The Administration's Stonewalling, NOT any revelation about Bolton, was the reason that Bolton wasn't confirmed.

Bolton lost, but the wall held, so the Administration won.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8017664
Newsweek
The bitter debate about John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations may have called unwelcome attention to the spying practices of the National Security Agency. Bolton told Congress last month that he asked the NSA for the names of Americans in raw intel reports. NSA rules prohibit the agency from spying on Americans; if electronic eavesdroppers inadvertently pick up American names, the NSA is supposed to black them out before forwarding reports to other agencies. But analysts and policymakers can make written requests to the NSA for U.S. names, which the State Department says Bolton did 10 times since 2001.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked for more information about Bolton's requests, but the administration refused, leading to last week's vote to delay Bolton's nomination . . .

- - Newsweek, June 6, 2006

Sorry.

If you get caught out so far on a dogwood branch of thee federal government, that you may as well fall all the way to the ground. Newton?

On May 24, 2004- I sent a letter to Mr Bush. No nice response.

It was about being a Commander in Chief (thanks navy barnacles)and went all the way up by truck to US's Army War College in the commonwealth of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where George W. Bush was preaching war, war, war,. No Safety, imho.

Gads. I should type out the entire correspondence of two sealed letters (no seal with a kiss) for boredom sakes! "The Arab world is adamant...Thomas Jefferson's urge for citizens to respectfully critique patriotic service/duty."

Wow, was I naive, "Mr Bush I realize the war burden you carry must be excruciating"...huh?

Etc., ETC- "Governments becomes criminal, steals Middle East oil, real estate in homelands and overseas." O, "Nations become ruined and fall."

Also: This quote from Sun Tzu, "All warfare is based on deception."

On May 31, 2004. At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I made my way via security with Vietnamese citizen, Mr Hai, the husband of Kim and hand delivered in person the packet recording very factual information of what I am glossing over, above...

...I ask Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge, "Please see that the proper officials see this." Former Governor of Pa, and speaker at the beautiful Black Death Wall on Memorial day...

...O, Tom Ridge gave a tear-jerk-weep "homily" on nobility, sacrifice, and honor. Thanks (thanks everyone) for a willingness to risk the sacrifice of everything. And intimately, maybe, it is a sacrifice of a living person's true life.

In The Commander in Chief's Letter of 2004 Memorial Day:*

*Citizenship papers, n. 1. A person owing loyalty to entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state. 2. A resident of...America...entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there. 3. A civilian who is distinguished as a person with attendant duties, rights, and equal status.*

Enclosed were relevant "Documents." Well, I did say 'stuff' that perhaps several Senate Offices, Pa.'s area "newspapers" ETC., deemed of disrespect...to Mr. Bush... (?) {!}.

...."I would have preferred to stay home and listen to the cicada's"...I wrote to our C-in-C.

...O, Foot!

On June 15, 2004- The Law Office of Pepper Hamilton LLP, Attorneys at Law in Harrisburg, PA...sent all the 'stuff' back to me. Too corny!

I got all those heavy lugging enclosure and I guess W.T. needs some kindling. I am sorry the law firms are so corrupt, and to Mr. William Timberman.- *

*I am not able to give you legal assistance. I will e-mail you a big stack of kindle papers. okay. What button do I upside down bang with a hatchet, pick, or can I use a bird beak? ~.~

made fun of my statement last week that, in the end, it all comes down to guys with blue uniforms and guns please comment on the following story:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003231.php

And now Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) and ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) are angry.

“You ignored the subpoena, did not come forward today, did not produce the documents and did not even offer an explanation for your noncompliance,” the senators wrote in a lettter to Alberto Gonzales today. “Your action today is in defiance of the Committee’s subpoena without explanation of any legal basis for doing so.”

Excellent post.

I’ve long believed that a major part of the Republican Party’s electoral success is their ability to “personalize” the issues they hold dear in the eyes of potential voters. The issues are simplified in a way that not only distorts the facts, but make them easily digestible, and makes the target audience feel as though it touches them personally.

For example, the vast majority of Republican voters believe that Bush’s tax breaks affected them in a direct and positive way--whether that’s true or not. As a Democrat, I can tell you without a doubt that those tax breaks did not affect me in any personal or significant way. For that reason, those tax breaks meant more to Republicans than it ever could to me, or many Democrats. And issues that “mean more” on a personal level are the issues that get voters to the polls on election day.

This NSA scandal just isn’t going to touch very many people in that same personal way, I believe. And that’s the problem, in my view.

I hate that you can't read what you're commenting about while you are typing!

If only the underlying justification changed (the AUMF reasoning added to the Article II), and for the sake of argument the AUMF reasoning was valid, then the WH would have a decent argument that there was no lawbreaking in the period between COmey's refusal to sign off on reauthorization and the DOJ approval secured two weeks later -- the AUMF existed during that time so if the AUMF made it okay, those two weeks were okay.

But if the actual program changed, which seems to be what Comey implied, then the felonious acts theory seems rock solid.