Live Thread -- Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Censure Resolution of Bush on NSA Surveillance

CSPAN ^ | March 31, 2006

[TomGuy]

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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Censuring the President for NSA Surveillance

[Darth Malice]

Now thats funny!

[Peach]

Schmidt: Congress can't encroach on presidential power.

[maggief]

That about sums it up ... except for the ugly green tie he was wearing.

[Txsleuth]

Well...since she made such a big deal about the hair...probably that dryer vent cleaner hair do that she had the day she gave the weird speech on the House floor...

[Peach]

Schmidt: The position taken by AG Edward Levy under Ford, said that Congress should establish a court mechanism but he was always explicit that they couldn't take away president's inherent authority.

[ohioWfan]

Good. That wasn't clear from your post, and I know you don't have much respect for him.

Just making sure.

[plain talk]

LOL! You probably don't believe President Bush should be censured for beating his wife either, right?

[Peach]

Schmidt: Levy repeatedly made mention that technologies could change and he had it right. We've faced a terrorist threat in this country we've never faced before. The president went to NSA to ask them to use technology but they couldn't do it within the current confines of FISA and the president needs to have the authority to act.

[Loud Mime]

I'm waiting for Boxer to read a letter that supports the censure..........from Osama

[Howlin]

Just that he was involved with Watergate and he has a book coming out.

Isn't that the way he always is?

He and Woodruff and Bernstein have laid claim to Watergate and they're out there making sure no other scandal is as big as that one.

[Peach]

Is Feingold even in the room?

[maggief]

Yes.

[Howlin]

Oh, wouldn't that be a hoot!

I hope he's hearing this!

The DUer must be despondent.

[Peach]

Schmidt: Even if you think all those people are wrong, I still can't conceive of censure. There's no evidence the president did anything but rely on good faith of the advice of the Justice Department. There's no justification for censure.

[Txsleuth]

Sounds to me like Feingold is NOT going to get much help from this panel...except from Fein and Dean..and even they are not great "witnesses"...

I wonder how many DEM senators will show up??

[ohioWfan]

Thanks for the summary of Dean's testimony, Peach.

He was a flash in the pan whose trying to capitalize on his 35 year old 'fame.'

Sort of like the entire liberal establishment, eh?

[jennyjenny]

Yeah, he's in there. Last time they showed him, he looked like he'd just been whipped and was sitting in time out.

[Peach]

Exactly. Dean is a nutjob, imo.

[OXENinFLA]

Schmidt: Even if you think all those people are wrong, I still can't conceive of censure. There's no evidence the president did anything but rely on good faith of the advice of the Justice Department. There's no justification for censure.

LOL!!!

I heard that.

[Howlin]

Specter says "Mr. Dean wants to turn to the Dark Side."