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• An Oldie, But A Goodie: The Democrat Contract With America

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  Back in February 2006, as the country started to step away from President Bush and the GOP, I took a cue from a Rush Limbaugh thread about how the liberals wanted to surrender the war on terror and created a twisted variant of the 1994 GOP Contract with America and turned it into the  2006 Democrat Contract With al ...
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• Germany: US Data-Mining Violates European Human Rights

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  I’m sure John Brennan, data-miner-in-chief, is not happy about this : The new German justice minister says Berlin is not comfortable with an EU measure that would grant US authorities access to European banking data. Now it seems likely that the Germans may scupper the deal, which is supposed to be pushed ...
  14 hours ago

• Obama Administration Is Not Being Straight With America Straight On Ft Hood Massacre

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  For the last week I have been posting about my suspicions regarding the Ft Hood terrorist massacre and how the Obama administration seemed to be in full spin mode, as if they knew something horrible about the incident. The crux of my concerns have been the well established, far left positions held by AG Holder and ...
  1 day ago

• The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Jim Burrows writes: The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We ...
  1 day ago

• Help Read Docs Revealing FISA Amendments Act Dealmaking

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 477
  The EFF is requesting assistance in reading the documents and considering their relevance. Please go on over and take a look at the newly released papers.
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• Help Look Through Docs Revealing Negotiations For Spying Immunity

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 548
  The FISA Amendments Act was passed last year with the help of then-senator Barack Obama. Obama had pledged he would never vote for a bill to give telecommunications corporations immunity from prosecution for their part in an illegal and unconstitutional scheme to spy on the private electronic communications of ...
  2 days ago

• Harry Reid’s Poll: 67% Say Public Option “Most Important Aspect of Health Care Reform”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  nuf said (photo by swanksalot) Who knew Harry Reid used tweetdeck : RESULTS: 67% say creating a public option to lower costs, create competition is top priority- vote now! http://bit.ly/3Dy2Rp #hcr I know conventional wisdom in the beltway says that Harry is putting on a good show before he folds, ...
  2 days ago

• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the ...
  2 days ago

• The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”

  
  Get FISA Right — Authority: 494
  The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We eagerly seek your ...
  2 days ago

• EFF FOIA Working Thread, Two

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  This will be another working thread on the EFF FOIA Documents. Here was the first working thread . The two sets of documents are: Draft legislation to amend FISA Correspondence about amendinng FISA And here’s the Vaughn Indices DOJ earlier submitted on these documents to help you figure out what they ...
  2 days ago

• JTTF Had Many Terrorism Dots On Hasan – Why Did We Shutdown Their Efforts To Connect Them?

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  My previous posts on this terrorist attack at Ft Hood: Fort Hood: Portrait Of An American Hero, A Traitor & Possible Bureaucratic Incompetence The Twisted Story Of The Hasan Massacre – Liberalism Run Amok Did Someone Miss The Dots, Or Did Someone Shutdown The Connecting? Traitor Hasan May Have Been ...
  3 days ago

• The EFF FOIA Working Thread

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  I’m just now getting to reading the documents from the EFF FOIA. The two sets of documents are: Draft legislation to amend FISA Correspondence about amendinng FISA MadDog and Jim White have a bunch of comments on the documents in this thread . Here are some of my thoughts, starting with the latter of the ...
  3 days ago

• DOJ Circumvents Judge Walker; Attempts To Further Correct Previous Falsities

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  In what can only be described as a curious filing, the US Government, through the DOJ has submitted a pleading to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the previously terminated al-Haramain appeal originally filed in 2006. In this appeal, on November 16, 2007, the 9th generally upheld the government’s state secrets ...
  4 days ago

• Did Someone Miss The Dots, Or Did Someone Shutdown The Connecting?

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  Updates Below! We are all trying to understand what happened with the Ft Hood Terrorist Massacre, and how our streak of successfully defending this nation since 9-11 from enemies within and without suddenly and tragically ended last week. But what we see in the news media is disturbing and gross. 13 Americans ...
  4 days ago

• The Twisted Story Of The Hasan Massacre – Liberalism Run Amok

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  In the previous post I speculated that someone put an end to the investigation of Major Hasan once he hit the intelligence trip wires in December – and into 2009. Another ‘theme’ is hitting all the news outlets, which could be a coordinated PR effort by some folks who might be at the epicenter of questions on ...
  5 days ago

• Fort Hood: Portrait Of An American Hero, A Traitor & Possible Bureaucratic Incompetence

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 619
  Updates Below! I have holding off on posting on the Fort Hood Massacre by an Islamist Terrorist because I wanted to make sure I was on working with some reasonably stable information. First off, anyone who targets Muslims i general over this incident are not only dumb, they are doing al Qaeda’s wishes by ...
  6 days ago

• The Surveillance State and Domestic Spying in the Obama Era

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 554
  Dandelion SaladtalkingsticktvNovember 05, 2009 more about “The Surveillance State and Domestic S…“, posted with vodpodThe Surveillance State and Domestic Spying in the Obama Era: Tactics to End the Bush Legacy – Panel discussion held October 16, 2009 at the National Lawyers Guild Law for the People 2009 ...
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• Obama DOJ Continues To FlimFlam Judge Lamberth On State Secrets

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  The state secrets doctrine was born on the wings of fraud and lies by the US government in the case of US v. Reynolds in 1953 . As Congress struggles to rein in the unbridled use of the doctrine to cover up illegality by the Executive Branch (see here , here and here ), it is a good idea to keep focus on just ...
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• Buying Off Victims of Illegal Wiretapping at $3 Million a Pop…

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 717
  …That could get expensive. That’s what the federal government agreed to pay to Richard Horn to settle his 15-year old suit against the government for wiretapping him in Burma. The U.S. Government has agreed to pay $3 million to a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who claims he was spied on by a ...
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• iWatch – Problems, Concerns, and Hazards

  
  Political Cartel — Authority: 130
  What is iWatch? The neighborhood watch has gone digital, 2.0 .  The idea is simple, use the web as an easy portal to capture citizen reports of possible terrorist plots.  What are the chances a program like this could have any measurable success? If a person truly thought a terror plot was being devised would ...
  1 week ago

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