Democrats Scold White House Over Spying

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/20/06 | Pete Yost - ap

[NormsRevenge]

House Democrats said Bush has committed a crime in authorizing the spying and that House Republicans have abdicated their responsibilities by refusing to hold hearings.

Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), the House Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, and other Democrats met in a basement room of a House office building Friday to hear a panel of lawyers and activists discuss whether Bush had committed an impeachable offense.

[NormsRevenge]

The NSA's warrantless eavesdropping program is "an intelligence operation in search of a legal rationale," said George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.

[JennysCool]

"Scolds" is a perfect term for them.

[msnimje]

How dare they protect us from terrorists!

Everybody knows the Democrats are the experts on National Security.

[MJY1288]

I believe this will be one of the biggest mistakes the Democrats will ever make if they actually pursue these absurd charges of spying on Americans.

When the facts come out in the Senate Hearings next month, very few Americans will conclude that electronic eavesdropping on international phone calls between known enemies of America and someone within our borders.

Just wait until the facts come out about how this program outed the terrorist who was plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge... The Democrats have reached rock bottom and they refuse to stop digging

[benjamin032]

Where is the Dems indignity when property is seized under that insipid commerce clause? It pisses me off when they pick and choose which civil rights they want to champion.

[jazusamo]

Jonathan Turley is a strange duck. I've heard him come out with some common sense stands and some that are downright weird. At the start of the Afghanistan war he did a column stating something to the effect that all enemy combatants captured should have the full benefit of the U.S. Courts. It didn't seem to matter to him that they were terrorists.

[aligncare]

What...? I couldn't get past the first line:

Democratic senators took the Bush administration to task Friday for four years of domestic spying,...

This is an editorial trying to pass itself off as news.

Pathetic MSM drivel.

[willyd]

Exactly, these are the same people that are touting their new gun ban legislation in direct violation of the 2nd amendment. The ACLU is guilty of this as well.

[CyberAnt]

And .. do you know why they were meeting in the basement ..??

It seems that right after the repubs took back the Senate, the dems continued to try to hold hearings - which they are not allowed to do - not as far as the legitimate hearing rooms are concerned. Once while the dems had a hearing in progress, Frist's head aide - called the office of the dem who was holding the hearing and told the dem's staffer what he was witnessing on his closed circuit TV - the dems acting like they were the chairman of the committee and holding hearings; calling witnesses, etc. Frist's aide politely told them STOP IT - and he better not see that happening again!!

This forced the dems to take to the basement to hold their PHONEY HEARINGS - still with no authority to call witnesses or any such stuff. But .. C-SPAN continues to support their little PHONEY HEARINGS because it's more hate-Bush garbage.

[don-o]

How many times can they jump the damn shark?

[Steveone]

What is the difference if a terrorist physically brings a bomb in to this country or phones the instructions ?? same thing!! These Traitorous Democrats (a lot of meanings to that dirty word and none good) need to realize if there is an attack they will face 100% responsibility for it!! I do not think it will be pretty ..

That snake pit of sedition is all that is left If they were smart and that is imposable or they would be with us the nitwits should be demanding MORE intelligence gathering NOT less!!!!!!!!!!!

[Txsleuth]

That wasn't just a hearing today...I listened to it...it was a "mock trial"...and Turley was the first one to use the impeach word...

[NormsRevenge]

2 words will suffice..

take your pick. ;-)

Pete Yost

Amalgamated Propaganda

[Steveone]

Oops sorry

That snake pit of sedition is all that is left If they were smart and that is imposable or they would be with us!!! The nitwits should be demanding MORE intelligence gathering NOT less!!!!!!!!!!!

[Txsleuth]

Gosh...it looks like the "plantation workers" were having a televised meeting to take out the "massa"....LOL

[Txsleuth]

As many times as it takes...to get back into POWER, in their world.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Democratic senators took the Bush administration to task Friday for four years of domestic spying

If the caller or the callee is not in the USA, how is it domestic?

[aligncare]

That Bush statement came at the same time the National Security Agency was engaging — at the president's direction — in warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.

So, we have to get approval from the black-robed bureaucrats?

Say, I got an idea...why don't we all just tie our own hands and feet and give the keys to the White House to Osama. Won't that be fun?

[Exton1]

Bush spied terrorist died!