Comments on: Bush admits spying on US citizens

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:17:51 +0000

“Bush admits spying on US citizens”

Only because he was caught.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:06:50 +0000

I wonder, is Junior spying on Bush Senior?

After all, Senior is in bed with the Saudis (surely for the oil), and the 9/11 terrorists were mostly Saudis and their leader Osama (surely for the oil too) was Saudi and the Osama family is also in bed with Senior.

It all adds up.

I wonder, is the FBI or the CIA spying on Junior?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:47:10 +0000

Just a few thoughts…

a- Bush’s arguments about the New York Times jeopardizing national security hold no water, as the terrorists have been well aware that we have been monitoring their phone traffic for years. Not only do the low levels that still use the phones talk in code, but the higher ups such as bin laden don’t even use their satellite phones anymore. The only ones that did not know for sure that this was going on was the american people.

b- Bush has abused every power he has been given to the fullest, from the pentagon spying on anti-war protesters, to homeland security agents harassing college students for ordering a book written by Mao, to the patriot act being used to catch run of the mill criminals instead of the terrorists that it was designed for. He has proved he needs parental supervision, only an idiot would keep on trusting him to operate without judicial review.

c- This is in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. Bush can pass as many laws as he would like that say that its ok for him to do this, but it will still be illegal.

I think one of the saddest and most twisted parts of this whole ordeal is that the poor sap who did his patriotic duty and leaked this abuse of power to the press will probably be put into jail for quite a long time after the reporters are jailed and forced to reveal his/her name. Of course all this done by the same person who leaked Valerie Plames name for no other reason but some cheap political payback. Hypocrisy at its finest.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:12:30 +0000

anyone who speaks out is merely claimed to be unpatriotic and anti-american. since our entire government is more concerned with keeping up appearances, they keep their mouth shut.

its terror’able

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:06:02 +0000

Bush only swore to uphold the law, not obey it. He also didn’t rule out changing them to suit himself. Also did he specifically state he would uphold the law of the US? He could be upholding some other country’s law you know.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:39:11 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:15:47 +0000

The law, as it stands, allows for emergency survelliance approved by only the Attorney General, should the need arise. The only stipulation is that they have to get a warrant after the fact. In this way, oversight is maintained, the feds are kept honest (as much as possible), and emergency situations are dealt with.

What’s more, the secret FISA court very rarely met a wiretap it didn’t approve.

Bush is lying his ass off. This is about power and disdain for the rule of law.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:13:13 +0000

Not legally–they have to get a warrant, if a U.S. citizen is involved. And in general, they have to account for their activities to Congress, even though it’s done in secret.

What Bush “authorized” was blatantly illegal.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:40:13 +0000

“Bush, “decided to skirt the normal process of obtaining court-approved search warrants for the surveillance because it was too cumbersome for fast-paced counterterrorism investigations”.

” ‘I swore to uphold the laws,” Bush said.

Since getting a loan from a bank is too cumbersome, and I swore my family I would support them, I will then rob the bank.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:33:36 +0000

Finally the people are getting information about all of this.
Although it’s still very little. Here’s another batch of info, even though it doesn’t cover a whole lot either: http://revradio.org/movies/ml.wmv

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:17:51 +0000

Man, this cabal’s… er, I mean administration’s ablity to pinch off lame rationalizations to defend their dirtywork is AMAZING. It seems like there are almost daily revelations of more nasty scullduggery they have been/are perpetrating on the American public. I’m at a point where I don’t believe the “war on terror” has anything to do with their actions. To me it looks a lot more like a class war pitting the stinking rich against the rest of the world, and we are losing…

“Safety” and “Security” are becoming very dangerous things.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:34:04 +0000

NSA’ Echelon works by monitoring radio signals passed between satellites and relay towers. As long as the signals are picked up this way, I would not see a problem with it if we were allowed to do the same thing. Unfortunately, this is just another case where there is one law for the common people and another for the government-cartel alliance. Government monitors your calls without a warrant… it’s OK. You monitor a politician’s calls without a warrant…. you are commiting a “crime.” I assume that each and every call I make is monitored, and I will not say anything on the phone that I will not scream out at the public mall.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:38:00 +0000

Yeah, don’t you guys watch ALIAS? Geez… lolololololol :-p

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:18:25 +0000

The NSA can monitor all calls into and out of the US Already .