If Goss can't stop the leaks in the CIA, replace him. Immediately.
"The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties. And that is exactly what I will continue to do, so long as I'm the President of the United States."
Fantastic! Sing it, Mr. President, time to tell 'em how it is.
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"Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country."
I hope the despicable Arlen Sphincter was listening to this. That bast*rd should shut his sick, opportunistic mouth.
Write a nasty letter to your Congressman and Senators complaining about the Congressional reaction to the President's actions. Congress has no business tying the President's hands when it comes to intercepting al Qaeda phone calls to the US. And this impeachment talk is insane, and they need to be told so.
Thank goodness he did this in time for the Sunday morning shows.
Whoever leaked this to the NYT needs to be prosecuted.
I would call in my Department heads and tell them that I wanted the offenders in jail within a week. Period. Any one implicated should be tried and jailed. Here we don't shoot the guilty, but in would not be inappropriate.
Well we also expect you to secure our borders against illegal immigration, but that hasn't been a very high priority for you. I don't mind that you're monitoring Al Quaida communications with idiots who are here in the US. But don't give me that BS about doing "everything in your power" to protect us. It isn't true.
OUTSTANDING SPEECH -- Thank you for posting the transcript!
There is a video link on the page as well.
C-Span is re-running the speech now.
Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.So how come no one is beating the bushes looking for the leak?
Maybe they are? And just doing it quietly?
I saw a segment last night where this was debated.
The big rift in information seems to be the use of, or non-use of a certain word. "TARGET"
the Patriot Act is being portrayed by our enemies within as a "big brother" program. They try to portray the Patriot Act as a blanket spy program for agencies to spy on US citizens for delight.
In reality- the act TARGETS overseas links to terror groups and follows their communications. The Patriot allows these agencies to continue their survelience once the trail leads within our borders. It DOES NOT TARGET US citizens at all.
The horror of those misrepresenting the act is that they have this information that tells us that the TARGETS are the overseas links, but either lie about it just to trash the President and weaken our security, or they are too dang lazy to read the info they have and would rather rush to a camera or microphone to cry "BIG BROTHER" "FACSISTS" and "HITLER"
We have a pathetic group of immoral, self-serving people representing us and charges with the duty of protecting us...
PATHETIC...
Thank you, President Bush for your amazing strength.
You are twice the man that I will ever be.
God bless you, sir.