Posted on 12/19/2005 1:48:22 PM PST by slowhand520
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Monday, December 19, 2005
A NATURAL EXPERIMENT [Iain Murray] If it's true that more women are having "unwanted babies," then that provides an interesting natural experiment to test Steven Levitt's theory that, all other things being equal, more abortions means less crime. Keep an eye on those crime statistics in 12-15 years from now. Posted at 04:34 PM
ART [Stanley Kurtz] This is right up there with the Sokal hoax. Posted at 04:25 PM
DNC: BUSH IS LYING ABOUT BRIEFING CONGRESS [Byron York]
The Democratic National Committee has just released a statement which appears to claim that the president is lying when he says the administration briefed members of Congress on the NSA spying program:
With his credibility in tatters, President Bush may have fielded questions, but he failed to explain why he may have ignored both federal law and the Constitution in ordering the NSA to spy on Americans. This disturbing abuse of power has become a disturbing hallmark of the Bush administration over the past five years. The President now seems to be hiding behind a false claim that he briefed members of Congress. In the spirit of the President's newfound candor, we call upon him to correct the record, explain why members of Congress were left in the dark and support an investigation into this secret spying program...
That sounds like a direct challenge to me.
Time for Bush to name some names.
See 41.
I don't care about the minutes; I want to see the NAMES.
Let them deny it; then they can release the minutes.
I cannot get over how nutty the DNC sounds when they say crap like this. There's going to be blood on the floor of the Senate and I want to see it.
Names would be nice :)
Me thinks we are getting quite close to sucha thing.
As for the DNC line.....Dean has been removed from the keyboard!!!!
A famous maxim has it that the first casualty of any war is truth. Democrats are hacking away at truth with broadaxe ferocity of berserkers annihilating a village on a river raid.
Any accusations they are making are in reality an admission of guilt on their part on issues similar to or the same as what they are talking about.
Indeed. Projection is the rule.
They never contemplate that there are people of reason, principle, honor, and integrity who are not like them at all. It is such people, of reason, commitment, intergity and honor that have made and maintained this nation and its liberty, with the Hand of Providence to support them.
Great link for info on FISA:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/
At least she knows to keep her trap shut about specifics.
Sounds like the DNC was given a heads up by the Old York Times and were ready to run with this lie??
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Guess he didn't brief Howard Dean ~LOL~
Echelon...
I agree. He should just put the names out there and the dates. I also agree with Cheney that congress should be given polygraph tests.
"It will be recalled that the case that set forth the primary purpose test as constitutionally required was Truong. The Fourth Circuit thought that Keith’s balancing standard implied the adoption of the primary purpose test. We reiterate that Truong dealt with a pre-FISA surveillance based on the President’s constitutional responsibility to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States. 629 F.2d at 914. Although Truong suggested the line it drew was a constitutional minimum that would apply to a FISA surveillance, see id. at 914 n.4, it had no occasion to consider the application of the statute carefully. The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information.26 It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President’s constitutional power. The question before us is the reverse, does FISA amplify the President’s power by providing a....."
Peach, can the "Gorelick Wall" be removed after the Patriot Act is null and void? Seems she was appointed to keep intelligence from flowing from one intellegence agency to another. The Gorelick Wall removed any and all avenues whereby the pertinent agencies can exchange information and connect the dots.
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