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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bush administration”

 

• Big government databases are fallible

  
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  Gail Collins reminds us of how the FBI can misuse its database when it gets excited about terrorism: The deck is always stacked when we debate keeping the nation safe. Recently, we discovered that the National Security Agency is keeping an enormous file of our phone calls. In the N.S.A.’s defense, its chief, ...
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• Joe Biden Slammed NSA Surveillance in 2006

  
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  We’ve already covered the conflicting statements that Barack Obama has made concerning government surveillance . As a United States Senator and presidential candidate, Obama said that the Bush Administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and security we provide.” He made a ...
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• Biden Flashback: We should Not collect data on Citizens Phone Calls

  
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  Senator Biden in 2006: We should not collect data on Citizens Phone Calls -  Could we have one reporter covering the Vice-President to remind Biden of flip-flop on monitoring and storing metadata on Citizens phone calls? In the wake of revelations that the Obama administration is tracking virtually every single ...
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• Atoning for the Sins of Empire

  
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  David Anderson has an interesting op-ed in the NY Times : THE British do not torture. At least, that is what we in  Britain  have always liked to think. But not anymore. In a  historic decision  last week, the British government agreed to compensate 5,228 Kenyans who were tortured and abused while detained ...
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• Foods our corporations have made unsafe

  
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  Tuna, for example. Corporations are free to spew pollutants that destroy a food supply, and the US government subsidizes them. Very strange and not what one would expect. Mark Bittman writes in the NY Times : If you’re like most people (including me, up until a month or two ago), you know that tuna and other ...
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• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Takeover Lawsuit Inspired By Greenberg

  
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  The lawsuit filed by the shareholders of mortgage giants Fannie Mae / Federal National Mortgage Association (OTCBB:FNMA)  and Freddie Mac / Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTCBB:FMCC) against the United States government was inspired by former American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG) chief, Hank Greenberg’s ...
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• Obama-knows-best goes bust

  
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  “Trust me” is President Barack Obama’s preferred mode of action in times of crisis — and his go-to comment to nervous staffers has always been some version of “Relax, I got this.” But that message is an increasingly hard sell for Obama in his second term, following revelations that the man who once ...
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• How Dystopian Secrecy Contributes to Clueless Wars

  
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  Chase Madar has an excellent piece at TomDispatch.com, and as usual Tom Engelhardt provides a good intro: Okay, give them this much: their bloodlust stops just short of the execution chamber door. The military prosecutors of the case against Bradley Manning, assumedly with the support of the Obama administration, ...
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• Jeremy Scahill on NSA spying and Big Brother normality

  
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• Anecdote from 16 Sept 2008

  
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  This was before the election that put Obama in the White House for his first term. This was while the NY Times , and specifically editor Bill Keller, was holding back a story about the  illegal warrantless electronic surveillance that Bush had initiated (and that Obama has expanded). This was when Obama was ...
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• Here is why transparency is absolutely essential: US State Dept edition

  
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  Does it strike you that the US has become so imperial in its self-regard that it routinely massacres people who belong to other countries; members of the US government—troops and civil servants— literally burn, pillage, and rape and expect it all to be covered up. They get off scot-free just because they’re the ...
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• NSA-y It Aint So!

  
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  One more for the Scandal post . While the exact details of the secret PRISM program are as yet unknown, the leaked disclosure of data collection seems to indicate that it is not used for widespread open-ended data collection (I feel like there needs to be a "yet" here.) Though tech companies initially denied ...
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• Put on your Big Girl Panties and Deal with it! by Dana Perino

  
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  She had the best advice in response, ‘Put on your big girl panties and deal with it!’ By Dana Parino For many years, I was quite happy working behind the scenes during my time in the Bush administration. I enjoyed being the deputy press secretary to Tony Snow, helping him prepare and managing the office. He ...
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• Donald Rumsfeld, who authorized torture, gets off

  
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  The Supreme Court does some funny thinking . Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, et al. explicitly signed off on tortures they authorized, yet when subordinates down the line follow those guidelines, those who specified them and required their use are not held responsible. The buck stops way down the line. ...
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• Guantánamo’s influence on the US

  
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  Victorria Brittain writes , via Informed Comment: Victoria Brittain, journalist and former editor at the  Guardian , has authored or co-authored two plays and four books, including  Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar  with Moazzam Begg. Her latest book,  Shadow Lives: The ...
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• Senator Obama vs. President Obama on Government Surveillance

  
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  President Barack Obama and his apologists in Congress have launched a full-scale defense of his administration broad use the PATRIOT Act , through which the NSA is surveilling millions of Americans who have done absolutely nothing wrong. The reversal on the part of Obama is astonishing. As the NSA scandal — and ...
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• Mass Surveillance in America: A Timeline of Loosening Laws and Practices

  
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  A valuable timeline from Cora Currier, Justin Elliott, and Theodoric Meyer of ProPublica: On Wednesday, the Guardian  published  a secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over data for all the calls made on its network on an “ongoing, daily basis.”  Other   revelations  about surveillance of phone and ...
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• Flashback Of The Day

  
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  Senator Barack Obama, August 1, 2007, on the Bush Administration and “warrantless wiretapds”….
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• Good question: “Is a democratic surveillance state possible?”

  
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  Mike Konczal writes in the Washington Post : Being able to name things is an important part of our humanity. (Before everything went sideways, Adam was supposed to spend eternity in the Garden of Eden naming animals.) Being able to name things gives us a power to describe them, identify what we like and don’t ...
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• TIA is a zombie program

  
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  Total Information Awareness: killed once but still lumbering around. Kevin Drum : Here’s the  latest from the  Wall Street Journal : The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks  as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also ...
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