Posted on 12/02/2006 4:01:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, told a gathering of the American Bar Association on Friday that the Bush administration's secret wiretapping program for suspected terrorists is illegal.
Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County), who has become increasingly critical of President Bush's policies in recent months after her initial support for the Iraq war and her defense of the Patriot Act, also blasted the administration for refusing to provide legal opinions and authorizations for its wiretap program, interrogations policy and detentions of accused terrorists.
"The administration has too often operated under vague legal guidelines, pursuant to secret legal opinions generated by few and vetted by almost none," she said Friday.
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That is right...she was probably in the Intel committee during Clinton's years...
Was his program the Eschelon program??
You're correct...I heard her on TV (I believe with Brit Hume) months ago say she thought the program was legal. She said that the people complaining then hadn't seen the details because they were classified.
PING
They'll blame Bush, and the drive-by media will agree.
It's too late to get into Pelosi's good graces, so has she just gone completely over to the dark side and is climbing on the impeachment bandwagon?
Democrats are in favor of wiretapping terrorists. They just believe there should be a warrant obtained, even 72 hours after the fact.
It sure doesn't make sense...because she should be smart enough to know that her past quotes about this subject are a wee bit different than what she said here.
Think Nancy threatened her some other way if she didn't go along with the dem propaganda re: the wiretaps??
Harmon has most likely taken Saddam's money as a consolation prize for losing out on the committee chairmanship.
NO Democrat puts America first....NONE. Disgusting.
Jane Harman had a reputation for decency and patriotism, but it looks as if the Democrats have told her to shape up or ship out.
First her aide leaked a classified document to the media right before the election, and now this.
The crazy fringe won't let the decent Democrats be decent any longer. Well, frankly she has lost any respect I might have had for her. The welfare of our country is more important than a political career.
Harman is now the worst kind of Demagogue weasel, because she KNOWS better (many of them do not, they're just rabid brain-addled leftists). She has had YEARS to voice any objections to this and other counter-terrorism programs, but before now she mostly understood the security requirements of the USA. Now she is pandering to the demented left and she deserves only contempt and scorn.
Let her and the rest of the Dems ban the wiretapping of terrorists ..
While they are at it .. let them release all the terrorists from Gitmo too
And they can take FULL responsibility when more Americans are killed
Because it will happen if the Democrats tie the hands of the intelligence agencies
They have all the answers ?..
They claim to have a plan ?
BRING IT ON and stop playing games ..
Come right out and just do it and stop with the threats
Well...I like your attitude.
I think Tony and the POTUS need to say just that!
No they shouldn't .. it's their job to do everything in their power to defend their countries
But us joe smoes (sp?) and talk media can tell them to put up or shut up
Clinton-Gore Busted On Wiretaps
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1221
Thanks for looking for it and posting it.
There is this "unwritten law" -- Democrats can use wiretaps, FBI files without warrants, as they see fit, but Republicans can't use them, even if it's the question of discovering and foiling a terrorist attack on the US. It's in the Constitution (/sarcasm)
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