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Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress Reacts
Post Date: 2008-03-09 17:04:13 by robin
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Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress ReactsBy Kevin Poulsen March 06, 2008 | 8:15:00 PMCategories: Spooks Gone Wild
A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.
"What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment," Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New York-based Bat Blue told THREAT ...
Obama's Constitution
Post Date: 2008-03-08 17:34:28 by farmfriend
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Obama's Constitution The rhetoric and the reality. by Edward Whelan 03/17/2008, Volume 013, Issue 26 Justice John Paul Stevens turns 88 in April, and by January 2009 five other justices will be from 69 to 75 years old. If Barack Obama is elected president, he will probably--with the benefit of resignations by liberal justices eager for him to be the president who chooses their successors--have the opportunity to appoint two or three Supreme Court justices in his first term, with another two or three in a potential second term. That prospect ought to focus the attention of all Americans who want a Supreme Court that practices judicial restraint and respects the proper realm of ...
Bush Says Veto Of Bill Banning CIA From Using Waterboarding Preserves Tool In War On Terrorism
Post Date: 2008-03-08 12:39:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks. "The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. "So today I vetoed it," Bush said. The bill provides guidelines for intelligence activities for the year and includes the interrogation requirement. It passed the House in December and the Senate last month. "This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have ...
Anthrax Reporter Held in Contempt
Post Date: 2008-03-08 12:35:13 by Brian S
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(03-08) 04:34 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge held a former USA Today reporter in contempt of court Friday and ordered her to pay up to $5,000 a day if she refuses to identify her sources for stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Toni Locy must pay fines out of her own pocket as long as she continues to defy his order that she cooperate in scientist Steven J. Hatfill's lawsuit against the government. Hatfill accuses the Justice Department of violating his privacy by discussing the investigation with reporters. Locy had asked that a contempt citation be delayed while she appeals to the ...
Like pornography, torture doesn't require a definition; you know it when you see it or feel it
Post Date: 2008-03-08 11:53:26 by robin
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With all the media coverage of "waterboarding" and all the congressional questioning of government officials about their views on the subject, I imagine that by now many people think that waterboarding must be the worst kind of torture that the United States has engaged in, and that if waterboarding is in fact not torture then the idiot king is correct when he says: "We don't torture." This is the way myths are born, so let's try and squash this particular one while it's still young. Here in capsule form is a sample of some of the acts carried out in recent years by American military forces, their contract employees, and the CIA against detainees in one or ...
We shall (not) overcome... Nuclear protest survived six Tory governments. But not New Labour
Post Date: 2008-03-08 06:31:08 by Ada
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Fifty years after historic march, protest camp at atomic weapons base is outlawed in a new blow to civil liberties It survived six Tory governments, the end of the Cold War and the rise and fall of mass marches against the British nuclear deterrent. But after 50 years in which the tradition of peaceful demonstration has been maintained outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, the New Labour era has finally done for one of the most famous symbols of protest in British political history. Today would have seen the latest gathering of the band of women who have assembled on the second Saturday of each month since the 1980s to object to the continuing development of the ...
Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding
Post Date: 2008-03-07 19:13:34 by richard9151
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55 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability to prevent future attacks. Supporters of the legislation argue that it preserves the United States' right to collect critical intelligence while boosting the country's moral standing abroad. "The bill would take away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror, the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives," ...
Hillary Ordered The Final Massacre At Waco
Post Date: 2008-03-07 10:35:33 by richard9151
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2-14-8 Hillary, not Bill, not Janet Reno, not Webb Hubbell, not Vince Foster was the one who ordered the final assault. Final death count: 76 Branch Davidians, including 21 children and two pregnant women. "A Woman in Charge" From Robert Morrow Clinton expert Austin, TX 512-306-1510 Hillary, not Bill, not Janet Reno, not Webb Hubbell, not Vince Foster was the one who ordered the final assault. Final death count: 76 Branch Davidians, including 21 children and two pregnant women. "A Woman in Charge" From Robert Morrow Clinton expert Austin, TX 512-306-1510 Hillary was the one who ordered the FUBAR final assault on the holed-up Branch Davidians in Waco on April ...
Hillary Directed Waco -- There are NO Statutes of Limitations on MURDER!
Post Date: 2008-03-07 10:28:35 by richard9151
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Saturday Feb. 10, 2001; 11:32 a.m. EST Tripp: Hillary Directed Waco, Bill Abused Monica Hillary Clinton pressured the late Vince Foster to resolve the 1993 Waco stand-off in a move that led to the deaths of more than 80 men, women and children, former White House aide Linda Tripp charged in an interview Friday night. Tripp also alleged that Monica Lewinsky was more of a victim of Bill Clinton's sexual predations than the former White House intern has publicly acknowledged. Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, Tripp suggested that Foster, at Mrs. Clinton's direction, transmitted the order to move on the Branch Davidian's Waco compound, which culminated in a military-style ...
No Standing to Lecture on Justice
Post Date: 2008-03-07 05:54:11 by Ada
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U.S. officials are hopping mad over the outcome of a criminal prosecution in Iraq. Two Iraqi officials who had been accused of kidnapping and murder walked out of an Iraqi court Monday as free men after the prosecutor moved to drop the case for lack of evidence. The two men were former Iraqi Health Ministry officials. The case was being tried in the multimillion-dollar Rule of Law Complex, which is quite a site to behold. Why were the American officials, who chose to remain anonymous, so angry and upset? Because the prosecutor’s decision was not in accord with what American officials felt should have been done. They felt that the defendants should have been prosecuted and convicted. ...
FBI chief says privacy abuses persisted
Post Date: 2008-03-06 15:04:43 by robin
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FBI chief says privacy abuses persisted Agency took personal data until last year By Dan Eggen, Washington Post | March 6, 2008 WASHINGTON - FBI Director Robert Mueller told senators yesterday that agents improperly used a type of administrative subpoena to obtain personal data about Americans until internal procedures were changed last year. Mueller said a forthcoming report from the Justice Department's inspector general will find that abuses recurred in the agency's use of national security letters in 2006, echoing problems similar to those identified in earlier audits. Inspector General Glenn Fine reported a year ago that the FBI used such letters - which are not subject to ...
Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert
Post Date: 2008-03-06 10:37:41 by noone222
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Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the ''disturbing events'' and the ``increase in the number of employee arrests.'' Thomas S. Winkowski, assistant commissioner of field operations, wrote a memo to more than 20,000 officers nationwide noting that employees must behave professionally at all times -- even when not on the job. ''It is our responsibility to uphold the laws, not break the law,'' Winkowski wrote in the ...
More FBI privacy violations confirmed
Post Date: 2008-03-05 20:54:30 by richard9151
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27 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies. The breach occurred before the FBI enacted broad new reforms in March 2007 to prevent future lapses, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. And it was caused, in part, by banks, telecommunication companies and other private businesses giving the FBI more personal client data than was requested. Testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mueller raised the issue of the FBI's controversial use of so-called ...
FBI Chief Says Report Will Show Another Year Of Privacy Abuses
Post Date: 2008-03-05 19:21:18 by Brian S
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(03-05) 16:11 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies. The breach occurred before the FBI enacted broad new reforms in March 2007 to prevent future lapses, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. And it was caused, in part, by banks, telecommunication companies and other private businesses giving the FBI more personal client data than was requested. Testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mueller raised the issue of the FBI's controversial use of ...
Climate a worker's right
Post Date: 2008-03-05 15:50:15 by farmfriend
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Climate a worker's right Ewin Hannan | March 06, 2008 UNIONS plan to broaden their workplace rights agenda by pressuring employers to reduce the impact of climate change in individual workplaces across the nation. The ACTU executive yesterday endorsed a national strategy to have the climate change push incorporated into enterprise bargaining claims by unions. ACTU president Sharan Burrow told The Australian that there was "no question" that climate change would eventually become a standard clause in a union log of claims. But a senior union leader warned the ACTU against focusing on "social issues like climate change" at the expense of pressuring the Rudd ...
Bush officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-05 15:19:21 by tom007
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Bush officials: Congress irrelevant on Iraq By William H. McMichael - Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 12:06:57 EST The Bush administration says the 2002 congressional authorization to go to war in Iraq gives it the authority to conduct combat operations in Iraq and negotiate far-reaching agreements with the current Iraqi government without consulting Congress. The assertion, jointly made Tuesday by U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Mary Beth Long, drew an incredulous reaction from Democrats on a Joint House committee during a hearing on future U.S. commitments to Iraq. “It's the view of the ...
A339-Bill to limit the number of guns people are allowed to buy
Post Date: 2008-03-05 09:17:14 by Ferret Mike
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From : Lawrence C. Farrell, Jr. Subject : RE: A339 To : Asm. D.O. Bramnick Tue, Mar 04, 2008 04:56 PM Reply Reply All Forward "A339 appears to be a reasonable restriction by allowing people to buy 12 handguns a year. The purpose of the bill is to limit the number of total handguns in circulation and in my opinion, after listening to all the testimony, was that this did not significantly interfere with gun owners rights to purchase handguns." Where do you find the authority to do such? On what basis do you think you have the authority to gut a component portion of the Bill of Rights? Is your knowledge of/disrespect for the the U.S. and NJ Constitutions so poor that you so ...
A Manchurian Candidate in the White House?
Post Date: 2008-03-04 17:12:41 by aristeides
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A Manchurian Candidate in the White House? Thu, 02/28/2008—With a viral campaign underway via email, right-wing radio, and on the street suggesting that Barack Obama is a black “Manchurian Candidate,” secretly trained as a Muslim fanatic who will insinuate himself into the White House, thence to undermine all that we hold dear, perhaps it is time to look at the Manchurian Candidate we already have in the White House, who, together with his handler over in Blair House, has pretty much done all the damage already. George Bush came to office in 2001 promising a new era of integrity, civility and “compassionate conservatism,” an era of humble American foreign policy, ...
Khadr lawyers accuse Cheney office of video leak (COL. DAVIS INDICATES HOW CLOSELY CHENEY OVERSEES GITMO TRIALS)
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:39:47 by aristeides
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Khadr lawyers accuse Cheney office of video leak Updated Tue. Mar. 4 2008 9:54 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff Defence lawyers for Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr are investigating whether a video released to the media may have been leaked by the office of U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney. The video, broadcast last November on 60 Minutes, appears to show Khadr building a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler said his recent court filing cites Col. Morris Davis, the former chief proscutor of the military commission that will be trying Khadr in Guantanamo Bay, as stating that he believes the video came from Cheney's office. That opinion was based on conversations Davis ...
STOP LOSS CONGRESS ACTION: great idea here!!!
Post Date: 2008-03-04 12:13:29 by gengis gandhi
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http://stop-losscongress.org/ STOP LOSS CONGRESS ACTION: MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 (Monday to Wednesday) in Washington,D.C: This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States participate in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and when soldiers and innocent civilian victims begin another year of occupation, torture, and murder, Congressmembers will be on vacation (from the 15th to 30th, technically a "district work period"), ignoring the killing and suffering they have enabled, supported, and financed. To intensify the irony, Congress has condoned a widespread stop-loss ...
US economy a '$3 trillion' casualty of war in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:08:11 by richard9151
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5:00AM Tuesday March 04, 2008 The book's authors say war has forced America to borrow more money. NEW YORK - The Iraq war has contributed to the US economic slowdown and is impeding an economic recovery, Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says. Meanwhile, the US Government is severely underestimating the cost of the war, Stiglitz and co-author Linda Bilmes write in their book, The Three Trillion Dollar War, due to be published in the US this week. The nearly five-year-old war, once billed as virtually paying for itself through increased Iraqi oil exports, has cost the US Treasury US$845 billion ($1064 billion) directly. "It used to be thought that wars were good for the ...
Post details: Homeland Security Says Prove Your Citizenship On Demand Or Face Deportation
Post Date: 2008-03-04 10:05:00 by PSUSA
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In light of suspicionless Homeland Security checkpoints being conducted in the interior of the country, the story depicted below is especially disturbing. It appears that well over 100 U.S. Citizens were recently discovered sitting in Homeland Security Detention facilities around the country awaiting deportation orders after being denied access to counsel. According to the organization that conducted the 2006 study, the 125 individuals idenitifed as having credible claims of U.S. citizenship are most likely just the tip of the iceberg given the huge number of individuals detained every year. A quote from ICE spokeswoman Kice sums up the current state of affairs: "The burden of ...
ACLU: 900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists
Post Date: 2008-03-04 06:42:07 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2008/02/aclu-900000-nam.html ACLU: 900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists February 27, 2008 12:40 PM Justin Rood Reports: The FBI now keeps a list of over 900,000 names belonging to known or suspected terrorists, the American Civil Liberties Union said today. If that number is accurate, it would be an all-time high, exponentially more than the 100,000 names on the list several years ago. But the number needs to be taken with a grain of salt: after all, the ACLU doesn't keep the list, the FBI does, and the bureau doesn't generally like to talk about it. (Indeed, the FBI has not yet responded to a request for comment for this post.) But if ...
How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony
Post Date: 2008-03-04 06:17:32 by Ada
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Having made the mistake of confirming Michael Mukasey as US Attorney General, the Democrats again find their efforts to hold Republican government officials accountable for illegal and unethical behavior stonewalled by the Department of Justice (sic) and blocked by the brownshirt tactics for which the Bush Regime is now infamous. White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers were found in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas and refusing to cooperate with congressional committee investigations of the Bush Regime’s political firings of eight Republican US Attorneys. The eight fired US Attorneys declined to politicize their ...
BREAKTHEMATRIX.COM UPDATE NO. 2 - WE NEED TO BUILD COMMUNITY
Post Date: 2008-03-03 20:25:36 by gengis gandhi
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BREAKTHEMATRIX.COM UPDATE NO. 2 - WE NEED TO BUILD COMMUNITY
Saturday, Mar 1 2008
We’re starting a new media company from the ground up. Impossible, you say? We don’t think so. Here’s why.
THE MESSAGE OF OUR ADVERSARIES IS WEAK link
That’s right, ladies and gentlemen—their message is weak, not strong. Fox News; CNN; CBS; Rush Limbaugh; Sean Hannity; AirAmerica; Clear Channel—we have nothing to fear from these people. They are the old. They are the tired. They are the past. They are the ones with nothing to offer for the future of America. All of their billions and all of their high overhead structures are linked and tied to the failed policies of a collapsing regime. ...
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