Bush NSA Spied on EVERYBODY, Including US Journalists
January 21st, 2009We’ve been reporting on this scandal for three and a half years with multiple posts in our extensive archives, in too many posts to back link to them all right now,, although you can get a taste by clicking on the Tags and Categories links below. The Bush National Security Agency was collecting all phone calls, e-mail messages, Web browsing histories and other data on EVERYBODY, not just people on domestic soil contacting suspected terrorists overseas.
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This includes environmental groups, journalists, bloggers and anyone who disagreed with Bush for ANY reason. Now that Bush has gone back to the ranch in Texas and Obama has taken the reins of the U.S. government, more sources may come out of the wood work to confirm this — like this former spy who engaged in the illegal surveillance and was fired when he objected to it on constitutional grounds.
We can’t wait to get even deeper in this list to find out what the Bush administration tried to find out about us, our sources on the Siegelman investigation, including Rainsville attorney Jill Simpson, and other non-profit groups we have promoted and linked to on this alternative independent Web Press.
Maybe there will be a class action lawsuit before it’s all over for massive violations of our constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment. Where do we sign up!
The mainstream, corporate news media in this country largely ignored this story. There were some wire stories only after The New York Times broke one piece of it in 2005 — after holding the story for at least a year. They knew about it before the 2004 election and did not report it. I tried to get the editors of the national desk of the Times to let me investigate this before the election. They refused.
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January 21st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I expect a whole lot more people coming out regarding Bush Admin abuses now that they are out of power. If you include the fact that one of the first things Obama did was lower the barrier to getting information out of the government, I expect that there will be a whole lot more that we will be learning.
The big question is…. does the new Justice Department have the will to actually enforce the law when Republicans break it. I am still of the opinion that the reason that we had to endure these abuses this time is because Democratic Administrations consistently failed to enforce the law from past abuses in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. So when these Nixon/ Reagan staffers come back, they always push the limit a little further….
January 21st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Check the news page for more on this. Scott Horton has a few posts under Editorials, Columns and Blog Posts of Note.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Bottom line, the Bush administration did everything possible to tear up the Bill of Rights. Fortunately, there were enough voices raised crying “foul,” and enough federal judges with intestinal fortitude, to put a monkey wrench in those plans to a significant degree.
The founders never envisioned the federal government spying on its own citizens, and they certainly had a healthy aversion to unbridled executive power following their experience with King George and his minions. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were their response, writing into our most basic law certain “unalienable rights” which no one, no matter their position, can violate.
With a constitutional lawyer now in the Oval Office, one who says he understands, respects and will again implement the protections of the Bill of Rights, we can rest a little easier. We will rest even better when the authoritarian abuses of the late administration are brought fully into public view and those responsible, whenever possible, prosecuted.
The Bill of Rights is not a Bill of Suggestions. It’s a constitutional, ironclad guarantee of naturally inherent human rights. Any who knowingly try to eviscerate it are truly “un-American” in the most fundamental sense.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
On the issue of specific targeting of some groups Mr. Tice mentioned journalist as one group. Based on that, I would bet a weeks salary that another group was the US Congress, which could be one reason that “impeachment was off the table”. Not that I think the Bush administration would stoop to blackmail – yeah, and bears never poop in the woods.
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
This was just another example of the childlike will of the imposter-in-chief to intimidate everyday Americans away from expressing dissent, and to harass those who would expose his malfeasances. The conservatives believe in sabotage of the government so the private enterprises can profit more. Preventing adequate journalism prevents adequate public discourse and that leads to enhanced profitability for Vice-President Cheney, the war profiteering industry and the oil industry. Boo!
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It was more than that. I was a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights and a criminal conspiracy. See the latest post on it…
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