Do the feds really want to place the ports of New York and New Jersey in the hands
of a Middle East country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers? As The Post reported
on Sunday, that's what's about to happen, now that Dubai Ports World has won
control - for $6.8 billion - of British-owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Co.
"The way I remember it," the CIA official said about that first meeting he attended
in Cheney's office, "is that the vice president was obsessed with Wilson. He called
him an 'asshole,' a son-of-a-bitch. He took his comments very personally. He
wanted us to do everything in our power to destroy his reputation and he wanted
to be kept up to date about the progress."
“Contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute ban on [military] intelligence
components collecting U.S. person information,” the U.S.Army’s top intelligence
officer said in a 2001 memo that surfaced Tuesday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T
Tuesday, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its
customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive
and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." -- Thomas Jefferson
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2005 - The Bush administration and Senate Republican
leaders are pushing a plan that would significantly expand the F.B.I.'s power to
demand business records in terror investigations without obtaining approval from a
judge, officials said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed
large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the
United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved
after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity,
according to current and former government officials.
