Odds & Ends on Monday

Lee Rayburn | 4/10/2006 9:21 am | ...

"AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and stunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company."  This story is for anyone who still believes that the Bush administration is only data-mining the international communications of terrorists.

Seymour Hersh's article in the New Yorker, cites a number of sources who say that the Bush administration are considering the "nuclear option" against Iran.  Is there irony in the fact that the U.S. wants to use nukes to stop the proliferation of nukes to the middle-east?  "The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Join Chiefs of Staff? and some officers have talked about resigning."  The Joint Chiefs of Staff have formally opposed the nuclear option, while the Defense Policy Board (appointed by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld) supports using nukes against Iran.

Paul Soglin's blog WaxingAmerica.com has been detailing the panic that struck state conservatives after last Tuesday's elections.  Nothing is scarier to a Wisconsin Republican than a Democratic Mayor of Waukesha.  Congratulations to new mayor, Larry Nelson.  It looks like the Groundhog Day agenda of God, Guns, and Gays may no longer be an effective organizing tool and that may not bode well for Wisconsin's discrimination amendment that we'll vote on in November. 

Today is "A Day Without Latinos" in Madison and I am heading there now.  I'll have a full-report on the Pro-Show in the morning on the Mic 92.1.  Also on Tuesday's show, John Nichols from the Capital Times and the Nation will discuss the ramifications of last week's elections, today's immigration protests, and the November elections.

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