Monday, May 15, 2006

Nixon's Spying: Bush is a Copycat


Pix courtesy of Scoop NZ. Of course. We knew this was coming, no? The LA Times reports: "The Justice Dept on Sat asked a fedrl judge to throw out an eavesdropping lawsuit against AT&T, citing possible damage from the litigation to natl security. Officials wrote that the lawsuit by AT&T customers would bring up matters too sensitive for public discussion. The 34-pg filing was bolstered by statements from John Negroponte, who is director of natl intelligence, and from Lt Gen Keith Alexander, director of the NSA." Certainly you are shocked, right? And as if we didn't already think Bush & Nixon were long lost twins, we have this from the Pensito Review: "Operation Shamrock came to light in 1975 during investigations by the Senate into govt intelligence abuses in the Nixon Admin. The committee learned that 3 telegraph companies had turned over all their overseas communications traffic, both outbound and inbound, to the NSA on a daily basis for 30 yrs. The spy program was initiated in WWII as part of the govt’s wartime censorship program, but by the 70s, political operatives in the Nixon Admin were using it to collect info on their political enemies such as: A list of more than 600 “dangerous” Americans, including folksinger Joan Baez, pediatrican Benjamin Spock, actress Jane Fonda and civil rights campaigner Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. The NSA claims in 74 it destroyed files on more than 75,000 other Americans it illegally collected during Shamrock." As long as Bush resigns when facing impeachment like Nixon did, we can happily keep the Nixon comparisons coming.
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