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Chimpeach!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/
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a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
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20 Dec 2005 12:49:07 AM |
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"Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> writes:
Chimpeach!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/
It's time for Tsar Georgiy Nikolayevich to face his 1917...
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20 Dec 2005 12:25:29 PM |
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:06:15 -0800, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:
Chimpeach!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/
Bush’s Snoopgate
The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’
eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to
the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national
security.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2005
Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond
sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security
versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power.
President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if
those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al
Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought
9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no
doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
No wonder Bush was so desperate that The New York Times not publish
its story on the National Security Agency eavesdropping on American
citizens without a warrant, in what lawyers outside the administration
say is a clear violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act. I learned this week that on December 6, Bush summoned Times
publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to the
Oval Office in a futile attempt to talk them out of running the story.
The Times will not comment on the meeting,
but one can only imagine the president’s desperation.
The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national
security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. His comparison to
the damaging pre-9/11 revelation of Osama bin Laden’s use of a
satellite phone, which caused bin Laden to change tactics, is
fallacious; any Americans with ties to Muslim extremists—in fact, all
American Muslims, period—have long since suspected that the U.S.
government might be listening in to their conversations. Bush claimed
that “the fact that we are discussing this program is helping the
enemy.” But there is simply no evidence, or even reasonable
presumption, that this is so. And rather than the leaking being a
“shameful act,” it was the work of a patriot inside the government who
was trying to stop a presidential power grab.
No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important
story—which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year—because
he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker. He insists he had
“legal authority derived from the Constitution and congressional
resolution authorizing force.” But the Constitution explicitly
requires the president to obey the law. And the post 9/11
congressional resolution authorizing “all necessary force” in fighting
terrorism was made in clear reference to military intervention. It did
not scrap the Constitution and allow the president to do whatever he
pleased in any area in the name of fighting terrorism.
What is especially perplexing about this story is that the 1978 law
set up a special court to approve eavesdropping in hours, even
minutes, if necessary. In fact, the law allows the government to
eavesdrop on its own, then retroactively justify it to the court,
essentially obtaining a warrant after the fact. Since 1979, the FISA
court has approved tens of thousands of eavesdropping requests and
rejected only four. There was no indication the existing system was
slow—as the president seemed to claim in his press conference—or in
any way required extra-constitutional action.
This will all play out eventually in congressional committees and in
the United States Supreme Court. If the Democrats regain control of
Congress, there may even be articles of impeachment introduced.
Similar abuse of power was part of the impeachment charge brought
against Richard Nixon in 1974.
In the meantime, it is unlikely that Bush will echo President Kennedy
in 1961. After JFK managed to tone down a New York Times story by Tad
Szulc on the Bay of Pigs invasion, he confided to Times editor Turner
Catledge that he wished the paper had printed the whole story because
it might have spared him such a stunning defeat in Cuba.
This time, the president knew publication would cause him great
embarrassment and trouble for the rest of his presidency. It was for
that reason—and less out of genuine concern about national
security—that George W. Bush tried so hard to kill the New York Times
story.
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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