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Freedom Of Information Act - US Black Ops Then And Now

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U.S. Weighed Radioactive Poisons

Cold War Papers on Potential Assassination Methods Unveiled
Early in the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate “important individuals” such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents.
Approved at the highest levels of the Army in 1948, the effort was a [...]

Fleas Jumping Off The Dead Administration - Lets Prosecute

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Bush’s Muse Stands Accused
Speeches Weren’t His, Colleague Says By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer
He has been hailed as the best White House speechwriter since Kennedy’s Theodore Sorensen, the muse behind President Bush’s most famous phrases, the moral conscience of the West Wing. But now Michael J. Gerson is accused by a former [...]

Bush Ability to “Strike Fear” Trumps The Bill Of Rights

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House Approves Wiretap Measure
White House Bill Boosts Warrantless Surveillance
By Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick Washington Post
The Democratic-controlled House last night approved and sent to President Bush for his signature legislation written by his intelligence advisers to enhance their ability to intercept the [...]

King George Wins Wiretapping For All Foreigners

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Associated Press
House Approves Foreign Wiretap Bill
WASHINGTON -
The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government’s abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States.
The 227-183 vote, which followed the Senate’s approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature. He had urged Congress [...]

Bush Wants To Listen And Watch Our Every Word

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Bush urges Congress to pass wiretap bill
Lawmakers hustle to act before recess
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff  |  August 3, 2007
WASHINGTON — Congress is rushing to expand the military’s authority to wiretap phone calls and e-mails on US soil. The Bush administration, warning that terrorists may soon attack again, is pressuring lawmakers to approve the legislation [...]

Democrats Seek Perjury Investigation Of Gonzales

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Some day’s life is exceptionally good.
I’m sure Bush will order the independent counsel not to do his or her job.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special counsel should be named to investigate possible perjury by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in sworn testimony to Congress, four U.S. Senate Democrats wrote in a letter on Thursday.
The senators wrote [...]

Subpoenas Sent To White House And Cheney’s office

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush’s warrant-free eavesdropping program.
Also named in subpoenas signed by committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, were the Justice Department and the National Security Council.
The committee wants documents that might shed light on internal [...]

Casual Lawbreaking at the White House

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By Dan Froomkin   Special to washingtonpost.com
New evidence unearthed by House Democrats establishes that White House political adviser Karl Rove and many of his colleagues used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business — even though White House policy is clear that doing so is a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
How did such casual [...]

Outsourcing US Security, “We can’t spy … If we can’t buy!”

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The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence by Tim Shorrock,
Global Research, June 3, 2007
The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms — with zero public accountability.
More than five years into the global “war on terror,” spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United [...]

Cheney Lied About Wiretapping Program

Posted by nytexan

I think we can start putting impeachment papers together for Gonzo and Dick. Heck lets pull Andy Card back for a few indictment charges. It’s interesting that this revelation happened yesterday but with the exception of Keith, the MSM is pretty quite about it.
Capitol Hill Blue:
Vice President Dick Cheney lied about his involvement in developing [...]

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