Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans
U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers
ABC News
By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTEROct. 9, 2008
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. Click Here To Read On
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Democratic-led Congress Helps Cover Up Bush Administration Crimes
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
Wednesday July 9, 2008 14:11 EDT
Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping
The Democratic-led Congress this afternoon voted to put an end to the NSA spying scandal, as the Senate approved a bill -- approved last week by the House -- to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, terminate all pending lawsuits against them, and vest whole new warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President. The vote in favor of the new FISA bill was 69-28.
Barack Obama joined every Senate Republican (and every House Republican other than one) by voting in favor of it,....Read On
Wednesday July 9, 2008 14:11 EDT
Congress votes to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, legalize warrantless eavesdropping
The Democratic-led Congress this afternoon voted to put an end to the NSA spying scandal, as the Senate approved a bill -- approved last week by the House -- to immunize lawbreaking telecoms, terminate all pending lawsuits against them, and vest whole new warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President. The vote in favor of the new FISA bill was 69-28.
Barack Obama joined every Senate Republican (and every House Republican other than one) by voting in favor of it,....Read On
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Got Privacy Rights?
The powers that be are trying to eliminate the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, the one that is supposed to prohibit the government from subjecting us to unreasonable and warrantless searches and seizures.
I'm glad that some of our Congresspersons, including Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), are willing to stand up and help us fight for our rights.
And I'm grateful for the free-speech rights that allow brave, independent journalists like Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! to bring us real news coverage.
I'm glad that some of our Congresspersons, including Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), are willing to stand up and help us fight for our rights.
And I'm grateful for the free-speech rights that allow brave, independent journalists like Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! to bring us real news coverage.
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Rough Week
Yah, it's been awhile since this here blog's been updated. Sometimes I just need to step away from it. Last week was one of those times...
Our Democrat-led Congress, put in power by 'We the People' back in '06 to change direction in Iraq, once again caved into the Bush administration's demands for more money to fund illegal and immoral war into next year. I'm sick of government betrayal. We can really use a viable third party in our political system.
Let's see, we also have a new law created which sanctions warrantless wiretapping and grants retroactive immunity to the big telecommuniction companies that participated in the government's illegal spying program. Constitution Shmonstitution.
More of the horrifying truth about the United States' torture program came out. I've never felt so ashamed.
And it's looking more and more like the U.S. and/or client state Israel may attack Iran. President Bush has been traveling around Europe ramping up the anti-Iran rhetoric. Just what we, all the world's peace-loving people, don't need.
Our Democrat-led Congress, put in power by 'We the People' back in '06 to change direction in Iraq, once again caved into the Bush administration's demands for more money to fund illegal and immoral war into next year. I'm sick of government betrayal. We can really use a viable third party in our political system.
Let's see, we also have a new law created which sanctions warrantless wiretapping and grants retroactive immunity to the big telecommuniction companies that participated in the government's illegal spying program. Constitution Shmonstitution.
More of the horrifying truth about the United States' torture program came out. I've never felt so ashamed.
And it's looking more and more like the U.S. and/or client state Israel may attack Iran. President Bush has been traveling around Europe ramping up the anti-Iran rhetoric. Just what we, all the world's peace-loving people, don't need.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Domestic Spying Far Outpaces Terrorism Prosecutions
As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made. The trend concerns civil liberties groups as well as some lawmakers and legal experts.
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 12, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the number of terrorism prosecutions ending up in court -- one measure of the effectiveness of such sleuthing -- has continued to decline, in some cases precipitously.
The trends, visible in new government data and a private analysis of Justice Department records, are worrisome to civil liberties groups and some legal scholars. They say it is further evidence that the government has compromised the privacy rights of ordinary citizens without much to show for it. Read On
By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 12, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans being secretly wiretapped or having their financial and other records reviewed by the government has continued to increase as officials aggressively use powers approved after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the number of terrorism prosecutions ending up in court -- one measure of the effectiveness of such sleuthing -- has continued to decline, in some cases precipitously.
The trends, visible in new government data and a private analysis of Justice Department records, are worrisome to civil liberties groups and some legal scholars. They say it is further evidence that the government has compromised the privacy rights of ordinary citizens without much to show for it. Read On
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
ACLU: Dept. of Defense Using FBI To Spy On Citizens
Newly Unredacted Documents Confirm Lack Of Oversight Of Military's Domestic Surveillance Powers
(4/1/2008)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212)549-2666; media@aclu.org
Records Released In ACLU's National Security Letters Lawsuit
NEW YORK - On the heels of an internal report criticizing the FBI for abusing its power to issue National Security Letters (NSLs), newly unredacted documents released today as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit reveal that the Department of Defense (DoD) is using the FBI to circumvent legal limits on its own NSL power and may have overstepped its authority to obtain private and sensitive records of people within the United States without court approval. The previously withheld records also reveal that the military is secretly accessing these private records without providing training, guidance, or any real recordkeeping.
"It looks like the Defense Department is evading the legal limits placed on the military's surveillance powers by simply getting the FBI to do its bidding," said Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "If the Defense Department is asking the FBI to get information it is not allowed to access on its own, there is a serious problem within both agencies. Clearly these agencies cannot police themselves - the time has come for less secrecy, stricter guidelines, and meaningful oversight to ensure that the NSL power is not abused anymore." Read On
(4/1/2008)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (212)549-2666; media@aclu.org
Records Released In ACLU's National Security Letters Lawsuit
NEW YORK - On the heels of an internal report criticizing the FBI for abusing its power to issue National Security Letters (NSLs), newly unredacted documents released today as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit reveal that the Department of Defense (DoD) is using the FBI to circumvent legal limits on its own NSL power and may have overstepped its authority to obtain private and sensitive records of people within the United States without court approval. The previously withheld records also reveal that the military is secretly accessing these private records without providing training, guidance, or any real recordkeeping.
"It looks like the Defense Department is evading the legal limits placed on the military's surveillance powers by simply getting the FBI to do its bidding," said Melissa Goodman, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "If the Defense Department is asking the FBI to get information it is not allowed to access on its own, there is a serious problem within both agencies. Clearly these agencies cannot police themselves - the time has come for less secrecy, stricter guidelines, and meaningful oversight to ensure that the NSL power is not abused anymore." Read On
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