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- Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Wow that the government now has the ability to detect radiation in a cat inside a car going by at 70 miles per hour. And wow at this world we live in, where we feel compelled to sniff, at random, inside the traffic coming out of Bellingham. What else is the government watching? Is it all too much?
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- American Civil Liberties Union : Supreme Court Refuses To Review Warrantless Wiretapping Case
  Posted by okami from ACLU
  The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to review a legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program
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- White House, Cheney's Office Subpoenaed
  Posted by Billbar from ABC News
  The Senate subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, demanding documents and elevating the confrontation with President Bush over the administration's warrant-free eavesdropping on Americans.
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- Government appeals wiretapping decision
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The Bush administration on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling this summer that a controversial post-September 11, 2001, domestic spying program was illegal. In its appeal, the government whined that the federal judge's ruling "dismantles a tool that already has helped detect and disrupt al Qaeda plots." It stated that U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's decision directly conflicts with the Supreme Court's direction to "proceed with great caution in resolving challenges in this extraordinarily sensitive context."
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- Court temporarily OKs domestic spying
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  The Bush administration can continue its warrantless surveillance program while it appeals a judge's ruling that the program is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave little explanation for the decision. In the three-paragraph ruling, judges said that they balanced the likelihood an appeal would succeed, the potential damage to both sides and the public interest. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit ruled Aug. 17 that the program was unconstitutional because it violates the rights to free speech and privacy and the separation of powers in the Constitution.
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- Deal Likely on Detainees but Not on Wiretapping
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Lawmakers in both the House and Senate said it now appeared doubtful that bills covering the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program could pass both houses and be reconciled before Congress adjourns this weekend, an outcome that would deny Republicans one of the main achievements they hoped to take into the election. “We would like to, but I think that might be a stretch,” said Representative John A. Boehner, the House majority leader, about getting a final agreement.
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- Arlen Specter is lying about his own bill -- again
  Posted by Billbar from Glenn Greenwald
  Specter is talking from both sides of his mouth again, this time about his FISA bill, denying that it gives BushCo officials "blanket amnesty" -- by retroactively legalizing warrantless eavesdropping going back to 1978. It does.
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Jeff comments on:
Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5

Personally, I’m glad to hear the U.S. is deploying (and has the capability) these devices. I’m skeptical of the casual anecdote that this agent shared at a community meeting.
I would like the government to be more forthcoming about their domestic spying – at the very least with Congress – so we can have the appropriate Constitutional checks and balances.

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2:19 pm 3/24/08
Billbar comments on:
Deal Likely on Detainees but Not on Wiretapping

So the Senate looks to be OK with torture, but not eavesdropping on electronic communications. Corporate interests are involved with the latter; humanity with the former.

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9:51 am 9/27/06
Billbar comments on:
Judge orders halt to warrantless spying program
Read early analysis here: http://www.newscloud.com/read/72739/
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11:48 am 8/17/06
Jeff comments on:
House votes to condemn NYT
the 98% stat is scary.
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7:03 pm 7/01/06
Damianmann comments on:
House votes to condemn NYT
The problem isn't just Diebold. It's the way the whole system is set up so that 98% of House reps are guaranteed to stay in office . But, you Diebold is a major issue. To me, it's the one that threatens democracy the most
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2:24 pm 7/01/06
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
House votes to condemn NYT
ya they are down up to 40% there on website visits.. but as we know diebold has their back there is no other way these cronies would be in there now.
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1:44 am 7/01/06
Damianmann comments on:
House votes to condemn NYT
These people aren't in the right country. They should move to North Korea or China
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6:02 pm 6/30/06

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