DAY 871: HOW TELECOMS ARE ATTEMPTING TO BUY AMNESTY FROM CONGRESS
Stop The War
To put this into perspective, AT&T's spending for three months on
lobbying alone is significantly more than the entire EFF budget for
a whole year, from attorneys to sys admins, pencils to bandwidth.
And then there's the claim -- advanced by the likes of The Washington
Post's Fred Hiatt, among others -- that it's a grave injustice to
force these telecoms to incur attorneys fees in order to defend themselves
against allegations that they broke the law because the litigation
is so "costly." Yet here these telecoms are spending $1 million per
month or more in order to send former government officials to pressure
members of Congress to write our laws the way they want them to be
written.
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/24/telecoms/>
TELECOMS THAT WANT FISA LAW GUTTED ARE AMONG MCCAIN'S TOP DONORS
Last year, AT&T paid $400,000 to Black's firm. Black was taking money
from AT&T to lobby on FISA and simultaneously advising McCain. McCain,
needless to say, voted in favor of granting amnesty to AT&T and the
other telecoms at exactly the time that his close adviser, Black,
was taking money from AT&T to influence Congress on its behalf. And,
of course, AT&T and Verizon are among McCain's top donors.
<http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/24/telecoms/>
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U.S. GOVT. LAWYERS ARGUE IN FEDERAL COURT THAT BUSH HAS THE RIGHT
TO ORDER U.S. MILITARY INTO U.S. NEIGHBORHOODS, ARREST CITIZENS AND THEN
HOLD THEM INDEFINITELY IN PRISON WITHOUT CHARGE, TO KEEP NATION "SAFE".
the government claimed a broad interpretation of the president's
wartime powers, one that goes beyond warrantless wiretapping or monitoring
banking transactions. Government lawyers told federal judges that
the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture
a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_go_ot/enemy_combatant>
<http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=183191>
<http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33180.pdf>
MUKASEY PUNTS ON DETAINING US CITIZENS WITHOUT CHARGE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lFXdPl2KE>
"ATTENTION, ATTENTION, ATTENTION. AMERICAN FORCES ARE HERE TO HELP.
KEEP CALM. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. ATTENTION,
ATTENTION, ATTENTION. AMERICAN FORCES ARE HERE TO HELP. ..."
[VIDEO, U.S. SOLDIERS KICKING DOWN AMERICAN HOME DOORS, ACTORS HIRED
TO PROTEST "YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO US" TO HELP TRAIN OUR SOLDIERS]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2pQgW3wX8>
<http://yellowcakewalk.net/2007-07-07/evil_bush_demon.JPG>
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TOXIC TOXIN BUSH ASKED TO SCALE BACK PRO-MCCAIN EVENTS
President Bush is scaling back next week's fundraising swings for
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the request of the campaign, which
wants the events closed to the press ... The change -- in both Arizona
and Utah -- is part of McCain's delicate effort to find the balance
between embracing an unpopular president and taking advantage of
his huge continuing draw with well-heeled Republicans.
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10599.html>
APPARENTLY, MCCAIN HAS TO EMBRACE BUSH A LITTLE BIT TO GET THE $$$$
FROM THE REICH WINGERS, BUT DOESN'T WANT 72% OF THE REST OF AMERICA
-- WHICH HATES BUSH -- TO SEE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
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KARL ROVE: MY CRIMES WERE "REALLY ABOUT A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION
OF SEPARATION OF POWERS"
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqmDJNFOLag>
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UNCLEAN HANDS. CONDI DEFENDS TORTURE IN GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS SPEECH.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice talks to Google employees, at
Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, May 22, 2008.
In her most extensive public comments about how the administration dealt
with detainee interrogations in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and
the anthrax attackes that followed, Rice insisted the methods of
questionaing, which included waterboarding, complied with both U.S. law
and treaty obligations.
<http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/23/9144/>
<http://oldamericancentury.org/crusade_1.jpg>
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THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO LEAVE IRAQ
<http://crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/pdfs/there_are_better.pdf>
<http://onenessreality.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/bush_-_evil_empire.jpg>
<http://www.stereohyped.com/wp/docs/2008/03/facesofdeath.jpg>
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MCCAIN HAS MISSED 60% OF SENATE VOTES, MORE THAN ANY OTHER SENATOR
Through last week, McCain had missed a nice, round 60.0 percent of
Senate votes so far in the 110th Congress.
<http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/05/mccain_leads_in_missed_votes.html>
MCSAME OLD THING AS BUSH
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN10_6pyshQ>
<http://images.cafepress.com/product/222150527_240x240_F.jpg>
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BUSH DOES TELETUBBIES
[VIDEO]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgONDkhFZ4E>
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AUG 1, 2000 INTERVIEW: MCCAIN IS READY FOR THE "OLD SOLDIER'S HOME".
MCCAIN SAYS HE WANTS TO RETIRE AND NOT RUN IN 2008.
[VIDEO]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf_omg5tfi4>
<http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/23/in-2000-mccain-admits-hed-be-too-old-to-run-in-2008/>
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"PRINCIPALS" BUSH, CHENEY, AND RICE OF THE NSC "CHOREOGRAPHED" AND
"AUTHORIZED" TORTURE BLOW BY BLOW. "RICE WAS DECISIVE." CONDI: "GO DO IT."
[VIDEO]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HID2zV3xDiY>
<http://condimustgo.com/>
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IRAQI REFUGEES DOCUMENTARY "THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM"
The American government says saving its "Iraqi allies" is a moral
responsibility, but has done little to answer their cries for help.
[VIDEO]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVB-gEAmRAY>
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"We agree we are not yet a police state. But the founding fathers
in the democracy of the United States had a far higher goal and vision
than simply avoiding being a police state. We need to be a democratic
state where our freedoms flourish."
-- Bruce Fein, American Freedom Agenda
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLuy4ogxeE>
<http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.bush/msg/8a08cbe79ac13b29>
<http://www.americanfreedomagenda.org/About/freedompledge.htm>
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Bush: "I'm the commander."
<http://www.serendipity.li/more/explain_no.jpg>
Bush: "Just so long as I'm the Dictator."
<http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/MyUSofWhatevah/political/im-the-dictator_sm.jpg>
Bush, 2004: "Nothing has changed."
<http://benfrank.net/patriots/files/images/bush2004v2005.jpg>
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"The Constitution in Crisis" -- Massive New 354 Page Report!!!
FREE!!! Download it now while the supply lasts!!! ;-)
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/crisis/fullreport.pdf>
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis>
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-conyers/the-constitution-in-crisi_b_26520.html>