From mass outrage throughout society to debate and talk of legal
investigation and even impeachment in Congress, the exposure of Bush’s
secret spying without
warrants executive order to the NSA, as well as the Defense Department
and FBI’s
surveillance of anti-war protesters, this situation is ripe for
demanding “Bush step down” and raising this demand in protests during
the state of the union address. Below are selected articles exposing
and analyzing this from various perspectives. New articles will be
posted daily.
“Bush Defends Spy Program and Denies Misleading Public”, NY Times, 1/2
“FISA, Alito, and the High Stakes of the New Year”, Revolution newspaper, 1/8
“Bush’s Witchhunt Against Truth-Tellers: A Gestapo Administration”, by Paul Craig Roberts, counterpunch.org, 1/2
“NSA Gave Other Agencies Surveillance Data”, by Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 1/1
“The Hidden State Steps Forward” by Jonathan Schell, from the forthcoming (1/9) issue of The Nation
“Talking About Impeachment”, 12/30 editorial in The Capital Times
“George
W. Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally, and
Impeachably; Both Claimed That a President May Violate Congress’ Laws
to Protect National Security” by John Dean, 12/30 in FindLaw
12/28: “Police State Powers are our Biggest Threat”, by Martin Garbus, New York Observer
12/27: “King George Dismisses Constitution, Tramples On Rights Of All Americans” by Bill Gallagher, Niagra Falls Reporter
12/26: “Executive Uber Alles: The Usurpers of Our Freedoms” counterpunch.org
12/23: “Time to Impeach”, by Ralph Nader, nader.org
12/22: “The Activist President ” by Sankara Saranam
12/21: “Bush Impeachment Not Out of the Question” Village Voice
12/22: “‘Impeachment’ Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last” commondreams.org
12/20: “Constitution in Crisis: Downing Street Memo minutes”, reports from the House Judiciary Committee on afterdowningstreet.org
“Bush Lets US Spy on Callers Without Courts”, NY Times, 12/16 [click here]
The first article to break the secret order for NSA spying without warrants.
“Is the
Pentagon Spying on Americans?”, NBC News, 12/14, [click here]
The first exposure of Defense Department surveillance of anti-war protests.
“Cracks in the Halls of Power: Dangerous Moves by Bush, and the Need for the People to Act In Their Own Interests”, 12/26, Revolution Newspaper
“How Bush Flouted the Constitution: Trifler, Fibber, Sophist, Spy”, by Pierre Tristam, 12/20, on counterpunch.org
“US Judge Resigns Over Bush’s Domestic Spying Authorization: Report”, 12/21, on commondreams.org
US Senator Robert C. Byrd: No President Is Above the Law, speech on the Senate floor, 12/19, published on commondreams.org