Turns out Gonzalez can authorize a wiretap for up to a year under FISA as Georgia10 points out: First, let me point out that under Section 1802, the government can wiretap a foreign power for up to one year without a warrant. Not 72 hours. An entire year. This provision is applicable when the Attorney […]
Turns out Gonzalez can authorize a wiretap for up to a year under FISA asGeorgia10 points out: First, let me point out that under Section 1802, the government can wiretap a foreign power for up to one year without a warrant. Not 72 hours. An entire year. This provision is applicable when the Attorney General […]
The domestic spying debate is no stranger to Washington. As matter of fact, the same argument took place thirty years ago: An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president’s powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence, according to newly disclosed government documents. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney […]
The RNC released their “white flag” video a couple weeks ago attacking Howard Dean and other Democrats. Now its the DNC’s turn to attack the right and this time they are doing it by proving that Bush has lied in recent speeches. The video shows President Bush telling Americans that Congress had the same access […]
Two weeks ago tomorrow was when Democrats shut down senate in order to get answers about the intelligence committees phase two report. That is the second part of the report that looks into the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. During that closed session, it was agreed upon that a committee be formed […]
Harry Reid and the Democrats have made a strong stand today in the halls of Senate and the Senate has now gone to closed door meetings to discuss the indictment of Scooter Libby and the failure of intelligence for the war in Iraq. Reid, speaking to Senate prior to this late afternoon development barked at […]
Arianna Huffington has put together a cheat sheet on the CIA leak case to help people better understand what has transpired. She has coined that the leak case is worse than Water Gate, which could actually be an understatement. Watergate never actually got out of the planning cycle. It was more like a deterred terrorist […]
Why is it our administration just seems to be out of touch with one another? In the last month we have heard different stories about troop reduction in Iraq. On July 11, we heard that we could have 66,000 less troops in Iraq by next summer. Then on July 28, General Casey said there could […]
We continue to hear stories of torture from Guantanimo Bay. The administration continues to denounce the claims. They do admit to some “extreme†interrogation tactics that result in good intelligence however. The big question is; If the intelligence is so good then why must we “rig†the trials? Leaked emails from two former military prosecutors […]
We all have already heard about the serious issue that surfaced in the Downing Street Memo. We know that in this vital British document, it details some of the events leading up to the war, and the Bush administration wanting to “fix” the intelligence in order to support the war. This also is confirmed by […]