Was the Bush Crime Syndicate spying on Corporations?

[leftstreet]

Bush-Cheney-Rummy have no interest in terrorism. They never have. They just used it as a means to gain power. And they don't give a shit about Democratic campaign strategies. They don't have to worry about what the other guys are doing, they use election fraud and laundered money to get in office. And what's the point of spying on journalists? Their bosses are in bed with the administration, and if they want a story killed, it gets killed.

So what's truly worthy of risking impeachment? The only thing these fuckers are interested in is M.O.N.E.Y. Global corporations have money. Buying and selling information would have to be a lucrative business. Plus, The Bush Crime Syndicate's corporate sponsors would hold them accountable to get the insider information they need. Surely multinational corporations make "offshore" communications. And just as surely no FISA court would sign a warrant to monitor communications just because the target is a Halliburton competitor.

Why else would BushCo risk so much?

If I were the CEO of any corp that's lost major contracts, failed to secure patent protection, or had any serious setbacks which I felt were due to inside information, I'd be seriously interested in just who's been spying on whom.

[C_U_L8R]

1. The ultimate form of

Insider Trading ????

Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
They spy on us. They spy on the Freeps.
They spy on congress.
They probably spy on their own families.

Money is their only god and friend.

[leftstreet]

2. Exactly!

If they had their way they'd print $ with pictures of Jesus on it and "In Money We Trust"

[kysrsoze]

8. Are you kidding? They don't need to spy. It's all given to them...

by their buddies. This is how they all operate - as one huge, greedy team.

[Zinfandel]

3. Spying on Democrats running for house, senate and prez...that's why he

can't tell (and won't, ever)...started in late 2002 and into 2004 elections...big time crime I believe.

[preciousdove]

4. Tip of the iceberg

Old stories:

Y2K 'fixers' putting spy ware in corporations.

Arthur Anderson (now Accenture )bait and switch software leaving hundreds of big corporations including Republic Airlines, 3M, U of MN, and State of MN with no software. Their legal department was bigger than their technical department and they bought off people inside with promises of great jobs.

A program developed by a private company was found to be an undetectable spy vehicle. Investigated by a branch of the Canadian mounties found to be distributed as a free utility world wide. Used by US CIA, NSA, DOD to spy on corporations.

Phone calls monitored. Emails monitored. You need crack security and then you have to pay them beaucoup $$$ and be sure that they won't accept bribes. A flock of lawyers. And in Texas money to pay off judges.

They started this in the 1980's and I don't know how they are going to function.

A corollary. How do corporations who show no consideration for workers expect to get workers who won't sell them out?

[leftstreet]

6. Good question

"How do corporations who show no consideration for workers expect to get workers who won't sell them out?"

[radio4progressives]

5. Mixed Bag of Goodies...

Info on Corporations i.e. insider trading information, mergers, patents etc, info on journalists working on a sensitive national security story, info on Democrats (absolutely) -

but then...

there's this little thing that the Bush Crime Family has been up to, that has dogged this administration in part exposed in the press and that is the matter of obtaining evidence vis a vis torture through detaines who were illegally arrested. over the past couple of years, i can't possibly cite numbers from one story to another, but the number that's been reported but received very little notice in the press, are thousands of these prisoners - many who have "disappeared" many who are still being detained in secret gulags in Europe and elsewhere.

that's my hunch. it's been a orgy of intel, running the full gammet in areas that are of interest to these fascists nazi's.

[leftstreet]

7. "Orgy of intel"

Good one. I'm gonna use that.