Politics > Politics-USA > Bush in a Nutshell: I am the King; Therefore I am the Law. Je Suis Le Roi; Je Suis Le Droit.
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"Harry Hope" |
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18 Dec 2005 08:09:40 AM |
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Bush in a Nutshell: I am the King; Therefore I am the Law. Je Suis Le Roi; Je Suis Le Droit. |
Often appearing angry in an eight-minute address, the president made
clear he has no intention of halting his authorizations of the
monitoring activities and said public disclosure of the program by the
news media had endangered Americans.
Bush's willingness to publicly acknowledge a highly classified spying
program was a stunning development for a president known to dislike
disclosure of even the most mundane inner workings of his White House.
Just a day earlier he had refused to talk about it.
Since October 2001, the super-secret National Security Agency has
eavesdropped on the international phone calls and e-mails of people
inside the United States without court-approved warrants.
Bush said steps like these would help fight terrorists like those who
involved in the Sept. 11 plot.
"The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers
like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time,"
Bush said.
"And the activities conducted under this authorization have helped
detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks in the United States and
abroad."
News of the program came at a particularly damaging and delicate time.
Already, the administration was under fire for allegedly operating
secret prisons in Eastern Europe and shipping suspected terrorists to
other countries for harsh interrogations.
The NSA program's existence surfaced as Bush was fighting to save the
expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the domestic
anti-terrorism law enacted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Democrats and a few Republicans who say the law gives so much latitude
to law enforcement officials that it threatens Americans'
constitutional liberties succeeded Friday in stalling its renewal.
So Bush scrapped the version of his weekly radio address that he had
already taped -- on the recent elections in Iraq -- and delivered a
live speech from the Roosevelt Room in which he lashed out at the
senators blocking the Patriot Act as irresponsible and confirmed the
NSA program.
Bush said his authority to approve what he called a "vital tool in our
war against the terrorists" came from his constitutional powers as
commander in chief.
He said that he has personally signed off on reauthorizations more
than 30 times.
"The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our
laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties," Bush
said.
"And that is exactly what I will continue to do, so long as I'm the
president of the United States."
James Bamford, author of two books on the NSA, said the program could
be problematic because it bypasses a special court set up by the 1978
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to authorize eavesdropping on
suspected terrorists.
"I didn't hear him specify any legal right, except his right as
president, which in a democracy doesn't make much sense," Bamford said
in an interview.
"Today, what Bush said is he went around the law, which is a violation
of the law -- which is illegal."
From The Associated Press, 12/18/05:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051218/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AgDXUd6y1f4VC_H869btITes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Bush Defends Secret Spying in the U.S.
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -
Facing angry criticism and challenges to his authority in Congress,
President Bush on Saturday unapologetically defended his
administration's right to conduct secret post-Sept. 11 spying in the
United States as "critical to saving American lives."
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Time for Americans to dump this arrogant little turd.
Harry
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