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Has AT&T Sent Out the Most Ironic Mailer Ever?

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2006 You won't believe the envelope that the phone company has apparently been sending out. If it's not a hoax, the irony is so thick that not even an NSA eavesdropper could penetrate it. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Forever Pregnant

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 Salon writer Rebecca Traister sounds off on new "Orwellian" federal guidelines that treat all women as pre-pregnant--regardless of whether or not they plan on being so any time soon. "Healthcare authorities," she writes, are "letting you know why your health as a woman really matters"--i.e. as baby incubators. Salon link (reg. req'd) Washington Post story Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

BellSouth: We Didn’t Give Data to NSA

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2006 The phone company says that, despite the claims made in the USA Today story, it never provided phone records to the NSA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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 )