Warrantless Surveillance To Continue For Now

NormalVisual writes "It appears that the unconstitutional and controversial warrantless surveillance program being conducted by the Bush Administration can continue until an appeals court can hear the case, according to an AP article. The 6th Circuit ruled that while the lower court had ruled the program was unconstitutional, they felt that the case's chances before the appeals court and the possible danger to national security warranted their decision to let it continue despite the likelihood that the appeal process will take months."

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Only In America...

[flight_master]

Does the government know what you eat, when you sleep, what you read, work on, and even what pr0n you look at... But no, seriously - For a country as firmly rooted in "free speech", "freedom of expression" and "freedom of thought" - this really is pathetic.
Just get rid of the Republicans already!

Sincerely, A Concerned Canadian

Re:Don't leave things out

[Kohath]

They're not "afraid" to mention it because it weakens their argument. It's just a dumb way to argue a point. You don't lead with weakness.

But you're correct to point out that the summary is completely one-sided to the point of being intentionally deceptive. It's makes the point deceptively, but with no weaknesses that might be evident in a less deceptive summary. It's the new mainstream mode of political communication and news reporting.

Deception is ok as long as "the good people" win the election, isn't it?

Re:hmm...

[Darby]

It is curious that someone who has a sig that advocates killing someone with a different political ideology wants to lecture the rest of us on treason.


The fact that you would even make such a ridiculous statement shows your lack of basic reading comprehension coupled with a deep ignorance of current events.

Political ideology has nothing to do with active support for multiple repeated acts of treason.

When a group of people actively conspire to make it legal for my own government to drag me away to a third world shithole to be tortured to death with no recourse to the law, then that is a direct, unprovoked act of aggression against me, you, and everybody else in the world.
My sig quite clearly and obviously advocates nothing but completely justified acts of self defense of my person and my nation.

Where the fuck did you get the ridiculous idea that it has anything to do with ideology?

Oh, please.

[Grendel Drago]

Firstly, do you have the same security clearance of the Senate Intelligence Comittee members or of the President? If not, you won't see the evidence for which you're looking for another 50 or so years.

Oh, please. We heard this same crap when the war drums were beating for Iraq. Sure, the evidence looks shaky at best, but you don't have the super duper convincing intelligence that the decision-makers do! Which turned out to be nothing, of course. You'll pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical when someone claims that if only I knew this information which I conveniently can't know for the next fifty years, everything would make sense to me.

Congress was informed and they deemed it OK. Only after it was revealed in an illegal leak of classified information and contorted by the Media did it become a probelm.

Congress deemed this okay? Since when? Congress was never asked for their okay. They were notified. What were they supposed to do about it, write secret notes to themselves expressing their disapproval?

What, precisely, did the media "contort"? If anything, they've been more than kind enough. Did you know that there's an executive order prohibiting the use of security classification in order to hide lawbreaking? You wouldn't know it, listening to the news.