Monthly Archives: February 2018

US Spy Chiefs Reverse Course on Phone Spying — But Just For Huawei

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“The FBI and other US intelligence agencies are suddenly and ever so deeply concerned with preserving your smart phone privacy.  Testifying before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, officials from the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al. warned Americans against using phones made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE.  Why? Because, Christopher Wray (Comey’s successor at the FBI) explains, the Chinese government might equip, or find and exploit weaknesses in, such phones to ‘maliciously modify or steal information’ and ‘conduct undetected espionage.'”

Read more: http://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/12874

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FBI to tear down its headquarters; no plans to sow salt in earth at site

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“The White House said it will ask Congress for about $2.2 billion for a new FBI headquarters, adding to about $1.1 billion already budgeted for the project, according to Justice Department officials who outlined the Trump administration’s budget proposal.”

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-fbi-wants-to-tear-down-its-headquarters-1518473659-htmlstory.html

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Blowback: How Torture Fuels Terrorism Rather Than Reduces It

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“From Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. has engaged in brutal and violent abuse toward detainees suspected of terrorism — despite the fact that such brutality and abuse is what may have motivated many of those detainees to begin with.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/torture-terrorists-guantanamo-abu-ghraib/

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Torture Memo Author John Yoo: President Can Wage War Without Declaration

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“This debate has particular salience as Congress has been taking steps to check the president’s authority to continue funding military support of Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/can-the-president-wage-undeclared-war-the-author-of-the-torture-memo-john-yoo-bruce-fein-yemen/

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George W. Bush doesn’t deserve the media’s efforts at rehabilitation

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“George W. Bush should have permanently taught Americans that presidents are most dangerous when seeking to con the nation into unnecessary wars — for democracy or any other pretext.  Unfortunately, the recent media consecration of Bush may be expunging that bitter lesson.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/374081-george-w-bush-doesnt-deserve-the-medias-efforts-at-rehabilitation

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Trump has one thing right: our post-9/11 wars have been a mistake

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“However inadvertently, Trump has thereby bestowed on the American people a singular gift, putting a presidential imprimatur on a point that critics have been making for years, to no avail. Pointing out that our post-9/11 wars have resulted in a multitrillion-dollar waste of lives and treasure represents easily the greatest achievement of his young administration.”

Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/02/16/trump-has-least-one-thing-right-our-post-wars-have-been-mistake/4ldiO2YmGJqva8qIphqYuJ/story.html

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The Military Industrial Complex Will Bankrupt America

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“The Trump Administration is pushing for a $4.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2019 that would add $7 trillion to the already unsustainable federal deficit in order to sustain America’s military empire abroad and dramatically expand the police state here at home. Trump also wants American taxpayers to cover the cost of building that infamous border wall.  Truly, Trump may turn out to be, as policy analyst Stan Collender warned, ‘the biggest deficit- and debt-increasing president of all time.'”

Read more: https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_military_industrial_complex_strikes_again_war_spending_will_bankru

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$20 Billion Hidden in the Swamp: Feds Redact 255,000 Salaries

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“The only thing the bureaucratic resistance hates more than President Trump is the disclosure of their own salaries. It’s a classic case of the bureaucracy protecting the bureaucracy, underscoring the resistance faced by the new administration.”

Read more: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/02/08/20_billion_hidden_in_the_swamp_feds_redact_255000_salaries.html

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Trump endorses 25-cent gas tax hike, lawmakers say

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“The last president to hike the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax was Bill Clinton in 1993, a year before Democrats lost both chambers of Congress in a crushing midterm defeat.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/trump-gas-tax-409647

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Trump ‘Strongly’ Favors Imposing Online Sales Tax, Mnuchin Says

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“Mnuchin, speaking at a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee, said he has spoken personally with Trump about the issue, and that the president ‘does feel strongly’ that the tax should be applied.”

Read more: http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/donald-trump-online-sales-tax/

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