BUSH'S SNOOPGATE - Jonathan Alter's Newsweek Web-Exclusive Commentary

Newsweek On-Line ^ | 12/19/05 | Jonathan Alter

[pookie18]

Alter, the lefty loon, will be on with O'Reilly tonight...unfortunately not for as long as Hewitt had him. Bill already lit into his comments last night.

[guinnessman]

Yes, he really showed how completely ill-informed Alter was on very topic he was writing.

[litehaus]

"Newsweek. Now there's a winner."....Alter,Alterman same litter box........The Oliphants same.........

[Jhensy]

I'm still waiting on Michael Moore's analysis of this. And what about Wavy Gravy, has he chimed in yet? Kanye West?

About as legit as a Jonathan Alter Newsweek piece.

[Ikemeister]

Never trust anyone who always looks like they're ready to burst into tear. Alter has a permanent pout on his face.

[Thom Pain]

If President Bush acted like a dictator Jonathan Alter would be in prison.

Now that I think about it, if we enforced the sedition laws Jonathan Alter would be in prison.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nobody believes anything this Leftie says anymore. he couldn't review Mary Mapes book in the NYT Review of Books without talking out of both sides of his mouth.

[mortal19440]

This punk was on Imus a few years ago and asked Imus where he got the tapes of Richard Nixon and General Patton. Imus had to inform him that they were done by his staff, that Nixon and Patton were dead. He is so out of it that he can only write for a rag like Newsweek.

[Joe_October]

... I'm still waiting on Michael Moore's analysis of this. And what about Wavy Gravy, has he chimed in yet? Kanye West? ...

And Tookie William's opinion ....... no ..... wait .....

[JFC]

Alter=liberal agenda!

Alter does not work for me.

[Buckhead]

Every President since Roosevelt has asserted and exercised the inherent authority to wiretap foreign powers for national security purposes without a warrant.

Alter's entire opinion on the subject is based on a completely false premise, namely that it is illegal and unconstitutional for a President to do this. To the contrary, no court considering the question has ever said that, and all courts commenting on the subject have expressly recognized the President's inherent authority. Congress in passing FISA and the 9/14/01 resolution also recognized the President's inherent authority. Congress has no authority to impair the President's inherent Article II powers. If resort must be made to the statute, the use of force was authorized, and this type of surveillance is inherent in and a necessary concomitant to the use of force, just like detention was found to be in the Hamdi (or is Hamdan) case.

So, the lefty position on this issue is wrong, ignorant and stoopid. God Bless Hugh Hewitt, and thanks to Jonathan Alter for revealing himself to be such a clown. The left's position is also extremely dangerous and extremely foolish politically. Their platform now consists of a high pitched nasal whine that George Bush is awfully mean to terrorists. Yes, he certainly is.

Strategery or not, the left has now rushed into a position which is wrong, stupid, dangerous, and politically insane. Right where we want 'em. Life is Good!

[dirtboy]

"Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power."

Yeah, and I bet Alter has written countless columns demanding the release of the Barrett Report also - NOT.

[meandog]

NewsLEAK...Sen. Levin, call your office!

[Semper Paratus]

asked Imus where he got the tapes of Richard Nixon and General Patton

Alter must have missed Bartlett's tagline: "This is the LATE Richard M. Nixon".

What a doofus!

[Just mythoughts]

"......the reasonable bounds of presidential power."


Obviously the Barrett report fits within the Clintons "reasonable bounds of presidential power". See there is never too much power when a liberal is in office and it is their Constitutional duty to do whatever it takes to maintain power. Alter personally had nothing to fear from Clintonism and there is nobody more important than liberals are to themselves.

[weegee]

Only the most rabid of anarchist moonbats seriously thinks that George W. Bush can be taken out of office.

However, liberals seem happy with just smearing the president with as much trash and fecal matter as they can so that history will always look down on George W. Bush's administration.

Those history book had better show that the "anti(American)war movement" was partnered with international communists from the start.

How many asterisks are going to need to be in the books to explain that all of this trash set no precedent? And by that I don't mean "everybody does it" but rather than NOTHING UNCONSTITUTIONAL has happened. Unless we are going to appeal to activist courts that reinterpret and redefine the "living document" at (partisan agenda influenced) will.

[backhoe]

Some background:

The Legality of the NSA's Intercept Program--Well, there it goes as far as we're concerned. The left is still hanging onto it, tooth and nail--and talking impeachment. It's just plain sickening.

Power Line ^ | 12/20/05 | John Hinderaker

 

Victoria Toensing & James Bamford Discussing FISA on C-SPAN Now--This article explains fully how the president can legally wiretap US citizens without a warrant. It cites the law, something the left is loathe to actually do.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20621

 

“Bush Spying Story” Is Four Years Old--Somehow the geeky Wired News managed to scoop the vaunted New York Times by more than four years...

 

Why Bush Approved the Wiretaps (including FISA roadblock with Moussaoui)

--Has the DNC not been paying attention? Pelosi and Reid have ADMITTED publicly they were briefed. OMG

 Not to mention, they ALL voted on the Amendment to the FISA:

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004: “Lone Wolf” Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

House Vote

This is getting too easy.

 

Echelon; Worldwide Conversations Being Received (Transcript of 60 Minutes)

 

Jimmy Carter Assumed Same Spy Power As Bush

[pawdoggie]

I have to wonder why the President was so naive as to believe that he could dissuade Sulzberger from publishing the details of this surveillance program. If anything, he was inviting him to do so by the expedient of a face to face meeting (which Sulzberger probably demanded as the price for hearing the President out). How did we go from Dick Cheney's comments about Adam Clymer (which show that both he and the President had a pretty good idea of where the NYT stood editorially), to having guys like Scooter Libby literally "sleeping with the enemy"?

[Buffettfan]

I wonder if "Senator Depends" (Leaky Leahy )had anything to do with this?