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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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

New Details Revealed on CIA Leak Case By David Johnston The New York Times
Saturday 04 February 2006
Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the CIA officer at the heart of the leak case, according to a formerly secret legal opinion, parts of which were made public on Friday.
The newly released pages were part (…)

Meet Mr. Bush’s "Al Qaeda" . They’re the good terrorists. Why? Our unitary Executive says so. He is God’s ambassador on Earth - and if we dare disagree with his push for worldwide democracy a stay in Gitmo is a distinct possibility. 1) Mr. Bush currently harbors the Cambodian Freedom Fighters http://www.alternet.org/story/12073 2 ) The very top levels of the Bush administration are engaging in a secret entente with the State Dept. recognized terrorist group , Islamic (…)

LET IT BE KNOWN Propagandized stupider than the fates will allow
Let it be known, that the senior management national news reducers of CBC and CNN, know full well, they would rather watch American Soldiers die as the thieving bad guys, than to defend God’s America by reporting that the demon enemy George W. Bush, and his business partner General Ahmad, committed the terrorist acts of 9/11, along with Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, and Myers.
We shall, start there, and (…)

by AL MARTIN
Homeland Security has begun exercising its new power to ’identify’ the contents of your safe deposit box.
This news should be seen in the context of the many rumors floating around on the internet.
The so-called temporary re-authorization of the PATRIOT I and II legislation included the power, which gives the Department of Homeland Security an unprecedented power to ’identify’ assets held in citizens’ private safe deposit boxes.
This, by the way, was in the so-called (…)

A Berlusconi victory would be as damaging as was Bush’s
by Tristram Hunt
In typically vulgar style, Silvio Berlusconi committed himself last week to sexual abstinence until the Italian general election on April 9. Unfortunately, Mrs Berlusconi’s well-earned break promises to come at the expense of European politics. For a determined Berlusconi could well win himself another term in office.
Some 15 months ago the global progressive community headed to America in a forlorn attempt to (…)

By MIKE FERNER
All over the country, organized citizens are fighting to restrict the military’s presence in schools. But having recruiters troll high schools cafeterias is just one way the Pentagon inundates our youngsters with messages to "Go Army!"
Since 2002, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has spent a half-million dollars a year creating a database it claims is "arguably the largest repository of 16-25 year-old youth data in the country, containing roughly 30 million records." (…)