The American GESTAPO are back......

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 3:18 PM PDT

2007/04/10 · 15:18

"McConnell seeks to boost U.S. spy powers"

By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

http://news.yahoo.com/...

more below the fold....

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Friday March 09, 2007 · 9:06 AM PST

2007/03/09 · 09:06

Audit finds agency misused Patriot Act to obtain information on citizens

"Justice Department: FBI acted illegally on data -"
"Audit finds agency misused Patriot Act to obtain information on citizens."

Associated Press 03/09/2007

This report obviously conflicts with what BushCo has said all along. It seems AAG Viet Dihn was wrong.... go figure.

See the link and a few tidbits below.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

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Tuesday January 09, 2007 · 5:07 PM PST

2007/01/09 · 17:07

"For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros"

By Alec Klein and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 9, 2007; Page D01

The link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Snippets below the fold....

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Do you think the NSA is:

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Do you think the NSA is:

Up to no good?

117 votes

Performing needed services?

4 votes

I don't care.

6 votes

Waxman will probe areas of Bush government

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Friday November 10, 2006 · 4:08 PM PST

2006/11/10 · 16:08

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif will decide whether to investigate certain aspects of the Bush administration.

"I'm going to have an interesting time because the Government Reform Committee has jurisdiction over everything," Waxman said Friday, three days after his party's capture of Congress put him in line to chair the panel. "The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose." Read More

Fair use under attack.....

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 7:22 PM PDT

2006/08/25 · 19:22

So what can one do? You take your legal copy of whatever that you paid $17.99 for and don't want to risk having taken from your vehicle and now the government does this. So how does this differ from fair use in the past? It does not!

Police property: It’s finders keepers in NH

"The state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government can keep and destroy more than 500 CDs taken from Michael Cohen, owner of Pitchfork Records in Concord, in 2003 even though the state failed to prove that a single disk was illegal."

http://unionleader.com/... Read More

"Lieberman's 'hack' was no such thing "

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Thursday August 10, 2006 · 10:07 AM PDT

2006/08/10 · 10:07

See the story at the IT newsite:

"Lieberman's 'hack' was no such thing "
by Nick Farrell

http://www.theinquirer.net/...

"while the site was down it did not show a 503 error which is typical when a site is suffering from a DoS attack. The site had low pings during the "attack". Normally if it were under a DOS attack, it would be dropping packets and have high pings." Read More

Congress reveals its double standard...

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Sunday May 28, 2006 · 12:26 PM PDT

2006/05/28 · 12:26

"Congress reveals its double standard"

May 28, 2006

"Members of Congress last week finally decided that invasion of privacy and the president's overstepping his power are matters of grave importance.

And it took an FBI raid of the office of one of their own to get them all worked up."

http://www.rutlandherald.com/...

Darren Allen writes weekly about Vermont issues, people and events. You can reach him at darren.allen@timesargus.com. Read More

U.S. improperly resealed public documents in one-third of cases

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Thursday April 27, 2006 · 6:40 AM PDT

2006/04/27 · 06:40

This represents good news for the American people. It has been determined that many documents were improperly stuffed back in the file cabinet when the public should have access. Accountability may not yet be what it should be, but this is a step in the right direction.

Here is the link:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/... Read More

Bush claims the right to spy on everything, including attorney-client conversations

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Saturday April 08, 2006 · 6:19 PM PDT

2006/04/08 · 18:19

http://www.ccr-ny.org/...

"It's hard to remember how shocked Americans used to be when their presidents broke the law. In a 55-page letter sent on March 24 the Senate Judiciary Committee, the office of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales brazenly asserted that President Bush had every right to secretly order the "National Security Agency to engage in warrantless eavesdropping for what it called the "Terrorist Surveillance Program." On the last page, after he essentially refused to answer most of Congress' questions about the illegal program, which had been revealed in December ("It would be inappropriate to discuss in this setting the existence or nonexistence of specific intelligence activities"), Gonzales let slip a bombshell. "Although the Program does not specifically target the communications of attorneys or physicians," his office wrote, "calls from such sources would not be categorically excluded from interception." Read More

Federal Prosecutor, Special Agent Charged With Lying

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Wednesday March 29, 2006 · 3:19 PM PST

2006/03/29 · 15:19

"A former federal prosecutor and a State Department special agent were indicted today on charges that they lied during a bungled terrorism trial in Detroit and then sought to cover up their deceptions once the case began to fall apart."