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LIVE THREAD: SJC hearing on the NSA surveilance program - C-span 1; 9:30 am EST

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..


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; ag; albertogonzales; attorneygeneral; doj; dojprobe; gonzales; nsa; spying; ussenate
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To: 4integrity

Good for you! Specter makes me sick. He is a self serving FOOL!!


861 posted on 02/06/2006 9:26:25 AM PST by penelopesire
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To: frankjr

If we handle this NSA leak scandal correctly the GOP can GAIN seats in congress this October.


862 posted on 02/06/2006 9:26:28 AM PST by defenderSD (¤¤ In a battle of wits against a FReeper, the typical liberal is unarmed. ¤¤)
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To: Gritty

Sessions is a treasure.


863 posted on 02/06/2006 9:27:08 AM PST by Fudd Fan (Sorry Mr. Franklin, but apparently we couldn't keep it.)
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To: frankjr

What was I thinking there...lol. The election is in November of course...must have been thinking about the world series.


864 posted on 02/06/2006 9:27:09 AM PST by defenderSD (¤¤ In a battle of wits against a FReeper, the typical liberal is unarmed. ¤¤)
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To: defenderSD

'nail the senatorial leaker'

agree! I hope they find out who it is and throw the book at him/her.


865 posted on 02/06/2006 9:28:19 AM PST by 4integrity
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To: defenderSD
Rush is all over this now.

It's hard to keep up with the hearings as well as Rush's comments, which add additional information.

866 posted on 02/06/2006 9:28:33 AM PST by Gritty (“A court of law is not meant to be a field of battle” – Mark Steyn)
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To: defconw
Fine, but we could do without the negativity. How about being positive when they do well just as equally as you are negative about them? There is enough negativity from the opposition.

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.

867 posted on 02/06/2006 9:28:41 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: conservativebabe

Obama is being groomed for VP in 08, which scares me. Can he win outside of Chicago?


868 posted on 02/06/2006 9:28:45 AM PST by Fudd Fan (Sorry Mr. Franklin, but apparently we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Gritty

"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.


869 posted on 02/06/2006 9:29:09 AM PST by frankjr
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To: Peach

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).


870 posted on 02/06/2006 9:29:11 AM PST by Peach (Islam is an army disguised as a religion (Freeper Hoosier-Daddy))
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To: Fudd Fan

Good question re Dianne......her areas of 'expertise' are guns, abortion, hapless toads, and abortion, abortion, abortion.


871 posted on 02/06/2006 9:29:17 AM PST by Carolinamom (I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. ---Ronald Reagan)
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To: Peach

"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!!!


872 posted on 02/06/2006 9:29:33 AM PST by bunches (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: Peach

Sessions going through what other presidents have done. Why aren't they mentioning Eschelon or doesn't it have validity in this conversation?


873 posted on 02/06/2006 9:29:58 AM PST by Peach (Islam is an army disguised as a religion (Freeper Hoosier-Daddy))
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To: mystery-ak
The rats must never regain power...they will get us all killed...

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

874 posted on 02/06/2006 9:30:01 AM PST by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin during wartime considered Sedition?)
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To: Carolinamom; Mo1; All

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.


875 posted on 02/06/2006 9:30:30 AM PST by hipaatwo
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To: Semper Paratus

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.


876 posted on 02/06/2006 9:30:56 AM PST by maica (We are fighting the War for the Free World. Democrats and the media are not on our side.)
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To: bunches

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.


877 posted on 02/06/2006 9:31:05 AM PST by Fudd Fan (Sorry Mr. Franklin, but apparently we couldn't keep it.)
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To: p23185
Sessions - we today are using far more restraint than during past eras in American history.

Now bringing up Clinton, Gorelick and Aldrich Ames...

878 posted on 02/06/2006 9:31:46 AM PST by Gritty (“A court of law is not meant to be a field of battle” – Mark Steyn)
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To: Peach

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!!!!!!!!!


879 posted on 02/06/2006 9:31:52 AM PST by Peach (Islam is an army disguised as a religion (Freeper Hoosier-Daddy))
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To: Gritty

Ditto! LOL.


880 posted on 02/06/2006 9:32:05 AM PST by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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