic or optical energy to or from the die.
A method according to one embodiment of the invention begins with a starting material in the form of a strip or tape 20 shown in perspective view in
At least one microelectronic element, such as a semiconductor die 50, is mounted within the guide region 40 of each package element-forming portion 36. The microelectronic element mounted within each package element-forming portion 36 is electrically connected to the metallic features as, for example, to bond pads 48. Each portion 36 of the strip is adapted to serve as a fold packaging element for the microelectronic element or elements mounted on that portion. The strip may also include intermediate portions 37 (
In the starting condition, strip 20 is of indefinite length. That is, its lengthwise dimension L is many times greater than its widthwise or lateral dimension W and hence many times greater than its thickness T, and the features of the strip are substantially uniform along the length of the strip. Typically, the length of the strip is greater than the path length traversed by the strip in the process discussed below. In the starting configuration, the strip is supplied on a reel 54, wound in a spiral on the reel and hence wound about the axis 56 of the supply reel.
In the folding method, strip 20 is advanced in a downstream direction D from supply reel 50 past a first folding station 58, also referred to as a lifting station, and a second folding station 60, also referred to herein as a flattening station or additional displacement station, and taken up on a take-up reel 62. The strip may be pulled in the downstream direction by a drive (not shown) connected to take-up reel 62, sprocket wheels or other devices (not shown) engaged with the sprocket holes 32 and 34 of the strip and driven by a drive mechanism (not shown), or in any other convenient manner. Also, the advancing movement of the strip may be continuous or intermittent. In the particular embodiment depicted in
The lifting station or first folding station 58 includes a ramp or lifting element 64 defining a lifting surface 66. Lifting surface 66 slopes in the upward direction U in the downstream direction. That is, those portions of lifting surface 66 lying further downstream are higher than those portions of the lifting surface lying further upstream. As used herein, the upward direction is a direction transverse to the downstream direction, and also transverse to the widthwise or lateral direction W of the strip. Ramp 64 is positioned so that lifting surface 66 lies within the widthwise or lateral extent of the strip adjacent the first edge 28 of the strip. Thus, as successive package element-forming portions 36 pass downstream with the advancing motion of the strip, successive lift regions 38 will encounter the lifting surface 66. The lifting surface 66 commences below the plane of the strip, but slopes upwardly to above the original plane of the strip. The lifting station 58 also includes a guide element in the form of a wheel or roller 70 disposed above the strip adjacent the boundary 42 between the lift regions 38 and guide regions 40. Thus, as each package element-forming portion 36 passes downstream through folding station 58, the lift region 38 of that portion will be forced upwardly by lifting surface 66, whereas the guide region 40 will be retained against upward motion by guide element 70, so that the lift region 38 is folded upwardly about a fold line adjacent boundary 42, as seen cross-sectional view in
As the strip passes downstream from lift station 58, it encounters flattening or additional movement station 60. Station 60 includes an upper flattening element or roller 67, and a lower flattening element or roller 68, defining a nip therebetween. The strip passes through this nip so that the upper flattening element or roller 67 engages the lift region 38 of each package element region and forces it downwardly, toward the guide region 40 and the lower flattening element 68. Stated another way, the lift region 38 of each package element-forming portion 36 is first lifted by lift surface 66 and then additionally displaced relative to the guide region 40 by the upper flattening element 67. This action brings each package element-forming portion to the configuration depicted in sectional view in
The advancing, folded strip at the downstream end of the process is wound onto take-up reel 62 in a spiral around the axis 72 of the take-up reel. The resulting semi-finished article includes a plurality of microelectronic packages, each including a package element formed from a portion 36 of the substrate, folded so as to provide top and bottom runs and a fold portion connecting the runs, and including a microelectronic element attached to one of the runs, such packages being connected to one another so as to form a flexible strip of indefinite length. The strip is bent and wrapped in a spiral, as discussed above, on the reel. In this semi-finished article, the various packages are connected to one another by the connecting portion 37.
The semi-finished article or wound strip can be used to form microelectronic assemblies. In particular, the fold packages can be fed into a further processing station by paying out the strip from the take-up reel. Each package can be detached by severing one package element-forming portion 36 from the strip. This severing operation may be conducted using a shear, punch-and-die set, or other tool which also trims the package to a desired final size. The severing operation and trimming operation may be conducted in conjunction with the operations used to mount the package to a larger assembly as, for example, by solder-bonding the terminals to a circuit board using conventional surface-mounting techniques.
The forming process can operate inexpensively at a high production rate. Moreover, providing the folded packages in a strip of indefinite length simplifies feeding and further processing steps, and thus further contributes to the overall economy of the process.
Numerous variations of the features discussed above with reference to
In yet another alternative embodiment, the doubly-folded strip shown in
In a further variant, the step of additionally displacing a lift region after lifting may be performed in whole or in part by an element having a laterally-sloping surface 265 (
In a further variant (
In the embodiments discussed above with reference to
A strip 420 used in a further embodiment of the invention incorporates dielectric layer 422. The strip includes a plurality of package element-forming portions 436 (
In the folding process, the strip is advanced lengthwise in a downstream direction D, as discussed above. At a first folding station, a lifting tool 410, seen in plan view in
The base region of each folded package is linked to the other packages in the completed strip by the remaining portions of the strip. The strip of packages formed in this manner can be handled in substantially the same way as the strips discussed above. Here again, the strip can be wound on a reel or otherwise stored in its indefinite length form and further processed, as by severing the individual packages from the strip. Although the particular strip illustrated in
In a further variant (
In the embodiments discussed above which use flaps, the flaps may be provided in the starting strip, or may be formed during the process, as by punching, laser ablating or otherwise treating the strip to form the gaps and thus define the flaps prior to the flap-bending step.
The process of
A further aspect of the further invention provides techniques for dealing with die shrink. Die shrink, as referred to herein, refers to the common practice in the microelectronics industry of progressively reducing the size of semiconductor dies during production of a die having a given function. That is, when a die manufacturer first produces dies of a given function, the dies may have relatively large horizontal dimensions. As the manufacturer gains expertise in production of the particular die, the manufacturer, or a competitor, typically is able to make the die with smaller horizontal dimensions, but with the same function. However, it may not be economically feasible or desirable to change the substrate used to form a folded package. Typically, the terminals used to secure the folded package containing a later-generation, smaller-size die to a circuit board should be disposed in the same pattern as the terminals on the package used to contain the larger earlier-generation die having the same function.
In a method according to a further embodiment of the present invention, a first set of fold packages is produced using a package element 600 (
Folding processes such as those discussed above can be facilitated by providing the substrate to be folded with a relatively weak section at the location where folding is to occur. Such section desirably is elongated and has less resistance to bending about its axis of elongation than the adjacent sections. For example, such weak sections may extend along the boundary 42 between the lift regions and guide regions in the embodiment of
A first set of packages is made using this package element and using first semiconductor dies 614. These dies have relatively large horizontal dimensions, and thus extend relatively far from fold 612 and outside of zone Z1 when the contacts 616 of the dies are bonded to the bond pads 602 of the package element and the package element is folded, as illustrated. Also, each die 614 has a sensitive region such as an acoustically-sensitive region 618. The acoustically-sensitive region 618 is displaced slightly from the center of hole 610, but still in acceptable alignment with the hole. A large number of such first packages can be manufactured using the same package element and folding procedures.
In a further step of a method according to this embodiment of the invention, additional packages are manufactured using the same package element, but using second dies 614′ (
As these and other variations and combinations of the features discussed above can be utilized, the foregoing description of the preferred embodiments should be taken by way of illustration rather than by limitation of the present invention.
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JFIC was the intelligence component of United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). In 2005, it was renamed the Joint Intelligence Command for Intelligence. Last month, JFCOM was shuttered, reportedly due to Pentagon budget cuts,… Continue reading
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A new opinion poll shows surprisingly high levels of doubt in the UK over the official story of the 9/11 attacks. The poll, conducted by ICM on behalf of Reinvestigate911.org , found that more people agree than disagree that the official account of what happened on 9/11 might turn out to be wrong in important respects. Only 8% strongly agree that they have been told the full story of the 9/11 attacks.
Of those who expressed an opinion 37% agreed that rogue elements in the American intelligence services may have made a decision prior to 9/11 to allow a terrorist attack to take place. Richard Clarke, White House anti-terror co-ordinator at the time, said recently that the 9/11 attacks could have been foiled but for an explicit agreement within the CIA to withhold vital information from him and the FBI. Clarke says he cannot explain this behaviour. At the time the CIA were prohibited by law from operating in the US.
The results are mirrored by a HEC poll published today in France showing that 58% have doubts compared to 31% percent who accept the official story. Half suspect that US authorities deliberately allowed the attacks to take place while a third suspect they were implicated in the execution of 9/11.
Reinvestigate911.org is campaigning for a closer examination of unanswered questions they… Continue reading
Andreas von Bulow believes the US carried out the 9/11 attacks.
September 6, 2011
By Christian Stoecker
Spiegel Online International (DerSpiegel)
Andreas von Bulow used to be a German cabinet minister and member of parliament for the Social Democrats. Now he is a best-selling author who writes books about 9/11 conspiracy theories. His former colleagues no longer want anything to do with him.
Andreas von Bulow says he's never feared for his life. This is despite the fact that he harbors suspicions that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were not the work of 19 "suicide Muslims," as he calls them, but rather an ingenious, cold-blooded operation in psychological warfare organized by the United States itself; and despite the fact that he has published this view in book form.
Bulow doesn't commit himself definitively to the position, but he feels fairly certain that either the Bush administration or other, far more powerful groups operating behind the scenes allowed more than 3,000 people to die in order to construct an unassailable argument supporting geopolitically desirable military operations such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These are astonishing theories on the part of a former German government minister, one who spent 25 years representing the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag. He's not saying his theories necessarily represent what really happened, Bulow explains, he's simply posing questions. "This is just another way of thinking," he says. But, the former minister adds, it's a way of thinking that appears… Continue reading
By Will Bunch
Philadelphia Daily News
IF YOU THINK that on the 10th anniversary you know the whole story of 9/11 – and here I'm addressing conspiracy-minded "truthers" and the 13 percent who approved of the job Dick Cheney did as vice president – actually, you don't.
Time has upheld the broad story line of how hijackers loyal to Osama bin Laden hijacked four planes and killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001 – claims about holograms being used to attack buildings instead of jetliners notwithstanding. At the same time, the dictum of famed investigative reporter I.F. Stone about all governments – i.e., they lie – is no less true about 9/11 than any other event.
Here are 10 questions about 9/11 that remain unanswered.
Richard Clarke, the national counterterrorism czar on 9/11, thinks so. In an interview for an upcoming radio documentary, Clarke claimed that top-level CIA officials deliberately withheld from the White House and the FBI knowledge as early as 2000 that two al Qaeda members – Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar – were living in San Diego.
The former anti-terror chief said he believes that the CIA kept the info under wraps because it wanted to recruit the two Saudis to serve as double agents within bin Laden's organization. Instead, the two terrorists ended up hijackers on American Flight 77. George Tenet, who was CIA director, claims that Clarke… Continue reading
Introduction: 9/11 Ten Years Later
The words in the title of this book – "9/11 Ten Years Later" – are often followed with an exclamation point. The exclamation point may be a way of expressing, by members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, amazement that the truth has not already been publicly revealed. The exclamation point might be used by detractors of this movement — perhaps along with an expletive — to express their feeling that it is time for these people to "get a life." The exclamation point might reflect a position somewhat in the middle — of spouses of members hoping that no more years of their family life will be oriented around the work of trying to get the truth revealed.
In any case, for reasons discussed in this book (especially the final two chapters), there is nothing surprising about the fact that the 9/11 crime has not been revealed. Those who have gained control of a state in an ostensible democracy have many means not only for orchestrating major crimes, but also for preventing those crimes (including their crimes against democracy itself) from being publicized.
What is somewhat surprising, perhaps to the perpetrators themselves, is the fact that the 9/11 Truth Movement is still alive and, in fact, continues to grow. The first professional 9/11 organization, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was formed in 2005, and since then a dozen professional organizations have been created. It was not until 2006 that architect Richard Gage started… Continue reading
By Russ Baker
Another original investigation by WhoWhatWhy.com
Article Summary: When you look closely, nothing seems right about what will surely become the accepted account of the raid that nailed America's enemy number one. And then things get even weirder…
The establishment media just keep getting worse. They're further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated games that affect the public interest in untold ways. A significant recent example is The New Yorker 's vaunted August 8 exclusive on the vanquishing of Osama bin Laden.
The piece, trumpeted as the most detailed account to date of the May 1 raid in Abbottabad Pakistan, was an instant hit. "Got the chills half dozen times reading @NewYorker killing bin Laden tick tock…exquisite journalism," tweeted the digital director of the PBS show Frontline . The author, freelancer Nicholas Schmidle, was quickly featured on the Charlie Rose show, an influential determiner of "chattering class" opinion. Other news outlets rushed to praise the story as "exhaustive," "utterly compelling," and on and on.
To be sure, it is the kind of granular, heroic story that the public loves, that generates follow-up bestsellers and movie options. The takedown even has a Hollywood-esque code name: "Operation Neptune's Spear"
Here's the introduction to the mission commander , full of minute details that help give it a ring of authenticity and suggest the most… Continue reading
Lorie Van Auken
Lorie Van Auken joins us and shares with us her reflections ten years on about the events of 9/11 and her loss. She discusses the still-classified 28 pages of the JICI dealing with terrorist financing, the 9/11 families' stalled lawsuit to bankrupt the terrorists and the direct interventions by the White House to protect the Saudi regime against the justice-seeking families, and the many uninvestigated questions and facts covered up by the 9/11 Commission. She questions our current many-fronted wars and the senselessness of the occupation of and our military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan with Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden both dead, while our economy is crashing here at home. Ms. Van Auken talks about the three versions of the NORAD timeline, the passage of the Patriot Act as a vehicle to erode our civil liberties, NSA's illegal wiretapping of our domestic communications under the guise of security, and more!
Lorie Van Auken, the mother of two children, lost her husband Kenneth Van Auken in the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. She is one of the "Jersey Girls" who, along with Kristen Breitweiser, Mindy Kleinberg, and Patty Casazza, fought the Bush administration for a commission to investigate the attacks. Ms. Van Auken is also a member of the September 11 Advocates.
Here is our guest Lorie Van Auken unplugged! Click here to listen to interview with Lorie Van Auken [48:26].
By Kevin Zeese
October2011.org seeks to Stop the Machine and Create a New World. It can be done. Indeed, it must be done and now is the time to do it. The thousands who have joined October2011.org know the challenges we face but we also know that the disastrous direction the country is going is unacceptable. We have seen that the normal tools – elections, lobbying and education – do not work. The U.S. is facing a crisis on many fronts – economic, environmental and in foreign relations – and the government does not respond or even makes things worse.
We certainly understand the despair, lost hope and discouragement that many Americans feel about the U.S. political system. The system seems designed to make change impossible. We also see the power and sophistication of the corporate propaganda media machine. But, we also see people in the United States seeing through the propaganda, understanding the truth and getting angry. In every rebellion around the world that has occurred in the last year – from Egypt to Spain – the view that it can't be done, the people will not rise up would have been the belief of 95% of the population before it happened. Predicting the future is not as easy as it looks. There is a lot of evidence that the time may be right for an American Awakening. The past is not always the future.
The organizers of October2011.org are well aware of the challenges we face and… Continue reading
TORONTO, August 8, 2011 — A decade after the events of September 11, 2001, which resulted in the immediate deaths of nearly 3,000 people on American soil, countless victims from toxic dust, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, international hearings on this pivotal event will begin in Toronto in September.
The events of September 11 provided a pretext for a War on Terror that has led to military invasions and occupations, and attacks upon civil and human rights throughout the world. The credibility of the official investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, carried out by the U.S. Government between 2003 and 2005, has been questioned by millions of citizens in the United States and abroad, including victim family members, expert witnesses and international legal experts.
To date, open and transparent judicial hearings to question the official evidence provided by the U.S. Government have never taken place in the United States or abroad. Similarly, no perpetrators of the events of September 11 have ever been brought to justice on American soil.
A group of international citizens has therefore undertaken to privately fund and cause these independent hearings to take place. Because of the global ramifications of the events of 9/11, the initiators of this inquest have opted to select an international location outside of the United States for these hearings to proceed. The city of Toronto, Canada was chosen as an ideal "international" location because of its proximity to New York, Washington and Shanksville (the… Continue reading
By Noah Shachtman
July 28, 2011
Danger Room blog at Wired.com
ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt.
Those aren't the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They're from retired admiral and former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair — the man who was, until recently, nominally in charge of the entire American effort to find, track, and take out terrorists. Now, he's calling for that campaign to be reconsidered, and possibly even junked.
Starting with the drone attacks. Yes, they take out some mid-level terrorists, Blair said. But they're not strategically effective. If the drones stopped flying tomorrow, Blair told the audience at the Aspen Security Forum, "it's not going to lower the threat to the U.S." Al-Qaida and its allies have proven "it can sustain its level of resistance to an air-only campaign," he said.
It's one of many reasons why it's a mistake to "have that campaign dominate our overall relations" with countries like Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. "Because we're alienating the countries concerned, because we're treating countries just as places where we go attack groups that threaten us, we are threatening the prospects of long-term reform," Blair said.
The "unilateral" strikes in Pakistan have to come to an end, he added, and be replaced with operations that had the full cooperation of the government in Islamabad.…Continue reading
Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 31 No 1, August 1, 2011.
Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America's interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.
U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were presented by the compliant U.S. and allied mainstream media as humanitarian. Indeed, some Washington interventionists may have sincerely believed this. But deeper motivations – from oil to geostrategic priorities – were also at work in both instances.
In virtually all the wars since 1989, America and Islamist factions have been battling to determine who will control the heartlands of Eurasia in the post-Soviet era. In some countries – Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan in 2001 – the conflict has been straightforward, with each side using the other's excesses as an excuse for intervention.
But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted after large numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were secretly imported from Afghanistan, on an airline hastily organized by three former veterans of the CIA's airline Air America. (The three, all once detailed from the Pentagon to the CIA, were Richard Secord, Harry Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn.)2 This was an ad hoc marriage of convenience: the mujahedin got to defend Muslims against Russian influence in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Americans got a new president who opened up the oilfields of Baku to western oil companies.
The pattern of U.S. collaboration with Muslim fundamentalists against more secular enemies is not new. It dates back to at least 1953, when the CIA recruited right-wing mullahs to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq in Iran, and also began to cooperate with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.3 But in Libya in 2011 we see a more complex marriage of convenience between US and al-Qaeda elements: one which repeats a pattern seen in Bosnia in 1992-95, and Kosovo in 1997-98. In those countries America responded to a local conflict in the name of a humanitarian intervention to restrain the side committing atrocities. But in all three cases both sides committed atrocities, and American intervention in fact favored the side allied with al-Qaeda.
The cause of intervention was fostered in all three cases by blatant manipulation and falsification of the facts. What a historian has noted of the Bosnian conflict was true also of Kosovo and is being echoed today in Libya: though attacks were "perpetrated by Serbs and Muslims alike," the pattern in western media was "that killings of Muslims were newsworthy, while the deaths of non-Muslims were not."4 Reports of mass rapes in the thousands proved to be wildly exaggerated: a French journalist "uncovered only four women willing to back up the story."5 Meanwhile in 1994 the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy (BHL) traveled to Bosnia and fervently endorsed the case for intervention in Bosnia; in 2011 February BHL traveled to Benghazi and reprised his interventionist role for Libya.6
In all of the countries mentioned above, furthermore, there are signs that some American and/or western intelligence groups were collaborating with al-Qaeda elements from the outset of conflict, before the atrocities cited as a reason for intervention.. This suggests that there were deeper reasons for America's interventions including the desire of western oil companies to exploit the petroleum reserves of Libya (as in Iraq) without having to deal with a troublesome and powerful strong man, or their desire to create a strategic oil pipeline across the Balkans (in Kosovo).7
That the U.S. would support al-Qaeda in terrorist atrocities runs wholly counter to impressions created by the U.S. media. Yet this on-going unholy alliance resurrects and builds on the alliance underlying Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1978-79 strategy of provocation in Afghanistan, at a time when he was President Carter's National Security Adviser.
The Shah (left), Brzezinski (right), Carter (second right)
July 14, 2011
By Robert Koehler
Published at Antiwar.com
Leon Panetta, on his first visit to Iraq as secretary of defense last weekend, reached for a Bush moment ten years too late.
"The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked," he said to the assembled troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad, according to the Washington Post. "And 3,000 Americans — 3,000 not just Americans, 3,000 human beings, innocent human beings — got killed because of al-Qaeda. And we've been fighting as a result of that."
Yeah, oops, gaffe, Mr. Secretary, right? That Iraq-al-Qaeda connection thingy isn't in the spin anymore, and Panetta's assistant had to mop up afterwards, making sure no one misinterpreted the boss's remarks as reopening an old "debate" by reiterating a long-abandoned lie.
In point of fact, Panetta told the embarrassing truth: 9/11, day of unspeakable tragedy, was a goldmine for the Pentagon and the corporate war interests and was quickly used to launch two wars, both of which are long past the need for justification and require, it seems, nothing more than the first law of physics to stay in motion. You guys are here because of 9/11, the tragic all-purpose justification for global hegemony and the pursuit of empire.
Of course, Panetta was trying to be inspirational. That's what's missing from the Obama game plan: the old-time patriotism the Bush administration milked till the cow dropped dead. The new secretary of defense apparently felt a need to connect… Continue reading
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Newly appointed US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told American troops in Baghdad on Monday that 9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq, before he was quickly corrected by his spokesman.
"The reason you guys are here is because of 9/11. The US got attacked and 3,000 human beings got killed because of Al-Qaeda," Panetta told about 150 soldiers at the Camp Victory US base.
"We've been fighting as a result of that," he said.
The administration of former US President George W. Bush had hastily linked Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator, to the 9/11 attacks.
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed [Ed.: by the Bush Administration itself].
Doug Wilson, Panetta's spokesman, quickly jumped in after his boss, who just took office on July 1, made the statement.
"I don't think he's getting into the argument of 2002-2003," as the reason for the Iraq invasion, Wilson he told reporters, adding that his boss was "a plain-spoken secretary."
"He has made clear that the major threat to this country is coming from Al-Qaeda and terrorist groups and he has also made clear that wherever we are in the world today, that (Al-Qaeda) is a principle reason for a military presence," Wilson said.
The new defence secretary also committed a faux pas in Afghanistan on Saturday, telling reporters the United States intends to keep 70,000 troops there until 2014.
President Barack Obama's administration has said it plans a steady withdrawal of US forces until the Afghans can take over their own security.…Continue reading
by Ray McGovern
Published on Saturday, July 2, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the distress mode — upside
[Photo (right): Ret. US Army Colonel Ann Wright, 64, from Honolulu, chants slogans as she and other activists rally in protest outside the U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece, Friday, July 1, 2011. The activists hope to join an international flotilla and to sail to Gaza.]
Indignities experienced by me and my co-guests on "The Audacity of Hope," the American boat to Gaza, over the past ten days in Athens leave no doubt in my mind that Barack Obama's administration has forfeited the right to claim any lineage to the brave Americans who declared independence from the king of England 235 years ago.
In the Declaration of Independence, they pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a new enterprise of freedom, democracy and the human spirit. The outcome was far from assured; likely as not, the hangman's noose awaited them. They knew that all too well.
But they had a genuine audacity to hope that the majority of their countrymen and women, persuaded by Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the elegant words of Thomas Jefferson, would conclude that the goal of liberty and freedom was worth the risk, that it was worth whatever the cost.
These days we have been seduced into thinking that such principles have become "quaint"… Continue reading


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My husband and I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary in NYC this past weekend, knowing beforehand that the trip could potentially wear this 6+ month pregnant lady down big time. I expected no special treatment from tourists or locals, fully anticipating a Saturday and Sunday full of getting knocked around, bumped into, yelled at […] [Read More]
Miss New York wins by answering the question
I had beauty pageants on the brain this weekend. Many of my friends and family attended the annual "West Virginia Association of Fairs and Festivals" three-day pageant; a lot of the action was shared on Facebook. The updates continuously reminded me that Miss America would be airing Saturday night. I tuned in. Actually, I tune […] [Read More]
The People up the stairs and where I've been
My sister-in-law and future bro-in-law drove up from Morgantown, WV to visit this past Saturday. They're packing their things and heading out later today, but we'll see them again on Christmas. After a few days of running around the Capital Region and finishing up their Christmas shopping, not to mention that soaking wet but delightfully […] [Read More]
Officially a {sweaty} Yankees fan
I'm still re-hydrating after Saturday's Yankees game. I feel like i'm an "official" fan now; I ate a hot dog in the stadium, and I sweat so much that there was a salt line encircling the midsection of my navy blue tank top at the end of the day. After milling over half a dozen options, we chose Yankee […] [Read More]
Fashion Ave or NHL Store? I chose the latter.
SPORTS! (*Click* goes my female readers' mouses, as they "x" off my blog window, or hit "back" and head to Kristi's OTE blog.) I have balls of all types bouncing and whizzing around my head. You're smirking, aren't you?!? I've made it well known on this blog that I am a sports fan of sorts […] [Read More]
New York and back
Saturday was the big day trip to NYC, and I'm happy to say that I made it there and back without a single awkward moment or screw up (with the exception of attempting to keep my balance in the restroom on the train!) Saturday was gorgeous, I absolutely loved the traveling by train, and even […] [Read More]
If you had one day in the big apple…
What would you do? The hubs and I are finally planning our first day trip to NYC, which we will be taking in a couple of weeks. We've both been to NYC before (together), but were with people who gave us a 3-day tour of the city. That was almost five years ago, so it's […] [Read More]


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BELLINGHAM - Cancer survivors will set off at 6:15 p.m. for the first lap of Relay for Life of Whatcom County as participants cheer them on from the sidelines on Friday, July 11.
A year of fundraising by 990 participants and 84 teams has seen more than $172,000 raised for this year's relay. According to Billie Rinn, event chair, this year's event is ahead of last year's in both money raised and individuals involved.
"It's a great culmination to the end of the fundraising season," Rinn said.
Only cancer survivors will partake in the first lap of the relay, which starts on the corner of Lottie Street and Grand Avenue outside of the Bellingham Public Library. After the first lap, all other participants may join in running the relay route, which follows the block that encircles the library.
Following the survivor's lap, the public can purchase a $10 ticket for a barbecue salmon dinner. All of the food for the dinner was donated by relay participants, event sponsors and local businesses.
A silent auction in the main entrance of Bellingham City Hall will start Friday night and continue into the early morning hours of Saturday. Items up for auction include wine baskets, gift certificates and an autographed baseball from Willie Bloomquist of the Seattle Mariners.
All of the proceeds raised by the silent auction, the dinner and the fundraising efforts of the participants goes to the American Cancer Society.
As daylight disappears, participants will light candles in remembrance of loved ones lost, in support of those currently fighting cancer and to celebrate those who have fought cancer in the past.
Signature white luminaria bags will be available at the relay with a suggested $5 donation. They also can be ordered online from the Relay for Life of Whatcom County's website.
The Fight Back Ceremony at 11 a.m. will feature Dr. Ian Thompson, oncologist at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Center, as he shares information on early cancer detection and new lung cancer screenings available in Bellingham.
The two-day event finishes with a closing ceremony at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The Relay for Life of Whatcom County has put on this event for more than 25 years.
Those wishing to get involved in Relay for Life of Whatcom County can contact local American Cancer Society at 425-322-1100 or go to relayforlifeofwhatcom.org.
Public Works will close several streets surrounding the Bellingham Public Library for the Relay for Life of Whatcom County on Friday, July 11, and Saturday, July 12.
Those roads will include Grand Avenue between Gerard Street and Flora Street, Central Avenue between Prospect Street and Flora, North Commercial Street between Flora and Whatcom Creek, and all of Lottie Street. Closures begin Friday afternoon and run until Saturday afternoon.
The library will be open regular hours. Parking is available at the corner of Prospect Street and Central Avenue. Disabled parking will be at the corner of Central Avenue and North Commercial Street.


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Oops that was sort of a joke.
Myself and just about all of the folks I talk to here are electricians. As for the cord catching on fire, I hate it when the wire ends up being the fusable link in a circut.
All kidding aside even a skinny #14, 100' cord will not drop enough voltage to make much of a difference in how many amps the welder will pull. I plug mine into a 15 amp plug strip with the rest of the stuff on my bench. I did pop the breaker once when I filed the tip on the upper tong to get a bigger weld spot, the little spots work just as well they just don't look as good. The higher watt dimmers aren't cheap but one of 2400 watts or higher on the line side of the welder should let you control the one of these little spot welders. For as short as the heat cycle is on these welders you might even get by with a 1800 watt dimmer. check Lutrons web site.
While it is possable to fry a cord, if your wireing is ok and you don't have any pennys in your fuse box, the breaker should trip long before the fire starts. Well at least thats the theory anyways.


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Santa Clara vs BYU Wrap - BYU Wins 96-79
BYU got 28 points from Matt Carlino en route to a 96-79 victory over Santa Clara on Saturday at Marriott Center.
BYU was a 6.5-point favorite in the win, and managed to turn a profit for their supporters.
Tyler Haws had 24 points for BYU and Brandon Davies chipped in with 16 points. Matt Carlino had 6 assists for them, while Brandon Davies was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 11 boards.
Santa Clara got an 18-point performance from Kevin Foster, who was supported by 15 points from Marc Trasolini. Kevin Foster had 9 assists in a losing cause for Santa Clara, while Yannick Atanga grabbed 9 rebounds.
BYU hit the break leading 47-46 before taking care of business in the second half.
BYU had a 41-33 advantage in the rebounding department as they won the battle in the paint.


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A super quiet freezer. With a 36dB rating, the Zanussi ZBF11420SA is one of the quietest freezers around, and being integrated helps to make it even quieter. Ideal as extra space or to serve as your main freezer, it has 4 clear drawers and a fast freeze setting – activate this and it will lower the freezer temperature; your fresh food will freeze faster and keep for longer. It's also received an A+ rating working out to less than £25 a year to run.
Please note this appliance will not fit under a worktop.
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11 of 11 (100%) reviewers would recommend this product to a friend
Pros: Value for money, Easy to use, Good build quality, Quiet, looks good, straight forward installation.
Cons: none
"Fitted Zanussi integral freezer as part of kitchen upgrade, good choice. Installation was straight forward and unit was up and working in under an hour."
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Reviewed by: AlanHHants
Location: Hampshire
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 44
Family size: Small Family
Pros: Value for money, Easy to use, Good build quality, Quiet
"Another great Zanussi product replacing 6 year old AEG. Quiet and built solidly, the product was self-installed within 30 mins of being delivered.
Excellent communication from delivery team.
Definitely recommended."
Reviewed by: SCGmv
Pros: Value for money, Good build quality, Quiet
"Required a replacement built -in freezer due to breakdown of 27 year old model! Always found Zanussi to be well built and reliable in the past and looking at this item the build quality seems
good, obviously it is too early to comment on reliability at the moment but everything seems fine. Only thing is it seems a bit hit and miss to get the correct temperature setting but obviously once set then there should be no need to change."
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.
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Reviewed by: Skier
Pros: Value for money, Quiet
"As a replacement for our old built-in freezer this purchase was ideal. Easily installed and quickly achieved the desired temperature; much less than the recommended time."
Reviewed by: Sallymouse
Pros: power use
"Saves over 2 Kwh per day compared with old freezer"
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.
Reviewed by: Reynard
Location: Southampton
Age: Over 65
Family size: Couple
Pros: Good build quality, Value for money
Cons: Noisy
"Has been making some strange gurgling noises since it was switched on (after leaving it to settle for 4 hours). Quite a bit noisier than I was hoping.
Is frosting up quite a bit already too...
Large capacity though, good price, and fits in really well."
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.
Reviewed by: Dual
Location: Bristol
Family size: Single
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"Another great Zanussi product replacing 6 year old AEG. Quiet and built solidly, the product was self-installed within 30 mins of being delivered.
Excellent communication from delivery team.
Definitely recommended."
Designed to integrate into your kitchen, the Zanussi ZBF11420SA is a built in freezer that will help to give you a seamless kitchen look. It's got a reversible door so will adjust to your kitchen layout, and hidden behind your cupboard means you won't need to worry about how it looks – just how it fits.
At a height of 87.3cm, you get 4 freezer drawers making up 110 litres of space. Each drawer is transparent making it simple to find your foods. They've also provided an ice cube tray to add ice to your cold drinks.
At 36dB, this is a quiet freezer when compared to the 40dB average – quieter than a whispered conversation. Also with it integrating into your cupboard it helps to keep it super silent, so you'll never hear or even see the freezer unless you want to. It's also highly efficient with an A+ rating, costing an average of £24.84 a year to run. Compare that price to any older model and you'll see the savings.
The fast freeze function is great for new foods. Once activated, it lowers the freezer temperature. If you've done the weekly shop then the fresh food or slightly thawed frozen foods will freeze faster. This will help lock in nutrients and freshness quicker than normal, so you'll be able to store it for a longer period.
We know a new appliance is an investment, whether your old one has broken down or you're kitting out a new home. That's why we offer the option to Pay on Finance. If you spend £249 or more online, you can choose to spread the cost of your purchase over a time to suit you, whether it's 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months. Just select the Pay on Finance option when you check out.
We want our Pay on Finance option to be as easy to understand and straightforward as possible. We've created the chart below to tell you how much you'll pay back per month. On selected products, Interest Free and Buy Now Pay Later payment options will be available as part of specific promotions.
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Pay on Finance for interest-bearing credit products is available over 12, 24, 36 or 48 months, subject to status. From time to time, we may offer an interest-free credit product over 6 or 12 month terms, at our discretion. To be eligible to apply for finance, you must be 18 or older, in regular employment and have been a UK resident for more than 3 years. Other conditions may apply and we cannot guarantee that your application will be accepted. Stock will not be allocated until the application has been completed and approved. We reserve the right to withdraw finance on certain products at any time. Pay on Finance is provided through our external partner, V12. If your application is successful you'll enter into a credit agreement with Secure Trust Bank Plc; V12's parent company.
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The Espionage Act of 1917 was passed two months after the United States entered World War I. In his 1998 book Secrecy, the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan tells the story of how it came into being. Congress was responding to incidents of German espionage before the declaration of war. In July 1916, German agents blew up the Black Tom munitions dump in New York Harbor. The explosion was loud enough to be heard in Connecticut and Maryland. The Espionage Act was passed with bipartisan support in a Democratic Congress and strongly supported by President Woodrow Wilson, also a Democrat.
Wilson wanted even more. "Authority to exercise censorship over the press," he wrote a senator, "is absolutely necessary." He got that authority in May 1918 when Congress passed the Sedition Act, criminalizing, among other things, "abusive language" about the government.
Wilson's Justice Department successfully prosecuted Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate who received 900,000 votes for president in 1912, for making statements opposing the war. The Wilson administration barred Socialist newspapers from the mails, jailed a filmmaker for making a movie about the Revolutionary War (don't rile our British allies), and prosecuted a minister who claimed Jesus was a pacifist. German-language books were removed from libraries, German-language newspapers were forced out of business, and one state banned speaking German outdoors.
It was an ugly period in our history. It's also a reminder that big-government liberals can be as much inclined to suppress civil liberties as small-government conservatives can — or more so.
Presidents and attorneys general of both parties have been reluctant to use the Espionage Act when secret information has been leaked to the press because they have recognized that it is overbroad. They have understood, as Moynihan argues in Secrecy, that government classifies far too many things as secrets, even as it has often failed to protect information that truly needs to stay secret.
Barack Obama and his Justice Department seem to be of a different mind. They have used the Espionage Act of 1917 six times to bring cases against government officials for leaks to the media — twice as many as all their predecessors combined.
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