Entries by emptywheel

FISA: Grill the Executives

Threat Level posts an interview they did with Russell Tice three years ago. In it, he suggests we subpoena the corporate executives involved in the illegal wiretap program to find out how our government spied on us.

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Alberto Gonzales Tells the Tale We've Been Waiting For

Neither and or I, and obviously, I can’t really speak for Andy, but I’m confortable saying that neither Andy or I would have gone there to take advantage of someone who was sick. Um, Andy and I both, in fact, talked about the importance of satisfying ourselves as we talked with General Ashcroft that he was in fact competent.

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Jay Rockefeller Told Us What Russell Tice Just Confirmed, Years Ago

Russell Tice basically confirmed, once again, our suspicions: that the warrantless wiretap program was basically the government operating TIA under a new name. Strangely enough, Jello Jay Rockefeller (of all people) already told us that–and he told Dick Cheney too. Maybe that’s why Jello Jay was acting so squirrely about the program the other night.

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Change Pixie Dust We Can Believe In

Man oh man, Greg Craig is not doing Obama any favors as White House Counsel. In this installment, he apparently told (probably) Senator Whitehouse or Feingold that he believes in Pixie Dust.

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al-Haramain: the Dead-Enders Misrepresent Their Appeal to Dismiss the Need to Wait for Obama

To dismiss the concern that Obama has not yet weighed in on the al-Haramain case, the dead-enders asking for an appeal claim that that appeal has nothing to do with issues that Dawn Johnsen and Eric Holder have raised about the warrantless wiretap program. But to do so, they misrepresent both their appeal and Judge Walker’s order.

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