"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
~ President Thomas Jefferson
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ACLU: Bush's wiretap bill violates Fourth Amendment
From RAW STORY - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 By Adam Doster The Senate plans to take up legislation as early as this week to rein in the Bush Administration's spying powers by reforming the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington Legislative Office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), says that when Congress rushed through wiretapping legislation this past August, they made a grave mistake. "The Administration bill basically writes August's mistake in stone," she wrote in a press release Tuesday. "It does nothing to protect Americans' communications and violates the Fourth Amendment requirement that courts supervise any spying on American soil." "The surveillance program began in February of 2001. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks of 9/11. These phone companies are cooperating with the government, not out of a sense of patriotism, but because they're being paid to do so. They're profiteers, not patriots. "If the Congress grants these companies retroactive immunity it will mean they have no regard for the rule of law they took an oath to uphold. I've taken no oaths. The rule of law will mean absolutely nothing to me if this comes to pass." -- A comment from a Digg.com user Tags: aclu, fisa, nsa, surveillance, wiretapping Read More [ permalink ] |
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Impeachment: If not now, when?
From Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Saturday, November 24, 2007 By LINDA BOYD Lawmakers need to stand up for the Constitution and support impeachment The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. -- Article II, Section 4 On Nov. 6, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives. For one shining moment the will of the majority of Americans and the promise of this nation's founders were truly represented. The detailed charges were solemnly read from the House podium and televised on C-Span. House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer made a motion to table the bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lobbied hard for votes to table. In a stunning turnaround, House Republicans changed strategy and voted decisively to prevent tabling the impeachment resolution. Pelosi was defied by 85 Democratic members who voted against tabling the impeachment resolution. This includes John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and six committee members. The resolution was quickly voted back to the Judiciary Committee, where it is not resting quietly. Judiciary Committee member Bob Wexler wrote, "The American people are served well with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry. I will urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months. Only through hearings can we begin to correct the abuses of Dick Cheney and the Bush administration." Impeachment is squarely on the table, and momentum is building. A year ago, almost no elected official breathed the word impeachment. Now impeachment has hit the House floor, and our electeds have gone on record. Millions of Americans are demanding an end to executive abuse of power. After six years of state of emergency, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, continual war and occupations, our Constitution is deeply in crisis. Americans are in danger of losing our system of government and civil rights if they do not roll back the Bush administration's assault on the rule of law. Allowing Cheney and George W. Bush to finish their terms without being impeached means future presidents are free to copy their lawless behavior. Of course many important issues deserve the attention of Congress. But the Constitution is the foundation of our democracy, not just an issue. Without the Constitution, we have nothing. Polls show that 74 percent of Democrats and the majority of American adults support impeaching Cheney. "Never in our history have the high crimes and misdemeanors been so flagrant, and the people of our country know it," writes local author Richard Behan. Kucinich has targeted Cheney first, but investigations will implicate the president as well. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50 percent of respondents say they "strongly disapprove" of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48 percent, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in 1974. With these numbers, why aren't Bush and Cheney gone already? The vice president is accused of:
These violations of the Constitution and international treaty are just the tip of the iceberg. More articles of impeachment can be added at any time, and ample evidence to convict is on the public record. Representatives need to introduce articles regarding:
It's astounding that our representatives to Congress carry on with business as usual knowing that Americans lack habeas corpus and a working code of law. I want my representative, Dave Reichert, to block the doors of the House until habeas is restored as a basic human right in this nation! In light of Bush's steady drumbeat for war with Iran, Kucinich said he will consider an impeachment resolution against him. "Impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran," he says. "The most conservative principle of the Founding Fathers was distrust of unchecked power. Centuries of experience substantiated that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Constitution embraced a separation of powers to keep the legislative, executive and judicial branches in equilibrium," Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer and associate deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration, said in the October 2006 edition of Washington Monthly. If Congress were serious about oversight, there already would be dozens of bills and resolutions calling for impeachment of Bush and Cheney. The "Unitary Executive Theory" violates the principle of balance of power in the Constitution. The president cites this "unitary" power in hundreds of signing statements that say he can ignore laws passed by Congress. The First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments are all now subject to the caprice of government officials. The Military Commissions Act allows U.S. citizens to be detained without due process if they are declared enemy combatants. Without our permission, this country has become an exporter of torture. Congress has failed to provide oversight and exercise its authority to rein in a criminal administration. Only swift action on impeachment can redeem it now. The people have done the heavy work of bringing impeachment forward. Representatives need only ask if the allegations are serious enough to warrant investigations. George Bush and Dick Cheney promote an imperial presidency. They assert that the executive is the most powerful branch of government, undermining the judiciary and Congress in violation of the Constitution's bedrock principle of shared power among three co-equal branches. This subverts the very nature of our system of government. "This is an attempt by the president to have the final word on his own constitutional powers, which eliminates the checks and balances that keep the country a democracy. ... That's a big problem because that's essentially a dictatorship," Fein said. Washington For Impeachment and Citizens to Impeach Bush and Cheney are working to inform the public, collect signatures to petitions, provide forums, and lobby representatives. Washington was the second state to sponsor a bill for impeachment in the state Legislature. Washington State Democratic organizations have passed resolutions in 11 Democratic legislative districts, five counties and the Washington State Democratic Central Committee. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island, has received impeachment resolutions from almost every legislative district within his congressional district. When will he represent the will of his constituents and honor his oath to protect the Constitution? The national movement to impeach is a non-partisan effort to restore the Constitution and the rule of law. People across the political spectrum can unite to preserve the Constitution and civil liberties given to us by the founders. Impeachment is the peaceful, orderly, constitutionally prescribed way to rid ourselves of a lawless administration. The issue is not about removing Bush and Cheney as much as it is about preserving the Constitution and redeeming the office of the executive. The Constitution is the contract of governance between the people and the government. What happens when major portions of the contract are violated? Congress has failed to call the president and vice president to account, so citizens must turn up the heat. Members of Congress who fail to demand investigations are covering for criminals. Every elected official has sworn an oath to "support and protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic." Anything less than impeachment and a full repudiation of the Bush administration's crimes and violations of the law is a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of the public trust. If we want our democracy back, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work to clean out the House. Linda Boyd is director of Washington For Impeachment, washingtonforimpeachment.org. Citizens to Impeach Bush and Cheney, in Olympia: citizensimpeach.org Related: A Time For Anger, A Call To Action EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis (video) The BEST Reasons to IMPEACH BUSH and CHENEY! Tags: impeachment Read More [ permalink ] |
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Bush Administration has more Spying Powers than first believed
From The Raw Story - Saturday, August 18, 2007 By Adam Doster Intelligence legislation passed earlier this month is angering a growing number of critics who say an end-of-session scramble inadvertently gave the Bush Administration wider spying powers than previously thought. According to Eric Lichtblau and James Risen of the New York Times, "by redefining the meaning of 'electronic surveillance,' the new law narrows the types of communications covered in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, by indirectly giving the government the power to use intelligence collection methods far beyond wiretapping that previously required court approval if conducted inside the United States." Read More [ permalink ] |
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EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis (video)
From TUMC Seattle - Tuesday, August 7, 2007 EMERGENCY MEETING CALLED - Constitutional Crisis IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE HELP disseminate this information TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!! WATCH THIS VIDEO ON THE INTERNET, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time. The video from the emergency meeting that was held in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, August 1st, will be shown on Seattle's Local Public Access Channel, SCANTV.ORG, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time on cable channel 77. If you check the schedule the show will be aired during the time slot labeled "Social Justice Television (Political), Length: 0:58" If you will read these two articles, you will understand this issue is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE! "Once this (latest Bush Executive Order) becomes law, he has all the tools Hitler and Stalin had to keep their respective populations in utter subjection to their will." Read the complete article: 30 days to absolute tyranny ...EVEN LESS TIME NOW!!! WE DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME written by Rev. Rich Lang of the Trinity United Methodist Church. Rev. Rich Lang is one of the speakers featured in the video! The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 elections A powerful Senate committee wants government regulators to find cutting edge technologies that can censor audio and video that flows over the internet -- bye, bye investigative reporting by alternative media and this web page you are now reading, also! "First they came for the terrorists but I wasn't a terrorist so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those suspected of terrorism, but I certainly wasn't a suspect so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then they came for those who defended those who were suspected of terrorism, but I wasn't defending such people so I stayed silent and went about my business. Then, one day, they came and began to "suspect" me, so I stayed very, very silent and went about my business. And that is how I lost my soul." Here is more information about these issues: Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff -- Source: The Oregonian WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. "I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said. LA Cops attack crowd - specifically smash every camera they find - but they don't get them all Cops shoot protester in the head with a rubber bullet - then laugh about it (until the video gets out) Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer US Police State: Congress Approves Extensive Wiretapping Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html The outrageous gutting of FISA-- the foreign intelligence surveillance act. And by "foreign" they now mean domestic. Because if you are inside the US making an international call, the government can now monitor that call with only the approval of Alberto Gonzales, the Torture Guy. Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran? We ARE In A Constitutional Crisis lord bush Read More [ permalink ] |
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The BEST Reasons to IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY! IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY NOW!!!
From Your-Rights.com - Wednesday, August 1, 2007 YouTube Playlist Link Bush Knew About Torture Techniques AND Approved Them -- READ THIS!!! IMPEACH? WE THE PEOPLE MUST SOON DECIDE! Bush Admits to an impeachable offense on National TV (video) Bush Admits Administration Leaked the Name of CIA Operative Valerie Plame Bush LIED to us about Iraq! - This is a video of him actually telling the TRUTH for once. The three stooges. The president won't fire Alberto Gonzales. He needs him to protect White House secrets, including the scheming roles of Cheney and Rove. Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Russian News Agency: "White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official" GEORGE W. BUSH TO BE DICTATOR DURING UPCOMING PLANNED CATASTROPHIC EMERGENCY August 18th Letter Writing Campaign to Send 50 Million Letters to Congress on 8/18/2007 Demanding That Congress Impeach Bush and Cheney BUSH VETO'S KIDS AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA! U.S. military plans for combating U.S. civil insurrections -- IMPEACH WHILE YOU STILL CAN ! ! ! Bush Abolishes Fifth Amendment SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS SUPPRESSED! - Supression of Science by Bush Administration, Former Surgeon General Speaks Out Undeniable Evidence Against Bush Administration Keep an eye on Randi's blog for more information! The BOMBS OF TRUTH™ are bursting all around them! With 54% of Americans wanting Dick Cheney Impeached, I wonder what the percentage will be when they discover that he apparently was a regular customer of the D.C. Madamm? DICK "John" CHENEY on D.C. MADAMM'S LIST, TOO? What do they call it when a married man frequents a BROTHEL? Isn't that a CRIME? If you or I did this, wouldn't we be arrested? What Harm Can Bush Do Before His Term Is Up?
CALL YOUR REPRESENTITIVE in Congress at one of these numbers: 1.800.828.0498 1.800.614.2803 202.224.3121 ( 202.225.1904 TTY ) Make congress sign on to Dennis Kucinich's CHENEY IMPEACHEMENT Bill, H.RES.333! People just like YOU have called their representative and, so far, 15 representatives have signed on to Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Bill!!! WITH YOUR HELP, it will be more! This is our BIG CHANCE to get Congress to get behind the Voters! EVERYONE is sick of the Bush and Cheney Cabal!!! Let's help them pack up their SH!T and get them the F*CK out of our Government!!! C'mon, now. Don't wait around for someone else to do this, because the "someone else" is waiting around for YOU to do it! Understand? SO, DON'T WAIT. CALL YOUR REPRESENTITIVE. SEND THEM E-MAIL'S. THEN, WRITE THEM LETTERS!!! BE PERSISTENT!!! LET CONGRESS KNOW THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT HOLDING BUSH ACCOUNTABLE!!!!! I don't think I could find any better reasons for impeachment than what Randi Rhodes has posted on her blog! Make sure you READ THE LINKS in Randi's posts! This is where you will find the BIG TRUTH BOMBS! Randi Rhodes on 06.28.2007 Randi Rhodes on 06.27.2007 CALL YOUR REPRESENTITIVE in Congress (202) 224-3121 - TTY: (202) 225-1904, and make them sign on to Dennis Kucinich's IMPEACHEMENT Bill! If you read all the information in those two posts AND THE LINKS, YOU will be "madder than a Hornet" and CALLING your Congressperson and telling them this: "It's Time To Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate the President's Actions With Respect to the NSA's Warrantless Wiretapping." "With the Executive plainly subject to an intense conflict of interest, the appointment of an independent special prosecutor - as occurred in the Valerie Plame leak case - is necessary. But unlike in the leak case, here, the entire Executive branch, including the Department of Justice, is implicated. So, to ensure fairness, Congress or a court must mandate the appointment. You will call your congressperson, right?! Do you need to make a note to remember? Please don't forget about this! Tags: nsa spying, impeach, cheney, torture Read More [ permalink ] |
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Suppressing Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild
From JURIST - Monday, June 25, 2007 JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild, says that FBI surveillance of National Lawyers Guild members and activities between 1940 and 1975 - highlighted in a recent New York Times report drawing on newly-released documents - was motivated by a desire to blunt the Guild's criticism of the FBI and, if possible, to destroy the organization... Tags: spy Read More [ permalink ] |
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Reclaiming The Issues: "Keep George Out Of Jail"
From CommonDreams.org - Thursday, September 21, 2006 By Thom Hartmann The Republicans are trying to keep George W. Bush out of jail. So far, the media and the Democrats haven't done much to stop them. On the surface, it seems the Republicans are having a debate about "wiretapping terrorists" and "harsh interrogation of prisoners." These frames about the current "rebellion" by McCain, Graham, Warner, et al, are today embraced by both the Republican Party and the mainstream media. But the real issue is whether Republicans in Congress will trade the principles of democracy and the rule of law to keep George W. Bush and several of his colleagues out of jail, or whether they'll uphold the rule of law and American democracy while abandoning him to face the consequences of his illegal acts. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Undeniable Evidence Against Bush Administration
From Your-Rights.com - Monday, August 28, 2006 This is the "Official Opinion" of Your-Rights.com about the Sept. 11 (9/11) world trade center attacks and the War on Iraq. Learn the facts about what is REALLY going on in Iraq, watch this video! Your-Rights.com believes that elements of the United States government have intentionally ordered the Sept. 11 (9/11) world trade center attacks in order to have a good reason to justify the war on Iraq. Please don't just take our word for it, watch these video's and you will most likely agree! Your help is urgently needed to obtain your region's federal candidate responses to the following election questionnaire. Please divide the polling chores among your friends and allies, and submit your candidates' answers to our central clearinghouse at www.911truth.org. Please use the following form to standardize results and maximize the accuracy and impact of this unprecedented poll. Politics 911 Questionnaire (Final Version) Your-Rights.com believes there is enough evidence on the following web pages that give very good cause to both Impeach the President, Vice President and other members of the Bush administration and charge them with the crimes that they have commited. Your-Rights.com believes most people would consider this to be a confession from President George W. Bush that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 WTC attacks. Just recently, A U.S. Army intelligence analyst has suggested that there be a new independent 9/11 investigation. Just read the news in the illegal domestic spying cases where a federal court has ruled that the Bush administration's NSA wiretapping spy program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. Is this enough evidence to Impeach both the President and the Vice President? Maybe you didn't get "The Memo"?? Did you hear about the Bush Impeachment Resolution Introduced In Illinois? Can you remember hearing anything about House Joint Resolution 125 in the media? Here are some great words from Al Gore (MP3 audio file) This is just a very small collection of evidence that Your-Rights.com has discovered. More info. Read More [ permalink ] |
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VICTORY ... If we can keep it. Act Now.
From TrueMajority - Saturday, August 19, 2006 By Matt Holland Thursday was a bright day for those of us who believe in the principles America's founders put into the Bill of Rights. We want to say a big "THANK YOU" to our friends at the ACLU, whose lawsuit led to the first court decision putting the brakes on the Bush Administration's [Pentagon's NSA] ever-expanding spying program.[1] There's more to do, though. Led by Vice President Dick Cheney, some Senators are preparing to end-run the decision, and permanently strip away some of our rights in the process. Tell the Senate to Reject the Cheney Spying Plan The Administration's warrantless wiretapping program violates some of the basic rights America was founded on. Ever since the program was uncovered, patriotic Americans have been protesting that we aren't willing to give up those rights. Now a U.S. District Court judge has agreed that the domestic spying violates the Constitution itself. Instead of working harder to carry out their responsibility as a check on Presidential power, though, some members of Congress are ready to erase those very rights so that the spying program would be OK after all. The Cheney-Specter [2] and Cheney-Wilson [3] bills, currently in the Senate, would expose our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes to new kinds of spying that are currently completely illegal. Tell the Senate not to erase our rights Matt Holland TrueMajority Online Director Footnotes: [1] Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html [2] National Security Surveillance Act of 2006 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.2453: [3] ACLU's page on this issue http://www.aclu.org/hadenough Click here to take action! Read More [ permalink ] |
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Federal Court Strikes Down NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
From American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Thursday, August 17, 2006 DETROIT -- In an American Civil Liberties Union case, a federal court today ruled that the Bush administration's program to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of Americans without warrants is unconstitutional and must be stopped. This is the first ruling by a federal court to strike down the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program. "Today's ruling is a landmark victory against the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of the Bush administration," said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. "Government spying on innocent Americans without any kind of warrant and without Congressional approval runs counter to the very foundations of our democracy. Now Congress needs to do its job and stop the president from violating the law." Today's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor agreed with the ACLU that the NSA program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, and runs counter to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed by Congress. Judge Taylor also rejected the government's argument that the case could not proceed because of state secrets, saying that facts about NSA wiretapping have already been conceded by the government. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Court Deals AT&T a Setback
From Wired News - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 By Ryan Singel A federal judge Wednesday shot down telecom giant AT&T's efforts to recover and suppress internal documents that a former AT&T technician says demonstrate the company's collusion in the illegal spying program of government wiretapping surveillance. Read More [ permalink ] |
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President Backs Off Wiretap Secrecy
From Los Angelos Times - Wednesday, May 17, 2006 By Greg Miller and Joseph Menn The White House will brief more members of Congress on the program, a move meant to boost the chances of CIA nominee Hayden. Reversing a position it has held for months, the White House on Tuesday agreed to brief all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees on a controversial domestic wiretapping operation -- just as the architect of the program is facing a contentious confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill. Read More [ permalink ] |
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I'd Like Political Enemies for $800, Alex
From firedoglake - Saturday, May 6, 2006 By Christy Hardin Smith Gen. Michael Hayden refused to answer question about spying on political enemies at National Press Club. At a public appearance, Bush's pointman in the Office of National Intelligence was asked if the NSA was wiretapping Bush's political enemies. When Hayden dodged the question, the questioner repeated, "No, I asked, are you targeting us and people who politically oppose the Bush government, the Bush administration? Not a fishing net, but are you targeting specifically political opponents of the Bush administration?" Hayden looked at the questioner, and after a silence called on a different questioner. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Tell Congress to Stop Michael Hayden
From Bob Fertik's blog - Saturday, May 6, 2006 By Bob Fertik George Bush wants to put Gen. Michael Hayden in charge of the CIA. Hayden previously ran the powerful National Security Agency and created the secret program of warrantless wiretapping of law-abiding American citizens. Hayden lied to Congress about the program in 2002. He refuses to describe the program to Congress (or the media) but insists it is legal, even though every legal scholar outside the Bush administration says the opposite. Tell Congress to STOP the nomination of Michael Hayden and to END illegal warantless wiretapping of law-abiding Americans: http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/81 Read More [ permalink ] |
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Americans Believe Bush Lied about Iraq
From USA Today/Gallup Poll - Sunday, April 9, 2006 (Data are from nationwide surveys of Americans 18 & older.) It's Time to Demand More Polls on Impeaching Bush! Have George W. Bush impeached and removed from the Whitehouse. Impeach and remove him from the Whitehouse, after hearings, because of the NSA wiretapping scandal. There are a lot of various other good reasons to have George W. Bush impeached besides the Bush Spy Scandal. http://www.democrats.com/bush-lied-polls Read More [ permalink ] |
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PFAWF Asks Court to Enforce FOIA Request on NSA Warrantless Domestic Spying
From People For the American Way - Thursday, February 2, 2006 People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) today filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeking an injunction requiring the National Security Agency (NSA) to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed late last year. The complaint asks the court to enforce a request for documents related to recently disclosed warrantless wiretapping undertaken by the Bush administration. Read More [ permalink ] |
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BUSH AUTHORIZED NSA SPYING BEFORE 9/11
From Democrats.com Forum - Monday, January 16, 2006 There are few things that Bush has not justified through reference to 9/11, but the NSA wiretapping program couldn't have been a reaction to 9/11 since Bush's authorization occurred before it happened! Moreover, the justification that the NSA spying program was only being used to investigate terrorists is also false! The information coming from the National Security Administration was being used for partisan political purposes. Read More [ permalink ] |
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The Impeachment of George W. Bush
From The Nation - Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief by violating the law--commits high crimes and misdemeanors that endanger our constitutional system of government. Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, veteran of the Watergate proceedings, calls for a full and fair inquiry into President Bush's actions, including his violation of US laws and international treaty obligations in the warrantless wiretapping and torture scandals; his reckless and dishonest waging of the war in Iraq; and his failure to fulfill his oath to faithfully execute the laws of the nation. This is a process that should never be lightly undertaken, she argues, but President Bush's misdeeds constitute grounds for his impeachment and removal from office. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Wiretapping Overview > Taps, Traps, and Pens -- Electronic Surveillance Overview
From CDT - Sunday, January 1, 2006 The federal wiretap law was enacted in 1968, and has undergone major revisions (example: US Patriot Act) since then as Congress has tried to keep pace with changing technology. Congress has tried to balance the often competing interests of law enforcement, privacy rights, and technological innovation. Technology continues to change, however, sometimes in ways that interfere with law enforcement surveillance, but more often in ways that enhance government capabilities. Most American citizens, for example, are relying more and more on electronic communications for a range of purposes from communicating with their workplace to researching term papers to scouting out the best of the new movies for a weekend date. In the process they are exposing more details of their lives to potential law enforcement surveillance and are leaving increasingly revealing and easily captured "electronic footprints" wherever they go. Read More [ permalink ] |
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Here's a message from People for the American Way
From People For the American Way - Thursday, September 15, 2005 As President Bush boldly vows to continue spying on American citizens, your senators will choose whether to replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a man who has repeatedly sanctioned the abuse of executive power. They will confront Samuel Alito's record of consistently favoring powerful entities such as corporations, the government, and law enforcement over individual rights. And they will learn more about Samuel Alito's career as a judicial activist working to roll back civil rights, religious liberty, environmental protections, and reproductive rights... Read More [ permalink ] |
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Illegal White House wiretapping program
From People for the American Way - Saturday, January 1, 2005 Illegal Domestic Surveillance: President Bush's Assault on Our Civil Liberties People for the American Way Foundation is stunned and saddened by the recent New York Times story, now verified by the Bush administration, that the president has illegally approved the wiretapping of hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans without any judicial authorization. This revelation exposes the latest, but arguably the most egregious, undermining of our civil liberties in a generation. The Bush administration's authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) to engage in domestic eavesdropping without warrants, in direct violation of statutes prohibiting such action, quite simply, shocks the conscience. The Bush administration's defense of this program has strained all conceivable boundaries of legal credibility and the president's steadfast refusal to curtail this program now raises the issue to the level of a legitimate constitutional crisis. President Bush's admission that the NSA has been wiretapping hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans without any judicial authorization, exposes the latest, but arguably the most egregious, undermining of our civil liberties in a generation. The Bush administration's defense of this program has strained all conceivable boundaries of legal credibility and the president's steadfast refusal to curtail this program now raises the issue to the level of a legitimate constitutional crisis. Read More [ permalink ] |
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