Lies and Spies : Paul Craig Roberts

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Here is Paul Craig Roberts' latest article.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02202008.html
Lies and Spies By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
"The fight over the Protect America Act has everything to do with our safety, only not in the way that Bush and McConnell assert. ... To escape accountability, the Brownshirt Party came up with the Protect America Act. This act eliminates Bush's accountability to judges and gives the telecom companies immunity from the felonies they committed by acquiescing in Bush's illegal spying. ... In court documents, Joseph P. Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications International, states that his firm was approached more than six months before the September 11, 2001, attacks and asked to participate in a spying operation that Qwest believed to be illegal. When Qwest refused, the Bush administration withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. ... As the Founding Fathers warned us, the terrorists we have to fear are the ones in power in Washington. ... Pray that the Democrats have caught on that they cannot give the executive branch unaccountable powers to spy and still have grounds on which to refuse the executive branch unaccountable powers elsewhere."