Bob Fertik is also the founder of Women Leaders Online.
Let's Spy on THEM!
The Bush Administration, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement all think it's perfectly ok for Big Brother Bush to spy on Americans.
Of course, angry Americans are demanding hearings to stop this spying. But will the Republicans who control the White House and Congress stop their own spying? Of course not - just look at how the White House sabotaged John McCain's effort to stop torture, even after 90 Senators voted for it.
So what can we do that will actually stop Big Brother Bush?
We can turn the tables and start spying on them - thanks to commercially available phone records, as John Aravosis reports.
Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls, cell or land-line, for $110 online...
So I went to their site, plopped down $110, and within a day I had a list of every single phone number that called my cell, or that I called from my cell, for the month of November. I even had the dates the calls were made, and for a premium I could find out how long the calls were.
Aravosis highlights all the people who should be especially worried about this massive invasion of privacy - FBI agents, police officers, journalists, Members of Congress, Bush administration officials...
Hmm.......... think of the possibilities!!
The trick, of course, is to find the phone numbers we want. Obviously the phone numbers for Bush, Cheney, and other top White House officials are carefully protected. But lots of the people we're interested in are outside the White House, and they are all busy people who run around with cell phones.
Phone records are available from companies like these
- Cell: http://locatecell.com/celltoll.html ($110 for 100 calls)
- Landline: http://www.locatecell.com/lltoll.html ($125 for 100 outgoing long distance calls)
If money is scarce, Democrats.com will reimburse you if you buy the records for an important phone number and discover gold when you get the records.
Whose records would we like to see? Just think of all of the major Republican scandals, and identify the main players. Here are some names to get you started:
NSA Wiretapping: Michael Hayden, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft...
Plamegate: Bob Novak, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Judith Miller...
Torture: Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, David Addington, Stephen Cambone...
Niger Uranium Hoax: Stephen Hadley, Michael Ledeen...
L'Affaire Abramoff: Jack Abramoff, Michael Scanlon, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, Adam Kidan, Ed Buckham, Tony Rudy...
Dukestir: Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes, Mitchell Wade, Dusty Foggo...
GOP leadership fight: Tom DeLay, Denny Hastert, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, Eric Cantor...
And if you really want to have some fun, go after their lawyers too!
Now I know there are people who think it's wrong to behave like Republicans. I do too - but Big Brother Bush is completely out of control and Congress is a Republican dictatorship. If we don't take action ourselves, Big Brother Bush will never stop watching us.
Do we have any volunteers?
