Posted on 12/20/2005 7:58:46 PM PST by Roberts
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS -- WITHOUT COURT ORDER
CARTER EXECUTIVE ORDER: 'ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE' WITHOUT COURT ORDER
Bill Clinton Signed Executive Order that allowed Attorney General to do searches without court approval
Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"
Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order."
WASH POST, July 15, 1994: Extend not only to searches of the homes of U.S. citizens but also -- in the delicate words of a Justice Department official -- to "places where you wouldn't find or would be unlikely to find information involving a U.S. citizen... would allow the government to use classified electronic surveillance techniques, such as infrared sensors to observe people inside their homes, without a court order."
Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, the Clinton administration believes the president "has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes."
Secret searches and wiretaps of Aldrich Ames's office and home in June and October 1993, both without a federal warrant.
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Carter committed treason = carte blanche - remember that he deliberately disclosed the classified information about the stealth bomber - a classified secret weapon. And we forget the lady clintoons travelgate and FBI filegate - and the resulting blackmailing - and Rock - ker - fellas disclosing - vital information to a foreign - and hostile - country regarding whether or not Bush would really go to war...heads up warning for Sadamn to get those WMD's outta Dodge (and into said hostile country? (Syria - anyone remember the satellite photos of the truck convoy from Iraq to Syria just before we went in?)
Why is the non-outing of Plame such a crime as to take 2 years of relentless bone chewing and snarling while the fact that someone just disclosed classified information that will aid the enemy in a time of war - is not a problem?
The country will split if the majority goes off the deep end with Iran. That could happen. IN the meantime, we have killed and caputured a lot of idiots wanting to come to the US and hurt us and we have gained a boatload of REAL intellegence to bust up terrorists in the US and Europe.
We are giving the Iraqi's a chance - it is up to them to take it or to dissolve into civil war. If that happens we will pick sides.
Gorelick then built a WALL that was largely responsible for 911 and then sat on the 911 commission (after 3000 Americans were killed by ISLAMIC terrorists) and was allowed to stand as a 'judge' of her own malfeasance!
Anything else you want to add?
Yep, I read it earlier on Drudge.
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Why are you jumpin' at me?
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You had the last post when I responded, don't take it personally. Second, my original comment was my subtle attempt at sarcasm, although it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
Yes, I had forgotten about Carter and the stealth bomber which he disclosed as a campaign strategy. The Dims are always the same - give away the nations secrets so they can retain or retake POWER. They must not be allowed to regain any power in the midterm elections next year. Ronald Reagan charges Carter White House with leaking Stealth information to help campaign I have always believed the great quantities and capabilities of Saddam's WMD went to either Syria or Iran. We may never know for sure, but some WMD have been found in Iraq, but not quantities and no nuke stuff, YET. Isn't it amazing how the NYT was so indignant with the "disclosure of that SECRET Valarie Flame" that they want impeachment, but yet is fine with this REAL DISCLOSURE of National SECRETS for the sole purpose of putting the DemonRATS back into power(at least to the level where they can bring up articles of impeachment). This will be the DemonRAT campaign from here on out - IMPEACH BUSH. The left radio is even sponsoring campaigns right now to right your Congresscritter to get the buzz going and then when critical mass builds (through Errhead America and the MSM) they will have the base ready to campaign hard in 2006. IMO it is a threat that is taken far too lightly - they have more than 3 listeners and they are RABID.
Why isn't Congress looking into how Hillary left the White House with FBI files on her political enemies?
bttt
Weak answer.....?? Just had to laugh at that one....
No, pretty much covers it -- except her mysterious message left for Curt Weldon last August saying: "I didn't do anything wrong." (re: Able Danger investigation)... oh, and her connection to TWA 800 investigation taking a sudden left turn... oops, almost forgot, she got involved in the OKC Murrah Bldg. investigation and turned it, too.
LOL..that's alot to add sister!! Merry Christmas!
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9/11 panel: Inaction leaves U.S. vulnerable
By Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer
Monday, December 5, 2005 11:47 AM PST
WASHINGTON — The former Sept. 11 commission is giving Congress and the White House poor marks on protecting the U.S. against an inevitable terror attack because of their failure to enact several strong security measures.
The 10-member panel, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, prepared to release a report today assessing how well their recommendations have been followed. They say the government deserves “more F’s than A’s” in responding to their 41 suggested changes.
“People are not paying attention,” chairman Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said Sunday. “God help us if we have another attack.”
Since the commission’s final report in July 2004, the government has enacted the centerpiece proposal to create a national intelligence director. But it has stalled on other ideas, including improving communication among emergency responders and shifting federal terrorism-fighting money so it goes to states based on risk level.
“There are so many competing priorities,” said vice chairman Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. We’ve got three wars going on: one in Afghanistan, one in Iraq and the war against terror. And it’s awfully hard to keep people focused on something like this.”
“We agree that more work needs to be done,” White House counselor Dan Bartlett said today. But he said the Bush administration had acted on some 70 of the commission’s recommendations and that others were awaiting congressional action. “It’s important that Congress act on those recommendations,” he said on CBS’ “The Early Show.”
Hamilton, in a joint appearance with Kean on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, said, “We believe that another attack will occur. It’s not a question of if. We are not as well-prepared as we should be.”
National security adviser Stephen Hadley said President Bush is committed to putting in place most of the recommendations.
“We are safer, but not yet safe. There is more to do,” Hadley said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Some members of the commission, whose recommendations now are promoted through a privately funded group known as the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, contended the government has been remiss by failing to act more quickly.
Kean and Hamilton urged Congress to pass spending bills that would allow police and fire to communicate across radio spectrums and to reallocate money so that Washington and New York, which have more people and symbolic landmarks, could receive more for terrorism defense.
Both bills have stalled in Congress, in part over the level of spending and turf fights over which states should get the most dollars.
Congress established the commission in 2002 to investigate government missteps that led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when 19 Arab hijackers organized by al-Qaida flew airliners into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon and caused a crash in the Pennsylvania countryside.
The panel’s 567-page final report, which became a national best seller, did not blame Bush or former President Clinton for missteps contributing to the attacks but did say they failed to make anti-terrorism a higher priority.
Former Democratic commissioner Jamie Gorelick said Sunday she believed the country is “less safe than we were 18 months ago.”
“The interest has faded,” Gorelick, a Washington lawyer, told ABC’s “Good Morning America Weekend.” “We assumed that our government would be able to do what it needed to do, and it didn’t do it.”
Merry Christmas to you as well!
bttt
So which is it? The President does too little and then he does too much. I think they call that a lose, lose situation.
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