These are the results of W’s proclaiming unitary executive privileges, which is the underpinning of all of his crimes, and includes those committed by his subordinates at our Justice, Legislative, and Executives branches and those in the US 4th estate!

This week we are being slapped in the face by 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. What do these seemingly disparate events have in common?  They could occur only in a dictatorship, not a democracy, and that is what W is trying, without announcing it to our great, but dozing, common people!

The article “FBI audit finds improper use of national security letters” at http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/11/fbi-audit-finds-improper-use-of-national-security-letters/shows how Gonzales failed the US people, but pleased the only one he’s concerned about, W!  It states “The Federal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly broke the law in order to obtain personal information about tens of thousands of Americans, much of which was never related to any sort of investigation, according to an inspector general’s report released Friday….

“This is not simply about errors in oversight,” said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “This is about disregard for the law. For example, FBI terrorism investigators ignored their own lawyers’ advice to stop using so-called exigent letters for about two years.” “This goes above and beyond almost everything they’ve done already,” said Sen.  Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), who was among a host of Democrats promising investigative hearings. “It shows just how this administration has no respect for checks and balances.”

Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, told reporters that Congress may “impose statutory requirements and perhaps take away some of the authority which we’ve already given to the FBI, since they appear not to be able to know how to use it.”

Sen. Schumer, on national television Sunday called for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign as  “But he either doesn’t accept or doesn’t understand that he is no longer just the president’s  lawyer but has a higher obligation to the rule of law and the Constitution,  even when the president should not want it to be so.”

People under Gonzales’ authority are getting information on you that they aren’t legally allowed to obtain. We found out about this, but there are probably other similar programs, some with other people he’s in charge of.

The article “The Blame Game.” at http://www.slate.com/id/2161788/fr/rss/ states “The White House also insisted Bush didn’t really play a role in the firings and placed much of the blame on Miers. Another person who received lots of blame was D. Kyle Sampson, who resigned Monday as Gonzales’ chief of staff. “I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on,” Gonzales said. Regardless, the attorney general made clear that he stands by the decision to fire the eight prosecutors. “Kyle Sampson will not become the next Scooter Libby, the fall guy,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, who was the first Democrat to call for the attorney general’s resignation, said.

The e-mails released Tuesday conflict with the testimony that the attorney general and other Justice Department officials gave to Congress about the firings.”

Gonzales lies that he was out of the loop, a modern-day “Colonel Klink” and they want to put it all on either Miers or Sampson, or anyone who will fit the role of the first patsy for a GOP goon—Ollie North, as well as Libby has.

Gonzales makes his boss, W, proud as he lies so frequently, even though the rapid pack of lies dooms them to failure. W is trying to emulate Reagan, who we all can remember knew nothing about the Iran-Contra scandal—even though a slew of his closest advisors were pardoned by Bush 41.

The article “Hyper Hacks—What’s really wrong with the Bush Justice Department” at http://www.slate.com/id/2161804/nav/tap1/ explains that W’s firing of these Attorneys was unprecedented and an indication of this inept crew’s corruption as “Political directives like this flout the tradition of nonpolitical law enforcement that’s essential because of the awesome power of prosecutors. The uproar over the firings seems to have taken the administration by surprise, and it’s possible they resulted from incompetence as much as cunning. But an administration’s use of law enforcement for political ends has rarely seemed more brazen… Three of the fired U.S. attorneys—David Iglesias of New Mexico, Carol Lam of the southern district of California, and John McKay of the western district of Washington—were lauded by the Justice Department before they were fired.” Talking specifically about Lam “he successfully prosecuted and convicted on corruption charges former Republican and San Diego Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham.  Yesterday on the Senate floor, Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania, asked whether she was dismissed because she was “about to investigate other people who were politically powerful.”

Lam had the audacity of squealing on Cunningham a GOP lining his pockets out of defense contractors’ kickbacks. That seems too similar to what Cheney is doing and to let her continue in this manner might give people the idea that Cheney’s dealings with Halliburton could be investigated—even if they moved their offices Dubai to protect themselves. Some of Gonzales’ earlier testimony was that the firings were solely due to ineffective performance, but subsequent e-mails proved that to be false.  The firings happened because they didn’t play ball with their leaders.

The article “Rove Is Linked to Early Query Over Dismissals” at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/washington/16attorneys.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&or  explains that W’s aptly named chum, Karl, “Turd Blossom”, Rove was involved in this much earlier than he originally admitted—which means he’s lying, and as this drags on we’ll see more of this as “Karl Rove, the senior presidential adviser, inquired about firing United States attorneys in January 2005, e-mail messages released Thursday show. The request prompted a Justice Department aide to respond that Alberto R. Gonzales, soon to be confirmed as attorney general, favored replacing a group of “underperforming” prosecutors.”

The fired U.S. attorneys, and the national security letters aren’t the only web of lies that Gonzales is ensnared in. He also has been  a prime player in the illegal eavesdropping on innocent US citizens as “Separately, the House Judiciary Committee, opened a new front in its investigation of Mr. Gonzales, asking him to respond to an article published in The National Journal asserting that he had advised President Bush to effectively terminate a Justice Department inquiry into the program of domestic surveillance without warrants only after Mr. Gonzales learned he might be a subject of the investigation.”

The White House had said earlier this week that Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel, initiated the idea in early 2005 of replacing all the prosecutors.  W plans on giving both Miers and Sampson Medals of Honor, as W has done with other failures in the past, and will try to silence them, but that is where the fact that they aren’t used to dealing with a Congress that will monitor them comes into play! The Democratic leaders in Congress are already discussing subpoenas of White House miscreants.

It isn’t only the Democratic members who have had it with the daily drip of new lies being exposed daily with the new documentation being belatedly provided as “Even Republican defenders on Capitol Hill are expressing growing unease.  “I think the attorney general is going to have to explain himself because this has cast a cloud over the department,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, before the latest disclosures. “How much is justified? I don’t know.  But it has cast a cloud there.”

The article “Media dragged into Afghan conflict” at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6439121.stm explains that “Propaganda has always played an important part in war, but in Afghanistan the battles between Nato forces and the Taleban are being fought not just in the deserts and valleys but in the media.

When the war is about hearts and minds, winning public opinion is the be-all and end-all, and there’s quite a temptation to interfere in a country with a now thriving media.

A local journalist from Tolo TV was arrested and held by Afghan authorities for about 36 hours without charge, for talking to a Taleban spokesman who would ring in every day with his version of events - something which happens in most organisations, including the BBC.

One of the greatest achievements of this post-Taleban era has been a free press and I fear that is now in danger.”

The article “Afghan Media: US Troops Deleted Images” at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0305-07.htm states “Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday said U.S.  troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish or air any images of U.S. troops or a car where three Afghans were shot to death…..

“Why did the soldiers do it if they don’t have anything to hide? The situation is very tense in Afghanistan, and the media should be able to report about it freely and safely,” said Jean-Francois Julliard, a spokesman for the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.”

The Libby trial was all about how W’s crew got the US MSM to buy a pack of lies and when people were contesting the lies, W and his Oval Office Cabal had to threaten people to keep the truth from seeing the light of day. So, the US in Afghanistan as well as the in US, is controlling what we see and hear.

The last of the above topics, Iraq’s instability and failure to meet W’s deadlines, might become the death-knell for GWOT, but nobody seems concerned, because W controls the US MSM. If Maliki changes his government now, why won’t he do it again, and how can we get political changes in Iraq if the deciders in Iraq are changing?

How solid is Maliki’s government? The article “Iraqi leader fears ouster over oil money” at http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/32561.html explains that “Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fears the Americans will torpedo his government if parliament does not pass a law to fairly divvy up the country’s oil wealth among Iraqis by the end of June, close associates of the leader told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The legislature has not even taken up the draft measure, which is only one of several U.S. benchmarks that are seen by al-Maliki as key to continued American support, a crucial need for the survival of his troubled administration.

Standing in the way of forward movement is a recalcitrant Cabinet, which al-Maliki has promised to reshuffle by the end of this week. So far, however, he is at loggerheads with the political groupings in parliament that are threatening to withdraw support for the prime minister if he does not allow the blocs to name replacements for Cabinet positions.”

Does W realize this isn’t working? The article “Iraqis’ Progress Lags Behind Pace Set by Bush Plan” at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/washington/15policy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref states “The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi government to meet by this month, is now tacitly acknowledging that the goals will take significantly longer to achieve.

In interviews this week, administration officials said that the military buildup intended to stabilize Baghdad and create the conditions for achieving the objectives would not be fully in place until June and that all of the objectives would not be fulfilled until the year’s end.”

Senator Schumer said he doesn’t want Sampson to be the next fall guy for W’s incompetent group. Gonzales is in over his neck with the scandals ensnaring including the illegal NSA eavesdropping on US citizens, the revocation of the Geneva Convention protections for detainees, the firing of US Attorneys, as well as his lack of control over the national security letters. Gonzales says he can’t be in the know on everything within the purview of his position, but it seems as though he’s trying to duck responsibility for too many items.

The Oct 16, 2006 article “Preparing stockades to herd common masses into” at

http://www.liberalsonly.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2056&view=next&sid=8d5e0b5e9ad

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

''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.