Breaking News and Commentary from
Citizens For Legitimate Government
22 Jan 2009
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http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Obama to Close CIA 'Black Sites' --President issues
executive orders dismantling much of Bush's architecture for 'war on terror' 22
Jan 2009
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/22/obama-close-terrorist-black-sites/
President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of 'black sites,'
where CIA and European security services have interrogated [tortured] terrorist
suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush regime's
architecture for the war on [of] terror, according to four individuals familiar
with a draft executive order. Mr. Obama will shutter
"all permanent detention facilities overseas," the draft said,
according to the individuals who asked not to be named because the orders have
not yet been signed. There are at least eight such prisons [not to mention, the
floating 'black sites' ships at sea], according to published reports. The Bush
dictatorship never revealed the number or location of the facilities, although
several were said to be in
Obama overturns Bush order on access
to White House records 22 Jan 2009
President Barack Obama began dismantling
the Bush legacy Wednesday, using his first full day to overturn an order that
let ex-presidents seal their papers forever. It was one of a number of big and
small steps by the new president that, taken together, amounted to a slashing
denunciation of his predecessor.
Obama signs order to close Guantánamo
Bay
--Prison that symbolises George Bush's 'war on
terror' will be shut down, accompanied by ban on torture and review of military
trials 22 Jan 2009 Barack Obama
has signed an executive order to shut down the US military
prison at Guantánamo Bay – the most potent symbol of
excess in George Bush's "war on terror". The new
Wired
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Whistleblower: NSA Targeted Journalists,
Snooped on All U.S. Communications --NSA analyzed metadata to
determine which communications would be collected 22 Jan 2009 Just one day after
George W. Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National
Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program
targeted U.S. journalists, and vacuumed in all domestic communications of
Americans, including, faxes, phone calls and network traffic. Russell Tice, a
former NSA analyst, spoke on Wednesday to MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
"The National Security Agency had access to all Americans'
communications," he said. "Faxes, phone calls and
their computer communications. ...They monitored all
communications."