http://www.legitgov.org/ All links to articles as summarized below are available here: http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news W pushes envelope on U.S. spying --[color=#ff0000]Bush signing statement allows U.S. to open mail without warrant[/color] 04 Jan 2007 President [sic] Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers [again] to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned. Bush asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions. That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it. Bush: Government Can Open Your Mail 04 Jan 2007 President [sic] Bush says he and other government officials have the power to snoop through your mail without a judge's warrant. Bush made the claim last month in a signing statement attached to a postal reform bill. Prez makes yet another 'statement' 04 Jan 2007 President [sic] Bush has issued more than 130 signing statements after etching his signature on a bill to make it law. Bush's statements have challenged [color=#ff0000]more than 800 statutes[/color], by some counts. The most infamous was the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act sponsored by presidential hopeful and ex-POW Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The bill's intent was to outlaw torture of detainees, but Bush's signing statement was seen as simultaneously nullifying it by claiming commander in chief powers to interrogate [torture] terror suspects. 20,000 mall security guards to receive anti-terrorism training 03 Jan 2007 Starting this month, malls across the country will begin training guards to 'fight terrorism.' The 14-hour program is being developed by the International Council of Shopping Centers, a trade group, and the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University at a cost of $2 million. [color=#ff0000]Second U.S. carrier group to deploy to Gulf: sources[/color] 03 Jan 2007 The Pentagon will send a second aircraft carrier and its escort ships to the Gulf, defense officials said on Wednesday, as a warning to Syria and Iran and to give commanders more flexibility in the region. Old guard back on Iraq policy --An influential faction of neoconservatives is behind Bush's expected call for more troops. 04 Jan 2007 Ever since Iraq began spiraling toward chaos, the war's intellectual architects — the so-called neoconservatives — have found themselves under attack in Washington policy salons and, more important, within the Bush administration. A small but increasingly influential group of neocons are again helping steer Iraq policy. Bush Could Send Up to 40,000 More Troops to Iraq 04 Jan 2007 President [sic] Bush could be adding up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to the current 132,000 U.S. troops already stationed in Iraq, but the final figure has not yet been disclosed. Rehnquist FBI File Sheds New Light on Drug Dependence, Confirmation Battles 04 Jan 2007 The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's Senate confirmation battles in 1971 and 1986 were more intense and political than previously known, according to a newly released FBI file that also offers dramatic new details about Rehnquist's 1981 hospitalization and dependence on a painkiller. The FBI file on Rehnquist, released last week under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals that in 1971, as Rehnquist's confirmation hearings for associate justice approached, the Nixon Justice Department asked the FBI to run a criminal background check on at least two potential witnesses who were expected to testify against Rehnquist. Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover approved the request. [color=#ff0000]U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting[/color] --The commission acted last summer, but the problem was not disclosed then. 04 Jan 2007 A laboratory that has tested most of the nation’s electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests. Electronic voting led to errors, report says [Not to mention, the 2000 and 2004 GOP coup d'etats] --Malfunctioning machines and late poll openings among complaints 03 Jan 2007 Electronic voting machines meant to streamline the Election Day process have resulted in late poll openings, data-retrieval errors and widespread machine failures, according to a new report about last year's midterm election. Missing votes in Ohio call races into question 03 Jan 2007 By Bob Fitrakis While Democratic Party supporters celebrate their success in Ohio, where their statewide candidates won four out of five executive offices and they now control both the U.S. House and Senate, they are ignoring massive and verifiable irregularities in the 2006 election. FEMA: Calif. Levees Worse Than Thought 03 Jan 2007 A fast-growing region near the state capital is at greater risk of a potentially catastrophic flood than originally believed, and [b]insurance rates could double for some residents[/b], the government said Wednesday. Temperatures 20 degrees higher than normal in parts of US --New York City saw a November and December without snow for the first time since 1877. 03 Jan 2007 Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January. 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So, they are just getting a little more honest about it, 'cause they always did whatever they wanted anyhow. It's just that now they are making it official.
If the new congress doesn't put the brakes on this bastard, they will be held accountable. They made promises of oversight, I for one will not turn a blind eye if they shirk their duty.
a secret is something not even a government can keep. anyone who immagines otherwise, at any time, under any circumstance, is deceiving themselves. what is of concern, is inaccurate conclusions drawn from otherwise intended to be private and personal communications, and singularly inappropriate actions taken on the basis of such conclusions =^^= .../\...
