ATTENTION !!! # HOUSE VOTES TODAY to LEGALIZE WARRANTLESS WIRETAPS # Update

As always.....great post!

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Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
By David Kravets
08.07.12

The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program.

“This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts to hold the executive branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization,” a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. (.pdf)

The case concerned a lower court decision in which two American attorneys — who were working with the now-defunct al-Haramain Islamic Foundation — were awarded more than $20,000 each in damages and their lawyers $2.5 million in legal fees after a tortured legal battle where they proved they were spied on without warrants.

They sued under domestic spying laws Congress adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The government appealed their victory, and the appeals court Tuesday dismissed the suit and the damages.

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Police State Spying and the Criminalization of Justice in America
by Tom Burghardt
August 26, 2012


Another Day, Another Shameful Ruling on Police State Spying
Recently, federal district court Judge Cormac J. Carney of the Central District of California, dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on grounds of bogus "state secrets privilege" claims made by the Obama administration.

That suit, Fazaga v. FBI, was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The plaintiffs forcefully argued that the Bureau illegally spied on Muslim residents in southern California, targeting them for "special handling" solely on the basis of their religious beliefs.

The atrocity played out in Carney's court against a citizens' right to due process under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, constitutional guarantees that extend to all government actions and proceedings that can result in harm to an individual either civilly or criminally, is only the latest in a long line of capitulatory rulings by a diminished Judicial Branch.

Under Bush, and now Obama, the Justice Department demanded that Fazaga be thrown out on the most specious grounds: that presidential authority in all matters relating to national security cannot be challenged by those who are the victims of predatory actions, regardless of their egregious nature, by the secret state.

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IARPA: US Government Spies on Us Through Vimeo and YouTube
Susanne Posel, Contributor
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Activist Post

Igor Curcio heads a team of researchers at the Nokia Research Center and has developed complicated algorithms that can take clips of thousands of films, and create a movie that is seamless and perfectly matched with an audio track.

Right now Google and YouTube assist corporations in mining for information on internet users by tracking what videos they watch. From there, a profile is derived from preferences.

The move toward utilizing computers to collect and decipher information is being seen across the intelligence community. On the US-Mexican border, developments are moving toward using computers to track border-crossers, film them with video cameras, and use software programs to analyze the data.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is a US governmental research agency that:

• Shares information with other US Intelligence Communities (IC)
• Fills in the gap between other agencies
• Provides innovations in line with business models
• Provides intelligence concepts that surprise enemies

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The House isn't voting on shit today. This, and all other business have been put off until after the election, calm the fuck down.

1#NSA Whistle-Blower Tells All - Op-Docs: The Program

We the people invented and run that technology. No reason why we can't tap their phones as well. What goes around comes around. We can use this to our advantage if it passes. Willing to bet they are tapping already anyway.

To jail with them all.

People don't care until the police come knocking on their door. I don't understand that, but nothing could be more true.

Because most people don't seem to be mighty intelligent...

I gave this thread 5 stars. It's a shame. Most people are to busy watching stupid TV shows to bother to care. More feedom lost in the land of the free.

technically, unconstitutional laws are not laws and are void on their face.

Yet, we see this continuing practice of ignoring the constitution. This makes them rebels and the rebel government will suffer the fate of all rebel governments.

Not sure why people think the gov needs to legalize anything. They can do whatever they want. Run guns, kidnap children, assasinate citizens. Everything you say and do has been recorded for decades. This is part of an fyi, doesn't really change anything.

I think most people think it doesn't concern them... yet

Perhaps they should take a quick look at this video...

I send my mail by pigeons...

In other words.

Nazi's.

Don't bother us with these meaningless freedom violations we need to focus on that ambassador that got killed in libya...as a magician would say watch this hand over here I'm gonna do some magic.

I'm sorry but I'm confused.


How can this be relevant if the kakistocracy has been doing this for 10 years supposedly?

Bunch of fucking treasonous traitors.

They have no right to disregard the Constitution like that.

We should hold them accountable for treason.

why do you care Netherlands?

America is the country which is being dismantled, not yours

if you really think any voting of this would have an effect on its outcome... you are seriously mistaken. a project of this magnitude will be signed by executive order or not - REGARDLESS.

Because the same will happen here, it's called EU - Every major thing that happens in America, happens here too, only 5 years later.

Why arent more people concerned about this??!!!

Let's look at this from a practical standpoint.

The US ganster "government" has dropped all pretense of being a legitimate government. They could vote to sell us air -- would that make it a legitimate "law"? Of course not.

Most people are simply waiting for this Washington clusterfuck to disintegrate so we can restore the republic. It's a damn shame that Washington has utterly failed at everything, yet they will not willingly step down and get-the-fuck-out-of-the-way.

Patriot Act anyone?

It's (still) the - as we say in Holland - 'far from their bed show'...

People should be (very) aware of the fact that what is legitimate today, could be illegal tomorrow.

The storage of large food suplies, for instance, used to be no problem at all, while now everything that goes beyond a stash for 7 days is illegal in the USA.

See what I mean?

Hi Roxy,

George Carlin said it best.



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Not much has changed.

EARLY WARNINGS: Arthur Kinoy - ''When Fascism comes to America...'' (1990) - this video talks about the cover ups in Iran/Contra.



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Fast forward 20 years. I wonder?