Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

08.05.2006 Huffington
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What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 13
1 Career appointees at the Dept. of Agriculture were stunned last week to
receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush adm. "talking points" -- saying
things such as "President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq" -- in
every speech they give for the department
09.05.2006 Wash Post 1 The President's nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to be CIA director ... Donald
Rumsfeld winning the final battle over who will control US intelligence
09.05.2006 X 1 After decades of upgrades to a fleet of notoriously cramped Sikorsky VH-3
Sea Kings, the White House has tasked Lockheed Martin with a dramatic,
$6.1-billion makeover of Marine One, the presidential helicopter
10.05.2006 Reuters 1 Diebold Inc. .. said staff at the US Securities and Exchange Commission
have begun an informal inquiry into how the company recognizes revenue
10.05.2006 Yahoo 1 [acting president] Bush suggested that he'd like to see his family's White
House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb ... Jeb Bush
[53] has repeatedly said he is not going to run in 2008
10.05.2006 Raw Story 1 The gov. has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping
program because the NSA refused to grant Justice Dept. lawyers the
necessary security clearance to probe the matter {accused blocks justice}
11.05.2006 Berlingske 1 Millioner af amerikanere får hemmeligt registreret telefonopkald - NSA er i
gang med at opbygge verdens største database
11.05.2006 USA today 1 Responding quickly to a USA TODAY report that his adm. has collected
information on tens of millions of domestic phone calls, Bush said everything
the NSA has done is legal, protects the privacy of Americans and helps guard
the nation against terrorist attacks ... NSA's efforts "strictly target al-Qaeda
and their known affiliates."
11.05.2006 X 1 Former AT&T technician Mark Klein has come forward to support the EFF's
lawsuit against AT&T for its alleged complicity in the NSA's electronic
surveillance. Here, Wired News publishes Klein's public statement in its
entirety
11.05.2006 ABC 1 Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the NSA, is now a whistleblower the agency would
like to keep quiet ... the number of Americans subject to eavesdropping by the NSA
could be in the millions if the full range of secret NSA programs is used ... he was a
source for the Times' reporters ... The NSA revoked Tice's security clearance .. called
psychological concerns and later dismissed him. Tice .. says that's the way the NSA
deals with .. whistleblowers
12.05.2006 Pravda 1 George W. Bush has a crowd of skeletons in his closet
12.05.2006 WRH 1 ECHELON
12.05.2006 X 1 Qwest Communications was the only major telecommunications company to
refuse a NSA request to secretly turn over phone records of Americans
12.05.2006 NY Times 1 The telecommunications company Qwest turned down requests by the
National Security Agency for private telephone records because it concluded
that doing so would violate federal privacy laws
12.05.2006 LA Times 1 Latest NSA revelations show that the White House can't be trusted to draw
the line on liberties
12.05.2006 USA today 1 The government is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Ameri-cans ...
It means that your phone company (if you are a customer of AT&T, BellSouth or
Verizon) tossed your privacy to the wind and collaborated with this extraordinary
intrusion ... The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requires a court order to
gather a person's current phone records. A 1934 law requires phone companies to
protect customers' privacy. And the Fourth Amendment forbids "unreasonable
searches and seizures."
12.05.2006 X 1 Tom Mustric ... was talking to another teacher in the lunchroom and said that
he believes that there may have been US Government involvement.
Apparently, the other teacher told this to the Principal of the school [who
wants] him fired (He is already on a blacklist of sorts, where other schools in
12.05.2006 Huffington
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his district are advised not to call on him for work)
1 NSA staffer Russell Tice will testify .. 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 ... former
NSA head Gen. Michael Hayden .. oversaw more illegal activity that has yet
to be disclosed
12.05.2006 News.com 1 Patriot Act's amendments authorize that type of easily obtainable surveillance
of e-mail. All that's required is that prosecutors claim the surveillance could
conceivably be "relevant" to an investigation