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Colin Powell criticizes spying program, says they could have gotten warrants

Posted on 12/23/2005 4:14:20 PM PST by EveningStar

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To: bnelson44

Everyone has the right to jump on his case if they want! They have the right to their opinion!!!


41 posted on 12/23/2005 4:45:26 PM PST by landerwy
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To: EveningStar
I know you've been fair. You're always reasonable :~D

I did not comment on Powell's comments last week. I don't even know what they were.

You can browse the headlines below.... several articles where he both supported the need and custom for foreign covert 'prisons'. and the need for troops and support to Iraq for the long haul.

Recent Powell Search

42 posted on 12/23/2005 4:45:43 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: EveningStar
Powell was a loser from the beginning, however on this one he is correct.
43 posted on 12/23/2005 4:47:14 PM PST by cynicom
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To: bnelson44
He has a right to his opinion.

So do I. He is a twit for saying this.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

44 posted on 12/23/2005 4:47:47 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Your shovel use permit has been revoked, please turn in all digging tools by noon tomorrow. -OP)
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To: bnelson44
Now don't everyone start jumping on his case. He has a right to his opinion.

And being an American Citizen, so do I. He may have provided "gravitas" to the Bush 2000 campaign, but he still brought Desert Storm to a premature end... which we are now paying for.

45 posted on 12/23/2005 4:50:05 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: EveningStar

I would prefer to hear the question he was answering before I get all bent out of shape over it.


46 posted on 12/23/2005 4:51:55 PM PST by Peace will be here soon ((Liberal definition of looting: "Self-help Humanitarian Aid."))
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To: Peace will be here soon

Well, you can buy the transcipt from the ABC Nightline site. I heard the radio clip on the way home. I did a web search could only come up with a left wing blog. At least for now. Perhaps someone on FR taped the show.

I do hope to see this reported on elsewhere.


48 posted on 12/23/2005 4:58:18 PM PST by EveningStar
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49 posted on 12/23/2005 5:00:10 PM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: EveningStar

I heard the clip, too. And, I wondered just when Colin Powell earned his law degree.

For the first time, IMO, Powell sounded stupid.


50 posted on 12/23/2005 5:01:14 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: denydenydeny

Oh ya, we should use Whatshisname Penn to tell people who should STFU. ~rolls eyes~


51 posted on 12/23/2005 5:03:03 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
I wondered just when Colin Powell earned his law degree.

That passed through my mind too.

52 posted on 12/23/2005 5:03:45 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

ROFL!


53 posted on 12/23/2005 5:08:43 PM PST by Zechariah11
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To: HairOfTheDog
You're always reasonable :~D

Thanks. I wish that were true. :)

54 posted on 12/23/2005 5:14:44 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: HairOfTheDog

Opinions borne of ignorance are best not spoken to the likes of anyone in our America hating media.


55 posted on 12/23/2005 5:15:03 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: EveningStar

Now, dang it, that's just it. I have had it with Powell. He is dead to me. Patooowie.


56 posted on 12/23/2005 5:15:36 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: OldFriend

I don't think you can claim his opinions are borne of ignorance. He's more qualified to speak on the technicalities of what we're discussing than any of us.


57 posted on 12/23/2005 5:16:33 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: Paul_Denton

Remember, they would have to serve every phone co. Recall that they can now do over 20 at a time. They are only limited by their not being found out.


58 posted on 12/23/2005 5:18:06 PM PST by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Since he is incorrect in suggesting that the President did not have inherent authority to protect our nation from attack, I believe he spoke of venom or ignorance.


59 posted on 12/23/2005 5:18:55 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: peyton randolph

I am more that a little irritated at the national press corps sudden obsession with this topic.

In administrations that were far less interested in national security and prosecuting terrorists, far worse violations like carnivore, Escalon and illegally obtained FBI files were handled by a single NY Times article and dropped due to disinterest by the same national press corps.


60 posted on 12/23/2005 5:20:11 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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