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Stephen C. Webster
Published: Tuesday December 16, 2008
ACLU victorious as federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First Amendment
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.

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Three years after the New York Times first revealed the Bush administration’s program of illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA, whistleblower Thomas Tamm has acknowledged his role in making public the President’s lawbreaking. In its expose Sunday, Newsweek details how the former Justice Department official came to discover the White House’s violations of the FISA [...]

Dion expected to step down this week…Liberal Leader Stephane Dion plans to step down as early as Monday to pave the way for a permanent successor who could lead a coalition government or lead his party into a federal election early next year if the Harper government is defeated.
Panel to Call [...]

FBI agents stage sting to snare corrupt Ill. cops…Duffel bags stuffed with cocaine were delivered by plane to an out-of-the-way suburban airport while two sheriff’s officers provided security. A police officer stood by to guard the cash and keep out the riffraff at a poker game where $100,000 changed hands. And a drug dealer was [...]

Al Norman: Wal-Mart Shoppers Are Trained To Be “Savages”…At Wal-Mart, they know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. It was the manager at the Rapid City, Michigan Wal-Mart store who said what the company’s top brass in Bentonville could not say. “There’s nothing in my store that’s worth people’s safety [...]

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Think Progress by Matt Corley
In October, ABC News reported that despite President Bush’s promises that the National Security Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was aimed only at terrorists, the NSA frequently listened to and transcribed the private phone calls of Americans abroad. The network’s report was based on whistleblower interviews with two former military intercept operators.

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The Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters.
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won’t just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping.
Since The New York Times first [...]

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Noah Shachtman
The Pentagon wants to be able to peer inside your apartment building — picking out where all the major rooms, stairways, and dens of evil-doers are.
The U.S. military is getting better and better at spotting its enemies, when they’re roaming around the streets. But once those foes duck into houses, they become a whole [...]

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h/t: 911truth.org
The Bush administration’s wiretapping program has come under new scrutiny this week. Two influential congressional committees have opened probes into allegations US intelligence spied on the phone calls of American military personnel, journalists and aid workers in Iraq. We speak to James Bamford about the NSA’s spying on Americans, the agency’s failings pre-9/11 and [...]

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U.S. Officers’ “Phone Sex” Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers
By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER
Oct. 9, 2008—
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who [...]