Yellow Journal-What? -Katie Couric or Matlin McCarthy

Ventriloquist dummy Couric-Bush Spouts GOP crap and questions Plame not the government or its motives.


Crooks And Liars

But the second segment is where Couric goes off the rails and shows her flair for White House talking points. It’s almost as if she implies that Plame Wilson should have expected the White House to out her because the work she did touched on the question that sent her husband, Amb. Joseph Wilson, to Niger.

COURIC: You never for a moment thought this could potentially jeopardize my career?

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FDLs Christy

Of course, for the crazed wingnuts among us, the CIA’s totting up of her NOC credentials won’t mean a thing. For the 80 percent of the country that isn’t loony, it is yet more proof that the Bush Administration has a host of problems, one of which is a treasonous act against our national security. You choose.

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NSA - We own the hub

Via Wired
NSA's Lucky Break: How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World

-A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it.

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Congress and American people fooled again

-In the soldier's hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen's meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. "Moran on Iraq policy," read one section, going on to cite some the congressman's most incendiary statements, such as, "This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history."-

This Does Bother me- our government (BUSHco and the main in the pentagon ) is using parsed and out of context quotes to define a congressman's stance to military personal.
This is outrageous, with insurgents and Al Queda to worry about 24/7
Bush thinks our troops need to know and study personal facts about a senator?
In a time of war? In a war zone?
Sick

From the WashingtonPost via BalloonJuice

-Brief, choreographed and carefully controlled, the codels (short for congressional delegations) often have showed only what the Pentagon and the Bush administration have wanted the lawmakers to see. At one point, as Moran, Tauscher and Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.) were heading to lunch in the fortified Green Zone, an American urgently tried to get their attention, apparently to voice concerns about the war effort, the participants said. Security whisked the man away before he could make his point.

Tauscher called it "the Green Zone fog."

"Spin City," Moran grumbled. "The Iraqis and the Americans were all singing from the same song sheet, and it was deliberately manipulated."-

Iraq is Playtime to Bush and company

UPDATE_ Defense Department admits to creating Bushified Bios
ThinkProgress - U.S. Troops Given Misleading, Inaccurate Bios Of Democratic Lawmakers Visiting Iraq

ThinkProgress has confirmed that the bios are prepared by the Strategic Effects (STRATEFF) office of MNF-I.

mean while-

Today NBC recognized 2 of the over 3500 young men and women we have lost. No mention of any other deaths of US or Iraqis or that there is any debate about the war.

Sad to say but if this family did not have 3 children in the war of which 2 died and the 3rd was removed to non active duty as last survivor,there would be no NBC story. The 2nd son that died lost his life in the helicopter crash where 13 others died too. Any chats with the other 13 family's?
No.
Any mourning of the 13 others ?
No

Any Mourning for a English lady who died 10 years ago
YES

Entertainment first - YAY NBC

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Could this be true - NSA FBI DOJ

Where have all the good programmers gone ?


BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux

sk0t was informed by his Probation Officer that he has to have special software installed on his PC so that the government can monitor his online activities. However, what is a more bitter pill to swallow for him is that the monitoring software is Windows only and as sk0t is an Ubuntu user, the Justice Department is forcing him to switch operating systems.

Could it be that all the REAL coders quit or were fired to be replaced by MS certified loyal bushies?

LOL

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ABC 123 NSA TSP V2.0

Spyland Security v2.0

White House Seeks to Withhold Records | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The Justice Department detailed the argument in a lawsuit seeking to force the White House Office of Administration to say what it knows about the disappearance of an undisclosed amount of messages

Crooks and Liars » McConnell says FISA discussion will kill Americans

To hear McConnell tell it, the very discussion of the administration’s surveillance powers will kill an untold number of Americans — but sunshine’s a good thing.

Interview: NSA's McConnell claims warrantless surveillance datamining is "surgical" without mentioni

Surprise!

Honestly, reading the McConnell interview in the El Paso Times, of all places, is like having your head pushed through mush.

The Next Hurrah: DNI McConnell: Not Fighting Them Over There, So We Can Wiretap You Here

Now, first of all, Al Qaeda didn't just "now" "discover" the tribal lands, though we may have when we let Bin Laden escape to them. Al Qaeda and the Taliban knew and used it, well before they retreated to it as their primary safe haven ... over five years ago.

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Spyland security

Bush Administration Has Been Using Illegal Wiretapping and Spying Activity for Political Purposes.

In an under covered trial in a California courtroom, a Constitutional drama of major significance is unfolding.

It is a federal lawsuit filed by Americans who claim that the Bush Administration, with the cooperation of AT&T, illegally spied on them. The Bush Administration has taken the Orwellian position that the trial must not be allowed to proceed because it would require the White House to reveal if they indeed have illegally monitored the plaintiffs – and that, the Bush Politburo argues, would violate "state secrets."

NSA - Nothing new about it.

SO the US Government have spied on people for political or social purposes, not a surprise.

The network we use for the web was developed by DARPA, i am sure the defense department would never leave a back door to their system.

If it were then why would a organization like the EEF be needed at all.

DARPA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA was responsible for funding development of many technologies which have had a major impact on the world

EFF: About
When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar

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FISA - why its sad and the rug of light II

Headline is funny in a sad and tragic kind of way
Oliver Willis - There Is No "Please Allow George Bush To Spy On Me" Constituency In The U.S. Electorate

Boston Globe New law expands power to wiretap - Diminishes oversight of NSA spy program

Balkinization - Why do they fear Bush

The passage of the new FISA bill by the Senate and now the House demonstrates that the Democrats stand neither for defending civil liberties nor for checking executive power.

They stand for nothing at all.

Conversely, the new bill shows that the Republican Party can get the Democrats to surrender almost any civil liberty-- indeed, to give the President just as much unchecked power as he might obtain under a Republican controlled Congress-- simply by playing the fear card repeatedly and without shame

Greenwald via Salon.com - Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work



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