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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Suing George W. Bush: A bizarre and troubling tale

U.S. officials went to extremes to stifle our legal challenge to Bush's warrantless surveillance -- but a federal judge says the program is criminal, anyway.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008 09:16 PM

Time For A Revolt Of The Guards

If what Jon B. Eisenberg alleges is substantially true, I can't imagine how it is that Department of Justice employees like Anthony Coppolino, Erin Hogarty, and Thomas Bondy aren't abandoning their presently ordained roles as toadys for George W. Bush, in order to break this case wide open.

Presumably, they took an oath of office to protect the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic- not an oath to collaborate in a secrecy state protecting criminal acts in high office.

Sometimes it's imperative for people to snap out of their routine focus, drop their thralldom to the impostures of hierarchy, consider what is actually happening on their watch, and take responsibility.

Is it more likely that the sky is going to fall without a surveillance state based on the dictatorial whim of the US chief executive's Will To Power- or that the rule of law in this country is going to succumb to the dry rot of apathy, and unthinking fealty to the Fuhrerprinzip?

Time for a revolt of the guards- before it's too late.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 08:45 PM

To anybody who has The Document:

Please send it to me. I will publish it.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 08:09 PM

Fer cripes sake have those foreigners put the doc up on teh internets

Make this whole charade as absolutely ridiculous as possible.

How can Obama and McCain know about this crap--and I'm sure they do--and betray their nation by voting for Telecom Immunity and gutting the Fourth?

WE NEED A NEW CANDIDATE.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 07:54 PM

Release the Document in the international press

It was stated that the document was sent to international recipients whom the DoJ did not seek to retrieve said document from. Have these international agents release the document to the press.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 07:29 PM

I'm amazed and ...

Holy shit.

Plus, the computer destroying was darkly comical. What a bunch of maroons.

Good luck to you, Mr. Eisenberg. I hope justice prevails. I KNOW it should.

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