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Congress Tries To Strip Power From Anti-Wiretap Judge
palegray.net writes "Congress is attempting to strip US District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of his power following his ruling against the government regarding immunity for telecoms in the NSA wiretapping case. Walker was appointed to the bench by President Bush, and has attempted to enforce existing prohibitions against warrantless wiretapping. From the Wired article: 'Walker, the chief judge of the Northern District of California, affirmed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the exclusive legal method for conducting surveillance inside the United States against suspected spies and [terrorists]. The Bush Administration argues that Congress's vote to authorize military force against Al Qaeda and the president's inherent war time powers were exceptions to the exclusivity provision.' The article makes the observation that Congress seems to be having difficulties bringing itself to enforce the laws that it has previously passed regarding wiretapping, and seems more interesting in silencing opposing viewpoints."
Update: 07/06 16:15 GMT by SS: As several readers have noted, the vote would only limit Judge Walker with respect to this particular case. His other responsibilities would be unaffected.
Don't interrupt the karma whoring process, please.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
No, no , no. His rulings prove that he obviously hates America, and you are either with us or against us, so he's against us, and therefore he is an unlawful enemy combatant and so we're sending him to Gitmo.
Sounds farcical now, but I fear it will be truth (or at least truthy) soon enough.
Would you rather live in a nation that doesn't track suspected terrorist movements or communications to their friends inside and outside the boarders of the USA? I know I would want to live in a nation where tracking of such people was condoned.
You're on the watch list? Wow.
Oh, you're not? Ok, then. Stop saying you are.
Who says?
I want a list.
When I see Rush Limbo at the top, I'll remember just what we're dealing with here.
Thank god Bush got us out of Iraq, though.
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Start a business - you know, like Americans used to do?
Ha - who needs Limbo when we can learn "history" from you and your sources. Like AmericanThinker.com, your first offering, that features the lead story today as an expose of how Obama is really a Communist. Or VietQuoc.com, which is the Vietnamese National Party, which couldn't keep its own country with the US propping it up for generations, but has a pretty decent gig pretending that the US media lost the war.
Thanks for demonstrating just what a pack of lies you peddle.
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No, I asked you to send me your list. History doesn't have to come from just a few extremely partisan outfits - it's available to everyone. If you can't deliver a source with a reputation for truth, instead of obvious crazy liars, then those messengers demonstrate just what is the value of their message. Especially when that message is so obviously completely counter to the vast documentation to the contrary, it's obviously just a pack of lies.
Just because the message is more important than the messenger doesn't mean that you can reverse the logic to deliver a messenger who isn't credible, and expect their message to be believable. Of course, you rightwingers understand logic about as well as dogs understand "shake hands": it's a trick you've seen people do, so you go through the motions, but you're using your paws, not really shaking hands.
You rightwingers are so crazy that you don't even care that the sources you believe are obviously insane liars with vested interests in crazy lying. It's brains like that which lost the Vietnam War, are losing the Iraq War - and decided those wars would be good ideas to start in the first place. But since the true history of crazy, lying warmongers is so long, it's pretty clear that we're stuck with at least a few, very loud ones of you. So we've learned how to identify you and your same old lies, and just chain you up somewhere that you won't chew too much that's valuable.
Have a day.
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