Posted on 06/27/2006 8:20:46 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
If you are on board and have time, please ping the Viking Kitties.
We have Rev White, aka, left wing brownshirted troll.
Rev. White
Since Jun 27, 2006
"Help me understand this. Do you actually believe terrorists have no idea we do this stuff? They have no idea we're tracking phone calls and financial transactions? No one can be that stupid."
Nice try, one day Brown Shirted left wing troll!
By the way your posting of this inane reply has left an electronic bread crumb trail to you. You had best hope, who ever pays you is listed as one receiving funds from the al Qaeda serial killers.
By the way your posting of this inane reply has left an electronic bread crumb trail to you. You had best hope, who ever pays you is listed as one receiving funds from the al Qaeda serial killers.
I missed it!
If you read enough of the NYT, and especially its editorial page, you can actually square its 2001 editorial with its story last Friday and its eagerness to reveal this program and all the others.
What the Times wanted was Congressional authorization for all these programs. It wants a law passed for everything. Barring that, it wants judicial review of everything. It simply does not trust this Administration, never has and never will. Merely informing the leaders of the Intelligence Committees, getting subpoenas, and having programs reviewed by outside auditors and legal experts is not good enough for the Administration to reach the Times' lofty standards of "legality" and "oversight." So if there is no explicit law enacted authorizing a program, and no explicit judicial review, the Times believes the program is presumptively illegal and therefore the public must be informed of the illegal activities of its government. QED.
Of course, the problem with seeking Congressional authorization for everything is that you cannot keep a proposed intelligence program secret with 535 blabbermouth members of Congress knowing about it. And the problem with judicial review of everything is that the Constitution does not require it, nor does it ever place the Executive subordinate to the judiciary, especially in conduct of war and foreign policy. But the Times has believed ever since the Warren Court that the Judiciary is supreme, and below it the Congress, and below it the Executive. They believe that the Administration's refusal to submit to judicial review and Congressional authorization is prima facie evidence that the programs ARE illegal and therefore they are obligated to reveal them to the people. In their minds, it is still the 1970s, Iraq is Vietnam, Bush is Nixon, and only special prosecutors, the courts, and the press stand between us and the imposition of a fascist dictatorship.
But all they have done is made themselves the new dictators. And they act all surprised when the people revolt!!!
"It wouldn't surprise me that the Slimes published the story to warn such groups. Any revelation of such activity would be damaging to the left's cause during an election year."
You might be right. The leaker told Pinch and his pro al Qaeda thugs that NSA was monitoring payments of cash going to al Qaeda under the guise of some phoney liberal non profit.
This would warn those scumbags.
Rev White didn't last very long.
He probably is one of the al Qaeda Thugs on Pinch's payroll as a drive shooter.
Wouldn't doubt it.
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