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ACLU Discovers Department of Defense Sought Banking Records of Private Citizens


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: DoD, Department of Defense, Pentagon, Cheney, private bank records )

RC
- 803 days ago - armytimes.com
And of course no court orders were obtained, nor has the Pentagon yet commented on this disclosure by the ACLU. Dick Cheney calls this invasion of privacy "perfectly legitimate." HE WOULD!
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RC deWinter (418)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 3:28 pm
Geeze, I wonder if they opened my bankbook? If they did all they got was a faceful of moths - LOL! What a despicable thing to pull on American citizens!
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 3:32 pm
How can the Dumbocrat$ be $tupid enough to rubber $tamp everything for the Bu$hie$ who are now "enabled" to wiretap the Deumbocratic candidates, access their bank accounts, etc.
 

Yvonne White (139)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 4:00 pm
Richard Nixon must be rolling in his grave seeing what this Regme has done & continues doing, with NO Fear of Impeachment!!!!:(
 

Gail Costic (495)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 4:21 pm
Dick Cheney may call this invasion of privacy "perfectly legitimate" but I'm sure that no citizen will deem it so. He and Bush need serious mental health intervention.
 

Stephen Hannon (214)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 4:56 pm
Bush, Cheney, and the DoD are cleary paranoid. Yep, we are all suspected terrorists or have ties with terrorist organizations, and we do. They are commonly called The House of Representatives, The Senate, and the Judiciary. These organizations are the REAL AXIS Of EVIL!!

Ooops, almost forgot to mention the most dangerous terrorists in America: THE IRS!!!
 

Mary H. (39)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 5:25 pm
Noted --
 

Jennie B. (3)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 5:31 pm
What a mockery he makes of ETHICS, our Constitution, the Peoples' rights-he lacks any concept of Right and Wrong at this point and still pretends to be this MORAL, upstanding man that he is NOT. Frankly, I don't think he cares what we the People think about anything he does-wannbee Dictators usually don't. Noted/Shared
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 5:35 pm
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Pastor Tim Redfern (526)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 7:22 pm
Well, doesn't this dove-tail nicely
with the story about Verizon Wireless
I just commented on?

Yvonne, if Richard Nixon is spinning in
his grave, it's only with envy as he thinks,
"Damn, why didn't I think of all that?!"

"And to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under surveillance...."
 

Mamabear Claw (167)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 8:02 pm
And how should that something to suprised at?
 

Ron Goodman (422)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 8:21 pm
Yes Blue I agree. The Dem-wits have handed the upper hand over to the Con-wits in every respect including the next election. I'm sure they will be able to check enough backgrounds to find "something" on each and every candidate. Dumb move Dem's seem to have their heads up their u-no! WHAT WERE THEY THINKIN? Thanks Cate, read and noted.
 

Denice G. (45)
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 10:47 pm
Noted
 

Margaret B. (164)
Wednesday October 17, 2007, 1:44 am
There are several words that no longer belong in our dictionaries, if they ever did, that is privacy, equality, justice, God, respect and so on...
 

Carol W. (125)
Wednesday October 17, 2007, 5:17 am

They must be looking for more loans.
Or it is much more innocent than it appears and they were checking on the average Americans income they have heard so many rumors about.
Wondering OK , whats average?
...or

Too bad the ACLU is too scattered with illegals rights, and more.
When thinkgs as this could use much more flash and reaconing.
 

Tsandi Crew (92)
Wednesday October 17, 2007, 7:05 am
I don't think they know what they're doing. I noticed this generation doesn't have a knowledge of ethics, procedure, history, or reference to use in how to go about doing things.

There is a general degeneration of managerial abilities in business, and in politics, and it extends into governmental agencies. For some reason the young people who start jobs in, say, a new position in a CIA office, don't get the proper indoctrination to the job, and they don't learn from the people who are already in place, who have experience.

It's one of the reasons we have new programs to document all we can from the men and women who fought in World War I and World War II before they all die. We need to get the information they have, the experience they have, for future generations to refer to.

I have always worked for good managers in my 45 years of employment. Until the year 1990 when I worked for a manager who didn't know how to manage people. But I have witnessed many others of this generation who don't know how to manage people, or business.

It's important to look at this generation of education where kids aren't taught to think things through, to weigh facts, to use logic, and ethics.

I bring this up because it's at the root of our current political problems. We have a government full of people who cannot make good decisions. They're decisions are chaotic, not based on factual evidence, and not ethical.

And please note....ethics, not religious. Many times ethics aren't taught because there is a fear the line might be crossed. Ugh!
 

Roman S. (10)
Wednesday October 17, 2007, 10:01 am
Why the hell, and I mean it, does the goddamm government need with our bank accounts?
We are legally entitled and mandated to our own personal freedoms that should be inalienable!

This regime has become more like 1984 every day and I see perfect analogies
Emanuel Goldstein-Bin Laden
Big Brother-Bush
Winston Smith and Julia- us

Why is the government "for the purpose of spreading freedom" is contravening our own freedoms?

next thing they will do is moderate our forums and by god, if anyone wants to sign a petition to protect our privacy, I'll be making one shortly
 

Carol W. (125)
Wednesday October 17, 2007, 11:38 am

I feel certain it has nothing to do with terrorist!
 

Monica Rega (101)
Thursday October 18, 2007, 10:57 am
our rights have been LOST!
 

Pastor Tim Redfern (526)
Thursday October 18, 2007, 5:41 pm
Welcome back, "Weeps Wolf".
Still in Anchorage, I see?
$5 bucks says you're gone
(again) within 36 hours.
 

Carol W. (125)
Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:23 pm
Hello Friend Groveboss Boss & Welcome,

The attitudes, experiences and convictions driving the Bush administration's views on the Constitution and the role of the president, drawn from FRONTLINE's interviews for Cheney's Law

http://www.care2.com/news/member/239636036/514043

Essentially what he does at that moment is say that we will probably have to be a country ruled by men rather than laws in this period.

Barton Gellman, the Washington Post
Likewise -- and this is probably the most radical position that Cheney and Addington are taking -- they believe that even the coordinate branches of government -- Congress which makes laws; the Supreme Court which interprets them -- cannot limit the president's authority as commander in chief because the president has an independent obligation to interpret his constitutional powers. Only he can decide what the limits are. …

BRUCE FEIN
It largely stems from their conception that the commander-in-chief power, the authority to wage war, includes anything the president thinks may be helpful to win. There are no limits. … Well, why do we have a Constitution anymore? When you declared war on international terrorism, did that mean the document becomes irrelevant, other than the commander-in-chief clause that absorbs everything else?

There are no answers, just, "We haven't gone that far." That's not very reassuring. But that's basically sort of a simple-minded view, is that the conduct of the war, as it's been described as a war against terrorism, includes the power to do everything under the sun. And so it must be legal if you claim it's useful. …

unqoute:
We have lost all the excuses of terrorism.
Privacy, Security, Mobility, Expression, our Decency.
 

Carol W. (125)
Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:31 pm

Blue B... LOL

Thanks I like graphs.
...Makes sense to me.

 

Carol W. (125)
Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:50 pm

Is it just me, or is this like a roller coaster ride the past few years?
BB I took just one more recent piece of your board, and briefly scanned it;

...; http://www.care2.com/news/member/239636036/513298
.... Before you get TOO mad at Muslims... read from the site so you understand that the House Saud is NOT Muslim.

They are only one of many parts of the NWO plan to enslave the rest of us. After you see the following page, you will understand why I said the Israelis have everything the Saudis have.

You can only be sure of the outcome of a war if you control both sides.

Oh come back Grovesboss Boss.

In peace,
 

Phyllis P. (405)
Friday October 19, 2007, 5:05 am
is anything "private" any more...thanks for sharing this Cate
 
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