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• Arlen Specter Disses Bush While On Board Air Force One

  Published: July 29, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: Scandals, White House, Nsa Wiretapping, Alberto Gonzales, George W Bush

  Via The New York Times: Guests of President Bush aboard Air Force One generally know that he expects them to behave in a certain way: No showboating or mingling with the on-board press corps and, certainly, no criticizing the commander in chief or his team. Senator Arlen Specter violated both points of decorum on Thursday. He visited with

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• Sen. Rockefeller's Memo To Cheney Preceded TIA Defunding By One Day

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: The Senate, Nsa Wiretapping, Dick Cheney

  program as it relates to the NSA’s domestic wiretap program[..] I’d like to pull out just a few salient dates and add four (in bold italics) to what joejoejoe did. I think the time line lends support for the argument that one of the problems–a big problem–with the domestic wiretap program is that it violated clear

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• Cheney Can't Recall If He Ordered Hospital Visit

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:49 pm

  Tags: Nsa Wiretapping, Dick Cheney

  to get him to approve the wiretapping.” As Marshall noted, before the editorial, Cheney’s involvement in the incident had never been established. Today on CNN, in a preview of his interview with the Vice President tonight, Larry King said he asked Cheney about the allegation. “I asked the Vice President about that and the

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• Cheney: I Don't Recall If I Ordered Gonzo To Pressure Ashcroft

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Nsa Wiretapping, The Situation Room Wolf Blitzer, Dick Cheney

  As Nicole pointed out yesterday, Larry King tells Wolf Blitzer that he asked the Vice President whether he was involved in the decision to send Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card to John Ashcroft’s bedside to pressure him into certifying the legally dubious “Terrorist Surveillance Program,” otherwise known as the Illegal Spying

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• Feingold Weighs in on FISA

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Nsa, Wiretapping, Russ Feingold

  Sen. Feingold has apparently been given a classified briefing by DNI McConnell on the FISA issue, and released this statement: "We need to wiretap terrorists, and we should address the problem that has been identified with FISA with respect to foreign-to-foreign communications. But the administration’s overly broad proposal goes far beyond

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• Countdown: FISA and Fear Mongering

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:01 pm

  Tags: The House, Nsa Wiretapping, Jonathan Turley, Countdown Keith Olbermann

  he’s looking for his wiretapping program? Note the playing of the fear card. Jonathan Turley joins Keith and tries to make sense in this Bizarro World confrontation, and the complicit Congress isn’t spared his scorn. The ACLU has an action item: Tell Congress Not to Cave in to Fear And more: Don’t rush to modify FISA,

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• BREAKING: It's Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker

  Published: August 5, 2007, 3:35 pm

  Tags: White House, Nsa Wiretapping

  over its illegal program of NSA domestic surveillance. During the very time Congress was debating codifying President Bush’s lawbreaking by revising the FISA law many of his allies have been afraid to publicly challenge as unconstitutional, Alberto Gonzales’ DOJ was raiding the home of a former Justice official to identify the person

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• How bad is it?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:12 am

  Tags: Nsa Wiretapping

  Thanks to a rush-job from Congress, and some help from a couple of dozen craven Dem lawmakers, the president signed into law yesterday a new bill that offers him broad to surveillance powers, including the ability to eavesdrop on American citizens' international communications without a warrant. How bad is the new law? Details are a little sketchy

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• Is The NY Times The Next NSA Leak Target?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Nsa Wiretapping

  PERRspectives had the story yesterday on the raid on Thomas Tamm’s home and now it looks like conservatives are clamoring to expand the investigation to the NY Times as well. Just when you think Republicans can’t get any lower, they dredge just a little more from the swamp.

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• Glenn Greenwald on FISA and Domestic Wiretapping

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Nsa Wiretapping

  Download (113)   Play (134)  Download (41)   Play (71) (thanks to Heather for videos) My personal favorite journalist, Amy Goodman, interviews Glenn Greenwald and Marjorie Cohn about the slippery slope of the FISA bill that the Democrats caved on last week and the ramifications for oversight when the bill

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• It's called, circular accountability'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Nsa Wiretapping

  I'd be remiss if I neglected to mention this gem from Tuesday’s WaPo. The Bush administration plans to leave oversight of its expanded foreign eavesdropping program to the same government officials who supervise the surveillance activities and to the intelligence personnel who carry them out, senior government officials said yesterday. The

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• Glenn Greenwald on CSPAN: FISA

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:43 pm

  Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Nsa Wiretapping

  friend and an expert on the NSA program. He hammers Dave Rivkin (WH apologist) on the pitfalls of this immoral program and the civil rights violations the Bushies have carried out against this great country. I made two clips to highlight his points…  Download (517)   Play (795)  Download (345)   Play (393)

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• The Hill's Karen Hanretty And Her Awful Appearance On Hardball

  Published: August 9, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Us Attorneys Purge, Msnbc, Nsa Wiretapping, Plame Case Pat Fitzgerald, Hardball Chris Matthews

  I scour the cable news shows nearly every day and I have to say that this performance by The Hill’s Karen Hanretty on this evening’s “Hardball” has to rank as one of the worst and most annoying I’ve seen. Hanretty became highly perturbed when host Chris Matthews and Ezra Klein from The American Prospect dared to

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• The New York Times, Cliffs Notes edition

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:37 pm

  Tags: New York Times, Fisa, Domestic Spying, Nsa, Wiretapping

  Waldo Jaquith teaches you How to Read The New York Times: "Black is white"; no, it’s black. I love this: The White House maintained Monday that the surveillance measure signed into law by President Bush over the weekend did not give the government any sweeping new powers to eavesdrop on Americans without court warrants. [...] The new

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• Surveillance Clock Stands at Six Minutes to Midnight

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:10 pm

  Tags: Internet News, Progressive Politics Action, Government Policy, Intelligence Gathering, Nsa Wiretapping

  our every move, our every transaction, our every communication is recorded, compiled, and stored away, ready to be examined and used against us by the authorities whenever they want. The ACLU has created this Surveillance Clock to symbolize just how close we are to a “midnight” of a genuine surveillance society. But it’s not too

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