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DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed
An anonymous reader writes "With Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell acknowledging that the 'private sector' had a hand in assisting the president's warrantless wiretapping initiative, the DOJ is ever more strenuously demanding that the suit against Verizon be dropped. 'The Justice Department attorneys argue McConnell's statements did nothing to change the fact that it hasn't ever confirmed any of the activities alleged by the class action plaintiffs--and has, in fact, denied the existence of any sort of "dragnet." The arguments made by the class action plaintiffs rest on nothing but "speculation," the attorneys wrote. In the Justice Department's view, litigating the case would still require exposing how the program actually does work--which, it says, would in turn endanger national security.'"
Everyone already knows they're guilty as hell, except for the maybe 15% of Fox-News-watching Baptist-church-attending santorum-spewing Young-Earth-believing folks who just don't give a shit because Bush is on the side of "values". Making them look guilty as hell has no drawback any more.
Those douchebags are getting 3-4 times normal pay for helping Bush's amoral police action. I shed no tear for their deaths. They are profitting from an illegal, amoral and unethical display of power.
As for the military, well, the guys who were already in before Bush started this conflict get my sympathy. Sucks to be them, but they knew what they were getting into.
If you signed up for this evil war after it began, you deserve whatever you get at the hands of the Iraqis.
I like watching belligerant and imbecillic assholes fail fail fail. The military told us no more than 6 months. The White House told us $50 Billion dollars. They were warned, now they get mocked.
Blar.