[FreedomPoster]

I just yelled at the TV.

James Bamford just made the comment that Clinton was impeached for a "minor sexual disgression".

NO! NOT ONLY NO, BUT *HELL NO!!*

He was impeached for lying *under oath* to avoid the consequences of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Not for getting a Monica.

And anyone who makes a statement like Bamford just made is either ignorant or disingenuous. Bamford seems like a pretty informed guy, so I'm going with disingenuous. He lost significant credibility with me on that one.

[angkor]

Bamford is very much the leftie. But he does know something about FISA and NSA.

[angkor]

By the way, when Bamford argued for the special prosecutor, Toensing chuckled, and I had exactly the same reaction.

As Toensing pointed out, Bamford has no idea what transpired to provide the Commander In Chief and President with surveillance authority against al Qaeda.

It's between the White House, the AG, Congress, and FISC.

And it's classified.

This is where Bamford exposes his own leftie bias: he thinks even classified activities ought to be in the public domain, at least when a Republican uses them.

[robowombat]

Bamford has to be watched closely. He personally detests Bush and makes few bones about it in his latests book.

[CompSciGuy]

Bamford is as political as it gets. He leans just left of Michael Moore in his writings on Bush (His new book, and the one before it about the NSA and Bush). Plus he isn't as informed about the Agency as he would like people to believe.

Cheers,
CSG