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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:00 AM

Are Democrats planning still worse FISA capitulations?

The NYT reports that Democrats are planning to provide retroactive immunity to telecoms which broke the law by allowing warrantless eavesdropping.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 08:02 AM

Bush, in full campaign mode, visits NSA headquarters today

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/bush_heads_to_nsa_huddles_with.html

Bush heads to NSA, huddles with conservatives
by Mark Silva

With a day-trip to the secretive National Security Agency in Maryland, less than an hour up the road from the White House, President Bush and his senior team of advisers today hope to make the case for a permanent extension of the federal law on wiretapping of terrorism suspects.

Back at the White House, Bush plans to sit down this afternoon with several invited conservative columnists for a "roundtable'' conversation.

Congress approved an updating of the 1978-vintage Foreign Intelligence Security Act in hastily approved legislation before recess for Labor Day, but that compromise carried a six-month expiration.

“We believe the bill should be made permanent,’’ said Dana Perino, the White House press secretary. “Al Qaeda doesn’t work on a six-month extension. None of our enemies do.’’

Is that NSA facility where all the “warrant-less wiretapping’’ of foreign terrorism suspects communicating with people inside the United States is carried out? Perino was asked this morning. “Wow, that’s a loaded question,’’ she said. “I don’t know all that they do there.. But you can imagine that if they are implementing the FISA reforms, they have some measure of operational responsibility for that.’’

The White House has two demands for a permanent bill – one, that it be made permanent, and two, that telecommunication companies that helped the government on security after Sept. 11, 2001 be granted retroactive immunity for any legal liability in their cooperation with surveillance.

Bush will be accompanied by Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, Counsel Fred Fielding, Homeland Security Adviser Fran Townsend and others, and plans a statement there.

Bush also plans a roundtable with several conservative columnists, including Michael Barone, David Brooks, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Tony Blankley, Kate O'Bierne and others.

“We regularly meet with conservative columnists,’’ Perino said. [...]

- - Posted by Mark Silva on September 19, 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 08:03 AM

Thanks Glenn, and bamage, and other people too...

If a clam shell, a snail twirled enclave, a Congressional Hall, a oyster shell, or a washed-up whalebone, a dead crab, a scallop's home shell, or if a fried fish with chips platter dish, smells like seafood, huh, well it may just smell a bit fishy for a reason...'Um LIES. I think, "They like filthy money bribes." That's my hunch, imo. Yes.

If a motor junk yard was full of scraps of metal and just seems like junk...NO. It could be labeled a junk yard. NO Get a consultent protective mangy mutt, named junkyard...LIES. Follow the money, imo.

I's call the junk yard owner a fancy pants sly dewd? Call scrap piles heaped high, "A Recycling Center Maintenance Facility." I believe we may as well give up petitioning Harry or Nancy, but no- Never Give Up. Wait until the eavesdropping spies TAP to dial YOU and secretly listen. Then I petition my "leaders" un-Officially, on spy-TAPE. FISA.

Pretend to know? Who can prove anything? That black Mercedes symbol and other pop-ups are a ladies black a cameo? A ole' ladies insignia? I say on the potentially (alleged) "tapped" illegal-phone, email, or whatever, THIS: "Ya's Texan cowboys and girls, husband, partner, wife or pet dog...sure ain't dickering 'round here for free fun. Why ya' call here to Listen?" huh.

I wander so far away from a primary serious focus TODAY again, but I ask Listeners, "YOU FISA want to order some Trojan colored condoms delivery service? Well call the Pizza Anchovies Fishy House." huh. I say, "GWB ain't here." THEN: "I don't remember the last time a lie-for-me alibi politician stopped over for a slobbering drunk?" Okay. And last time any politico's came to my homestead and asked me to lie for THEM, I ask: "YOU got a big crock-jug of bad-wine? I'll make it into good salad/latuca leaf-mix, made to order, and tossed easy with great transforming sour vinegar. It's great in flavor with nats floating on the top. Money too? I demand gold sweet yam's too,

Listening?"

Then: I say, "Okay, I'll no cuss, no scream, no tell, no sing, and no dance on the phone because this is a respectable blog that Salon's has maintained." I say, "River Bed Boat," can be a new name for the folks employed along the Potomac?" Okay.

Respect?

Stuff Shad Fish with Crab Meat?

huh: chowder chatter fish breath.

certified and Black Back Duck soup.

Licenced? Okay they Listen, and kill.

Please squeeze a squirt of Dems's Poupon?

Mustard?

The pro-GOP'liers are certified foulborne ill. Wonderfully, so sad and the poor Capital Hill cluster crowd is a bad-ill-f'ed? Yes.

I thought I'd be able to say, "I fell into the seawater and felt so nauseated with a medically certified yuck sensation condition!"

WHO is sick of these Gop'ers Press bottled YELLOW squirts?

I met more respectable people who were conceived, born, and reared in a real saloon and were educated @ The Yahoo Bar Stool Fish Pool Hall Room?

I can't remember why I here to say, Nuts!" and "Smells Fishy."

I need to hide from my estranged wife and wear a disguise?

I go bribe a cowboy? O, dear Congress, "I'll give you a wild blueberry pie, okay? O, it has a soft real butter brown crust. Trade?

I stay far away from the pulled pig meat sandwich they eat. O, LIE!

Hey, nacho-cheese, and evenly squeezed from a tin can with onto deep-fried Onion-lies!

YUCK. I NO want any more of their nacho LIES. 'Um drink a 20 oz. Pig Glass.

PIEROGies.

The hurried'era a person may go, but the behinder one will get.

Thar' a German Babtist dentist speaking? Throw the cows over the barbed-fence a cheesedog with ketchup and French Fries.

P.S. In Oxford N.S., the Blueberry Pie Capital of the world, imho, people there can bake a better cranberry pie. Them there in Oxford boast/brag/"pride" they are The Blueberry Pie Capital. I am an apologist for reverence and adoration of the truth. I spent a bit if time in Oxford N.S. and sampled a blueberry wine too that seemed fine.

'Um a DC Whines Hall @ Capital Hill.

If it smells fishy use some Pine Sol.

I say, "Stupid LIES." or "Be Honest."

Tell then your truth anyway ya's can.

Please Floss and no squeeze the LIES.

O, my Tooth aches now. Dentist hate blue teeth and no listen to the brass jazz blues? I agree: "Stupid."

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