Archive for the 'N.S.A.' Category
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page A01
This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout.
A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. No […]
Posted in Constitution, CIA, Cheney, Books, N.S.A., Addington |
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
December 16, 2007
Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JAMES RISEN and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — For months, the Bush administration has waged a high-profile campaign, including personal lobbying by President Bush and closed-door briefings by top officials, to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies from lawsuits for aiding the National Security […]
Posted in Constitution, Bush, N.S.A., Mike McConnell |
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
August 11, 2007
Reported Drop in Surveillance Spurred a Law
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — At a closed-door briefing in mid-July, senior intelligence officials startled lawmakers with some troubling news. American eavesdroppers were collecting just 25 percent of the foreign-based communications they had been receiving a few months earlier.
Congress needed to […]
Posted in Congress, Terrorism, N.S.A., Intelligence |
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
If you go out in the woods today
You’ll be followed ‘n scrutinized
If you go out in the woods today
You’d better go in disguise.
For every spy on Common Cause
Will waterboard e’en Santa Claus, because
Today’s the day NGA has their picnic.
If you drive out to the woods today,
Your bumpers best not be […]
Posted in Bush, CIA, Pentagon, Cheney, N.S.A., Intelligence |
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
THE NEW IMPROVED FISA TRAVESTY.
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In the past two days, at least nine major newspapers have editorialized against the FISA legislation, with the New York Times today calling it an “unnecessary and dangerous expansion of President Bush’s powers.” Some examples:
USA Today:
A skittish Congress allowed itself to be stampeded last week into granting the president unfettered surveillance […]
Posted in Bush, Courts, Cheney, Cong-HOUSE, Cong-SENATE, N.S.A., Gonzalez, Department of Justice, Intelligence, FISA |
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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Ruling Limited Spying Efforts
Move to Amend FISA Sparked by Judge’s Decision
By Carol D. Leonnig and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 3, 2007; Page A01
A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly declared a key element of the Bush administration’s wiretapping efforts illegal, according to a lawmaker and government sources, providing a previously unstated […]
Posted in Bush, Courts, N.S.A., Boehner, Intelligence, FISA |
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
U.S. Intel Can’t Keep Up With New Technology
Newsweek
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - Six years after 9/11 , U.S. intel officials are complaining about the emergence of a major “gap” in their ability to secretly eavesdrop on suspected terrorist plotters.
In a series of increasingly anxious pleas to Congress, intel “czar” Mike McConnell has argued that the […]
Posted in CIA, N.S.A., Technology, Intelligence |
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying
Doug Mills/The New York Times
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: July 29, 2007
WASHINGTON, July 28 — A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, Bush, Cong-SENATE, N.S.A., Gonzalez, Department of Justice |
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Senate Begins Real Push on Habeas Corpus
Ari Melber
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.
Habeas corpus was revoked by last year’s Military Commissions Act, which has been assailed as unconstitutional and un-American by […]
Posted in FBI, CIA, Terrorism, Cong-SENATE, N.S.A., Department of Justice, Habeas Corpus |
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Just because the Bush administration employs the theories and practices of the Simpson’s Itchy ‘n Scratchy does not mean it is not dangerous.
These are mere excerpts from a column worth your time.
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The Gonzalez-Card caper: Why the Bush administration can not oversee itself
By Eric Mink
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, May. 23 2007
It was crude and almost ludicrous: […]
Posted in Bill of Rights, administration, FBI, Constitution, Bush, Courts, Torture, Cheney, Andrew Card, 9/11, N.S.A., Gonzalez, Crime, Ashcroft, Department of Justice, James Comey |
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Major General at time of photograph
Image Credit: DOD, Photo By Russell Roederer 1983-04-08.
“Good morning, this is Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army, retired.
Army Major General William E. Odom, USA.
Image Credit: DOD, Photo By Russell Roederer 1983-04-08.
I am not now nor have I ever been a Democrat or a Republican. Thus, I do not speak […]
Posted in Military, Bush, Iraq, Pentagon, N.S.A., Ronald Reagan |
