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Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

Bush must be impeached. If the people allow him to set this precedent, in which he has claimed illegal and dictatorial powers, then America as a political and social experiment has failed. We will also live in a police state, which we arguably do already.

The editors at truthout had this to say:

While the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity was a criminal act and should have been the focus of a Justice Department investigation, this case is different. The “leakers” in this case are whistleblowers who exposed a crime. Instead of investigating the whistleblowers, the Justice Department should be investigating the president’s abuse of power.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By The Associated Press
Republished from The New York Times [AP]

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic spying program, Justice officials said Friday.

The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to The New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The Times revealed the existence of the program two weeks ago in a front-page story that acknowledged the news had been withheld from publication for a year, partly at the request of the administration and partly because the newspaper wanted more time to confirm various aspects of the program.

The story unleashed a firestorm of criticism of the administration. Some critics accused the president of breaking the law by authorizing intercepts of conversations – without prior court approval or oversight – of people inside the United States and abroad who had suspected ties to al-Qaida or its affiliates.

The surveillance program, which Bush acknowledged authorizing, bypassed a nearly 30-year-old secret court established to oversee highly sensitive investigations involving espionage and terrorism.

Administration officials insisted that Bush has the power to conduct the warrantless surveillance under the Constitution’s war powers provision. They also argued that Congress gave Bush the power to conduct such a secret program when it authorized the use of military force against terrorism…

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