Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Now Bush is Spying on ABC
#0Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:59pm
At what point are these CLEARLY un-American activities branded "Gestapo tactics"?
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Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
May 15, 2006 10:33 AM
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
"It's time for you to get some new cell phones, quick," the source told us in an in-person conversation.
ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.
One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen.
Our reports on the CIA's secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials. The CIA asked for an FBI investigation of leaks of classified information following those reports.
People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan.
Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.
The official who warned ABC News said there was no indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded.
A pattern of phone calls from a reporter, however, could provide valuable clues for leak investigators.
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Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2re: Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:08pm
Honey, forget 1984.
We are already well into 1986.
And, many people do not seem to care. They do not realized what is being lost/taken.
We need the Democrats to get a house in November if to nothing else cause gridlock and finally find out what the hell is really going on.
#3re: Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:16pm
Only 29% (including PapaLovesMambo) don't care.
The rest of the country is FINALLY starting to wake.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#4re: Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:20pmI was at the Yankee game yesterday and I was wondering if the NSA taps the bullpen phones as well. They might think pitching coach Ron Guidry is Al Qeda . Patterns.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#5it's only a bad leak if it makes the white house look good
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:29pm
am i concerned that the justice department has looked at calling records of news organizations in the course of a leak investigation? nope.
gee, pj, you want rove's head on a pike for allegedly leaking a name, but you don't want the government to investigate any other leaks? releasing classified information is a crime, 'member? i mean that's why you think rove should be indicted right? for releasing classified information? so it's a crime if a republican does it, but if the information has the potential to be spun to make the administration look bad then it should not be investigated? ok.
as far as calling it gestapo tactics, you just did. can ya make some bush as hitler signs and graphics and ask the net-roots to start pushing them? big swastikas, please.
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pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#6it's only a bad leak if it makes the white house look good
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:33pmbush was probably trying to get presidental tips from commander in chief's geena davis.
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#7it's only a bad leak if it makes the white house look good
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:33pmdammit, robbo, i told you that was off the record!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#8Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:45pm
It's the conservatives who are quoting the Third Reich today.
The conservative World News Daily offers this icky racist tidbit:
Snippet:
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Dear Jorge plans to address the nation tonight, a speech wherein he will almost surely attempt to deceive citizens into believing that he does not wish the mass migration from Mexico to continue unabated. He will likely offer some negligible resources for law enforcement and border security – resources which will never materialize – in return for an amnesty program that will grant American citizenship to the Mexican nationals who have helped lower America's wage rates by 16 percent over the last 32 years.
And he will be lying, again, just as he lied when he said: "Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic – it's just not going to work."
Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don't speak English and are not integrated into American society.
Against a fence
#9Now Bush is Spying on ABC
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:53pmHe's probably just trying to find ou what happens on the season finale of "Lost." Maybe he'll discuss his findings in the address to the nation tonight. "Well America, it appears as though Michael is not one of the Others."
#10it's only a bad leak if it makes the white house look good
Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:01pm
papa - I have no problem with the Bush Administration tapping the phones of outbound calls from the White House and Federal Employees who may leak confidential information. Tapping phones of reporters and news agencies without a warrant is quite another issue.
I also have a problem with situational ethics adopted by this Administration and the Republicans defending the wiretapping practices and telephone database aggregation projects. They seem so concerned about the law when a Democrat was in office, and now, the law, and possible violation of the law, is not so important with a Republican in power.
And, if this Administration did not leak like a old glad bag with puncture holes in it when it suits its purposes, perhaps I would be a little more receptive to what they say. But, they seem so intent on playing by their own set of rules, rather than following the law, that I have great difficulty at giving credibility to much of what they say. The President is not above the law - The Republicans spent millions of dollars to prove that very point via Bill Clinton.
To tap the phones and calling patterns of the press without first going through the proper steps to get warrants, when the whole issue underlying the leak is the government's failure to follow the law just seems one step short of stupid.
They cannot have it both ways - leak when it suits their purposes and then selectively go after leaks that may in fact show that their policies are in violation of the law.
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