Blacklisted by the Bush government
Salon
by Tim Shorrock
05/19/08
Ever since a New York Times report uncovered warrantless domestic spying by the Bush administration, the issue of NSA surveillance and the 1978 law governing it has been intensely scrutinized and debated. Until now, however, little attention has been paid to dubious activities directly connected with the domestic spying. The Bush administration has used expanded national security powers to undermine the legal rights of people in the United States who are identified as al-Qaida supporters, but who are not charged with terrorist-related crimes. The U.S. Treasury Department and other agencies investigating domestic organizations and U.S. persons rely on the NSA to spy and collect evidence for them — a fundamental shift from the past, when the NSA’s vast eavesdropping powers were used only for foreign intelligence gathering. And in the name of protecting national security, the Bush administration has regularly withheld what it claims is key evidence against those accused — insisting, essentially, that the public accept without question its private conclusions about the suspects’ guilt...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/19/al_haramain/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+powers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Shorrock
by Tim Shorrock
05/19/08
Ever since a New York Times report uncovered warrantless domestic spying by the Bush administration, the issue of NSA surveillance and the 1978 law governing it has been intensely scrutinized and debated. Until now, however, little attention has been paid to dubious activities directly connected with the domestic spying. The Bush administration has used expanded national security powers to undermine the legal rights of people in the United States who are identified as al-Qaida supporters, but who are not charged with terrorist-related crimes. The U.S. Treasury Department and other agencies investigating domestic organizations and U.S. persons rely on the NSA to spy and collect evidence for them — a fundamental shift from the past, when the NSA’s vast eavesdropping powers were used only for foreign intelligence gathering. And in the name of protecting national security, the Bush administration has regularly withheld what it claims is key evidence against those accused — insisting, essentially, that the public accept without question its private conclusions about the suspects’ guilt...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/19/al_haramain/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+powers
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=eavesdropping
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tim+Shorrock
rudkla - 19. Mai, 09:48
