So, perhaps not wanting to be the whipping boy for the next 1600 Crew debacle ("Osama bin Laden plans to strike US", remember that?) it seems that our buddies at the NSA were pre-shredding the Constitution to avoid the inevitable rush by Congress with their pre-written (strange how that came to pass, isn't it?) "PATRIOT" act.
The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to declassified documents released Tuesday.
The N.S.A. operation prompted questions from a leading Democrat, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who said in an Oct. 11, 2001, letter to a top intelligence official that she was concerned about the agency's legal authority to expand its domestic operations, the documents showed.
Fourth Amendment got you down? Just say "fuck it" and go with your gut. The NSA from top to bottom ought to be gutted and the criminal prosecutions started yesterday. Or we ought to just go hide under the soggy mattresses of the Chickenhawk Bedwetters and hope no bad boogeymen ever come near us with box cutters again.
Sigh.
It was such a good idea, that whole Constitution thing. What a shame it's being destroyed by a bunch of whining pussies.
posted by Jo Fish on 01.03.06 at 11:35 PM
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See, your comment above about Osama proves the hypocrisy of the Left. Bush gets a vaguely worded memo in August 2001 that contained nothing no one didn't already know, yet the moonbat brigade constantly tries to hang Bush on this.
So when Bush actually does something to try to prevent terrorism, you're all over him. Note, too, that officials in both the Carter and Clinton administrations justified actions similar to those Bush took, something you keep failing to mention, Jo. No King here, just a prez doing his job based on the advise of people on both sides of the political divide.
posted by: bean on 01.04.06 at 12:31 PM [permalink]
