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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
08 Jan 2006 02:44:01 PM |
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GOP's Brownback says Bush has no warrantless spying authority. |
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/
Brownback: 9/11 Resolution Did Not Give Bush Authority for Warrantless
Wiretapping
This morning, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) added his name to the growing
list of conservatives
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113521681931529119-eHpzQmLUyX8mf_4UNw2D11NYP74_20061222.html?mod=blogs
who have expressed disapproval
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/conservative-scholars-argue-bush%E2%80%99s-wiretapping-is-an-impeachable-offense/
of Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program, further undermining
the right-wing spin that the only critics of the program are liberals.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/27/federalist-society-board-member/
On ABC’s This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you confident that the administration has acted
lawfully in this case?
BROWNBACK: I think we need to hold hearings on it and we’re going to.
Both in the intelligence committee, there will be closed hearings and
then the judiciary committee will have open hearings.
I think we need to look at this case and this issue. I am troubled by
what the basis for the grounds that the administration says that they
did these on, the legal basis, and I think we need to look at that far
more broadly and understand it a great deal.
I think this is something that bears looking into and us to be able to
establish a policy within constitutional frameworks of what a
president can or cannot do.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don’t think the 9/11 resolution gave the president
the authority for this program?
BROWNBACK: It didn’t, in my vote. I voted for that resolution. That
was a week after 9/11. There was nothing you were going to do to stop
us from going to war in Afghanistan, but there was no discussion in
anything that I was around that that gave the president a broad
surveillance authority with that resolution.
Brownback’s view echoes that of Sen. Tom Daschle’s and that of the
non-partisan Congressional Research Service.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010601772.html
More and more people are seeing Bush’s policy for what it truly is: an
unnecessary and unconstitutional power-grab.
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Walls're closin' in on Georgie.
Harry
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