Champion Of Our Rights
Sen. Russ Feingold is gathering support from the other side of the aisle in his battle to stop the sections of the Patriot Act from becoming permanent. I feel, that no matter what the turn out of this vote, we email Sen. Feingold and thank him for his devotion to our rights.
Sen. Russ Feingold A man for the People.
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No this is not my diary in repeat, but it feels like it. It seems that the leader of the free world(cough-cough) has a paranoid side, and that can be a dangerous thing, mostly for the citizenry of the United States.
It was reported this morning by
The Washington Post, that (P)Resident Bush in 2002 signed a secret order, giving the authority to the National Security Agency in eavesdrop on the American public.
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This coupled with the upcoming vote on The Patriot Act, makes you wonder what this administration has against the people of the United States. Bush signed this order even though there has been previous legal prohibitions against the use of such techniques on citizens.
The super-secretive NSA, which has generally been barred from domestic spying except in narrow circumstances involving foreign nationals, has monitored the e-mail, telephone calls and other communications of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of people under the program, the New York Times disclosed last night.
The reason given was, that the time it took to get a warrant from a special surveillance court they might lose information. Well "Jesus", George, you were right to you, "It is just a Goddamn piece of paper." But what's this G. W. Bush may have broken the law? Say it ain't so, please say it ain't so.
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies at George Washington University, said the secret order may amount to the president authorizing criminal activity.
It seems that under this administration, The Fourth Branch of the Government, [the press] doesn't work for the people anymore either.
The Times said it held off on publishing its story about the NSA program for a year after administration officials said its disclosure would harm national security
These are scary times we are living in, you don't know the enemy without a scorecard, and then they are always putting in pinch-hitters.
Is it me or does it seem that, there are of underhanded things going on in the government in the so-called name of security.
Public disclosure of the NSA program also comes at a time of mounting concerns about civil liberties over the domestic intelligence operations of the U.S. military, which have also expanded dramatically after the Sept. 11 attacks.
For more than four years, the NSA tasked other military intelligence agencies to assist its broad-based surveillance effort directed at people inside the country suspected of having terrorist connections, even before Bush signed the 2002 order that authorized the NSA program, according to an informed U.S. official.
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