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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1948
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 04:42 pm: | 
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March 16, 2006
The President Has Broken the Law
President Bush Must Be Held Accountable for His Illegal Domestic Spying Program
By Sen. RUSSELL FEINGOLD
As Congress heads into a weeklong recess, I hope members of the Senate have a chance to listen to their constituents back home. All Americans want to fight terrorism and protect our country from those who wish to do us harm, but they don't want to sacrifice the rights and principles our country was founded upon. One of those fundamental American principles is that the President doesn't get to pick and choose which laws he follows.
There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks, and especially this week, about Congress changing the law to authorize the President's otherwise illegal domestic surveillance program. Of course, anyone who makes that argument concedes that the program is illegal. In addition, the President has yet to explain convincingly why he can't follow the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows wiretapping of terrorists while protecting law-abiding Americans.
The President has broken the law, and the censure resolution I introduced on Monday is intended to hold him accountable. While there have been plenty of personal attacks directed at me this week, few have argued the merits. The facts for censure are clear. FISA makes it a crime to wiretap American citizens on American soil without the requisite court orders--which is exactly what the President has admitted doing. Before the program was revealed, he misled the American people by assuring them that he was getting warrants for wiretaps. Since it was revealed, he has misled the American people about the legal basis for his actions.
I look forward to a full hearing, debate and vote in committee on this important matter. If the Committee fails to consider the resolution in a reasonable time period, I will ask that there be a vote in the full Senate. I know Americans will have a lot to say when they see their elected officials during the break. I hope my colleagues listen.
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Jackie
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Username: Jackie
Post Number: 153
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 01:49 am: |
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http://www.spychips.com |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1950
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 01:59 pm: |
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Jackie:
Good post. |
Msprissy
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Username: Msprissy
Post Number: 2
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 09:04 pm: |
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I can't believe what Congress is letting this president get away with.
WASHINGTON, March 16 — The Senate narrowly approved a $2.8 trillion election-year budget Thursday that broke spending limits only hours after it increased federal borrowing power to avert a government default.
This is our money. I suppose they are going to go back to China for another loan.
The check and balance system is a mess, Democrats are equally responsible for this mess by not speaking up, and fighting on behalf of Americans.
I am pissed with the way this administration is ignoring plight of Americans.
And they wanted to impeach President Clinton? For what? |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 1876
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 09:18 pm: |
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This reminds me of the Fall of the Roman of the Empire.
Left and right....we're losing all our rights.
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Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 1877
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 09:22 pm: |
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The Corporations really rule the country now.
The World itself is sort of a "corporate network" isn't it?
I cringed as WALMART and "Movie PLEXES" replaced the mom and pop stores and privately owned movie houses.
Publishing is now CONGLOMERATE controlled and dominated. Even the so called "self-pub. small" houses are being snapped up once they have a hit book.
Hell....even militant, naked anti-establishment Pagan Kola Boof has signed to a Conglomerate.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1953
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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Everything everybody has said here is on the One.
It is getting to the point where we will have to decide to resist, submit, or wait to see which way the wind is blowing before we jump. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 258
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 - 11:22 am: |
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ECHELON. It's old news. NSA has been monitoring all electronic communications for years. 60 Minutes reported on it back in 2000.
http://cryptome.org/echelon-60min.htm
Google NSA ECHELON and read all about it for yourself. |
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