New information reveals that the White House and U.S. security agencies had specific intelligence on accused terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, far earlier than previously acknowledged.
The FBI's Multi-Billion "High-Tech Surveillance" Program
- by Tom Burghardt - 2009-05-21
Under the heading "Electronic Surveillance", the FBI has deployed "tools & techniques for lawfully-authorized intercepts of wired and wireless telecommunications"
"Continuity of Government" (COG) Provisions activated in 2001
- by Tom Burghardt - 2008-10-06
Exercising sweeping emergency powers, unelected officials could suspend the Constitution, declare martial law and create an Executive Branch dictatorship that rests solely on the power of the U.S. military.
The Department of Justice is investigating whether agency lawyers, including University of California law professor John Yoo "improperly advised the military ... that President Bush's wartime authority could not be limited by domestic law or international bans on torture,"