Posted on 01/17/2006 2:48:24 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the White House traded accusations over national security Tuesday in a dispute that also pulled in President Bush's other presidential election rival, John Kerry.
At issue was Bush's secret domestic eavesdropping program, which Gore denounced in a speech Monday as illegal and a threat to the U.S. system of government.
Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan shot back at Gore in a style reminiscent of campaigns past, calling the Democrat who lost to Bush in 2000 a hypocrite and accusing him of grandstanding for media coverage.
"If Al Gore is going to be the voice of the Democrats on national security matters, we welcome it," McClellan said. He suggested Gore does not understand the threat facing America from terrorists overseas.
Gore charged that Bush broke the law by allowing the National Security Agency to monitor e-mails and phone calls to and from the United States without approval from a special federal court that authorizes requests to eavesdrop on Americans.
Two civil liberties groups — the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights — filed federal lawsuits Tuesday seeking to block the eavesdropping program, which they called unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens.
McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.
"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.
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Gore Announces, Bush Lobs...
Funny, I seem to remember Gore "lobbing accusations" first.
No matter. The idiot liberal media has their political agenda and they're sticking to it.
Bingo! This is nothing but spin, bias or both.
Bush does it: Bush is evil! Bush is breaking the law!
Clinton does it: Bush is evil! Bush is breaking the law!
Carter does it: Bush is evil! Bush is breaking the law!
Gotta admire their consistency on the matter.
And, of course, if something bad happens to us, these same moron Dems accuse the President of "failing to connect the dots" when all the while they work to prevent him from even seeing "the dots". I hope the American people aren't too stupid to see through this crap.
WHO IS THIS BORE GUY???????? FUNNY..SHOULD BE
REMEMBERED BUT THE IMBECILIC AND MEDIA BITE RHETORIC
REMINDS ME OF A FORMER democratic nit-wit. Jake
Name sounds familiar...I think he is the son of one of the Southron senators who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Al Gore invented hypocrisy and the failure to ratify Kyoto.
"Turncoat"- meaning the man who told the truth about Clinton. It's amazing what words these stupid presstitutes use in order to color a story. If he had written a book about Bush, he would have been a heroic "insider" or "whistleblower".
I think we should all say a prayer of thanks that Al Gore didn't get elected in 2000.
Yes, a prolific inventor. I recall that he invented the Internet, too!
The MSM is excrement. I get tired of writing about, and reading about, how biased the MSM is. I have an hard time taking anything they write or say seriously.
and the inspiration for "Love Story".
Was it a "lob" or a return volley?
Scott McClellan is too bland and too monotoned, too easy to ignore, to convey the psychotic implications of Gore's hypocrisy and the incredibility of Gore's accusations.
I hope the American people aren't too stupid to see through this crap.
THAT is the problem! There are way too many bozo's who believe everything the MSM and Hollywood tell them.......
The way he put it was probably more of a lob. The administration should be blasting with a full broadside instead of a lob. Stand in front of the camera, lay out the data on how they spied on americans and why it is different from what was done at present. Then, in explicit terms call them the liars that they are. You gain more respect by remorslessly slapping down your lying opponents with the truth than by ignoring them or "lobbing" a few remarks at them.
Yesterday it was:
"Gore calls for probe"
"Gore calls for investigation"
As if he is someone important.
Then today, it is "The White House lobs accusations"
Well, I am surely not worried if Americans read the article. Did you try to read it? I was falling asleep after the 4th paragraph, and it's a long article - I couldn't even scroll to the end of it! Algore hasn't lost that touch, for sure!
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