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Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

The real threat to America and to Americans is not some radical religious zealot with a bomb, but a gang of power-hungry politicians bent on making their control in Washington permanent. That threat will be defeated not by giving up our freedoms, but by defending them all, fiercely and without compromise.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Dave Lindorff
Republished from Counterpunch

Doesn't Anyone Remember Poindexter's Total Information Awareness? He Left; It Didn't.

Now that we know that President Bush, through the misuse of secret executive orders, authorized the super-secret National Security Agency to monitor domestic phone and Internet communications without any involvement of the courts, it’s time to recall Admiral Poindexter and his Total Information Awareness project.

Recall that Poindexter, a convicted Iran-Contra felon until he had his conviction overturned on a technicality, had been appointed by Bush to develop a program using Pentagon and NSA supercomputers to monitor all communications and financial transactions in the country.

TIA was officially dumped when word of it leaked out, particularly because of the unsavory history of the man put in charge of it.

But it bears mentioning that in fact, much of the hardware and software for realizing Poindexter’s dark dream already exists. Carnivore—a software program that allows the Feds to scan all Internet communications for certain key words—is already in operation. American companies, in fact, have been honing these skills in products they have developed to help China monitor its Internet and phone systems. Don’t think those fearsome capabilities have gone unnoticed in the White House.

Without calling it TIA, our government too has begun massively snooping on Americans’ private communications.

This is where Bush’s so-called “War on…

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“First They Came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.”

Pastor Martin Niemöller

LoupGaroux @ 12/19/05 09:58:27

LoupGaroux good comment.

what i would like to add is that democracy in america is over, there is one thing that can save your state, and sadly, its the same action that started your history.

i won’t say its name, because of the bloodshed it will require.

radek @ 12/19/05 10:41:24

With all of these these scandals uncovered by you leftists, it is a wonder the Bush Administration is still in power?

Here is the deal little fella. Most Americans want the NSA to spy on any potential threat. We, meaning most Americans want to win the war on terror and want to stop any potential threat to our security. It is legal, according to what I have heard, and if it is not, we shall have to wait for the Supremem Court to rule. Until then, it is business as usual.

IsraelForever2 @ 12/19/05 10:49:40

IF2,

With only these scandals uncovered, as in tip-of-the-iceberg, is it a wonder the Bush pretender is still in power?

Listen up boob. Most Americans think themselves victims and the authoritarians invent new potential threats daily, while offering to save them from their freedoms. Some, meaning not us, that special group of achievers and believers in glittering generalities, want to stop threats to their constitutional rights from alphabet soup government agencies reading the mail, listening to your phone and sniffing your bed sheets. What the Feds do is illegal only if they are caught, and if you believe in the myth of ‘the rule of law’ wait for the Bush Court to rule. Until then, your papers!

Private @ 12/19/05 13:05:10

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