Monday, December 19, 2005

Bush Spying Isn't Foolin the NYT or WAPost

NYTimes: "Bush defended the program Saturday, saying it was saving lives, hotly insisting that he was working w/in the Constitution and the law, and denouncing The NYT for disclosing the program's existence. We don't know if he was right on the 1st count; this White House has cried wolf so many times on the urgency of natl security threats that it has lost all credibility. But we have learned the hard way that Bush's team cannot be trusted to find the boundaries of the law, much less respect them." WaPost: "As w/ its infamous torture memorandum, the administration appears to have taken the position that the pres is entitled to ignore a clearly worded criminal law when it proves inconvenient in the war on terrorism. That argument is not as outlandish in the case of FISA as it is w/ respect to the torture laws, since administrations of both parties have always insisted on the executive's inherent power to conduct natl security surveillance. Still, FISA has been the law of the land for 2 1/2 decades. To disrupt it so fundamentally, in total secret and w/o seeking legislative authorization, shows a profound disregard for Congress and the laws it passes." So, they clearly see the crime that Bush committed as the crime it truly is, and Think Progress wants to know why Condi Rice is defending it by saying that the NSA evesdropping program is kosher b/c she is arguing that congressional leaders- specifically "leaders of the relevant oversight intelligence committees- had been briefed on the activities. Really? Then why has the then Chrmn of the Senate Intelligence Comm-- former Sen Bob Graham (D-FL)-- saying on Friday’s 'Nightline' that he had never once been briefed by the WH about the program?: "There was no reference made to the fact that we were going to…begin unwarranted, illegal- and I think unconstitutional- eavesdropping on Amer citizens." Oh, yeh, that's right... b/c this WH has once again LIED and BROKEN the LAW to suit their twisted agenda... and our 200+ yr old Constitution is "just a God-damned piece of paper" that has gotten in their way.
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