By Robert Fisk

We have gone on smashing away at the human rights we trumpeted at the Russians - and the Arabs - during the Cold War. We have perhaps fatally weakened all those provisions that were written into our treaties and conventions in the aftermath of the Second World War to make the world a safer place. And we claim we are winning.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11416.htm

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the leak of classified information about President Bush's secret domestic spying program, Justice officials said Friday. The officials, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the inquiry will focus on disclosures to the New York Times about warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123005Y.shtml

A broad-based effort known within the CIA by the initials GST, is compartmentalized into dozens of highly-classified individual programs, details of which are known only to those directly involved.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123005K.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/9xvp2
http://tinyurl.com/9fz6j

John W. Dean writes that in acting without congressional approval, Bush has underlined that his presidency is unchecked and utterly beyond the law. Now that he has turned the truly awesome powers of the NSA on Americans, what asserted powers will Bush use next? And when, if ever, will we - and Congress - discover that he is using them?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123005I.shtml



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=860
http://www.soaw.org/


Informant: Martin Greenhut

Philippe Gelie writes: The wear and tear on the James S. Brady Press Room has become a reflection of power's wear and tear on the administration.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905H.shtml

Nearly three years after it was formed, the immense Department of Homeland Security remains hampered by severe management and financial problems that contributed to the flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, according to an independent audit released yesterday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905F.shtml

NSA used banned data-tracking on Web site:

The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most of them.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10629515/



Are You Being Tracked?:

Big business thinks Radio Frequency Identification tags are great. Privacy-rights advocates fear the tiny chips will invite corporations and the government into our personal lives.

http://alternet.org/rights/29890/


From Information Clearing House

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/27/154249


From Information Clearing House