While it's been plainly obvious to anyone with a brain that Dubya's illegal wiretapping of law-abiding US citizens is, well, illegal, it's nice to see a court agree.
Of course, this will end up in the hands of Dubya's stooges in the Supreme Court, you will strike it down.
Because they're evil. Especially Scalia.
As expected, the Dubya administration (in the form of that utter failure secretary of the Department of Homeland SecurityMichael Chertoff) is already using the foiled liquid bombing plans to England as an excuse to call for increased illegal spying on innocent US citizens.
The only surprise is that they waited half a week.
Judge throws out one of the cases against AT&T saying that making AT&T disclose whether they've been helping the government illegally spy on its own citizens would somehow help our enemies.
It's a secret police state. There's no other way to put it.
The FBI wants to force ISPs and router manufacturers to allow a backdoor for government intrusion in your Internet activities.
Or you could just grab an old PC and throw SmoothWall on it.
Gee, guess what! The government was trying to listen in on domestic phone call before 9/11.
Shocked? Surprised even? Didn't think so.
It's not just your phone calls that the Dubya administration is tracking. They're watching your banking habits, too.
Nice rant on how the Dubya administration is slowly but surely setting up a police state in the name of national security.
Nothing really new here, but a good read nonetheless.
Now the government is going to start data-mining social networks like MySpace.
Illegal? No. Creepy? Oh yes. Especially considering the number of convicted pedophiles at DHS.
A U.S. appeals court is upholding the government's ability to tap into your high-speed Internet access.
They know you're looking at this.
So, what do you get if you make a FOIA request for your phone records that the NSA has been tracking?
A denial, of course.
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the guy who blew the whistle on AT&T snooping on phone calls for the NSA. In this article, Klein lists out the documents supporting his claim.
The FBI admits that it uses phone records to track down the folks trying to tell you the truth about the Dubya administration.
So, what is the NSA doing with all those phone call records? Fighting terrorism? Nah. They're using them to determine who's leaking info about their illegal actions to the media.
Polling results on civil liberties versus pretending to fight terrorism. This particular page shows a trend of waning support for these illegal activities.
How long has this administration wanted to illegally spy on US citizens?
Since just after 9/11, that day when many US citizens lost both their common sense and their "balls."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been suing AT&T for routing telephone calls to the government. The Department of Justice is trying to dismiss is over "security concerns."
Upset about Dubya's illegal domestic spying. Former NSA guy Russell Tice says that even more shocking revelations are coming up.
Even slimeballs like Newt Gingrich realize that Dubya's illegal domestic spying program can't be defended.
The NSA has been tracking purely domestic phone calls. Millions and millions of them, with the goal of tracking every single call made in the US.
Is anyone on the Left surprised? Anyone?
An Appeals panel gives the FCC a hard time over new Internet wiretap rules. Tells one lawyer that "Your argument makes no sense."
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