Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity

Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity 27 Nov 2005


Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
27 November 2005
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Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity 27 Nov 2005 The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities. The moves have taken place on several fronts. ...The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity will be "increasingly required to perform domestic missions," and as a result, "there will be increased instances whereby Marine intelligence activities may come across information regarding U.S. persons."
Abuse worse than under Hussein, says Iraqi leader --Allawi in damning indictment of new regime 27 Nov 2005 Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country's first Prime Minister after the fall of Hussein's government. 'People are doing the same as Saddam's time and worse,' Ayad Allawi told The Observer. 'It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things.' ...'We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated,' Allawi added. 'A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations...'
Abuse in Iraq as bad or worse than in Hussein's day: Allawi 26 Nov 2005 Human rights abuses in Iraq now are as bad, or worse, than they when Saddam Hussein was in power, the nation's first post-Saddam prime minister was quoted as saying. In an interview with the Observer newspaper in London, Iyad Allawi pointed an accusing finger at the interior ministry, and alleged that "a lot of Iraqis" are being tortured or killed during interrogation.
'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers 27 Nov 2005 A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
Arabic press anger at al-Jazeera 'plot' 27 Nov 2005 Newspapers in the Arab world have reacted with a mixture of anger and disgust over allegations that US Dictator George W. Bush suggested bombing the popular Arab television station al-Jazeera... The Israeli Arab Sawt Al-Haq wal-Hurriyah praises what it sees as al-Jazeera's "daring, professional coverage of the US aggression against Iraq, the city of Fallujah and Afghanistan... Even merely thinking about bombarding an information medium, regardless of what it is, is a blatant violation of all noble values, and shows time after time the ugly face of those who contemplate such sick thinking," the papers editorial argues.

<sarcasm> it helps make me feel loved and wanted to be watched! </sarcasm>

Good thing this is the party of smaller government. It kills (with a sobbing laughter) me when people say how things would have been so much worse if Gore or Kerry had won. I've yet to hear those same people actually back those statements up, of course.

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Very scary stuff indeed!