It seems so rare to find anyone of integrity and purpose among the ruling elite of our nation today. We have become a democratic state of cynics, ruled by cynics. We see ulterior motives in every action, every vote, and every speech. The result of this cynicism is that our representatives, our nation’s leaders, believe [...]
Yesterday, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell offered some enlightening and frightening testimony before the judiciary committee. McConnell testified to what a number of us have been for years:
[the] Director of National Intelligence acknowledged that the terror attacks of Sept. 11, which he invoked to justify expanding US spy powers, “could have been prevented” [...]
Earlier this week, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell gave a lengthy and somewhat duplicitous interview with the El Paso Times. Mr. McConnell made available a number of interesting assertions and revelations. For instance, this is the first time a government official acknowledged that private firms (such as AT&T and Verizon) had been aiding the intelligence [...]
Carol, my intrepid wife, stenciled the above image on the front of our coffeehouse last week in protest of the Protect America Act of 2007. Of course the more we actually learn about the act the worse it seems. It has now become apparent that expiration date of the act is not the six months, [...]
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed S.1927 – The Protect America Act. The act passed early Saturday morning by the Senate gives the president unfettered power to surveil any person, or persons, within the United States as long as he ‘believes’ that his is also surveilling someone outside the country as well. The [...]
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This evening, the Democrat controlled Senate voted to give Mr. Bush unprecedented powers of surveillance. In a vote of 60-28 — in the middle of the night — they decided to cave in to the fear that this administration has bullied the American people with for the past six years. As [...]
