"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 9th, 2008
then this should really piss you off. Read the whole thing. It’s a view of the lawlessness that the Bush administration has dragged this nation to. These are not the principles that America was founded on. It shames and demeans us as a people. These people are guilty of numerous crimes and should, but probably [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 14th, 2008
Bush Warns House on Surveillance – New York Times With the House moving toward a vote on electronic surveillance legislation that the White House has said falls far short of its requirements, President Bush warned legislators strongly Thursday morning against passing what he called “a partisan bill that will undermine American security.” There is no [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 11th, 2008
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | House Surveillance Bill Contains Provision to Aid Telecom Suits They might be showing signs of growing some spine. The provision authorizes judges to hear classified material, effective trumping the state secrets claim beloved by the Bush Justice Dept. It also adds a bipartisan commission to oversee surveillance program. It [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 11th, 2008
Seems pretty clear, from a seasoned FBI interrogator of al Qeada operatives, Jack Cloonan: No Torture. No Exceptions. – Jack Cloonan I worked as a special agent for the FBI’s Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 2002. During that time, my colleagues and I had the chance to question numerous operatives from al-Qaeda. We [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 10th, 2008
No Torture. No Exceptions The Washington Monthly sets out to end the debate on torture by presenting a series of short essays from people across the political spectrum on why torture is, in fact, bad. The real tragedy here is that is necessary to make this point in the USA in the 21st century. Here’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 8th, 2008
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 25th, 2008
They lost intelligence, possibly congenitally, then decided that telcos would cooperate anyway, despite their best sky is falling bullshit rhetoric. It’s hard being part of BushCo these days. I’m not sure I’m down for a witch hunt in the federal civil service ranks like dday, but I am down for the American public coming to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 24th, 2008
Firedoglake – Firedoglake weblog » FISA: President Specious Opens Yap, Petulantly Stamps Foot…Again
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 15th, 2008
Crooks and Liars » Countdown: John McCain’s Tortured Logic And Flip Flop On Torture After courageously opposing the Bush Administration’s love affair with torture, the Straight Talker himself voted against a Bill to outlaw torture. The only real satifiying explaintion for this is that he sold his soul to win the approval of the torture [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 3rd, 2008
It’s pointless and even counter productive in its stated purpose, but it expands executive powers so the GOP must support it: Unchecked surveillance threatens security as well as privacy The debate over changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—the legal framework governing how agencies like the NSA conduct wiretaps—is typically framed as a contest between [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 30th, 2008
Can’t he just say something like, “It’s wrong, illegal and diametrically opposed to American values” and be done with it? Mukasey Demurs on Waterboarding – New York Times “Given that waterboarding is not part of the current program and may never be added to the current program, I don’t think it would be appropriate for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 26th, 2008
Could it be? Is it possible? Did a member of the democratic leadership show some evidence of a spine? I’ll steal the graphic AmericaBlog used. I want to believe… Reid Issues Ultimatum: More Time Or No Wiretaps – Politics on The Huffington Post At a State of the Union preview speech today at the National [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2008
First we have this by way of Poltico.com: Rockefeller predicts win in FISA fight over telecom immunity – The Crypt’s Blog – Politico.com Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is predicting the Senate will grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies as Congress takes up reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Sen. Christopher [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2008
Unpaid bills lead phone companies to hang up on FBI wiretaps I know this is an old story, but as Nelson would say… . . . . .
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 6th, 2008
George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 2nd, 2008
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007 The US (not surprisingly) receives the worst rating. We’re right up there with Russia and China.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 30th, 2007
PZ talks about the real value of torture. It’s not information gathering. Pharyngula: Torture — what’s it good for? Here is all that torture is good for: inspiring fear in a population. If you want it widely known that your ruling regime is utterly ruthless and doesn’t care about individuals, all you have to do [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 19th, 2007
The New York Times reports: One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been “vigorous sentiment” among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 18th, 2007
Way to go Chris!! Dodd’s Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill – Politics on The Huffington Post Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 17th, 2007
In two recent post Glenn nails it. The first What “winning” in Iraq looks like hits on what’s happened in Basra since the British abandoned it: The article details that Shiite militias — which British troops “unintentionally” armed for years by failing to realize that the “security forces” had no allegiance to the central government [...]
Date: 02/28/2006