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NSA Phone Database Update: Bellsouth, Verizon Not in Program?
Post Date: 2006-07-02 12:20:52 by aristeides
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NSA Phone Database Update: Bellsouth, Verizon Not in Program? By Paul Kiel - June 30, 2006, 12:02 PM USA Today, which broke the news of the National Security Administration's massive domestic call database in May, has an update on their story. The gist: There's definitely a huge calls database. And certain private companies are cooperating -- just not necessarily all the ones they named. In May the paper cited Verizon, Bellsouth and AT&T as "under contract" with the NSA. Since then, the telcos issued a variety of denials. Bellsouth's and Verizon's denials stood out as unequivocal. AT&T has stayed pretty much mum. Today, USA Today reports that AT&T and Verizon ...
Gitmo win likely cost Navy lawyer his career 'Fearless' defense of detainee a stinging loss for Bush
Post Date: 2006-07-02 08:22:12 by Zipporah
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Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift -- the Navy lawyer who beat the president of the United States in a pivotal Supreme Court battle over trying alleged terrorists -- figures he'll probably have to find a new job. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift first represented Hamdan two years ago in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Of course, it's always risky to compare your boss to King George III. Swift made the analogy to the court, saying President Bush had overstepped his authority when he bypassed Congress and set up illegal military tribunals to try Guantanamo detainees such as Swift's alleged al-Qaida client, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. The justices agreed, ruling 5-3 Thursday in favor of dismantling the current ...
State (California) Tracked Protesters in the Name of Security (Schwartzenegger office tracks peaceful protesters)
Post Date: 2006-07-02 08:16:06 by Zipporah
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Officials say they have stopped monitoring antiwar and political rallies. The practice violates civil rights, Atty. Gen. Lockyer says. By Peter Nicholas, Times Staff Writer July 1, 2006 SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties. The Times obtained reports prepared for the state Office of Homeland Security in recent months that contain details on the whereabouts and purpose of a number of political demonstrations throughout California. The source of the information is ...
Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
Post Date: 2006-07-02 08:12:32 by Zipporah
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June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages. ``The Bush Administration asserted ...
Too much to post [CFR #8102: Building A North American Community
Post Date: 2006-07-02 07:07:24 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The “Amero,” is the name of the new currency proposed by Robert Pastor, a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report “Building a North American Union.” It will replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso. Last year, Pastor, the director of the Center for North American Studies at American University, and author of the book, Toward a North American Community, testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States in deference to the CFR’s desired super-regional entity. Building a North American Union is the blueprint contrived by globalist groups like ...
Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?: Getting Busted For Wearing A Peace T-Shirt
Post Date: 2006-07-01 18:40:32 by Mind_Virus
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Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?: Getting Busted For Wearing A Peace T-Shirt By MIKE FERNER Yesterday afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago's south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, "OK, you've had your 15 minutes, it's time to go." "Huh?", I asked intelligently, not quite sure what he was talking about. "You can't be in here protesting," Officer Adkins said, pointing to my Veterans For Peace shirt. "Well, I'm not protesting, I'm having a cup of coffee," I returned, thinking that logic would convince Adkins to go back to his earlier duties of ...
IT’S THE LAW! FEDS PAVE THE WAY TO TOLL AND PRIVATIZE THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AS PART OF AMERICAN UNION
Post Date: 2006-07-01 16:43:40 by gengis gandhi
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IT’S THE LAW! FEDS PAVE THE WAY TO TOLL AND PRIVATIZE THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS AS PART OF AMERICAN UNION http://Infowars.com | June 29, 2006 By Bob Dacy (click to view image) On July 29, 2005, President Bush signed a bill which permits and promotes the charging of tolls on existing and planned interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels. Before the passage of the bill, known as SAFETEA-LU, or “Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users”, it was generally illegal to charge tolls on roads built with Federal funds. What’s more, the tolls collected will be automatic, requiring universally compatible toll transponder tags on every ...
Web Traffic To Washington Times, Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh.com Is Down; Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?
Post Date: 2006-07-01 14:32:11 by Mind_Virus
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Web Traffic To Washington Times, Drudge Report, Rush http://Limbaugh.com Is Down; Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over? 6/29/2006 10:52:00 AM To: National Desk Contact: David Rothstein of IPD Group, 202-318-8905 or Web: http://www.ipdgroup.com/feedback.php WASHINGTON, June 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was issued today by U.S. Politics Today, published by the Washington, D.C.-based IPD Group: An odd thing seems to have happened to mighty right-wing talking head media juggernaut. They are still talking, but fewer people seem to be listening -- at least on the Internet. http://Alexa.com -- http://alexa.com -- which is owned and operated by http://Amazon.com, tracks online ...
Why Are Americans So Angry? (It's long, get over it.)
Post Date: 2006-07-01 14:00:30 by Hmmmmm
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Why Are Americans So Angry? I have been involved in politics for over 30 years and have never seen the American people so angry. It’s not unusual to sense a modest amount of outrage, but it seems the anger today is unusually intense and quite possibly worse than ever. It’s not easily explained, but I have some thoughts on this matter. Generally, anger and frustration among people are related to economic conditions; bread and butter issues. Yet today, according to government statistics, things are going well. We have low unemployment, low inflation, more homeowners than ever before, and abundant leisure with abundant luxuries. Even the poor have cell phones, televisions, and ...
Bush's Assault on Freedom: What's to Stop Him?
Post Date: 2006-07-01 08:15:32 by Zoroaster
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July 1, 2006 Bush's Assault on Freedom: What's to Stop Him? by Paul Craig Roberts On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision ruled that President Bush's effort to railroad tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees in kangaroo courts "violates both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions." Better late than never, but it sure took a long time for the checks and balances to call a halt to the illegal and unconstitutional behavior of the executive. The Legal Times quotes David Remes, a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling: "At the broadest level, the Court has rejected the basic legal theory of the Bush administration since 9/11 – that the president has the ...
Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't
Post Date: 2006-06-30 16:31:36 by aristeides
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2.45pm Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't Declan Walsh in Gardez Friday June 30, 2006 The Guardian The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days. Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan. But months later the tribunal president returned with bad news: the witnesses could not be found. Mr Mujahid's hopes sank and he was returned to the ...
An Argument For Freedom Based Upon Disagreement
Post Date: 2006-06-30 10:15:05 by Mind_Virus
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An Argument For Freedom Based Upon Disagreement by Michael S. Rozeff "We haven’t learned to disagree without being violently disagreeable," (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) I will present a very simple argument that the State and government are not and cannot be logically justified or defended as long as there are those under their rule who disagree with their (aggressive) impositions. I call this the "argument from disagreement." The starting point Can government ever intervene in private voluntary exchanges and make matters better for those affected without making anyone else worse off? I do not think that it can. Along with a good many others like Rothbard and ...
Surveillance of financial transactions goes too far
Post Date: 2006-06-30 01:19:46 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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The Bush administration admitted that it was conducting warrantless surveillance of the financial transactions of Americans and others only after newspapers exposed the program. According to some Republicans, the solution is to imprison journalists who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing. Shortly after 9/11, President Bush invoked the International Economic Emergency Act to authorize the U.S. Treasury and the Central Intelligence Agency to snare vast amounts of international banking data passing through a hub in Brussels, Belgium. The administration issued general subpoenas that vacuumed up the personal financial data of vast numbers of people. The agents were looking for leads on ...
Bush Vows to Pursue Detainee War Trials
Post Date: 2006-06-29 17:22:55 by Brian S
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(06-29) 14:00 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- After a Supreme Court decision overruling war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, President Bush suggested Thursday he would seek Congress' approval to proceed with trying terrorism suspects before military tribunals. "To the extent that there is latitude to work with the Congress to determine whether or not the military tribunals will be an avenue in which to give people their day in court, we will do so," he said. "The American people need to know that the ruling, as I understand it, won't cause killers to be put out on the street." Bush said little more, saying he had received only a "drive-by briefing" on ...
Power and the Presidency
Post Date: 2006-06-29 14:14:37 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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On April 6, 1780, the British Parliament famously took up the motion of Mr. Dunning "that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Here, in the United States, our Founding Fathers sought to ensure that the powers of the Chief Executive, while considerable, were hedged and bounded by a series of checks and balances. Yet, since 9/11, the Bush Administration has consistently pushed the edge of the constitutional envelope, repeatedly asserting a broad conception of Presidential power under the so-called unitary executive doctrine. Few observers have noted the latest exercise of unilateral Presidential authority, but it is one that is ...
Stolen VA laptop recovered
Post Date: 2006-06-29 11:50:41 by aristeides
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Stolen VA laptop recovered Thursday, June 29, 2006; Posted: 11:22 a.m. EDT (15:22 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer containing sensitive data for up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson announced Thursday. Nicholson also said there have been no reports of identity theft since the May 3 burglary at the Maryland home of an agency employee. "There is reason to be optimistic," he told reporters just before the start of another in a series of hearings Congress has had on one of the worst breaches of information security. "It's a very positive note in this very tragic ...
Supreme Court Rules: Bush Overstepped Authority In Plans For War Crimes Trials in Gitmo
Post Date: 2006-06-29 10:20:41 by gengis gandhi
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thats all the little bitch has up.
Bush Administration Erases U.S. Borders With Mexico and Canada
Post Date: 2006-06-29 01:54:30 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), signed by President Bush with Mexico and Canada in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005, was fundamentally an agreement to erase our borders with Mexico and Canada. As I have documented below, the SPP “working groups” organized within the U.S. Department of Transportation are signing trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements with Mexico and Canada designed to accomplish the open borders goal incrementally, below the radar of mainstream media attention, thereby avoiding public scrutiny. Congress is largely unaware that SPP exists, let alone knowledgeable about the extensive work being done behind the scenes by the executive ...
White House NYT Bashers: Hypocrites
Post Date: 2006-06-28 22:45:17 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Since 9/11, nobody -- and I mean nobody -- has done more reporting on the government's attempts to track terrorists through their data trails than the National Journal's Shane Harris. (The guy ate Spam and knocked back Tequizas with John Poindexter, for chrissake!) So I couldn't be more psyched to welcome Shane to the Defense Tech family. This is the first of what I hope will be a long string of posts for the site.Bush administration officials have been lining up to condemn The New York Times for revealing a program to track financial transactions as part of the war on terrorism. But if the Times’ revelation about a program to monitor international exchanges is so damaging, why has the ...
HELP DEAL A DEATH BLOW TO THE BATFE!
Post Date: 2006-06-28 15:33:29 by ChareltonHest
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HELP DEAL A DEATH BLOW TO THE BATFE! The recent raid on KT Ordnance in Montana http://(www.jpfo.org/alert20060608.htm ) showcases precisely why the BATFE cannot be "fixed" or "reformed" -- it must be eliminated entirely. And now, with your help, it can be. Introducing _The Gang: Using the Law to Destroy Your Freedom and Security_ , the latest film production by JPFO and the next level of our "Boot the BATFE" campaign http://(www.jpfo.org/bootbatfe.htm). This hour-long video documentary will show: - A brief history of the BATFE, with emphasis on its racist origins and ongoing racism. - Documentary evidence that the Gun Control Act of 1968 (one of the major ...
Amish Ohio Farmer in Court After Selling Raw Milk to Undercover Agent; Disputes Milk Law
Post Date: 2006-06-28 11:29:13 by Brian S
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MOUNT HOPE, Ohio - Arlie Stutzman was busted in a rare sting when an undercover agent bought raw milk from the Amish dairy farmer in an unlabeled container. Now, Stutzman is fighting the law that forbids the sale of raw milk, saying he believes it violates his religious beliefs because it prohibits him from sharing the milk he produces with others. "While I can and I have food, I'll share it," said Stutzman, who is due in Holmes County Common Pleas Court on Friday to tell a judge his views. "Do unto others what you would have others do unto you." Last September, a man came to Stutzman's weathered, two-story farmhouse, located in a pastoral region in northeast Ohio ...
Lawmakers Tackle Online Child Porn [Five companies will jointly build a database of child-pornography images...]
Post Date: 2006-06-27 20:08:31 by Brian S
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(06-27) 16:48 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Internet providers told Congress on Tuesday they're doing all they can to combat online child pornography, but they were told to expect legislation. Several voiced skepticism about creating new laws that would force them to retain data about their users' online activity. Any such measure would be costly and easily circumvented and would "fall far short of its intended goal," America Online chief counsel John Ryan told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing. The focus should be on improving existing child porn laws — not "new mandates," said Verizon Online general counsel Thomas Dailey. Lawmakers, however, ...
U.S. Asks Judge to Dismiss Budget Lawsuit [House and Senate failed to approve identical versions]
Post Date: 2006-06-27 19:47:32 by Brian S
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U.S. Asks Judge to Dismiss Budget Lawsuit - By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press Writer Tuesday, June 27, 2006 (06-27) 16:13 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by House Democrats trying to stop a $39 billion deficit-reducing bill because the House and Senate failed to approve identical versions. Lawyers for the government said the 11 House members lacked standing because they are not renters of medical equipment covered by the section of the bill or are in "any way personally affected or injured" by other provisions in the measure. House Democrats have accused GOP leaders of abusing the legislative process ...
Bush Creates An "Out" Before Signing Bill Banning Torture
Post Date: 2006-06-26 19:55:04 by Brian S
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Sen. John McCain thought he had a deal when President Bush, faced with a veto-proof margin in Congress, agreed to sign a bill banning the torture of detainees. Not quite. While Bush signed the new law, he also quietly approved another document: a signing statement reserving his right to ignore the law. McCain was furious, and so were other lawmakers. The Senate Judiciary Committee is opening hearings this week into what has become the White House's favorite tool for overriding Congress in the name of wartime national security. "It's a challenge to the plain language of the Constitution," the committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa, said in an interview with The ...
FBI File: Bacteriological Warfare in the United States
Post Date: 2006-06-26 17:26:21 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/fbi/biowar.htm
Poster Comment:several huge files within.
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