Boxer Asks Presidential Scholars About Former White House Counsel's Statement that Bush Admitted to an 'Impeachable Offense'
December 19, 2005
No doubt Boxer fears someone will start picking up her secret communications with the People's Republic politburo.
FYI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543688/posts
Jimmy Carter Assumed Same Spy Power As Bush
She is a really wierd person. Here is what SMASH has to say about all this:
We know that Congressional leaders were briefed on this program. Some claim to have expressed concerns about the legality of such unusual measures. How were those concerns addressed? Were changes subsequently made to the program to ensure that the rights of law-abiding citizens were not violated? The Bush Administration claims that these intercepts were made without acquiring warrants because of time concerns. Was any officer of the courts consulted after-the-fact? Was the judicial branch involved at any time, in any way?
In short, what checks and balances were present, if any?
I'm also concerned with the apparent eagerness on the part of some partisan Democrats to declare a "Constitutional Crisis" and start the ball rolling towards their ultimate goal: the impeachment of President Bush. While the possibility that the Executive Branch might be ignoring the Fourth Amendment is indeed disturbing, the proper remedy in this instance would be to obtain a court injunction halting such intercepts, and to disallow any evidence so garnered to be used in a court of law (as is routine when evidence is obtained through illegal searches in criminal cases). Calling for the President's impeachment seems a little extreme.
If President Bush has done anything wrong by ordering these intercepts, he was clearly motivated by his constitutional duty to protect American citizens from foreign threats. There is no evidence whatsoever of any malicious abuse of power in this case; the targets of this program were members of the same organization that gleefully slaughtered almost 3,000 men, women, and children on that horrible Tuesday morning four years ago.
Congress has the power to investigate this program, and is already making preliminary moves to launch such an investigation. In doing so, they should keep two principles in mind:
1. Avoid further damage to our national security, and
2. Consider the Constitution first, and their partisan interests not at all.
I urge them to follow the above advice, but I doubt that they will -- 2006 is an even-numbered year, after all.
As we say in the Navy, "stand by for heavy rolls."
http://www.indepundit.com/archive2/2005/12/domestic_intell.html#
Is this scrappleface? She can't be serious!
I love it, the nutso left really is going to go all all out on this. Chalk up a few extra seats in Congress.
I'm surprised this took 24 hours.
Barbara Boxer could use a straitjacket, and she seems to comb her hair with a firecracker.
more blaa blaaa blaaa from Boxer......
" On December 16, along with the rest of America, I learned that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to ..."
Well, along with the rest of America except for the large group of Democrats (Reid, Daschle, Pelosi, Rockefeller, etc) that were briefed on the program.
Over here. Boxer impeachment letter.
I saw the title and thought that Boxer the Commie had been impeached.
Can you say "orchestration"?
The only thing strange is that the left is so bereft of ideas its following the kooks off the cliff
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
shouldn't it read al-queda senator?
Oh? You're not too keen on the possibility that your conversations with Al-Qaeda might have been monitored, Babs?
Speaking of your constituents, wasn't there a guy from Marin County a couple of years ago who was captured while fighting for Al-Qaeda?
IMO, this entire thing is a tempest in a teapot.
Of course the president is going to authorize spying on people involved with terrorists.
I wonder if these people are even paying attention to what they are fussing about. It is crazy.
After all,girls just wanna have fun!
Watching Tariq Aziz mouth off some vile nonsense about the US in the lead up to Gulf War I, I said to my self, "One day I'll see you hang." Looks like I'll get my wish; and, if God is generous, may I also live to see a lot of current Dem leadership mount the scaffold also.
Rush talked about Clinton doing the same thing, yet no mention of it on O'Reilly or Hannity & Colmes tonight. I wonder why?