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Poll: Majority Disapprove of NSA Database

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 The vast American populace can't always be counted upon to show good sense, but in this case, at least, vox populi has gotten it right. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Feds Tracking ABC News Phone Calls in Leak Hunt

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 A "senior law enforcement official" has told ABC News that the government, in trying to root out confidential sources, is tracking the phone numbers the news organization calls Maybe we should just start calling him George "Big Brother" Bush Update: An official acknowledges its "backtracking" of journalists' phone records . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Believe the Flawed NSA-Spying Poll

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The Washington Post loaded a poll so it would appear that most Americans support the NSA's phone record collection program. Blogger Jane Hamsher did the original analysis on this sloppy poll, and Buzzflash sums it up. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Leslie Cauley

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 Truthdig salutes Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who broke the blockbuster story about the NSA's program to amass the records of every phone call made in America. Her scoop laid waste to President Bush's assertion that his domestic spying targets only a handful of suspected terrorists living in the U.S. In the wake of her story, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for congressional hearings. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Watching What You Say

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 Before the USA Today story, The Nation magazine had loads of details on the NSA-telecom spying program: a lawsuit against AT&T; links between telecom officials and the White House; and a history of how these insidious relationships developed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

N.Y. Times: Bush’s Ever-Expanding Secret

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 The Sept. 11 attacks "did not give the president the limitless power he now claims to intrude on the private communications of the American people," the N.Y. Times says in an editorial about the NSA spying story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Claims NSA Program Targets Only Al Qaeda

Staff / Truthdig May 12, 2006 The president claims that the program activities "strictly target Al Qaeda and their known affiliates," despite USA Today's claim that the NSA has pored over the records of tens of millions of Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush: Spy Program Isn’t ‘Mining’ Private Info

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 "We're not mining or trolling though the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,'' Bush says, without directly addressing the NSA program reported in USA Today. Meanwhile, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter demands that phone company executives testify before Congress about the data they provided to the NSA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bipartisan Furor Over NSA Program

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 Many Republican and Democratic lawmakers are furious over the alleged NSA phone record collection program. GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham: "The idea of collecting millions or thousands of phone numbers, how does that fit into following the enemy?" Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy: "It is our government, it's not one party's government." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Buzzflash: “Tyranny Creeps In…” at the NSA

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 "The NSA's gathering of phone call records of millions of Americans is "something that would make the late Leonid Brezhnev proud of Bush -- and [Gen.] Michael Hayden, the Pentagon apparatchik, who saw it through," Buzzflash writes in an editorial. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Gravest Assault on Privacy in U.S. History

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 Late coming to the story about the NSA's massive telephone record collection program? The Washington Post does a 360-degree report. Neither Bush nor his aides denied any facts in the original USA Today story. Senate Intel Chair Pat Roberts wants to shoot the messenger (USA Today). Bush's pick for CIA chief, Gen. Michael Hayden, oversaw this program at the NSA, a fact that guarantees fireworks at his confirmation hearing. Check out the original story. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Likely New CIA Director Misled Congress on Wiretapping

Staff / Truthdig May 7, 2006 Michael Hayden, who will probably replace outgoing CIA chief Porter Goss, told Congress in 2002 that all domestic surveillance was consistent with the FISA law--knowing full well of Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program. The Fraud and False Statements statute (18 U.S.C. 1001) makes Hayden?s misleading statements to Congress illegal, according to a Clinton-era national security official. See a Time article on Hayden's impending appointment. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )