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 Gore, ACLU and NYT Come out Swinging on SpyingPosted on Jan 17, 2006
Washington Post: Former vice president Al Gore accused President Bush of breaking the law by authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without court warrants and called on Congress yesterday to reassert its oversight responsibilities on a “shameful exercise of power” by the White House. | story or transcript
NYT: In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month. But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans. | story
NYT: Two leading civil rights groups plan to file lawsuits Tuesday against the Bush administration over its domestic spying program to determine whether the operation was used to monitor 10 defense lawyers, journalists, scholars, political activists and other Americans with ties to the Middle East. The two lawsuits, which are being filed separately by the American Civil Liberties Union in Federal District Court in Detroit and the Center for Constitutional Rights in Federal District Court in Manhattan, are the first major court challenges to the eavesdropping program. | story Previous item: The Fight for a Living Wage Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
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By johnny hempseed luddite@smokesignal.talkingdrum, January 17, 2006 at 1:27 pm #
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I have checked the diferent “news” services and found little mention of Al Gores’ speech.The print media is not much more attentive to the story ,back pages at best.Liberal media ?If anyone had doubts ,is an oxymoron.Even the BBC for obvious reasons has buried this story!
Report thispeace out j.h.
By J.W. Miller, January 17, 2006 at 12:32 pm #
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I’m still waiting for the New York Times to acknowledge that Al Gore gave a speech on Monday,let alone a speech that calls Bush a law breaker. I thought the Times was the “newspaper of record”. Not any more......
Report thisBy clifford Weinstein, January 17, 2006 at 8:11 am #
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I caught the last 10 minutes of the speech by Albert Gore, on CSPAN given 01/16/06, in Wahington, D.C.. He was great, on point and captivating. His speeches have become a pleasure to experience. I wonder if he had been awarded the 2000 election what would he have done after 09/11/2001 ?. Would the events of September 11, 2001 even have taken place? My twin brother argues they wouldn’t have occurred,I must agree.
Report thisAs terriffic,horrid, and tragic the events of the morning on September,11, 2001 were, the reality is this administration by deed and as outlined in their speeches continues to promote fear, and produce terror heapped on the people of this and other nations. A truly negative approach by Bush et al is the assursion of the right to invade the lives of the citizens of this country. His actions do not bring to mind those taken by FDR and the Congress after Pearl Harbor; rather more like those taken by a less free ,more dictatorial regime.