Fri - May 12, 2006
Tens of Millions of People have been WiretappedThe
Bush administration has secretly been collecting the domestic telephone records
of millions of U.S. households and businesses, assembling gargantuan databases
and attempting to sift through them for clues about terrorist threats, according
to sources with knowledge of the
program.Neither Bush nor his
subordinates denied any factual statement in the USA Today report, which said
AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. have provided
customer calling records to the NSA since shortly after the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. Together those companies serve about 224 million conventional
and cellular telephone customers -- about four-fifths of the wired market and
more than half of the wireless market. According to data provided by the
research group TeleGeography, the three companies connected nearly 500 billion
telephone calls in 2005 and nearly 2 trillion calls since late
2001.Remember a few months
ago when they said that this was wiretapping was only on a select few people and
only on calls that were international?? Well, what move proof do you need that
they are lying again. This just makes me sick. There is no law that King
George won't break, no limits to what he thinks is his power. This has to be
stopped!! We are now in a full blown dictatorship. There is no denying it now.
Bush spies on the citizens and if you disagree he can send you without charges
to a secret prison and hold you as long as he wants. This is sick and wrong.
He must be removed from office and now. Bush must be impeached and then charged
the with war crimes he has committed. He is a criminal and a terrorist. Stop
him now!!!!
Ever-Expanding
Secret
Ever since its secret
domestic wiretapping program was exposed, the Bush administration has depicted
it as a narrow examination of calls made by and to suspected terrorists. But its
refusal to provide any details about the extent of the spying has raised doubts.
Now there is more reason than ever to be worried — and angry — about
how wide the government's web has been
reaching.
According to an article in
USA Today, the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting telephone
records on tens of millions of Americans with the cooperation of the three
largest telecommunications companies in the nation. The scope of the domestic
spying described in the article is breathtaking. The government is reported to
be working with AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to collect data on phone calls
made by untold millions of customers.
Bush
Breaks and Ignores Hundreds of
Laws
President Bush has quietly
claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took
office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by
Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the
Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said
he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions,
requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems,
''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards
against political interference in federally funded research.
With Massive
Deficits and a War, GOP Gives $70 Billion Tax Break to the
Wealthy
The Senate voted 54 to 44
on Thursday to pass almost $70 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the nation's
wealthiest taxpayers. The action ensures that virtually all of President Bush's
tax cuts will be locked in place until after the next presidential
election.
House
Injects Prayer Into Defense
Bill
The House passed a $513
billion defense authorization bill yesterday that includes language intended to
allow chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus at public military ceremonies,
undercutting new Air Force and Navy guidelines on religion.
Names of the
Dead
The Department of Defense has
identified 2,418 American service members who have died since the start of the
Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans this
week:
CARBONARO, Alessandro, 28, Sgt.,
Marines; Bethesda, Md.; Second Marine
Division.
LATIMER, Aaron P., 26,
Specialist, Army; Ennis, Tex.; 562nd Engineer Company, 172nd Stryker Brigade
Combat Team.
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Wed - April 12, 2006
White House withheld report debunking bio-warfare claim On
May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a
fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by
U.S. troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories."
He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass
destruction."The claim, repeated by
top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a
vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S.
intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not
true.A secret fact-finding mission to
Iraq -- not made public until now -- had already concluded that the trailers had
nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission
transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27,
2003, two days before the president's statement.
AT&T
Helped Government Spy on American
Citizens
Attorneys for AT&T
have asked a federal judge to order a San Francisco civil liberties group to
return ``highly confidential'' documents that allegedly show that the
telecommunications giant provided detailed records of millions of its customers
to a government intelligence agency.
In
documents filed on Monday, AT&T's attorneys also asked Judge Vaughn Walker
to order the Electronic Frontier Foundation to refrain from referencing the
documents in its lawsuit.
The EFF filed
a lawsuit against AT&T in January alleging that AT&T had collaborated
with the National Security Agency in a ``massive and illegal program to wiretap
and data-mine Americans' communications.''
Archives
Kept a Secrecy Secret
The National
Archives helped keep secret a multi-year effort by the Air Force, the CIA and
other federal agencies to withdraw thousands of historical documents from public
access on Archives shelves, even though the records had been
declassified.
In a 2002 memorandum,
obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and released yesterday by
the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research library housed at George
Washington University, Archives officials agreed to help pull the materials for
possible reclassification and conceal the identities of anyone participating in
the effort. The Associated Press reported yesterday that it had requested a copy
of the memo three years ago.
Deaths of
U.S. Soldiers Climb Again in
Iraq
The American military on
Tuesday announced the deaths of five soldiers, bringing the number of troops
killed this month to at least 32. That figure already surpasses the American
military deaths for all of March.
Names of the
Dead
The Department of Defense has
identified 2,348 American service members who have died since the start of the
Iraq war. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans
yesterday:
GARDNER, James W., 22,
Specialist, Army; Glasgow, Ky.; 101st Airborne
Division.
LOVE, Joseph I., 22, Pfc.,
Army; North Pole, Alaska; 94th Engineer Combat Battalion, Eighth Sustainment
Command.
MISSILDINE, Jody W., 19, Pvt.,
Army; Plant City, Fla.; First Armored
Division.
NAVARROARELLANO, Juana, 24,
Lance Cpl., Marines; Ceres, Calif.; Ninth Engineer Support Battalion, Third
Marine Logistics Group, Third Marine Expeditionary
Force.
TAYLOR, Bryan N., 20, Lance
Cpl., Marines; Milford, Ohio; Second Marine
Division.
WALLER, Richard P., 22, Cpl.,
Marines; Fort Worth; First Battalion, First Marines, Fi
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