"Weak legal arguments" for spying must be just a simple misunderstanding on the part of the Congressional Research Service
NO...! REALLY...?
well, frankly, i'm shocked, just SHOCKED...! and here i was under the impression that, because we are at war, the president as commander-in-chief had the license to do whatever it took to ensure the safety of americans... how could our president mislead us in such a fundamental way...? i mean, if you can't trust the president of the united states, freely elected in an open democracy, who CAN you trust...?
what's next...? are we going to find out that privatization of social security is a bad idea...? that detainees have been subjected to interrogation techniques involving torture...? that huge military contracts worth billions of dollars have been awarded to companies on a no-bid basis...? but those would simply be too extreme... i'm sure this is all just a little misunderstanding and president bush will clear it all up in his radio address today... Submit To Propeller
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A report by Congress's research arm concluded yesterday that the administration's justification for the warrantless eavesdropping authorized by President Bush conflicts with existing law and hinges on weak legal arguments.
The Congressional Research Service's report rebuts the central assertions made recently by Bush and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales about the president's authority to order secret intercepts of telephone and e-mail exchanges between people inside the United States and their contacts abroad.
well, frankly, i'm shocked, just SHOCKED...! and here i was under the impression that, because we are at war, the president as commander-in-chief had the license to do whatever it took to ensure the safety of americans... how could our president mislead us in such a fundamental way...? i mean, if you can't trust the president of the united states, freely elected in an open democracy, who CAN you trust...?
The 44-page report said that Bush probably cannot claim the broad presidential powers he has relied upon as authority to order the secret monitoring of calls made by U.S. citizens since the fall of 2001. Congress expressly intended for the government to seek warrants from a special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before engaging in such surveillance when it passed legislation creating the court in 1978, the CRS report said.
what's next...? are we going to find out that privatization of social security is a bad idea...? that detainees have been subjected to interrogation techniques involving torture...? that huge military contracts worth billions of dollars have been awarded to companies on a no-bid basis...? but those would simply be too extreme... i'm sure this is all just a little misunderstanding and president bush will clear it all up in his radio address today... Submit To Propeller
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1/07/2006
