Posted on 01/16/2006 8:15:35 AM PST by ken5050
Guess it's time for me to stock up on my painkiller of choice. I suspected that 2006 would be as ugly, if not more so, than the 2004 campaign. Damn, I hate it when I'm right, sometimes...
ping
From his "speech"
At the same time, the Executive Branch has claimed a previously unrecognized authority to mistreat prisoners in its custody in ways that plainly constitute torture in a pattern that has now been documented in U.S. facilities located in several countries around the world.
Over 100 of these captives have reportedly died while being tortured by Executive Branch interrogators and many more have been broken and humiliated. In the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, investigators who documented the pattern of torture estimated that more than 90 percent of the victims were innocent of any charges.
Bush has his own "interrogators" now, who are killing, breaking, and humiliating poor sand monkeys.
Boo hoo hoo algore.
Rush is going to have a Field Day with this one today....
I may record all three hours today...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559386/posts
FLASHBACK: Gore Planned to Bug America
NewsMax ^ | Friday, Nov. 16, 2001 | Charles R. Smith
Posted on 01/16/2006 10:26:32 PM PST by Howlin
Gore Planned to Bug America
Charles R. Smith
Friday, Nov. 16, 2001
Secret documents show Gore rejected 'due process.'
During the 2000 presidential elections, Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. Gore's dubious claim of techno-savvy came within days of his admission that he managed to delete all of his e-mail concerning meetings with large DNC money donors.
This article is very long go to the FR link to read the documentation of Gore's work to violate our constitution:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559386/posts
That article relates mostly to cryptography, the ability to code messages. The government does NOT want you to have that ability.
Here is another article re the Goron and this issue:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559570/posts
White House Accuses Gore of Hypocrisy
Associated Press ^ | 1/17/06 | NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 01/17/2006 7:36:39 AM PST by presidio9
White House accused former Vice President Al Gore of hypocrisy Tuesday for his assertion that President Bush broke the law by eavesdropping on Americans without court approval.
"If Al Gore is going to be the voice of the Democrats on national security matters, we welcome it," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in a swipe at the Democrat, who lost the 2000 election to Bush only after the Supreme Court intervened.
Gore, in a speech Monday, called for an independent investigation of the administration program that he says broke the law by listening in — without warrants — on Americans suspected of talking with terrorists abroad.
Gore called the program, authorized by President Bush, "a threat to the very structure of our government" and charged that the administration acted without congressional authority and made a "direct assault" on a federal court set up to authorize requests to eavesdrop on Americans.
Meanwhile, two civil liberties groups — the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights — filed federal lawsuits Tuesday seeking to block the eavesdropping program, which they called unconstitutional electronic surveillance of American citizens.
McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.
"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.
Gore said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should name a special counsel to investigate the program, saying Gonzales had an "obvious conflict of interest" as a member of the Bush Cabinet as well as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
Gonzales, who has agreed to testify publicly at a Senate hearing on the program, defended the surveillance on cable news talk shows Monday night.
"This program has been reviewed carefully by lawyers at the Department of Justice and other agencies," Gonzales said on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "We firmly believe that this program is perfectly lawful. The president has the legal authority to authorize these kinds of programs."
On CNN's "Larry King Live," Gonzales said Gore's comments were inconsistent with Clinton administration policy.
"It's my understanding that during the Clinton administration there was activity regarding physical searches without warrants," Gonzales said. "I can also say it's my understanding that the deputy attorney general testified before Congress that the president does have the inherent authority under the Constitution to engage in physical searches without a warrant. And so, those would certainly seem to be inconsistent with what the former vice president was saying today."
Gore said there is still much to learn about the domestic surveillance program, but that he already has drawn a conclusion about its legality.
"What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently," he said.
Bush has pointed to a congressional resolution passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that authorized him to use force in the fight against terrorism as allowing him to order the program.
Gore, however, contended that Bush failed to convince Congress to support a domestic spying program, so he "secretly assumed that power anyway, as if congressional authorization was a useless bother."
He said the spying program must be considered along with other administration actions as a constitutional power grab by the president. Gore cited imprisoning American citizens without charges in terrorism cases, mistreatment of prisoners — including torture — and seizure of individuals in foreign countries and delivering them to autocratic regimes "infamous for the cruelty of their techniques."
McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.I looked this one up. There are some associated facts, omitted by McClellan, that color his (correct) assertion.
When somebody colors their stories, it causes me to not trust them to give a balanced view. Your mileage may vary.
I hope it keeps on increasing too.
I heard some soundbytes on Laura Inghram's show today. It has hilarious, he really needs help.
Oh yeah-- I forgot. Well, 2000 isn't that many, probably not enough to worry about. They must not count
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