We are now reduced from being Americans to being a string of ones and zeros: The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to help screen people at borders and detect immigration fraud. As federal agencies delve into the […]
Remember when this guy was Bush’s pick to head Homeland Security? Bernard Kerik once enjoyed a national reputation as a brash, self-made law enforcer. As New York’s police commissioner, he was at Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s side during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. By late 2004, President Bush wanted him for homeland security chief. Kerik’s […]
Well Bush must be worried about the today’s USA Today report and has already addressed reporters on it: President Bush addressed Thursday a newspaper report that the National Security Agency was collecting records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls. Bush neither confrimed or denied the report that AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., […]
So if the media is “misreporting” what is going on in Iraq does that mean the military is “misreporting” to the media? Sounds confusing but take a look at this: The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and […]
Looks like things could get even more heated between the White House and Capital Hill this week: Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government’s failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans and did not execute emergency […]
Looks like things could get even more heated between the White House and Capital Hill this week: Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government’s failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans and did not execute emergency […]
When it smells or sounds like Bushit chances are it is Bushit: WASHINGTON — Several U.S. intelligence officials are playing down the relative importance of an alleged al-Qaida plot to strike the West Coast after Sept. 11, 2001, cited by President Bush Thursday in defense of his campaign against terrorism. Bush, under pressure from Congress, […]
This is another story that is growing and could possibly gain some real momentum in the near future: A judge attacked former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman for reassuring Manhattan residents soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks that the environment was safe to return to homes and offices while toxic dust was polluting […]
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 […]
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 […]