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Judge Rejects Call to Release AT& T Papers: Justice Dept. Cites National Security; Privacy Group Says Documents Prove NSA Link
Post Date: 2006-05-18 16:54:40 by aristeides
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Judge Rejects Call to Release AT& T Papers Justice Dept. Cites National Security; Privacy Group Says Documents Prove NSA Link By Karen Gullo and Joel Rosenblatt Bloomberg News Thursday, May 18, 2006; Page D05 A federal judge yesterday rejected a privacy group's request to release documents that it claims show AT&T Inc. helped the National Security Agency spy on Americans by providing access to customers' phone calls. U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker said at a hearing in San Francisco that the documents may contain AT&T trade secrets. The judge also ruled against an AT&T request to have the privacy group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, return the documents to the ...
AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence
Post Date: 2006-05-18 16:25:50 by Zipporah
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Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the company, which alleges that AT&T illegally cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic-surveillance program. In this recently surfaced statement, Klein details his discovery of an alleged surveillance operation in an AT&T office in San Francisco, and offers his interpretation of company documents that he believes support his case. Inside the Secret Room Courtroom Clash!A federal judge refuses to give AT&T back its internal documents, but orders the EFF not to give them out. Whistle-blower's PrecognitionYears before the NSA's ...
VIDEO - ABC's Brian Ross: Patriot Act Used to Spy on Journalists Tony Snow's Denial May Haunt Him As First Lie While Press Secretary
Post Date: 2006-05-18 11:40:50 by Zipporah
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Video in Streaming Flash format...Video in Windows Media format...Audio in MP3 format...This video provides some background to a special story posted on THE BRAD BLOG yesterday, by White House Correspondent Eric Brewer of BTC News. During a White House press conference, Eric Brewer asked about reports of the Patriot Act being used to spy on journalists. The video is an interview with ABC's Brian Ross who first reported that the Patriot Act is being used to spy on journalists.White House Press Secretary issued a rather weak denial. Snow denied that National Security Letters, enabled by the Patriot Act, were being used to spy on journalists. He then said that National Security Letters were ...
WAYNE MADSEN EXPECTS FRIDAY ROVE INDICTMENT
Post Date: 2006-05-18 10:51:41 by aristeides
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May 17, 2006 -- LATE EDITION -- WMR can report tonight on more details concerning the confusing reports regarding Karl Rove and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald from last Friday. WMR can confirm that the appearance of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Grand Jury at the US Federal Courthouse in Washington was a formality in which the jury informed the Attorney General of their decision to indict Karl Rove. That proceeding lasted for less than 30 minutes and took place shortly after noon. Gonzales's personal security detachment was present in the courthouse during the Grand Jury briefing. From the courthouse, Gonzales's motorcade proceeded directly down Constitution Avenue to ...
NSA killed system that sifted phone data legally: Sources say project was shelved in part because of bureaucratic infighting
Post Date: 2006-05-18 10:02:01 by aristeides
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NSA killed system that sifted phone data legally Sources say project was shelved in part because of bureaucratic infighting By Siobhan Gorman Sun Reporter Originally published May 17, 2006, 10:27 PM EDT WASHINGTON // The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze massive amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, it shelved the project -- not because it failed to work -- but because of bureaucratic infighting and a sudden White House expansion of the agency's surveillance powers, according to several intelligence officials. The agency opted instead to ...
Pack Rats It's not a good idea to start stacking the federal bench.
Post Date: 2006-05-18 08:49:44 by Zipporah
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Brett KavanaughIt's not difficult to understand, given President George W. Bush's tanking poll numbers and the defection of even his staunchest supporters, why he's again pantomiming at packing the federal judiciary. That's why Karl Rove promised conservative activists last week that the White House was now planning to ferry along almost two dozen new judicial nominations. It's also why you're again hearing talk of the "nuclear option," long after most sane people acknowledged that it's an extreme solution to a relatively minor problem.What we're witnessing now are the early signs of flirtation that will lead the president to an inevitable embrace of his conservative base. And ...
Boulder Council Approves $16,000 For Hate Hotline
Post Date: 2006-05-17 20:11:26 by Mind_Virus
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Boulder Council Approves $16,000 For Hate Hotline By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News May 17, 2006 BOULDER - The City Council has approved allocating $16,000 to help establish a hate hotline that would document incidents of bias and give residents a chance to vent their frustrations. The vote late Tuesday makes Boulder the first city in the nation to authorize city funding for a broad- based hate hotline. Council members said they don't want the hotline to be used to help file criminal charges, and council member Suzy Ageton said she was uncomfortable even with documenting the incidents, saying there is no way to authenticate the credibility of the reports. "I worry about mission ...
The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool (NSA / AT&T internet tap)
Post Date: 2006-05-17 17:01:52 by Brian S
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08:00 AM May, 17, 2006 The equipment that technician Mark Klein learned was installed in the National Security Agency's "secret room" inside AT&T's San Francisco switching office isn't some sinister Big Brother box designed solely to help governments eavesdrop on citizens' internet communications. Rather, it's a powerful commercial network-analysis product with all sorts of valuable uses for network operators. It just happens to be capable of doing things that make it one of the best internet spy tools around. "Anything that comes through (an internet protocol network), we can record," says Steve Bannerman, marketing vice president of Narus, a Mountain View, ...
New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violating Securities Law
Post Date: 2006-05-17 15:51:12 by aristeides
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New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violating Securities Law In recent days, AT&T, Bell South and Verizon have all issued statements denying that they’ve handed over phone records to the NSA, as reported by USA today. There are three possibilities: 1) The USA Today story is inaccurate; 2) The telcos left enough wiggle room in the statements that both the USA Today story and their statements are accurate; or 3) The statements from the telcos are inaccurate. Ordinarily, a company that conceals their transactions and activities from the public would violate securities law. But an presidential memorandum signed by the ...
Army Rules Put on Hold (ARMY FIELD MANUAL ON INTERROGATION)
Post Date: 2006-05-17 15:37:08 by aristeides
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Army Rules Put on Hold By Julian E. Barnes The Los Angeles Times Thursday 11 May 2006 The revised field manual seeks to permit harsher interrogations of terror suspects, which some lawmakers say violates the ban on torture. Washington - The Pentagon has been forced to delay the release of its updated Army Field Manual on interrogation because of congressional opposition to several provisions, including one that would allow tougher techniques for unlawful combatants than for traditional prisoners of war. The Defense Department's civilian leaders, who are overseeing the process of rewriting the manual, have long argued - along with the Bush administration - that the Geneva Convention ...
STRATEGIC RELOCATION
Post Date: 2006-05-16 22:42:23 by DeaconBenjamin
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In today’s bookstores, it’s easy to find information about the "best places" to live. Such literature undoubtedly will concentrate on the positive aspects of life, such as numbers and ratings of golf courses, doctor/patient ratios, warm sunny climates, availability of cultural activities, status of educational institutions, and the growth potential of the local economy. But while these highly-rated metropolitan areas may offer ample opportunities to enhance your lifestyle, what happens when a major crisis strikes? What if: * a labor crisis halts the inflow of food and business goods? Will these communities provide the basic necessities of life? * an economic crisis ...
Feds Treat Us Like Common Criminals, House GOP Complains
Post Date: 2006-05-16 19:27:24 by aristeides
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Feds Treat Us Like Common Criminals, House GOP Complains Congressional Republicans are complaining of "reports of wiretaps, searches on Congressional grounds, open-ended document requests and demands to interview committee aides" coming from federal prosecutors, Roll Call reports this morning. "A number of Members are very concerned about the way the Justice Department is investigating," [House Administration Chairman Vernon] Ehlers [(R-MI)] said, adding that the general impression among some Members is that prosecutors want to "get" a Congressman. "There’s a feeling that this would be a notch in their belt if they could get a Congressman," ...
Marriage Tied MZM to Pentagon Spy Chief's Office (CAMBONE'S OFFICE)
Post Date: 2006-05-16 19:14:26 by aristeides
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Marriage Tied MZM to Pentagon Spy Chief's Office By Justin Rood - May 16, 2006, 4:07 PM Anybody remember the Foreign Supplier Assessment Center? That's the operation MZM spent so much time and money trying to win a contract to run. Mitchell Wade bundled thousands of dollars in illegal contributions to Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA), who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure MZM got the deal. (Wade is also the top briber of Duke Cunningham.) Until recently, a fellow named Joe James was MZM's number-two in charge of the center, the Martinsville (Va.) Daily reports. He recently stepped down "voluntarily." Now, the paper tells us that James' wife -- FEC records identify her ...
MADSEN: DICK AND LYNNE CHENEY MEET WAYNE MADSEN
Post Date: 2006-05-16 15:57:29 by aristeides
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May 15, 2006 -- Dick Cheney's snarl about privacy. In 1993, having just written a book on data privacy, this editor was invited to give a talk to business students at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. The venue was a small lecture room adjacent to a larger lecture hall. Simultaneous to my talk, Lynne Cheney was speaking to other students in the larger hall next door about "political correctness" on campus -- one of her continuing bugaboos. Following my lecture, I was speaking to some students in the foyer in the lecture building when Dick Cheney, who had accompanied his wife to her lecture, approached me and introduced himself and said he understood I had just ...
Student Faces Criminal Charges For Teacher Jokes
Post Date: 2006-05-16 15:55:54 by Mind_Virus
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Student Faces Criminal Charges For Teacher Jokes POSTED: 10:59 am EDT May 16, 2006 UPDATED: 11:37 am EDT May 16, 2006 HENRY COUNTY, Ga. -- A Henry County high school student is facing criminal charges after posting comments about his teacher on the Web site, http://MySpace.com, reported WSB-TV in Atlanta. The teacher has filed defamation of character charges against the student, Alex Davis, 15. Eagle’s Landing High School science teacher Robert Muzzillo pursued the charges against Davis after noticing a profile with his name attached on http://MySpace.com. The profile talked about Muzzillo liking Michael Jackson and having a "gay old time," like the Fred Flintstone song. ...
R.I. Lawyers Sue Telephone Companies After Newspaper Report [re: NSA]
Post Date: 2006-05-16 11:39:52 by Brian S
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May 16, 2006 PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Lawyers in Rhode Island have filed lawsuits on behalf of customers against several major telephone companies after a newspaper reported the companies gave calling records to the National Security Agency as part of an anti-terrorism surveillance program. The class-action lawsuits filed Monday accuse Verizon Communications Inc., BellSouth Corp. and AT&T Corp. of illegally turning over to the government customers' phone and Internet records, according to The Providence Journal. USA Today reported last week that the three companies began turning over tens of millions of phone records to the NSA after the spy agency requested the records following the Sept. ...
Thermite was it in the WTC and UA 175?
Post Date: 2006-05-16 05:25:53 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Thermite was it in the WTC and UA 175? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7231843493488769585 http://youtube.com/watch?v=ExrVgioIXvk
George H.W. Bush's Private White House Phone Number Found In Car Trunk Of Drug-Trafficker Barry Seal
Post Date: 2006-05-15 23:53:07 by Uncle Bill
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CIA Linked To Seal's Assassination George Bush's Personal Phone Number Found in Seals' Trunk The Washington Weekly By DANIEL HOPSICKER August 18, 1997 "The biggest drug smuggler in American History was a CIA Agent." That's the mind-boggling conclusion of a 6-month investigation into the life and death of Barry Seal, a pivotal figure of the Iran/Contra '80s. Seal's C123 military cargo plane figured prominently in two of the biggest and least-understood events of the decade, the Sandinista 'drug- sting' operation, designed to be the 'Gulf of Tonkin Incident' in a US- Nicaragua war, and the downing, six months after Seal's assassination, of his beloved Fat Lady cargo plane over ...
BREAKING: NSA collecting gun ownership records...
Post Date: 2006-05-15 21:31:09 by Zipporah
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Mon May 15, 2006 at 11:36:01 AM PDT I just heard from a friend who had a frightening story to tell. Turns out he has a friend who works for the NSA. Apparently, the NSA has been getting the records of gun buyers from the FBI. I guess the program works like this... Person enters gun shop, Person files background check paperwork, Gunshop sends background check info to government, Government fun on the flip... * DaleNC's diary :: :: * So when the goverment gets the info, they have the phone number and other personal information and they do the background check. All this information is sent to the NSA to be added to the database with phone records and other information you provided ...
You better listen to this guy and take what he says seriously
Post Date: 2006-05-15 18:28:57 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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http://illuminati-news.com/Videos/keeping-it-in-the-family.wmv Click for Full Text!
Rotten in Denmark (electronic touch screen voting stinks )
Post Date: 2006-05-15 17:47:12 by Zipporah
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Media critic Mark Crispin Miller has been trying to tell us that electronic touch screen voting stinks for years now -- most recently with last fall's publication of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them). He has repeatedly warned us that electronic touch-screen machines are untrustworthy. They are prone to break down. They leave no paper trail. They make fraud almost impossible to detect. And they're manufactured by private vendors with very close ties to the Republican Party, such as Diebold and ES&S. (Waldon O'Dell, the former chief executive of Diebold who was forced to step down this past winter amidst ...
The NSA is on the Line -- All of Them (INTERNET PROVIDERS)
Post Date: 2006-05-15 16:26:33 by aristeides
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The NSA is on the Line -- All of Them One of the foremost experts on the NSA predicts that we'll soon learn that the NSA's surveillence didn't stop at telephone data: "I'll tell you where this story probably will go next. Notice the USA Today article doesn't mention whether the Internet service providers or cellphone providers or companies operating transatlantic cables like Global Crossing cooperated with the NSA. That's the next round of revelations." (Salon)
Attention Swimmers: This Year, Abramoff Crony Won't Save You (MICHAEL "SEAN" SCANLON)
Post Date: 2006-05-15 16:19:06 by aristeides
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Attention Swimmers: This Year, Abramoff Crony Won't Save You Officials in Rehoboth Beach, Del. have declined an application from onetime Jack Abramoff lobbying crony Michael Scanlon to work as a lifeguard. Every summer from 2002 to 2005, Scanlon took a break from fleecing Indian tribes for millions of dollars to work as a lifeguard for the resort town, earning $11.35 an hour for his troubles. But not this year: officials nixed his bid, fearing "the prospect of television crews swarming over the beach should the scandal resurface in the news." (Delaware News Journal)
Fascism: Are We There Yet? The surveillance state and the dangers of 'data-mining'...
Post Date: 2006-05-15 15:56:39 by Brian S
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The lies keep coming. During the run-up to war with Iraq, we were told this administration knew for sure that Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction," and not only that, but knew exactly where they were. When no WMD turned up after the invasion, the Bushies came up with a bushel of excuses and denied ever saying that in the first place. Oh, but don't worry – their real motive for going to war was to export "democracy" to Iraq – which, as anyone can see, is happening – so none of that matters anyway. When it came out that the U.S. government was intercepting and listening to all overseas calls, the president himself stepped up to the plate and declared ...
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