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Bush Admits Illegal Spying on Americans

When just yesterday it would “endanger our safety” to confirm or deny. Bush is now openly claiming the right to do things which we permanently made illegal after Richard Nixon did them. He has been doing these illegal things for years. Jack Anderson died today; in the 1970s Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy seriously plotted […]

Donations to Abramoff “Charity” disappear

So Casino Jack solicits “donations” to his “charity” in exchange for access to an almost all-GOP list of politicians; the Austin paper commits journalism and simply asks the charities if they ever got the $. They didn’t. If the charities, didn’t get the money, who did? “Follow the money” said William Goldman, well now it’s […]

Hackers easily change vote totals in Florida

Without leaving a trace, in the same County where a DIEBOLD machine recorded negative 16,0000 votes for Al Gore in the 2,000 election.

Patriot Act Extension Defeated

By filibuster, with five Republicans voting on the civil liberties side. Here’s some quotes from the cloture debate, which was heavily flavored by today’s NYT story of massive illegal spying:

“I don’t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to […]

Specter: Hearings on Illegal Spying “High Priority”

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“There is no doubt that this is inappropriate,” said Specter, R-Pa., calling hearings early next year “a very, very high priority.” He wasn’t alone in reacting harshly to the report. Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., said the story, first reported in Friday’s New York Times, was troubling.

Neither Secretary of State […]

Novak to Fox

No surprise here.

McCain Amendment Allows Torture to Continue

Because it will never be enforced.

BUSH ORDERED ILLEGAL NSA EAVESDROPPING ON THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS WITH NO COURT APPROVAL

ILLEGAL BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF EVEN THE PATRIOT ACT – ILLEGAL – UNCONSTITUTIONAL – ONGOING SINCE 2002 = NEW YORK TIMES

The White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior […]

EU Agrees on Torture Investigation

Agreement that the issue won’t go away; let’s see how much teeth this group actually has. Meanwhile, McCain’s anti-torture amendment will be signed by Bush, apparently without compromise on the language or scope of the torture ban; what was negotiated however was the “right” of interrogators accused of torture to claim they thought they were […]

Even More Torture Victims in Iraq

USA TODAY