Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Wire Tapping Defense
The fine American who is currently serving as our President has defended the 'illegal' wire tapping that he has authorized.
Why am I putting the world illegal in quotations? Easy answer, since he refuses to discuss anything to do with the program it is hard to say that they are doing illegal. My guess is, since the Administration is trying to avoid going to court and they tried to talk the NY Times out of running the story, they know the activitiy is illegal.
Georgie said "I swore to uphold the laws. Do I have the legal authority to do this? And the answer is, absolutely." He is saying I swore to uphold the law, apparently violating the Constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure is now a way to uphold the law. Isn't this a little like saying I will protect your life by killing you?
In the same speech the president said "senators who are filibustering the Patriot Act must stop their delaying tactics, and the Senate must vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act." and "In the war on terror, we cannot afford to be without this law for a single moment." With everything else the President is arguing, and since he feels he has the legal authority to do what ever he needs to, why does he need the law to be passed by Congress, he should just continue to go forward with all activities as he currently involved in and let the 'chips' fall where they may. He was given the option of having the Patriot Act, in it's current form, for an additional 3 months but this wasn't good enough, he wanted it his way.
I am getting very tired of the this administration and it's ridiculous that they are as corrupt as they are and they continue to defend themselves.
The final thing I want to add here is that while listen to the radio I heard that Secretary Rice made a comment to a Congressional Committee that it was with in the President's power to invade Syria if he so deemed it necessary to fight the 'War on Terror(tm)', and that he wouldn't need to get the consent of Congress to do so. I have to say that I am sort of split on this statement, Constitutionally the President is the head of the military and has the right to dictate where's and whens, with in the powers granted him, that the military is employed. But with the ridiculousness of this Administration, I almost feel that power should be stripped from him. (Bush not the presidency.)
Why am I putting the world illegal in quotations? Easy answer, since he refuses to discuss anything to do with the program it is hard to say that they are doing illegal. My guess is, since the Administration is trying to avoid going to court and they tried to talk the NY Times out of running the story, they know the activitiy is illegal.
Georgie said "I swore to uphold the laws. Do I have the legal authority to do this? And the answer is, absolutely." He is saying I swore to uphold the law, apparently violating the Constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure is now a way to uphold the law. Isn't this a little like saying I will protect your life by killing you?
In the same speech the president said "senators who are filibustering the Patriot Act must stop their delaying tactics, and the Senate must vote to reauthorize the Patriot Act." and "In the war on terror, we cannot afford to be without this law for a single moment." With everything else the President is arguing, and since he feels he has the legal authority to do what ever he needs to, why does he need the law to be passed by Congress, he should just continue to go forward with all activities as he currently involved in and let the 'chips' fall where they may. He was given the option of having the Patriot Act, in it's current form, for an additional 3 months but this wasn't good enough, he wanted it his way.
I am getting very tired of the this administration and it's ridiculous that they are as corrupt as they are and they continue to defend themselves.
The final thing I want to add here is that while listen to the radio I heard that Secretary Rice made a comment to a Congressional Committee that it was with in the President's power to invade Syria if he so deemed it necessary to fight the 'War on Terror(tm)', and that he wouldn't need to get the consent of Congress to do so. I have to say that I am sort of split on this statement, Constitutionally the President is the head of the military and has the right to dictate where's and whens, with in the powers granted him, that the military is employed. But with the ridiculousness of this Administration, I almost feel that power should be stripped from him. (Bush not the presidency.)
// posted by Little Wolf @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 
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My guess is, since the Administration is trying to avoid going to court and they tried to talk the NY Times out of running the story, they know the activitiy is illegal.
Or maybe their trying to limit the damage to their inteligence operations. Trying to hush up someone doesn't mean the activity is illegal.
Or maybe their trying to limit the damage to their inteligence operations. Trying to hush up someone doesn't mean the activity is illegal.
Then why not go and get a Court Order for the Activity. It isn't like they couldn't, and do so in a timely manner. If they aren't doing can you give me a good reason not to, especially when you are talking about 'spying' on citizens with in this country.
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