Nancy Soderberg was deputy national security advisor and an ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration. Today, she has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times defending the FISA bill and telecom amnesty. …
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The political establishment and telecom immunity -- why it matters
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The Al-Haramain ruling and the current Congress
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/03/al_haramain/index.html(Updated below - Update II - Update III - analysis of Obama's new FISA statement - Update IV - Update V) A Bush-41-appointed Federal District Judge yesterday became the third judge -- out of three who have ruled on the issue -- to reject the Bush administration's claim that Article II entitles the President to override or ignore the provisions of FISA. …
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Obama advisor Greg Craig: Adding insult to injury
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/02/obama_fisa/index.html(updated below - Update II) In today's New York Times, James Risen -- who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush's illegal NSA spying program -- has an article reporting on Obama supporters who are criticizing Obama for his FISA reversal and who are attempting to defeat the bill which Obama supports. …
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Afluisteren van mail, telefoon in Zweden onder vuur
http://politiekonline.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/afluisteren-v...het afluisteren van mail en telefoon: zelfs op zijn eigen forum krijgt Obama er van langs. Ook hier valt het woord ‘flip-floppen’: zijn aanhangers zijn niet positief over zijn wisselende standpunten. Meer over dit onderwerp: Salon Magazine ‘The Obama campaign’s past two weeks’ Huffington Post ‘Senate OK’s New Rules‘
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The road to grumpiness
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07030339Glenn Greenwald: "The issue is that Obama has repeatedly, over the course of the last year, made emphatic commitments and clear statements about his own core political values that are completely irreconcilable with his support for the FISA bill. It's possible to
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Unhappy 4th of July
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07041631nominees for president of both political parties - intend to vote for such a violation of Americans' right to privacy and of the sanctity of their personal communications is a stunning surrender to those who want us to live in fear forever." (via) Marcy Wheeler explains her biggest problem with Obama's statement on FISA. It's about accountability, and how there is none. Glenn Greenwald concurs: "This expression of Obama's 'intention' has so many equivocations and vague claims as to be worthless.
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Quick Links
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07050207When Joe Klein makes an obvious point and is viciously attacked as an antisemite (!), Glenn Greenwald tackles the issue of "dual loyalties". (But I still don't understand why support for Israel should entail supporting policies that obviously endanger Israel.) Digby and dday consider General Clark's remarks, and the failure of Democrats to capitalize on them.
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Learning curves
http://sideshow.me.uk/sjul08.htm#07012048Glenn Greenwald has a little list of the dumb, counterproductive things Obama has done in the past two weeks. (But he's been doing this stuff all along - it has been a glaring characteristic of his campaign, and I'm sorry some of you managed not to notice it.) Glenn says:A presidential election is a unique time when Americans are engaged in a discussion over
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From the Desk Of...
http://writerseekingmuse.blogspot.comGlenn Greenwald
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Gordon Gartrelle says: Obama's turn to the right?
http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2008/07/gordon-g...Field Negro and Glenn Greenwald have motivated me to think a lot about political orthodoxy in recent days (so has
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Becoming a National Security Bad Ass
http://www.moli.com/p/blog/v2_qSO4gGz0jzAiI1DJgWcjA../read/v...some as unpatriotic, and a general providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused of betrayal.” Also, Obama has come out in support of expanding government aid to faith-based organinzations. All of which has some, including Salon's Glenn Greenwald, questioning whether adopting the "move to the center" mantra makes any sense this year. Meanwhile, we got the bad teen movie treatment, watching Obama and Bill Clinton make up for the sake of mutual ambition
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Damn Lefties
http://damnlefties.wordpress.comeach candidate just repeats the same thing in the different ways every day. The media covers it, or not, depending on their whim. And bloggers either rant about it, or ignore it. Congress continues to demonstrate their lack of concern for the slow dismantling of the Constitution. What all of this is really about — the reason why political elites like Nancy Soderberg are so eager to defend it — is because they really do believe that lawbreaking isn’t wrong, that it doesn
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TL:DR
http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/tldr/to private citizens that must be complied with? Soderberg views the President as a monarch — someone who can issue “orders” that must be obeyed, even when, as she acknowledges, the “orders” are illegal. – Glenn Greenwald
