Bush Approved Phone Spying on Americans After 911

[DudeAsInCool]

Justice Dept Investigating Who Leaked to the NY Times

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5077602

This is an odd twist. The people who leaded were whistleblowers - the executive branch broke the law - not the other way around

[Malicious Intent]

The Laura Ingram show in particular has had several American Soldiers calling in over the last few weeks to clear the air so to speak. Not one of them has said they have any remorse about the war regardless of the reason they were sent there. If anything they are in good spirits and state over an over again about the praise the Iraqi citizens show them and how proud they are to protect our country from overseas.

That is for a good reason. They are told exactly what to say and get benefits for doing so.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publ...icle_7918.shtml

[slum_goddess]

This is an odd twist. 

not w/this buncha fucks--totally expected. remember Sybil Edmunds?

and what MI said, totally. fuckers (not the troops).

[DudeAsInCool]

Gore lashes out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_...mestic_spying_2

[MxRob]

Its funny how the liberals can use race on Martin Luther King day to try to gain political advantage.......

Hillary Clinton on MLK day

When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about...

Mayor Nagin

I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.

The White House's response to Al Gore's speech yesterday.....

McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/17/...in1213941.shtml

Mayor Nagin apoligized today for his remarks. He must be smoking crack with all of the inappropiate statements he has made as of lately.

As far as the ACLU law suits, why haven't they filed one about the Echelon program?

[DudeAsInCool]

Its funny how the liberals can use race on Martin Luther King day to try to gain political advantage.......

Hillary Clinton on MLK day

Mayor Nagin

Reasonable pt in the right thread - but this thread is about spying - Hillary, the Mayor, et tal shouldnt be here

[method77]

McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

I, for once, agree with this McClellan guy

[Kooperman]

Wrong again, continuous eyebrow. The FBI search of the CIA turncoat was completely legal at the time, in 1993. Wiretaps were required to be cleared at the time, but not physical searches in extreme cases. The law changed in 1995, with President Clinton's support, and clearance was required for physical searches from that point on. The White House knows those dates, but yet again they lied. Don't ever take them at their word.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/17/ap-reports-facts/

[method77]

I believed them!

*sticks head in the ground*

[MxRob]

dammit Koop, I was wrong again, you always seem to be more up on the hard facts than me. Sounds like McClellan needs to get his facts together.

[Wolfie]

I believed them!

*sticks head in the ground*

:nope:

[DudeAsInCool]

Conservative Magazine: Bush May Face Impeachment

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/impeachment.htm

:hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

[Kooperman]

Conservative Magazine: Bush May Face Impeachment

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/impeachment.htm

:hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

With Republicans in charge of the House and Senate I'm not holding my breath on that one...and even if the Democrats win back one branch in November there are enough spineless Democrats (of the Joe Lieberman variety) who wouldn't push for it.

[method77]

high quality satire from Fafblog

http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/q-our-...resident-q.html

blame Boing Boing for taking me there

[DudeAsInCool]

The silent men at the Justice Dept who defied the Bush Administration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek/

Prediction - Bush is going to be in trouble with Congress over this, and not just with the Democrats

[DudeAsInCool]

Specter: Administration broke law

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says President George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program appears to be illegal.

Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Specter called the administration's legal reasoning "strained and unrealistic" and said the program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Hearings into the surveillance program are scheduled to begin Monday on Capitol Hill.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060205/ap_on_...domestic_spying