Verizon Hit By Two Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuits

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The telecom giant faces two suits--one for $20 billion, another for $5 billion--for handing over customers' phone records to the NSA. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Wag the Dog?

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2006 President Bush will deliver a rare (for him) television address, a Monday night talk on immigration reform. Is it too cynical to ask whether he's wagging the dog to distract attention from the NSA phone record issue? Is it possible to be too cynical about Bush's motives? Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

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 )

Sen. Leahy Smacks Gonzales Around in Video

Blair Golson / Truthdig Feb 10, 2006 Leahy, exasperated at Alberto Gonzales' refusal to answer questions about Bush's spying program, lets rip a Jon Stewart-quality zinger: "Of course, Mr. Attorney General, I forgot. You can't answer any questions that might be relevant to this." | video Dig deeper

Republican Who Oversees NSA Calls for Wiretap Inquiry

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) breaks with the White House and calls for a full congressional inquiry into Bush's spy program. | storyThe dam hasn't just cracked--it's gushing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hypocrisy on Display at King’s Funeral?

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Bush attends the services of Coretta Scott King while simultaneously pressing on with a warrantless spying program | storyForty years ago, the FBI used illegal wiretaps in an attempt to blackmail King's husband | Truthdig filesPlus a change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran To Resume Nuclear Fuel Tests

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 U.N. warns that world is running out of patience with Tehran | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran’s Nuclear Team Cancels U.N. Meeting

Staff / Truthdig Jan 6, 2006 No excuse given, Iranian team leader reportedly heads back to Tehran. | more Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )