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The Obama Administration is spying on you...
One of our nation's largest phone carriers, Verizon, is sharing information on millions of customers with the NSA. According to the Guardian newspaper, a secret court order issued in April requires Verizon to hand over all call records on an “ongoing, daily basis.”
The document obtained by the Guardian shows that a secret FISA Court granted the FBI authority to collect three month of Verizon data, including telephone numbers, duration of calls, location data, and the times that calls were made. The court order did not include grant the FBI authority to listen to conversations, and it's unclear as to whether text messages were also intercepted.
The court order applies to Verizon, and bars the company from informing customers about the information request. It's unclear whether any other phone carriers are handing over similar data, or whether this three-month request was part of an ongoing process, or a one-time event.
According to the Guardian, the document may explain two years of ominous warnings by U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, who have warned about the government spying on Americans. Last year, those two senators sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, writing, “there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows.”
The sweeping request for information is reminiscent of the policies of President George W. Bush. It's also the first top-secret document to confirm that the Obama Administration is continuing to spy on Americans.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Obama Administration phone spying...beyond Orwellian (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Obama Administration phone spying...beyond Orwellian- Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: Has Obama stopped playing nice with the GOP?- Michael Smerconish, The Michael Smerconish Program
The Best of the Rest...
Why are "we the people" subsidizing the Tea Party?- Steve Malzberg, The Steve Malzberg Show
Why California will be the face of Obamacare- Alan Colmes, The Alan Colmes Show
YOUR TAKE / MY TAKE
**Special thank you to Michael Harrison, Talkers Magazine for his help & hospitality today at Talkers New York 2013** |
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Everything that makes man's life worthwhile — family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head — all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people. Therefore, the essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer — not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people." -- Robert F. Kennedy (from the "Day of Affirmation" address, June 6, 1966 Capetown, South Africa)).
Hour One: Is it time to have a new New Deal?- Tom Pauken, Republican Candidate for Governor of Texas / former State Chair-Texas Republican Party & Texas Workforce Commission (author, "Bringing America Home")
Speech: " 1944 State of the Union Address". FDR's Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech, January 11, 1944. " we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being... For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world." Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""
Hour Two: Is it hate speech?- Rev. Bill Keller, Founder-Live Prayer
Hour Three: If Jimmy Carter had had another term...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
In for Thom today, please welcome Dr. Mike Newcomb, The Mike Newcomb Show, 1480 AM KPHX, Phoenix, AZ
Hour One: Dying child denied lung transplant due to red tape...
Hour Two: Student loans...not really loans at all- David Dayen, Freelance Journalist/Editor, Contributor-Salon.com
Student loan interest rate set to double July 1- Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ, 9th District)
Hour Three: Pot busts by the numbers...in black & white- Ezekial Edwards, Director-Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU
Franken Apple about to hit shelves- Dr. Jayson Calton, PhD, Nutritionist & co-author "Rich Food, Poor Food"
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
It's Friday and that means it's Brunch With Bernie...America's Senator...Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be talking about all the important issues of the week and he'll be taking YOUR calls too...
Plus, it's U.N Radio Day...we'll have a few special guests dropping by... Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
And, it's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday with the best of the rest of the news along with your calls...right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thom's Poll
Is the Obama Administration alienating their political base?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Time for a new 'New Deal'
Lone Liberal Rumble - Why Do Tea Partiers love Tax Subsidies?
Lone Liberal Rumble - "I'm not going to be anti-American!"
We could be witnessing a new global plague - are we ready?
Crazy Alert - Billy Goat Gang Arrested!
Obamacare is actually helping small business
"I am Bradley Manning"
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 6/5/13: Last of the New Deal Liberals: Senator Frank Lautenberg
Thom talks with the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on the global threat of the MERS virus and with Birgitta Jonsdottir, a Member of the Icelandic Parliament, on the Bradley Manning case. Tonight's "Lone Liberal Rumble" panel discusses why Tea Party groups are in favor of government subsidies for their organizations, whether Sen. Reid will use the "nuclear option" in the Senate and how African Americans are nearly four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than White Americans. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at Senator Frank Lautenberg's inspirational career in the U.S. Senate.
Thom Hartmann on the News: June 5, 2013
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