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Rewritten surveillance law passed by Congress could give Bush more power for domestic wiretaps
Jason Rhyne, Raw Story The recently passed law which allows President Bush to continue wiretapping Americans’ telephone calls overseas may allow for domestic spying as well, according to a new report commissioned by Congress. A recently-acquired Congressional Research Service report of the controversial Protect America Act, which formally legalized communications surveillance where one party is…
Protest-Cheney visits MN
Protesters from Impeach for Peace gathered at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport outside the 133rd Airlift Wing, where Cheney spoke to the Minnesota National Guard. Upon our arrival, we discovered an abundance of police officers, who asked the protesters to stay off the sidewalks within the so-called “free speech zone.” Due to short notice, this protest…
Methodists reject SMU Bush Presidential Library 844-20
[ImpeachforPeace.org received the following press release today from Rev. Andrew J, Weaver, Ph.D., who has been spearheading the efforts to prevent the George W. Bush presidential library to be located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Indeed, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The arc of the moral…
