What a mess

Posted by Synfinatic on April 22, 2009 at 2:54 pm in FBI/CIA/NSA, The Law.

This week has just been a political mess here in the US. Between Obama wanting to give immunity to people who tortured, many in gov’t complaining that the details about US torture has been released and the whole NSA spying on Rep. Jane Harmon, it’s just one disaster after another.

Here’s some highlights though:

How the news media is ignoring a Pulitzer Prize winning author because he exposes the news media’s culpability in marketing the war on Iraq.

Rep. Jane Harmon’s outrage on being legally wiretapped by the NSA after being a long time supporter of warrant-less wiretapping on Americans.

Jon Stewart on how Karl Rove/etc are complaining that the Obama administration has released details on US torture- after they …

Tags: bush, obama, Politics, wiretap

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Congress shouldn’t cripple warrantless wiretapping suit

Posted by Synfinatic on October 17, 2007 at 8:33 pm in Politics.

A great op-ed piece by Kurt Opsahl of the EFF on why Congress shouldn’t cripple warrantless wiretapping suit.

Tags: bush, congress, eff, illegal, wiretap

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