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  • Renditions in Greece -MI6 Spook’s Name Revealed
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Proto Thema Newspaper, Sunday 25 December 2005, page 10
    “Guantanamo” nights took place during July, in Athens, according the details revealed by “Thema”, proving that the kidnapping and interrogations of Pakistanis living in Greece, didn’t just take place, but were a result of the total collaboration between the British secret services and the National Information Service of Greece (EYP). The ministers of Public Order, G. Voulgarakis and Foreign Issues, Petros Moliviatis, were fully (…)

  • ILLEGAL WIRETAPS MAY THREATEN TERROR CASES
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts
    By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN Published: December 28, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
    The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if (…)

  • NSA program is reminiscent of the COINTELPRO program used to spy on civil rights leaders
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington, DC - Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-35) expressed outrage and concern about President Bush’s decision to bypass the US Constitution and laws to permit the National Security Agency (”NSA”) to spy on American citizens.
    “The revelation of this NSA program is very problematic,” said Congresswoman Waters. “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (”FISA”) was passed in 1978 to establish clear laws governing the NSA and other intelligence agencies in response to these (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Taken for a ride in the ’war on terror’
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Syed Saleem Shahzad
    KARACHI - Since the onset of the "war on terror", the US has detained more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network of secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a number of regions, from Southeast Asia to North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
    Revelations of this policy have drawn a flood of criticism, with allegations that prisoners held in such countries at the CIA’s behest could have been subject to unlawful interrogation.
    US (…)

  • Final Final Word: British Intelligence Inside Operation
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by: Steve Watson
    With the major stories of torture/rendition and spying on US citizens, one important revelation has slipped away virtually unnoticed - the fact that the Blair Government and the British Intelligence services had prior knowledge of the London bombings on July 7th of this year.
    The London Times reported last weekend that MI5 and MI6 had specifically warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed (…)

  • Impeach Bush over NSA spying order
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Editor: I would like to express my support for Sen. Russ Feingold’s filibuster against renewal of the Patriot Act. Feingold’s filibuster is an important, long overdue effort to preserve endangered civil liberties in the United States.
    Although it comes as no surprise that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, I am nonetheless outraged. It’s heartening to this impeachment supporter that many other Americans oppose such illegal surveillance. According to a Dec. (…)