The MSM has, predictably, not touched this story, which to me is the most shameful of McCain's long life of shameful acts. Sydney Schanberg, the journalist of "The Killing Fields," has been on this story for years and has a great piece in this month's "The Nation."
If this story was publicized, it would sink McCain -- not just his campaign, but the man himself -- for good. What he did was horrifying. Unfortunately, Dems, including John Kerry, helped abandon these men, so the MSM and the government will never touch the story. Please read it and tell others.

Thank Howard Dean for his 50-State Strategy.
http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contactissues

I think it's indeed highly likely that Palin is as ignorant about science as she is about every other important issue (besides the coming rapture). But what about the audience that clapped and cheered when she said that? Apparently birds of ignorance flock together.

is an excellent satirist and the only reason I don't regularly read his blog is because of its' irregular updates. Thanks for bringing his most recent post to my attention. People, this is worth a read and do not fail to follow his link back to Althouse's site which features a right wing law professor with only a passing knowledge of law. She apparently feels that actually quoting her statements is somehow libelous.

James Bamford “The Shadow Factory”

James Bamford's interview with Amy Goodman about his j recently released book about the NSA. The Book is called the "Shadow Factory"

You should listen to the interview with Bamford. I will link to Democracy Now and to the four part series that Fox was forced to remove from their website about Israeli run datamining companies with access to 80% of Americans communications systems. I will link that four part series below.

October 14, 2008
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James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America”

The Bush administration’s wiretapping program has come under new scrutiny this week. Two influential congressional committees have opened probes into allegations US intelligence spied on the phone calls of American military personnel, journalists and aid workers in Iraq. We speak to James Bamford about the NSA’s spying on Americans, the agency’s failings pre-9/11 and the ties between NSA and the nation’s telecommunications companies. [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/14/james_...

JAMES BAMFORD: Yeah. There’s two major—or not major, they’re small companies, but they service the two major telecom companies. This company, Narus, which was founded in Israel and has large Israel connections, does the—basically the tapping of the communications on AT&T. And Verizon chose another company, ironically also founded in Israel and largely controlled by and developed by people in Israel called Verint.

So these two companies specialize in what’s known as mass surveillance. Their literature—I read this literature from Verint, for example—is supposed to only go to intelligence agencies and so forth, and it says, “We specialize in mass surveillance,” and that’s what they do. They put these mass surveillance equipment in these facilities. So you have AT&T, for example, that, you know, considers it’s their job to get messages from one person to another, not tapping into messages, and you get the NSA that says, we want, you know, copies of all this. So that’s where these companies come in. These companies act as the intermediary basically between the telecom companies and the NSA.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, Jim Bamford, take this a step further, because you say the founder and former CEO of one of these companies is now a fugitive from the United States somewhere in Africa?

JAMES BAMFORD: Well, you know, this is a company that the US government is getting all its tapped information from. It’s a company that Verizon uses as its tapping company, its eavesdropping company. And very little is known about these companies. Congress has never looked into any of this. I don’t know—I don’t think they even know that there is—that these companies exist. But the company that Verizon uses, Verint, the founder of the company, the former head of the company, is now a fugitive in—hiding out in Africa in the country of Namibia, because he’s wanted on a number of felony warrants for fraud and other charges. And then, two other top executives of the company, the general counsel and another top official of the parent company, have also pled guilty to these charges.

So, you know, you’ve got companies—these companies have foreign connections with potential ties to foreign intelligence agencies, and you have problems of credibility, problems of honesty and all that. And these companies—through these two companies pass probably 80 percent or more of all US communications at one point or another. And it’s even—gets even worse in the fact that these companies also supply their equipment all around the world to other countries, to countries that don’t have a lot of respect for individual rights—Vietnam, China, Libya, other countries like that. And so, these countries use this equipment to filter out dissident communications and people trying to protest the government. It gives them the ability to eavesdrop on communications and monitor dissident email communications. And as a result of that, people are put in jail, and so forth."
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Amy Goodman’s interview with Bamford
http://www.democracynow.org/20.....actory_the

The go listen to Carl Cameron’s four part report on “alleged” Israeli spying on the U.s. via these datamining and telecommunications systems. In the four part series Cameron reports that there may have been a back door in the system that was infiltrated

Four Part Series

http://www.informationclearing.....le7545.
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More on the

Telecommunications and alleged Israeli spying (these Israeli owned datamining and surveillance companies are mentioned in Carl Camerons report, James Bamfords book “The Shadow Factory” and several F.B.I. reports.

this is a Senate Select Committee Intelligence Report called “Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and F.B.I. Suspects in the Sept22 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning”
Sept15/3004
http://www.newsfollowup.com/id.....esbold.pdf

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We also have another investigation into “alleged” Israeli spying that has been completely off limits in the MSM but also in the progressive blogosphere. That is the investigation and upcoming Aipac/Rosen/Weissman Espionage trial. (this trial has been delayed at least 4 times I am thinking it might have been five)

No one No one will touch this issue. With the exception of Justin Raimando at Anti war.com

Here are the selected files for the upcoming aipac espionage trial (that is if it is not dismissed)
http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/aipac/index.html

http://74.125.95.104/search?q=.....#038;gl=us

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Alexandria Division
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
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v.
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Case No. 1:05cr225
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STEVEN J. ROSEN
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KEITH WEISSMAN
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
In this Espionage Act prosecution, defendants Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman have
been charged in Count I of a superseding indictment with conspiring to transmit information
relating to the national defense to those not entitled to receive it, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
1
§ 793(g). Defendants, by pretrial motion, attack the constitutionality of § 793 in three ways.
First, they argue that the statute, as-applied to them, is unconstitutionally vague in violation of
the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Second, they argue that the statute, as-applied
to them, abridges their First Amendment right to free speech and their First Amendment right to
petition the government. Third, defendants assert the First Amendment rights of others by
attacking the statute as facially overbroad. In the alternative, defendants urge the Court to avoid
these constitutional issues by interpreting the statute as applying only to the transmission of
tangible items, i.e., documents, tapes, discs, maps and the like.
In addition, defendant Rosen has been charged in Count III of the superseding indictment
with aiding and abetting the transmission of information relating to the national defense to one
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