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ACLU Fights Wiretapping Approved by Obama, McCain and Bush
When Pres. George W. Bush and Sen. Barack Obama BOTH agreed on unconstitutional amendments to the foreign intelligence surveillance act (FISA) last week, it raised questions about Obama's consistency on civil liberties and about how to best fight this assault on the Fourth Amendment and the right to privacy. I try to answer these questions with some clips from a Barack Obama news conference and from spokespeople for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
You can see the full July 1, 2008, Barack Obama news conference from which I took a short clip for my video at http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=46212@wbbm.dayport.com
You can see ACLU Legislative Counsel Michelle Richardson's full June 21, 2008, appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal at http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205571-2
You can see more about the ACLU's fight against the FISA Amendments Act (including the ACLU video from which I took a short clip) at http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/faachallenge.html
And, you can see Sen. Barack Obama's full February 16, 2006, statement on the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization at http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060216-floor_statement_2/
Length: 344
Rating: 4.80 (497 ratings)
Tags: FISA WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING ACLU barack obama gw bush JOHN MCCAIN CONGRESS SPYING foreign intelligence surveillance faa
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Bush Signs Bill on Government Wiretapping
PlusBush Signs Bill on Government WiretappingBush Signs Bill on Government WiretappingThe Associated PressPresident Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls rules about government eavesdropping and grants immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases. (July 10)This video contains ONLY natural sound. No script is available.
Length: 117
Rating: 4.50 (22 ratings)
Tags: bush fisa signs bill on government wiretapping
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Warrantless Wiretapping, a GOP Debate Question
Kim LeBiavant is standing outside 611 Folsom street in San Francisco where she wonders about her 4th amendment right to not have warrentless searches. This building has a secret room that is believed to be tapping our electronic communications.
Length: 27
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: warrentless wiretapping AT&T 4th Amendment GOP Debate 10questions
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NSA wiretapping americans
AT&T technician describing how AT&T is used by the NSA to record all digital communications from internet packets to telephone traffic.
Length: 601
Rating: 5.00 (9 ratings)
Tags: nsa warrantless wiretapping mark klein
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EFF Press Conference After NSA Wiretapping Court Hearing
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_06.php#004761
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal judge today that the government should not be allowed to use the "state secrets privilege" to preempt the class-action lawsuit against AT&T.
EFF's suit accuses AT&T of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegally spying on millions of Americans -- handing over customers' telephone and Internet records and communications without any legal authority. Department of Justice lawyers argued today that even if the NSA program is illegal, pursuing the case might expose "state secrets." However, EFF attorneys asked the judge to allow the case to proceed, considering the privilege in regards to specific evidence and situations instead of derailing the suit all together.
Length: 234
Rating: 4.90 (48 ratings)
Tags: nsa att eff wiretapping civil liberties free speech privacy rob fram
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McCain mimics Bush on illegal wiretapping
By David Edwards
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reports:
"As with so many positions on which Senator McCain hues closely and precisely with the Bush administration, the Senator has tried to finesse the issue of warentless wiretaps. Finesse no more. The McCain camp now clearly saying the Senator believes what the current President believes, that the President of the U.S. can claim authority to wiretap Americans even where it contravenes a federal statute."
"In other words the President may break the law using amorphous Constitutional power as an excuse."
"The top advisor to Senator McCain set the record straight in a letter posted online by the conservative National Review this week. [The top McCain advisor] wrote that McCain believes the Constitution gave President Bush the power to order the National Security Agency to monitor Americas international phone calls and e-mails without a warrant. This, despite a 1978 Federal statute that specifically required court oversight of such surveillance."
"Furthermore, quoting him, 'neither the Administration not the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people except the ACLU and trial lawyers understand were Constitutiaonal and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001.'"
"As for McCain, himself, saying about six months ago, 'I don't think the president has the right to disobey a law. ' It's notable that in the very same interview, he also said, 'there are some areas where the statutes don't apply such as the surveillance of overseas communications.'"
Length: 399
Rating: 4.80 (12 ratings)
Tags: MSNBC Keith Olbermann Senator McCain Bush wiretap
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Part 2:Congress Approves Warrantless Wiretapping US Citizens
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Link to Washington Post Article on the warning given by Tenet to Condoleeza Rice:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html
In addition, I found a link to a article from the NY Times about the 9/11 commission NOT being told about this meeting!
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/65/22881
ACLU Facts VS Myths about Warrantless Spying:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/31144res20070731.html
Link to article citing number of Americans killed annually due to poor infrastructure conditions in the US including specific citation from site:
http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_progj/task,view/id,568
"One-quarter of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient or obsolete. According to a survey of the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE), our airways, port, and mass transit systems are unable to keep pace with growing demand.
The cost of these failures is great. Time is lost to delay, commerce is impeded, and business productivity is compromised.Some 13,000 fatalities on highways each year result from inadequate maintenance, design, or capacity of roadways. At the center of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was the failure of the flood walls and levee system. Our homeland security requires safe and efficient infrastructure systems and state-of-the-art facility management, planning, and technology for both first responders and the general public alike."
Site list names of the 16 dems who shirked their duty to protect & uphold the constitution (again, this passed mainly because ALL the Republicans vote for it, in the the house, but that does excuse the 16 dems for their acquiesence of power to a criminal President):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1519118
Length: 589
Rating: 4.80 (162 ratings)
Tags: wiretapping fisa warrantless illegal spying wire tapping president bush arevolutionaryact lies political vlog congress
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