Something that appears to have fallen under the blogosphere radar today is a treaty that was ratified by Senate to fight cybercrime: The Senate has ratified a treaty under which the United States will join more than 40 other countries, mainly from Europe, in fighting crimes committed via the Internet. The Council of Europe’s Convention […]
Yesterday we were hit with this story: House leaders acknowledged Friday that FBI agents with a court-issued warrant can legally search a congressman’s office, but they said they want procedures established after agents with a court warrant took over a lawmaker’s office last week. “I want to know exactly what would happen if there is […]
The New York Times has an editorial today on the Scooter Libby leak and it deserves a very good read. President Bush says he declassified portions of the prewar intelligence assessment on Iraq because he “wanted people to see the truth” about Iraq’s weapons programs and to understand why he kept accusing Saddam Hussein of […]
When Gonzales was testifying to the Judiciary Committee last month I thought his answers were very well crafted. He constantly reassured the Senators that he was referring to a certain program (see my Feb. 15 entry here). Now it looks like Specter finally has realized that. (via the AP) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ written answers […]
Kudos to fellow blogger Glenn Greenwald for breaking this story: WASHINGTON – A July 2002 Justice Department statement to a Senate committee appears to contradict several key arguments that the Bush administration is making to defend its eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law governing such operations, was […]
The Associated Press is debunking the lies of the right when they try to say Clinton broke the FISA law in the Aldrich Ames case 12 years ago. [Scott] McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without […]
So what say you Mr. Gonzales The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. Hearings are planned for early February into the National Security Agency program that President Bush approved in 2002, […]
On October 18, the Senate judiciary committee will start hearings into the ties between Timothy Flanigan and Jack Abramoff. Flanigan was nominated by President Bush in May to become Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. Abramoff was a lobbyist for Tyco, where Flanigan became a senior vice president in 2002. Flanigan joined Tyco following […]
From Newsweek Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue? Newsweek Aug. 15, 2005 issue – The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only […]
According to aWashington Post article today, Patrick Fitzgerald is also looking into how the infamous 16 words got into the President’s state of the union address in 2003. This kind of reminds you of the original Matrix when Morpheus told Neo “You take the red pill…..you stay in wonderland…and I show you just how deep […]