NSA Has been using a 1981 Executive Order to Circumvent Congress and the Constitution
The NSA has been secretly using a Presidential Executive Order issued back in 1981 to justify everything it does and not an actual democratic law issued by Congress no less the Constitution. Documents released by the U.S. government suddenly reveal, thanks to the ACLU, that the NSA views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities.
This of course flies in the face of any democratic principle whereby WE THE PEOPLEcreate the laws. Here they rely on an old executive order and not laws enacted by Congress, reported Reuters.
Was AIG Bailout Legal – NO!!!!!
A trial in Washington may get to the truth for it is at least not New York City. There will be many star players taking the stand. No NY court would have ever allowed such a spectacle. There was a Buffet Goldman offer until they decided to let government funds be used.
The Fed and for Goldman CEO Hank Paulson let Goldman’s competitors fail Lehman and Bear Stearns under the claim there was not power. The very next day, suddenly there was power to bail out an insurance company.
AIG’s Greenberg’s lawyers have said in court papers the bailout “offer” from the New York Fed to provide AIG an $85 billion loan in exchange for high interest rates and a nearly 80 percent stake in the company amounted to unconstitutional theft from AIG shareholders,reported Reuters.
Pay attention to this one. We may get a glimpse behind the curtain. The government has already moved for protective order to prevent the public from learning the truth. In my own case, the court granted a lifetime protective order to HSBC that I could NEVER help the Japanese against NY Bankers. It would be nice just for once to get the truth out in the open.
See also Gretchen Morgenson NY Times