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Bush Consolidates the National Security State
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Antifascist Calling
March 18, 2008
The Washington Post revealed Friday that the FBI is continuing its systematic violation of Americans’ Fourth Amendment guarantees against "unreasonable searches and seizures."
A Justice Department report concluded that the Bureau had repeatedly abused its intelligence gathering "privileges" by issuing bogus "national security letters" (NSLs) from 2003-2006. On at least one occasion, the FBI relied on an illegally-issued NSL to circumvent a ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain records the secret court deemed protected by the First Amendment.
While the Bush regime claims that the Bureau requires sweeping authority to invade the privacy of American citizens to "protect the homeland" from the Afghan-Arab database of disposable intelligence assets, al-Qaeda, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine determined that fully "60 percent of the nearly 50,000 security letters issued that year [2006] by the FBI targeted Americans," according to Post reporter Dan Eggen.
Despite the FISA court twice rejecting Bureau requests to obtain sensitive private records, determining "the ‘facts’ were too thin" and the "request implicated the target’s First Amendment rights," the FBI used an NSL as a "work around" and proceeded anyway.
The stunning disregard for all legal norms under the Bush regime is encapsulated by FBI general counsel Valerie E. Caproni’s statement to investigators that "it was appropriate to issue the letters in such cases because she disagreed with the court’s conclusions."
Fine asserted in the Inspector General’s report that the Bureau has recklessly used NSLs to sweep-up vast quantities of telephone numbers and internet searches with a single request.
Jameel Jaffer, national security director at the American Civil Liberties Union, told Eggen,
"The fact that these are being used against U.S. citizens, and being used so aggressively, should call into question the claim that these powers are about terrorists and not just about collecting information on all kinds of people. They’re basically using national security letters to evade legal requirements that would be enforced if there were judicial oversight."
Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesperson, said Fine’s report "should come as no surprise," tendentiously claiming new "procedural changes" would ameliorate future problems.
According to FBI Assistant Director John Miller, a former correspondent and anchor for ABC News, NSL requests "are now reviewed by a lawyer before they are sent to a telephone company, Internet service provider or other target."
Meanwhile, the Bush administration has quietly stripped the independent Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) of much of its authority to root out illegal spying activities by the intelligence "community," Boston Globe journalist, Charlie Savage reports.
A little noticed February 29 executive order signed by Bush gutted the board’s mandate to refer illegal activities by an ever-expanding national security state to the Justice Department.
According to Savage,
Bush’s order also terminated the board’s authority to oversee each intelligence agency’s general counsel and inspector general, and it erased a requirement that each inspector general file a report with the board every three months. Now only the agency directors will decide whether to report any potential lawbreaking to the panel, and they have no schedule for checking in.
In other words, we’ll police ourselves. Move along!
The IOB was created in 1976 by president Gerald Ford following congressional revelations that a panoply of U.S. intelligence entities including the CIA, FBI, NSA and DIA, had engaged in illegal domestic spying operations, organized the assassination of foreign leaders, incited coups and other destabilization campaigns around the world to advance U.S. geopolitical goals during America’s anticommunist Cold War jihad.
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On the domestic front, the FBI’s COINTELPRO, the CIA’s Operation CHAOS, the NSA’s Project SHAMROCK and the DIA’s domestic operations under control of various Military Intelligence Groups, conducted illegal surveillance of antiwar, socialist, feminist and black liberation groups targeted for "disruption and neutralization" during the 1960s and ’70s.
Federal intelligence agents, in addition to conducting illegal surveillance and infiltration of domestic dissident groups, worked closely with local police "red squads" and actually financed and controlled far-right terrorist gangs such as the Minutemen, the San Diego-based Secret Army Organization and the Legion of Justice in Chicago. Dozens of attacks, including fire-bombings, physical assaults and attempted "targeted assassinations" of vocal antiwar activists and socialist organizers were the result.
Even after the "COINTELPRO era" presumably ended with the 1971 Media, PA raid by the "Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI" that exposed the Bureau’s illegal operations, abuses continued–and multiplied.
* In 1979, five members of the Communist Workers Party were murdered by a combined Ku Klux Klan/American Nazi Party hit team in Greensboro, NC. The anticommunist death squad had been recruited, organized and led by an FBI infiltrator, Edward Dawson. Dawson was also a paid informant for the Greensboro Police Department.
* During the 1980s, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), opposed to U.S. intervention in support of El Salvador’s death squad state, was infiltrated by FBI informants and far-rightists’ associated with Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP). The ultra-right wing Council for Inter-American Security, working as public relations apologists for death squad leader Roberto D’Aubuisson, compiled a dossier on CISPES that was subsequently passed to the FBI. The Bureau then recommended "active measures" be taken to destroy the group.
* In May 1990, Earth First! leaders Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were targets of a politically-motivated assassination attempt. A bomb was detonated in their car by unknown assailants. At the FBI’s instigation, Oakland Police immediately arrested the pair and charged them with terrorist crimes. After two months of adverse media publicity targeting the victims, charges were dropped. Twelve years later, the environmentalists were awarded $4.4 million in a federal civil suit when a jury determined the FBI had acted recklessly in their handling of the case. The FBI was doomed when their own forensic lab specialist testified the bomb was under the car seat not on the floorboard behind Bari as Bureau counterterrorism "experts" alleged.
* Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) is another in a long-line of corrupt Pentagon "public-private partnerships." Initially authorized by president William Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive (PDD)-75, CIFA and its associated TALON/CORNERSTONE database provide "threat assessments" for DoD facilities and personnel. One CIFA-supported database project, managed by defense giant Northrop Grumman was designated "Person Search." It was designed to "provide comprehensive information about people of interest." Its intended use included the ability to search government and commercial databases "to track and monitor activities of suspect individuals." However, numerous reports and internal memoranda published by the National Security Archive clearly document that CIFA’s military and private contractors systematically conducted surveillance and data-mining operations against the antiwar movement. The Archive has posted 9 TALON reports collected by the 902nd Military Intelligence Group documenting CIFA’s repressive activities. Originally falling under the purview of Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, CIFA’s intelligence and data-mining programs are being spun-off to private contractors. Cambone has since gone on to an executive position with QinetiQ North America. QinetiQ signed a $30 million Pentagon contract in January 2008 for unspecified "security services" to CIFA, according to CorpWatch investigative reporter, Tim Shorrock.
* CISPES is again a target of the Justice Department. Citing the Foreign Registration Act of 1938, Bush’s DOJ is questioning the organization’s relationship with the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), a legal political party in El Salvador. With elections looming in 2009, the Bush regime is terrified that another Latin American country will elect a leftist government, thus further weakening U.S. regional domination and control over its shrinking imperialist empire. The Bush plan? Target solidarity activists in an attempt to smear the group as "foreign agents," or worse.
The gutting of the Intelligence Oversight Board’s authority to investigate criminal activities by the Bush administration comes at a time when domestic spying operations have multiplied exponentially.
Last week The Wall Street Journal exposed the NSA’s data-mining capabilities and revealed that the agency was targeting millions of Americans in its electronic driftnet and has compiled terabytes of data on every aspect of lives.
While administration apologists claim such sweeping and intrusive spying is necessary to "keep America safe," if history is any judge of past intelligence abuses these practices are designed instead, to "keep America in line," ever-fearful and obedient servants of our capitalist masters.
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March 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Get ready for Martial Law People, It’s coming very soon!
Get your affairs in order, it’s time to fight, Literally!!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I am ready. My friends are ready. Long live the Freedom Fighters.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
It is a very sad moment when those who have the power to stop corruption will allow tyranny to continue by those who have power to be tyranous (if that is a word).
Rhonda
PS: This is comment number two
March 18th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
If you think our so called wonderful military gives a damn about our constitutional rights then you better get out there and start asking them! Bring a camera and film it! Most of these punks just don’t give a shit period! You will get lots of double think and double speak along with flag worshipping nationalism! These guys will take your guns! They proved it during hurricane Katrina!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Yeah, like the news today reporting how Obama is sorry for his preacher, which is nothing but a big distraction of the real issue which is about the economy ! They are playing us like a bunch of stupid sheepal, as if we’re really concerned of what comes out of a preacher’s mouth ? If it ain’t got worth to it, I don’t want to hear it !
I see this distraction is a way to move the NWO closer too Martial Law !
March 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Every day that goes by, more and more Americans are waking up and I do not believe for one second, that a full realization of what has happened has been reached. Even those that know about a real lot of it, have not gotten to the “hard pan” of the issues involved, because so much information is currently classified.
But as each day comes and goes, more and more is being revealed and I honestly believe there will come a day, when there will be no place on this earth for any of these criminals to hide.
That is, it will reach a tipping point where the realizations can no longer be denied and then the man hunt will begin and last for at least 50 years, as history does repeat itself.
Our leaders are not superior to anything and their plans to manipulate and control the world are not superior, but rather there will come a day when it’s revealed to be the workings of mentally deranged minds. Remember, history does repeat itself and where we are today, is one of those places that’s never forgotten man, the way we humans instinctively fear sharks when swimming in open water.
The remains of which should be disposed of in a rocket that gets launched to the sun.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
you know, they do seem to really love the sun…
March 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Bush Administration is trying desperately and using the news Media to help make there plea for Gun control, Our 2nd Amendment rights! Its there need to have the Guns under control in this country. They spy using any means necessary and say or use the Excuse its to protect the United States against terrorism. Its to see who is in support and spreading truths of what There up to. Here’s alittle Trivia for ya?: “What president said, Don’t trust a Governemnt that wants to Take you Guns:?(Theodore Rosevelt) maybe? I hear more and More Bullshit this Governemnt wants to stuff down our throats and here, its to disarm the Innocent. So they can control us with no chance of Legally and Righteously protecting ourselves. Thats why the Constitution was Created and protected for. So we wouldn’t be submitted to being overpowered or over taken by a Government even our own. We Have the RIGHT to stand up and protect Ourselves IF Necessary. Specially if we feel OUR Constitution is being Manipulated! Don’t you DARE allow that Right to be Taken away from you! The BUSH Administration are painting a very clear Picture IF your paying attention at all, that their acting Like Global Emperialist! Compare Notes for yourself. Look Up Nazi Emperialists and then compare what were seeing today what Bush and His Elite are doing. Why is there so much unrest with why People are looking and asking for Bush’s Impeachment If they didnt think he was Being Loyal to the Constitution Himself? He is making his gameplan to conquer Middle East “on His Watch”. He and the Neocons or This New World Order want to Invade Iran.
People just go about there Business like Nothing is happening. IT’s Pathetic. They Believe, If it doesn’t concerns them, then why worry? I’ve heard that a Million times. Those are the same we call Scabs In a Union workshop. They’d Take your Job in a Minute. They have allowed MONEY to control and Take over there Lives. They would turn there Back on there Own Brother in a Minute so they could have “the American Dream”! What are they going to do when THEY take THAT from them? Thats whats going to happen if this keeps going on in the World, More Importantly right here at Home! IT IS HAPPENING and PEOPLE are blind to it!
So THEY want to read what were writing or saying by wire-taping us or reading our e-mails or even these responses online right HERE! There is a fight for emperialism going on in this World and OUR Governemnt is working and Putting together there New World Order Right under our noses and WE Know it! Just Remember, YOU can fool SOME of the PEOPLE some of the time, BUT YOU CAN’T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME!! Do your history Folks. Read what Hitler was doing and compare or look and see if you can see any resemblance going on. It might Scare you to Pay attention!
March 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Judging by the picture for this article it looks like Bush has finally made the evolutionary leap from virus to primate. Congratulations, now that you have opposable thumbs and can actually hold a gun we can bring the troops home and send you in.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
~George W. Bush
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
~Plato
That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
~George Washington
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
~Plato
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
~Thomas Jefferson
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~James Madison 4th U.S. President 1809 – 1817
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
~James Madison
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~George Washington
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
~Voltaire
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
~James Madison
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison
All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
~James Madison
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
~James Madison
All wars are fought for money.
~Socrates
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
~Sophocles
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
All warfare is based on deception.
~Sun Tzu
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
~James Madison
Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths…I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush (Monkey Boy’s mom..no wonder he is such a reckless fool)
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
~Abraham Lincoln
March 18th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Played like a fiddle. First, the FBI PRETENDS it isn’t violating the 4th amendment. Then, the Justice Department PRETENDS to watchdog them. Finally, the ACLU pretends to be concerned about it all. Catching the show so far?
If we don’t wake people up soon, were fucked.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
If you apply to the FBI they look for people that follow orders “blindly”… can’t handle the truth type of people. They believe they are working for the common good, its sad that no one questions authority working in the FBI. The environment is not about questioning your superiors.
Home of the Brave… Land of the Free
March 19th, 2008 at 7:43 am
The graphic for this item is very cool- Killer chimp in a suit
March 19th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Human Institutions always begin with good intentions, but fail miserably in the long run. So, Human Institutions can never, ever be trusted to do the right things consistently. Such is the proof of Human history. Human Nature will always be the same no matter what era of time we live in. AND unless God steps in to interfere in Human affairs on this planet, we are all doomed to repeat of our failing history to the point of obliterating all life from this planet.
March 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
LOL good mugshot. http://www.bushorchimp.com
March 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I believe that is a very good assesment Watchman.
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