I gotta do some shopping before the Jints-Chiefs game. Apparently Bush has no intention of ending his illegal surveillance program.
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
22 Comments
Recent Posts
- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
According to this diary over at dKos (by edrie), CNN had Feingold on after Bush’s radio address today, and:
Anyone have confirmation or a direct quote? (that above is the diarists recollection)
Also, for those of you who normally don’t visit dKos anymore, I do recomment checking out The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back by FleetAdmiralJ.
I sincerely miss a true analysis of the legal ramifications of what Bush said in this mornings address. I think he threatened the press and NSA employees.
I miss a good summarized but comprehensive FP article that analyzes the legality of Bush’s actions in relation to the Yoo memorandum “excuse” the President uses.
I have no idea who was the best legal analyst among the former FP writers. But something should be on top of dkos FP and stay there at least til Monday. Not outrage, but simple legal analysis. Am I the only one who feels that way right now? This is a call for help, not a criticism or a tearful complaining release of frustration. The issue right now is spread out over I think four diaries on dkos. Someone has to help to put it together so well that it stays on top of everything else, I think.
I think it would be great if Armando and Adam B could contribute to pulling something together (though I don’t think that this is either of their realm of expertise).
I know Armando turns a lot of people off, but he is sharp.
A student at UMass Dartmouth was visited by Federal agents a coulple of months ago because he requested a Peking version of Mau Tse-Tung’s Little Red Book on inter-library loan. He was doing a paper on Communism for a class. The agents said that because he had spent time abroad coupled with the request for the book, that he triggered the attention of the Feds.
For the final kicker, the Feds brought the book to the student, but would not give it to him.
WTF!!!! This is outrageous on so many levels. This madness just has to stop.
Here is the link…sorry I can’t nerdify it.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm
I read that also and was going to link to it..wonder what other books are on a ‘watch list’? I’m more and more convinced that the FBI agent that showed up at my apt. over a year ago supposedly looking for the owner was really checking me out…maybe due to the fact that I have checked the Koran an other books on Islam out of the library.
Is Jints sort of “baby” talk for Giants?
Like little Darcy used to call the Univ of Wash Huskies the “Huckies”?
It took us almost two weeks to get approval — they take their time and are careful who they select — but we have been approved as a Patagonia affiliate. Their site is also chock full of enviro action and info sections.
There are a couple ad links in the left column now + I added a link to their enviro essays.
Hey, what’s up with the Netflix ad? I want to sign my daughter up as a Christmas present and I want to give Booman Tribune credit for it, but the link from the ad says something like “Error — invalid offer — please contact site owner!” I thought it might just be a quirk of Firefox but Internet Exploder is doing it too.
I hate to flack my own diaries (just seems…unseemly) but I almost spit out my coffee reading this headline on washingtonpost.com:
“Warner Signs Ban on Gay Bias”
So I decided to write a little diary about it.
This was done quietly, :<( but if this means an added layer of basic legal protections for Virginians who work for state agencies, then I’ll whisper it from the mountaintops.
Booman…
You write:
“Apparently Bush has no intention of ending his illegal surveillance program.”
As if you thought that “he”…may as well use the royal “we” or the paranoid “they”, because Butch has no real intentions of any kind besides those programmed into him by his various (and competing…as always) handlers…might even POSSIBLY entertain the thought of dismantling Big Brother v2.3.6.
Please…read my diary around this subject if you have not done so.
Domestic Surveillance??? No!!! REALLY???
This is not news.
It is…and HAS been for decades…business as usual.
BET on it.
J. Edgar Hoover started this shit. Primitive that he was, he was also a visionary.
Imagine the fun HE would have had with stationary satellites that can read a newspaper from orbit on a clear day.
AG
to do our best to make the surveillance program worthwhile.
Bob Johnson’s on it, and Rex is in a secure, undisclosed location.
Peace
(at least in some mail programs) is activate a feature called “spook mode.” Every single one of my mails that goes out (unless I have reason to know that it would be a Really Bad Idea, or a correspondent has asked me not to) includes a hidden tag that says, “Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic surveillance.”
If I’m really wicked and the mailer supports it I can go into full spook mode, which does randomly-generated tags that say things like
[Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic surveillance] AIEWS CNCIS Vince Foster electronic surveillance Lexis-Nexis Bletchley Park Leitrim e-cash Rand Corporation Mena cryptographic lock picking fnord
This has been going on for many years in the computer hacker community as a tongue-in-cheek protest against programs like Echelon (q.v.).
for so long that the surprising thing is that anyone believes 1) that such programs can possibly be effective, between this technique and all the 14 year old Mujahid wannabes in Peoria, and 2) that anyone planning a legitimate Resistance operation of any kind would discuss it in not only an email, which any bored nerd at the ISP of either sender or receiver can access at any time, but in an UN-ENCRYPTED email!
If the fertilizer ever hits the fan, I have GPG for email encryption and I’m not afraid to use it.
Of coure if His Nibs has his way the act of sending encrypted e-mail would probably be enough to land one in Guantanamo, and if that ever happens, you can bet that my friends and I will be creating programs that simulate encrypted e-mail so it will be impossible to tell real encrypted mail from the fake stuff that’s getting spewed.
I’ve certainly been doing my part. 😉
Please read HeyThereItsEric’s commentary, “Homeland’s “2SR” reorganization about domestic spying?” over at ePluribus Media’s Community site.
A snippet from the Hoover Institution report referenced in the commentary:
Chertoff can be stopped by Congress, he does not have full authority. Please read Eric’s piece and take action.
did was have a few tax returns at the white house that shouldn’t have been ordered. While President Bush, is spying on Americans..my oh my..where are the wingnut Christian saying the NSA is watching them at church???
FYI, I found a great long piece on John Spencer of “West Wing” who died suddenly yesterday … it’s down about 6 stories, in an update to the story I put up after his death was announced.
Again?! Damn!
So just read this.
And here’s his comeback… click for full pic
Oh, that’s good.