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  • Several Constitutional scholars see the president’s actions as both unconstitutional and illegal
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a Federal Judge Resigns to Protest Secret Bush Wiretaps, Leaders of Both Parties Express Serious Concerns Over Legality of President’s Covert Domestic Spying Program Date Published: December 22, 2005 Source: Newsinferno News Staff
    On December 15, after sitting on the story for a year, The New York Times published a report entitled, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts.” In a country founded upon such ideals as, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” the reaction was swift and (…)

  • Impeach Bush: Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    IMPEACH BUSH: NO PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT IN CHILE, NOT IN THE U.S.
    Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State, Plain And Simple
    (Dec. 21, 2005, Ed. Note: It is a sad state of affairs to have the President of the United States admit to the nation and to the world that he is spying on the citizens he is elected to safeguard.
    It is worse to have the President aggressively justify his “big brother” politics in the name of an ill-begotten, counter-productive war on terrorism (…)

  • Spying, the Constitution - and the ‘I-word’
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 will offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to impeach Bush
    WASHINGTON - In the first weeks and months after 9/11, I am told by a very good source, there was a lot of wishing out loud in the White House Situation Room about expanding the National Security Agency’s ability to instantly monitor phone calls and e-mails between American callers and possible terror suspects abroad. “We talked a lot about how useful that would be,” said this source, who was “in the room” in the (…)

  • A TIME TO IMPEACH
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote the following for the forthcoming issue of L.A. Weekly:
    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution-shredding provisions of that iniquitous law — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National SecBush_dark_mood_1urity Agency — the N.S.A, so (…)

  • BUSH LIED... IMPEACH THE BASTARD!
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush has admitted that he has authorized the use of surveillance upon American citizens and residents. He has argued that he has the authority to do so, that he has balanced the need to spy on us and our civil liberties. Unfortunately, his claims do not withstand scrutiny.
    Firstly, the spying upon Americans without probable cause, due process and a warrant supported by evidence and sworn before a competent magistrate violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments of the US (…)

  • From "It Was Legal" To "I Am Lazy": The George Bush Domestic Spy Story
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another day, yet another new and wholly different explanation from the Bush administration about its illegal domestic spying operation.
    In just the last 5 days, we’ve seen 3 separate explanations rolled out from the White House. First they claimed it was legal all along, then when that didn’t fly, they said they had to do it because of a need for speed.
    Now that that has been debunked, they are actually claiming they were just too lazy to do "the paperwork." On top of this, they also (…)

  • No President Is Above the Law
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by US Senator Robert C. Byrd
    Floor Speech
    Senator Byrd on Monday expressed his strong concerns about possible violations of the Constitution in the Bush Administration’s admitted practice of spying on American citizens:
    Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country’s law-abiding citizens, and against our (…)

  • Watchdog says FBI violated surveillance rules
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by From Terry Frieden
    WASHINGTON (CNN) — A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released 93 pages of internal FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The documents previously were classified, The Associated Press reported.
    The center told (…)

  • Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
    Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and (…)

  • Star-Spangled Pandering
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Richard Cohen
    Last month Justice Antonin Scalia was politely quizzed by Norman Pearlstine, the outgoing Time Inc. editor in chief. The event, held in Time Warner’s New York headquarters, was supposedly off the record, but so much of it has already been reported that it will not hurt to add Scalia’s views on flag burning. He explained why it was constitutionally protected speech. It’s a pity Hillary Clinton was not there to hear him.
    The argument that this famously conservative member (…)