The Tip of the Iceberg-yet another scathing indictment of the BFEE

[babylonsister]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_john__mc_060518_the_tip_of_the_icebe.htm

President Bush is top recipient of political funds from phone companies that turned over calling records of millions of Americans. AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth gave Bush $511,955

by John McDonald

http://www.opednews.com

If there were any justice in the world, federal agents would appear at the White House and arrest President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their lackeys tomorrow morning for multiple violations of laws protecting the privacy of Americans and their rights against illegal search and seizure. But given that Bush’s attorney general Alberto Gonzales is using Nazi lawyer Carl Schmidtt as his role model, that is not likely to happen. As for me, I’d settle for even a modicum of Congressional oversight of a presidential administration that appears to be careening dangerously out of control.

On the heels of revelations of illegal wiretapping of international calls and recent reports of National Security Agency (NSA) efforts to gather the phone records of millions of Americans, journalists Brian Ross and Richard Esposito are reporting on the ABC news blog that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been monitoring their calls to confidential sources. Esposito and Ross say senior federal law enforcement official advised them to “get new cell phones, quick.” The source, they added, also told them that the cell phones of journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post among others may also be monitored.

Purportedly, the monitoring is part of an investigation into leaks to the press that resulted in stories about the secret prison programs and Bush administration monitoring of international phone calls. The reality may be that it is a chilling attempt to intimidate reporters and stifle dissent from those concerned about what may be illegal activity on the part of the President and others in his administration.

Meanwhile, the Christian Science Monitor, citing a story in National Journal's CongressDaily, says that Russell Tice, a former NSA employee is going tell Senate Armed Services Committee staffers this week that "not only do employees at the agency believe the activities they are being asked to perform are unlawful, but that what has been disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg." According to the story in the Monitor, Tice said he plans to tell the committee staffers the NSA conducted illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of US citizens.

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[katty]

1. should have been arrested years ago

[Auntie Bush]

2. And that bastard told the telecoms and many others it's OK to lie.

After all we must keep national security secrets secret.

With that thinking...they can do anything they damn well please if it's disguised as NS.

[babylonsister]

3. Yep, they've boxed us into a corner, Catch 22 time. I don't

know how we'll unsnarl ourselves.:(