More Zazi Justifications for PATRIOT
Another article obediently tying the Zazi investigation to the PATRIOT reauthorization.
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Another article obediently tying the Zazi investigation to the PATRIOT reauthorization.
Less than a week after the WaPo instituted a new Twitter policy, I’m convinced the new policy has completely protected the rag’s credibility.
To be fair to Obama, his statement at the NCTC focused more on unity of mission than it did on pushing through PATRIOT (as I had feared).
And I think Obama is absolutely justified in thanking the NCTC for the work it has done recently to break up Zazi’s alleged attack.
The Obama Administration boasts that it did not have a big press conference to announce the arrest of Najibullah Zazi. But it does so in one article of several designed to boast of Obama’s approach to terrorism.
I guess I’m not the only one who noticed that DOJ is trying to reauthorize Section 215 without leveling with the American people how they’re using it. John Conyer, Jerrold Nadler, and Bobby Scott have written Eric Holder, requesting that he make more information on the way Section 215 is used public.
How did it happen that, after the entire Senate Judiciary Committee approved limits on Section 215 during the 2005 PATRIOT authorization, the section was blown open during the conference report, effectively allowing the use of Section 215 in data mining?
Did Susan Crawford admit the government had tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani because she knew there were tapes that might come out?
Dina Temple-Raston has a great description of the various techniques the FBI used to catch Zazi before he set off any bombs.
The discussion in Thursday’s hearing on the PATRIOT Act pertaining to ongoing investigations.
The case against convicted Lockerbie/Pan Am 103 bombing suspect Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was always thin, at best. Now there is evidence of a concealed collusion of the Scottish Crown prosecution team and US authorities to effectively buy Shopkeeper Gauci’s testimony against Megrahi.