tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9631141.post113545287653372342..comments2023-08-09T03:15:40.201-05:00Comments on Coalition for a Republican-Free America: NSA spying more widespread than thought.BibleBeltedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833861419528904916noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9631141.post-1135715418402963222005-12-27T14:30:00.000-06:002005-12-27T14:30:00.000-06:00unfortunately Eli, you get your info from the ny s...unfortunately Eli, you get your info from the ny slimes, or as i like to call them Pravda on the Hudson. so the slimes sat on this story for a whole year, and in all that time they couldn't find out that this is a legal activity, and also that other presidents including carter, reagan, and clinton have done the exact same thing? oh you say they did know that? well i wonder why they don't mention it in the " shocking expose"? maybe because they're a disgusting excuse for a newspaper, and they're really just a propoganda machine. Also, the president was vague on purpose. obviously he doesn't want to give too much info on a SECRET operation. by the way, you don't mention in your post that the president informed congress, and the fisa court of his actions. In your post, like in the times,the unspoken subtext of the story was that this was likely an illegal and certainly a very scary invasion of Americans' rights. <BR/>However In the Dec. 15 Chicago Tribune, John Schmidt, associate attorney general in the Clinton administration, laid it out cold: "President Bush's post-Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents." and Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, testified to Congress, "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes." <BR/>Now of course we could get into how clinton used the IRS as his personal attack dog, or about chucky "schmucky" shumer's people using confidential financial records against Lt. Governor,<BR/>Michael S. Steele. But really, lets just MOVE ON right?Rhino-itallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13607618268860299709noreply@blogger.com