ACLU:
The American Civil Liberties Union responded today to a stunning new report that the NSA has effectively revived the Orwellian “Total Information Awareness” domestic-spying program that was banned by Congress in 2003. In response, the ACLU said that it was filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more information about the spying. And, the group announced that it was moving its “Surveillance Clock” one minute closer to midnight.
“Congress shut down TIA because it represented a massive and unjustified governmental intrusion into the personal lives of Americans,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU. “Now we find out that the security agencies are pushing ahead with the program anyway, despite that clear congressional prohibition. The program described by current and former intelligence officials in Monday’s Wall Street Journal could be modeled on Orwell’s Big Brother.”
The ACLU said the new report confirmed its past warnings that the NSA was engaging in extremely broad-based data mining that was violating the privacy of vast numbers of Americans.
TPM has more…
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Fristlike.
Stunning? We’re stunned by this?
as long as they aint fucking whores….its ok
Now if anybody wants to know the size of my penis all they have to do is join the NSA.
Not stunning that the White House revived anything the Congress has banned.
The clock is silly since if the governemt ever got bad enough to deserve the clocks going to 24 no one would be able to see said clock.
Weren’t we all called conspiracy thoierists for saying this was going on?
Isn’t it strange that ALL of the conspiracy thoeries keep coming true?
Sometimes I hate being right all the time.
In a related case that i was involved in back in 1991 or 1992 the group i was working with; the Community for Creative Non Violence (CCNV) won a decision against the US Marshal Service.
CCNV was operating a 1400 bed 24 hour a day homeless shelter at 425 Second Street, NW in Washington, DC.
Repeatedly at 2 AM or 3 AM they stormed the building and woke everyone up and demanded ID from every person on the working man’s floor (also known as 2 South) and compared their names to a computer list of all outstanding warrants in the District of Columbia. Besides being intrusive it also caused several men to lose their jobs.
The Judge (a Federal Judge) determined that this was unlawful and barred the US Marshals or any other Law Enforcement Agency from this type of blanket search in the entire company.
This action by the Bush Administration and the NSA violates that order as well as the United States Congress.
Like we didn’t already know all this shit has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with GOP/Chimpy’s political enemies hit list….. It’s all just a hi-tech Nixonian redux….. The only real question is whether or not anyones going to step up legally and bring it to a screeching halt… Or if that’s even possible as long as Bush/Cheney still breath…..JD
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 8:
Sorry, i meant country.
Fruedian slip.
Stunned? Not Me. Anyone?
CHRIST ON A CRACKER, IMPEACH THEM ALREADY!!!!!
Dear NSA: please focus on actual terrorism and not the political opponents of the conservative movement. Thank you for your consideration.
What bothers me is that the Democrats and the media keep giving these guys the benefit of the doubt, as if they’ll suddenly tell us the truth after lying to us repeatedly.
In anticipation of the Republican response: Will you still feel that if you haven’t done anything wrong you don’t have anything to worry about when Obama is the President and Democrats control the Justice Department. and No this was not in response to 9/11 it had been happening before 9/11 and even after congress found out and banned the practice.
Stunned? Not me. I expected it would be so. There is nothing that the criminal bush administration wouldn’t stoop to in order to carry out the new fascism.
So, everything I said back in 2003 was true. Our government was using fear and panic to justify a Stalinesque surveillance program, and start a massive fake war based on bullshit intelligence.
Fuck Bush. Fuck him and everything he stands for. Fuck his Administration. Fuck his party. And fuck all the stupid fucks who voted for him. And fuck the media who won’t talk about this. And fuck the lousy stinking pieces of slime who stumble onto this site thinking they can defend this staggering horseshit. And all the motherfuckers from the government trolling this site looking for signs of dissent — take a number. I’ll fuck you and your mommies too.
why do we even HAVE a Congress when this administration does what the fuck ever it wants, when it wants and cites executive privilege!! I am beyond pissed at Pelosi, Conyers, Reid etc what must the evil little George have on them that NSA fetched?
slippy hussein toad @ 17:
I second the motion.
I am not at all stunned. It’s why, in my poverty, I manage to scrape together $35 a year for the ACLU. I don’t think their work can be lauded too much.
Finding real terrorists? Hah. Next up, ridding World of Warcraft of the t3rr0rist threat.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
– George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)
Pol Pot-O-Cheesesauce @ 19:
I third that emotion!
Errrr, not news. I was involved in analysing TIA on behalf of public interest groups when it was in the news and when it “went away” we all knew it had just acquired black funding instead of above the line funding. But did the world listen in the meantime?
erick @ 18:
Well, your first statement is telling it like it is, yet, by the time the second statement rolls around, you forgot what you just typed.
lafin gas @ 23:
Fourth.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 4:
I support a measure [no pun intented] to forever keep that information under wraps.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 26:
Fifth
miss_kitty Hussein @ 20:
We support the ACLU and the EFF. It’s a little late to complain after the Michaels (Hayden, McConnell, Mukasey) have taken your liberties away.
Verdillac @ 27:
Me too. Thank you for your support [no pun intented].
Now can we shut the USA down…?
slippy hussein toad @ 17:
C’mon slip-Tell em how You Really feel,don’t hold back. Me,too BTW
Verdillac @ 31:
Let’s start with the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency and see where it leads us.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
– George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)
you know….the more I think about it… Remember Tommy Thompson sec of ?? saying “I don’t understand why they don’t poision our food system, it’d be so easy to do.” I will NEVER forget that… they don’t want to put labels on food to protect us, they slaughter sick animals and put it in the food chain…
also when Bush started his first term he gave us a little rebate, then 911 happened. now the end (thankfuckinggod) of his final term is up he’s giving us little rebate checks again and valla…I just wonder if our October surprise this year will be a ‘terrorist’ attack here at home or some fake Gulf of Tonkin crap over there w/Iran oy my head hurts…
*heads to frig for cold one*
Are we going to wait until Bush/Cheney declare absolute power…?
It won’t be long now till ISP’s restrict our use of the internet. Restrictions will be placed on any government disapproved information. Freedom of information will turn into restricted information and we will all be subject to paranoia, spying by our friends and neighbors and searches of our homes in the name of anti-terrorism. It’s coming, people.
more at my blog…
Wasn’t the TIA supposed to be run by Poindexter -he of Iran-Contra fame? Should have known then that this abomination wasn’t gonna die. Like everything else, the Bush regime just moved it “off the books” as the saying goes.
Verdillac @ 35:
There is some need for them to do that?
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
– George W. Bush (August 5, 2004)
Those were probably the only true words ever uttered by George Duhbya Bush.
Just popped a cold one also. I need it when I finish here. hey Verdi! That was fun over there!
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 38:
they don’t need to, but they could and might just”because they can”…do you honestly think they’re going to want to walk away from their positions of power?
Impeach now.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 38:
Declarations are for the Democrats. Those guys don’t declare shit, they just go ahead and DO.
SDB @ 24:
I went to a lecture given by Poindexter in 2004 and he admitted this unequivocally.
David Hawes @ 40:
It’s a fun I could do without…I like the was G.A.F insinuated that I beat my wife, because i eat meat…very cute…I eat *ahem* nevermind what I beat either!
Odds on the next election happening? I won’t take that bet.
ok , is some goverment agency hacking c & l , been having the same problem for the last 5 days , c & l freezes up , anyone else ? . What did I read about the gov doing a cyber-war excrise this week ah that explains alot .
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security,will not have,nor do they deserve,either one. Benjamin Franklin
David Hawes @ 46:
They are not really that stupid. They have made and will make plenty of money. Their financial losses in a civil war would be astronomical.
Ooops! I’m being ‘defeatist’,agin.
Verdillac @ 45:
Well, when you insuate someone wants to blow up a recruiting station because they aren’tfor animal cruelty you kinda ask for it don’t ya think? As they say, if you can’t stand the heat..
David N @ 47:
No, it happens to me too. Server problems and badwith problems and software problems are my sense of it.
xoites Hussein defends Constitution @ 49: