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  • Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say Andrew Harris in Chicago at aarris16@bloomberg.net June 30, 2006
    June 30 (Bloomberg) - The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.
    The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation’s largest telephone company, as a defendant in a (…)

  • New Details On WMD "Fabricator" Emerge. Warnings That Iraqi Was Lying About Bioweapons Ignored
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Details On WMD "Fabricator" Emerge Warnings That Iraqi Was Lying About Bioweapons Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says By Joby Warrick, The Washington Post Updated: 4:06 a.m. ET June 25, 2006 In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration’s case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell’s speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs (…)

  • Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, June 22 - Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials.
    The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records (…)

  • The Peter Principle and the Bush Administration
    21 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last night on Frontline they broadcast a biting documentary entitled "The Dark Side", which revealed the truth about how the CIA and the Pentagon were at odds about evidence for going to war in Iraq,etc. These guys emerged as the "Gang that couldn’t shoot staight", and reminded me of Lawrence Peters, who created the "principle" IN ANY HEIRARCHY, PEOPLE RISE TO THE LEVELY OF THEIR INCOMPETENCY AND REMAIN THERE.
    Nowhere can I find better examples of this rule than in the Bush (…)

  • FITZ : THE GREAT COGITATOR
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead - again ........ Summer-like temperatures have decended upon the North American continent ...Again.... Another annual epoch has taken place as well ...... We wait for Independent Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to make the fateful decision on whether he will chose to prosecute officials allegedly involved in the CIA Leak case ...... As each summer solstace beckons , anticipation arrives and overwhelms his vast legions of fans ...... Will this be the year the (…)

  • Why Israel’s capture of Eichmann caused panic at the CIA
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Information that could have led to Nazi war criminal was kept under wraps
    by Julian Borger in Washington
    On May 23 1960, when Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion announced to the Knesset that "Adolf Eichmann, one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, is in Israeli custody", US and West German intelligence services reacted to the stunning news not with joy but alarm.
    Newly declassified CIA documents show the Americans and the German BND knew Eichmann was hiding in Argentina at least (…)

  • USED THE PHONE LATELY? WORRIED?
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Anticipating that the U.S. federal government would invoke the so-called "state secrets" privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government’s biggest spy agency, a major civil rights group has embarked on an alternate course.
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed complaints in more than 20 individual states demanding that their utility commissions and (…)

  • Hayden Hijinks
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    If there actually was an opposition party in Washington, the nomination of Air Force General Michael Hayden to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency would have been doomed from the start.
    Hayden’s involvement as head of the National Security Agency with the illegal warrantless wiretapping program initiated by the Bush administration, his role in the secret accumulation of the phone records of tens of millions of Americans for surveillance purposes, his (…)

  • Information Sharing on the Rove Indictment Story
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marc Ash,
    Fitzgerald Investigation
    I’d like to break this posting into two categories: What we know, and what we believe. They will be clearly marked.
    We know that we have now three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove were handed an indictment either late in the night of May 12 or early in the morning of May 13. We know that each source was in a position to know what they were talking about. We know that the office of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald will (…)

  • Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
    21 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
    By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded (…)