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Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos
sv_libertarian sends this excerpt from the Associated Press:
"A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program. US District Judge Henry Kennedy Jr. signed an order (PDF) Friday requiring the department to produce the memos by the White House legal counsel's office by Nov. 17. He said he will review the memos in private to determine if any information can be released publicly without violating attorney-client privilege or jeopardizing national security. Kennedy issued his order in response to lawsuits by civil liberties groups in 2005 after news reports disclosed the wiretapping."
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This is why the Bush administrations new warrantless wiretapping is so distressing. The system wasn't broken! It worked very well. This is simply yet another attempt by the administration to do an end run around due-process. Bush and Cheney have done more to erode the constitution than any other duo in this country's history.
Except for democrats shredding the commerce clause to enact their agenda... I mean, there's nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government the right to regulate the environment, for starters. And of course, I didn't see Bush tossing muslim americans in camps the way Roosevelt did both the Japanese. For that matter, when did Bush ever try and pack the Supreme Court with extra judges the way Roosevelt did...
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like how a self-professed Republican's response to (hopefully) losing a democratic election is to call it a coup and threaten setting off IEDs. I mean, that is really high-quality irony.
It is a coup. Democrats and their left wing allies did everything they could to derail the economy and the war. America was stabbed in the back by the left wing, as usual. And the thing is, once they get into power, you are going to see them do everything they can to extend their lead, undemocratically by:
a) squelching political dissent - you'll see Obama and company try and shut off right wing radio via the fairness doctrine, use the IRS to intimidate the web and the FCC and Net Neutrality legislation to try and go after the likes of Fox and some sort of pressure will be placed on the WSJ. In a Democratic America, you'll only be allowed to argue about the effectiveness of the administration Democrat plans but not question the ideas. It will be just like Soviet Times.
b) Disarmament of the country. Any individual right to keep and bear and arms will be eroded.
c) Disempower the country. Any means of accumulating private wealth, and thus power, will be eroded. You'll see increased capital gains.
d) And no, USA PATRIOT and the DEPT of Homeland Security will NOT be repealed. You can guarantee that Biden will Reichstag Fire any sort of right wing activitiy into an excuse to grant his socialist masters even more power.
McCain's a dope, for sure, but this election is the inauguration of an occupation, not another administration, and it should be treated as such.
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So given the groups you identify with, you have the audacity to call wanting the government to be subject to the same laws as the people "treason"?
Oh fuck that argument, especially when the Weather Underground gave our President his career start.
What a dirty, cowardly little nazi piece of shit you are.
How can you call us Nazis when Bush accepted every contrary media as part of free speech, and your guys first move is to try and squelch the other side? Let's face it, Obama's "common purpose" is a lot more national socialistic than "ownership society".
How do you even live with yourself, and say the lies you say?
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Your little tirade was quite spectacular, but the fact of the matter is that you ducked the question at hand. Once again, Obama and co are going to shut off free speech for their political opponents.
You argument that Republicans are "far worse" than Democrats has no basis in fact. Your charges about death camps really show where you are. If there was a Republican death camp, for sure, two things are for sure, a) it would be all over the news because the media is liberal, and b) Bush would be a hell of a lot more popular among his own party than he is now.
You are so far out on the loony fascist fringe that you assume anybody with legitimate complaints about your Fuhrer must be an Obama supporter,
Most of your complaints aren't legitimate, that's the point. They are talking points of your opposition.
Yeah, and seriously, you think Bush is a bit of a excessive guy, so you go and support a Stalinist. I mean, Bush throws in one or two guys into Gitmo, which sucks, but, the left has already far exceeded that level of constitional violations already when they tossed the japs into internment camps.
You can call me crazy, but when this Obama buddy of yours goes and does the Fairness Doctrine, brags to private donors about all the coal miners he's thrown out of work, mandated bilingual content for everything, thrown 50,000 people into prison for copyright infringement so his masters will be appeased, raised capital gains taxes and killed investment in the USA, THEN, silences his political opposition, you tell me how great your buddy is.
Puhlease. One year from now, Democrats will be rationalizing everything they did, and it will all be ten times as much as what Bush did.... Democrats -don't care if the free market or private sector exists-, don't you get it?
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Unfortunately, that probably is the main reason. If he voted against it, imagine how shrill the Bushbots would be shouting "HA! LOOK! Obama wants us all to be killed by the big, bad terrorists! Vote for us, or you will all die!" Of course, now they are being shrill and psychotic anyway, but oh well...
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