Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush’s domestic spying abusesNo matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that “nobody cares” about the countless abuses of [...]
House Passes Spy Bill, Rejects Telcom Amnesty Despite Veto Threat
Democrats continued their defiance of President Bush on Friday over his secret wiretapping program, passing a spying bill that calls for a commission to investigate the program, and refusing to give amnesty to telecoms that collaborated with the warrantless surveillance.
House Democratic leaders secured passage of the [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union has some frightening info about who’s on the U.S. Government terror watch list, as well as a snazzy counter.
In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 [...]
March 11, 2008 – 10:20 am
From Firedoglake. Go here to vote on which Bush-dog Democrats you want to target to remove from office.
Dear XXXX:
At this point it seems that all is lost on FISA. It looks like in the process of negotiating a compromise with the Senate, the House will be forced to have an up-or-down vote on retroactive immunity. [...]
February 8, 2008 – 7:40 am
Who runs Bartertown?:
The FBI Deputizes Business
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they [...]
November 28, 2007 – 7:44 am
…and his apparently willful inability to get it right on FISA legislation and the Dems :
After being called to task last week for writing a dangerously misinformed column on changes to the nation’s spying laws, Klein concedes that he might have made a mistake when he said a House bill would “require the surveillance of [...]
October 25, 2007 – 7:41 am
Brain-dead morning chat show on high tech devices with which to spy on your own children.
What better way to simultaneously say to your children that you are too damn lazy to parent correctly and that they are also untrustable?
Watch it here.
It starts out with the expected internet and computer monitoring devices and gets more and [...]
October 22, 2007 – 8:35 pm
Although the scope of surveillance conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act remains shrouded in secrecy, newly disclosed documents show the costs one company charges the government to eavesdrop on customers.Comcast, which is among the nation’s largest telecommunication companies, charges $1,000 to install a FISA wiretap and $750 for each additional month authorities want to [...]
October 22, 2007 – 11:37 am
Immunity for Telecoms May Set Bad Precedent, Legal Scholars Say
Retroactive Protection Could Create Problems in the Future
When previous Republican administrations were accused of illegality in the FBI and CIA spying abuses of the 1970s or the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, Democrats in Congress launched investigations or pushed for legislative reforms.
But last week, faced with [...]
October 8, 2007 – 8:04 am
…Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry
Two well-respected US peace activists, CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, were denied entry into Canada On October third. The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the [...]
September 7, 2007 – 8:57 am
Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act:
A federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended the need for judicial oversight of laws and bashed Congress for passing a law that makes possible “far-reaching invasions of liberty.”
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero immediately stayed the effect [...]
August 16, 2007 – 10:14 pm
This AP piece - which reads like it was written by an eighth-grader - seems like a press release contrived to counter any speculation of the whys, what and when of Rove’s departure:
Bush turns to executive action to get some of his agenda doneHis strength is sapped by an unpopular war, Democrats are running Congress, [...]
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