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• Wednesday, July 23, 2008 07:06 AM

  So where's the expose of Bush's historic abuse of power?

  So, the capitalist class and its government, with the agreement of both parties, are conducting extensive spying on Americans and American companies, using the technological means currently available. And that this was initially set up to go after the Soviet Union, the first workers' state, i.e., anti-capitalist economic system - and other liberal-left movements it was supporting (e.g., Sandinistas) - and then was well used by the Clinton Administration in the post-Soviet era, my gosh, the revelations keep coming and coming. I have no doubt that the Bush Administration, with the knowing support and legal and political facilitation by both sides of the aisle in Congress, used 9/11 as a justification to ratchet up the war on Americans (and others). However, this article provides no evidence to that effect. The best we can do is guess that they spread the passwords and terminal access around a bit wider.

  Congressional investigation on the order of Watergate?? You've got to be kidding. The hope that Obama, representative of Wall Street, will turn on this operation betrays serious liberal illusions to begin with, and becomes outright delusional after his vote for the telecommunications amnesty (and the rest of the bill to allow continued domestic and foreign spying).

  By the way, the so-called big confrontation between Ashcroft et al and the Bush White House was exposed in the past week as total nonsense. Ashcroft admitted that he didn't object to the torture, only the legal justifications being used. Another big surprise.

  —romath Read romath's other letters
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