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1 posted on 05/19/2006 10:41:04 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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He also noted that screaming crazily has disqualified himself for the presidency but he has qualified to play the father if they ever do another teen wolfe movie.


2 posted on 05/19/2006 10:44:11 AM PDT by x5452
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I didn't know Deanie was still a governor and I know he's not an M.D. He's a political hack. I guess the 'RATS have to do something to appear "smart." Everyone knows they are morons.


3 posted on 05/19/2006 10:46:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America! Where Bush or "global warming" is blamed for EVERYTHING bad that happens.)
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Doctor Destructo is such a moron.............


6 posted on 05/19/2006 10:49:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Liberals ignore criminal behavior, reward sloth and revere incompetence...........)
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We can only pray this man keeps on talking!!!!!


7 posted on 05/19/2006 10:49:59 AM PDT by lonedawg (why does that rag on your head say holiday inn?)
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To: Sub-Driver; Dog

Just a little warning to all Rat $inators who voted to approve the following bill, and if you vote against General Hayden, you will be shown to be a true jackass.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635045/posts

Pat "Leaky" Leahy Aided NSA Phone Taps
newsmax.com ^ | May 19 2006


Posted on 05/19/2006 10:11:40 AM PDT by Dog


In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation.

In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists.

"'The secret collection of phone call records of tens of millions of Americans?" he exclaimed after USA Today blew the lid off the program last week. "Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al-Qaeda?"

But according to the Rutland Herald, Leahy was singing a different tune 12 years ago, when he was pushing the Senate to pass his bill, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA].

Civil libertarians are also troubled by Leahy's law. "The secret search and wiretap provisions could lead to an age of Big Brother-like surveillance," the American Civil Liberties Union complained in the same Law Journal report. "Americans who oppose U.S. policies and who are believed to have ties to foreign powers could find their homes broken into and their telephones tapped."

"I suggest to senators if anybody does want to hold [CALEA] up, I hope that at this time next year, neither they nor their constituents, nor anybody they know, is a kidnap victim or victim of a terrorist, and have somebody ask why nothing can be done, and be told because a law that had probably 99 percent support in the House and the Senate did not pass." Contacted by the Herald earlier this week, Leahy said there was an important difference between what his law authorized and the actions taken by the Bush administration.

"That law talks of the technology of the interception and what technology can be used to intercept and it assumes very clearly that it can only be done with a warrant," the Vermont Democrat insisted.

Some legal experts say, however, said that assumption is not as clear as Leahy claims. Analyzing CALEA in 2003, the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal explained:

"CALEA requires a telecommunications provider to make 'its equipment, facilities, or services ... capable of ... enabling the government ... [without a warrant] to intercept ... all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier.'"


8 posted on 05/19/2006 10:55:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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I suppose, then, that Howard Dean is disqualifed from any office for saying after 9/11 that we would have to "rethink our civil liberties". At the time, he specifically suggested limits on freedom of speech. Too bad he hasn't applied them to himself.


9 posted on 05/19/2006 10:56:14 AM PDT by mak5
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But the lack of a cerebral cortex did not disqualify Dean from becoming a Governor, Presidential candidate or DNC head.
10 posted on 05/19/2006 10:56:18 AM PDT by msnimje (Illegals to US CITIZENS .... "You Suck.......Now pass the mash potatoes!")
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Mr. Dean. Release your gubenatorial records now.


14 posted on 05/19/2006 12:05:53 PM PDT by jw777
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If domestic spying disqualifies one for public office does that mean Hillary is about to resign her (rather ample) seat?

Sorry, I just had to add that paranthetical reference.

15 posted on 05/19/2006 1:27:01 PM PDT by CT
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