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Posts Tagged 'secrets'

How Can We Support The Secret Parts Of The Patriot Act?

Posted on February 26 2011 by Congress Watcher

How can we advise our representatives in Congress about the Patriot Act when we don’t even know how it’s being used?

Why is the Democratic Faith Working Group So Secretive?

Posted on September 29 2010 by Congress Watcher

Given the relationships of power that flow through the Democratic Faith Working Group, it is in the public’s interest to know who is involved in the group, when those people meet, and what matters of policy they discuss.

Woolsey On Why Wikileaks News Matters

Posted on August 5 2010 by Congress Watcher

The secret documents contradict many of the positive assertions about the war in Afghanistan, but a standard meme was that the Wikileaks leaks didn’t matter

Feinstein Argues Against Constitution With Secret Chapter and Verse

Posted on October 8 2009 by Congress Watcher

Senator Dianne Feinstein just got done saying that concerns about Americans’ constitutional rights must not be allowed to interfere with the powers of government spy agencies. Feinstein asserted that we should all understand how important it is that our constitutional rights be compromised, because she had been, yesterday, given a secret classified briefing yesterday that [...]

Congress Debates Investigating Secret Um… Thingy

Posted on July 12 2009 by Congress Watcher

Given the stakes, it’s time for President Obama to allow the truth to be told, and to reveal just what has been going on. No government program is worth the sense of betrayal and distrust that the debate over secrets about secrets about secrets has created.

Senate Acts To Conceal Future Torture By US Military

Posted on May 22 2009 by Congress Watcher

Amendment 1157 creates a loophole in the Freedom of Information Act. With this loophole, the Secretary of Defense is granted the power to conceal photographs of any torture of prisoners of the U.S. military – whether those photographs were taken in the past, or will be taken in the future.

Will Any Senator Confront Obama Coverup?

Posted on May 13 2009 by Congress Watcher

President Barack Obama is openly violating the law in order to cover up torture. Will Democratic senators like Whitehouse, Leahy and Feingold do anything about it, or will they continue to solely focus on the Bush presidency, which is conveniently finished?

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