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Title: MADSEN: BILL RICHARDSON CONFIRMS NSA MONITORED HIS DOMESTIC PHONE CALLS)
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Wayne Madsen Report
URL Source: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
Published: Feb 5, 2007
Author: Wayne Madsen
Post Date: 2007-02-05 19:23:01 by aristeides
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Comments: 6
February 5, 2007 -- This editor had a brief conversation with Governor Richardson at the Washington Hilton. We spoke about the following article in the Albuquerque Tribune from Dec. 26, 2005: "Gov. Bill Richardson is concerned that some of his phone calls were monitored by a U.S. spy agency and transcripts of them were given to the president's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Richardson called Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, to express his concerns after Dodd revealed that Bolton had on 10 occasions asked the National Security Agency for the intercepts of phone conversations involving Americans. 'The governor is upset that his conversations with Secretary Powell would be intercepted since most of them were domestic calls,' said Richardson spokesman Billy Sparks. 'The governor felt his calls about North Korea were confidential' . . . Sparks said Richardson's call to Dodd was triggered when he read an online story by Washington journalist Wayne Madsen. The story said intelligence community 'insiders' claim the NSA circumvented a ban on domestic surveillance by asserting that the intercepted calls were part of 'training missions.'" Governor Richardson told this editor on Feb. 3, "you were right about that story." Hopefully, the Democratic leadership in the Senate and the House will revisit NSA's and John Bolton's illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens in violation of criminal statutes. If the governor of a state cannot be assured of his constitutional rights, can any of us?
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
This story, and Madsen's story about Bush threatening Gore back in 2000 over the election, makes me think (yet again :P) of the old Soviet Union: the way even its political class was held in thrall to its internal security/domestic terror web. Even if our political elites don't care about the impact on the average citizen resulting from the Bush Administration's post 9/11 power grab, they'd better wake up and smell the coffee as to its impact on them personally. I think our best hope for a non-violent regime change here in the USA before the Bush/Cheney fascists do too much more damage to the Constitution, the nation and the world, is a bipartisan coalition of people like Richardson, Hagel, Baker et al. to confront, confound, counter, and conclude the Bush/Cheney regime.
http://itshappeninghere.blogspot.com/ States Fighting for Rights Because of Real ID? That's the suggestion in States fight for rights over new Real ID law, anyway. An excerpt from the article: What started as a tool to fight terrorism is fast turning into a battle over states' rights. States are in an uproar over the Real ID Act, which Congress slipped into a financing bill for the Iraq war last month. As of mid-2008, Real ID all but Governors Project Skyrocketting Costs at Annual Meeting At the National Governors Association annual meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, governors blasted the federal government for passing off the costs of the Real ID Act to the states. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico called the law "a shortsighted, ill-conceived initiative,’’ and promised that the governors would challenge it in court. Associated Press, "Driver's License Costs will Skyrocket, Governors Warn," Des Moines Register, June 18, 2005;
The unholy trinity of electronic snooping: Bolton, Negroponte and Hayden
All wars are fought for money. Domestic political spying is the only reason there can be for the Cheney admin wanting to bypass the FISA courts. Nothing else makes sense, as the courts have blocked the warrants something like 6 time out of tens of thousands. Domestic political spying - that's the values of the Republican elite these days.
Beats the heck out of 1,000 FBI files.
All wars are fought for money.
#2. To: aristeides (#0)
Richardson on Real ID...but I think I read somewhere he's Digital Angel chipped.
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#3. To: All (#2)
This Madsen report is still standing the test of time...
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#4. To: *Wayne Madsen Report* (#0)
~Socrates
#5. To: robin (#4)
#6. To: tom007 (#5)
~Socrates
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