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FBI Director Robert Mueller - Intelligence and Antiterrorism

2008-10-26T15:29:44Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

FBI Director Robert Mueller discusses the the U.S. government's approach to intelligence-gathering in the name of terrorism prevention.

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From 9/11 to 7/7: Global Terrorism Today and the Challenges of Tomorrow with FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Since 11 September 2001 when Al-Qaeda launched a massive attack on US targets from its base in Afghanistan, terrorists have executed attacks around the world, including the bombing of the London Underground and bus system in July 2005.

Terrorist tactics continue to evolve and expand in Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups, as well as homegrown terrorist cells, through foreign training camps and internet recruitment.

With the United States and United Kingdom remaining prime targets, the speaker will discuss the future implications of the terrorist threat, and how the global community must work together to combat it - Chatham House

Robert Mueller is the current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and became the sixth Director of the FBI on September 4, 2001.

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AT&T: Within 2 WEEKS of taking office, Bush planned domestic spying

2008-01-12T20:43:35Z

What does it take to impeach this guy?!

Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday's New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer alleges that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”

Let's see...That was in January of 2001, maybe February. September 11 was...plus 8, carry the... yes, yes I'm sure of it. That was 8 months BEFORE 9/11. Before. In 2005 Bush said that...

...the authorizations have made it "more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time, and the activities conducted under this authorization have helped detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad."

So Bush is clairvoyant?

The whistleblower:

"There was no discussion of limiting the monitoring to international communications, he said."
“At some point,” he told the paper, “I started feeling something isn’t right.”

We're all more than a little queasy at this point.

Others at AT&T discounted it as merely an effort to improve the N.S.A.’s internal communications systems. Uh-uh.

“What he saw,” Bruce Afran, a New Jersey lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told the Times, “was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”

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Are the Democratic Candidates Finally Taking a Stand?

2008-10-23T03:30:02Z

Chris Dodd leads the charge in opposing the domestic spying bill that gives Telecoms immunity. Watch the entire show at theyoungturks.com.

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Government Spying - Not American

2008-10-23T15:30:26Z

If you have nothing to hide, what's wrong with the government spying on you? Watch the entire show at www.theyoungturks.com.

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Anthony Romero - The ACLU's Record on Terrorism

2008-10-25T09:30:57Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the position of the ACLU in regards to terrorism and other wartime legislation.

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"In Defense of America: Fighting A Different Kind of War, Without Becoming A Different Kind of Country" with Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

President Bush says the U.S. is fighting a "different kind of war," but does that mean it must become a different kind of country? Rather than justifying the usurpation of constitutional powers, this war demands that we stick to our core values more strongly than ever, says the ACLU. Romero shares examples from the legal war that he has been fighting at home.

Anthony D. Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation's premier defender of liberty and individual freedom. He took the helm of the 87-year-old organization just four days before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Shortly afterward, the ACLU launched its national Safe and Free campaign to protect basic freedoms during a time of crisis. Under Romero's leadership, the ACLU gained court victories on the Patriot Act filed landmark litigation on the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, and filed the first successful legal challenge to the Bush administration's illegal NSA spying program.

Romero, an attorney with a history of public-interest activism, has presided over the most successful membership growth in the ACLU's history and more than doubled national staff and tripled the budget of the organization since he began his tenure. This unprecedented growth has allowed the ACLU to expand its nationwide litigation, lobbying and public education efforts, including new initiatives focused on racial justice, religious freedom, privacy, reproductive freedom and lesbian and gay rights.

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Democrats Cave to Bush on Spying

2008-10-26T03:30:19Z

The Democrats give Bush permission to continue to break the law. Watch the entire show at www.theyoungturks.com. The Young Turks, Air America Radio, M-F 6-9am ET.

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A Chat with Congressman Jerrold Nadler

2008-10-16T09:31:51Z

TPMtv sits down for a talk with its congressman, Representative Jerrold Nadler (D) of New York's 8th District, about warrantless wiretapping, the politicization of the Justice Department, and that dusty old constitutional concept known as congressional oversight.

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