Posted on 12/20/2005 9:32:43 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
The Bush administration found a key ally on Capitol Hill Monday as it broadened its aggressive defense of a recently revealed domestic spying program that used warrantless surveillance.
Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, “believes the program is consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution,” Sarah Little, Roberts’ spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.
Roberts, in his first public remarks on the electronic surveillance program, indicated he has known about the program since he took over the committee in 2003. He said he believes the administration has taken proper safeguards to preserve Americans’ civil liberties and is in talks with Senate leaders on what additional oversight steps Congress should take, Little said.
“Senator Roberts believes that in a time of war, the president should have every lawful authority to protect the American people,” Little said.
The Kansas Republican’s defense of the administration came just hours after President Bush lambasted critics of his domestic anti-terror policies at a White House news conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
This is all I need to know.
Next?
NIce of the MSM to sit on Roberts' statement for so long, and then only release it in the KC Red Star.
Someone needs to tell Hagel and Snowe to STFU. Just saw on "alarming discovery". They were NEVER informed of this. Who has Hagel's #. Pissed again.
Kay Bailey was on FOX & Friends this morning, also supporting the president. Wonder where our other republican officials are?
(I hate cowardly republicans...I hate them!!!)
Im so mad I cant even write. Saw it on CNN this am.
If I recall .. wasn't it reported back then that only certain top members of Congress were being told of really sensative information because of the leaks to the papers ... aka Bin Ladens cell phone leak?
There were only 8 people in Congress who told; I heard Kit Bond say that this very morning on MSNBC.
And it only involved 30 incidents/requests.
" Sealed Case, the 2002 opinion by the special panel of appellate judges established to hear FISA appeals. In its per curiam opinion, the court noted that in a previous FISA case (U.S. v. Truong), a federal "court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue [our emphasis], held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information." And further that "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."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007703
so much for the impeachment accusations...
Of course it is. I've seen enough. All of the critics on this issue are either stupid or disingenuous liars.
Oh, but Nancy Pelosi expressed her concerns, don't you know? Such concerns, that we never heard of them till yesterday!
Great find. You nailed these idiots.
And here (see last three paragraphs)
These links are from whitehouse.gov, the president's speeches, regarding WOT.
Okay, we need to keep a list of all Republicans getting out there in support and thank them
Roberts
Cornyn
Bailey
Sessions
E-Mail or call these Senators and thanks them. Who else has come out strong?
Since 2003.
"You nailed these idiots."
I'm tellin' ya;
Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! LOL
Rove is even now looking at 2006 and 2008.
Exactly.
The White House knows exactly WHO had this information. It won't take long to find the leaker.
Who preceded Roberts as chairman and who was chairman in 2002 (probably a RAT)?
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