Putin's lawless Russia and "Bipartisan" lawlesss America

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 4:29 PM PDT

2008/06/22 · 16:29

Read this article on Putin's Russia, promoted on the Washington Post's front-page with this blurb: "Life in Putin's Russia: The right to commit crimes has become part of official privilege."

The most striking thing about everyday life in the Russia of Vladimir Putin (and make no mistake, it is Putin's Russia, despite the election of a new president, hand-picked by the great man) is the incredible corruption of ... all the institutions that are supposed to uphold law and order in a democracy and that in Russia today have been transformed into a cancer that's devouring the state.

More after the jump...

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 2:58 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 14:58

As part of the new campaign to target Steny Hoyer for coopreating with Bush and Cheney on illegal spying and granting amnesty to telcos, there's a new ad ~~going~~ submitted to run on TV against Chris Carney. This is the type of hard-hitting truth we need to keep hammering these sellout, fake Democrats who embrace UnConstitutional spying on Americans and subversion of the rule of law.

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 2:48 PM PDT

2008/04/19 · 14:48

NYTime's Bob Herbert shows a lot of conventional DC/mainstream press thinking in his latest column. I usually like him, but in this column he lumps all "Democrats" together, instead of delineating those who are employing Republican/Right-Wing smear tactics against their own party (The Clinton Campaign) vs. those who are fighting against that system (The Obama campaign and most of the progressive blogosphere)

The Democrats are doing everything they can to blow this presidential election. This is a skill that comes naturally to the party. There is no such thing as a can’t-miss year for the Democrats. They are truly gifted at finding ways to lose.

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Wednesday December 19, 2007 · 5:28 PM PST

2007/12/19 · 17:28

This is simple. Congress should ensure that all evidence is preserved, records made of all damages. Videotaping and archival should be thorough.

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Thursday December 06, 2007 · 9:50 PM PST

2007/12/06 · 21:50

The NYTimes has broken a new story detailing Bush administration lies and attempted cover-ups.

Videotapes of top Al Qaeda operatives were destroyed by the CIA, their existence was lied about to Federal courts, and they were withheld from the 9/11 Commission.

It's not a surprise that the Bush Administration would do this. But now that they are getting caught, the legal ramifications are damning.

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Monday November 05, 2007 · 2:30 PM PST

2007/11/05 · 14:30

Kucinich is going to explain how and why he's introducing his impeach Cheney resolution today, at about 4:30PM Pacific Time, 7:30PM Eastern Time.

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Sunday October 21, 2007 · 2:02 PM PDT

2007/10/21 · 14:02

Updated:

I changed the title to "Another reason for FISA capitulation" from "the REAL reason..." because I want to point out that I think this is just one of several factors that explain Democrats failing to oppose Bush and Cheney policies.

That being said, what we are witnessing with the FISA capitulations is yet another massive Kabuki theater production.

Powerful Democrats like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, joined by other spineless politicians like Rockefeller and Feinstein, will do everything they can to protect George Bush and Dick Cheney, and keep them in power until the Nov 2008 elections.

The FISA court cases could imperil Bush and force his removal from office. That's why our "leaders" want them stopped.

We need to face the fact that an immoral and flawed political strategy is contributing to ~~at the bottom of~~ a series of Democratic moves.

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 12:07 AM PDT

2007/10/18 · 00:07

Telecom companies already have amnesty. If they were acting in good faith that their activities were legal. So why is Congress working to give them additional amnesty?

Read the latest from Glenn Greenwald, where he interviews one of the lawyers suing AT & T. The facts of the case make a devastating argument against granting Congressional Amnesty, and they raise questions about the Democrats enabling behavior.

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Monday October 15, 2007 · 5:07 PM PDT

2007/10/15 · 17:07

Rudy Giuliani's pre-9/11 actions, specifically his no-bid contract involving radios for the fire department, need to be investigated. You can help by signing this petition and calling attention to what should be a huge issue for Rudy -- his pre-9/11 cronyism and security failures.

As the firefighters know, in 1994 after the first World Trade Center bombing, the department knew its radios were defective, and yet it took seven years to replace.. with defective radios yet again, courtesy of Motorola's no-bid contract!

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The Retroactive Immunity Act of 2007: A Proposal

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 5:58 PM PDT

2007/10/14 · 17:58

After reading Glenn Greenwald's excellent post today on the decline of the rule of law in this country, I've come up with a proposal to clarify our "laws" and how the "rule of law" should work in this country, which would render un-necessary specific revisions in the law to, for example, grant immunity to telecom companies or government officials for committing criminal felonies by violating the FISA laws passed in 1978.

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Sunday August 19, 2007 · 5:24 PM PDT

2007/08/19 · 17:24

Reading about how Karl Rove directed the Federal government and taxpayer money to help Republican campaigns, you just have to ask: how would the Republicans like it, if this is how the Democrats operated?

Republican voters know that the Democrats are leading in the polls. If the Democrats win the White House in 2008, do Republicans want the entire Federal government, and their hard-earned tax dollars, contributing to Democratic campaigns? Of course not. And neither do we.

The government and the taxes we pay belong to ALL of us, regardless of who is in power. Which brings me to the subject of this diary, and a quote from a Bush official from the story on Rove's direction of Federal assets for Republican campaigns.

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Sunday July 29, 2007 · 7:53 PM PDT

2007/07/29 · 19:53

In work settings these days, Powerpoint is the required means of communication, even though reducing arguments to bullet points in many cases is obviously ridiculous. But in the case of the Bush Administration, our current ~~stenography~~ press corps actually needs to have the lies and deceptions of BushCo bulleted out for them in very simple terms.

So, after reading Jane Hamsher and Anonymous Liberal's case against Gonzales I put a few slides together to illustrate how Gonzales attempted defense with his strict definition of the NSA wiretapping "program" is clearly false. And how, as Glenn Greenwald points out, the focus on the definition of the meaning of "program" is itself a smokescreen which raises more questions about criminal spying activity by Bush.

Slides after the jump. Updated below: Slides available for download on Slideshare.

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