April 10, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

PEEPING BUSH

They've tapped our phones, they want to open our mail, they monitor email, and they want to use "sneak and peek" warrants to barge into homes without even notifying the subject of their investigation. They're George W. Bush and his cadre of peepers. Now the new head of the National Intelligence Agency, Mike McConnell, wants to weaken FISA laws even more (not that they've paid much attention, anyway.) This is all supposed to protect us from those big bad terrorists. Never mind that civil liberties get tossed into the trash heap. This article by Katherine Shrader is at www.sfgate.com:

President Bush's spy chief is pushing to expand the government's surveillance authority at the same time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic eavesdropping powers.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell has circulated a draft bill that would expand the government's powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, liberalizing how that law can be used.

Known as "FISA," the 1978 law was passed to allow surveillance in espionage and other foreign intelligence investigations, but still allow federal judges on a secretive panel to ensure protections for U.S. citizens — at home or abroad — and other permanent U.S. residents.

The changes McConnell is seeking mostly affect a cloak-and-dagger category of warrants used to investigate suspected spies, terrorists and other national security threats. The court-approved surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.

BUSH EVEN PERVERTS LIBRARIES

George W. Bush and the gang plan to spend $500,000,000 on his presidential "library." Libraries have traditionally been sources of knowledge, but we can be certain Bush's library will be a propaganda mill. Bush has been anti-knowledge and anti-progress his entire public life. He has not accepted responsibility for his host of wrong policies and misjudgments. This article by Larry Beinhart is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Do not refer to the George Bush Library as a library.

A library is a repository of records and a resource for scholarship.

The Bush institution has no intention whatsoever of being a library.

It is intended to be a propaganda mill. And it will be one.

Keep in mind that Bush has done more than any other president in history to hide records and to keep people from getting at them. Not just his own, but his father's and Reagan's. He is the enemy of libraries, of research and of scholarship. This institution will be used to keep presidential papers from real scholars, historians and researchers.

Bush's goal is to raise $500,000,000 (five hundred million) for his memorial to himself.

Where could $500,000,000 possibly go? Part of it will pay for lawyers to keep real scholars out of the records. The bulk of it will go to paid political hacks who will churn out papers and books that will rewrite reality. Just as the Bush White House has done his entire administration.