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Lawyers Will Subpoena Bush White House in Phone Company Spying Case

Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2006-08-30 16:07.

WHAT: Press Conference Releasing White House Subpoena

WHERE: Verizon Headquarters, 140 West St., New York (at Vesey Street, across from the World Trade Center site)

WHEN: Tuesday, Aug. 29 at 4:30 p.m.

WHO: Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, attorneys for hundreds of plaintiffs in litigation against the Bush Administration and the phone companies

DETAILS: Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush Administration, Verizon and AT&T for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen will announce today that they are serving subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.

"We are subpoenaing the White House because we have developed evidence that the Bush Administration began unlawful efforts to obtain Americans' private phone records prior to 9/11/01 and the White House must disclose documents relevant to that claim," said Afran. "We believe that Verizon had extensive involvement in illegally disclosing the records of millions of Americans."

"We are going to determine with these subpoenas whether the Bush administration has unlawfully targeted journalists, peace activists, libertarians, members of congress or generated an 'enemies list' by creating the most massive domestic spying operation in America's history," said Mayer.

The subpoenas come on the heels of two federal court decisions that were major blows to the Bush Administration warrantless spying program.

Earlier this month, federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled the entire program unconstitutional and illegal; another federal judge in San Francisco rejected the Bush Administration's attempt to dismiss these lawsuits by claiming they breach national security.

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bush is so imperial, he, cheney, rumsfeld, hadley, above law

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2006-08-30 21:01.

these treasonous pieces of shit think they're above the law. gonzolost is in Iraq telling troops how to 'torture' properly, and you think these illegally in power bastards are going to go into a courtroom? we'll be lucky to have elections in November that are 'real' and it's very highly unlikely these thugs will have to answer unless the entire population of this country takes to the streets and starts dismantling this out-of-control, about to attack Iran regime, before it causes major planet wide warfare on the scale nobody's seen since World War II.

it's time to out the PNAC CABAL, and courtrooms are unlikely to do it. we need to do it by force. raw, unmitigated force.

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White House Subpoenas

Submitted by donpenders on Fri, 2006-09-01 04:03.

DonP I hate to repeat myself over and over (once is enough), and also I seem to get my registration lost when ever I post a critical thought. However, if the Bush administration can refuse to provide information to the Senate and the House, and the Supreme Court rules that minutes of meeting conducted by VP on Energy are secret and not to be released and when the SC tells the Administration that their policies on detainees is unconstitutional and Bush tells them to shove it and Congress drafts legislation to retroactively legalize their actions. The courts continue to obey the DOJ by ruling that hearings cannot be held, trials can not be conducted because all the evidence is too secret to share with even the judge. And simpletons expect a court to issue a subpoena against an administration which has declared Habeus Corpus invalid for the duration of the "Long War".
Gentlemen this country is offically no longer either a democracy or a republic.

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