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Tuesday 20th March 2007
Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?
4:10 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Donlan | Impeachment | Rule of Law | Torture | Wiretapping | Comments: 20
Lew Rockwell suggested yesterday that I do a piece on the Gonzales meltdown and how it could affect Bush.  Every now and then, I am not immune to good ideas, so I wrote it and he posted it on LewRockwell.com today.Â
I appreciate all the comments I received on the Gonzales blog entries in the past week.    [...]
Friday 17th November 2006
The Torturous Servility of Washington Think Tanks
10:32 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Torture | Wiretapping | think tanks | Comments: 36
The Globalist posted an article of mine today contrasting the courage of Washington vs. New York organizations. Â
Washington vs. New York: Wonks vs. Courage
Washington has long had a reputation as being the place for serious political thinkers. By contrast, New York was seen as a place where people go to earn bushels of money. Yet, the reaction of Washington [...]
Tuesday 24th October 2006
Great Cartoon Bashing NSA Wiretaps on Americans
4:16 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 13
Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here.
This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. Perhaps congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill to prohibit the feds from [...]
Wednesday 28th June 2006
My hit on Bush’s Illegal Financial Surveillance
9:01 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 12
From the Baltimore Sun
Surveillance of financial transactions goes too far
By James Bovard
June 28, 2006
The Bush administration admitted that it was conducting warrantless surveillance of the financial transactions of Americans and others only after newspapers exposed the program. According to some Republicans, the solution is to imprison journalists who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing.
Shortly after [...]
Tuesday 13th June 2006
My NSA Bash - “Reach out & Tap Someone”
1:34 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 5
The American Conservative today placed online my piece on NSA wiretapping here.
June 19, 2006 The American Conservative
Reach Out and Tap Someone
The NSA’s surveillance program undermines the rule of law without producing real gains in security.
By James Bovard
The National Security Agency has been tracking the calls of millions of Americans and constructing the “largest database ever [...]
Tuesday 21st March 2006
My Cheney Tribute is now online
2:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Cheney | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Wiretapping | wool | Comments: 6
The American Conservative has posted my piece on Cheney’s revelation that he is exempt from federal law regarding national security secrets. Here are a few paragraphs from the piece:
The “my wish is the law’s command� attitude towards disclosure and secrecy has permeated the Bush administration. From shortly after 9/11, the Bush team sought to drop an [...]
Wednesday 8th March 2006
National Security Agency spying piece now online + Update
9:40 am | Congress | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
My review on James Risen’s A State of War is now online at American Conservative.
The spying scandal continues to show Washington at its best. Yesterday, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed to support a legislative reform to the FISA law to legalize Bush’s actions.
One key change:Â Â Feds would be allowed to wiretap Americans’ phones [...]
Wednesday 8th February 2006
L.A. Times: Are You a Suspected Terrorist?
9:13 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Lying | Rule of Law | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 1
The Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed today on the array of wacko definitions of suspected terrorists that the Bush administration has devised since 9/11.  Here are some outtakes of the piece:
PRESIDENT BUSH and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary “terrorist surveillance program.” [...]
Monday 2nd January 2006
Bush on Spying: Fool or Liar?
3:21 pm | Bush | Rule of Law | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
Bush took a swing at critics of his warrantless wiretaps yesterday. Speaking after visiting wounded soldiers in San Antonio, he declared, “”The NSA program is one that listens to a few numbers called from the outside of the United States of known al-Qaida or affiliated people.”
Except that the program also listens to calls from inside [...]
Monday 26th December 2005
Donlan’s Courageous Barron’s Editorial on Impeachment
8:47 pm | Barron's | Bovard | Donlan | Impeachment | Wiretapping | Comments: 4
Tom Donlan, editorial page editor of Barron’s, has an excellent editorial on Bush’s illegal wiretaps:
“Administration lawyers and the president himself have tortured the Constitution and extracted a suspension of the separation of powers.”Â
“Putting the president above the Congress is an invitation to tyranny. The president has no powers except those specified in the Constitution and [...]