14 dead a day is not ok

14 U.S. Soldiers Dead in Copter Crash in Iraq


Worst US air losses in Iraq

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WingNuts ID Certification

What to do if a link goes back to a Neocons site warn the reader with
The Wingnuts Logo

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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

Tags: spyland security, spy, internetjoe, malkin sucks, spy, nsa, fbi, doj

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Cheney branch

Cheney as the Spier not Bush,no surprise there.

The Next Hurrah: Details on Cheney's FISA Documents
It appears that Dan Eggen has gotten a copy of the letter from Dick's office, detailing which documents he has that respond to FISA subpoenas.

The Next Hurrah: Documents from Dick, not Bush?!?!?
But the thing I'm most interested in is the reasoning behind the dual treatment of the White House and OVP. As Leahy said, the Administration claimed that it is not part of the Executive Office of the President

TheHill.com - White House lets Leahy’s deadline pass
Vice President Dick Cheney’s office on Monday responded separately from the White House to a Senate subpoena for documents on warrantless wiretapping and resurrected the controversial contention that Cheney is not part of the executive branch.

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Kill the Saudis V3.0 the facts Osama WHO?

UPDATE 09-20-07
Via Empty Wheel
And Now the Saudis
Even Bushs BFFs are having second thoughts

Via McClatchy
Studies: Suicide bombers in Iraq are mostly foreigners

Hafez, whose new book is "Suicide Bombers in Iraq," has identified the nationalities of 124 bombers who attacked in Iraq. Of those, the largest number — 53 — were Saudis.

Also
Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis V2.0: "Why my Kill the Saudis meme is a joke.
This is Bush and his BBF Bandar of Saudi Arabia Waaasup wit the Manlove Dude!!"

Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis: "Well ...even though al-Qaeda is not in Iran and more then 20 percent of the Anti-US attacks are from Saudi Arabian terrorists, the senate votes to get angry and cry if Bush decides to attack Iran."

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Soldiers and Technology Secure - White House Not

Army Audits: Official Sites, Not Blogs, Breach Security
From the page

- For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post far more potentially-harmful than blogs do. -

LOL interactive White House site
By internetjoe - Posted on: Thu, Aug 9 2007 3:52 PM
So person or persons from Washington DC, why are you all of a sudden reading my blog?

Just coincidence that no one from DC ever came to - or noticed my little web production for a year and a half - yet soon after my leaving a not so kind information request - series of questions I would like answered about the White House site on there submit form... the city of Washington shows up on my stats page.


My questions were simple along the line below

With the new Fisa law how long do you hold my IP address after i submit a question?

Why do you call it White House Interactive, when No One has called a Submit Form interactivity for 8 years?

Why does this site not work well on my macintosh?

Doh - Maybe im just paranoid

Maybe im not Update 8-23
The Next Hurrah -Time to Fire the White House Webmaster by emptywheel

I thought it worth mentioning that the Administration has twice made claims in the last week that their website refuted. First came Senator Leahy, who noted that Cheney's claims not to be part of the Executive Office of the President were disproved by the White House website.

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Blogging with Google Notes

TPMmuckraker August 17, 2007 12:22 PM
"perhaps only as a receiver of leads from the NSA -- perhaps as a partner in the government's alleged data-mining of U.S. citizens phone and internet usage records."

TPMmuckraker August 17, 2007 2:16 PM
Don't get your hopes up yet. But the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has told the government that it needs to submit an argument for why the court shouldn't disclose rulings from earlier this year on the warrantless surveillance program

Talking Points Memo | The FISA 'Fix'
When Congress "revised" FISA a few weeks ago, lawmakers gave the White House the unchecked surveillance power Bush wanted -- and then some.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » More Duplicity in the FISA Stampede
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval

Defense Agency Proposes Outsourcing More Spying - washingtonpost.com
"Mind-blowing," was the reaction of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, when she learned of the DIA proposal. In a telephone interview, she described it as "definitely something to be concerned about."

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5 dead a day is not ok nor is two hundred and 6

Tuesday Aug 13-2007
The death count in the Iraq bomb blast is up to 200 and we lost 6 of our honorable troops.

This seems fine with Bush and the media,

It cant be fine for the families of those soldiers and Iraqi citizens.


The IRAQ War DeadBabies

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Roves GOP Defenders

Bushs Brain

Via Froomkin

"Rove's defenders argue that Republicans' current troubles -- sagging presidential approval ratings, loss of the House and Senate, a clamorous fight over who the party will nominate to run for president in 2008 -- all stem from a single cause: the deeply unpopular war in Iraq; not from Rove or his methods."

Is that the Iraq war started with lies and leaks by Cheney-Powell-Rice-Bush and Rove?

The war that allowed privatization of the military had nothing to do with roves hiring of career government fund distributors?

A war on terror that Gonzales-Bush would not need Rove to help pick loyal Bushies to run.

Gee, looks like Rove had his hands in the war pretty deep.

More Rove from around the web

"'I think a number of Democrats never accepted (Bush) as legitimate and instead adopted a strategy of blind obstructionism,' he answered.

"Moreover, some Democrats 'hated' Bush, and they were joined by a group of Democrats who 'for tactical reasons, said that we can never give (Bush) a political victory, and anything that passes any part of his agenda is a political victory for him and we can't tolerate that.' . . .

"Did the Bush administration try hard enough to reach across the aisle?

"'You know, you'd be shocked and surprised to learn how much the president reached out to Democrats,' Rove said.

-Many times Bush reached out to Democrats on Issues that he would later ignore with a signing statement.

Many people inside and outside the White House feared Rove, a number of them truly admired him (professionally and personally), but of very few can it be said that they ever trusted him.

-No one but the Boy King Bush trusted Rove.

"'We live in a poisonous atmosphere in which Democrats . . . are engaged in a wave of investigations and requests for documents that ill-serve the country and serve as an excuse for them to investigate rather than legislate,' Rove said."

-A quest fror documents Rove himself destroyed - Opps

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TSP - did not know to call it that then

Internetjoe.blogster.com January 2006 - then they called me traitor and paranoid. I said a year and a half ago that bush wanted to be free of FISA.
1-13-2006
No Fear - Here To Stay

I do not care how many times George Bush and company bring up Osama or Terrorists, I will not be afraid.

I did not believe in our invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan as right or necessary. To say these things I thought was my right as an American. What is heard though is that I am an ENEMY of America.

This crap about aiding the Enemy by open debate is just plain stupid. Debate -MEANS- to have 2 sides or opinions compared. How can you have a debate Georgie if you only have one point of view That-s a lecture with a scolding thrown in for good measure.

For Bush and his buddies to get what they want ,they need all the sheep scared into a corner so they can keep an eye on them (FISA free). But to be a sheep you need to have no will of your own and blind devotion, and I-m thick headed and thick skinned.

I also know the -Actual- definition of a terrorist and fear is what they NEED for there terror to work..

It-s the PerzNit who in pushing fear and terror on the American people so it follows that he is helping the terrorists, while my not caring is and would be frustrating to a terrorist. {i.e. NO HELP AT ALL}

Let Bush and anyone else call me what ever they like , cause im an American too and have the RIGHT to not be Afraid and say what I think.

1-14-2006
Hide In Plain Site

Ever wonder why Bush and Rummy love these acronyms, well it has to do with the current problem they are having with -digital file tapping-.

I feel pretty safe knowing when I write and email or text message they will not be flagged.

The closest I have come will be in this sentence of this post where my busines sadvisaery Alllle Keaddda could come up in a search if it had the right number of wildcards and spellings.

With the Bushes acronyms filtering and pulling data streams and files on eye rack well even a dummy can google G W O T

1-22-2006
Bush's Fault

You can talk to me till your blue in the face but there is no way you can convince me that George Bush went to war for any other reason then Sadam said - bad things - declared war - put a price - on his daddys ass.

Still after several years he still has not gotten me to understand.
-what Osama, A Saudi - currently in Afganastan has to do with Iraq.

Answer Me That

1-24-2006
No Fear 3

What is the secret, that the digital taps are unknown by our enemies.

This technology has been around for a long time and requires that an ISP open its trunk to the government. Why the secrecy?

A war on TERROR - Bush has been quoted as not caring day to day where Osama is - that will never end due to victory.

A war on TERROR - where you and your friends are now daily labeled terrorists your selves.

We don-t know where they are or who they are but we can be at war with them and attack OTHER countries in a hit or miss hope we get them -- kind of way.

As an American, based on MY constitutional rights - I am not a terrorist and free to say what I wish WHERE AND WHEN I wish!

What is the secret ? that You and I have no liberty

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