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  • Administration Paper Defends Spy Program Detailed Argument Cites War Powers
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carol D. Leonnig
    The Bush administration argued yesterday that the president has inherent war powers under the Constitution to order warrantless eavesdropping on the international calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens and others in this country, offering the administration’s most detailed legal defense to date of its surveillance program.
    The Justice Department’s lengthy legal analysis also says that if a 1978 law that requires court warrants for domestic eavesdropping is interpreted as (…)

  • Why Did It Take So Long?
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why did it take so long? 01/19/2006 17:15
    It was not surprising to discover that George W. Bush chose to illegally spy on American citizens
    I only have one question: Why did it take so long? In previous Pravda.Ru articles (Bush vs. Hitler, The Great American Treason, Articles of Impeachment and Indictment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Death of the Bill of Rights, Parts I and II, and others), I warned of the clear and present danger the Bush dictatorship represents to America’s (…)

  • How To Survive The New World Order?
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Memo To Myself By Henry Makow, PhD
    January 8, 2006
    http://www.rense.com/general69/surv.htm
    This isn’t about storing silver coins or canned food or getting an AK-47.
    It’s about saving your soul not your skin. It’s about the tendency to obsess on the New World Order, get depressed and become unbearable. The situation is depressing. A satanic cult controls the credit of the world and rules through myriad proxies. It is determined to destroy civilization and institute an Orwellian police (…)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of (…)

  • GORE SLAMS WIRETAPS: ’A PRESIDENT WHO BREAKS THE LAW IS A THREAT TO THE VERY STRUCTURE OF OUR GOVERN
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html
    In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King 01/16/2006 @ 12:08 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
    His (…)

  • Los locos de adentro y la locura de afuera
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Los locos de adentro y la locura de afuera
    Por Erasmo Magoulas*
    Canadá, el país bajo una “democracia aséptica”, casi de laboratorio, (porque el pueblo no la ha tocado por muchos años) va a elecciones federales en la cuarta semana de enero. Pongamos en perspectiva a este país de la “eterna democracia” del cual raramente se lee una noticia en las agencias internacionales de prensa.
    Trabajo en un refugio para “personas sin techo” (eufemismo canadiense-anglosajón para decir indigentes) en (…)

  • You’re being watched ...Efforts to collect data on Americans go far beyond the NSA’s domestic spying program
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Laura K. Donohue
    CONGRESS WILL soon hold hearings on the National Security Agency’s domestic spying program, secretly authorized by President Bush in 2002. But that program is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Since 9/11, the expansion of efforts to gather and analyze information on U.S. citizens is nothing short of staggering. The government collects vast troves of data, including consumer credit histories and medical and travel records. Databases track Americans’ networks of friends, (…)

  • U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Police Can Barge in Unannounced
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, Jan 11 (OneWorld) - Forget the ongoing privacy debate over U.S. government spying on telephone conversations—soon you may not have the right to tell cops to wait until you open your door.
    In a case involving a private citizen and police authorities of the Midwestern state of Michigan, a team of civil rights lawyers appeared before the Supreme Court this week to challenge the police practice of storming into homes to look for whatever they want as evidence of a (…)

  • Bush’s Unlikely Co-conspirators
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At least seven House Democrats learned about the NSA’s secret spying program four years ago. So why didn’t anyone blow the whistle?
    By G. Pascal Zachary
    President Bush deserves plenty of blame for secretly authorizing domestic spying by the National Security Agency. But some of the president’s fiercest critics in Congress gave him the political cover to do so. The question why they did so says much about the nation’s brittle democracy and how Democrats have covertly joined with (…)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret (…)