Yesterday Russell Tice, the former NSA whistleblower who said he would testify before Congress, admitted to being one of the source’s for Risen’s article which exposed the wiretapping story in last month’s New York Times. Tice also appeared on Nightline last night. During his interview on Nightline, he described the NSA program. According to Tice, […]
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, […]
We might have a witness to the wiretapping case. A former National Security Agency official wants to tell Congress about electronic intelligence programs that he asserts were carried out illegally by the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Russ Tice, a whistleblower who was dismissed from the NSA last year, stated in letters to the […]
Turns out Alito also defended the Regan administration in warantless wiretaps. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show. He advocated a step by step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – The limited oral briefings provided by the White House to a handful of lawmakers about the domestic eavesdropping program may not have fulfilled a legal requirement under the National Security Act that calls for such reports to be in written form, Congressional officials from both parties said on Tuesday. The White […]
I been wondering that since Bush feels he has the power to break the law and since his current Supreme Court nominee, Sam Alito, shares the same “constitutional” values as Bush will that make him even more of a threat to the high court. Well it turns out Alito will get to answer on that: […]
The story of Bush authorizing spying on citizens has really snow balled into the story of the day. This just came out on theAP: Bush Approved Eavesdropping, Official Says By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer President Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three dozen times since October […]
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 […]
Via Bloomberg Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O’Connor at Supreme Court Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said he talked to Justice O’Connor about […]
Arlen Specter just finished his first round of questioning with John Roberts. It was interesting watching the “pro-choice†Republican try to get answers out of Roberts. In a usual tactic that is employed during confirmation hearings, especially those for the Supreme Court, Roberts refused to answer questions on the specific case of Roe V. Wade. […]