Posted on 12/25/2005 11:13:21 PM PST by F14 Pilot
LONDON, December 26 (IranMania) - A morning daily commented on recent reports of the US media on cases of Washington's domestic espionage calling the US government a serial abuser of human rights, said IRNA.
Referring to New York Times latest report concerning spying on American citizens by a number of US intelligence and security bodies, 'Iran News' said they conducted extensive domestic surveillance of all forms of telecommunication wiretapping on US citizens "without court-approved warrants."
Referring to the American National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI as two bodies involved in the "spying scandal," it put the action under question from the legal and constitutional points of view.
"Some legal experts opine that the pervasive nature of the wiretapping and the fact that no due process was involved is in contravention of several US criminal statutes including the privacy laws," said the article stressing the policy may well prove to be unconstitutional.
Noting that the opposition Democrats had called for an investigation by the US House of Representatives and the Senate over the legality and constitutionality of domestic spying, the paper said, "Some in the Democratic Party have even called for the impeachment of President Bush."
The US government however, has tried to justify its actions by asserting that America is at war and during times of national emergency such surveillance is neither unusual nor illegal.
"Pundits ask how can the US government go around the world and lecture just about freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights when it is routinely and systematically involved in breaching the very basic tenets of civil and constitutional liberties and human rights at home?," argued the paper.
It stressed that the overwhelming majority of world public opinion believed that the US practices double standard, is not trustworthy and acts as a bully.
"America is in fact a serial abuser of human rights as was demonstrated in the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo scandals as well as a similar case of routine torture and abuse in Afghanistan's Bagram detention facility," concluded the editorial.
I for one would love to slap that silly smile off of his treasonous face!
Everyone has their breaking points, BB. We all know that Karl Rove is the devil! I don't think I would've made it as far as the milk. That's just horrible!
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Americans are wiretapped more by foreign services, US media and traitorous ACLU trolling lawyers than all the alphabet soup combined.
It is not illegal at all for the government to wiretap institutions which have ambiguous vows and organized goals harassing individual Americans, n'ough said.
Well, I granola say that I agree. But, your bran of abuse in the form of bad puns and rye humor is especially oat-iferous.
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