A Horribly Familiar Cycle
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 1, 2007; 12:10 PM
So let me make sure I’ve got this straight: Top Bush administration officials driven by long-standing resentments used bad intelligence to achieve their foreign policy objectives, which then ended up backfiring spectacularly? And we’re not talking about Iraq?
No, we’re talking about that other […]
Specter has really shown his true colors despite his Sunday morning tv tough-guy images. He’s simply another example of the lack of courage on the Republican side.
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“Judge nixes warrantless surveillance
By SARAH KARUSH, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.”
Please find AP story here.
“Richard Perle (Zuma Press photo) and Elliott Abrams (Reuters photo)
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The neocons’ next war
y secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Aug. 03, 2006 | The National Security Agency is […]
‘National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
www.nswbc.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- July 28, 2006
Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, sedmonds@nswbc.org
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER IS SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY BEFORE FEDERAL GRAND JURY
On Wednesday, July 26, Russell Tice, former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst and a member of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), was approached outside his home by two FBI agents […]
“Surveillance We Can Live With
By Arlen Specter
Monday, July 24, 2006; A19
President Bush’s electronic surveillance program has been a festering sore on our body politic since it was publicly disclosed last December. Civil libertarians, myself included, have insisted that the program must be subject to judicial review to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment.”
Please find the […]
Here is the latest about my favorite Milquetoast Senator, Specter.
Please find the entire piece here.
Here are a few pieces from THINKPROGRESS.org:
NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities
Last month, ThinkProgress reported that NSA whistleblower Russell Tice would meet with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss undisclosed unlawful activity that the Agency has engaged in. “I think the people I talk to next week are […]
from the May 19, 2006 edition
Hayden defends NSA record to make his case
Senators pressed the nominee for CIA director Thursday.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON - In confirmation hearings Thursday, senators pressed Gen. Michael Hayden not only on his plans for the Central Intelligence Agency, […]
The NSA is on the line — all of them
An intelligence expert predicts we’ll soon learn that cellphone and Internet companies also cooperated with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on us.
By Kim Zetter SALON.com
May. 15, 2006 | When intelligence historian Matthew Aid read the USA Today story last Thursday about how […]