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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Cherry Picker" |
| Date: |
15 May 2006 10:51:20 AM |
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Bush's Spying On Americans |
Bush's Spying Operation Against Americans Exposed as Massive --
USA Today Reveals "Largest Database Ever Assembled in the World"
USA Today's bombshell front page story of May 11 unmasks the breadth of
Bush's
criminal violations of the law and the Constitution. "The National Security
Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of
millions of Americans," according to the USA Today of May 11. Under the
direction of President Bush the NSA program "reaches into homes and
businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of
ordinary Americans -- most of whom aren't suspected of any crimes."
The ImpeachBush.org movement is stepping up the pressure. We will follow the
USA Today groundshaking revelations with newspaper ads calling for
Impeachment. In the last week we started raising the funds to place the ad
in USA Today.
A Truly Massive Illegal Domestic Spying Program
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one source who
spoke to USA Today. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call
ever made" within the nation's borders. "For the customers of these
[telecommunication] companies, it means that the government has detailed
records of calls they made -- across town or across the country -- to family
members, co-workers, business contacts and others."
The secret database was built without court warrants or the approval of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. If Bush had "gone to Congress and
said, 'We want to do this without probable cause, without warrants and
without judicial review' it never would have been approved,'" stated Harold
Koh, Dean of Yale Law School and the author of the National Security
Constitution.
The USA Today revelation sparked outrage from members of both parties in
Congress. "Are you telling me tens of millions of Americans are involved
with al-Qaeda? These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected
of anything," stated Sen. Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont. On the
Republican side, Senate Finance Chairman, Chuck Grassley, hit at AT&T,
Verizon and the other other telecommunications companies for betraying the
trust of their customers when they secretly entered into the agreement to
cooperate with the illegal wiretapping operation. "Why are telephone
companies not protecting their customers? They have a social responsibility
....to protect their privacy," Grassley stated.
It is obvious that the politicians of both parties know that Bush and Cheney
have committed high crimes and misdemeanors but it is equally obvious that
it will only be a groundswell of public pressure from below that will make
impeachment a reality.
Bush and Nixon: The Comparison Deepens
Bush's approval rating has plummeted to 29%, a number just slightly higher
than Richard Nixon's 24% approval rating prior to his August 1974
resignation. The poll was conducted by the Wall Street Journal.
Only 24 percent of the 1,003 people asked between May 3-8 said they believed
the United States was "heading in the right direction." According to the
Journal, 69 percent said "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the
wrong track".
The impeachment of Nixon began as a grassroots movement. At first it seemed
impossible but within two years after Nixon won a landslide election, he
resigned in the face of certain impeachment.
impeachbush.org
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