December 17, 2005, L'etat c'est moi
The President testily defended the practice (revealed by a New York Times story that the Times sat on for over a year to ensure the reelection of the Imperium) that our Government, via its NSA (formerly headed by Incompetetentallezza Rice and now by Stephen "See No Evil, etc." Hadley) is routinely spying on American citizens in contravention of what we all believed to be the American constitution and laws.
Given the ongoing saga of Jose Padilla, our... controversial... practices at Guantanimo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, and the various ghost CIA operations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East... our massive government deficits caused even more by the insane spending increases under total Republican government than by the insane tax cuts...
One might question why the folks in charge call themselves "conservatives." Possibly, because their policies are about conserving the wealth and power that they manage to appropriate to themselves.
Power that we now know includes routine monitoring of you and me and the intimacies of our lives. The authority of the President to do this, as, for example, set forth in legal memoranda he commissioned on the subject: because he can.
And I suppose if gasoline prices continue to come down... most Americans will be the happier for it.
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Power that we now know includes routine monitoring of you and me and the intimacies of our lives.
Not unless you're sharing your intimacies with foriegn al Qaeda operatives, TD, since that is what NSA has been eavesdropping on: international communications with terrorists. This program began right after 9/11, and after the administration consulted Congress, which made nary a peep about the alleged unconstitutionality (disputed by DoJ, NSA and WH lawyers). Or perhaps you mean ECHELON, a spying program that started with Bill Clinton and does capture all domestic communications.
Posted by Lawrence at December 19, 2005 12:05 PM
Democrats.com has an interested excerpt about Karl Rove from the new book, "Rove Exposed: How Bush's Brain Fooled America", by James Moore & Wayne Slater.
You can view it at:
http://www.democrats.com/node/7161
Posted by Steve O at December 22, 2005 3:52 PM