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Article by missy on January 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am “[P]laintiffs have succeeded in alleging that they are ‘aggrieved persons’ under FISA…” With those twelve words, California Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker may have just opened a small crack in the wall of BushCo’s impunity: The suit involves two American lawyers accidentally given a Top Secret document showing they were eavesdropped on by the government when working for a now-defunct Islamic charity in 2004. Their suit looked [...]
Article by missy on November 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am shouldn’t we be able to do it in Washington, D.C.? A Texas grand jury has issued indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez over abuse at privately run prisons, court documents showed. The three-page indictment Tuesday alleges that Cheney profited from the abuse because he invested 85 million dollars in a mutual fund company which holds shares of for-profit prisons. It said this [...]
Article by missy on October 31st, 2008 at 12:22 pm The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review the government’s assertions that the allegations of torture from men held in the CIA’s black site prisons — whether truthful or not — would put the nation at [...]
Article by John on August 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am A letter to the editor in The Columbian today: Can we afford change? President Bush has been in office for approximately 7½ years. During the first six years of his presidency the economy was fine. Consumer confidence stood at a 2½-year high; regular gasoline sold for approximately $2.19 a gallon; the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent; the Dow Jones hit a record high at 14,000 plus; Americans [...]
Article by missy on August 12th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Your Department of Justice at work: NEW YORK (AP) — Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday. Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to stop illegal hiring practices during the tenure of his [...]
Article by missy on August 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am August 8, 2008—this is the date for our Strangebedfellows MONEYBOMB on behalf of constitutional rights and civil liberties in America. Let’s remove from power the key enablers of the tyrannical and lawless FISA ‘compromise;’ we can end the Patriot Act—and so much more.
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Strangebedfellows is a unique and diverse left–right coalition which has come together to put a stop to the eradication of civil liberties in [...]
Article by missy on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm I’ve got a new Warmonger McClone bumper sticker up at Cafe Press: All proceeds to Strange Bedfellows. Have a great weekend. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/equalityua.54099302","http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/equalityua","http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/equalityua.54099302","http:\/\/accountabilitynowpac.com\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2RvbWVzdGljLXNweWluZy9zaGFtZWxlc3MtcGx1Zy88d3B0Yj5zaGFtZWxlc3MgcGx1Zzx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZGVtb2NyYWN5Zm9ydmFuY291dmVyLm9yZzx3cHRiPkRlbW9jcmFjeSBmb3IgVmFuY291dmVy”;
Article by missy on July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm You weren’t using that 4th Amendment, were you? Because Obama and a bunch of other cowardly Dems just sold us out for a little telecom cash and a kited check from the MSM that will bounce somewhere around October 1. Final vote: 69-28. So, a hearty FUCK YOU to Alexander (R-TN), Allard (R-CO), Barrasso (R-WY), Baucus (D-MT), Bayh (D-IN), Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO),
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