The "Specter" of illegality
The illegality of Bush's domestic espionage program, that warrantless eavesdropping, that is.
From The New York Times, Specter speaks out: "The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said [yesterday] that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were 'strained and unrealistic.' The program 'is in flat violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,' said the chairman, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who will open committee hearings on Monday."
Read on. It's great.
(And what if the Bush Administration really has broken the law? Doesn't the buck stop in the Oval Office? Shouldn't Bush himself be held accountable? And so... what? What then? I'm sure you know where I'm going with this.)
From The New York Times, Specter speaks out: "The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said [yesterday] that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were 'strained and unrealistic.' The program 'is in flat violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,' said the chairman, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who will open committee hearings on Monday."
Read on. It's great.
(And what if the Bush Administration really has broken the law? Doesn't the buck stop in the Oval Office? Shouldn't Bush himself be held accountable? And so... what? What then? I'm sure you know where I'm going with this.)
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
7:47 AM
4 Comments:
So he broke the law. Big deal. Can't the president play Calvinball with the law any time he wants? Isn't that in the constitution? Nothing will come of this, unless Specter wants to have impeachment hearings himself. The democrats are likely too chicken to even back him on them. There will be no consequences.
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Anonymous, at 12:22 PM
Yes it IS, a big deal. Being as how it was the law that was broken. And being the president, usually the laws that are broken by people in positions of power, tend to be big ones.
however, you are probably right: nothing will come of this. Wish it would, but since when has wishing something ever made it happen?
Also, not swearing in Gonzales just makes the whole process even more useless. Nothing but show. Specter speaks loudly in times like these, but uses a tiny stick made out of nerf foam.
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Anonymous, at 2:18 PM
Just more fake hearings, fake outrage and fake facts that will end with remedies that will do nothing to fix the problem. These hearings are not to find out whether or not the President broke the law, we already know he did, he told us himself. It's only about providing an opportunity to explain why that's not a big deal. If the NSA is bugging your phone but you can't hear the clicking, are they breaking the law?
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The (liberal)Girl Next Door, at 6:10 PM
Did you see how smug Gonzales was?
The Daily Show clips were great - showing him repeatedly saying "we would be willing to listen to...consider...listen...entertain... legislation blahblahblah..."
Jon Stewart then did his best (worst?) impression of AGAG - "Now run alongggg!"
By
O' Tim, at 1:18 AM
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