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ABC Reports NSA Is Monitoring Reporters’ Phone Records, Reopens Questions About CNN’s Amanpour
Post Date: 2006-05-15 14:09:40 by Zipporah
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ABC Reports NSA Is Monitoring Reporters’ Phone Records, Reopens Questions About CNN’s Amanpour In January, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell asked James Risen, the New York Times author who disclosed the NSA wiretapping program, whether CNN’s Christian Amanpour had been eavesdropped upon. MITCHELL: Do you have any information about reporters being swept up in this net? RISEN: No, I don’t. It’s not clear to me. That’s one of the questions we’ll have to look into [in] the future. Were there abuses of this program or not? I don’t know the answer to that MITCHELL: You don’t have any information, for instance, that a very prominent journalist, Christiane ...
Police State America
Post Date: 2006-05-15 14:03:38 by Zipporah
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View Video here Short video shows how police use surveillance of U.S. citizens who participate in Anti-War protest This is actual police surveillance footage at an anti war protest in Portland, Oregon. The video has audio so you can hear what the police are saying. At Least 135 Arrested in Portland War Protest PORTLAND - Police used pepper spray and non-lethal explosives to break up a late-night sit-in of about 100 people who congregated at the foot of the Burnside Bridge in Portland to protest the ongoing conflict in Iraq. The confrontation capped a day of protests, when anti-war demonstrators blocked access to Interstates 5 and 84, shut down some of Portland's busiest bridges and ...
Hate hotline puts speech on hold
Post Date: 2006-05-15 12:28:44 by Zipporah
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There's a famous joke that goes like this: What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a Jewish mother? Eventually, the Rottweiler lets go. Now, some Jews may find that joke offensive. I don't. But if you're insulted, and you live in Boulder, you're in luck. Soon enough, you may be able to report me to the authorities. Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter of allocating public funding for a "hate hotline," which would give residents an opportunity to report incidents in which Boulderites use tactless language. "Our concern - and there are many - is that there is no confidentiality, no legal confidentiality," explains Judd Golden, chairman of ...
Americans Brace For AK-47s Now In Streets
Post Date: 2006-05-15 11:19:07 by Mind_Virus
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Americans Brace For AK-47s Now In Streets Frank Tridico -- SooNews.ca -- Saturday, May 13, 2006, 10:56AM It is one of the most feared weapons that have largely been inaccessible for decades. That has changed recently, as law enforcement authorities in Palm Beach and Martin counties documented deadly incidents involving the new weapon of choice by gangs. In both counties, AK-47s were used to kill two people and wound four others in three separate incidents. The weapon was designed for army battles. Its original design emanated as a Cold War era Russian weapon. It was billed abroad as ‘the Kalashnakov’ and contains a curled, 30 round clip and a report that registers in your ...
Backdoor Found in Diebold Voting Machines
Post Date: 2006-05-15 10:59:19 by Flintlock
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Backdoor Found in Diebold Voting Machines Diebold Election Systems plans to make changes to its electronic voting machines, following the disclosure of a number of serious security flaws in the systems. Last week, the voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting published a report detailing how Diebold's TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting machines could be compromised by taking advantage of "backdoor" features designed to allow new software to be installed on the systems. Finnish security researcher Harri Hursti discovered backdoors in the systems boot loader software, in the OS, and in the Ballot Station software that it runs to tabulate votes. "These are built-in features, ...
Israeli Gestapo-like security personnel intimidate travelers from Europe coming to the United States
Post Date: 2006-05-14 16:34:23 by Red Jones
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Israeli Gestapo-like security personnel intimidate travelers from Europe coming to the United States By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer May 12, 2006, 01:23 (WMR) -- According to European journalists, Israeli citizens and European nationals who are employees of the airport passenger screening firm ICTS -- International Consultants for Targeted Security -- an Israeli firm based in the Netherlands, routinely intimidate journalists who are visiting the United States, demanding to know what stories they are working and with whom they will be talking. ICTS currently has contracts with Delta Airlines at Paris Charles deGaulle, Gatwick in London, Continental out of Milan and ...
Chávez is a Threat Because He Offers the Alternative of a Decent Society
Post Date: 2006-05-14 12:35:04 by loner
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Published on Saturday, May 13, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Chávez is a Threat Because He Offers the Alternative of a Decent Society Venezuela's president is using oil revenues to liberate the poor - no wonder his enemies want to overthrow him by John Pilger I have spent the past three weeks filming in the hillside barrios of Caracas, in streets and breeze-block houses that defy gravity and torrential rain and emerge at night like fireflies in the fog. Caracas is said to be one of the world's toughest cities, yet I have known no fear; the poorest have welcomed my colleagues and me with a warmth characteristic of ordinary Venezuelans but also with the unmistakable confidence of a ...
MADSEN: MYSTERIOUS MOTORCADE AT D.C. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE FRIDAY (ROVE INDICTMENT IMMINENT?)
Post Date: 2006-05-14 12:24:46 by aristeides
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May 13, 2006 -- Yesterday afternoon, WMR was staked out at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington awaiting any developments in the CIA leak case. A little after noon, a large motorcade consisting of black and one green SUV, several police cars and police motorcycles sped into the street behind the courthouse. Two SUVs split from the motorcade and quickly dashed into the underground parking garage. Several personal security officers were spotted on guard in the annex of the courthouse where the CIA leak case grand jury was meeting. Although there is no final confirmation that the motorcade was that of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, there is every indication that he ...
Link to Telco Liability: Falkenrath Gets It Wrong
Post Date: 2006-05-14 12:14:57 by Zipporah
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Telco Liability: Falkenrath Gets It Wrong On Thursday, ThinkProgress argued that the telcos could be liable for tens of billions of dollars for turning over phone records to the government in violation of the Stored Communications Act. In this morning’s New York Times, law>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/13/washington/13phone.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1">law professor Orrin Kerr agrees: Orin Kerr, a former federal prosecutor and assistant professor at George Washington University, said his reading of the relevant statutes put the phone companies at risk for at least $1,000 per person whose records they disclosed without a court order. “This is not a happy day for the ...
Cheney pushed for domestic phonecall taps after 9/11
Post Date: 2006-05-14 09:57:33 by Zipporah
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Cheney pushed for domestic phonecall taps after 9/11 RAW STORYPublished: Saturday May 13, 2006 "In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials," begins a front page story set for Sunday's New York Times. But, according to the Times, the NSA "ultimately prevailed." Excerpts from the article written by Scott Shane: # But N.S.A. lawyers, trained in the agency's strict rules against domestic spying and reluctant to approve any ...
THE SPIES WHO SHAG US: The Times and USA Today have Missed the Bigger Story -- Again
Post Date: 2006-05-14 09:23:53 by Zipporah
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For Buzzflash Friday, May 12, 2006 I know you're shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That's nothing. And it's not news. This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration's Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI -- though it is better described as the creation of a private KGB. ******************** For the full story, see "Double Cheese With Fear," in Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf and ...
Phone Firms Questioned
Post Date: 2006-05-13 22:18:12 by robin
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Phone Firms QuestionedLegal experts say the divulging of records to the government is prohibited by a 1986 law. By David G. Savage Times Staff Writer May 13, 2006 WASHINGTON — While Capitol Hill debated the issue Friday, many lawyers voiced surprise that three major telephone companies had agreed to make available to the National Security Agency the phone records of tens of millions of Americans. That's because Congress made it illegal 20 years ago for telephone companies and computer service providers to turn over to the government records showing who their customers had dialed or e-mailed. "I would not want to be the general counsel of one of these phone companies," said ...
What Fourth Amendment? We're In Bushworld Now
Post Date: 2006-05-13 20:47:41 by Coral Snake
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What Fourth Amendment? We're In Bushworld Now By Dave Lindorff 5-12-6 I called my phone service provider, Verizon, Friday, to find out whether my phone records had been or were still being provided to the National Security Agency. Of course, I knew they were, since the report in USA Today on May 11 stated that Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth had all turned over all their customer records to the NSA, with only Qwest, of the major phone providers, refusing the request. The first thing I discovered was that when I called Verizon customer service, a misleadingly comforting recording had been added, saying, "As always, privacy of your account is your right and our duty." After ...
The Admiralty Court Exists Because the U.S. is Under Martial law
Post Date: 2006-05-13 19:22:56 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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center> The Admiralty Court Exists Because the U.S. is Under Martial law Click for Full Text!
History Rhymes (JAMES OTIS AND THE WRITS OF ASSISTANCE)
Post Date: 2006-05-13 12:35:29 by aristeides
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History Rhymes Guest Post by poputonian Boston attorney James Otis was especially offended. The British were free people. When he argued in 1761 against the Writ of Assistance, that scurrilous document which allowed the British government access to a citizen's home and personal records -- without having first obtained a court issued warrant -- Otis used the British constitution as evidence that the writs were illegal. He did not make any claims that Americans were unique and deserved special freedoms, but instead asserted the rights of the British citizen, of which he and the others in Massachusetts Bay colony were one. There was no thought of rebellion or independence. At trial on ...
The Spies Who Shag Us
Post Date: 2006-05-13 02:04:24 by robin
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The Spies Who Shag UsFri, 12 May 2006 14:06:38 -0700 Big Buddy By Greg PalastThe Times and USA Today have missed the bigger story - Again I know you’re shocked – SHOCKED! – that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That’s nothing. And it’s not news. This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration’s Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI – though it is better described as the creation of a private ...
NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’
Post Date: 2006-05-12 21:55:42 by Mekons4
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CongressDaily reports that former NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify to the Senate Armed Services Committee next week that not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg. Tice will tell Congress that former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden, Bush’s nominee to be the next CIA director, oversaw more illegal activity that has yet to be disclosed: A former intelligence officer for the National Security Agency said Thursday he plans to tell Senate staffers next week that unlawful activity occurred at the agency under the supervision of Gen. Michael Hayden beyond ...
Gasoline at 10 Cents a Gallon and Falling
Post Date: 2006-05-12 20:37:00 by DeaconBenjamin
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Does gasoline at 10 cents a gallon and falling sound impossible in today’s world? Well, if you think it’s impossible, you’re wrong. Because that’s where gasoline actually is, and it looks like it’s going even lower. Of course, it’s not 10 cents a gallon in today’s paper money. But it is 10 cents a gallon in the Constitutional money of the United States, which is gold coin and bullion. Gold is now at $700 per ounce, and rising. To the right is a picture of a $20 United States gold coin known as a Double Eagle. If you look carefully, at the bottom of the coin, you can actually see where it says “Twenty Dollars.” This coin contains approximately ...
R.E.M. JOINS NET NEUTRALITY COALITION (Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom petition)
Post Date: 2006-05-12 17:51:22 by Zipporah
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R.E.M. JOINS NET NEUTRALITY COALITION R.E.M has joined a growing coalition of artists and musicians who have signed the Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom petition. The petition is being circulated in response to a large telecommunications bill Congress will soon vote on, one part of which would gut Net Neutrality, the long held principle that all online speech is equally accessible to Internet users, regardless of its source. In practice, Net Neutrality levels the internet playing field, insuring that small blogs and independent sites open just as easily as the sites of large media corporations. It allows every voice to be heard by thousands, even millions of people (Click here ...
NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’
Post Date: 2006-05-12 17:47:41 by Zipporah
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NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’ CongressDaily reports that former NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify to the Senate Armed Services Committee next week that not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg. Tice will tell Congress that former NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden, Bush’s nominee to be the next CIA director, oversaw more illegal activity that has yet to be disclosed: A former intelligence officer for the National Security Agency said Thursday he plans to tell Senate staffers next week ...
THE ROAD GROWS SHORTER
Post Date: 2006-05-12 14:44:26 by swarthyguy
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It is not easy to recognize fascism if you haven't been there before. Our eyesight is blurred by everything from cultural optimism to psychic denial. But news of the NSA's mass spying on American's phone records - in number of victims, at least, perhaps the most broadly illegal and unconstitutional act in our history - makes it all simpler. There is not an ounce of hyperbole in calling the NSA's action those of a fascist regime and not of a democratic state. NSA has not only violated the law, it even refuses to allow the Justice Department to investigate its violation. This is the behavior of a dictatorship, not of a democracy. Sadly, even more telling that NSA's action - in determining ...
Jonathan Turley: NSA Has No Legal Authority to Create Call Database
Post Date: 2006-05-12 13:49:43 by Zipporah
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VIDEO - Jonathan Turley: NSA Has No Legal Authority to Create Call Database BONUS VIDEO - Bush Prefers to Promote Inner-Circle of Criminals Guest blogged by David Edwards of src="http://www.edwardsdavid.com/media/msnbc/images/msnbc_ko_nsa_database_turley_060512a2.jpg"> align="left" border="0" hspace="6" vspace="3">Video in Streaming Flash format...Video in Windows Media format...Jonathan Turley is a Law Professor at George Washington University. He is an expert on Constitutional Law and legal ethics. He also specializes in legal services for defendants in cases involving classified material. Turley appeared as guest on MSNBC's ...
Idaho Observer: Spokane police prove Russo’s point with theater STING
Post Date: 2006-05-12 08:41:56 by Jethro Tull
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Idaho Observer: Spokane police prove Russo’s point with theater "sting" op > From the April 2006 Idaho Observer: Spokane police prove Russo’s point with theater "sting" op SPOKANE, WA—Spokane Police Detective C.N. Brenden and Spokane County Sheriff’s Detective Fred Reutsch talked Learn To Burn guitar shop owner Roy Jackson into letting them set up a surveillance camera behind the store’s one-way glass window to film people as they came and went from the Garland Theater March 13, 2006—the night We the People (WTP) sponsored the showing of Aaron Russo’s America From Freedom to Fascism. The ...
How To Sue Verizon For The NSA Wiretaps
Post Date: 2006-05-12 06:14:43 by Zipporah
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How To Sue Verizon For The NSA Wiretaps by bretton1234 Thu May 11, 2006 at 11:49:04 PM PDT Here's the lawyer's info: Pascazi Law Offices 1065 Main Street, Suite D, Fishkill, NY 12524 U.S.A. Phones: New York- +1 845.897.4219 London- +44 0121.288.7535 Fax: U.S.A.- +1 877.844.4120* Email: info@pascazilaw.com The current settlement being sought is... * bretton1234's diary :: :: * ...$20 Billion (Insert Dr. Evil laugh here) Individuals are entitled to $1000 for the violation, which will be considerably less after all fees and loose ends. This, along with boycotting where possible, should teach Verizon not to blindly oblige the White House. I'd like to organize a group to head into the ...
Government lawyers say Americans consented to have phone records seized
Post Date: 2006-05-12 05:57:37 by Zipporah
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Friday's Washington Post reveals the Bush Administration's legal response to relevations that tens of millions of Americans personal phone records have been acquired by the National Security Agency. Excerpts from the Post follow (Full article here). # One government lawyer who has participated in negotiations with telecommunications providers said the Bush administration has argued that a company can turn over its entire database of customer records -- and even the stored content of calls and e-mails -- because customers "have consented to that" when they establish accounts. The fine print of many telephone and Internet service contracts includes catchall provisions, the lawyer ...
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