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DOJ Report On NSA Wiretaps Finally Released

oliphaunt writes "As regular readers will recall, after the 2004 elections the New York Times revealed that the NSA had been conducting illegal wiretaps of American citizens since early 2001. Over the course of the next four years, more information about the illegal program trickled out, leading to several lawsuits against the government and various officials involved in its implementation. This week several of these matters are coming to a head: Yesterday, the lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation filed a motion for summary judgment in their lawsuit against the Obama DOJ. The motion begins by quoting a statement made by Candidate Obama in 2007, acknowledging that the warrantless wiretap program was illegal. US District Judge Vaughn Walker has given indications that he is increasingly skeptical of the government's arguments in this case. In what might just be a coincidence of timing, today the long-awaited report from the DOJ inspector general to the US Congress about the wiretapping program was declassified and released. Emptywheel has the beginnings of a working thread going here."

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  1. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation by Mc_Anthony · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's sort of clear now why BO backed down on this early.

  2. Catholic Marauders by j0ebaker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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    Catholic marauders (Jesuits, Knights of Malta, etc...) are responsible for the sinking of the Titanic, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and the Vatican itself was instrumental for intentionally sewing seeds of discontent in the Islam relegion by planting Mohammad as a prominent religious leader of Islam.

    We have all been mind fucked and lay as dizzy almost dead on the side of the road as road kill to the information war (which we are loosing) and to the war between the Masons and the Catholics for dominion of the world, and to the war for complete tyranny by the US government and it's puppet master, Israel.

    Honoring government only leads to your neighbor's imprisionment for j walking. Please study anarchy and detach yourself from every system of authority you are under and realize that you are sovereign - NOT A CITIZEN. That you are bestowed by the creator of the universe with the inheritance of the land, and inalienable rights. One of those rights is to be free to associate with others without being easedropped on. Use PGP/GnuPG encryption for crying out loud for even emailing your grandmother.

    I have a bug report in about Slashdot not allowing PGP style signatures in postings here:
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2817084&group_id=4421&atid=104421
    It could use some more emphasis to get action on it.

    Government is a tired old game of mental manipulation of the masses --- to "Govern" "ment" (Minds). We simply don't need that anymore. As a rule we all get along just fine thank you until somebody gets the idea that "It's my job to...." like a policeman enforcing "rules".

    Oh, god, I could go on and on and on and on about all this. Go back and re-watch the matrix and ask yourself how many aspects of life are like the matrix?
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