Wiretapping Bill:"What Is The Point Of Legislating If WH Won't Follow Law"

[kpete]

Justice Official implies tap bill would have little impact

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday September 14, 2006


According to an article in today's Congressional Quarterly, a Justice Department official implied that a bill intended to limit President's Bush's spying authority would have little impact were it to pass.


A Justice Department official seemed to imply earlier this week, to the astonishment of some House Judiciary Committee members, that a bill aimed at reining in the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program would have little impact even if passed.

His testimony, combined with Bush’s assertion of executive authority under the Constitution, has led some ... to question whether the administration would follow a revised surveillance law.

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies... "What is the point of legislating," she asked members at the hearing, if "the administration won’t follow the law even if it’s changed?"

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Justice_Official_implies_tap_bill_would_0914.html

[Amonester]

1. Et voila. His lil' miserable majesty, kingy-georgie, will just issue...

another unconstitutional signing statement sayin' him and his puppeteers will only obey the law as they see fit.

What's the point to voting laws then?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2133397&mesg_id=2133558

[dkofos]

2. I f he won't obey the law, he should be impeached.

[Avalux]

3. Why even bother to continue this sham of a government??

It's very clear that Bush is a dictator, he's completely in charge. Congress and the SC are completely irrelevant; the Constitution has been rendered obsolete.

The Republicans have lied and schemed their way into changing the course of American History (one of Rove's goals) by insuring one-party rule indefinitely. After reading the article on Princeton's voting machine research, I have no reason to believe Democrats will ever have the majority of anything again. And when people start marching in the streets after the election is stolen, the military can use microwave weapons on us to control us.

The future is dim.