Comments on: Judge Rejects Bush's Stance On Wiretaps
Says Current FISA Law Does Not Allow Executive Branch To Overstep Law
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- There is no doubt that the blithering idiot in the White House and all those who assisted him in conducting wiretaps without court-approved warrants clearly violated the law. Certainly, like anyone else they should be punished. However, people should quit blaming the Democratic Congress for the problems created by Bush''s policies. In the Senate, it takes 60 votes to move legislation forward. There are 49 Democratic Senators and 49 Republican Senators with 2 Independent Senators who "caucus" with the Democrats govern them a slim 1 vote majority. The Republicans are thus able to obstruct any piece of legislation that comes before the Senate unless the Democrats with the help of Republican defectors can muster 60 votes. As one would expect, this doesn''t happen very often. This is the main reason why Sen. Obama was forced to support FISA, which was about to expire and leave the United States vulnerable to foreign attacks by crippling our intelligence agencies. Rather than leave our country in such a vulnerable position, Sen. Obama decided to vote for this legislation because the proposition that "something is better than nothing" was true in this situation. The remedy -- help elect a Democratic Senate that has a super majority (60 Senators or more) and Sen. Obama for President. At that point, the GOP and the morons of which it is composed will no longer be able to stop progressive legislation needed to fix our country before it self-destructs.
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- Hey, Bu$h -
The 4th of July
Stands for FREEDOM
and HEROS who went to war
not AWOL coward NeoCons - Reply to this comment
- Happy 4th, Shrub!
Looks like this country''s future is getting brighter. - Reply to this comment
- "Congress, however, is scheduled next week to vote on whether to grant the companies legal protection from those lawsuits."
If they do, they take the teeth out of the law and remove any deterrent from future illegal activities.
I would remind our readers that Quest defied the illegal requests of this administration.
The others should not be doing business. - Reply to this comment
- Clearly the courts understand King George at last.
His attempts to subvert the Constitution are thus doomed to fail. - Reply to this comment
- America will stand up to protect Bush. He''s protected us. Thank you President Bush! Watch out bench legislating judges, Americans got there eye on you.
Bush, you are a good president. - Reply to this comment
- Doing all of these things within the law is so easy an idiot coud do them.
Guess that proves that George doesn''t have the brains to be an idiot. - Reply to this comment
- Want to send Pelosi a message ?
Contribute to Anit-War hero Cindy Sheehan''s campaign!
www.cindyforcongress.org - Reply to this comment
- Love America ??
JAIL Bush
Torture Cheney - Reply to this comment
Still sucks being a fearful NeoCon...- Reply to this comment
- It sure is encouraging how Nancy Pelosi rolled over like a dog asking for a biscuit on the FISA law.
Pelosi must go. A few pats on the head from Bushit, and she''s like a little lap dog. Dianne Feinstein ditto. - Reply to this comment
- Correction:
Only idiots believe the new FISA law provides any wiretapping restraint whatsoever.
People must be laughing their heads off at the way the American people are completely played for fools by this law.
It doesn''t help that the news organizations like CBS couldn''t be bothered to tell people what the law says or actually means in practice.
Posted by CBS_Oliver at 08:38 AM : Jul 04, 2008
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It doesn''t help that the news organizations like CBS couldn''t be bothered to tell people what the law says or actually means in practice.
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Hey - just look at how the shrub interpreted the FISA act and you want CBS to be your legal eagles. Be thankful that we have the American Civil Liberties Union and CBS does report about their watchful eye... - Reply to this comment
- I wonder who will Pardon the Criminal who broke the law. Will Obama? NO! Will McSame? YES!
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- pt 1
---"At the same time, Judge Walker barred the U.S. branch of the now-defunct Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, an Islamic charity based in Ashland, Calif., from using a top secret document to push forward its lawsuit challenging the government''s surveillance of that group."---
Yeah, I agree with everybody else''s assessments. The politicians make it sound like the exigent circumstances exception they''ve carved out is akin to the one for the 4th in criminal cases, but the guard against abuse of THAT loophole is that exigent circumstances actually exist in a way that police can later demonstrate in a court of law where those who have their privacy invaded are ultimately given their day in court. So like there''s transparency and consequences for those in power.
Here, the exigent circumstances exception seems more like the Iraq war whereby it grants Shrub the ability to do anything he wants and it doesn''t matter whether there''s justification to support his invasions into peoples privacy
Interesting to see we''re all united on this - red states and blue states - against the government. - Reply to this comment
- Hooray!....must one of them d@mned "activist judges"!
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- Speaking of Idiots. ------------------- How About That CBS ----?
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- START WAR CRIMES TRIALS NOW!
AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP! - Reply to this comment
- TOO BAD Shrub !!!!
LAWS are For Everyone ! Even CRIMINALS ,like W !
This Judge IS The Man ! - Reply to this comment
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