Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping

Spamicles writes "The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to subpoena documents from the Bush Administration related to the government's admitted eavesdropping on Americans' overseas emails and phone calls without getting court approval. In a 13-3 vote, the Committee decided to authorize its chairman to issue subpoenas for documents related to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. Nearly any request is going to be met with tough resistance from the White House, and the confrontation over the documents 'could set the stage for a constitutional showdown over the separation of powers.'"

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Re:The defeatocrats are the terrorists best ally

[LynnwoodRooster]

President Clinton was using OBL and Al Qaeda as a Wag The Dog... You don't need to look any further than the testimony - under oath - of President Clinton's Terror Czar Richard Clarke:

When asked by Senator Gorton:

GORTON: Now, since my yellow light is on, at this point my final question will be this: Assuming that the recommendations that you made on January 25th of 2001, based on Delenda, based on Blue Sky, including aid to the Northern Alliance, which had been an agenda item at this point for two and a half years without any action, assuming that there had been more Predator reconnaissance missions, assuming that that had all been adopted say on January 26th, year 2001, is there the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11?

CLARKE: No.

Summary: the plans that the Clinton Administration had, and the information they prepared and left for the incoming Administration were completely ineffectual in stopping 9/11. The plans laid, the agenda items not acted on, the information acquired by the Clinton Adminstration would have done NOTHING to stop 9/11, per the Clinton Administration's person in charge of such things.

Re:The defeatocrats are the terrorists best ally

[RKBA]

Yes. The terrorists.

How ironic it will be when the general public finally comes to the realization that the executive branch of government (viz; Cheney/Bush) and their covert helpers, actually are the terrorists!!!