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16-01-06, 07:15 PM | #1 | ||
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Al Gore
now he grows a spine. today, speaking to the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and The Liberty Coalition, on the Imperial Presidency:
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worth repeating: George Bush claims the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture. does this even remotely resemble America? i think not - cue the I word and wake the house troll. |
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You're confusing "spine" with "whine" which Gore always had plenty of.
I'd remind the poor dork about the Japanese-Americans imprisonment and the complete government control of war coverage in the media and the fact that almost every soldier's mail was read and sometimes censored during WW2, but his traumatic combat experiences in Vietnam have no doubt damaged his mind along with his credibility. And what's the "I" word? |
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Repent sinners... Only Geena Davis can save you now!!!!
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Warrantless Searches of Americans? That’s Shocking!
Except when it happens every day. Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. link - http://www.nationalreview.com/mccart...0512201735.asp or The Truong court [United States v. Truong Dinh Hung, 4th Cir. 1980], as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. *** We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power. When Al Gore was VP -- Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr told “60 Minutes” that President Bill Clinton’s Echelon program intercepted “literally millions of communications involving United States citizens.” An NSA source says this included then-U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond. Clinton also authorized the NSA to wiretap and search the home of CIA spy Aldrich Ames. He soon broadened the NSA’s authority to include “classified electronic surveillance techniques, such as infrared sensors to observe people inside their homes.” On February 9, 1995, Clinton signed Executive Order 12949, stating, “the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year. Ronald Reagan had recognized the right to spy on foreign intelligence agents without a warrant, although he did not wage a hot war against Marxism (at least, not for more than a few days in Grenada). Even rock-ribbed Cold Warrior Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12139 on May 23, 1979, declaring that “the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order.” The definition of “foreign intelligence” should make clear: this includes American contacts communicating with the other side. The FISA Act does not grant “an association which is a foreign power” the legal privileges of an American citizen. Thus, even if an American joins the Afghan-Pakistan-Iraq-based terrorist group called al-Qaeda – like Steve Earle epic hero, “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh – he is now fair game as a member of “an association which is a foreign power.” Would you like me to continue?
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edit: the Bush apologists like to claim the issue is warrantless searches - it's not. they also like to cite the Clinton administration as a precedent - it's not. the issue is compliance with the law - is the Prez above the law? |
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No, the president is not above the law, period.
Now, if you still have issues with what he did then it's up to you to prove that he actually broke the law. |
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The dems would have taken the matter to the courts if they thought they had a case. Instead they just use the cooperative media to spread their lies and half-truths as usual.
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"Those who believe in absurdity, commit atrocity" - Voltaire
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"We say legislate, they say investigate,” he bellowed to the outdoor rally. “We say educate, they say interrogate. We say illuminate, they say instigate. We say unify, they say vilify. We make the tough decisions, they take depositions. We find real solutions, they launch prosecutions. We know our future’s nearing, they want to hold more hearings."
-- Al Gore, October 28, 1998 EDIT -- Did Gore actually prove that the NSA wiretaps were illegal??,
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22-01-06, 06:56 PM | #13 |
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Guess women aren't citizens in the liberal propaganda world.
The men of course get a higher pitch to their whining voice to complain better. |
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22-01-06, 10:47 PM | #16 |
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At least I make my own posts instead of putting up some lame-ass cartoon.
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23-01-06, 01:38 PM | #18 |
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Hey the knife,
The 2nd "cartoon" did make me wonder why we aren't being "attacked by terrorists everyday with planes flying into buildings every twenty minutes and the Iraqi army in the U.S. massacreing people". They would if they could. So we should do what.......wait until we are in that situation and then do something about it? Kinda like rebuilding your house after it falls down because the termites slowly chewed it to bits over the years, when you could have done regular termite inspections and prevented what was happening behind the drywall that you couldn't see until it was too late to do anything about it. |
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Good one Belle. Knife's gonna need days to find a cartoon to address that.
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If Bush had bugs, he should have called congress. |
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