Posted on 02/06/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by ken5050
Good Monday morning, once again, fellow political jinkies. The NFL season may be over, but the political season inside the Beltway is 24/7/365. So join us, if you can, as those wacky Dems on the Senate Judiciary committee reprise their pitiful efforts to once again smear President Bush and score political points..
Helen Thomas is telling McCulloch at the White House briefing that Wiretapping is Illegal!!!!
Scott tells Helen she apparently hasn't been listening to the hearings/......angry words were exchanged.....ROFL!!!
McClellan just "B"-slapped Helen. Really put her in her place!
Specter is the chairman so the decision would be his, I believe.
Gonzales said he was willing to be sworn in and Spector said no, other AG's have never been sworn in and they weren't going to start now.
Suggest moving TV to the RIGHT.
LOL
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
That's the title of Debra Burlingame's op-ed in this morning's New York Post. Debra defends the NSA terrorist surveillance program, on which hearings are getting underway today in the Senate. She notes an NBC report that I didn't know about:
Missing in the debate over the program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists without a warrant is the question of whether or not it works.
A 2004 NBC report graphically illustrated what not having this program cost us 41/2 years ago. In 1999, the NSA began monitoring a known al Qaeda "switchboard" in Yemen that relayed calls from Osama bin Laden to operatives all over world. The surveillance picked up the phone number of a "Khalid" in the United States — but the NSA didn't intercept those calls, fearing it would be accused of "domestic spying."
I believe that Debra will be attending the Senate hearing today. Filmmaker Andrew Marcus will be there on behalf of Pajamas Media. Our own Paul Mirengoff will be with Andrew, I think, for at least part of the day, as they try to snag interviews with Senators, witnesses and observers. It will be nice to have at least one "journalist" on hand who actually understands the legal issues that the Senators will be pontificating about.
Posted by John at 07:37 AM | Permalink
Mr and Mrs Daschle have never been brought to account for their sins pre 9/11. Little Tommy should be grateful he is out of the spotlight now.
Also, Leahy and Kohl
We have every reason to believe it is a combination of holdovers from Justice, CIA and Rockefeller.
I connected the dots...I think he EFFECTIVELY said that!!!!
How so, I had the sound off listening to Rush and missed it.
What are the specifics?
Thanks for wading into the DU cesspool so we all don't have to.
Oh, so we still have Chuckie, Durbin, et al. to go?
WoOHOO!
what was the question?
The Dan Rather reply was awesome!
Way to go Helen!!! We love ya!! Just keep talking!!
Got to get people to understand that these people are no longer the kook fringe of the Dem party - they are the mainstream
Wasn't it Feinstein that quoted from his testimony this morning to 'prove' the President broke the law?
Is Rush there? I thought he was off all week so didn't tune in today.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday strongly defended the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program as an indispensable "early warning system" against attacks, denying accusations the White House had broken the law."The terrorist surveillance program is necessary. It is lawful and it respects the civil liberties we all cherish," Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee as Republican and Democratic members questioned the legality of the electronic eavesdropping.
"To end the program now would be to afford our enemy dangerous and potentially deadly new room for operation within our own borders," said Gonzales, who as White House counsel gave legal backing for the program of surveillance without court warrants.
I hope Majority Leader Frist schedules a vote on a "sense of the Senate" resolution calling for the end of the NSA program.
She was ranting about how the President was acting illegal, and Scot said something like, "You obviously didn't listen to the attorney general this morning."
She kept trying to interrupt and Scot just talked over her, then moved on without allowing her to rant and rave. It was beautiful!
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