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Domestic Spying Program to Get Judicial Oversight
Alchemist253 writes "The U.S. Justice Department has consented to court oversight (albeit via a secret court) of the controversial domestic wiretapping program (the "Terrorist Surveillance Program") previously discussed at length on Slashdot. From the article, "[oversight] authority has been given to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and [it] already has approved one request for monitoring the communications of a person believed to be linked to al Qaeda or an associated terror group.""
The Senate's lobbying bill is bipartisan. The "blogger registration" amendment is Republican.
If Democrats don't impeach Bush, I will continue to condemn stalling and evasion of that duty, as I have already. Though not BusHalliburtonMcChimpy dupes (because that's the Republican fascism), but rather just politicians who prioritize "don't rock the boat, we're winning anyway" over justice. I understand the political requirement to marshal support beyond mere 5:1 disapproval of Bush to actually impeach. Like evidence produced by real investigations with legit processes, not Clinton-blowjob-style impeachment bullshit. But I'm not a Democrat, so I have no problem badgering them to do their duty and impeach. And to end the Iraq War, rather than merely enable Bush to brand all Republicans in 2008 as "Iraq Warmongers". Which I do regularly, as well.
Next loaded hypothetical question, please.
In the meantime, who did you vote for president in 2004?
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Countering a message pretending that Bush's warrantless NSA spying wasn't illegal with a link to the Federal court decision that it was is "Flamebait"? Or maybe pointing out that such a crime is impeachable is "Flamebait"? Or maybe pointing out yet another impeachable crime already underway, an Iran War, that can be stopped before it kills thousands, maybe millions, is "Flamebait"? Maybe pointing out that the 109th (Republican) Congress was under Karl Rove's political control is "Flamebait".
No, that's all just simple reality, directly contradicting the claim that Bush's crimes are legal, and ontopic to the story we're discussing. Just because fascist Bushbabies are pisspants crybabies doesn't make that message a flame, it makes them hairtrigger partisan zombie trollMods.
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NSA trollModBot is wedged on "Flamebait". Can't the latest version sometimes trollMod as "Offtopic" or "Troll"?
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