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    Bring on the Whistleblowers

    Thom Hartmann mentioned this morning that he believes his phone was tapped in March of 2004.  Russell Tice of the NSA in the video below says the NSA monitored ALL communications of Americans.  It is any wonder that Congress and the Democrats in Congress have caved to this illegal regime knowing that ALL of their communications may have been collected and analyzed over the [...]



    More on Time’s Joe Klein…

    …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 every foreign-terrorist target’s calls to be approved by [...]



    We know where you are and what you are doing

    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 to judges and industry lawyers.

    In some cases, judges have granted the [...]



    Why candidate selection is broken

    For those who were unclear as to how to get to the link provided earlier regarding VaNessa L. Duplessie‘s 2005 Life-Pac responses, here’s the full images taken from the Internet’s Wayback Machine:

    Disclaimer: The original image length and width were modified in order to fit the blog formatting width limitations of this site, nothing else has been tampered with.

    I’m sorry, but [...]



    and it’s 1, 2, 3 … what are we fightin’ for?

    Freedom’s on the march (everywhere but here, evidently):

    A Republican filibuster in the Senate today shot down a bipartisan effort to restore the right of terrorism suspects to contest their detentions and treatment in federal courts, underscoring the Democratic-led Congress’s difficulty with terrorism issues.

    The 56-43 vote fell short of the 60 needed to cut off debate and move to a final vote on [...]



    Dems caving to Bush again

    At this point it seems if the Bush Administration asked for the power to murder Democratic members of Congress, the DC Dems would immediately pass legislation to that effect.

    The Progressive says:

    “After being caught trying to steal an inch, the administration now has the gall to ask for the whole mile,” says Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU.

    Yet now the Democratic leaders [...]



    FBI broke law…ho-hum

    Another scandal… Ho-hum. Is anyone surprised by this? If you are you shouldn’t be. Has our government given us reasons to trust them lately? The good news is this provides a way to repeal the Patriot Act which should never have been enacted in the first place. And while they are at it, how about restoring habeas corpus and repealing the Military Commissions Act [...]

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