(Untitled)- April 27, 2006 Pentagon Fascists Expand Domestic Spying Program (Robert Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone, Apr 18, 2006) The military has built a vast domestic-intelligence network to fight terrorism -- but it's using it to track students, grandmothers and others protesting the war . . . Last October, before the public learned that president Bush had secretly ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americanshttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/04/pentagon-fascists-expand-domestic.html (Untitled)- April 13, 2006 Pentagon confirms it spied on gay groups (Advocate.com, April 12, 2006) The Department of Defense released documents confirming that the U.S. government conducted surveillance on gay groups, the military advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network announced Tuesday. . . . The surveillance documents, called TALON reports, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act requesthttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/04/pentagon-confirms-it-spied-on-gay.html (Untitled)- April 9, 2006 Federal Jury Indicts Mentally Ill Patient For Threatening Bush (Yvonne Lee, All Headline News, April 7, 2006) East St. Louis, IL (AHN) - A Palestinian mental health patient has been indicted on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm President George W. Bush. . . . The Associated Press reports federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23. But it was only madehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/04/federal-jury-indicts-mentally-ill.html (Untitled)- April 7, 2006 Gonzales says court order no longer required to tap your phone (Dan Eggen, Washington Post, April 6, 2006) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Thursday left open the possibility that President Bush could order warrantless wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the United States. . . . Such action would dramatically expand the potential reach of the National Security Agency'shttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006/04/gonzales-says-court-order-no-longer.html |