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• 325,000 Names on Terrorism List
  16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Rights Groups Say Database May Include Innocent People
  By Walter Pincus and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A01
  The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials.
  The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) — created in (…)

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• FBI INFORMANT : TOP POWELL DEPUTY HAD 9/11 PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
  15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  An FBI informant named Randy Glass claims he was importuned by a top deputy of Colin Powell to refrain from telling the media in the summer of 2001 that the Twin Towers were going to fall. His credibilty is augmented by intelligence gathered when he met with Pakistani (ISI) agents who wanted to procure nuclear weapons parts as well as stinger missiles. Glass contacted the office of Sen. Bob Graham prior to 9/11 and relayed this specific warning to the senator’s staff in July (…)

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• CIA worker charged in burglaries near work
  15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  FAIRFAX, Va. — A CIA worker was arrested and charged with being a serial burglar responsible for more than a dozen incidents near the spy agency’s headquarters.
  Fairfax County police said Tuesday that George C. Dalmas III had been charged with 17 burglaries in McLean, Va., between October and last month. Dalmas, 44, of Falls Church, faced numerous counts of burglary and grand larceny, and investigators said other charges were possible.
  Investigators said Dalmas was (…)

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• Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans
  15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  LEGAL ANALYSIS: Bush’s "terrorist surveillance program" plainly violates the clear language and intent of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and is inconsistent with Americans’ fundamental First and Fourth Amendment rights.SOURCE: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) MYTH: This is merely a “terrorist surveillance program.” REALITY: When there is evidence a (…)

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• On the President’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
  11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  by Russ Feingold
  As Prepared for Delivery From the Senate Floor
  Listen to my Statement From the Senate Floor
  Mr. President, last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America’s leadership in the world, and called on all of us to “lead this world toward freedom.” Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world.
  But, almost in the same breath, the (…)

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• Bush and Cheney were illegally spying on Americans BEFORE 9/11
  9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  In the months before 9/11, thousands of American citizens were inadvertently swept up in wiretaps, had their emails monitored, and were being watched as they surfed the Internet by spies at the super-secret National Security Agency, former NSA and counterterrorism officials said.
  The NSA, with full knowledge of the White House, crossed the line from routine surveillance of foreigners and suspected terrorists into illegal activity by continuing to monitor the international telephone calls (…)

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• Carter Calls Gonzales Argument for Illegal Spying Ridiculous "not only bad, it’s ridiculous"
  7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  HENDERSON, Nev. - Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.
  "Under the Bush administration, there’s been a disgraceful and illegal decision - we’re not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people," Carter told reporters. "And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this (…)

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• "You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law?"
  7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  press conference Questioner Helen Thomas...
  Q Does the President think he should obey the law? He put his hand on the Bible twice to uphold the Constitution. Wiretapping is not legal under the circumstances without a warrant.
  MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I guess you didn’t pay attention to the Attorney General’s hearing earlier today, because he walked through very clearly the rationale behind this program. And, Helen, I think you have to ask are we a nation at war —
  Q There is no rationale to (…)

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• Too few answers on domestic spying: ATTORNEY GENERAL’S DEFENSES RING HOLLOW
  7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ defense Monday of President Bush’s order to authorize warrantless spying on Americans failed to shed much light on the deeply disturbing program.
  Gonzales sparred with skeptical senators over the significant question of the program’s legality. On that point, he repeated the dubious arguments made by Bush and his defenders in recent weeks that the program was authorized by law and by the Constitution. He gave only vague explanations for why the president (…)

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• Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
  7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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  A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
  Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:
  "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ’United States Secret Service (…)

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