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Specter: Administration broke law
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| February 5, 2006
Posted on 02/05/2006 5:19:32 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
This is the thanks Bush/Rove gets for saving Specter's rear during the 2004 GOP Senatorial primaries.
To: West Coast Conservative
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Specter called the administration's legal reasoning "strained and unrealistic" and said the program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Funny, but right after that Specter said FISA was probably unconstitutional. Wonder why that was left off?
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:21:22 PM PST
by
dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
To: West Coast Conservative
Now who'd a thought a good Jewish boy like Senator Specter would go over to AlQaida so easily. My, my, my.
Time for a new chairman ~ calling Bill Frist!
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:21:29 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: West Coast Conservative
Spectre is long overdue for defeat and relegation to the ash heap of Senate history.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:21:41 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: West Coast Conservative
Specter is the gift that keeps on giving.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:21:41 PM PST
by
marron
To: West Coast Conservative
That was not the most important quote. Specter said FISA was probably UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:22:27 PM PST
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
To: West Coast Conservative
I guess he is basing this on Scottish law?
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:22:43 PM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
(I'll admit it , I'm a Snow Flake !(Snoq) The rest of my tagline redacted by court order.)
To: Jeff Head
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:23:01 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: West Coast Conservative
Does he have John McCain disease? I know he's not up for election for 4 yrs but maybe he'll get phlebitis and have to retire.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:23:30 PM PST
by
tiki
To: West Coast Conservative
That's it, I want Arlen's head on a platter. What an oaf.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:24:00 PM PST
by
Donna Lee Nardo
(+++ DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND CHILD AND ANIMAL ABUSERS +++)
To: West Coast Conservative
Sounds like the chemo roasted a few more brain cells than anyone expected.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:24:14 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm not much of one to defend Specter, but read the entire story:
Arlen Specter: FISA Law May be Unconstitutional
Sen. Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Sunday that while President Bush's terrorist surveillance program is a "flat out violation" of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it may be entirely legal because of powers granted the president by the Constitution.
"There is an involved question here . . . as to whether the president's powers under Article 2, his inherent powers, supersede a statute." Specter told NBC's "Meet the Press."
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02/05/2006 5:24:27 PM PST
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dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
To: Donna Lee Nardo
Everyone PLEASE click on the link in post #13. This article is one of the worst representations of selective editing I've seen in some time. And that's saying something.
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02/05/2006 5:25:23 PM PST
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dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
To: dirtboy
Thanks, dirtboy...you're one of my favorite FReepers.
To: West Coast Conservative
"Specter: Administration broke lawHmmm.... that's not what Senator Spector said at all. He said that the administration may be in violation of the FISA laws, but that if those laws are in conflict with the President's constitutionally mandated powers in Article II, then no he didn't break any laws and FISA is unconstitutional. So in short what Specter said was that; it appears Congress may have written a law that is against the law in 1978. |
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:27:51 PM PST
by
HawaiianGecko
(Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
To: HawaiianGecko
Nice of UPI to editorialize with their headline. Hoping no one reads the article, obviously.
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To: West Coast Conservative
So, Arlen, what
is the hot stuff in your FBI file? It's gotta be heavy dirt. What are you, a closet homo? Had a few affairs? Got a thing for snuff flicks? little girls? little boys? animals? Enquiring minds want to know...
'Cause whatever it is, your handlers must really have your butt against the wall.
Either that or YOU have it across the line.
If it is the latter, just make the Jeffords jump and get it over with, OK?
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:29:53 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Please, read post #13. This is a very bad article in that it only told the first half of Specter's statement.
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posted on
02/05/2006 5:30:40 PM PST
by
dirtboy
(I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?)
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