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Privacy Group Sues FBI For Records Of Electronic Surveillance Programs
Post Date: 2006-10-04 20:16:58 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A privacy-advocacy group is suing the U.S. government for records concerning electronic-surveillance tools such as one that appears to be a successor to the FBI's abandoned Carnivore program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it is suing the Department of Justice because the FBI failed to respond in time to its Freedom of Information Act request for records on the DCS-3000 and Red Hook programs. DCS-3000 is an interception system that the EFF said apparently evolved out of Carnivore, a system later renamed DCS-1000. The FBI developed Carnivore to read e-mails and other online communications among suspected criminals, terrorists and spies, but privacy groups and ...
John Yoo: Habeas Corpus COSTS TOO MUCH MONEY
Post Date: 2006-10-04 19:43:37 by Zipporah
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John Yoo: Habeas Corpus COSTS TOO MUCH MONEY by dday Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 10:41:26 AM PDT "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, in a speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society in 1852, according to The Dictionary of Quotations edited by Bergen Evans. Habeas corpus proceedings... do impose a cost, it's not free." John Yoo, torture lawyer, on NPR's Morning Edition today. This is actually the argument John Yoo gave for limiting the habeas corpus rights of detainees. There are literally hundreds (HUNDREDS!) of petitions, they'd clog up the courts, and that costs an awful lot ...
Court Temporarily OKs Domestic Spying [warrantless surveillance program]
Post Date: 2006-10-04 15:54:24 by Brian S
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Court Temporarily OKs Domestic Spying - By DAN SEWELL, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, October 4, 2006 (10-04) 12:48 PDT CINCINNATI, (AP) -- The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The president has said the program is needed in the war on terrorism; opponents say it oversteps constitutional boundaries on free speech, privacy and executive powers. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/10/04/national/a124823D86.DTL
Judge says ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Patriot Act can proceed
Post Date: 2006-10-04 15:43:40 by Brian S
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DETROIT (AP) -- Nearly three years after hearing arguments in the case, a federal judge has ruled that an American Civil Liberties Union challenge to the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act may proceed. The ACLU's clients, including Muslim charities, social services organizations and advocacy groups, have shown they have been harmed by the anti-terrorism law adopted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood said in a 15-page ruling issued Friday. The lawsuit was filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor and five other nonprofit groups. The ACLU said its clients had been hurt by the Patriot Act because fear of ...
Will Americans Seek Repeal of Constitution Killing Enabloing Act?
Post Date: 2006-10-04 06:45:06 by Zoroaster
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Will Americans Seek Repeal Of Constitution Killing Enabling Act? Or are Mark Foley's perverted e mails of more importance to the existence of freedom in the United States? Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison http://Planet.com | October 3 2006 The end of the U.S. Constitution and the impending passage of George W. Bush's own Enabling Act are of little importance to a U.S. media fixated with the lurid e mails of a pervert politician. Will Americans focus on what really matters and seek a repeal of HR 6166? We have the legal precedent and the unmitigated necessity to lobby and protest for repeal legislation of this draconian power grab to be introduced in the U.S. Senate. It was ...
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Greenspan Calls Rush To Sell Americans On Mexican Peso Bailout Scheme, Lies To Robert Novak About Call, Confesses, Goes On To Drug Career And Viagra Vacations
Post Date: 2006-10-04 01:38:39 by Uncle Bill
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Establishment Dittoheadby John F. McManus He is as well-known in America as any sports celebrity, politician, movie star, or television personality. Mention the name Rush Limbaugh to just about anyone in the nation and one is bound to get some sort of response -- from effusive praise, to grudging acceptance, to downright hostility. Mainstream conservative personalities love him and his outrageous style. Ronald Reagan once called him "the number one voice for conservatism in our country." Former Secretary of Education William Bennett has referred to him as "the most consequential person in political life at the moment." Jack Kemp has enthused that "he's certainly ...
REAL CHANCE HASTERT TO RESIGN UNDER PRESSURE - The Wall Street Journal
Post Date: 2006-10-03 20:26:23 by Uncle Bill
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Pressure on Hastert, Republicans From Foley Scandal Intensifies The Wall Street Journal By DAVID ROGERS and JOHN HARWOOD October 4, 2006 Amid new signs that Republicans' political woes are deepening, House Speaker Dennis Hastert rejected conservative calls for his resignation over the Mark Foley-congressional page scandal. But for the first time, there appears to be a real chance the Illinois Republican could opt to step down after next month's election even if his party retains power. And with new polls showing the party slipping, Mr. Hastert faces immense pressure to respond more emphatically to the almost daily revelations of Mr. Foley's sexually explicit cyber-communications with ...
Bush calls meeting to tackle school shootings
Post Date: 2006-10-03 20:02:02 by Eoghan
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GEORGE BUSH pledged last night to help to improve school safety and announced that he was convening a meeting with experts to discuss the latest tide of violence sweeping across America. In his first public comments since the Amish massacre, Mr Bush said that he was saddened and concerned by the killings. “Our schoolchildren should never fear [for] their safety when they enter into a classroom,” the President said. The President said that he had instructed Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney-General, and Margaret Spellings, the Education Secretary, to discuss with experts how the federal government can help state and local authorities to improve school safety. Four schools have been ...
Atta's Father Says Video Fake, Credibility of 'Hijackers Tape' Crumbles
Post Date: 2006-10-03 18:06:08 by Eoghan
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Islamic Terror Expert: "Was this a video by al-Qa'ida or by a security agency?" "New" footage was previously used in a docudrama Related: Surprise Surprise, It's Another Al Qaeda Blockbuster Release New revelations about the so-called 'laughing hijackers' tape expose its release as a stage-managed politically timed trick. The father of Mohammed Atta blasts the video as a "fake" while contradictory claims of its origin and nature baffle even mainstream terror experts - while even the media admits that the tape was released not by Al-Qaeda but by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Firstly, the father of Mohammed Atta, who has previously stated that his son is ...
GOP UNWORTHY OF GOVERNING - Joseph Farah, Worldnetdaily
Post Date: 2006-10-03 18:04:03 by Uncle Bill
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GOP Unworthy of Governing Worldnetdaily By Joseph Farah October 3, 2006 This column is going to make me very unpopular with Republicans. I don't care. It must be said. Following the revelations about Florida Rep. Mark Foley's sexually suggestive e-mails to a 16-year-old congressional page, I have concluded Republicans are unworthy of retaining control of the federal government. I sincerely regret this is the case. I would much prefer that there were a real viable alternative to the Democrats, who are not only unworthy, but also unacceptable. But wishful thinking is not going to protect our country. Wishful thinking is not going to expand freedom, promote justice and restore morality ...
The O'Reilly Fear Factor
Post Date: 2006-10-03 10:21:41 by bluedogtxn
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The O’Reilly Fear Factor by Jacob G. Hornberger It should come as no surprise that conservative Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly is praising the military-detention bill that President Bush recently got through Congress. In a commentary dated September 29, 2007, which was posted on the Fox News website, O’Reilly said that “the only downside for the president is that interrogation methods like water boarding are no longer allowed.” The new detainee law constitutes the most “extreme reordering” of America’s criminal-justice system since our nation’s founding. It cancels habeas corpus and fundamental procedural rights of due process that ...
Fatal Vision - The Deeper Evil Behind The Detainee Bill
Post Date: 2006-10-03 09:11:19 by Zoroaster
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Fatal Vision - The Deeper Evil Behind The Detainee Bill By Chris Floyd 10-3-6 "There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country - if the people lose their confidence in themselves - and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance." - Walt Whitman It was a dark hour indeed on Thursday when the United States Senate voted to end the Constitutional Republic and transform the country into a "Leader-State," giving the president and his agents the power to capture, torture and imprison forever anyone - American citizens included - whom they arbitrarily decide is an "enemy combatant." This also includes those who merely give ...
THE EROSION OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Post Date: 2006-10-03 08:18:26 by Stephen Lendman
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The Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America - by Stephen Lendman On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that "date....will live in infamy" because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did. Two and one-half months later on February 19, 1942, FDR himself committed an infamous act signing into law Executive Order 9066 which authorized the internment of 120,000 Japanese civilians, two-thirds of whom were US citizens. These Americans committed no crimes and were only "guilty" of being of Japanese ancestry and thus by presidential edict were judged potential ...
U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud
Post Date: 2006-10-03 06:56:19 by Zipporah
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U.S. soldiers' overseas votes ripe for fraud By Elise Ackerman Mercury News Download: Dept. of Defense internal review of voting system (PDF) Chart: How Bay Area handles overseas ballotsElection 2006: Complete coverage Just weeks before the November election, the Pentagon is struggling to fix its system for handling the votes of soldiers overseas. Yet experts in computer security and election technology say the Pentagon's current attempt to keep those ballots from being rejected in large numbers, as they have been in past elections, has created a system that is ripe for fraud. During the next six weeks, thousands of service members are expected to fax or e-mail ballots ...
The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr
Post Date: 2006-10-02 23:38:55 by Zipporah
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Back to Follow Omar Khadr From an Al Qaeda Childhood to a Gitmo Cell He was a child of jihad, a teenage soldier in bin Laden's army. Captured on the battlefield when he was only fifteen, he has been held at Guantanamo Bay for the past four years -- subjected to unspeakable abuse sanctioned by the president himself Jeff Tietz In July 2002, a Special Forces unit in southeast Afghanistan received intelligence that a group of Al Qaeda fighters was operating out of a mud-brick compound in Ab Khail, a small hill town near the Pakistani border. The Taliban regime had fallen seven months earlier, but the rough border regions had not yet been secured. When the soldiers arrived at the compound, ...
Former [Idaho] congresswoman dies in Nevada
Post Date: 2006-10-02 23:04:33 by hammerdown
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a conservative firebrand who served three terms as an Idaho congresswoman, was killed Monday when thrown from a car that overturned on an isolated central Nevada highway. A daughter, Meg Chenoweth Keenan, said her mother was a passenger in the SUV-type vehicle that flipped just before noon Monday on State Route 376, the main route between her Pine Creek Ranch, in Monitor Valley, and Tonopah. The Nevada Highway Patrol said Chenoweth-Hage, 68, was pronounced dead at the scene. Though other family members were in the car - including the driver, daughter-in-law Yelena Hage, 24, and 5-month-old grandson-in-law Bryan Hage - no one else was ...
Pre-Emptive Lawsuit Challenges Bush Plan For Detainees
Post Date: 2006-10-02 19:48:40 by Brian S
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Published: October 2, 2006 WASHINGTON Attorneys for 25 men being held in Afghanistan launched a pre-emptive strike Monday against President George W. Bush's plan to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects. Court documents they filed demanded that the men be released or charged and allowed to meet with attorneys. Such a filing, known as a habeas corpus petition, would be prohibited under the legislation approved by Congress last week. That bill says the military may detain enemy combatants indefinitely and, if officials choose to bring charges, the cases would be heard before a military commission, not a civilian judge. Bush has not signed the bill but is expected to soon. Supporters ...
Continental Airlines Finds a Safe Haven In a Texas Bunker
Post Date: 2006-10-02 17:32:50 by Eoghan
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Cold War Relic Gets New Use By Companies Worried About the Next Big Storm MONTGOMERY, Texas -- The 40,000-square-foot, two-story bunker here was the creation of Ling-Chieh "Louis" Kung, the nephew of Taiwan's influential Madame Chiang Kai-shek. The fortune he earned during the booming 1970s from his now-defunct Houston oil company, Westland Oil Development Corp., allowed him to indulge his fears that Red China or the Soviet Union would launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. Mr. Kung, who died in 1996 at about the age of 75, bought hundreds of acres of wooded cow pasture on the edge of this small town and secretly built an underground fortress to house at least 700 people, including ...
Government thugs handcuff children, kill dog during $60 marijuana raid [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-10-02 17:19:33 by Neil McIver
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I want to share with you a recent horrifying example of our government's war on marijuana users. Get ready to be outraged. The following is an excerpt from a September 20 article in the "Times Union" in Albany, New York: "A police strike team raided a woman's Prospect Street apartment and handcuffed her children and killed her dog early Tuesday in a $60 pot bust. The woman called it excessive force and a case of mistaken identity, but officers said they stormed the home for a good reason: One of her sons was selling marijuana there. The Police Department's tactical squad knocked down the front door of the upstairs apartment at 110 Prospect St. and flooded into the ...
FBI worries about al-Qaida ties to mob
Post Date: 2006-10-02 15:02:33 by Eoghan
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The FBI's top counterterrorism official harbors lots of concerns: weapons of mass destruction, undetected homegrown terrorists and the possibility that old-fashioned mobsters will team up with al-Qaida for the right price. Though there is no direct evidence yet of organized crime collaborating with terrorists, the first hints of a connection surfaced in a recent undercover FBI operation. Agents stopped a man with alleged mob ties from selling missiles to an informant posing as a terrorist middleman. That case and other factors are heightening concerns about a real-life episode of the Sopranos teaming with Osama bin Laden's followers. "We are continuing to look for a nexus," ...
How ALL Your Phone Calls & Email Are Read, Archived
Post Date: 2006-10-02 14:29:09 by gengis gandhi
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1. Why security matters 2. Email is not secure 1. AT&T 2. Carnivore 3. ECHELON 4. Call database 3. You can do something about it! Why security matters Every email takes a perilous journey. A typical email might travel across twenty networks and be stored on five computers from the time it is composed to the time it is read. At every step of the way, the contents of the email might be monitored, archived, cataloged, and indexed. However, it is not the content of your email which is most interesting: typically, a spying organization is more concerned by whom you communicate with. There are many ways in which this kind of mapping of people's associations and habits is far worse than ...
Supreme Court Declines Challenge to Election Law
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:48:51 by Brian S
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(10-02) 08:06 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit by a conservative group blocked from airing ads about same-sex marriage. Last spring, the Christian Civic League of Maine attempted to run ads about the state's two U.S. senators, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., halted the effort and the Supreme Court refused to step in at the time. On Monday, the court issued a one-line order saying the appeal is dismissed as moot. Federal election law bars corporations or labor unions from paying for any radio or TV broadcast referring to a candidate for federal office within 30 days of a federal primary election or ...
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Sex-Toy Case
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:46:21 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional. An adult bookstore employee in El Paso, Texas, sued the state after his arrest for showing two undercover officers a device shaped like a penis and telling the female officer the device would arouse and gratify her. The employee, Ignacio Sergio Acosta, says a Texas law outlawing the manufacture, marketing or dissemination of an "obscene device" including those shaped like sex organs is unconstitutional because it prevents individuals from using such devices, violating their right to sexual privacy. Colorado, Kansas ...
Schools Punishing Kids For What They Say Online
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:00:50 by Mind_Virus
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October 1, 2006 Schools Punishing Kids For What They Say Online Critics say policies that extend to posts from home computers are unconstitutional By Rebecca Neal rebecca.neal@indystar.com A growing number of school officials in the Indianapolis area are trying to punish students for Internet commentary they deem inappropriate -- including postings on home computers -- drawing outrage from teens and free-speech advocates. One student has been expelled at one school, another suspended. One school district has warned students they are legally responsible for postings; another will vote on a similar policy this month. "Kids look at the Internet as today's restroom wall," said ...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
Post Date: 2006-10-02 09:35:34 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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September 30, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Pirates of the Mediterranean By ROBERT HARRIS Kintbury, England IN the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together with their bodyguards and staff, kidnapped. The incident, dramatic though it was, has not attracted much attention from modern historians. But history is mutable. An event that was merely a footnote five years ago has now, in our post-9/11 world, assumed a fresh and ominous significance. For in the panicky aftermath of the ...
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