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News is breaking at a furious pace this week in regard to the illegal Bush administration wiretaps. I will give a rundown on everything, and will put the links in at the end:
1) 2 groups are filing lawsuits to determine if, journalists, scholars, political activists, ten defense attorneys, and other Americans with ties to the Middle East were spied upon in violation of the law.
2) Al Gore is calling for a special prosecutor. While this can be initially written off as partisan politics, Bob Barr and other traditional Conservatives, as well as Liberals, are joining Gore on this issue.
3) Robert S. Mueller III, director of the FBI, has raised concerns about the legality of the wiretaps.
4) The FBI is complaining that the NSA sent them thousands of leads, based on their wiretaps which either turned out to be dead ends, or which the FBI determined that those who were being spied upon were innocent.
5) Comments from law enforcement officials, including some at the top, indicate that the FBI is skeptical of the spying program's value.
6) Proof has come out that the NSA has been abusing its power by spying on peace groups which have no ties whatsover to terrorism, but which oppose administration policy.
7) While the Bush administration is claiming success in uncovering a plot to detonate a fertilizer bomb in London, and a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch, FBI spokemen say they already knew about those plots, and had uncovered both themselves without any illegally obtained NSA information, and by conventional and legal methods.
eight) The Bush administration has admitted to issuing an executive order to perform the illegal spying.
9) The tips passed to the FBI by the NSA were so poor that agents have developed a standard joke about how each tip received from the NSA meant they got to make more calls for pizza delivery, and therefore, the NSA should be thanked.
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The next few weeks are going to be very interesting.
1) 2 groups are filing lawsuits to determine if, journalists, scholars, political activists, ten defense attorneys, and other Americans with ties to the Middle East were spied upon in violation of the law.
2) Al Gore is calling for a special prosecutor. While this can be initially written off as partisan politics, Bob Barr and other traditional Conservatives, as well as Liberals, are joining Gore on this issue.
3) Robert S. Mueller III, director of the FBI, has raised concerns about the legality of the wiretaps.
4) The FBI is complaining that the NSA sent them thousands of leads, based on their wiretaps which either turned out to be dead ends, or which the FBI determined that those who were being spied upon were innocent.
5) Comments from law enforcement officials, including some at the top, indicate that the FBI is skeptical of the spying program's value.
6) Proof has come out that the NSA has been abusing its power by spying on peace groups which have no ties whatsover to terrorism, but which oppose administration policy.
7) While the Bush administration is claiming success in uncovering a plot to detonate a fertilizer bomb in London, and a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch, FBI spokemen say they already knew about those plots, and had uncovered both themselves without any illegally obtained NSA information, and by conventional and legal methods.
eight) The Bush administration has admitted to issuing an executive order to perform the illegal spying.
9) The tips passed to the FBI by the NSA were so poor that agents have developed a standard joke about how each tip received from the NSA meant they got to make more calls for pizza delivery, and therefore, the NSA should be thanked.
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The next few weeks are going to be very interesting.