The letter sounded like something from a totalitarian regime
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: Sedition or just free speech?
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
In an article titled "Nurse Courage" a disturbing trend in intimidation by the government is going around. In this case a VA Nurse writes a letter to the editor and get a suprise vist from the brown suits.
In the New Mexico VA Hosipital where she works with vetrans is where she received the nasty letter from her supervisor....well Z3 readers, It sounded like in her words
...."something from a totalitarian regime"

Read this one link, of an ongoing trend of Patriot Act Style of abuses against good hearted, peace and loving American citizens.
The brown suits are starting to shake the tree a little,,,hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm??
*** FREE SPEECH IS STILL LEGAL ***

Here is the Alternet.org link It is great story of freedom and courage in the making this very day!

Oh!I must remind you all again!
"Yest ye forget from my 3-7-06 post*

THIS IS AN AMBOMINATION OF OUR CHERISHED CIVIL RIGHTS

Joe Anybody Calls for Public Awarness
Mood:  loud
Now Playing: IMPEACHMENT IS MY HOPE
Topic: POLITICS
Hello Folks
I have about a dozen excerpts from an online article I read that I want to share with you all. I was reading in an article on how bad Bushman has violated this countries integrity and it was to hard to just read over and not make an issue of it, by blogging or sharing it with you all.
I had to say something, once I had read it!
It was so true and fitting.
It was somber yet encouraging hopeful.
These next few excerpts, will put into context, why IMPEACHMENT is the best resolution to this hell hole Bushman has drug us into. Read the following highlights and then check the link at the bottom for the full article written so eloquently by journalist: Onnesha Roychoudhuri

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In fact, the case for the impeachment of President Bush is arguably the strongest in American history. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) makes this amply clear in its recent book, a concise indictment of President Bush that lays out four clear legal arguments that point to impeachment as a necessary remedy for the gross violation of our Constitution.
The Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush covers illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, detention and the Iraq war. An appendix compares the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Clinton to the comparatively more powerful case against Bush.
Lawyers at the CCR, indeed lawyers throughout the world, have been embroiled in litigation with the administration for years. But the administration has consistently demonstrated disdain for the law, with the president effectively thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American people.

It is this reality that led Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers at the CCR to provide a clear argument for impeachment to the American people and Congress.

As Ratner told AlterNet, "While our battles against illegal wiretaps and Guantanamo are critical for trying to get back legality, until we get rid of what I consider a criminal administration, we will not be able to go back to even a semblance of civil liberties and human rights."

The Articles of Impeachment make clear that this is no longer just about President Bush. Rather, it is about preventing the executive branch from obtaining carte blanche to disregard the two other branches of government. This is a paradigm shift that has already gained substantial footing through this administration's steady erosion of legal precedent


......man is this right to the point of what is needed right now or what ?......

This is a few paragraphs of an interview that the author(Onnesha) had with Michael Ratner from CCR....I enjoy this kind of conversation...


OR: What do you say to Americans who think it isn't worth bothering with impeachment with the president currently in his final term?

MR: This administration has gone so far beyond what the requirements of the Constitution and the law. The question is whether this country can ever come back and resemble a democracy again. Unless you hold accountable the people who actually carried out an illegal war with Iraq, warrantless wiretapping and torture, there's nothing to stop the next administration -- whether it's Republican or Democrat -- from continuing with the same. We have to show that what happened in this country in the past four years is an utter subversion of our Constitution and completely unlawful under domestic and international law. Otherwise, I fear that this country may be changed forever in a very negative direction.

OR: What's at stake here?

MR: What's at stake is a presidency that is becoming an imperial presidency -- in which he's no longer responsible to the judiciary or the Congress. This is a president that thinks that, on his own, he can wiretap people, torture people, pick them up anywhere in the world. This has to be beaten back, and it has to be done soon. It is becoming embedded in our society in a way that is very hard to get rid of.

MR: Yes, this is about a particularly bad president -- a president who doesn't care about constitutional rights. But what's really going on here is what Cheney actually came out and stated a month ago when he talked about warrantless wiretapping. He said that they wanted to overcome what happened to the presidency during the '60s and the '70s.
There's an absolute intent here to make the presidency much more powerful, what they call a unitary presidency where they're not just a co-equal branch, but they are the branch -- no court or Congress can check them. This is not just about the president any longer, it's about these assertions of inherent power in the executive to override constitutional, international, congressional limitations, and judicial limitations. That's a big problem because that's essentially a dictatorship.

OR: With all this gratuitous conduct that has been amassed in the media, the question arises, why haven't there been many legal successes stopping this behavior?

MR: At the CCR, in almost every single action discussed in the articles, we have various lawsuits going. The problem is that they take a long time. Also, the courts are not always in our favor. And, even when we win, the administration is able to undercut them. You don't just win by lawsuits; you win by popular protest, people in the streets. That's the way you have to win. The Center really believes that our lawsuits are important and people have to be represented. We have to stop torture to the extent that we can. But there has to be popular protest in this country, or our lawsuits are not going to change anything.

To Go To the Original Great Article written by >Onnesha Roychoudhuri for Alternet.org
please click --> HERE

Holding some Accountability to the Administration
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Russ Feingold, says,,,
Topic: POLITICS
Sen Feingold is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping

A longtime critic of the administration, Russ Feingold, D-Wis was the first senator to urge a withdrawal timetable for U.S. troops in Iraq and was the only senator to vote in 2001 against the USA Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11 law that expanded the government's surveillance and prosecutorial powers. He also voted against the 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to use force in Iraq. On March 13 2006 he has the following to say to the Associated Press in an interview.

"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable,"
The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

A censure resolution, which simply would scold the president, has been used just once in U.S. history _ against Andrew Jackson in 1834.


Meanwhile .., In the House, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing legislation that would call on the Republican-controlled Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeachment.


I got this info from an AP release --> HERE

And of course, this has caused Bill Frist to jump up and down and referring this to ....
"weaking the commander in chief during a war time"....
[get a clue Frist]

Frist say's, concerning Feingold's proposal, "The signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our commander in chief who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong." He also called the proposal "a crazy political move"

Seems like his priorities are ass-backward to this here joe!

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As an added explaination below is what Wikipedia says "censure means"
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"Censure is a process by which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authoritative body."

Censure is a congressional procedure for reprimanding the President of the United States or a member of Congress for inappropriate behaviour.
News and other media often use the term incorrectly, confusing their viewers.
When used to condemn the President, however, it serves merely as a condemnation and has no direct effect on the validity of presidency.
Unlike impeachment, censure has no basis in the constitution, or in the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. It derives from the formal condemnation of either congressional body of their own members.

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Mood:  lyrical
Now Playing: Bob Dylan 1970
Topic: CONSPIRACY
Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue,
I didn't know what in the world I was gonna do,
Them Communists they wus comin' around,
They wus in the air,
They wus on the ground.
They wouldn't gimme no peace. . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society,
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road.
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!

Now we all agree with Hitlers' views,
Although he killed six million Jews.
It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist,
At least you can't say he was a Communist!
That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria.

Well, I wus lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds.
I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed,
Looked in the sink, behind the door,
Looked in the glove compartment of my car.
Couldn't find 'em . . .

I wus lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere,
I wus lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair.
I looked way up my chimney hole,
I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
They got away . . .

Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat,
Figured they wus in my T.V. set.
Peeked behind the picture frame,
Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain.
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones.

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone,
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes.
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol' Betty Ross . . .

Well, I investigated all the books in the library,
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away.
I investigated all the people that I knowed,
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go.
The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me.

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy,
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy.
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus.

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outa things to investigate.
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else,
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

MEDIA GETS THE SPIN AT DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: Daily Press Breifing is a game of Dodge The Question
Topic: MEDIA
THE FOLLOWING IS A CLIP FROM THE VERY END OF THE "WHITE HOUSE DAILY BRIEFINGS"
with SCOTT McMLELLAN.

NOW READ THIS JOKE OF HONESTY AND NEGLECT TOWARDS PUBLIC INFORMATION FROM THE BUSH COMPANY.
AS SCOTT McMLELLAN PLAYS
"THREE RING CIRCUS DODGE THE QUESTION WITH REPORTERS" .

BY THE WAY, THIS GOES ON THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE DAMN DAILY CONFERENCE.
YOU SEE, Z3 READERS, LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE THROWS OUT A VETO CARD COMMENT BY BUSH HIMSELF..,
...AND NOW THEY WONT FACE THE MUSIC WHEN THE 'S IS DEMANDING ANSWERS AS TO
"IS THE VETO THREAT STILL POSSIBLE?
SEEMS LIKE A SIMPLE QUESTION HUH?
READ BELOW... AT THE THE WHITE HOUSE ATTITUDE AS THEY TRY TO FEED THE MEDIA BULL-CRAP-SOUP.

HOW MANY TIMES DID THE MEDIA ASK FOR A STRAIGHT ANSWER?
BUT GOT BULL FROM SCOTT.
THIS IS PATHETIC & PITIFUL FOLKS!

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Q Scott --

MR. McCLELLAN: Thank YOU. Go ahead.

Q Scott, can I just review what the President said? YOU keep talking about this context. What do YOU say to those in Congress who plan to take legislative action? This is February 21st in Air Force One, President Bush said, "They ought to listen to what I have to say about this. They ought to look at the facts and understand the consequences of what they're going to do. But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it with a veto." I don't understand why YOU're saying YOU're not drawing lines in the sand? That's a line in the sand.

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm telling YOU where the emphasis is right now, and where things are in terms of the process and the discussions. Again, that was a question he was specifically asked a couple weeks ago.

Q If he was asked it again today, what would he say?

MR. McCLELLAN: Martha, he would say what I'm saying right now, so I think I've expressed our views.

Q That YOU're moving forward. He would not say again, I would veto it?

MR. McCLELLAN: It doesn't change what I just said. Again, look at the meeting that took place earlier today, and let me again describe for YOU the nature of that meeting. The nature of that meeting was to talk about how we can continue to work together on important priorities and how we can move forward on other issues. And one of the issues the President brought up was this very issue.

But to try to suggest we're trying to continue to get into drawing lines or issuing veto threats is not --

Q But YOU are backing --

MR. McCLELLAN: -- is not --

Q YOU are backing --

MR. McCLELLAN: -- is not where things are.

Hang on, let me finish.

No, I didn't say that. I said that our position hasn't changed, but our -- where we are right now in the process is, working with Congress to try to find a way forward. I know that there's sometimes a tendency to simplify things, but it takes it out of context when YOU do that. And that's why I'm stressing to YOU where things --

Q Well, he put it pretty simply when he said he would veto it.

MR. McCLELLAN: That's why I'm trying to stress to YOU where things are right now.

Q All right, but did the President --

Q But the line in the sand was drawn. And if YOU're saying, no, no, no, we're not backing off, the position is just the same, the position isn't just the same if YOU're not drawing a line in the sand, because the President drew a line in the sand.

MR. McCLELLAN: I think I gave YOU an accurate description of where things stand. I don't think anything changes in terms of what I just said earlier in this briefing.

Q Scott, but YOU're giving the impression that YOU're backing from the veto threat?

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I just answered that question earlier.

Q So YOU're not doing that?

Q YOU're not backing off?

Q The President is not backing off?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think people in this room are trying to get us into drawing lines with Congress. We're trying to work with Congress to move ahead.

Q YOU drew the line.

Q We didn't draw the line.

MR. McCLELLAN: And that's where we are.

Q YOU did it.

MR. McCLELLAN: No, actually, David, I didn't. What I'm saying is that we're all working together to try to find a way ahead. So I didn't do that.

Q The President drew the line. Martha just read it to YOU. I mean, he did it, and YOU are not willing to stand up there, --

MR. McCLELLAN: That's right.

Q -- and say the President still has the view that he would veto it.

MR. McCLELLAN: He was asked a specific question. And as I said, his views and what he has expressed are what they are, and they remain the same. But where we are right now in the process, David, is trying to work together to move forward. And so I don't think anybody is trying to -- from our side it trying to get into drawing lines. We're trying to work together to move ahead. And I don't know how clearer I could be, but that's the accurate reflection of where things are. It's not an accurate reflection to suggest otherwise. And so what I'm trying to do is put this in context for YOU all in this room. And YOU can keep asking the same question, but I'm giving YOU an accurate reflection of where things stand in this process. And that's the best I can do.

.....GOOD GOLLY!!!
WHAT A BUNCH OF WEASEL - DODGING
HERE IS THE WHITE HOUSE LINK FOR THIS TRANSCRIPT
...IT IS WORTH READING BUT I BET YOU SEE MY POINT!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060309-6.html

TIA is now - Disruptive Technology Office
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: TIA spying NSA spying --> And this is suppose to protect us? HAHA
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
I want to start off, todays extrodinary long report, with the statement that a new bill that says A 45 day no-warrant-needed-law to spy on citizens, proposal is in the makings, there is more from this topic latter near the bottom of this rant, I only bring this tid-bit up now ...to set the tone for the rest of todays report:

So Lets get this Spy Study Started


The Government is getting ready to consider a bill on terrorist surveillance. It is soon to be introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio Get this Z3 Readers, It would allow the government to monitor the international calls of U.S. residents for 45 days without a warrant. The White House has called that approach a "generally sound measure."
(How is that bushman crap soup starting to taste now?)

So anyway, I read yesterday in the Online NY Times that The Federal Bureau of Investigation found apparent violations of its own wiretapping and other intelligence-gathering procedures more than 100 times in the last two years, and problems appear to have grown more frequent in some crucial respects, a Justice Department report released Wednesday said.

While some of these instances were considered technical glitches, the report, from the department's inspector general, characterized others as "significant," including wiretaps that were much broader in scope than approved by a court and others that were allowed to continue for weeks or sometimes months longer than was authorized.
But, the report disclosed, the Justice Department has opened reviews into two other controversial counterterrorism tactics that the department has widely employed since the Sept. 11 attacks.



They are
...1> The F.B.I.'s use of administrative subpoenas, known as national security letters, to demand records and documents without warrants in terror investigations, possibly abusing its subpoena powers to demand records in thousands of cases.

...2> The Office of Professional Responsibility, a Justice Department unit that reviews ethics charges against department lawyers, has opened inquiries related to the detention of 21 people held as material witnesses in terror investigations.

Although the FBI says they are quick to recover and correct mistakes (haha sure!) as a note of procedure the FBI was said to be doing --> "overcollection" of intelligence ? going beyond the scope approved by the court in authorizing a wiretap ? and "overruns," in which a wiretap or other intelligence-gathering method was allowed to continue beyond the approved time period without an extension. One case of wiretapping was for 373 days long.

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Lets move right along this stinky trail of spying...

See a few years back the Homeland Security started up the TIA and then very shortly it was supposedly shut down in Sept 03 by Congress eliminating funds for it, due to mostly, the massive complaining of citizens. Well guess what? It is still around it just changed its name and ...and now hides just under the mainstream radar in ......the Department of Homeland Security....that doesn't suprise you does it?

This TIA (Total Information Awarness) program sifts through tons of information looking to make some kind of connection. The problem is...it is like hunting for a needle in a haystack ...and doesn't provide results.
Let me use the info from --> Wired News dot Com to explain a little on why this wont even begin to work.

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Let's look at some numbers. We'll be optimistic -- we'll assume the system has a one in 100 false-positive rate (99 percent accurate), and a one in 1,000 false-negative rate (99.9 percent accurate). Assume 1 trillion possible indicators to sift through: that's about 10 events -- e-mails, phone calls, purchases, web destinations, whatever -- per person in the United States per day. Also assume that 10 of them are actually terrorists plotting.
This unrealistically accurate system will generate 1 billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers.
Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999 percent and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day
-- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those 10 real plots.
This isn't anything new. In statistics, it's called the "base rate fallacy," and it applies in other domains as well. For example, even highly accurate medical tests are useless as diagnostic tools if the incidence of the disease is rare in the general population. Terrorist attacks are also rare, any "test" is going to result in an endless stream of false alarms.
This is exactly the sort of thing we saw with the NSA's eavesdropping program: the New York Times reported that the computers spat out thousands of tips per month.

Every one of them turned out to be a false alarm.

We'd be far better off putting people in charge of investigating potential plots and letting them direct the computers, instead of putting the computers in charge and letting them decide who should be investigated.


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See there is this follow up to this TIA program found on this link --> HERE!
(quote)
This guy "Sharkey" played a key role in TIA's birth, when he and a close friend, retired Navy Vice Adm. John Poindexter, President Reagan's national security adviser, brought the idea to Defense officials shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The men had teamed earlier on intelligence-technology programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which agreed to host TIA and hired Poindexter to run it in 2002. In August 2003, Poindexter was forced to resign as TIA chief amid howls that his central role in the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s made him unfit to run a sensitive intelligence program.
[stay tuned readers he will be back in a few paragraphs]

As Sharkey continued, "a new sponsor has come forward that will enable us to continue much of our previous work." Sources confirm that this new sponsor was ARDA. Along with the new sponsor came a new name. "We will be describing this new effort as 'Basketball,' " Sharkey wrote, apparently giving no explanation of the name's significance.

It's unclear whether work on Basketball continues. Sharkey didn't respond to an interview request, and Poindexter said he had no comment about former TIA programs. But a publicly available Defense Department document, detailing various "cooperative agreements and other transactions" conducted in fiscal 2004, shows that Basketball was fully funded at least until the end of that year (September 2004).

The document shows that the system was being tested at a research center jointly run by ARDA and SAIC Corp., a major defense and intelligence contractor that is the sole owner of Hicks & Associates. The document describes Basketball as a "closed-loop, end-to-end prototype system for early warning and decision-making," exactly the same language used in contract documents for the TIA prototype system when it was awarded to Hicks in 2002. An SAIC spokesman declined to comment for this story.
Another key TIA project that moved to ARDA was Genoa II, which focused on building information technologies to help analysts and policy makers anticipate and pre- terrorist attacks. Genoa II was renamed Topsail when it moved to ARDA, intelligence sources confirmed. (The name continues the program's nautical nomenclature; "genoa" is a synonym for the headsail of a ship.)

As recently as October 2005, SAIC was awarded a $3.7 million contract under Topsail. According to a government-issued press release announcing the award, "The objective of Topsail is to develop decision-support aids for teams of intelligence analysts and policy personnel to assist in anticipating and pre-empting terrorist threats to U.S. interests."
That language repeats almost verbatim the boilerplate descriptions of Genoa II contained in contract documents, Pentagon
Devices developed under Genoa II's predecessor -- which Sharkey also managed when he worked for the Defense Department -- were used during the invasion of Afghanistan and as part of "the continuing war on terrorism," according to an unclassified Defense budget document.

Today, however, the future of Topsail is in question. A spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., which administers the program's contracts, said it's "in the process of being canceled due to lack of funds."

It is unclear when funding for Topsail was terminated.

But earlier this month, at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, one of TIA's strongest critics questioned whether intelligence officials knew that some of its programs had been moved to other agencies. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and FBI Director Robert Mueller whether it was "correct that when [TIA] was closed, that several ... projects were moved to various intelligence agencies....
I and others on this panel led the effort to close [TIA] we want to know if Mr. Poindexter's programs are going on somewhere else, said Wyden."

Negroponte and Mueller said they didn't know. But Negroponte's deputy, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who until recently was director of the NSA, said, "I'd like to answer in closed session." Asked for comment, Wyden's spokeswoman referred to his hearing statements. ....ya! I bet!!!

While the documents on the TIA programs don't show that their tools are used in the domestic eavesdropping, and knowledgeable sources wouldn't discuss the matter, the TIA programs were designed specifically to develop the kind of "early-warning system" that the president said the NSA is running.

Tom Armour, the Genoa II program manager, declined to comment for this story. But in a previous interview, he said that ARDA -- which absorbed the TIA programs -- has pursued technologies that would be useful for analyzing large amounts of phone and e-mail traffic. "That's, in fact, what the interest is," Armour said.
ARDA now is undergoing some changes of its own.

The outfit is being taken out of the NSA, placed under the control of Negroponte's office, and given a new name. It will be called the "Disruptive Technology Office," a reference to a term of art describing any new invention that suddenly, and often dramatically, replaces established procedures. Officials with the intelligence director's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.
(end quote)

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So now we move our study over to
"the civil-rights-crook Gonzales's"
and his avasive slant on this spying -->
Found on a FORBES Link Right Here It ironiaclly runs under the title headline of:
"Update 6: Gonzales: NSA Program Doesn't Need a Law"

....amazing huh?


It says right from the FORBES web site......
California Rep. Jane Harman, the House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, said.... Gonzales has personally given her similar assurances. But generally she has "become increasingly skeptical over time about a lot of things I have been hearing." Harman declined to elaborate.

Yep strangely enough the watchdog groups are all over this. But just what is going to come of all this is hard to predict with the spin doctor republicans in full swing.
I know what is ethicly right and so does "EPIC" who is agressively following this. Not to mention, some of these Freedom Of Information Acts that they are suing for - are basiclly "requiring the Government to EXPLAIN their spying".
My email I received from EPIC led me to this quote and I want to share it for you Z3 Readers ....it can stll possibly by found --> HERE

[**this link may be hard to open - I don't know why? if it didn't work try this route EPIC 13.05?]

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...Now! This Link --> Here is a letter to Gonzales form (D)Patrick Leahy.
NICE LETTER!
Check it out Z3 Readers!!
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Here is what I read from EPIC it also is more on the upcoming 45 days No Warrant Needed Bill..,
And get this .., They are saying this:
(quote)House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the former top Democrat on the intelligence panel, has publicly questioned what the congressional leaders don't know. Her spokeswoman, Jennifer Crider, said Republicans have been unwilling to perform oversight of the administration.

~~~~~~~ Now about that 45 days No Warrent Needed Topic read on ~~~~~~~~~

Specter was also critical of a terrorist surveillance bill - soon to be introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and other moderate lawmakers - that would allow the government to monitor the international calls of U.S. residents for 45 days without a warrant. The White House has called that approach a "generally sound measure."
Specter is planning to offer his own proposal that would require a federal intelligence court to vouch for the program's constitutionality every 45 days.

Democrats are calling for more oversight and may not embrace either approachAlso Wednesday, in response to a judge's order, the Bush administration released a fraction of the documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the National Security Archive. The administration asked for four additional months to process additional classified materials.

The release included e-mail exchanges between Justice officials about the program's legal justification. One official said the department's arguments had "a slightly after-the-fact quality or feeling to them," according to the privacy center.
In a statement, the center's general counsel, David Sobel, said the administration's actions show a continuing resistance to public scrutiny on the NSA program.
(end quote)

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I mention that EPIC was suing for FOIA documents on this subject ....here is the final quote I have for today my dear Z3 Readers, it is also from this great watchdog group "EPIC" which you can find on their website too ...check them out! They rock!

(quote)
Documents obtained by EPIC this week in a Freedom Of Information Act
lawsuit against the Department of Justice reveal that a former top
official in the Justice Department was skeptical of the Bush
Administration's legal justification for its controversial warrantless
surveillance program.

Among the released documents was a series of e-mails from former
Associate Deputy Attorney General David S. Kris. Kris -- now Chief
Ethics and Compliance Officer at Time Warner, Inc. -- provided his
former colleague a legal analysis concluding that the Authorization for
Use of Military Force Resolution likely did not authorize the
surveillance program. He also said that the DOJ's statutory arguments
"had a slightly after-the-fact quality or feeling to them."

The DOJ refused to disclose much additional information related to its
secretive warrantless surveillance program. Most of the documents
released this week are previously published justifications for the
program and transcripts of television appearances by the Attorney
General.

The documents disclosed by the DOJ this week cover only a small fraction
of the material at issue in the lawsuit. In legal papers filed the night
before the Justice Department's court-imposed deadline for releasing the
documents, the agency requested a delay of four months to complete is
processing of classified information related to the program.

The case arises from the New York Times' report in December that
President Bush secretly issued an executive order in 2002 authorizing
the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless surveillance of international telephone and Internet communications on American soil.

EPIC submitted FOIA requests to four DOJ components just hours after the
warrantless surveillance program's existence was first reported. Noting the extraordinary public interest in the program -- and its potential illegality -- EPIC asked the agencies to expedite the processing of its
requests. The DOJ agreed that the requests deceived priority treatment,
but failed to comply with theFOIA's usual time limit of twenty workingdays. The court's February 16 order found that delay to be unreasonable,
and ordered the Justice Department to disclose all responsive documents by March 8, or to describe the information it sought to withhold and provide legal justifications for non-disclosure.
"President Bush has invited meaningful debate about the warrantless surveillance program," U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy wrote. "That
can only occur if DOJ processes [EPIC's] FOIA requests in a timely
fashion and releases the information sought."

EPIC's case has been consolidated with a lawsuit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union and the National Security Archive concerning many
of the same documents.
(end quote)

DOJ's Motion Requesting More Time to Process Classified Material (pdf):

Click here for the EPIC pdf file



To all the Z3 Readers who read this far,
!- This was a lot of information to cover -!
...I wanted to shorten the quotes but they needed to be reprinted as much as we all know---
"The Truth Needs To Be Exposed!

And THANK YOU PATRIOTS -
You give this Great Nation Hope


Cheers! ~ Joe

Are we stupid or what?
Mood:  mischievious
Now Playing: China Tells The U.S.
Topic: HUMANITY
World Report of Human Rights Abuse produced by the U.S is now out....GET THIS Z3 READERS......... It doesn't include our own abuse that we do.

HAHAHAHAHA
OH MY GOODNESS what a sham this spin is
Are We Plain Downright Stupid?
"RICE THINKS SO, AS SHE DELIVERS THE U.S. REPORT"
The State Department study, published each year since 1977, offers a comprehensive analysis of all countries in the world......
-->*** "Except In The United States" ***<--






WHY DONT WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR?

So on March 1st,in Beijing China, they scold the United States on everything from the war in Iraq to racial clashes in Cincinnati with the police beating an older black man, in a report that highlighted the ideological rift dividing two powers that have increasingly friendly ties.

Beijing's annual assessment which was a
22-page Appraisal of Human Rights in America,
Came in retaliation for the U.S. report on 191 countries last week, which upbraided China for backsliding.

READ MORE --> Here on MSNBC

The response came one day after the State Department said the Chinese government's human rights record "remained poor, and the government continued to commit numerous and serious abuses."

"We express our strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang , adding that Washington should "immediately end the erroneous practice of interfering in other country's internal politics."

A large section of the Chinese report was devoted to racial discrimination, which it said had "long been a chronic malady of American society."
"We urge the U.S. government to look squarely at its own human rights problems, reflect what it has done in the human rights field and take concrete measures to improve its own human rights status."

"For a long time, the life and security of the people of the United States has not been under efficient protection," the Chinese report said.

Blacks are given heavier criminal penalties, arrested more frequently and are more likely to be targeted for hate crimes, the report said.

It also criticized American troops for brutality at prisons in Iraq and the detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"As in previous years, the State Department pointed the finger at human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions, including China, but kept silent on the serious violations of human rights in the United States," it said.

It is "an act that fully exposes its hypocrisy and double standard on human rights issues," said the report which drew mostly from stories and statistics in the American press.

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Showing no respect of the human rights of Chinese citizens, the United States began demanding fingerprints and photos from Chinese applicants for visas to the United States on Monday.
The move infringes the human dignity and right to privacy of Chinese citizens.


These reports go on to say "So now we all know. What right does the US have of pointing fingers at China with documented examples of religious persecution, murders in prison, the arrest of reporters -- how dare we come forward with such claims when at the exact same time we are inflicting such mental torture on the Chinese....by asking that they (and many others coming into America) be fingerprinted and photographed?"
The same article ends with an, ahem, outspoken conclusion about us wicked Americans: (I wonder why?)
"They can kill anyone they think is a potential threat to their precious lives. That is their idea of human rights."

This was the fifth straight year Beijing has issued a report on the rights record of the United States. China goes on to say "The presidential election, viewed as a symbol of American democracy, in reality is a money game played by the rich"--- wow they tagged that one right!

China reserved one of its harshest indictments for American actions abroad since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Quoting another report in the Independent, it said 13,000 unarmed men, women and children died in attacks led by U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, calling the Iraq campaign the bloodiest for civilians since the Vietnam War. ummm isn't it more like 100's of thousands? ...anyway .....

Dong Yunhu, the head of a government-run human-rights organization, pointed out "that the U.S. not only had a long history of racial discrimination, but also...a large population suffering from poverty, hunger and lack of housing."

On a final note dear Z3 Reader.
Dong, noted that the U.S. "is one of the few countries that sentences child offenders to death" and that it has one of the worst rankings for child poverty among developed nations. (See a UNICEF report on
Child Poverty Report Card Dong also noted that the U.S. is one of the few countries that has not yet ratified the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

..."That figures" I mutter out loud, and yesterday was Womens Rights Day ...what a joke this administration is!

I swear .... this country is being run by Bozo the Neo-Con Clown

Thanks China! For setting the record straight for Bozo!

More Information found
here -->
Human Rights Report Article

Free Trade .......Wal Mart controls the market ...... and you have no job, unless you work for them
Mood:  smelly
Now Playing: They stole all the Business ,,,But did you help them do it?
Topic: CORPORATE CRAP
WAL-MART IS RUINING AMERICA
YOU HEARD ME ...RUINING BUSINESS AND LIVES
THAT MY FAIR READER IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.

THIS PBS DOCUMENTARY EXPLAINS IT ALL
(PLEASE INFORM YOUR SELVES ITS IMPORTANT)

IT IS A LITTLE OVER 30 MINUTES LONG AND WILL EXPLAIN WHY I SAY THIS. VERY WELL REPORTED BY PBS

WATCH THIS FILM AND TELL ME ONE REASON WHY YOU WILL STILL SUPPORT AN INDUSTRY THAT IS RUINING THE U.S.?

THE TERRIBLE SHAME IS THEY SAY THEY ARE AN AMERICAN COMPANY. THEY WANT YOU TO THINK OF THEM LIKE AMERICAN APPLE PIE. SORRY IT IS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. IT IS NOT ABOUT UNCLE SAM, THE AMERICAN WAY OR CHEAP PRICES FOR-THE-PEOPLE.
IT IS ALL ABOUT CORPORATE SELFISH PROFITS.

FOLKS REALIZE THAT IT IS 100% OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY SAY!
THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT IS GOOD FOR THE U..S AND OUR PEOPLE......
BUT...ITS BAD FOR US ALL... WE ALL WILL BOW BEFORE COMPANY THAT RULES OVER ALL PRODUCTS.
WHICH, CONSEQUENTLY HAS LEFT US GRIPPING THEIR ANKLES FOR MORE CHEAP PRICES AND JOBS,
THERE ARE NO OTHER CHOICES THEY COMPETITION HAS ALL BEEN RUN OUT OF TOWN OR GONE BUST!

Z3 READERS HERE IS THE LINK TO THE PBS STORY
PBS; "Is Wal Mart Good For America?"

AMERICANS WHO ARE WILLING TO BUY THEIR CHEAP DISH SOAP, SOCKS, AND TV'S ARE ASSISTING IN LITERALLY RUINING THE AMERICA ECONOMY!

THIS DOCUMENTARY WILL SHOW YOU THAT THIS INDUSTRY IS TALKING US DOWN THE SHITTER
AS PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE "SAVING ON PRICES" WAL MART BECOMES THE RICHEST CORPORATION
......IN THE WORLD! AND JOBS DISAPPEAR IN THE US AND CHINA GETS THE WORK (BY THE CLINTON HELPED PASS LAWS TO ASSIST THIS FREE TRADE FARCE)

(CHEAP TOILET PAPER --> NOT FOR MY ASS)

JOE SENDS A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL THOSE PROTESTING THIS CORPORATE GIANT.
SPREAD THE WORD.
SAVE OUR ECONOMY.
KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!
NOW GO DOWNLOAD THIS SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Today we set a moment aside to appreciate the rights of women
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: GO GIRL - TODAY IS ALL ABOUT YOU
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS

Joe Anybody today speaks for one man, to all women alike

I am happy and proud to say today is:

WOMAN'S  DAY

For starters here is a link to a few pictures I have found "14 Pictures!"

And here is an interesting tribute .... "The Women's Rights National Historical Park"link --> HERE!
Read about and maybe someday see the parks four major historical properties and a state of the art Visitor Center.

Go Girl!


~ from one proud american joe

THIS IS AN AMBOMINATION OF OUR CHERISHED CIVIL RIGHTS
Mood:  sharp
Now Playing: ? Thomas Jefferson Would Never Tolerate This ?
Topic: CIVIL RIGHTS
Now Click Here for a "blogger" I can relate too!
Read the following from one of his posts, and then click the link above to read his full post with some good links in his article.


(quote)
Bush might as well walk into the National Archives, break the glass case where the original Constitution is preserved, and take a Bic lighter to it. Bush should invite virtually the whole of Congress, so they can whoop and cheer at the physical destruction of our founding document. I realize this is a disgusting image but it is appropriate, considering what Bush and Congress are doing.
'Evidence Bush' and his 'Straussian neocons'...consulting their ghoulish legal buddies over at the Federalist Society, are dismantling the Constitution is stacking up like cordwood outside a Maine cabin in November. Parallels to Hitler and his Enabling Act are chilling.
(end quote)

What is very disturbing is the White House Republican backed witch hunt for the persons responsible for "leaking" that the NSA was spying.
So the fact that they are spying with out a warrent or a care for the LAW it is not even an issue with the Bushman crowd!
It's who spilled the beans and let the cat out on our shady deals! That is really what those neocons want to know.
In a style that stinks of the Nixon years these Neocons are going to try and imprison the truth tellers.
In the corporate world this kind of event is called "whistle blowing" in Bushman Neocon world it is called "espionage".
Funny how the Libby, Rove, Valerie Plame leak is not even a concern to these creeps.
Now they want to put a stop to anyone speaking out against this civil rights abuse and illegal spying by the Bushman crowd.
For example look at this comment from this link from a 1917 law about "Espionage" that they are tring to use against those who may of reveled the spying on citizens by NSA oooooppps I mean terrorists.

Of course, these are simply high profile pretexts, as the Straussian neocons fully intend to go after all enemies, that is to say anybody who criticizes their draconian and fascistic policies.

What is appalling is mentioned by Political scientist George Harleigh, who also worked in the Nixon administration, adds: We are talking about a basic violation of the Constitutional guarantee of a free press as well as a violation of the rights of privacy of American citizens. I had hoped we would have learned our lessons from the Nixon era.

Sadly, it appears we have not!!!!!!!!!!!!.

He mentions that in respect for the excellent blogger with a very scary report, at

Capital Hill Blue Website
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Z3 READERS PLEASE READ THE CAPITAL HILL BLUE LINK
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IT IS DAMN RIGHT SACARY AND REAL - THIS IS NO JOKE
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In this serious abuse of free speech and witch hunts for those that dissent and for those who are calling the kettle black......well they (bushman clan and black booted thugs) are getting ready for a whole mess of people who may just prefer to be in Prison for their civil right viewpoints and anti-government positions, rather than patsy up and play the "neocon game" along with all the head~in~the~sand~crowd.

It may be close at hand but...
for what will you fall on your sword for?
That is the gut question Joe Anybody is asking himself.
I surly can't stand by, as this great nation goes down the
"neocon bushman shitter"
Here is the shocking link of an pdf Army document that talks about
"Homeland Security Civilian Prison Camps"
Hey folks its called Army Regulation 210-35 and its all about establising labor camps for civilians on army bases.
(boy sure is getting weird with all this bushman terrorist stuff huh???
....now we citizens are becoming the terrorist???)
I think I might start brushing up on my prison survival skills!
How about you all?
More to come on this very subject of NSA spying on journalist or bloggers and prison if you dare to speak against Our Fascist King"

Let me end this report with one more quote from Kurts blog
(quote)
There are many things worse than Watergate, John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, told Bill Moyers. Taking the nation to war in a time when they might not have had to gone to war.
These are probably the most serious offenses that you can make when you take a country to war for, blood and treasure, no higher decision can a President of the United States make as the Commander-in-Chief.
*To do it on bogus information, to use this kind of secrecy to do it is intolerable.*
(end quote)

P.S.
I just read in that in Oregon the NSA is eavesdropping on a Muslim Charity Group in Southern Oregon. The charity is now suing for the wirtap conversations. Land of the Free?

NOT!