Letters to the Editor
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Conservative "values" exposed
[T]he Bush administration knew about a Terrorist in an Afghan safe house making Terrorist-planning calls into the U.S., then they could have -- and should have -- eavesdropped on that call and didn't need a warrant to do so. So why didn't they?
More than lies about the supposed "need" for greater contempt of the US Constitution is what they're trying to hide. Mukasey's tearful admission is that Bush either knew about 9/11 beforehand or was asleep at the wheel of America's safety. We should be asking harder questions of Bush and his cronies, under oath. The 9/11 Commission Report is fast becoming as irrelevant as the Warren Commission Report. Bush, and the incompetent ideologues he surrounds himself with, screwed up before, during and after 9/11, and they don't have the cojones to admit it.
The American people cannot trust the Bush administration. For all the right-wing talk of "values", Republicans are the party of lies, fear, taxpayer rip-offs and sexual predators. We shouldn't give unlimited wiretap authority to untrustworthy people.
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Mike Mcconnel on the Constitution (from his speech at Furman University on Friday)
"The Vietnam veteran, who said he’s tried to retire three times, waved a copy of the Constitution and implored students to read it by day’s end.
“This is a precious document. It is why we have survived. It is why we will survive. And it is why we will prevail in the future,” he said. “What’s the magic? The magic is how it starts: We the people. For the first time in history, government was about the people, not a leader.”"
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Ad purpose question
The purpose is to undermine and weaken Carney in the eyes of his largely conservative district by conveying why it is that his Bush-loyal support for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty -- and his general refusal to fulfill his constitutional duty to provide oversight of the President -- violates the values of that district's voters. (emphasis added)
In my previous comment, I didn't use examples of the disparity of executive oversight, warrantless domestic surveillance and telecom amnesty.
But not being a creative genious type, I have a more difficult time presenting immediate, local and individual examples which can be demonstrated via the disparate presentation/cognitive dissonance technique.
Would others please lead me there? What are some examples of this?
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Wow
Glenn, I am glad you have both the legal expertise and the time to write these posts. Well done.
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The number you have reached...
"We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."
This sounds to me like they did intercept the call. I think they are bringing this up now because they finally got it translated.
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Lying mofos
People - forget about the lies Glenn so correctly points out for a minute. Forget about warrants. The government ALREADY HAD PHONE CALLS (anyone remember? "Zero hour is tomorrow"...."the match is about to be lit"..). The government ALREADY HAD two of the hijackers listed in the F***ING phone book!! The Phoenox FBI. The Minneapolis FBI...
For chrissakes, these SOBs are so shameless in their lies and incompetence it makes me want to vomit. They should all be brought up on, at the very least, charges of criminal negligence for their myriad failures leading up to 9/11.
Hell is too nice a place for all these criminals.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Regards,
kbc
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Just asking
Is it legally possible for Congress to recall an AG?
I'm not saying the Dems would actually do it -- after all that would be considered just too partisan by Dean Broder. I just want to tell our representatives that they are also culpable for this atrocity in an ongoing sense.
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Mukasey's blatant perfidy is merely evidence that we have been not been living in a democracy for quite some time
Mukasey tells multiple blatant lies. Easily-checkable blatant lies. And this is our nation's top law enforcement official.
Law enforcement personnel are permitted to lie to suspected criminals in order to elicit admissions of wrongdoing. This demonstrates that this particular law enforcement official holds the American people in the same esteem that he holds criminals.
If these outright lies were true, they would be evidence of massive ineptitude by the current administration. Agents could have easily and lawfully intercepted communication between known conspirators in the worst terrorist attack against our country in its history. But they didn't.
So either the Bush administration, through the Attorney General, is telling multiple lies to the American people, or the Bush administration has admitted grievous failures to protect the American people. There is no interpretation available that doesn't lead to an extremely negative reflection upon the Bush administration. That doesn't expose impeachment-level misdeeds.
But the media coverage of this incident will almost certainly be outstripped by the coverage of a weeks-old story about Obama's pastor, or a story about Clinton's misstatements about a Bosnian trip.
Democracy? My ass.
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Lying about that, lying about this
"We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went."
What makes you think this is true? (Given that his speech contains other lies.)
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Anybody have the link to Ann Coulter....
denouncing Mukasey's exploitive use of the 9/11 victims?
No? That's very odd as Ann is the one true and brave guardian of the 9/11 victims who is even willing to denounce the victim's relatives. She must have already denounced Mukasey, right? (crickets).
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The headline will read ...
Mukasey Claims Government Needs Broader Powers to Prevent Attacks
And that's what most people will know, because, at least, all they do is read the headlines when they see the newspaper dispenser while waiting in the McDonald's drive-thru line.
Or they might hear that as a bottom-of-the-hour teaser on CNN, a scrawl on MSNBC. Fox News will cover it hysterically, as though bombs were falling, acid being thrown on us, sarin gas being released into all baby cribs right now.
The good part of that is that most people will not write their Congressmen, will not send letters to the editor, will not work in political campaigns.
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Pardon the OT
But I want Baldie to see this.
From Below:
@Baldie
I didn't say "national interests." I said "freedoms." As in, free speech, etc.---i.e., the Bill of Rights.
-- Baldie McEagle
As I try to explain to every anarchist/anti-gummint/anti-statist I can, the gummint, in the form of courts and such, is the last line of defense against encroachment on your individual liberties and rights. Ask the black kids in Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and the rest of the south how the National Guard enforced those rights the courts decreed to go to the same schools or sit in the same cafeterias or drink from the same water fountains or sit at the front of the bus like you and me and ponder why it is we have anti-statists at all. OTOH, some think the pursuit of happiness is a right and they find happiness to be behind of the wheel of a gas guzzling SUV with cheaper gas than anyone else on the planet.
Don't look at me. I don't own a car.