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  • Bush and Wiretaps: Congress, Citizens, This Means War
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In asserting his right to ignore the law, President Bush has slapped Congress right across the face and told them they better like it.
    Congress can now mutter "Yes, sir" and cower in its corner like a whipped dog, as it has for most of the past five years, or it can fight back to defend its institutional authority. Either choice will mark a turning point in U.S. history.
    At immediate issue is the president’s decision four years ago to allow the National Security Agency, an arm of the (…)

  • Bush’s Impeachable Offense
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What’s missing is the political will to impeach him.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin (…)

  • Fixing the Torture Fix
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH
    Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus—the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union calls these provisions "horrific precedents" that are "counterproductive and against the rule of law." Michael Ratner, head of the Center for (…)

  • Evidence indicates Pentagon wire-tapped alternative media
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tom Flocco
    Is Bush using warrant-less spying as a pretext to monitor U.S. “enemies” list?
    WASHINGTON-December 22, 2005-TomFlocco.com-There is evidence that President Bush’s executive order authorizing eavesdropping on phone conversations of U.S. citizens, monitoring email and gaining access to private computers while failing to follow the law requiring court-ordered warrants may amount to criminal activity.
    Internet IP address logs from this writer’s computer firewall security (…)

  • FBI admits conducting surveillance operations on Catholic Workers,Greenpeace,PETA
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show.
    President Bush said at a news conference Monday that a "two-minute phone conversation" could lead "to the loss of thousands of lives."
    F.B.I. officials said Monday that their investigators (…)

  • Several Constitutional scholars see the president’s actions as both unconstitutional and illegal
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a Federal Judge Resigns to Protest Secret Bush Wiretaps, Leaders of Both Parties Express Serious Concerns Over Legality of President’s Covert Domestic Spying Program Date Published: December 22, 2005 Source: Newsinferno News Staff
    On December 15, after sitting on the story for a year, The New York Times published a report entitled, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts.” In a country founded upon such ideals as, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” the reaction was swift and (…)

  • Impeach Bush: Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    IMPEACH BUSH: NO PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT IN CHILE, NOT IN THE U.S.
    Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State, Plain And Simple
    (Dec. 21, 2005, Ed. Note: It is a sad state of affairs to have the President of the United States admit to the nation and to the world that he is spying on the citizens he is elected to safeguard.
    It is worse to have the President aggressively justify his “big brother” politics in the name of an ill-begotten, counter-productive war on terrorism (…)

  • Spying, the Constitution - and the ‘I-word’
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 will offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to impeach Bush
    WASHINGTON - In the first weeks and months after 9/11, I am told by a very good source, there was a lot of wishing out loud in the White House Situation Room about expanding the National Security Agency’s ability to instantly monitor phone calls and e-mails between American callers and possible terror suspects abroad. “We talked a lot about how useful that would be,” said this source, who was “in the room” in the (…)

  • A TIME TO IMPEACH
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote the following for the forthcoming issue of L.A. Weekly:
    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 provisions of that iniquitous law — 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 SecBush_dark_mood_1urity Agency — the N.S.A, so (…)

  • BUSH LIED... IMPEACH THE BASTARD!
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush has admitted that he has authorized the use of surveillance upon American citizens and residents. He has argued that he has the authority to do so, that he has balanced the need to spy on us and our civil liberties. Unfortunately, his claims do not withstand scrutiny.
    Firstly, the spying upon Americans without probable cause, due process and a warrant supported by evidence and sworn before a competent magistrate violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments of the US (…)