Liar! Last Ditch Fearmongering for Spying and Telecom Immunity

Keith Olbermann Countdown Special Comment on FISA: “President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist”
The lot of you, are the symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana republic, to whom “Freedom” is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for, when you want to get away with its opposite.
Thus, Mr. Bush, [...]

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5 Things Specter Won’t Say about Cheney-Specter Spying Bill

The Cheney-Specter bill makes following the protections in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act totally optional. The bill would change the law so that foreign intelligence surveillance of Americans could be conducted without following FISA’s requirement of individualized judicial review of wiretaps. The bill would change the law to allow the president to ignore [...]

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A view on NSA Spying

The New York Review of Books: ON NSA SPYING: A LETTER TO CONGRESS
Vol 52, no 2, Feb. 9 2006
A collection of constitutional law scholars and former government officials published this letter to Congress in the New York Review of Books. I would love to post the whole thing, but I don’t want to [...]

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My reaction to the State of the Union Address

I somehow made it all the way through the State of the Union address last night. Much as I disagree with the Bush administration, I even found him unusually appealing.
I actually had the thought, “Well, maybe most of this administration’s ugliness is Cheney. Maybe Bush means some of what he is saying here.” I [...]

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