Have you ever had discussions with people who support the Bush warrantless wiretapping program and heard the “if you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” argument? Well you might want to share this article with those people, because it proves that their trust in government not abusing its power is delusory […]
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U.S. Spies Admit to Eavesdropping on Innocent Americans
Published by October 10th, 2008 in Politics, bush, Spying and Fascism. 0 CommentsOnline Pharmacy
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House Democrats Deserve Your Praise
Published by February 28th, 2008 in Politics, bush, Democrats, Republicans, Spying, Fascism and FISA. 0 CommentsAbout two weeks ago the Senate passed their version of the RESTORE Act – the bill that updates FISA for new types of communications that have been developed since FISA was enacted in 1978. The House version of the bill does not include a grant of immunity to all the telecommunications companies that participated in […]
Cheney’s Sinister Hand
Published by June 7th, 2007 in Politics, bush, constitution, cheney, Spying, U.S. Govt and Bill of Rights. 0 CommentsFormer Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey submitted his written responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Here’s what he had to say about events leading up to the Alberto Gonzales’s late-night visit to Ashcroft’s hospital bed in an effort to get him to renew the warrantless NSA wiretap program:
Vice President Cheney told […]
Gonzales investigation begins to pay off
Published by May 16th, 2007 in Politics, bush, Spying, U.S. Govt and NPR. 0 CommentsWhat in the world is going on in this administration?
Last night, during my 1 hour commute which takes me all of 12 miles, I was listening to NPR and heard the very compelling testimony of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey and was surprised by the lengths that the White House would go to get […]
Bush’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card
Published by October 1st, 2006 in Politics, bush, congress, torture, Democrats, Midterm Elections, Iraq, SCOTUS and Spying. 0 CommentsBack in July of 2005, Elizabeth Holtzman wrote a lengthy article for The Nation in which she made the case for how Bush and his top advisors could be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act. She ended the article with this:
Still, calls for the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal […]