Why Congress is angrier about phone snooping than false arrest and ...

[European Socialist]

detainment. It's because they have no way of knowing if their phone conversations are being listened to--but if they were to disappear it would get too much media attention (for it to be likely). Just think of the millions of elites along with Bush enemies who must be wondering if they were spied upon.

[lovuian]

1. Bingo and think of the future Blackmail and the not knowing

if they have been tapped into... Yes our freedoms are nice for everybody even the corporists now they have a renegade president who is taping them and has the whole treasury of the US and the police at his discretion to use against anybody...

How does it feel ??? to be destroyed by the evil monster you created...

Nobody is safe Nobody...

[havocmom]

3. Blackmail & threats would explain a lot

and hardly unheard of in D.C. With this crowd, all bad behavior seems to have increased exponentially.

[DBoon]

2. Not "they have no way of knowing"

More like "they can assume their phone coversations (and email and Web surfing) are being recorded, summarized and analyzed so as to facilitate political blackmail"

[Odin2005]

4. This is why I think so many moderates...

...like Hillary and Pomeroy are sucking up to *. :tinfoilhat:

[geckosfeet]

5. Letter to your congress critters :

On Sat. Dec 17, 2005 the president of the United States of America admitted that he authorized illegal wiretaps of U.S. citizens. This is a blatant violation of my civil rights as expressed in the Constitution of the United States. This is the same Constitution that every president has sworn on the bible to uphold and defend.

With his admission, he arrogantly disdains my rights, your rights, and the rights of the very soldiers that he commands this day. His irrational thought process seems to say that “In order to preserve your freedom and privacy, your freedom and privacy must be covertly taken from you.”

Our president cries out that in reporting on his heinous activities, the free press aids terrorists and other enemies of this country. I do not see how this is possible. Enemies of the United States should always fear her and expect her full, focused and purposeful attentions. What I do not understand, is how the erosion of precious freedoms and privacies can be construed as contributing to the defense of our country.

The president’s outrage at having his covert activities exposed is self serving and duplicitous. His claim that disclosing these activities may harm national security seems oddly incongruous in light of the allegations that someone on his senior staff was directly involved in disclosing the identity of a CIA agent for political hay making. Indeed. The vice presidents chief of staff has been indicted for lying to a grand jury about this disgusting affair.

This president has committed multiple impeachable offenses. The only reason that he has not been impeached is that he happens to belong to the same party that enjoys a majority in both the congress and the senate. And now, the president has given the members of his own party reason to pause and question.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin

[No Exit]

6. Great post!!