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Bush Caught Allowing Eavesdropping on the American People w/o Warrants
$do11a biLL$:
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--- Quote from: Ant on December 17, 2005, 01:50:35 PM --- Jackasses like Cwalker don't realize that Bush is only in office for 3more years, and once the government acquires new powers its reluctant to give them up.
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That is bullshit. During times of war, the government has always assumed greater power and temporarily curtailed civil liberties in order to ensure security. It happened during World War 2, but once that was over things went back to normal.
The fact that the New York Times released this story pretty much confirms that they care more about taking down president Bush then they do about the national security of our country. Whose side are they on?
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None, they are journalist and they stating facts
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Exactly, Bush totally broke the law doing that shit.. this just makes me wonder what else has he done without nobody knowing, and what if he makes a mistake doing shit like this and gets in trouble with another big country and we see another 9/11 or worse?
You can definetly tell the journalists aren't taking any sides here. Especially when its all over the news.
Real American:
Senator Accuses Times of Endangering U.S.
AP
WASHINGTON - A Republican senator on Saturday accused The New York Times of endangering American security to sell a book by waiting until the day of the terror-fighting Patriot Act reauthorization to report that the government has eavesdropped on people without court-approved warrants.
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"At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act," said Republican Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record) of Texas. "Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author."
Cornyn did not name the senators in his remarks on the Senate floor.
A call to The New York Times' Washington bureau was referred to spokeswoman Catherine Mathis, who could not be reached immediately.
Times reporter James Risen, who wrote the story, has a book "State of WAR: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration," coming out in the next few weeks, Cornyn said.
"I think it's a crying shame ... that we find that America's safety is endangered by the potential expiration of the Patriot Act in part because a newspaper has seen fit to release on the night before the vote on the floor on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act as part of a marketing campaign for selling a book," Cornyn said.
Since October 2001, the super-secret National Security Agency has, without court-approved warrants, eavesdropped on the international phone calls and e-mails of people inside the United States. President Bush said Saturday that the White House had kept the congressional leadership informed, which a Republican lawmaker confirmed.
But several senators cited the NSA revelation as a reason to uphold a filibuster on the renewal of the expiring portions of the USA Patriot Act — the domestic anti-terrorism law enacted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — without getting additional safeguards into the law. Supporters of renewing the law failed to get 60 votes needed to break the filibuster.
Bush on Saturday also attacked the disclosure. "As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "The unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk."
King Tech Quadafi:
oh no c walker, the "enemies" are plottin the destruction of america through their infiltration of the new york times
Ant:
--- Quote from: Real American on December 17, 2005, 04:02:08 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ant on December 17, 2005, 01:50:35 PM --- Jackasses like Cwalker don't realize that Bush is only in office for 3more years, and once the government acquires new powers its reluctant to give them up.
--- End quote ---
That is bullshit. During times of war, the government has always assumed greater power and temporarily curtailed civil liberties in order to ensure security. It happened during World War 2, but once that was over things went back to normal.
The fact that the New York Times released this story pretty much confirms that they care more about taking down president Bush then they do about the national security of our country. Whose side are they on?
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So go ahead and explain how they compromised national security by releasing this story? Now that the American public knows Bush authorizes govt. eavesdropping without requiring warrants how are we less safe? What are the terrorists going to do with this new knowledge? This isn't a liberal issue a number of republicans have expressed dissappointment with this news. The fact that you seriously think the NYT compromised national security by leaking this is yet another reason why you're a jackass.
J Bananas:
I already have my phone tapped. Guess thats how uncle sam fucks you when you run the most lucrative kiddie porn ring on the west coast :-\
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