NSA phone spying

USA TODAY/Gallup poll

Disapprove 51 / approve 43

Thug life

Federal agents raid home of CIA’s former No. 3 boss

Federal agents Friday morning raided the home of Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, who stepped down this week from the No. 3 post at the CIA amid accusations of improper ties to a defense contractor named as a co-conspirator in the bribery case of former Rep. Randy [...]

NSA phone spying

More on why the NSA spying is Orwellian, intrusive – and won’t work – if indeed the actual reason for it is to catch terrorists and not create a database to be used against political enemies.

Crypto and security expert Bruce Schneier says

Unchecked police and military power is a security threat — just as [...]

Why the NSA spy program won’t work

NSA spying on domestic phone calls is not only evil, anti-democratic, and Orwellian, it also won’t work. Outrage against this noxious governmental monitoring on citizens for no discernable reason has been huge and from both parties. Good. From Global Guerillas

Noah, at DefenseTech, tapped Valdis Krebs for his analysis of the problems with the slowly [...]

Big Brother would be proud

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary [...]

No wonder they can’t find terrorists.

FBI officer speaks at law school, lists Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, Communist Party of Texas on “Terrorist Watch List.”

It’s difficult to understand such cluelessness. But given this, it’s no wonder FBI hasn’t found any actual terrorists.

Indymedia has an open publishing policy – and FBI officials reading this should write this down – to [...]

Well put, Russ

Feingold blames stalled censure motion on ‘cowering’ Democrats

“I’m amazed at Democrats … cowering with this president’s numbers so low,” said Feingold, D-Wis. “The administration … just has to raise the specter of the War on Terror, and Democrats run and hide.”

With just a few exceptions, like Feingold, Congressional Democrats are gutless, [...]

Democratic non-opposition

From the Rock and Rap Confidential newsletter, one more reason to get in the streets on March 18 for the nationwide antiwar protests. Be there.

On Thursday, the Senate voted 89-10 to make 14 of the 16 provisions of the Patriot Act permanent (they were allegedly “temporary” when first passed). 35 of the 44 Democrats [...]

Senate advances Patriot Act renewal

The Democratic “opposition” is, as usual, off somewhere snoozing or more likely, in complete agreement with this noxious anti-freedom bill. Oh yes, they’ll occasionally pretend to object in order to keep their left flank somewhat mollified, but as to actual resistance, they have none.

Hey Democrats, why do you continue to support a party that [...]

Morrissey quizzed by FBI

This is not satire.

Singer Morrissey was quizzed by the FBI and British intelligence after speaking out against the American and British governments.

The Brit is a famous critic of the US-led war in Iraq and has dubbed President George W Busha “terrorist” – but he was baffled to be hauled in by authorities.

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