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These are not isolated incidents of W's minions running amok.

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examines W’s unitary executive powers and decided that the Pentagon’s “Total Information Awareness”, could result in W’s boys-in-blue spying on us all as “The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense in January 2002. Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003.” 

 

We all know about the off-the-books, black-ops. Maybe these national security letters are part of a re-named TIA anew program. Is that a paranoid rambling of a conspiracy addict?  In May 2003, the program was renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness Program and then it retained the TIA but in May 2003, the program was renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.

 

The article “Privacy invasions ‘R U.S.—Round-up of Bush Administration-sponsored domestic spy ops” at http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15315

notes that  there are of programs that the US is using to spy on us and that specifically TIA’s TIPS only kept the T of the acronym,  everything else changed as  “Operation TIPS, was killed by Congress but appears to  have morphed into something called the Talon project.”

We don’t know the extent of illegal programs that infringe our civil rights that are currently being carried out by the hyper-secret W government.

 

The June 28, 2006article “Senator considers suit over Bush law challenge” at http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/06/28/senator_considers_suit_over_bush_law_challenge

explains that Congress has had enough of W’s unitary executive powers for quite some time now as “The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Arlen Specter, said  yesterday that he is ''seriously considering" filing legislation to give Congress legal standing to sue President Bush over his use of signing statements to reserve the right to bypass laws.Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, made his comments after a Judiciary Committee hearing on signing statements, which are official documents that Bush has used to challenge the constitutionality of more than 750 laws when signing legislation .Bush has issued more signing statements than all previous presidents combined. But he has never vetoed a bill, depriving Congress of any chance to override his judgment. If Congress had the power to sue Bush, Specter said, the Supreme Court could determine whether the president's objections are valid under the Constitution.

''There is a sense that the president has taken the signing statements far beyond the customary purviews," Specter said at the hearing. He added that ''there's a real issue here as to whether the president may, in effect, cherry-pick the provisions he likes, excluding the provisions he doesn't like. . . . The president has the option under the Constitution to veto or not."

 

Senator Specter has been proclaiming that W's administration has been committing crimes due to his stance of using unitary executive powers to usurp powers that no other US President would have ever imagined and our US MSM barely makes a remark on it. The evil deeds of W’s era that include the FBI secretly obtaining information on US citizens via national security letters, the White House being involved in firing US Attorneys, the US military destroying evidence of their misdoings in Afghanistan, and Maliki, W’s hand-picked stooge, changing his government, and missing deadlines Bush vowed that Maliki would keep, have little in common, except that they wouldn’t have been perpetrated in the traditional US democracy.

 

That W has, without stating it, perverted the US democracy into an oligarchy is dreadful. That the US 4th estate isn’t bellowing about these atrocities to the American way of life, is commensurately vile.

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