"I am your lord and master! You WILL bow down before me!"
Posted on 01/21/2006 11:21:49 PM PST by CHUCKfromCAL
In a speech last week, Al Gore took another swing at the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance program, which monitors international communications when one party is affiliated with terrorists. Specifically, Mr. Gore argued that George Bush "has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently," and that such actions might constitute an impeachable offense. The question he raises is whether the president illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). But the real issue is national security: FISA is as adept at detecting--and, thus, preventing--a terrorist attack as a horse-and-buggy is at getting us from New York to Paris.
I have extensive experience with the consequences of government bungling due to overstrict interpretations of FISA. As chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee from 1981 to 1984, I participated in oversight of FISA in the first years after its passage. When I subsequently became deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, one of my responsibilities was the terrorism portfolio, which included working with FISA.
In 1985, I experienced the pain of terminating a FISA wiretap when to do so defied common sense and thwarted the possibility of gaining information about American hostages. During the TWA 847 hijacking, American serviceman Robert Stethem was murdered and the remaining American male passengers taken hostage. We had a previously placed tap in the U.S. and thought there was a possibility we could learn the hostages' location. But Justice Department career lawyers told me that the FISA statute defined its "primary purpose" as foreign intelligence gathering. Because crimes were taking place, the FBI had to shut down the wire.
FISA's "primary purpose" became the basis for the "wall" in 1995, when the Clinton-Gore Justice Department prohibited those on the intelligence side from even communicating with those doing law enforcement.
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What was it that VP Cheney said recently? Something like he was 'glad that Al Gore lost in 2000.' Thats all we need to be thankful for these days. The man is insane.
Short answer is, "yes".
Bump!
Victoria Toensing is doing great work puncturing the moonbats' balloons.
"I am your lord and master! You WILL bow down before me!"
It's unsettling to think Gore was only 538 votes away from being POTUS. Not only is he insane, but he's turning into a pathological liar. Like the Clintons, truth and honesty are a very low priority for Algore.
No question about it, Gore has serious mental instability. You can see it in that picture and hear it in his speeches. He has gone around the bend mentally. May the Lord continue to keep that psycho out of the White House.
Yes, as El Rushbo says they don't want any problem solved, certainly not by President Bush, they want the "issue" for political purposes and to justify their existence.
The other thing that really irks me about Gore is the way he talks down to his audience like he's this superior, more intelligent person talking to children. I doubt that he's even in the same league with me in SAT scores and yet he talks down to people like me. His attempts to disenfranchise military voters in Florida in November, 2000 were an absolute disgrace. How can he show his crazy face in public after a disgraceful episode like that?
Yep
Don't you know, the Constitution is a suicide pact?
So, Gore is saying that HE is responsible for removing all hope for the hostages of the TWA 847 hijacking, and leaving them to die?
He should be hung!!!
The Father of The Internet vs. The Hildabeast vs. The Great Purple Heart.
It's going to be a fun primary season in 2008.
Fat Al is the quintessential Democrat. The more hysterically he raves, the more obvious it becomes that he's both pathetic and bonkers.
Do Al Gore and other Democrats really want to keep the government from finding al Qaeda agents? Clearly, the answer is yes. They radical leftists have made it impossible to believe otherwise.
Wow this is going to be fun. Mrs. Bill Clinton with her shrill screach, algore bloviating about how f-ing smart he is compared to us mortals and throw in Joe (the plagerizer)Biden talking us to sleep, The reverand Al and maybe a few other loonie birds all on the same stage telling us how they would do a better job then Mr. Bush.
I have some straight razors I'd donate to watch them cut each others throats.
But watching these fols try to become our next president is better then any other show in town.
Oh yeah and throw in Israel bombinb the crap out of Irans nuke project and time to get the popcorn and set back in the easy chaie for the fun.
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