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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Seriously, are you guy collecting a paycheck for your efforts here over the past 15 months? Otherwise, how does one find the time to post here .45 times a day, seven days a week for the past 15 months?
Whatever they are paying you, it's too much.
Just how do you find enough time in your day to get to Sean Hannity for your tired talking points? Your secret's safe with me...
On April 5, 2007 Elephant Weinie provided us with this insightful comment, quote:
'But I adore Brit Hume, one of the best journalists in Wahsington, and I think the Fox News Sunday program offers some of the best questioning and debate on television.'
Then, on April Fool's Day 2008 Ellie-puss said this:
'Seriously, if I were a serious-minded Democrat, I'd be absoultely panicked right now at the notion that my party's hopes were pinned on Obama come the fall.'
How's that going anyway?
Bush will pardon everyone before leaving office.
He must be impeached.
If Bush is in the process of being impeached, he cannot
use his powers of pardon. Impeach now, or all of this is a waste
of time.
TIA, when it was told to shut down, moved out of the government into a large number of contractors and startup companies, many with Poindexter on the Board. It re-coalesced again in Singapore as IRAHS, or RAHS, depending on the source. They had a big meeting for the launch over there, and it included all the people from over here. From there it was quietly brought back into this country again, already tested.
This database is older than TIA, or Project Genoa. Not that the two are inconsistent, and in all probability part of the same thing now. All the state and local databases are also being hooked up, as well as FBI databases.
One of the deep pieces in the FISA amendment was that it left the minimizations completely untouched, but changed the targeting completely. That made it possible to claim that the same safeguards were in place while the scope of the surveillance changed. But a note from the White House complaining about the "Leahy bill" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071114-9.html), the only version of the FISA amendments that contained language about rollbacks, indicates pretty clearly that the FISA court has already seen fit to allow collection without rollback under the current minimization laws, that's why they didn't touch that language. The page curiously complains about rolling back databases, even though at the time you would of thought that the rolling back would apply mostly to AI and data mining programs, filters, and suspicion lists. This new information about Main Core shows why.
The American public should rightfully ask which members of Congress knew about this when they were voting on FISA, and why the public wasn't told about the way the pieces interacted to dramatically expand the ability to add data to this database, all with previous knowledge that the FISC would acquiesce. Obviously some people knew or figured it out, because the SJC/Leahy bill contained language to stop it, which never made it into a single other version of the bill.
No bernbart, this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy. It's good to be paranoid about government power, that's what "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" really means. The alternative is,
It starts when you're always afraid,
Step outta line, the men come, and take you away.
Are you a reporter or a congressional staffer, by any chance?
Even though the similarities between the third Reich and the Bush Administration are too numerous to list here, it is politically incorrect to note them. To do so, we are told, is to minimize how truly heinous the Nazi regime was. Apparently torture, rendition, secret prisons, suspension of habeas corpus, domestic spying should not be considered "dangerous" to a democracy.
Shortly after 9-11, I wrote an email to four friends stating my suspensions about the rapid and unprecedented collapse of the World Trade Centers buildings. As an engineer for more than 20 years, the collapse seems highly improbable. Within a week a friend advised me I was under investigation by the Bush Administration as a possible terrorist sympathizer. The effect was chilling, and I ceased writing or even speaking to anyone about my concerns.
Congress has failed the American people by neglecting its oversight responsibilities. Bush and Cheney may be demonic, but they could have never succeeded in destroying our freedom in this country without that tacit approval of Congress. Nancy Pelosi has been particularly disappointing - intervening on behalf of the Bush Administration repeatedly the last two years, protecting them form the criminal investigations that should have brought them down. Pelosi is a political hack; if Democrats are ever to regain our respect, they will first have to dispose of her. She is a disaster.
Securing the continuity of those in power, a regime which has no connection to the "American People" as, the "American People" are nothing more than a source of money for the oligarchical closed community of controllers who have manipulated the laws of the country to perpetuate and insulate their own power.
As for the security of the "American People", we, the people have no security from the abuses perpetrated upon us by those in the closed community of government.
Never in history has our Constitution been so shamefully disrespected and abused and all this by persons who took a public and legal oath to preserve, protect, and defend it. I'm talking about George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, their Republican henchmen, and their Democratic patsies in Congress.
Every time I write my Congressman (are you listening, Mike Thompson?) on this subject, he tells me that the Congress has more important things to do.
Like what?
What more important that preserving our Liberties and our republican form of government? What is more important than honoring your oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic? What is more important than halting the present march to fascism?
We need to demand a full and fair investigation of the dealings of the Bush/Cheney/Rove Administration, identify the miscreants who have lied, misappropriated funds, sanctioned torture, and ruined our reputation as a beacon of liberty. The guilty should be removed from office and tried on criminal charges for their several abuses and infractions.
And NO PARDONS!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
