Saturday, March 11, 2006

Feds Squelch Capitol Hill Blue

Feds Squelch Capitol Hill Blue


Originally published Mar 09, 2006


Willysnout tells you what Doug Thompson can't - Thompson and his crew
were under surveillance through his site (the aforementioned Capitol
Hill Blue), and forced him to change a column they didn't like.

Thompson is best known for "The Rant" - a regular online column which
has lately been highly critical of the current White House. (He's also
been critical of the Clinton White House - Thompson just has it out
for authority.)

Well, the current authority doesn't like that.

The offending article reported that Thompson, who also owns the
web hosting company that puts Capitol Hill Blue online, had received a
request under the USA Patriot Act from the FBI for information about
the publication, its contributors, its personnel and its readers. It
was only through his ownership of the hosting company that Thompson
was aware of the government's surveillance.

The FBI's request instructed Thompson not to reveal who had made
the information request or what law had authorized it. Thompson
refused to provide the information and revealed the letter and its
contents in Capitol Hill Blue. At that point, a U.S. attorney
threatened Thompson with jail unless he not only removed the
information, but revised the article discussing it.

To avoid going to jail, Thompson complied.


Think about it, folks. A publication has been not only censored,
but forced to submit new content acceptable to the government.


And now that the Patriot Act has just been signed to another contract
extension, we have more of this to look forward to.

Whoops. There's someone at the door. I'll be righ

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Back in 1975, before the Enabling Act/Patriot Act, the FBI left a message for a friend of mine in numerous locations in the Florida Keys because they couldn't find him. My friend called (from a phone booth) the number the FBI had left and their first question was "Where are you located?" My friend responded with "Do you have a warrant for my arrest?" The FBI answered, "No." My friend replied, "The information you requested comes under the heading of none of your fucking business."

http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id120.html

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/Mac.html

The documents in the url's, above, provide insight to the machinations of
the so called "intelligence community".

This is exposure of "history" that was never to see the light of day. These
once top secret documents of the minutes of the National Security Council
meetings were declassified by the State Department in 2000, much to the
chagrin of the CIA, and placed on the Internet. It does not take a rocket
scientist to deduce treason in wartime is the result of this blatant
disregard for presidential directives issued during NSC meetings, during
wartime.

There is a law suit pending before the US Court of Appeals in the form of an
amicus brief against the CIA to halt the unilateral "reclassification" of
55,000 documents located at the repository of the National Archives Records
Adminstration in College Park, Maryland. This information should be of
interest to historians.

The pattern of abuse continues in the intelligence community with the
proclamation of "slam dunk" intelligence fabricated to justify the
preemptive attack on Iraq in violation of the Nuremberg Rules which we
established in 1945. Then we hanged the defendants.

Bests,
John