Posted on 01/17/2007 11:21:09 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bush won't reauthorize eavesdropping program Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:10 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special court, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday.
"The president has determined not to reauthorize the Terrorist Surveillance Program
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
"Before any of you rubes start blaming the President, try to understand that elections matter, and you single issue, "Bush spends like a drunken sailor" nutbags who stayed home on election day have only yourselves to blame."
*APPLAUSE* Exactly.
TY :)))
Will somebody, somewhere, explain to me HOW ON EARTH cataloguing international phone calls to Peshawar Pakistan constitutes domestic spying?
It aggravates me no end that NO REPUBLICAN is willing to call the press on their brainless parroting of Howard Dean's talking points.
Agreed. IMHO, this is a bad mistake on Bushs part and it will come back to bite the US on the @$$. FISA...pfft!
Sometimes, for the hell of it, I imagine what it might have been if a warrant 'WAS' issued for Moussaoui's computer and 9-11 was prevented....
You need a nap.
Patrick Leahy is the biggest LEAKER in the Senate. By keeping the program away from Leahy, he protects its effectiveness.
You must have the most sore knees in America.
That's why I take what they say with a pinch of salt and only put them on for entertainment purposes...:)
I can understand that attitude, but considering how poor at PR this Administration is, I doubt it. I expect they have gotten what they want from the FISA court.
But be that as it may, I stand by my statement that the excerpts gave an inaccurate and unfair characterization to the Administration's action.
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Is that why what's his face from NC, or was it SC???, wanted government employees held to the USMJ?? Not enuff for a civilan court but enuff for a military court??....hmmm??
The answer is two part.....Remains to be seen, and Yes......
No, that is not what he did. But some will certainly see it that way.
The fact is, Specter has been beating the hell out of this drum, and was not going to cooperate with some picks that need his shepherding if we are to get anyone even close to a moderate past the Dem's. We have to retain this putrid piece of crap's support, even though he is not done complaining, whining, pissing and moaning.
Reality bites when you are a lame duck and face a opposition Congress, and there are some things that have to be done.
Like GWB's judicial appointments. he will be required to give away the store on every one of them, and then some. This is the reality the voters, and our goat stinking base has handed the president and left him to deal with alone.
"...let the Dems be the ones to take down terrorist surveillance."
Very nice - someone should take that as a tagline. Thank you!
That's when you call Jack Bauer and the NSA 'cleanup' crew.
No fuss. No muss. No more bad guy.
Yes...fortunately it's razor thin and with an appropriately directed act of God, that could turn around too.
abandoning this program, isn't worth a few judicial picks. A SCOTUS conservative - OK, then maybe I would agree. But we all know none of this is going to happen, the Dems in the senate are going to block judicial picks - whether or not the administration swerved on this issue, or not.
leaks on what, the existence of the program? that cat is already out of the bag. what is leahy going to leak, had the administration continued to bypass FISA?
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