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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Court lifts lid on secret Arar details
Post Date: 2007-08-09 18:14:53 by Zipporah
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Court lifts lid on secret Arar details COLIN FREEZE Globe and Mail Update August 9, 2007 at 11:30 AM EDT Newly declassified information shows that that Canadian agencies worked directly with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and also received information known to be likely derived from Syrian torture during a post-9/11 investigation that culminated in the Maher Arar scandal. The disclosure follows a pitched legal battle by Mr. Justice Dennis O'Connor, who fought to make public 1,500 words that the Canadian federal government had excised from his four-volume report released last year. A Federal Court decision resulted in the release of some of the information Thursday morning. ...
Band's lyrics cut in Webcast - Pearl Jam protests to AT&T about omission of anti-Bush lines; firm calls editing a mistake
Post Date: 2007-08-09 17:50:35 by Red Jones
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http://chicagotribune.com Band's lyrics cut in Webcast Pearl Jam protests to AT&T about omission of anti-Bush lines; firm calls editing a mistake By Jon Van Tribune staff reporter August 9, 2007 A live Internet broadcast of Pearl Jam's performance at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival Sunday went off without a hitch -- until singer Eddie Vedder criticized President Bush. Lyrics critical of the president didn't make it past editors of the show's Webcast, the band complained Wednesday on its Web site. The performance, sponsored by AT&T Inc. and carried on AT&T's "Blue Room" site, omitted the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world ...
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
Post Date: 2007-08-09 08:09:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" - by Stephen Lendman Ferdinand Lundberg (1905 - 1995) was a 20th century economist, journalist, historian and author of such books as The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today; The Myth of Democracy; Politicians and Other Scoundrels; and the subject of this review - Cracks in the Constitution. Lundberg's book was published twenty-seven years ago, yet remains as powerfully important and relevant today as then. Simply put, the book is a blockbuster. It's must reading to learn what schools to the highest levels never teach about the nation's most important document that lays out the ...
Supreme Court of 1972 Protected the 4th Amendment
Post Date: 2007-08-09 00:59:01 by kiki
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The Richard Nixon years (1969-1974) saw an acceleration of warrantless surveillance and presidential claims of executive power to wiretap and spy on American citizens under the umbrella of national security and the acclaimed inherent power of the presidency to engage in action deemed necessary to protect national security just as President Nixon perceived this obligation. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make the same claims for themselves. Such Nixonian claims led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, mandating the government to demonstrate probable cause and obtain a warrant before placing Americans under surveillance for national security rationales ...
Homeowner arrested after the burglar he confronted falls 30ft
Post Date: 2007-08-08 20:37:14 by Horse
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A homeowner was arrested after a burglar plunged from the balcony of his top-floor flat. The intruder suffered head injuries and is fighting for his life after falling around 30ft on to a concrete path. Later police arrested the owner and are investigating whether the intruder was pushed. The incident happened early on Monday when Patrick Walsh, 56, awoke to find the 43-year-old man rifling through his flat. They argued and the confrontation moved towards the rear window of the flat. It is believed the intruder then smashed the window and clambered out on to a narrow ledge and fell to the ground. Mr Walsh phoned police and at around 6.30am officers found the man on the ground outside ...
Camp Kirsanow
Post Date: 2007-08-08 18:41:56 by Zipporah
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Camp Kirsanow By Rick Perlstein on August 7, 2007 - 3:50pm. I haven't seen this getting much attention. It should. On July 19, [ed.: July 19, 2002, I neglected to note originally] a man named Peter Kirsanow said that if Arabs staged another terrorist attack on American soil, the doors might swing open to new American concentration camps. And who is Peter Kirsanow? A shrieking talk radio maniac? One of those right-wing bloggers who can't host comments on his site because the violent fantasies therein attract too much attention from the FBI? No, he is a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. A Bush appointee. "I think we will have a return to Korematsu," was the ...
Leahy sets final deadline for wiretapping docs
Post Date: 2007-08-08 17:10:55 by aristeides
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Leahy sets final deadline for wiretapping docs By Kara Oppenheim August 08, 2007 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday set an Aug. 20 deadline for the Bush administration to produce documents related to the panel’s probe of the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program. “Despite my patience and flexibility, you have rejected every proposal, produced none of the responsive documents, provided no basis for any claim of privilege and no accompanying log of withheld documents,” Leahy said in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding. On June 27, the committee had issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice, the National Security ...
More on (the CIA's?) counterfeit "Supernotes"
Post Date: 2007-08-08 16:07:38 by aristeides
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More on (the CIA's?) counterfeit "Supernotes" Posted by Joshua Holland at 9:02 AM on January 16, 2007. Joshua Holland: Just following up … Following up on an earlier post, this week the Frankfurter Allgemeine ran a second story (German link) suggesting that the CIA, rather than America's "enemies," may be printing the almost impossible-to-detect forged $50- and $100-dollar bills known as "supernotes," perhaps in order to finance certain operations without Congressional oversight. [Translated by: Watching America, with a hat-tip to commenter lessbread] For nearly 20 years and in great quantities, counterfeit 100-Dollar-Notes of impeccable ...
Editorials On FISA: ‘Unnecessary And Dangerous Expansion of President Bush’s Powers’
Post Date: 2007-08-07 19:09:01 by Zipporah
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Editorials On FISA: ‘Unnecessary And Dangerous Expansion of President Bush’s Powers’ Last week, under heavy political pressure from the White House, Congress approved the White House-backed version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which provided expansive spying authority to the Bush administration. The White House had earlier rejected a compromise bill that provided powers sought by the Director of National Intelligence, opting instead to play politics with the issue. In the past two days, at least nine major newspapers have editorialized against the FISA legislation, with the New York Times today calling it an “unnecessary and dangerous expansion ...
Did Blog Comments Lead Feds to Raid Ex-Justice Lawyer in NSA Spy Leak Investigation? (RIGHT WING BLOGS INVOLVED?)
Post Date: 2007-08-07 15:10:04 by aristeides
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Did Blog Comments Lead Feds to Raid Ex-Justice Lawyer in NSA Spy Leak Investigation? By Ryan Singel August 06, 2007 | 7:00:18 PMCategories: Surveillance Newsweek reported this weekend that FBI agents raided the home of a former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm as part of an investigation into how the New York Times learned about the government's secret wiretapping program. Righty bloggers quickly scoured the net, discovering that Tamm had donated to Democrats in 2004 and that several blog comments critical of the administration had been posted with his name attached. One blogger at the Free Republic notes: If it turns out that Thomas M. Tamm is the FISA leaker, then a good case ...
the president who cried wolf
Post Date: 2007-08-07 01:17:41 by kiki
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The Black Sites A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program
Post Date: 2007-08-05 18:56:54 by Zipporah
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The Black Sites A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program. August 13, 2007 Text Size:Small TextMedium Text Large Text Print E-Mail Feeds In the war on terror, one historian says, the C.I.A. “didn’t just bring back the old psychological techniques—they perfected them.” Keywords Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh; Secret Interrogations; ...
A Dawning Dictatorship? - 911-2B & NSPD 51
Post Date: 2007-08-05 17:49:00 by Eoghan
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A Piecemeal Prologue Half of the American people believe that the Bush administration is on the hunt for Al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Another half believe that 9/11 was a Bush administration inside job, attributable not to Al-Qaeda, but to "Al-CIA-duh." Both halves, though, agree on one thing, and aren't shy about saying it: This summer we are likely to suffer another terror attack, a "911-2B." The list of notables' quotables begins with the springtime warning of the vice president to NBC's Tim Russert on Meet the Press: April 15, 2007, Dick Cheney: "The greatest threat now is 'a 9/11' occurring ... with a nuclear weapon in the middle of ...
More Surveillance. No, Don't Stop To Think ...
Post Date: 2007-08-05 15:10:17 by kiki
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More Surveillance. No, Don't Stop To Think ... Moe and Larry want to tap your phone without a warrant. I've been so busy with other matters that I haven't paid much attention to the news for a day or two. Apparently, in the meantime a matter of vital security interest has cropped up just before Congress' summer break. President Bush needs emergency powers to spy on Americans or the terrorists will swarm over the hills. There's even a selective leak to prove it: When three soldiers were abducted in Iraq in mid-May, U.S. government lawyers began drafting emergency warrants to try to monitor communications that could lead to the suspected captors. The Bush ...
Bush Admin On The Hunt: FBI Raided Fmr DOJ Lawyer's Home In Search For Wiretapping Leaker
Post Date: 2007-08-05 14:48:34 by robin
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Govt. Looks for Leaker on Warrantless Wiretaps Newsweek Aug. 13, 2007 issue - The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a former Justice Department lawyer. The lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, previously worked in Justice's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)—the supersecret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage targets. The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files. Tamm and his lawyer, Paul Kemp, declined any comment. ...
Handing Bush A Victory Saturday, House Approves Wiretap Bill
Post Date: 2007-08-04 22:27:56 by Brian S
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(08-04) 19:22 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States. The 227-183 vote, which followed the Senate's approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature. He had urged Congress to approve it, saying Saturday, "Protecting America is our most solemn obligation."
Now Cheney chimes in: Ain't no superhighways VP latest to make official denial, some call it 'gaming semantics'
Post Date: 2007-08-04 20:25:56 by Zipporah
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By Jerome R. Corsi © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Vice President Cheney Despite evidence to the contrary, Vice President Dick Cheney says there is no "secret plan" to create a continent-crossing superhighway to help facilitate a merger of the United States, Mexico and Canada. "The administration is not engaged in a secret plan to create a 'NAFTA super highway,'" asserts Cheney in a recent letter to a constituent, according to a copy of the message obtained by WND. The vice president's letter quotes an Aug. 21 statement from the U.S. Department of Transportation that, "The concept of a super highway has been around since ...
Countdown: FISA and Fear Mongering
Post Date: 2007-08-04 19:21:01 by Zipporah
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Watch Keith Olbermann covers the breaking showdown between President Bush and Congress. Can you believe that Mr. One-Full-Year-Of-My-Eight-Years-In-Office-Was-Spent-On-Vacation is complaining about Congress taking their August break instead of giving him the rubber stamp he’s looking for his wiretapping program? Note the playing of the fear card. Jonathan Turley joins Keith and tries to make sense in this Bizarro World confrontation, and the complicit Congress isn’t spared his scorn. The ACLU has an action item: Tell Congress Not to Cave in to Fear And more: Don’t rush to modify FISA, Stampeding Congress. Again. (reg. req’d)
Senate endorses expanded wiretap powers
Post Date: 2007-08-04 17:52:27 by robin
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The US Senate Friday voted to extend the power of US intelligence agents to eavesdrop on terror suspects, in a victory for the White House after a tense showdown with congressional Democrats. Democratic leaders balked at White House terms for a deal, but the Senate went ahead and passed a Republican bill which reflected President George W. Bush's requests. The controversy centered on a program designed to listen in on telephone and email conversations mainly outside the United States, but routed through US-based communications firms. Senators voted to permit intelligence officers to listen in to such conversations without obtaining prior approval from a special court. The House of ...
The Myth of 'Executive Privilege'
Post Date: 2007-08-04 07:07:10 by Ada
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Bush Administration officials have announced that President Bush will use a claim of "Executive Privilege" to thwart congressional investigation into the firings of several U.S. attorneys. This claim is the latest in a long series of unconstitutional invocations of the notion of Executive Privilege by presidents prominent and obscure. In fact, Executive Privilege is itself a myth unfounded in the language or original understanding of the Constitution. The Constitution was not supposed to give presidents power to withhold information from Congress. When a president invokes Executive Privilege, he is saying that despite a congressional request for information, or even despite a ...
Nightmare on Main Street: More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order
Post Date: 2007-08-04 06:05:40 by Red Jones
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Nightmare on Main Street: More on Bush's Anti-Dissent Order
Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 30 July 2007
I think we are in rats' alleyWhere the dead men lost their bones—EliotWe wrote recently here of Bush's new executive order granting himself and his minions the arbitrary power to seize the entire assets of any American citizen – without warning, without any criminal charges whatsoever – solely by declaring that their victim somehow poses an unspecified threat to "the peace or stability of Iraq" or else is "undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq." In other words, Bush now claims the power to strip you of your assets if you oppose ...
Senate passes Bush spy bill
Post Date: 2007-08-03 23:28:06 by kiki
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WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a high-stakes showdown over national security, voted late Friday to temporarily give President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists without court warrants. The House, meanwhile, rejected a Democratic version of the bill. Democratic leaders there were working on a plan to bring up the Senate-passed measure and vote on it Saturday in response to Bush's demand that Congress give him expanded powers before leaving for vacation this weekend. The White House applauded the Senate vote and urged the House to quickly follow suit. The bill "will give our intelligence professionals the essential tools they need to protect our ...
The Henry Rollins Show - America Is Under Attack
Post Date: 2007-08-03 20:16:19 by Zipporah
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Teen halted from chalking names of war dead
Post Date: 2007-08-03 19:05:50 by Zipporah
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Teen halted from chalking names of war dead The Associated Press Posted : Friday Aug 3, 2007 9:33:48 EDT http://www.airforcetimes.com. To view the contents go to:" type="hidden"> FORT MYERS, Fla. — Fort Myers police have stopped a teenager from chalking the names of Iraq war casualties on downtown sidewalks.Willie Filkowski, 15, and two companions were told to stop their writing after a city worker called authorities claiming there was an anti-war protest going on in downtown.Filkowski had begun his chalk work July 1 and had worked on his memorial most nights along with his parents, sister and friends. He started writing the names beneath a flagpole in an ...
Another Executive Order: US To Freeze Assets of People "Undermining Lebanon"
Post Date: 2007-08-03 19:05:32 by Red Jones
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Another Executive Order: US To Freeze Assets of People "Undermining Lebanon" INO Headlines Aug 02, 2007 US To Freezes Assets Of People Undermining Lebanon RTTNews) - Thursday, US President George Bush signed an executive order that will freeze the property and interests of people suspected to be undermining Lebanon's democratic government. Bush's executive order covers those found to be helping Syria reassert control over Lebanon or suspected of involvement to break down law and order, including by means of violence. The order also applies to spouses and dependent children of those deemed to be contributing to instability in Lebanon, and to those providing aid to such ...
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