Are
you on the list? Are you one of the millions of Americans that have
been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government?
Will you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during a
major national emergency? As you will see below, there is actually a
list that contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core that the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s. A recent article on Washington’s Blog
quoted a couple of old magazine articles that mentioned this program,
and I was intrigued because I didn’t know what it was. So I decided to
look into Main Core, and what I found out was absolutely stunning – especially in light of what Edward Snowden
has just revealed to the world. It turns out that the U.S. government
is not just gathering information on all of us. The truth is that the
U.S. government has used this information to create a list of threats to
national security that the government would potentially watch, question
or even detain during a national crisis. If you have ever been
publicly critical of the government, there is a very good chance that
you are on that list. (Read More.....)
Are
you on the list? Are you one of the millions of Americans that have
been designated a threat to national security by the U.S. government?
Will you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during a
major national emergency? As you will see below, there is actually a
list that contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core that the U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s. A recent article on Washington’s Blog
quoted a couple of old magazine articles that mentioned this program,
and I was intrigued because I didn’t know what it was. So I decided to
look into Main Core, and what I found out was absolutely stunning – especially in light of what Edward Snowden
has just revealed to the world. It turns out that the U.S. government
is not just gathering information on all of us. The truth is that the
U.S. government has used this information to create a list of threats to
national security that the government would potentially watch, question
or even detain during a national crisis. If you have ever been
publicly critical of the government, there is a very good chance that
you are on that list. (Read More.....)
Exposing Bush's Historic Abuse Of Power Salon has uncovered new evidence of post-9/11 spying on Americans. Obtained documents point to a potential investigation of the White House that could rival Watergate.
This article is part of a Salon investigative series on spying inside the United States by the Bush administration. Research support for the article was provided by the Nation Institute Investigative Fund.
WASHINGTON -- The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into White House malfeasance that would be modeled after the famous Church Committee congressional investigation of the 1970s.
While reporting on domestic surveillance under Bush, Salon obtained a detailed memo proposing such an inquiry, and spoke with several sources involved in recent discussions around it on Capitol Hill. The memo was written by a former senior member of the original Church Committee; the discussions have included aides to top House Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, and until now have not been disclosed publicly.
Salon has also uncovered further indications of far-reaching and possibly illegal surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency inside the United States under President Bush. That includes the alleged use of a top-secret, sophisticated database system for monitoring people considered to be a threat to national security. It also includes signs of the NSA's working closely with other U.S. government agencies to track financial transactions domestically as well as globally.
The proposal for a Church Committee-style investigation emerged from talks between civil liberties advocates and aides to Democratic leaders in Congress, according to sources involved. (Pelosi's and Conyers' offices both declined to comment.) Looking forward to 2009, when both Congress and the White House may well be controlled by Democrats, the idea is to have Congress appoint an investigative body to discover the full extent of what the Bush White House did in the war on terror to undermine the Constitution and U.S. and international laws. The goal would be to implement government reforms aimed at preventing future abuses -- and perhaps to bring accountability for wrongdoing by Bush officials.
"If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless wiretapping despite the administration's attempts to stonewall, then imagine what we don't know," says a senior Democratic congressional aide who is familiar with the proposal and has been involved in several high-profile congressional investigations.
"You have to go back to the McCarthy era to find this level of abuse," says Barry Steinhardt, the director of the Program on Technology and Liberty for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Because the Bush administration has been so opaque, we don't know [the extent of] what laws have been violated."...
