Criminal George W. Bush Authorizes Criminal Spying On Dissidents

More 1st Amendment Subversion via 4th Amendment Subversion

Bush Order Expands Internet Monitoring By NSA 26 Jan 2008 President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer systems spy on dissidents. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in particular the National Security Agency, to monitor the computer networks of all federal agencies -- including ones they have not previously monitored. The prospect of aiming NSA's power at domestic networks is raising concerns, just as the NSA's role in the government's warrantless domestic-surveillance program has been controversial. "Agencies designed to gather intelligence on foreign entities should not be in charge of monitoring our computer systems here at home," said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Lawmakers with oversight of homeland security and intelligence matters say they have pressed the administration for months for details. The classified joint directive, signed Jan. 8 and called the National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23, has not been previously disclosed.

U.S. V.P. Cheney lawyer David Addington: "We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court."

Warrant less Spying Legal Architect - Torture Advocate a graduate of Jesuit Georgetown Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

New Book Details Cheney Lawyer's Efforts to Expand Executive Power 05 Sep 2007 Vice President [sic] Cheney's top lawyer [David S. Addington, now Cheney's chief of staff], pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear that even a Republican majority might say no, according to a new book -- "The Terror Presidency" -- written by a former senior Justice Department official... [Jack L.] Goldsmith.

[It] described Addington as "the chief legal architect of the Terrorist Surveillance Program," which bypassed the secret court that administers FISA and allowed the National Security Agency to spy on communications between the United States and overseas without warrants. In a February 2004 meeting, Addington said sarcastically: "We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court."

http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

David Addington

from Wikipedia:

Education and career

Addington graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1974. He is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1981.

Addington was assistant general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 to 1987 he was counsel for the House committees on intelligence and international relations. He served as a staff attorney on the joint U.S. House-Senate committee investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal as an assistant to Congressman Dick Cheney, and was one of the principal authors of a controversial minority report issued at the conclusion of the joint committee's investigation.[3]

Addington was also a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan for one year in 1987, before becoming Reagan's deputy assistant. He was Republican counsel on the Iran-Contra committee in the 1980's. From 1989 to 1992, Addington served as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, before becoming the Department of Defense's general counsel in 1992.

From 1993 to 2001, he worked in private practice, for law firms Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz and Holland & Knight, and the American Trucking Associations.^[3] He headed a political action committee, the Alliance for American Leadership, set up in large part to explore a possible presidential candidacy for Mr. Cheney.

Vice President's Office

After he began working for Vice President Cheney, Addington was very influential in many different areas of policy. He authored or helped to shape many of the most controversial policies of the Bush administration.^[2] Addington's influence strongly reflects his hawkish views on U.S. foreign policy, a position he had apparently already committed to as a teenager during the late phase of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.^[4]

Addington has consistently advocated that under the Constitution, the President has unlimited powers as commander in chief during wartime. In October 2005, Addington was tapped to become the Vice President's chief of staff, replacing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who had resigned after being indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. He is the legal force behind over 750 signing statements President Bush has added to bills passed by Congress. Addington was a legal advisor to President Reagan, and suggested that such signing statements be used to exempt President Reagan from responsibility for the Iran-Contra scandal.

Addington helped to shape an August 2002 opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that said torture might be justified in some cases.^[5] He advocates scaling back the authority of lawyers in the uniformed services. According to Jack Goldsmith, the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2003 to 2004, Addington once said that "we’re one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious court,” referring to the secret FISA court that oversees clandestine wiretapping. ^[6] He consistently advocates the expansion of presidential powers and Unitary Executive theory, nearly absolute deference to the Executive Branch from Congress and the Federal judiciary. In a June 26, 2007 letter to Senator John Kerry, Addington asserted that by virtue of Executive Order 12958 as amended in 2003 that the Office of the Vice President was exempt from oversight by the Information Security Oversight Office for its handling of classified materials.[4]

Addington was mentioned by title in "Scooter" I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s indictment for five felony charges related to the Plame affair, regarding the leak of the identity of a CIA officer.^[7]

War Crimes Prosecution

In November 2006, the German government received a complaint seeking the prosecution of Addington for alleged war crimes.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Addington

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The Edmund a. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Jesuit Georgetown University was founded in 1919 under the generalate of Father Wlodimir Ledochowski: February 11, 1915 - December 13, 1942

Edmund A. Walsh S.J.

Wlodimir Ledochowski S.J.
Jesuit Order Superior General
February 11, 1915 - December 13, 1942

I wonder what David Addington may know about Wlodimir Ledochowski's historic role?

The Hidden Power: The legal mind behind the White House's war on terror- by Jane Mayer

David Addington is the most powerful man you've never heard of. Here's why- by Chitra Ragavan

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070726_pat_tillman_murdered/

#90841 by Mike Mid-City on 7/30 at 9:39 am
(552 comments total)

The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

Pat Tillman was a patriot and an apparently intelligent one too. He was the prefect propaganda. An successful man sacrifices career for country and looks dam good in uniform.

Once this intelligent, successful man who looked dam good in a uniform figured out what was up, he must have started to make waves.

Better a dead hero than a live squawking, intelligent, successful man pissing on the administration’s plans for invading Iraq.

The White House has it’s finger prints on this one. There is no way that some Generals are going to take one up the pooper for Bush. There will be some very loud noises from the men with Stars.

More information:

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-political-assassinations/who-ordered-the-execution-of-nflarmy-hero-pat-tillman-284472.php

U.S. Government Subverts 1st Amendment for Major League Baseball: Nationals Ballpark Stadium

I am not the only person who believes that they were criminally targeted by the government for prominently writing against Washington, D.C.'s National Ballpark:

Distributed by the DC Statehood Green Party
http://www.dcstateh oodgreen. org

DEBBY HANRAHAN WINS SETTLEMENT IN FIRST
AMENDMENT-FALSE ARREST LAWSUIT AGAINST AMTRAK; $35,000
TO GO TO LAWYERS GUILD, C.O. GROUP

For Immediate Release: June 5, 2007

Contacts:
Debby Hanrahan, (202) 462-2054
Jim Klimaski, Klimaski & Associates PC, (202) 296-5600

Long-time D.C. Statehood Green Party activist Debby Hanrahan has won a settlement in her First Amendment-false arrest lawsuit against Amtrak (The
National Railroad Passenger Corp.) and has directed that almost all of the settlement proceeds other than lawyers’ fees and her expenses go to two local civil liberties organizations. The two organizations will receive a total of $35,000.

Hanrahan, 68, a leading participant in the No DC Taxes for Baseball coalition which opposed public financing of a new baseball stadium, was arrested without any
warning by Amtrak police in the Grand Concourse in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station on November 22, 2004 during a public rally promoting the naming of the
Washington Nationals baseball team. For quietly holding a poster opposing public financing, she was charged with unlawful entry and jailed for 28 hours
before her release on her own recognizance after a court appearance.

Hanrahan said that a portion of the settlement will go for fees incurred by the law firm of veteran civil liberties attorney James Klimaski. Klimaski’s firm
took the case on a pro bono basis and spent hundreds of hours in legal work before Klimaski negotiated the settlement with Amtrak earlier this month. The suit
was filed in 2005 in D.C. Superior Court, after Hanrahan’s criminal attorney, Paul J. Riley, successfully got the criminal charge dropped in January 2005.

After lawyers’ fees, Hanrahan received $45,000. To help other persons falsely arrested in free speech and other civil liberties cases, Hanrahan has directed
that $25,000 of this go to the D.C. Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and $10,000 to the Center on Conscience and War’s MCN Legal Fund, an organization
that assists military conscientious objectors. The remaining $10,000 of the settlement will primarily cover expenses incurred by Hanrahan in her criminal
case, as well as deposition and expert witness costs in the civil case.

Hanrahan said that it was her intention from before she filed this suit to contribute proceeds other than attorneys’ fees and criminal and civil case expenses to progressive legal organizations.

“First, I wanted to show Amtrak through this suit that the First Amendment applies at public meetings held on its publicly-owned [U.S. Department of Transportation] space,” said Hanrahan. “Secondly, I wanted a settlement or verdict large enough to make meaningful allocations to organizations that stand up for people whose rights to freedom of speech, assembly and conscience have been violated.”

The offending poster Hanrahan held called attention in cartoon form to the spiraling cost of the stadium, then at $614 million (and now at least $100 million higher). The poster showed a beaming, top-hatted, cigar-chomping, “fat-cat” team owner with then-Mayor Anthony Williams exulting over the expensive new stadium amid crumbling public schools and libraries and a shut-down D.C. General Hospital.

The charge against Hanrahan was dismissed seven weeks and two court appearances after her arrest. In subsequent proceedings to expunge Hanrahan’s arrest
record, the U.S. Attorney’s office acknowledged in a written filing “that this court would find, by clear and convincing evidence that [Hanrahan] did not commit
the offense for which she had been charged.” As NBC4 reporter Tom Sherwood wrote on the NBC4 web site and in The Current newspapers at the time of her arrest: Hanrahan “held aloft a sign criticizing the baseball deal, but was not disruptive.”

“I hope this case and settlement send yet anot her reminder to police and public officials that they cannot infringe on individuals’ free speech rights because they don’t like the message,” Hanrahan said. “I was attending a public rally in about as public a place as you can imagine, to which members of the public were invited through radio and newspaper announcements, and which featured on the stage Mayor Williams and several members of the D.C. Council and Sports and Entertainment Commission. My ‘crime’ was being out of sync with the message of the rally, and for that I was given no warning and was grabbed in a painful shoulder hold by an Amtrak policeman, pulled out of the rally, arrested, charged with trespassing, incarcerated for 28 hours, and required to give a urine sample in the presence of both male and female court and U.S. Marshal personnel. And I had my free speech rights substantially chilled as I faced this criminal charge during a key time period in the baseball stadium financing fight with a big mid-December [2004] Council vote scheduled.”

Hanrahan praised the work of Klimaski and his associates in the civil case and of Riley in the criminal case. She said Klimaski, despite having a small firm without the deep pockets of major D.C. law firms, “nevertheless took a big financial risk in taking my case because he recognized that my arrest was an outrageous violation of my civil liberties, and that Amtrak had to be shown that there are consequences for arbitrarily arresting nonviolent protesters at public meetings held on public property.”

This case confirms that the government has used law enforcement criminally against those who prominently protest the dirty planning to cram a baseball stadium deal along the east side of Washington, D.C.'s South Capitol Street, blocking the U.S. National Capital Planning Commission's plans for a South Capitol - Frederick Douglass Mall.

2006 version with condos above underground parking


2007 version with above ground parking garages

Illustrations from: http://www.jdland.com/dc/stadium.cfm

Welcome to the state of affairs of planning for the Capital City of the United States of America!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/baseball/

League of Fans (Ralph Nader)

How Criminal Law Enforcement Nullifies the 4th Amendment

Target people by stating that they have committed a traffic offense, regardless of whether that’s true.

Handcuff people immediately upon ordering them out of their vehicles, and later justify this by stating that the person tried to escape, whether or not that’s true

Use anything as an excuse for a “drug” dog, such as a tissue in one’s pocket with staph infected band aids, and NO contraband as “marijuana” for being soft.

Have a “drug” dog that does not visible sign, (e.g. not by barking and scratching) after being placed inside of car, and NOT walked around the car, and later claim that the dog “signed” after walking around the car, whether or not true. Such a dog becomes automatic probable cause whether or not it actually smells anything as if it is trained to “sign”, it can do so for a treat.

Take key from person by force, and later state that it had been left in the ignition.

To cover up the testilying , ensure that the police video is NOT working.

Bear False Wittness. TESTILIE!!! Lie under oath! The politicians bore false wittness when they passed these laws -- Cannibas 0 deaths; Tobacco 40 million worldwide annually -- so you must do the same.

The Ends Justify the Means and White is Black and Black is White whenever we say.

U.S. President G.W. Bush throwing the 1st ball of the baseball season

G.W. Bush, Pope John Paul II, and Laura Bush

U.S. President G.W. Bush, Cardinal Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts

I made a post regarding McCarrick only 2 weeks prior to my August 5, 2006 ambush

Karl Rove, G.W. Bush, Pope Benedict

Nationals Baseball Stadium Blocks the South Capitol Mall


http://www.whitehouse.gov/baseball/2005/11.html

How Criminal Law Enforcement Nullifies the 1st Amendment

Target people based upon “information” – aka orders w/o any detailed info to distinguish whether political.

“Research” people without looking at their writings, hence failing to look at the possibility of politically motivated surveillance and enforcement.

And then violate the 4th Amendment, testilie, and claim that the police video was "just grey static".

How Courts and State Legislatures Nullify the Constitution

Accept police testimony without reservation, creating situation intrinsically anti-defendant via discouraging counter testimony from defendants, while nullifying the constitutional presumption of innocence..

Don’t question instances where the police video is supposedly “just grey static”.

Don’t require working police video.

Don’t allow discovery of such things as inter-agency memos or even police reports from the arresting officers.