David Sirota asks the important questions re: domestic spying

[cry baby]

<snip>

"And that gets us right back to the most important question: why would the President deliberately circumvent a court that was already wholly inclined to grant him domestic surveillance warrants? The answer is obvious, though as yet largely unstated in the mainstream media: because the President was likely ordering surveillance operations that were so outrageous, so unrelated to the War on Terror, and, to put it in Constitutional terms, so "unreasonable" that even a FISA court would not have granted them."

<snip>

"These are exactly the kind of surveillance operations even a government-tilted FISA court would reject, and it raises yet more questions: Are these anti-war peace groups the targets of Bush's warrantless, illegal surveillance operations? Who else has the President been targeting? Has it been his partisan political enemies a la Richard Nixon? Or has he been invading the privacy of unsuspecting citizens in broad sweeps with no probable cause at all?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-most-important-questi_b_12499.html

This crystalized my thoughts on this subject. He just puts it so simply - I love D.S.

[wryter2000]

1. Yup

Oddly enough, all three panelists (including George Will) on Stephanopolous said much the same thing.

[hwmnbn]

2. Really? Damn I missed the show this morning.....

I had to do christmas crap all day today. grrr

This issue has been generating a lot of talk, mostly critical. That's a good sign.

[liveoaktx]

5. VIDEO

On CanOFun

[hwmnbn]

14. thanks liveoaktx, you're the best....

:yourock:

[cry baby]

4. In my mind, I kept trying to make it complicated,

but the real core question is so dang simple. I missed the morning shows today, but I heard Rohrbacher yesterday say that * is a hero for taking care of us this way.

[mwb970]

11. Rohrbacher is an idiotic Bushbot.

Bob Barr (our new hero) took him apart on Wolf Blitzer's show. Barr expressed amazement that a conservative Congressman was willing to defend the president for violating American laws and ignoring the Constitution. How "conservative" is that?

Rohrbacher came across as a misguided fool.

[wryter2000]

19. LOL

I'm mighty glad for Barr's input on this, but I'm not ready to call him a hero yet. I get your point, though. :)

[indepat]

22. Yup

:grr:

[henslee]

3. ding ding mthafckin ding.

[cry baby]

7. reading his blog gave me the "lightbulb moment"

and I'm going to email these questions to the corporate media and in a LTTE.

[Cha]

6. As my out going message

says on my answer machine.."Remember Big Brother Is Watching."

And it's you and me that he's watching.

[elehhhhna]

9. Hey! MY answering machine says that too! But

I didn't put that message on there.

Shoudl I be worried?

LOL

btw,
FUCK YOU AGENT MIKE AND THE ENTIRE DISGUSTING CRIMINAL BUSH ADMIN, "friends" and family, too.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Who is on the list???

The Bush administration needs to justify each person
under surveillance. NOW. And congress needs to put
these white house crooks on notice that we do NOT live
in a friggin' police state.

Impeachment proceedings would be a darn good way to start.

[cry baby]

10. Maybe Kerry people, Cindy Sheehan, us at DU?

The dangerous old Quaker anti-war ladies, McCain, Harry Reid...

[shraby]

12. Fitzgerald?

[cry baby]

16. probably!

[lvx35]

18. well said.

exactly. pull is out in the open, all of it....At least in front of a court of people not likely to be QUITE as insane.

[Cleita]

20. Oh you'd better believe that we all are.

We will mostly be regarded as nuisances unless we pose a real threat to the Reich, like actually getting them indicted and changing election laws. Then you'd better stay in plain view. You won't disappear or get offed then or so goes the common wisdom.

[C_U_L8R]

23. I am on the list

are you ??

[tuvor]

13. k/r

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. excellent article

[sandnsea]

17. Seems like a distraction to me

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. What we know is damning enough, why don't we just hammer it home, for once.

[PDittie]

21. ~

[Cults4Bush]

24. Kick and rec'd. n/t