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The War of Bush Against the American People - A Plea to the Masses
Post Date: 2005-12-21 12:22:31 by christine
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What somehow has escaped notice is that while the President may be "Commander-in-Chief" of the Armed Forces he is NOT Commander-in-Chief of THE PEOPLE. Jackie Junti, W.G.E.N. People, there is a war going on, a war that we must not ignore any further or we are going to find we live in a military dictatorship led by such traitors as Bush the Incompetent and Deceitful. To live in a land led by a demented incompetent may be your cup of tea but it is not the America created to guarantee human rights. People make jokes, which are often based on truth. For example, "Oh, we have many freedoms of choice, like paper or plastic, rent or lease, taxes or jail, coffin or ...
Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls
Post Date: 2005-12-21 11:19:06 by aristeides
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Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: December 21, 2005 WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign soil, officials say. The officials say the National Security Agency's interception of a small number of communications between people within the United States was apparently accidental, and was caused by technical glitches at the National Security Agency in determining whether a communication was in fact ...
Welcome To Bush's New American Gestapo
Post Date: 2005-12-21 04:45:51 by Uncle Bill
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Welcome to the New American Gestapo Capitol Hill Blue By DOUG THOMPSON Nov 20, 2002, 06:35 Wonder if any of the vast sums of money approved Tuesday for the new Department of Homeland Security are set aside for black uniforms with knee-length boots and black leather trench coats? Should be. Since we’ve gone to all this trouble to create the new American Gestapo we might as well let them look the part. Excuse me if I don’t join in all the senseless celebration over creation of yet another mammoth bureaucracy of the federal government. Pardon me if I don’t go ga-ga over a federal agency that has been given unlimited powers to spy on Americans, trample all over the First and ...
Bush Plan: Social Security for 'Legalized' Illegal Aliens
Post Date: 2005-12-21 03:04:12 by Uncle Bill
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Bush Plan: Social Security for 'Legalized' Illegal Aliens By Jeff Johnson CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer December 08, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - Illegal aliens who work under borrowed, stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers could collect retirement benefits based on their illegal earnings as the result of a Bush administration plan. Critics charge the federal government has grossly underestimated the cost of the proposal, which they believe could run be billions of dollars per year.Congress is expected to vote on some combination of proposed changes to immigration laws as early as next week, according to sources working with the House Homeland Security and Judiciary committees. While ...
A compendium of White House incoherence regarding its lawless surveillance
Post Date: 2005-12-20 17:14:09 by aristeides
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A compendium of White House incoherence regarding its lawless surveillance The most disturbing aspect of this surveillance scandal is not the lawless eavesdropping by the White House on the communications of American citizens, as self-evidently disturbing as that is. More disturbing than even that is the fact that the rationale and explanations provided by the President and his Administration to justify this conduct are so transparently dishonest and insultingly nonsensical that it is clear that we do not have anything close to the real story about what went on here. The scandal here is not just the illegal surveillance itself, but the fact that the Administration is so plainly lying ...
Bush’s Snoopgate
Post Date: 2005-12-20 12:50:52 by Zipporah
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The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security.Joshua Roberts / ReutersBush says he had ‘legal authority’ to permit the National Security Agency listen in on American citizens without a warrant NewsweekUpdated: 6:17 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2005Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those ...
U.S. Constitution: Article II Section 2
Post Date: 2005-12-20 12:33:14 by christine
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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the ...
F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show
Post Date: 2005-12-20 09:35:34 by robin
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December 20, 2005 F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 - Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show. F.B.I. officials said Monday that their investigators had no interest in monitoring political or social activities and that any investigations that touched on advocacy groups were driven by evidence of criminal or violent activity at public protests and in other settings. After the attacks of ...
Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as spies
Post Date: 2005-12-20 03:27:22 by Uncle Bill
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US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies www.smh.com By Ritt Goldstein July 15 2002 The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity". Civil liberties groups have already warned that, with the passage earlier this year of the Patriot Act, there is potential for abusive, ...
Ave, Caesar Bushius Minimus!
Post Date: 2005-12-20 03:12:09 by Uncle Bill
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Ave, Caesar Bushius Minimus! The New American By William Norman Grigg Sat, 17 Dec 2005 Ave, Caesar Arbustius Minimus! “I could be well moved, if I were as you But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and every one doth shine. But there's one in all doth hold his place. So in the world: 'tis furnished well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive. Yet in the number I do know but one That unassailable holds onto his rank, Unshaked of motion; and that I am he....” Thus spake Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare's rendering, arrogantly ...
SNOOPGATE: "The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office"
Post Date: 2005-12-20 02:50:42 by Uncle Bill
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Bush’s Snoopgate MSNBC.com December 20, 2005 By Jonathan Alter The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security. Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush ...
PENTAGON - "Every financial transaction of every American is now recorded and monitored by the federal government. Any bank transaction, all credit card charges plus phone records, credit reports, travel and even health records are captured in real time by the DARPA computers" [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-12-20 01:54:09 by Uncle Bill
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Where Big Brother Snoops on "Americans" 24/7 Capitol Hill Blue By TERESA HAMPTON & DOUG THOMPSON June 7, 2004 Customers of the Bank of America branch at 3625 Fairfax Drive in Arlington, Virginia, often wonder about the Arlington police car that is always parked in front of the building in the next block. They also can’t help but notice the two armed guards from the private Cantwell Security Service who patrol the street in front of the building and eye each passerby warily. “What’s going on across the street?” one woman asked while waiting in line to deposit her paycheck last Friday. “Not sure,” said the man ahead of her in line. ...
FBI watched array of environmental, animal, and poverty groups
Post Date: 2005-12-19 23:54:42 by Zipporah
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Counterterrorism agents at the FBI have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show, the NEW YORK TIMES is set to splash in Tuesday's papers... # FBI officials said Monday that their investigators had no interest in monitoring political or social activities and that any investigations that touched on advocacy groups were driven by evidence of criminal or violent activity at public protests and in other settings. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, John Ashcroft, who was then attorney general, loosened ...
Pentagon's Intelligence Authority Widens Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth
Post Date: 2005-12-19 21:12:54 by Zipporah
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Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth From Focus on Policy to Counterterrorism The Pentagon's newest counterterrorism agency, charged with protecting military facilities and personnel wherever they are, is carrying out intelligence collection, analysis and operations within the United States and abroad, according to a Pentagon fact sheet on the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, provided to The Washington Post. CIFA is a three-year-old agency whose size and budget remain secret. It has grown from an agency that coordinated policy and oversaw the counterintelligence activities of units within the military services and Pentagon agencies to an analytic and operational ...
Letter from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to Vice President Cheney regarding NSA domestic wiretapping, July 17th 2003.
Post Date: 2005-12-19 21:01:38 by Zipporah
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Bush Vows to Continue Domestic Surveillance
Post Date: 2005-12-19 13:21:02 by robin
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Bush Vows to Continue Domestic Surveillance By James Gerstenzang Times Staff Writer 9:52 AM PST, December 19, 2005 WASHINGTON — President Bush today repeatedly defended his decision to let the government conduct, without court warrants, domestic spying operations aimed at American citizens and U.S. residents suspected of having terrorist ties, and demanded congressional approval of the USA Patriot Act before it expires on Dec. 31. In a 55-minute news conference that focused almost exclusively on the war in Iraq, and counter-terrorist programs in the United States and abroad, the president sought to justify the domestic spying program, while seeking to defend it as legal and as a ...
NBC Given 'OK' to Run Pentagon Snooping Story
Post Date: 2005-12-19 06:05:50 by Eoghan
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Hoping an Uninformed Public Will Believe Bush is 'Strong on Terror' to Sway Last Minute Passage of Illegal Patriot Act Stalled in Senate Insider at New York Times says Bush is trying to turn the Pentagon story into trump card in getting Patriot Act through Senate. Source says administration gave go-ahead to run story as corrupt media continues to work hand-in-hand with neo-cons to trick sleeping public. The screws aren’t coming loose in the corrupt Bush administration with the release of the Pentagon snooping story, but only a clear-cut sign they are be tightened down even harder on innocent Americans not falling in step with the neo-con party line. The writing is already on the ...
THE ECHELON ATTACK - "1999"
Post Date: 2005-12-19 04:20:41 by Uncle Bill
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The Echelon attack Worldnetdaily By Joseph Farah October 27, 1999 Internet activists last week tried to overwhelm National Security Agency eavesdroppers by flooding the Echelon spy system with fabricated messages about terrorist plots and bombs. The idea never posed a real threat to the NSA, but the electronic protest helped raise awareness of the fact that the government is snooping on every man, woman and child in the country through this system. Organizers urged Internet users to send millions of e-mails with NSA "keywords" designed to trigger eavesdropping programs and analysis. The idea was to flood the powerful NSA computers with enough suspicious traffic to crash them ...
GEORGE W. BUSH - The Anti-American President - 45% of Worldnetdaily Readers Want Bush Impeached
Post Date: 2005-12-19 04:02:37 by Uncle Bill
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The anti-American president Worldnetdaily By Vox Day December 19, 2005 "Sept. 11 changed everything" has been the mantra of the strong government conservative, the pragmatic dialectoids who are flexible enough to justify any expansion of central government power in the name of the very conservatism that opposes it. Since "we are at war," Republican media whores have repeatedly claimed that because of an attack that killed the same number of people who die on American roads every 26 days, the following actions are therefore justified: 1. An undeclared war of indefinite end against an undefined enemy. 2. Invading two sovereign nations without a congressional ...
GOP TERRORIZING CONSTITUTION
Post Date: 2005-12-19 00:50:04 by Uncle Bill
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GOP Terrorizing Constitution ChuckBaldwinLive.com By Chuck Baldwin December 16, 2005 The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has just passed a bill which renews the USA Patriot Act. According to a News With Views press release, "Despite massive opposition from individuals and groups on all sides of the political spectrum, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Wednesday gave in to pressure from the Administration and approved the conference report H.R. 3199 (introduced by Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.) which would make permanent 14 of the 16 provisions of the controversial Patriot Act-but failed to put much- needed checks and balances against abuse ...
Violating the Constitution
Post Date: 2005-12-18 15:05:36 by christine
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Retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who spent two years at NSA headquartes, discusses the fact that President Bush signed an executive order that allegedly allowed the collection and operational intelligence use of international telephone or electronic mail conversations, even if one or more participants were Americans. She says many questions must be asked and answered, including the most important one: "Is it right?" The New York Times reports that the National Security Agency may have violated constitutional protections against unwarranted government intrusion into citizen's lives and confiscation of private property. In early 2002, President Bush signed an ...
Columnist Admits Being Paid, Resigns From Cato Institute…(Totally discredited Institute, shill for Government)
Post Date: 2005-12-18 10:03:37 by tom007
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Columnist Admits Being Paid, Resigns From Cato Institute… New York Times | ANNE E. KORNBLUT | Posted December 17, 2005 12:05 AM READ MORE: Jack Abramoff cato.gif From http://cato.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 - A senior scholar at the Cato Institute, the respected libertarian research organization, has resigned after revelations that he took payments from the lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for writing columns favorable to his clients. The scholar, Doug Bandow, who wrote a column for the Copley News Service in addition to serving as a Cato fellow, acknowledged to executives at the organization that he had taken money from Mr. Abramoff after he was confronted about the payments by a ...
How Congress Has Assaulted Our Freedoms in the Patriot Act
Post Date: 2005-12-18 06:44:38 by nolu_chan
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How Congress Has Assaulted Our Freedoms in the Patriot Act by Andrew P. Napolitano The compromise version of the Patriot Act to which House and Senate conferees agreed last week and for which the House voted yesterday is an unforgivable assault on basic American values and core constitutional liberties. Unless amended in response to the courageous efforts of a few dozen senators from both parties, the new Patriot Act will continue to give federal agents the power to write their own search warrants – the statute’s newspeak terminology calls them "national security letters" – and serve them on a host of persons and entities that regularly gather and store sensitive, ...
Gerrymanders and Judges
Post Date: 2005-12-17 22:04:36 by 82Marine89
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"Used with permission from http://OpinionJournal.com, a web site from Dow Jones & Company, Inc." Gerrymanders are as old as our republic, as Antonin Scalia pointed out in a 2004 Supreme Court decision on redistricting in Pennsylvania. "There were allegations," Justice Scalia wrote, "that Patrick Henry attempted (unsuccessfully) to gerrymander James Madison out of the First Congress." Litigating to overturn gerrymanders is a decidedly more modern activity, although as Justice Scalia also pointed out in Vieth v. Jubelirer, the courts have rarely overturned electoral maps drawn by partisan legislatures. But people keep trying, and this week the Supreme ...
Justices Are Urged to Dismiss Padilla's Case
Post Date: 2005-12-17 21:19:12 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 - It would be "wholly imprudent" for the Supreme Court to hear Jose Padilla's challenge to his military detention as an enemy combatant, the Bush administration told the court in urging the justices to dismiss Mr. Padilla's case as moot now that the government plans to try him on terrorism charges in a civilian court. In a brief filed late Friday, the administration argued that Mr. Padilla's indictment last month by a federal grand jury has given him the "very relief" he sought when he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court. Any Supreme Court decision now on his petition, which a federal appeals court rejected in September, ...
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