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  • From "It Was Legal" To "I Am Lazy": The George Bush Domestic Spy Story
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another day, yet another new and wholly different explanation from the Bush administration about its illegal domestic spying operation.
    In just the last 5 days, we’ve seen 3 separate explanations rolled out from the White House. First they claimed it was legal all along, then when that didn’t fly, they said they had to do it because of a need for speed.
    Now that that has been debunked, they are actually claiming they were just too lazy to do "the paperwork." On top of this, they also (…)

  • Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden
    Attempts by European governments to deny knowledge their airports were used by the CIA to fly detainees to facilities where they could be tortured has unravelled. A document obtained by the civil rights group Statewatch confirms that the European Union (EU) agreed to such flights as part of a wider programme of joint security operations with the Bush administration in 2003.
    Minutes of confidential talks held in Athens on January 22, 2003, prove that EU officials agreed (…)

  • No President Is Above the Law
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by US Senator Robert C. Byrd
    Floor Speech
    Senator Byrd on Monday expressed his strong concerns about possible violations of the Constitution in the Bush Administration’s admitted practice of spying on American citizens:
    Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country’s law-abiding citizens, and against our (…)

  • Watchdog says FBI violated surveillance rules
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by From Terry Frieden
    WASHINGTON (CNN) — A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released 93 pages of internal FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The documents previously were classified, The Associated Press reported.
    The center told (…)

  • America kidnapped me
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Khaled El-Masri
    KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003.
    THE U.S. POLICY of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine.
    I am still recovering from an experience that was completely beyond the pale, outside the bounds of any legal framework and unacceptable in any civilized society. Because I believe in the American system of justice, I sued George Tenet, the former CIA director, last week. What (…)

  • Spying and Lying
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katrina vanden Heuvel
    "This shocking revelation ought to send a chill down the spine of every American."
    Senator Russell Feingold, December 17, 2005
    As reported by the New York Times on Friday, "Months after the September 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic (…)

  • Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
    Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and (…)

  • Democracy: Hacked Votes, Torture, Internal Spying and Corruption.
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Galde
    We need to ask ourselves one essential question. Are we really living in a Democracy that is deserving of that noble title?
    When machines are devised by corporations and used by our government that can be purposefully hacked without a trace to alter the Democratic process, are we living in a true Democracy? The Diebold Corporation doesn’t make mistakes like that by accident. Let us not forget that they are the ones who make the ATM machines that you get your pocket (…)

  • (Lists) CIA Planes, Europe Joint Ventures/Agreements: Shows Europe Complicit
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CLIP AND SAVE THE LIST OF PLANES, BELOW. It will make following the news (lawsuits, prosecutions, investigations) a lot easier.
    At a meeting in Athens, Greece, on January 22, 2003, the European Union states gave the United States permission to kidnap Muslims off the street (renditions) and use European airports and airspace.
    The minutes of the meeting are at the above link. That’s all the proof you need. Here is the relevant part of the linked file:
    "Both sides [EU, US] agreed on (…)

  • The Wreck of St. Patrick Fitzgerald : CIA LEAK COVERUP
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He’s been called Elliot Ness. He certainly has treated the Bush administration as if they were untouchable. The CIA Leak Case is no more. It’s the wreck of St. Patrick Fitzgerald .
    Questions for Mr. Fitzgerald
    1) Judge Tatel was presented hard evidence that the Bush administration had engaged in a national security crime that constituted a "breach in the public trust". Why has the Office of Special Counsel refused to perform it’s solemn duty to prosecute these crimes ?
    2) Is (…)