Live Thread -- Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Censure Resolution of Bush on NSA Surveillance

CSPAN ^ | March 31, 2006

[maica]

I just listened to a replay of the hearing on CSPAN radio. At the close the CSPAN announcer identified that we had been listening to a senate hearing on "warrantless domestic wiretapping"

Don't anyone tell me how fair CSPAM is!!

[maica]

I don't know if anyone brought this up, but did not many of the same Congressmen / women decide during Clinton's impeachment that censure is an extra-Constitutional step and therefore cannot be sought?

^^^^

Yes, Orrin Hatch, I believe, gave an opening statement that included this concept. If not Orrin, I heard someone make the point.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Thank you.

Perhaps we could email them to check their own files and get on to other more pressing issues! :)

[Avenger]

"Schmidt: Presidents know their authority can't be constrained to get foreign intelligence. We're talking about a foreign power that has attacked in this country.
It's the strongest possible case and it's long standing that the president has authority. Even if that's wrong, it still is an argument that serious legal scholars can make and to say the president should be censured because of the legal advice he got is wrong."

Exactly.

[sobieski]

I think the mistake was when the Senators became elected officials, rather than being appointed to represent their state governments. Changed the meaning of the body.

[PeskyOne]

I agree. This afternoon after the hearing, they were taking calls, and only 2 or 3 calls were supportive of the President. The rest were Democrats calling in on the Republican and Independent lines claiming to be Republicans, but they were obviously Democrats. The C-SPAN host allowed them to go on at length saying horrible things about Bush, but toward the end of the call-in session, he finally asked one man 'to please not call in on the wrong line'. However, the cheat had already spouted his poison. I sent C-SPAN an email complaining about the situation, because supporters couldn't get through.

It's not just C_SPAN, it's all the media. I was driving home at noon, and had the radio on WORD when the 12 o'clock news came on. The ABC woman newscaster announced that 'former Republican counsel to the President, John Dean, was testifying before the Judiciary Cmte. that President Bush's NSA Surveillance was worse than what Nixon had done.' It's a sad state of affairs when the media gives credence to a convicted felon and a man proved to be dishonest....I consider the media guilty of misleading the public when they do such things. Dean should have been identified as a convicted felon!

[trubluolyguy]

Thank you for the ping, You were right, I am NOT the biggest fan of W. I voted for the man out of "he's better than the other guy" I still believe over all it was the right decision but if you simply read my tagline you can probably tell I am not thrilled with the man/

[ohioWfan]

I thought it was a pretty straightforward exchange. I wondered what you meant, and you explained it clearly.

Just for the record, I'm not too fond of what hasn't yet happened to secure our borders either.

And you're welcome for the ping. :)

[p23185]

I consider the media guilty of misleading the public when they do such things. Dean should have been identified as a convicted felon!

I keep ranting about how the "News" needs to be truthful if advertised as news, and if they cannot be truthful the Congress needs to reign them in with laws. But no, it will never happen due to the 1st amendment - free press can feed us outright lies and label it as news. Treason is all you can get them at.

[maica]

I can't decide whether the ABC or CBS hourly radio "news" casts are worse. They both spread falsehoods every hour.

[sgtyork]

I disagree. It was P.J. O'Rourke who said somthing like -the Senate was a device to keep the 100 most confused intellects in the country in one place where they would do the least damage.

[JustPiper]

Will the hearings continue publicly next week?

[Howlin]

OMG, I thought it was over today......is it not?

[JustPiper]

I want one! It's got my himmie's lil face!

[JustPiper]

Was suppose to be two weeks worth -g-

[NraFreedom]

Well, at least Mr. Dean understands that President Nixon covered up the break-in for national security reasons. Senator Graham needs to brush up on his history and stop believing the "big lie" about Watergate. Nixon really believed that Dr. (what is his name?) was a threat to national security.

G. Gordon Liddy states that the break-in at the watergate was to cover Mr. Dean and the involvement of his wife in providing "services" to big Democratic donars and bigwigs who came to town.

[NraFreedom]

Let us not forget that Senator Hatch was one of the ones who was proposing censure for Mr. Clinton because he knew there were not enough votes for removal from office.

AND, let us not forget that not one of the US Senators even went to look at the evidence that brought the House Denocrats to vote for Impeachment.

[bill1952]

I'm with you brother.

But it can be done. - Hell, the subject is even being introduced in Canada.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607029/posts

Lies, half truths and slanted yellow journalism is not 'news,' and does not deserve the protections in law given real and honest news.

freedom of the press does not mean freedom from the truth

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! As always, sgtyork hits the mark. O'Rourke too.

Now if we could only reduce their pay and influence from the size of their EGO to the size of their IQ, the device would be effective.