Posted on 02/06/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by ken5050
Good for you! Specter makes me sick. He is a self serving FOOL!!
If we handle this NSA leak scandal correctly the GOP can GAIN seats in congress this October.
Sessions is a treasure.
What was I thinking there...lol. The election is in November of course...must have been thinking about the world series.
'nail the senatorial leaker'
agree! I hope they find out who it is and throw the book at him/her.
It's hard to keep up with the hearings as well as Rush's comments, which add additional information.
Tom Guy let us know 2 facts about a senator who might be doing well today but otherwise would be outside our usual support. Personally I would rather deal in facts to know who these people are than a constant pep rally no matter the Republicans past record.
Obama is being groomed for VP in 08, which scares me. Can he win outside of Chicago?
"Now The Dope is asking if the President can suspend Posse Commitatis!"
The Dems implied that they wanted the Pres to ignore Posse Comitatus for Katrina.
Sessions: If a general statute clearly contemplates certain actions and they can't be effective without those actions, than it wuold overrule the earlier statute.
Gonzales: General statute vs specific statute - this was raised in the Hamdi case. SCOTUS said that authorization to use military force was sufficient to overridge prohibition in 401(a).
Sessions: Hamdi case is pivotal here. Hamdi case - American citizen held without trial and SCOTUS upheld it. They ruled it was an incident with regard to authorization of force.
Isn't listening to a phone call less intrusive than holding someone in jail?
Gonzales: Yes. (Described decisions by O'Connor and Thomas on SCOTUS).
Good question re Dianne......her areas of 'expertise' are guns, abortion, hapless toads, and abortion, abortion, abortion.
"Kennedy: We're sending a message to phone companies that they may be under assault and attack."
I had to laugh out loud at that one.
"Ma Bell, duck!! Incoming!!
Verizon! Drop your cell phone! You won't? Allright - punk, make my day!!!
Sessions going through what other presidents have done. Why aren't they mentioning Eschelon or doesn't it have validity in this conversation?
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
SEN. DAILYKOS FEINSTEIN ASKS A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS OFF A SHEET... [John Podhoretz]
...including one about whether the president can, on his own initiative, engage in illegal propaganda activities inside the United States. She cites statute 502K-12 subsection ABCD (well, not actually, but that's what it sounded like). When Attorney General Gonzales, properly considering himself sandbagged by an issue involving a statute in the U.S. code having nothing whatsoever to do with the case at hand, protests that he does not want to give an uninformed answer to a complex question, Sen. Feinstein announces, "I don't want to argue with you," and then goes right on to insist that of course the president would be tempted to suspend many civil liberties. Bad form, Senator. Rude and unjust. God forbid you should actually listen when Gonzales attempts to offer a reasoned answer to your outrageous, DailyKos-level question.
Feinstein asks him now if he's got any other secrets.
Gonzalez: "No,but I did save a bundle on my auto insurance.."
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OH! LOLOL!!!!!
That really is the essence of these proceedings.
I know hearings like these are tough to watch (luckily I am office-bound and cannot right now), but they ARE exposing the demonicRATs for what they are.
Now bringing up Clinton, Gorelick and Aldrich Ames...
Sessions: Under FISA we are far more restrained in using our military than history has demonstrated. We're not going hob wild restraining American liberties and we're providing more and more protections and it can be a danger going too far and letting sleeper cells operate in this country.
President Clinton's administration ordered warrantless searches on Aldrich Ames. Also authorized warrantless searches of a Mississippi financier.
Jamie Gorelick said the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches.
YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!
Ditto! LOL.
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