by Paul Woodward
10.22.2007
Cheney, like president, has a warning for Iran By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, October 22, 2007 “The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose serious consequences,” Mr. Cheney said, without specifying what those might be. “The United States joins other [...]
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by Paul Woodward
10.14.2007
Cheney’s law Frontline, PBS, October 16, 2007 For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, [...]
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The American Surveillance State
by News Sources 12.21.2010Glenn Greenwald writes: One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously monitoring, invading and collecting files on everything its citizenry does. Based on the Francis Bacon aphorism that “knowledge is power,” this is the extreme imbalance that renders the ruling [...]