Writing by on Friday, 30 of December , 2005 at 11:00 am
Yah, In the true faction of this Administration, we are going to have a grand investigation on WHO leaked the information about the secret wiretaps. Are we going have an investigation about the wiretaps themselves, Not under this administration.
Republican lesson number 39,231 - Find and punish the person that reported the crime, whitewash the crime itself.
From the Reuters
he U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine who disclosed a secret NSA eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, officials said on Friday. "We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA," one official said. Earlier this month Bush acknowledged the program and called its disclosure to The New York Times () "a shameful act." He said he presumed a Justice Department leak investigation into who disclosed the National Security Agency eavesdropping operation would get under way.
You know what else is a "Shameful Act"? Having so little regard for the Constitution of this once great nation, and the 100’s of thousands that died to defend it, that you are so willing to tear it apart. You know what else is a "Shameful Act", using the Justice Department to bully the media into not reporting the criminal activities of this administration.
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Writing by on Friday, 30 of December , 2005 at 7:08 am
A long time ago there was this political party called the Republicans, don
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Writing by on Thursday, 29 of December , 2005 at 10:29 pm
Well Jack Abramoff is working on a plea deal, and congress is shitting themselves on who is going to take with him, and he is going to take people down.
From UPI via The Washington Times
Authorities are putting together the pieces of the lobbying web of Jack Abramoff, and the resulting investigation could brew into a wide Washington scandal.
Abramoff is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 9 in Florida on charges he bilked former clients. Prosecutors are trying to convince him — as they have some of his associates — to enter a plea deal and help with further investigations. Considering Abramoff dealt with many members of Congress — mostly Republicans but also some Democrats — there are many uneasy people inside the Beltway.
Several lawmakers and staff members have been linked to trips arranged by Abramoff, who bragged of his access to highly placed officials. As a result many politicians have tried to distance themselves from Abramoff and some have returned thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the lobbyist or his various groups.
Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., told The Washington Post of a conversation he had with one of Abramoff’s attorney who said, “There are going to be guys in your former line of work who are going to be taken down.”
Ouch, I am guessing he will show up dead soon, the Republicans will do anything to keep power. They will allow Bush to cornhole the Constitution, I am sure they will kill to keep power, I mean they don
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Writing by on Thursday, 29 of December , 2005 at 1:19 pm
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that Bush says that he spies on Americans without a court order, a clear violation of the 4th Amendment, because he want to take terrorists off the street, and yet that spying my derail cases in court as we speak.
Nothing he did was legal, and we all have heard of someone going free because of a
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Writing by on Wednesday, 28 of December , 2005 at 9:59 pm
I find it odd that the Right is deafly silent when it comes to the illegal wiretapping of Americans with out a warrant, in clear violation of the 4th Amendment. The right-wing whacks would not shut up about the Rule of Law, the Rule of Law
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 8:24 pm
Great Post from ThinkProgress
Defenders of President Bush
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 8:16 pm
Another good read, Osama bin Laden won with Bush’s help… From the Miami Herald
One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn’t win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.
If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden’s attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution — and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it — I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.
Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat — and expect America to be pleased by this — I would have thought our nation’s sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.
If I had been informed that our nation’s leaders would embrace torture as a legitimate tool of warfare, hold prisoners for years without charges and operate secret prisons overseas — and call such procedures necessary for the nation’s security — I would have laughed at the folly of protecting human rights by destroying them.
If someone had predicted the president’s staff would out a CIA agent as revenge against a critic, defy a law against domestic propaganda by bankrolling supposedly independent journalists and commentators, and ridicule a 37-year Marie Corps veteran for questioning U.S. military policy — and that the populace would be more interested in whether Angelina is about to make Brad a daddy — I would have called the prediction an absurd fantasy.
That’s no America I know, I would have argued. We’re too strong, and we’ve been through too much, to be led down such a twisted path.
What is there to say now?
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 11:08 am
I almost fell out of my chair when I read the following. I read it on FOX NEWS.
He says…
“I used to think that extreme right wingers out West who wanted to arm themselves and undergo paramilitary training to be ready to resist tyranny in their own country were crazy. An argument now can be made that they were quite sane.”
And then it struck me. President Bush most closely resembles King George III of England. You remember him – he
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 10:29 am
If you are ever in the mood for some real news, you should look aboard, because they have it. Today is no exception the Guardian (That is a paper in the UK, and because I am sure some of you right-wingers may not know this, they speak English there) has awarded it prizes for the biggest asses on the planet. Now I can not repost the whole story, so I will post about Dick
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 10:09 am
Richard Reeves writes a piece on how Bush and Nixon are starting to look the same. Nixon used the same argument as Bush, I am the President, I can do what I want, Damn the Constitution, and damn anyone who questions me.
We elected a president, not a King. Oddly, Americans last King was named George as well.
President Nixon said the same thing about secret bombings and burglaries: “It’s legal if the president says it’s legal.”
Now George W. Bush is saying he is the law because he is the only president we have. He has, in fact, become a Nixonian figure, alone in the White House talking to the same people day after day, and fewer and fewer of them. He does not like to talk to members of Congress because he might let slip what he is actually doing in Iraq or listening in on phone calls. He likes to appoint judges, but he does not want to listen to them because they might make him stop doing things he wants to do.
What, then, is the purpose of having judges forbidden to judge? That was the question raised by the resignation of federal Judge James Robertson from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court, the body charged with issuing warrants for electronic eavesdropping on the domestic calls and messages of Americans. He quit after it was revealed, by The New York Times, that wiretapping and other surveillance was going ahead, by order of the president, without warrants of any kind. Robertson’s role, unwittingly, was a cover for breaking the law.
All administrations, in my experience, lie on some matters of national security. Then they lie about the lying, as President Bush did a year ago when he said: “Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretaps, it requires
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 9:48 am
Mark Shields is the first in a long time to point out the 1000 lbs gorilla in the room the rest of the media is tiring so hard to ignore, no matter how you slice the facts, Bush
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 5:31 am
I wrote last week that while on the campaign trail Bush said this.
Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so. It’s important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.“
Well some reporters have asked the White House about this, Let the spin begin. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said that he was only saying that in the context of the Patriot Act, come on Scott, so when he is talking about the Patriot Act, he loves the Constitution, but when he is not, he hates it? You can do better than that.
Now I must say that I am proud of David Shuster over at MSNBC, because he has taken this one step further. This is his report, it has Bush’s own words, and you will see that it does not gel with the “new truth” that the White House is pushing.
So I will ask again…
===So, is he stupid or a liar (or Both)?===
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Writing by on Tuesday, 27 of December , 2005 at 4:36 am
So, It looks like Bush is doing everything bigger than anyone else. His spending and deficit is higher than every single president in American history combined, and now the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that he has modify more wiretaps than all presidents combined in the 28 year history of the FISA court, because the courts were doing it’s job, so he changed the rules.
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Christmas Day (So no one would read it). My Comments look like this
Government records show that the Bush administration was encountering unprecedented second-guessing by the secret federal surveillance court when President Bush decided to bypass the panel and order surveillance of U.S.-based terror suspects without the court’s approval.
A review of Justice Department reports to Congress shows that the 26-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court modified more wiretap requests from the Bush administration than the four previous presidential administrations combined.
The court’s repeated intervention in Bush administration wiretap requests may explain why the president decided to bypass the court nearly four years ago to begin secret National Security Agency spying on hundreds and possibly thousands of Americans and foreigners inside the United States (A clear violation of this nations 4th Amendment to the Constitution of this United States), according to James Bamford, an authority on the security agency that intercepts telephone calls, e-mails, faxes and Internet communications.
“They wanted to expand the number of people they were eavesdropping on, and they didn’t think they could get the warrants they needed from the court to monitor those people,” said Bamford, author of “Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency” and “The Puzzle Palace: Inside America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization.” “The FISA court has shown its displeasure by tinkering with these applications by the Bush administration.”
-snip-
To win a court-approved wiretap, the government must show “probable cause” that the target of the surveillance is a member of a foreign terrorist organization or foreign power and is engaged in activities that “may” involve a violation of criminal law.
No ‘probable cause’
Faced with that standard, Bamford said the Bush administration had difficulty obtaining FISA court-approved wiretaps on dozens of people within the United States who were communicating with targeted al Qaeda suspects inside the United States.
The last paragraph I posted is telling, when the Bush Administration is faced with any standard, it falls apart. Please read the whole thing. I find it hard to believe that a court who
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Writing by on Monday, 26 of December , 2005 at 10:05 pm
A free media was supposed to be there to protect Americans from the corruption of government. They were to report with an unbiased eye the
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