Except, as Attaturk notes, this isn’t what we were talking about…
1. Congressman Jane Harman (D - CA) told a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby.
2. This is known because of an NSA Wiretap.
3. The suspected Israeli agent […]

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The poor conservatives. They spent eight years defending the surveillance state, and screaming that anyone who dared say something against it had something to hide and was probably a traitor.
Now they are the targets of that surveillance. And wouldn’t you know - their opinion has changed!
So what’s the problem?  As the National Review/Bush-following-Right has been telling us […]

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Bad when China does it. But:
Nonetheless, to watch U.S. Senators like Sam Brownback actually maintain a straight face while protesting China’s warrantless spying on the email and telephone communications of foreigners, and lamenting that private companies feel unfairly pressured to cooperate with China’s government spying out of fear of losing lucrative business opportunities, is so […]

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Via Sullivan, Julian Sanchez has a piece in the L.A. Times which points out that the real danger of warrantless wiretapping isn’t that it will be used to repress innocent, average Americans - but that those who hold the reins of power will be unable to resist the temptation to use it against political opponents and […]

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So the FISA extension expires Saturday and House Democrats are about to let it, because they’re still fighting over whether the telecoms should get retroactive immunity for, you know, breaking the law when the government told them to. But as usual, we’re getting the usual hysterical mendacity from our friends on the right - such […]

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Teh awesome!!!
Glenn Greenwald’s been all over this one for a while, this was always going to happen. In a strange way, I can see the “necessity” of the telecoms cooperating with the administration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when everyone remained jumpy, and rightfully so. But after a short while, all of this should […]

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