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Leahy wants to know about Pentagon "spying" on protests
Boston Globe ^ | December 29, 2005 | AP

Posted on 12/29/2005 4:09:13 PM PST by Seadog Bytes

The Boston Globe -- December 29, 2005

Leahy wants to know about Pentagon spying on protests

COLCHESTER, Vt. --Sen. Patrick Leahy wants the Defense Department to give him the details about two Vermont anti-war protests that were monitored by government officials.

Leahy, a Democrat, said Vermont had a long tradition of peaceful political protest.

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"Besides, I told the Department of Defense, if they really want to hear Vermonters speak out against the war, they don't have to send a camera crew to snoop around Vermont, just turn on C-SPAN," Leahy said. "I do it on the Senate floor all the time."

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; antiwar; leahy; leaky; monitoring; patriotleak; pentagon; protests; spying; vermont
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1 posted on 12/29/2005 4:09:16 PM PST by Seadog Bytes
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To: Seadog Bytes

I guess he didn't get what he wanted for Christmas.


2 posted on 12/29/2005 4:10:03 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: Seadog Bytes
I think it is about time the NSA start listening in on Congresscritters communications!!
3 posted on 12/29/2005 4:10:45 PM PST by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin considered Sedition?)
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To: Seadog Bytes

Why isn't Leahy in prison for leaking classified information?


4 posted on 12/29/2005 4:12:23 PM PST by Lexington Green (JOURNALIST - What a propagandist calls himself.)
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To: Lexington Green

It is his tainted past and am sure he is the same traitor.


5 posted on 12/29/2005 4:16:01 PM PST by boomop1
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6 posted on 12/29/2005 4:16:08 PM PST by Seadog Bytes ("Let their lying lips be silenced..." --Psalm 31:17)
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To: Seadog Bytes
If Virginia is for lovers.......

Vermont is for buffoons

Leaky Leahy.....extra-terrestrial Sanders.....Dean the destroyer.

7 posted on 12/29/2005 4:16:18 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (expell the fat arrogant carcasses of Congress)
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To: Seadog Bytes
A transparent,pathetic attempt to reframe an issue that they have lost on.
8 posted on 12/29/2005 4:16:31 PM PST by carlr
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To: Seadog Bytes
Sneaky, Leaky, Cheeky, Leahy from the CCCP-VT
9 posted on 12/29/2005 4:17:15 PM PST by xcamel (a system poltergeist stole it.)
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To: Seadog Bytes

Seadog, that is calling a filthy spade a spade, my friend. Well done.


10 posted on 12/29/2005 4:23:56 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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Ooo. I guess the idiot liberals lost the previous battle, so now they're re-framing the issue, moving the goalposts, trying to keep their latest stupidity alive.

What else is new? It won't be long before they have another little contrived scandal to get themselves in a lather about. And, as usual, the American people will look at them with disgust and revulsion.

11 posted on 12/29/2005 4:25:21 PM PST by Reactionary (The Liberal Idea of the Social Order is a Hedonistic Idiocy)
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To: Seadog Bytes

I thought the whole point of a protest was to get the governments attention?


12 posted on 12/29/2005 4:26:39 PM PST by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
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To: Seadog Bytes
"Besides, I told the Department of Defense, if they really want to hear Vermonters speak out against the war, they don't have to send a camera crew to snoop around Vermont, just turn on C-SPAN," Leahy said. "I do it on the Senate floor all the time."

I hope the MSM takes Leahy's advice. If they did, the Cindy Sheheen story wouldn't have been manufactured. But wherever two anti-war activists meet, the MSM is there.

13 posted on 12/29/2005 4:27:43 PM PST by SolidSupplySide
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RE: "I guess the idiot liberals lost the previous battle, so now they're re-framing the issue, moving the goalposts, trying to keep their latest stupidity alive."

...Perhaps just symptoms of their actual long-term goal...?


14 posted on 12/29/2005 4:29:59 PM PST by Seadog Bytes ("Let their lying lips be silenced..." --Psalm 31:17)
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You might be a Redneck if:

1. It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation, under God."

2. You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

3. You still say "Christmas" instead of "Winter Festival".

4. You remove your hat and bow your head when anyone prays.

5. You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play our National Anthem.

6. You treat Viet Nam vets with great respect, and always have.

7. You've never burned an American flag, but would kick someone's BUTT that did.

8. You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

9. You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.

10. You'd give your last dollar to a friend.

Hope you don't mind, I liked it.

-Good Work-

15 posted on 12/29/2005 4:30:29 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: shuckmaster

Yes, and this bunch of idiots has certainly earned the attention. The government needs to be watching AND identifying them so they can cut their welfare checks.


16 posted on 12/29/2005 4:30:51 PM PST by 308MBR (Not only older, but bolder. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.)
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To: Seadog Bytes
If the protesters don't want to be subject to surveillance, then they should conduct all protests behind closed doors. Which is something we should all get behind.
17 posted on 12/29/2005 4:30:57 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Seadog Bytes

The Leftist pigs whined and moaned about this same thing back during the sixties. I guess it shows that Commies never change. Just the same old tired crap they are always spewing.


18 posted on 12/29/2005 4:32:02 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: Seadog Bytes
"Besides, I told the Department of Defense, if they really want to hear Vermonters speak out against the war, they don't have to send a camera crew to snoop around Vermont, just turn on C-SPAN," Leahy said.

Well of course that's exactly why the DoD was spying on the protests. Leaky zoned in on the real reason without missing a beat.

He didn't waste a moment's thought of even the slightest possibility that it might have been to uncover participants' ties with enemies of the U. S.

19 posted on 12/29/2005 4:32:52 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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just turn on C-SPAN," Leahy said. "I do it on the Senate floor all the time."

That's why no one is watching. It's hard enough to see idiots protest but to watch Senators who are supposed to be trying to protect the UNITED STATES CITIZENS, act just like anti-war protestors on the SENATE FLOOR, while MEN AND WOMEN ARE RISKING THEIR LIVES, makes my blood boil.

I'm sure he thinks that remark is "cute" (and it probably is to MSM & people inside the beltway) but it isn't "cute" to me! I can't help but think of the 3,000 people (and their families and friends) who died on 9/11, like the ones who JUMPED TO THEIR DEATHS, when idiots like him make their "cute" remarks.

I would pay thousands of dollars just for the chance to slap people like him in the face just once! Let's see how "cute" he really is with a hand mark on the side of his ugly *ss face. SPIT!

20 posted on 12/29/2005 4:34:45 PM PST by kcvl
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