Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 14
13.05.2006 Berlingske 1 selv republikanere frygter, at forfatningen er overtrådt. Nogle taler endda om,
at USA er på vej mod diktatur. Der er i hvert fald tegn på en forfatningskrise
{selv danskerne er ved at opdage det}
13.05.2006 SMH 1 Most identifying data, such as customers' names and addressees, have been
removed from the phone records provided to the Government. But the phone
numbers can easily be cross-referenced against other data to match these
personal details ... Bush said every such story "hurts our ability to defeat this
enemy". He said all NSA activities were within the law
13.05.2006 USA today 1 the gov. approached the company in the fall of 2001 seeking access to the
phone records of Qwest customers, with neither a warrant nor approval from
a special court established to handle surveillance matters. "Mr. Nacchio
concluded that these requests violated the privacy requirements of the
Telecommunications Act"
13.05.2006 BAZ 1 2 Anwälte verklagten ... Verizon auf 5 Milliarden $ ... habe gegen das
Telekommunikations-Gesetz und gegen die Verfassung verstossen, als es
Daten an den Geheimdienst NSA übermittelt habe
13.05.2006 Uruknet 1 Given George W. Bush‘s history of outright lying .. it may seem silly to dissect his
words about the new disclosure that his adm. has collected phone records of ~200
million Americans ... "We‘re not mining or trolling through the personal lives of
millions of innocent Americans," Bush said, adding "the privacy of ordinary
Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities."
13.05.2006 X 1 [Jan. 24] Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg
Brown & Root a $385 million contract to construct detention centers somewhere
in the US, to deal with "an emergency influx of immigrants into the
U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs"
13.05.2006 Seattle Times 1 The Secretary of State's Office has deleted about 55,000 registrations from
Washington's voter rolls after finding duplicate records and dead voters with
the aid of a new statewide database
13.05.2006 Wash Post 1 According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 63 % of Americans said
they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism,
incl. 44 % who strongly endorsed the effort
14.05.2006 X 1 a White House spokeswoman refused to confirm or deny that the president
had tried to halt USA Today bombshell report on the NSA collecting records
of tens of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls
14.05.2006 X 1 Blocking justice - The U.S. Gov. again invoked the "state secrets" privilege,
arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against [Tenet] for abducting and
imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of information harmful
to US national security. Once rarely used, the "state secrets" privilege has
over the past 5 years become a routine defense used by the Gov. to keep
cases from being tried
15.05.2006 X 1 The Missouri House and Senate voted to ... end Missouri‘s 12-year
experiment with controls on money in politics
15.05.2006 X 1 NSA started using their ECHELON system to track terror suspects 3 months
before 9/11.... and came up with nothing. Proof that all these wiretaps and
intercepts have nothing to do with fighting terror, or even crime, but with
keeping watch on the people by a government ever more fearful of revolution
15.05.2006 CNN 1 Verizon stock takes hit on $50 billion lawsuit - Mayer [lawsuit against Verizon]
said the information, only collected from landline subscribers, would not
provide the government any information to help national security. "The
terrorists are on the pay phones or using the prepaid phones"
15.05.2006 News.com 1 Unmanned aerial vehicles have soared the skies of Afghanistan and Iraq for
years, spotting enemy encampments, protecting military bases, and even
launching missile attacks against suspected terrorists. Now UAVs may be
landing in the US
15.05.2006 X 1 Just because a large scale mutiny among US soldiers has never occurred
does not mean one will not
16.05.2006 X 1 The Defense Dept. has failed to comply with the Chief Financial Officers Act since its
enactment in 1990 ... Pentagon has only imperfect information about what it owns,
what it has and has not paid out to contractors, how much money is being spent, and
why. Today, no reliable and verifiable system exists for kno-wing what new
equipment the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan need, who needs them, and when – or
if - the supplies will be delivered {if needed, ask Israel}