Daily Archives: May 6, 2007 »
Bush wants to derail wiretapping lawsuit against AT&T
Declan McCullagh President Bush is backing a proposed law that would pull the plug on lawsuits alleging telephone companies illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency in its warrantless wiretap program. We’ve written about
Read More »MI6 Are The Lords Of The Global Drug Trade
James Casbolt It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence
Read More »Judge says NY surveillance data can be made public
Daniel Trotta Six hundred pages of documents relating to intelligence that New York City gathered before the 2004 Republican National Convention should be made public, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Judge James Francis
Read More »US Iraq troops ‘condone torture’
Humphrey Hawksley A US survey of battlefield ethics among troops in Iraq has found widespread tolerance for torture in certain circumstances and problems with morale. The survey, by an army mental health advisory team,
Read More »Spying’s slippery slope
The Senate Intelligence Committee has two very good reasons to resist the Bush administration’s latest request for broader spying powers. One is President Bush himself, whose record for respecting the privacy rights of Americans
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