Senate To Sneak Through Internet Kill Switch Bill
Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet.com The Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass – the defense authorization bill – in an underhanded ploy to avoid the difficult task of passing cybersecurity on its own. “It’s [...]
US: Congress considers bill to regulate college football playoffs.
(It is comforting to know that government is looking after such vitally important issues. Once collectivism is accepted as the political model, it always grows until it controls even the most inconsequential aspects of human activity.) AP | Yahoo.com Dismissing complaints from some members that Congress had more pressing matters, a House subcommittee approved legislation [...]
Report: 237 millionaires in Congress
Erika Lovely | Politicio.com Talk about bad timing. As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress. Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about [...]
CIA Director terminated secret program
AP | YahooNews.com CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a “very serious” covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a House Intelligence subcommittee chairwoman, said Friday. Schakowsky said she is pressing for an immediate committee investigation of the classified program, which has not been described publicly. Rep. [...]
CIA Director Admits Lying to Congress since at least 2001
DemocracyNow.org Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta has admitted the CIA has misled Congress on intelligence matters since at least 2001. On Wednesday, a group of seven Democratic lawmakers released a letter describing Panetta’s comments. House intelligence committee chair Silvestre Reyes said CIA officials “affirmatively lied” in a recent briefing on an unspecified matter.
Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Now Has 207 Co-Sponsors
Steve Watson | InfoWars.com At time of writing, a bill that would see the Federal Reserve bank audited for the first time in 59 years has 207 cosponsers in the House and is gaining traction with every single day. This means just 11 more are needed for a majority to be reached in the House. [...]
Pelosi and CIA Clash Over Contents of Key Briefing
NAFTALI BENDAVID and SIOBHAN GORMAN | WSJ.com Speaker Claims Intelligence Officials Failed to Reveal Waterboarding Was Used; Spy Agency Denies Misleading Congress The top congressional Democrat on Thursday accused the Central Intelligence Agency of deceiving her about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. The accusation pits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against the [...]
When It is Okay and Not Okay to Lie to Congress?
Dissident Voice by Kim Petersen / February 11th, 2009 Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada was charged Tuesday with lying to the US Congress about taking a performance-enhancing substance. Tajeda is expected to plead guilty to lying to a Congressional investigation about taking steroids and about knowledge of other players taking steroids. [...]
New York Congressman Tells SEC They Are ‘Worthless’ in Hearing
http://weblogs.newsday.com John Riley: Long Island/Queens Congressman Gary Ackerman — who sounds like he would make a pretty good blogger — went off on a panel of witnesses from the SEC yesterday, accusing them of total incompetence in failing to discover what was going on with Bernie Madoff. This being the same outraged Ackerman [...]
Democratic Congressman: Representatives Were Threatened With Martial Law In America Over Bailout Bill
Warns that a panic atmosphere is intentionally being nurtured to get bill passed Steve Watson Infowars.net October 3, 2008 A Democratic Congressman has warned that a panic atmosphere is being intentionally created in order to get the financial bailout billed passed, further stating that several members of Congress were told before Monday’s vote that [...]
Rep. Burgess: Congress “under Martial Law” to pass banker bailout bill
D. H. WilliamsDaily NewscasterSeptember 28, 2008Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) reports from the floor of the House that the Republicans have been cut out of the process and called unpatriotic for not blindly supporting the fraudulent bailout. He says the only debate has been about what talking points to use on the American people.The most ominous [...]
Report: Gonzo Told Investigators That Bush Directed Him To Ashcroft’s Hospital Bed
By Zachary Roth – September 26, 2008, 2:00PM Murray Waas reports on the website of the Atlantic that Alberto Gonzales is now telling investigators that he was being personally directed by President Bush when, as White House counsel, Gonzales made a much-discussed late-night visit in 2004 to the hospital room of then Attorney General [...]
Taxpayers, Congress Push Back Against Bailout
Monday 22 September 2008 by: Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t | Report Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has entered into negotiations with the Bush administration over the Wall Street bailout. (Photo: Getty Images) Washington, DC – Push back against the massive $700 billion Wall Street [...]
Paulson: Congress Has No Authority Here
Friday, September 12, 2008 | 07:14 AM “As with any contract, the parties to the agreement may modify the covenants by mutual agreement only.” -Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Hank Paulson’s God Complex just got bigger. The Director of Government Bailouts, and head of the Socialism Departmant at Treasury has informed Congress to back off his [...]
Time to call for another convention?
How to Celebrate Constitution Day If we’re to fix our economy, do we have to fix our polity first? If so, here’s one basic way. by Joel S. Hirschhorn Yesterday, September 17, here in the States was Constitution Day. But very, very few Americans know this or will celebrate it. If you think of yourself [...]
Analysis: NSA Spying Judge Defends Rule of Law, Congress Set to Strip His Power
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Just days before the Senate will convene to give a final blessing to President Bush’s secret, warrantless wiretapping program, a federal court judge ruled that his legal justification for the surveillance has no legal merit. He’s the same judge Congress is trying to save the nation’s telecoms, such as AT&T, Verizon and [...]
AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates ‘Infrastructure for a Police State
Ryan Singel | Wired.com Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate’s vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others. [...]
