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 [...]
November 30, 2007 – 3:53 pm
When you allow your courts to charge 12-year-olds as adults, it’s hard to deny an 8th grader the right to passive suicide:
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the [...]
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 [...]
November 27, 2007 – 7:59 am
Don’t spy on me
More on the telecom - Feds partnership to make sure nothing you do goes undetected. This is from WAPO on Friday:
Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according [...]
November 10, 2007 – 12:49 pm
This is about how technology, combined with monopolization, outsourcing, possibly anti-terrorism security legislation and an overemphasis on corporate control can often cause more problems than it solves. It is also about how I spent much of my Saturday morning. Sit back, grap a cup of java. It is a long story. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Yet another spotlight on this potentially troubling Executive Order from WaPo’s Walter Pincus:
Be careful what you say and whom you help - especially when it comes to the Iraq war and the Iraqi government.
President Bush issued an executive order last week titled “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.” In the [...]
Although it isn’t particularly surprising, the FBI wants to establish a network of covert operative snitches in the US, to aid in the so-called War On Terror and who knows what else:
FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants
The FBI is taking cues from the CIA to recruit thousands of covert informants in the United States [...]
Papers, Please!
We have less than two days to stop a national ID card from becoming reality.
The US Senate is trying to force states to adopt a National ID card: it's time to stop them. As part the debate on immigration legislation, the states will be forced to become REAL ID compliant.
States [...]
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