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              Voorzien de Revelaties van de Spion van Bush wanneer Obama binnen wordt gezworen
Maandag, 10 November, 2008 Door Ryan Singel | Wanneer Barack Obama de eed van bureau op 20 Januari neemt, zullen Amerikanen niet alleen een nieuwe voorzitter worden; zij zouden de volledige omvang van George W. definitief kunnen leren Het warrantless binnenlandse aftappen van Bush. Sinds de New York Times die eerst in 2005 wordt geopenbaard die NSA op telefoongesprekken en e-mail afluisterde de overzee van de burger, zijn weinig extra details over het massieve „Programma van het Toezicht van de Terrorist“ te voorschijn gekomen. Dat is omdat het Beleid van Bush stonewalled, misleide en ontkende documenten aan Congres, en dagvaardde de telefoonverslagen van de onderzoeksverslaggevers heeft. Nu zijn de privacyverdedigers hoopvol dat President Obama meer aanstaande zal zijn met informatie. Maar voor de snelste en eerlijkste rekening van het onwettige beleid van Bush, zeggen zij kijken niet aan de inkomende voorzitter. Horloge in plaats daarvan voor het verborgen leger van zogenaamde fluitje-ventilators die' ve die op de Dag van de Inauguratie wacht om de spon op de waarheid te openen. „ik zou wedden er heel wat carrièrewerknemers in de intelligentieagentschappen die blij zullen zijn om Obama te zien de eed nemen zodat zij kan definitief uit tegen al dit het onwettige spioneren spreken en naar hun echte opdracht teruggaan zijn,“ zegt Caroline Fredrickson, Washington D.C. van ACLU. wetgevende directeur. Heeft de onderzoeksverslaggever Seymour Hersh van Newyorker reeds van bronnen zwenken die de donkerste geheimen van het beleid van Bush wachten te morsen, zei hij vorige maand in een gesprek. „U kunt geloven niet hoeveel mensen me hebben verteld om hen op 20 te roepen Januari. [Zij zeggen,] `die u hebt willen om van misbruiken en schendingen op de hoogte zijn? Oproepen dan me. '“ Tot dusver, vrijwel alles weten wij over NSA het warrantless toezicht is gekomen uit fluitje-ventilators. Stafmedewerkers van telecommunicatie vertelden vandaag de V.S. dat zij miljarden telefoonverslagen aan de overheid hadden omgekeerd. Het vroegere de werknemersTeken Klein van AT&T verstrekte bedradingsdiagrammen detaillerend een Internet-spionerende ruimte in een de omschakelingsfaciliteit van San Francisco. En één procureur van de Afdeling van de Rechtvaardigheid had zijn overvallen huis en computers van zijn kinderen die als deel van de FBI sonde worden gegrepen in wie het warrantless spioneren aan de New York Times lekte. De procureur Algemene Alberto Gonzales stelde zelfs voor de verslaggevers onder ouderwetse verraadstatuten zouden kunnen worden vervolgd. If new whistle-blowers do emerge, Fredrickson hopes the additional information will spur Congress to form a new Church Committee — the 1970s bipartisan committee that investigated and condemned the government’s secret spying on peace activists, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other political figures. But even if the anticipated flood of leaks doesn’t materialize, advocates are hopeful that Obama and the Democratic Congress will eventually get around to airing out the White House closet anyway. “Obama has pledged a lot more openness,” says Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which was the first to file a federal lawsuit over the illegal eavesdropping. One encouraging sign for civil liberties groups is that the Center for American Progress’s president John Podesta is one of the top three heading Obama’s transition team, which will staff and set priorities for the new administration. The center was a tough and influential critic of the Bush administration’s warrantless spying. Among the unanswered questions: Were there quid pro quo promises made to the phone companies and internet carriers who cooperated with the secret spying? For example, were co-conspirators promised lucrative government contracts? Did the program appropriate the CALEA wiretapping infrastructure? Under CALEA, Congress forced telecoms to build surveillance capabilities into the phone and internet network, but promised it would only be used with court orders. What did the first version of the surveillance program sweep into its net? In March 2004, a squadron of top officials at the Justice Department, including then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI head Robert Mueller, threatened to resign over the illegality of the program. The program was subsequently scaled back, but nobody knows what the NSA was doing that was bad enough to horrify Ashcroft. What was the legal rationale for the surveillance?FISA explicitly made warrantless domestic eavesdropping illegal, but the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a series of memos justifying the spying anyway. The ACLU is fighting the Bush administration for access to the documents, as well as secret memos justifying torture. “It’s difficult to see how Sen. Obama could call his administration transparent if his administration continues to suppress non-sensitive information that should have been released a long time ago,” says the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer. The other looming question is whether, as president, Obama will continue the warrantless spying himself. Obama voted with the majority in Congress to legalize the Bush spying program in July, but the constitutionality of the measure is yet untested. An Obama administration is less likely than Bush to devise convoluted legal end-runs around the Constitution, according to Marc Rotenberg, the head of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “Keep in mind that Obama is a constitutional scholar and has a deep understanding of checks and balance,” says Rotenberg. “It’s hard to imagine that an Obama administration would support … warrantless wiretapping.” With the financial markets and the economy in deep trouble, it’s unlikely that Obama will quickly turn to the issue of warrantless wiretapping. But the EFF’s lawsuit against AT&T over the surveillance could force the new administration to pick a side quickly. In December, a federal judge in San Francisco will hold a hearing on whether the retroactive immunity granted to AT&T and other telecoms as part of the FISA Amendments Act is Constitutional. Obama voted for the act in order to legalize the spying program, but tried unsuccessfully to strip out the immunity provision. EFF’s Opsahl hopes that if EFF prevails in December, an Obama administration might let the decision stand, clearing the way for EFF’s lawsuit to proceed. “If we are victorious in our constitutional challenge, I would hope the Obama administration would accept that loss and move on without an appeal,” says Opsahl. “But we will have to see.” Have Your Say: Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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