McClatchy has done some digging and what they found could be explosive.
The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]
That is exactly what the CIA has done: The CIA destroyed videotapes it made in 2002 of two top terror suspects because it was afraid that keeping them “posed a security risk,” Director Michael Hayden has told agency employees. Hayden’s revelation to the CIA employees became public Thursday and it caused a commotion on Capitol […]
This is a serious question that must be investigated: Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping. The surge in contributions came from a Who’s Who […]
I posted this past weekend Mike DeWine’s piss-poor excuses for his horrible attendance record on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sherrod Brown now has a new ad highlighting DeWine’s failure to appear and do his job for Ohio and the United States: (H/T Aravosis on the video find)
Just received this from the Ohio Democratic Party: “For a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mike DeWine, did an awful dumb thing by not noticing the use of doctored photos of the 911 tragedy in his campaign ad. How can we trust his judgment?” “Ohioans and Americans should be outraged that they put their […]
Remember how the right got all up in arms when Harry Reid proclaimed “we killed the Patriot Act” a couple months back? Well the L.A. Times has a headline that mimics that line but on the other side of the aisle. The headline reads “Republicans Kill Request for Spy Program Inquiry”. Republican members of the […]
It looks like Pat Roberts has made somewhat a change in how he feels the wiretapping program should operate: The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Friday that he wanted the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program brought under the authority of a special intelligence court, a move President Bush has argued is not necessary. […]
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 […]
Everything we have fought against as a nation over history is being destroyed as we speak. At the head of the destruction is George Bush. Fortunately members of Congress are starting to awaken from their slumber and realize the dreadful road Bush is leading us down and coming out against it. In his press conference […]