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Tag: domestic surveillance

Mar 10
2008

The Growing NSA

Misc

The WSJ has an interesting article explaining how the NSA has been increasing their spying power. One thing I found really interesting was at the start of the article: Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. […]

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Jul 31
2007

Fishing Day For Fredo?

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Today is becoming D-Day for Gonzales. The HIll is reporting that a “bombshell” is supposed to be released by the administration today regarding Gonzales: The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Arlen Specter (Pa.), emerged from a crucial Monday briefing and gave the Bush administration 18 hours to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions in Attorney […]

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Jul 20
2007

Dictatorship!

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According to former Reagan official Paul Craig Roberts, that is exactly where this country is at now. Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of […]

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Mar 9
2006

Tapping Without Warrants – A GOP Plan

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The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday. Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants […]

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Feb 3
2006

Rummy Wakes Up

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According to Rumsfeld the war on terror will be a long war that could stretch a generation, akin to the cold war. The article, which appears in today’s Washington Post, says what we have been saying all along – the war on terror will be very long. Of course Rumsfeld doesn’t admit to the simple […]

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Jan 4
2006

NSA Breifings Broke The Law

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It appears that more and more Democrats in Congress was telling the NSA their wiretapping program was not legal. WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding information from the full congressional oversight committees about a new domestic surveillance program. […]

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Jan 4
2006

More On Bush's Unchecked Powers

Misc

In keeping the NSA spying story alive, the New York Times gives us a more detailed look today into how the NSA assumed their powers: WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 – The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after […]

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Jan 1
2006

Warantless Taps Cause Riffs In The DOJ

Misc

Here is a nice story in today’s New York Times which really shows us some internal debate at the Justice Department over warantless taps. A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its […]

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Dec 28
2005

Could Terror Suspects Go Free?

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Today we learn that some of the high profile “terrorists” our country has captured are now seeking defenses based upon the use of illegal wiretaps. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 – Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal […]

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Dec 22
2005

Some History Of Wiretapping

Misc

Leave it to the awesome reporting of the Nation to remind us of historical facts we may have forgotten about: For the generations who came of age after the mid-1970s, it is worth recalling why warrantless domestic surveillance so shocks the political system. It needs to be repeated that the same arguments cited by Bush–inherent […]

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