Time to start doing some spying of our own

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Village Voice
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Sunday, January 22

Morning Report 1/22/06
Paying Attention
Time to start doing some spying of our own


That's the problem: Listen to Bush tell us he's listening.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/07/20010719-2.html
As details unfold about the Bush regime's spy plot against its citizens, one thing is becoming clear: The government and its operatives are listening much more closely to us than we are to them.

The NSA, the most powerful domestic intelligence agency in the world, is trained on our behavior — on our non-criminal, constitutionally protected behavior. We need to start spying on our government — no, not the kind of spying that Larry Franklin just got sent to prison for.

The closest thing we've had to a congressional hearing on the Bush regime's illegal spying on Americans is the January 20 rump session by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee: "Constitution in Crisis: Domestic Surveillance and Executive Power." Spend a couple of hours listening to the hearing, or read the transcripts, and you'll learn that our government considers a Quaker meeting a "threat."(PDF) http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/nsabriefing/hershstmt12006.pdf

One of the people who testified before John Conyers and the other Democrats — for all the good it did — was D.C. law prof Jonathan Turley, now a celebrity on the talk-show circuit but someone I remember from my days in Denver as a key figure in unmasking government chicanery involving the nation's biggest storehouse of plutonium, the Rocky Flats plant.(PDF)http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/nsabriefing/turleystmt12006.pdf

In the current (even more explosive) crisis, Turley has pinned the tail on the elephant, accusing George W. Bush of criminal behavior. Turley is correct; check it out for yourself. But he went beyond that to put Bush's actions in context with two former lying presidents: ----continue----http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/002356.php

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