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  • The Patriot Act’s arsenal of intrusion Is constricting liberty really the way to save it?
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There’ve been few sugarplums for President Bush this December. Not only is he being compared to a joyless Grinch called Nixon over revelations of secret surveillance, but Congress left town after stuffing his Christmas stocking full of rocks.
    The president wanted a vote making the soon-to-expire Patriot Act permanent. After impassioned negotiating, a filibuster and a last-minute fight between the House and Senate, lawmakers instead opted to extend the law for one month — a move that buys (…)

  • Impeachment March on State of the Union Jan 31
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We The People remind Congress that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution, from both enemies foreign and domestic. 1. Call or Fax Congress and let them know, impeachment or else. 2. Organize State of the Union MOSH II protest, gather in DC to put the pressure on Congress the week before the SOTU. 3. Jan 31st, surround the capitol building, project truth videos to the riot cops, remind them that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution.
    Bush attempting to become Dictator (…)

  • Republicans Prevented Congressional Oversight of Data-Mining Tactics
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, July 23, 2005 - Bush administration officials are opposing an effort in Congress under the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act to force the government to disclose its use of data-mining techniques in tracking suspects in terrorism cases.
    As part of the vote in the House this week to extend major parts of the antiterrorism law permanently, lawmakers agreed to include a little-noticed provision that would require the Justice Department to report to Congress annually on (…)

  • Chávez: Morales’ Victory Means the People’s Victory and the Beginning of a New Era for Bolivia
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela celebrates along with the Bolivian people Evo Morales’ victory, a descendant of the Aymara people. "Evo, there is no doubt our happiness is also big: Bolivar’s and Sucre’s country is starting a new and definite battle for its dignity and sovereignty," expressed President Chávez through a letter sent to his Bolivian counterpart
    President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, sent to the elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, a greeting message on the (…)

  • NSA tapped main telecommunication lines for data mining, spying not limited to al-Qaeda
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Secret domestic wiretaps authorised by US President George Bush led to the National Security Agency gaining access to the country’s main telephone switches in a vast operation to mine data from phone calls and emails.
    The New York Times, the paper that broke the wiretap story, cited disclosures from current and former government officials that the surveillance operation was far broader than anything admitted by the White House and involved the co-operation of private telecoms companies. (…)

  • President Bush’s clandestine domestic surveillance-`A rot’ on national psyche
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeach him now. Enough already. Unlike former President Bill Clinton’s simplistic dalliances, President Bush has consistently and maliciously acted outside the laws of this country.
    The revelation that he has personally authorized domestic spying in direct violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 clearly rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Not since the darkest days of the Nixon administration have we been treated to such a level of imperious (…)

  • First Step to Impeachment
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Next year might be decisive for US President George W. Bush, accused of lying, showing total disregard for US and international laws, Constitution violations, living in a bubble, promoting abuses, torture, indefinite detention of and spying on US citizens and foreigners.
    For similar crimes, former president Richard Nixon -dabbed as Dirty Dick- was impeached almost thirty years ago as a consequence of what is known as the Watergate scandal.
    In the impeachment of Nixon, the argument in its (…)

  • High Crimes and Misdemeanors
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Richard Cohen, the finely-calibrated syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column on October 28, 2004 which commenced with this straight talk: "I do not write the headlines for my columns. Someone else does. But if I were to write the headline for one, it would be ’Impeach George Bush’."
    Cohen stated the obvious then. Bush and Cheney had plunged the nation into war "under false pretenses." Exploiting the public trust in the Presidency, Bush had persuaded, over the (…)

  • Impeaching Presidents — and Messengers
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution- shredding activities — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National Security Agency (a massive spying shop so secretive that in Washington its initials are said to stand for "No Such Agency") to wiretap (…)

  • On Bush: It’s time to say ’enough’
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As if the lies that took us to Iraq were not enough. As if the knowing use of bad intelligence wasn’t enough. As if the ever- shifting justifications for this war were not enough. As if the use of torture by and at the behest of the United States was not enough. As if the disclosure of classified information to retaliate against a critic of the war policy was not enough. As if the shroud of secrecy that binds this administration was not enough. As if the squandering of hundreds of billions (…)