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**Abarricoss** · 02-06-2006, 08:40 PM

I'll post this. Not that anyone here's interested in it though. Sorry I couldn't dish up some asinine conspiracy theory or some such nonsense.

I'm a "bushbot" and only pay attention to "bushco"

Anyways, I'll let everyone else comment more on it if they care too. Have fun now

Today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the NSA terrorist surveillance operation will utterly fail to address the two most important facts about it. Neither Attorney General Gonzales nor the senators questioning him will distinguish between a wartime intelligence gathering operation, which this is, and a broadly scoped peacetime law enforcement investigation, which this is not. And though it will shape the soundbites on which tonight's newscasts will ride, the tension -- no, the enmity -- that governs the administration's dealings with Congressional Dems will be displayed but not explained.

Howard Dean said, "President Bush's secret program to spy on the American people reminds Americans of the abuse of power during the dark days of President Nixon..." It is only the most fevered liberal brows and the willfully ignorant -- in both of which categories Dr. Dean consistently fits -- who can make such an irrational and irresponsible comparison.

"Any suggestion that a program designed to track the movement, locations, plans or intentions of our enemy -- particularly those that have infiltrated our borders -- is equivalent to abusive domestic surveillance of the past is ludicrous. When Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson approved the electronic surveillance of Martin Luther King, those Presidents were targeting American citizens based on activities protected by the First Amendment. When President Richard Nixon used warrantless wiretaps, they were not directed at enemies that had attacked the United States and killed thousands of Americans." Unlike the Deanocrats, Roberts understands the differences between illegal searches that violate the Fourth Amendment and wartime intelligence gathering.

............... full text here:

http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9375

02-06-2006, 08:40 PM	#35
Abarricoss Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 578 Senior Member	I'll post this. Not that anyone here's interested in it though. Sorry I couldn't dish up some asinine conspiracy theory or some such nonsense. I'm a "bushbot" and only pay attention to "bushco" Anyways, I'll let everyone else comment more on it if they care too. Have fun now Today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the NSA terrorist surveillance operation will utterly fail to address the two most important facts about it. Neither Attorney General Gonzales nor the senators questioning him will distinguish between a wartime intelligence gathering operation, which this is, and a broadly scoped peacetime law enforcement investigation, which this is not. And though it will shape the soundbites on which tonight's newscasts will ride, the tension -- no, the enmity -- that governs the administration's dealings with Congressional Dems will be displayed but not explained. Howard Dean said, "President Bush's secret program to spy on the American people reminds Americans of the abuse of power during the dark days of President Nixon..." It is only the most fevered liberal brows and the willfully ignorant -- in both of which categories Dr. Dean consistently fits -- who can make such an irrational and irresponsible comparison. "Any suggestion that a program designed to track the movement, locations, plans or intentions of our enemy -- particularly those that have infiltrated our borders -- is equivalent to abusive domestic surveillance of the past is ludicrous. When Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson approved the electronic surveillance of Martin Luther King, those Presidents were targeting American citizens based on activities protected by the First Amendment. When President Richard Nixon used warrantless wiretaps, they were not directed at enemies that had attacked the United States and killed thousands of Americans." Unlike the Deanocrats, Roberts understands the differences between illegal searches that violate the Fourth Amendment and wartime intelligence gathering. ............... full text here: http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9375
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