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Justice Department To Review Domestic Spying
orgelspieler writes, "According to the New York Times, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine has opened a review of his department's role in the domestic spying program. Democrats (and some Republicans) have been requesting an all-out investigation into the legality of the so-called 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' since it was made public. But this new inquiry stops short of evaluating the constitutional legitimacy of the program." From the article: "The review, Mr. Fine said in his letter, will examine the controls in place at the Justice Department for the eavesdropping, the way information developed from it was used, and the department's 'compliance with legal requirements governing the program'... Several Democrats suggested that the timing of his review might be tied to their takeover of Congress in this month's midterm elections as a way to preempt expected Democratic investigations of the N.S.A. program."
You are correct sir.
/. is infested with many of the same moonbat types that think that the Bush Administration actually planned 9/11 in conjuction with the Eeeevil Jews to implicate innocent Muslims so they could take over the Iraqi Oilfields, and then grant exclusive oil-rights to Haliburton while making obscene profits on the backs of "working class" Americans and randomly shooting people while going hunting!
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Unfortunately,
So yeah, be prepared to be modded down and modded down hard. There isn't room for anything outside the
Just making moonbats waste their mod points. This is fun!
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No, history will hold up the fact that this administration are enemies of the constitution. They have consistently opted to do things which are unconstitutional, illegal, or just plain old unethical.
Bush, Rumsfeld, and Gonzales have all consistently put forth opinions which are both counter to the US constitution, contrary to international treaties, and in flagrant denial of actual reality.
Revisionist history is when people change the facts to match their opinions after those facts have happened -- you know, the belief that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, was planning on buying yellowcake, or that we have, in fact, always been at war with East Asia.
The very annoying thing to watch in the US media is how CNN has spent the last 5 years trumpeting everything this administration has done as important and necessary. And how immediately after the last set of elections they started screaming loudly about how broke the current government is. I wish I could even call that revisionist history -- in fact, it's a bunch of idiots ignoring the facts that will become history, pretending they're something else completely, and then finally coming around to the fact that the historical record doesn't match what they were saying at the time.
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Lost at C:>. Found at C.
You and me both, but really it was hard to forsee.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
It was trivially easy to forsee.
All you had to do was your god damned duty as a citizen.
Hell, all you had to do was read some of the papers put out by PNAC which were written primarilly by the members of Bush's first administration.
Back in 2000, they said that they wanted to invade Iraq, that they knew that the American people would not go along and that they would have to use an attack on our country as an excuse to carry out their plans.
That is the single biggest peice of information about Bush and his administration that was available in order to make your decision and it is still publically available.
So, no, it was *not* hard to forsee.
It was fucking easy.
Your failure to do so is a deep personal failure on your part.
Learn to deal with that fact and quit lying about how hard it was to pay any god damned attention when it quite obviously isn't.
Until you can honestly deal with your failings and take responsibility for them you will continue to fall for the same stupid shit designed to fool idiots.
Maybe you should actually look at yourself and figure out why you fell for a trick that an intelligent motivated cild could have easilly seen through.
They didn't fool you, you fooled yourself. Until you figure out what's so broken about you to have caused you to fall for such a simple trick you will keep doing so.
We already have death camps and illegal wiretapping at the whim of the douchebag who *your* idiocy helped put in place. We can't affrord any more of *your* collosal mistakes.
Pull your head out of your ass or move to fucking Saudi Arabia. America can't afford your extreme delusional ignorance anymore.