All the arguments last year over the warrentless wiretapping, and all the spin by wingnuts to say it is legal has now come to an end: President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special […]
In a post talking about the Bolton resignation on Hot Air (you know – Michelle Malkin’s other site), one of their commenters made an interesting comment: Maybe after Bolton and his staff have vacated their offices, something could *happen* to the building. Liberal Catnip uncovered this comment and also has the screen shots of it. […]
First we learn that an admirer of Malkin was allegedly sending those fake anthrax letters to Democrats, or those who do not agree with every damn thing Bush says. Now we have another right-wing lunatic, one Atlas Shrugs, calling for diplomats and people at the State Department to be murdered. From Glenn Greenwald: Pam Atlas, […]
We have been plagued by stories of computers that contain our personal information being stolen this year. Now we have a study out that shows how little privacy we have here in the United States: U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday. Privacy International ranked […]
He sure doesn’t like being told what is legal and illegal: President Bush on Friday criticized a federal court ruling that said his warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional, declaring that opponents “do not understand the nature of the world in which we live.” “I strongly disagree with that decision, strongly disagree,” Bush said, striking his […]
We as American citizens are aware that we do face a threat from terrorism. Actually we are aware that this has been a threat we have faced for decades and will face for decades to come. Considering this grave threat to our nation and the recently foiled terror plot in the U.K., in which our […]
Well imagine this, Bush says he is not “obligated” to follow the oversight provisions in the new Patriot Act: When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was […]
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she was confident the United Nations would take appropriate action on Iran, which she called the “central banker of terrorism.”
From BBC News A court in the US has been asked to ban the practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The case is being brought on behalf of Mohammed Bawazir, a Yemeni who has been held there since 2002. The action is the first test for a new law explicitly outlawing torture of […]
WASHINGTON – Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday. […]