Filed at 8:10 pm, Tuesday March 13th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
According to a new poll, almost 70% of Americans think the current federal government (read: the Bush Administration) is either “somewhat secretive” or “very secretive.”
People also overwhelmingly believe that their federal leaders have become sneaky, listening to telephone conversations or opening private mail without getting court permission, according to a survey of 1,008 adults commissioned […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Sunday January 21st 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Ugh. From hearings this past week:
Feingold: Do you know of any one in the country who opposed eavesdropping on terrorists?â€
Gonzales: Sure, if you look at blogs today, there is a lot of concern about all types of eavesdropping, who don’t want us eavesdropping at all.
Feingold: Do you know anyone in government who ever took that […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Tuesday November 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Mmm great use of resources. Use anti-terror resources to track anti-war liberals. Cause you know, liberals are a big threat to America. NYT today:
An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department in an effort to prevent attacks against military installations included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches, libraries, college campuses and other […]
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Filed at 3:43 pm, Saturday November 11th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Thank. God.
Legislation aimed at
President Bush’s once-secret program for wiretapping U.S.-foreign phone calls and computer traffic of suspected terrorists without warrants shows all the signs of not moving ahead, notwithstanding President Bush’s request this week that a lame-duck Congress give it to him.
Senate Democrats, emboldened by Election Day wins that put them in control of Congress […]
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Filed at 11:05 am, Thursday September 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Seriously, traditional media. What on earth are we supposed to believe now?
Washington Post: Wiretap Bill Moves Closer to Passage
Associated Press: Congress unlikely to pass wiretapping
In all fairness, both of those were written on the 26th, so they’re probably all super out-dated by now. That, and Arlen Specter has probably reversed his position on the NSA’s […]
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Filed at 7:36 pm, Thursday August 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
In case you’ve totally been under a rock, here is the news of the day, via AP:
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Tuesday July 11th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday I wrote the following:
House Intel Committee Chair Pete Hoekstra stays in the news after a Litchblau piece recently appeared in the NYT revealing that he had warned the President that failure to brief Congress on secret intel programs could be illegal. Hoekstra went on Fox and ended up suggesting that there were more secret […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Tuesday June 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Holy crap, Crooks and Liars has a great video (multiformat, the works, as usual), of a GOP shill (I dunno who he was) getting absolutely dominated by a guy with… common sense. The issue being discussed was the media’s disclosure of the finance spying program in which the U.S. government has been using a Belgium […]
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Filed at 9:30 pm, Wednesday June 21st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Glenn Greenwald brings us an update on Congressional efforts, on the House side this time. In short, there are about twenty House Republicans that have switched over closer to the Dem side of things reality side of things regarding the illegal NSA program that the Administration has so loudly (but legally weakly) defended. Good news. […]
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Filed at 8:30 pm, Tuesday June 20th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press reports on a disgraceful waste of large volumes of our tax money:
Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans’ personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers.
These brokers, many of whom advertise aggressively on the Internet, have gotten into customer accounts online, […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Thursday June 15th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
This is truly a bizarre tactic. The federal government (yes, those Republicans who run it, who are all for state’s rights and smaller federal government) is suing, that’s right suing the state of New Jersey’s Attorney General to prevent him from investigating the unconstitutional NSA wiretapping program. I don’t even know what to say at […]
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Filed at 5:30 pm, Wednesday June 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yes kids, Ganja bricks. Vanities. CNN has such a way with words.
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Tuesday June 13th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As you may remember, a few weeks ago (back when Hayden was up for the CIA director job) I wrote that Russell Tice (one of NYT’s initial sources for the Spygate story published back in December, but written six months earlier) was going to testify before the Senate on the issue of the NSA’s illegal […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Sunday June 11th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Apparently Specter doesn’t want amnesty after all. Glenn Greenwald explains that the Washington Post got it totally wrong on this one, and that Specter does say he wants accountability. Specter explained his stance on CNN today with Wolf, and Crooks & Liars has the video (multiformat choice: Quicktime & Windows Media).
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Filed at 10:30 am, Wednesday June 07th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Ugh, Damnit Arlen.
Phone company executives won’t be grilled by a Senate panel anytime soon about their roles in the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Tuesday he will hold off subpoenaing the telecommunications chiefs while he works with the White House on his legislation that would ask a secretive federal […]
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