"Appeals court puts CIA case on hold" by Associated Press | September 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - In the suit, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent asserts that the CIA illegally wiretapped his home when stationed in Yangon, Myanmar in 1993. The agent, Richard Horn, said he became suspicious when he returned from a trip to find his government-issued rectangular coffee table had been replaced with a round one.
Is the CIA really that stoo-pid?
Related: Get Your Yettaws Out
Yeah, I guess they are.
The case has been a test of the Obama administration’s use of the so-called state secrets privilege, when the government seeks to block legal action by saying the details that would be revealed would harm national security. Administration officials have pledged to review all state secrets claims made by the previous Bush administration, but in many cases the government is still asserting the need to prevent disclosures that it says would harm national security.
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"Justice Dept. reconsiders state secrecy" by Associated Press | September 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department will continue Bush administration attempts to block certain lawsuits by maintaining that they threaten state secrets, but the agency announced yesterday that it will try to curb the use of such practices in the future....
During the Bush administration, the so-called state secrets privilege was invoked to quash lawsuits filed by people who said they had been tortured or illegally wiretapped....
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Of course, you can always trust the CIA, right?
"CIA misled court, US judge decides" by Associated Press | July 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against an eavesdropping lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled. He is considering sanctioning as many as six people who have worked at the agency, including a former CIA director, George Tenet....
The judge also criticized the CIA’s current director, Leon Panetta, saying he’s given conflicting accounts about what should be revealed. The lawsuit was brought by a former Drug Enforcement Agency agent, Richard Horn, who says his home in Burma was illegally wiretapped by the CIA in 1993. He says Arthur Brown, former CIA station chief in Burma, and Franklin Huddle Jr., chief of mission at the US Embassy in Burma, were trying to get him relocated. The agency has not said whether it monitored Horn, but Horn claims he was monitored unconstitutionally.
Horn must have stumbled upon a CIA drug-running operation.
Tenet in 2000 asked that the case against Brown be dismissed because his identity was a state secret. Lamberth threw out the case in 2004 but found out last year that Brown’s cover had been lifted in 2002. He decided the CIA intentionally misled the court and revived the case.
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And that is ONE OF THEIR OWN, readers. Not rabble like me and you.
"Judge tosses wiretapping cases" by Associated Press | June 4, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge yesterday tossed out more than three dozen lawsuits filed against the nation's telecommunications companies for allegedly taking part in a government e-mail and telephone eavesdropping program that was done without court approval.
In addition, he ordered officials in Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, and Missouri to halt investigations of the telecommunications companies for their alleged participation in the surveillance. US District Judge Vaughn Walker deferred a decision on whether to sanction the government for refusing to turn over a secret document in one of the few cases still pending.
The dismissals were widely expected after Congress in July agreed on new surveillance rules that included protection from legal liability for telecommunications companies that allegedly helped the United States spy on Americans without warrants during the Bush administration. Walker upheld the constitutionality of the new surveillance rules yesterday. Lawyers for the telecom customers said they would appeal.
Thanks for bending over for Bush, DemocraPs.
And how can he uphold its constitutionality?
Article I, Section 9: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
I guess the judge hasn't read the Constitution, huh?
Also yesterday, Walker deferred a decision on the government's continued refusal to turn over an apparent log of calls that the US-based arm of an Islamic charity says shows it was the subject of warrantless wiretaps.
Related: Hamas' Holy Land "Terrorists"
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"US district judge rejects challenge to overseas wiretap law" by associated press | August 21, 2009
NEW YORK - A judge rejected a challenge to a law letting the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations yesterday, saying fears by Americans that their conversations will be monitored and their rights violated were “purely subjective.’’
Yup, you CAN'T TURN to the COURTS in AmeriKa!
US District Judge John Koeltl ruled that the latest version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could not be challenged by attorneys, journalists, and human rights organizations unless they could show that their own communications had been affected.
So why do you guys roll over for government all the time? Oh.
The law, amended last year, authorizes surveillance of telephone conversations and e-mail exchanges involving non-US citizens overseas to acquire foreign intelligence information.
You think it is just foreign and non-citizen? Do you?
The law was challenged by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a group of international criminal defense lawyers, among others. The plaintiffs said their work causes them to speak with people and organizations they believe are possible surveillance targets under the law.
Related: New York Times Admits Bush Administration Spying Began in December of 2000... BEFORE TAKING OFFICE!
Bush's Wiretapping Began BEFORE 9/11!!
The New York Times Tool
U.S. Illegally Spied on NGO's, Targeted Reporters
The U.S. Government is Reading Your E-Mail, AmeriKa!
I'd say they have good reason to be concerned.
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Hey fascistas, can you hear this?
The FBI's Political Prisoner
"American Indian activist denied parole" by ASSOCIATED PRESS | August 22, 2009
BISMARCK, N.D. - American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole after authorities decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.
A crime he DID NOT COMMIT!
Peltier, who asserts that the FBI framed him, will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, when he will be 79 years old. He is serving two life sentences for the execution-style deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a June 26, 1975, standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in Fargo, N.D., in 1977. He has unsuccessfully appealed his conviction numerous times and was denied parole in 1993.
“Leonard Peltier is an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer who executed FBI special agents Williams and Coler, and in doing that he tore them from their families and from their communities forever,’’ US Attorney Drew Wrigley said. “Leonard Peltier is exactly where he belongs.’’
Angry defense lawyer Eric Seitz declined to comment yesterday, saying the Parole Commission had not had the “courtesy’’ to inform him of the decision. “We’ve heard nothing,’’ he said. Seitz said earlier that the 64-year-old Peltier is in poor health, with diabetes, high blood pressure, a jaw problem, and a urinary system ailment.
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Related:
"All three witnesses against Peltier have recanted and claimed that the FBI coerced their testimony. Peltier is the victim of an FBI frame-up, which explains the intensity of the FBI's interest in keeping him locked up as a potential public embarrassment. The historical fact is that the FBI does indeed frame innocent people and send them to jail." -- Wake the Flock Up
FBI Frame Jobs Go Way Back
First WTC attack
Fort Dix Frame-Up Works
Oklahoma City (about 16 minutes in, run time 30 mins)
Waco
False-Flag Friday: FBI False-Flag Foiled
A MORE than DISTURBING PATTERN, 'eh?
"No charges against Justice ex-official" by Associated Press | September 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder has decided not to bring any criminal charges against a former Bush administration official who lawmakers said lied to them in sworn testimony....
Holder found the alleged conduct of Schlozman disturbing, but ultimately chose to defer to the prosecutors’ original decision not to bring charges....
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Related: No Outrage Over Rove
All that DemocraP bluster all those years for what? Nuthin'!!!!!!
Bodega Baggie Bust
"Lawsuits accuse police of staging raids" by Associated Press | September 12, 2009
PHILADELPHIA - City police officers working for an elite antidrug unit regularly robbed and harassed bodega owners during sham raids, civil rights lawyers assert in several federal lawsuits against the officers and the city.
The lawsuits accuse brothers Jeffrey and Richard Cujdik and other drug squad members of disabling security cameras before stealing cash, cigarettes, and other merchandise from the mostly immigrant shopkeepers.
A seven-minute security video of a Sept. 11, 2007, raid at the store of one plaintiff, Jose Duran, shows police handcuffing Duran and two customers, milling by the cash register and using a knife to slash a cord on the video camera. Officers later seized the video equipment and searched Duran’s vehicle, but had no legal right to do so, Duran’s attorney said.
The Cujdiks and two colleagues have been on desk duty since the accusations surfaced this year in a series of Philadelphia Daily News articles. The FBI and the department’s Internal Affairs division are investigating....
The search warrants often focused on the sale of small plastic bags allegedly used to package drugs - the “drug paraphernelia’’ at the heart of many of the bodega raids.
Or a SANDWICH WRAPPER!
How about OUTLAWING PLASTIC SANDWICH BAGS then!?
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Yeah, it's time to DECRIMINALIZE and LEGALIZE WEED, folks!
Maybe those cameras are a good thing:
"Use of police cameras will be curtailed
Police cameras will operate only at night in Brookline. The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday to limit the hours from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. The dozen cameras, located at busy Brookline intersections, have been operating around the clock, to the chagrin of many Town Meeting members, who passed a resolution in June asking officials to halt the program.
Related: Brookline Pulls Plug on Photo Fascism
Nancy Daly, chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen, had previously opposed the cameras as intrusive, but she reconsidered after an August abduction and rape in Coolidge Corner in which camera footage of a suspect vehicle helped police make several arrests.
Isn't that an interesting coincidence, cui bono?
See: When the Tools of Tyranny Work
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And when all else fails, blame the MSM.
Nothing like a GOOD REWRITE and UPDATE!!!
"Coast Guard drill sets off 9/11 scare; CNN, Fox News mistake mars ceremony" by Calvin Woodward and Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press | September 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - A routine Coast Guard training exercise caught the attention of television crews on the Sept. 11 anniversary yesterday, producing an hourlong scare about gunfire from boats on the Potomac River not far from President Obama’s motorcade.
Coast Guard officials soon determined that a transmission about mock hostilities on an open marine channel shortly after 9:30 a.m. had touched off the blaze of worldwide news coverage....
Yeah, what a MEMORY-JOGGING COINCIDENCE, huh?
White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, later suggested that the fault for the uproar lay with the news media. “My only caution would be that before we report things like this, checking would be good,’’ Gibbs told reporters at the White House.
Except when the government hands you the scripts, like on 9/11.
But CNN, which was first to report trouble on the river, defended its conduct, saying it had been obligated to report marine radio transmissions that appeared to describe gunfire. “Given the circumstances, it would have been irresponsible not to report on what we were hearing and seeing,’’ the network said in a statement....
Irresponsibility seems to be a common trait amongst the AmeriKan MSM these days.
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