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Stuff That’s Missing From the Inspectors General Report on Warrantless Surveillance

1. Any ballpark estimate — any number at all, really — of how many Americans had their communications intercepted by the NSA through the “President’s Surveillance Program.” The fact that this is m…

U.S. Wiretaps Were of Limited Value, Officials Report

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN While the Bush administration had defended its program of wiretapping without warrants as a vital tool that saved lives, a new government review released Friday s…

Russ Baker - Family of Secrets: Poppy Bush

We have Russ Baker with us on the program to talk about the Bush Family Dynasty. Russ is the author of Family of Secrets and the founder of WhoWhatWhy.com. We begin to talk about George Herbert Wal…

Confidential memo reveals US plan to provoke an invasion of Iraq

A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an e…

CIA Urges Judge To Keep Bush-Era Documents Sealed

In an affidavit, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta defended the classification of records describing the contents of the 92 videotapes, their destruction by the CIA in 2005 and what he called "sens…

‘Stellar Wind’ routinely eavesdropped on journalists and public officials

By Wayne Madsen The warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) electronic eavesdropping program known to only a handful of Bush administration officials by its code name, Stellar Wind, and by a fe…

Democrats were routinely briefed on Bush ‘torture’ techniques, document shows

The CIA has released a devastating document detailing the dates and explicit details of secret Congressional briefings in which members of Congress were told of the Bush administration’s torture te…

Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos

The Obama administration is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations, despite a push by some top officials to make the inf…
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