Mother, should I trust the President?
The hits just keep on coming. US citizens detained without due process, torture, secret prisons, wars based upon lies--what is next? This seems a lot more substantial than a two bit land deal and a blow job.
Bush says he relied on his inherent power as President to eavesdrop on US citizens. I like Senator Russ Feingold's response: "If that's true, he doesn't need the Patriot Act because he can just make it up as he goes along. I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for."
Here are two the latest articles from the Washington Post on the eavesdropping revelation.
President Acknowledges Approving Secretive Eavesdropping
Bush Also Urges Congress to Extend Patriot Act
President Bush today acknowledged that he had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on international communications of Americans and other domestic residents with known links to al Qaeda.
The controversial order has been approved by legal authorities in his administration, Bush said, and he added that members of Congress had been notified of it more than a dozen times.
Washington Post
On Hill, Anger and Calls for Hearings Greet News of Stateside Surveillance
Congressional leaders of both parties called for hearings and issued condemnations yesterday in the wake of reports that President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 allowing the National Security Agency to spy on hundreds of U.S. citizens and other residents without court-approved warrants.
Bush declined to discuss the domestic eavesdropping program in a television interview, but he joined his aides in saying that the government acted lawfully and did not intrude on citizens' rights.
Washington Post
Bush says he relied on his inherent power as President to eavesdrop on US citizens. I like Senator Russ Feingold's response: "If that's true, he doesn't need the Patriot Act because he can just make it up as he goes along. I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for."
Here are two the latest articles from the Washington Post on the eavesdropping revelation.
President Acknowledges Approving Secretive Eavesdropping
Bush Also Urges Congress to Extend Patriot Act
President Bush today acknowledged that he had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on international communications of Americans and other domestic residents with known links to al Qaeda.
The controversial order has been approved by legal authorities in his administration, Bush said, and he added that members of Congress had been notified of it more than a dozen times.
Washington Post
On Hill, Anger and Calls for Hearings Greet News of Stateside Surveillance
Congressional leaders of both parties called for hearings and issued condemnations yesterday in the wake of reports that President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 allowing the National Security Agency to spy on hundreds of U.S. citizens and other residents without court-approved warrants.
Bush declined to discuss the domestic eavesdropping program in a television interview, but he joined his aides in saying that the government acted lawfully and did not intrude on citizens' rights.
Washington Post
posted by torporindy at 12/17/2005
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The time has come to alter and abolish the egregious, arrogant, and dysfunctional tyranny of the Bush Administration and to reclaim our civil liberties and control of our institutions of self-governance.
Bush and Co. will keep wrapping themselves in the flag of 'defending the nation's citizens' and 'fighting the terrorist threat in secret out of necessity'.
This won't be settled until fall of '06 in the voting booths.
Oh, but Gonzales assured GWB that everything was constitutional and patriotyic. What further assurance do we foolish, uninformed and ungrateful citizens want?
Big Brother is watchng you.
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