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Monday, January 9, 2006 |
PrivacyDigest: "Now we learn that, according to the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the NSA has gained access to major telecommunications switches inside the US, giving it essentially unchecked access not only to international communications but to purely domestic emails and phone calls as well.
The White House has now admitted that it authorized the NSA to bypass the few checks and balances remaining after PATRIOT. What good is legislative reform if the Administration considers itself above the law?"
The Bush administration is breaching the Constitution. They are a gang of criminals, war criminals at that.
11:30:31 AM 
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WorkingForChange: "In case you thought the Bush administration's dangerous, and national-security-weakening unilateralism was just a one-time deal in Iraq, think again. Buried in the UK's Financial Times - and as far as I can tell, not reported anywhere else - are the details of a State Department briefing this week in which the Bush administration very publicly said it is essentially scrapping U.S. support for NATO and the United Nations. No joke.
Here's the key excerpt:
'The Bush administration says it wants to be able to form 'coalitions of the willing' more efficiently for dealing with future conflicts rather than turning to existing but unreliable institutional alliances such as Nato. 'We ad hoc our way through coalitions of the willing. That's the future,' a senior State Department official said in a briefing this week.'"
11:20:18 AM
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N24: Switzerland has proof of the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe. 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens were interrogated at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base near Constanza in Rumania. More 'interrogation centres' exist in the Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
11:15:42 AM
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DNA: "A leading British Army officer believes Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for his role in the war in Iraq, the Mail on Sunday reported.
General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, was quoted by the right-of-centre Mail on Sunday as saying: 'I think the politicians should be held to account ... my view is that Blair should be impeached.'
'That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject of taking a country into war,' he added. A high-profile resignation of a senior armed forces officer before the start of the March 2003 conflict may also have made the British government think twice before sending troops to the Gulf, he added. 'I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds,' he stated."
11:02:22 AM
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