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New York Times sues DoD over Domestic Spying
gbobeck writes "Yahoo News is reporting that the New York Times has filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department. The suit is seeking the release of all relevant documents and a list of people targeted by the NSA domestic spying program. As stated in the article: 'The Times had requested the documents in December under the Freedom of Information Act but sued upon being unsatisfied with the Pentagon's response that the request was being processed as quickly as possible, according to the six-page suit filed at federal court in New York.'"
But the Bush administration says the president as commander in chief of the armed forces has the authority to carry out the intercepts and that Congress also gave him the authority upon approving the use of force in response to the September 11 attacks
I also heard that the president doesn't like pita bread, so we're ridding the country of that as well.
Capitalism: When it uses the carrot, it's called democracy. When it uses the stick, it's called fascism.
They didn't do the same thing! Bush was doing his spying without a warrant. Carter and Clinton both followed the guidelines of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and their administrations went to the SECRET FISA court to get warrants for any surveillance that was being done. Duh-bya did not. He broke the law. Period. End of story. There was not a security threat in getting a warrant. It was a SECRET FUCKING COURT that he had to go to to get the warrant, but he didn't. Why? Who knows. Probably because this administration is so arrogant and ridiculous as to think the rules never apply to them. Of course, we the peopole have let them get away with just about everything sneaky and underhanded that they've done, so one can't really blame them for thinking that way.
And BTW, you neo-cons need to get a new rejoinder. the whole "but..but Clinton" thing is getting really fucking stale.
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Because there's no evidence either Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton authorized warrantless wiretaps. It's that simple.
The United States has been at war (declared or not) with somebody, somewhere in the world, for every single year of the past 100 years. That's 100 years of perpetual war. Moreover, the US government of today dwarfs the US government of only 100 years ago, not only in revenue and military dominance around the world, but power over the US people. Note that neither the Republicans or the Democrats have dominated by themselves over this period -- they have dominated together.
My point is that if you want to outline the wrongdoings of US presidents, without playing favorites to anybody, then you're going to have to write a book.