Bad Deeds for 8-15-2007

The September Iraq Report Won’t Really be From General Petraeus – Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the September Iraq report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government. Despite Bush’s repeated statements that the report will reflect evaluations by Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, administration officials said it would actually be written by the White House, with inputs from officials throughout the government. And though Petraeus and Crocker will present their recommendations on Capitol Hill, legislation passed by Congress leaves it to the president to decide how to interpret the report’s data.

US Spy Satellites to be Used on Americans – Information from “some of the U.S.’s most powerful intelligence-gathering tools” will soon be at the disposal of a wide array of law enforcement agencies at all levels of government. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell decided to increase access to the spy data earlier this year and asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to facilitate access to the spy data by civilian agencies and law enforcement. The move to turn spy satellites on American citizens raises legal questions because the use of such data for law enforcement is “largely uncharted territory.” Even the officials behind the move were unsure of its legal implications. But you know the what the neocons say about that: “Legal, schmegal.”

Conservative Web Blog Says It Hopes That a City Full of Dirty Liberals Gets Destroyed by a Terrorist Attack – The Conservative Web Blog, Maine Web Report, calls the Daily Kos a hate site, calls FiredogLake foul-mouthed, and calls MoveOn.org extremists. Then it publishes the following post:

“You know what this country needs? Another terrorist attack. Take out SF or some other city full of dirty libs, and then the country will rally behind the GOP for protection.”

Tom Delay Was Briefed Alone on the NSA-Driven Surveillance Program for the First and Only Time on the Day After the Comey-Gonzales Hospital Visit to John Ashcroft – Why? What was going on? The investigations must continue.

Throw Out the Baby, But Keep the Bathwater – Jackson County, Mississippi, decides that since Diebold makes a lousy printer to put on their lousy voting machines, they should get rid of those printers and just keep the lousy voting machines.

More Voting Machine Company Deception – Election Systems & Software, Inc (ES&S) failed to disclose that their equipment was being made in a sweatshop in the Philippines even though they are supposed to reveal all such information to the federal Election Assistance Commission.

Regards,

Jim