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White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping
P. Rivacy writes "If you recall, last month we discussed Congress's attempts to outlaw the already illegal NSA wiretaps authorized by the President. The White House is now using delaying tactics to derail the passage of that bill. Their tactic is to stall on providing documents related to the President's warrantless wiretapping program, despite requests from the Senate Intelligence Committee that is currently reviewing the proposed legislation. '"Another critical priority for congressional oversight is government wiretapping of Americans, conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and, illegally, under the President's warrantless wiretapping program," Senator Russ Feingold said. "When the program was finally placed within the FISA process, an opportunity arose for the Administration and the Congress to move forward, under the law. Unfortunately, the Administration has yet to demonstrate a real interest in doing so."'"
Off topic troll. But you mfers mod it 5. Not to mention you have no idea what you are taking about.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
"all those balanced budgets, that surplus, the prosperity,"
those ALL came to be after Newt Gingrich became speaker.
As for how the country survived, an awful lot of Westerners were pretty much run in to the ground. Mining jobs were hammered by Bruce Babbit, who declared he didn't like the mine patenting laws, and therefore was not going to follow them. He was not expected to resign, unlike Republicans who don't feel like obeying the law. And, of course, loggers where hammered into near oblivion to save a small owl that is now being eaten by the more efficient barred owl, to the great dismay of the environmentalists. Ranchers? Hammered, as their cows are eating sacred grass! Oh, the horrors!
As for international respect, I distinctly remember some place called Mogadishu where our servicemen were shot and dragged around behind a truck.
As for peace, Balkans war comes to mind. And our own government was doing the terrorist's job for them at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Who needs Al Queda if you have the FBI issuing shoot to kill orders against unarmed civilians? And did the agent who did the dirty deed get in trouble? Why no, he got off clean as a whistle. The GI's at that prison got in all sorts or trouble for taking the clothes off of their prisoners, and other Marines get busted for shooting back not carefully enough at the people shooting at them, but an FBI agent can blow away an unarmed woman holding a baby without even a black mark on his record. As long as the woman is a rural white who married a white man who might possibly be somewhat racist.
Maybe Bush isn't quite as bad as I thought. Or if he is shooting people down at Gitmo, at least it's being kept a lot quieter.