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Administration Defense of Domestic Spying Dominates Debate

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New York Times: Bush Presses On in Legal Defense for Wiretapping

  • “Despite the administration’s arguments, many legal scholars — both conservatives and liberals — say they remain skeptical about Mr. Bush’s assertion that the Constitution and a September 2001 authorization to use military force provided legal justification for wiretapping phone calls and e-mail messages on American soil without a warrant.”

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  • A Legal Defense of Russell Tice, the Whistleblower who Revealed the President’s Authorization of NSA’s Warrantless Domestic Wiretapping
  • Washington Post via MSNBC, Eavesdropping bill was abandoned in 2003 – Critics say revelation undermines Bush’s claim that spy program is legal
  • AP: Q&A on Domestic Spying Program
  • Postings on domestic surveillance

    • Pentagon Roadmap to Propaganda Report Obtained Under FOIA

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    National Security Archive: “A secret Pentagon “roadmap: on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for “boundaries” between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not “targeted,” any leakage of… Continue Reading

    Judiciary Cmte. Democrats Request Docs. on Domestic Surveillance Prior to Hearing

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    Press release: “The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking information relating to the Bush Administration’s domestic spying program in preparation for the panel’s Feb. 6 hearing on the program’s legality. The senators are seeking documents and correspondence from the days immediately following the Sept.… Continue Reading

    Analysis of Abramoff Money Trail Traces Majority of Contributions to One Party

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    Daily Prospect: “A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoff’s tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm, shows that a great majority of contributions made by those clients went to Republicans. The analysis undercuts the claim that Abramoff directed sums to Democrats at anywhere near the same rate.” [via… Continue Reading