Remember the elections of 2006? That sweeping victory of protest against the republicans? Pelosi and Reid were supposed to give them hell, no more vacationing rubber stamp Congress? Apparently the exit polls weren’t the only thing we got wrong in that election. The Senate let by Democrat In Name Only Harry Reid, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘FISA’
We Thought Democrats Were Elected in ‘06
Posted in FISA, tagged Bush, Congress, FISA, Reid, wiretapping, Senate, House, Surveilance on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cheney Calls For Permanent Spying on Americans & Abroad
Posted in Bush Administration, Cheney, wiretapping, tagged Cheney, FISA, Heritage Foundation, Protect America First Act, Reid, wiretapping on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Playing to type, Dick Cheney just gave a speech at the well-funded conservative echo chamber The Heritage Foundation calling for making the Protect America First Act permanent. This act allows for the warrant-less wiretapping of Americans and others abroad. It would also allow for retroactive immunity for the telecoms who acted of their [...]
This is your third and final notice
Posted in FBI, wiretapping, tagged FBI Assitant Director John Miller, FISA, Glenn Fine, Mukasey on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It seems the telecommunications companies are not so timid to stand up to the government when it comes to paying bills. The Washington Post and USA Today are reporting this morning that telecommunications companies are doing what Congress could not or would not – cut FBI covert surveillance lines. Apparently, the Bureau has [...]
Mukasey Walking The Line
Posted in Bush Administration, DoJ, Mukasey, tagged Department of Justice, FISA, Mukasey, White House on December 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
New Attorney General Michael Mukasey is walking a fine line between being just another Bush crony and someone who could actually try and repair the damage done during the Fredo years at DoJ. While he’s revised DoJ policy to limit contacts with the White House, he also argued before the American Bar Association [...]
Drugs, Spying and a man named Nacchio
Posted in Bush Administration, Telecoms, business, wiretapping, tagged AT&T, DEA, FISA, GovNet, Groundbreaker project, Joe Nacchio, NSA, Qwest, Telecom Immunity, Verizon on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The NSA-Telcom drama continued over the weekend when the New York Times ran a story about the government’s ever-growing reliance on telecommunications companies to help gather and identify would be terrorists. Apparently, on the War on Drugs front, the NSA has been using telecom companies to spy on Americans who called Latin America and [...]
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