The President is gonna call their bluff
The White House Social Office needs to note right now, before anybody has a chance to forget, that it really must send flowers, chocolates and wall-sized Christmas cards (um, holiday cards) next year to James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times.
The intrepid duo saved the Bush presidency recently by breaking news that the National Security Agency has been conducting surveillance of al-Qaida operatives abroad and their minions in the United States. The reporters noted that the agency monitored phone calls, e-mails and other electronic communications by means of sophisticated eavesdropping devices and even more sophisticated computers that can pick out known terrorists’ vocal patterns while monitoring words and phrases that may refer to terrorist acts and targets.
This is hardly new. “Signals intelligence” has been the rage among intelligence communities for some time. CBS reported in 2000 on the Echelon program, a joint effort involving the United States and its four chief English-speaking allies to monitor every electronic communication on Earth. Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush 43 each authorized the use of such surveillance (without bench warrants) in cases involving national security.
The Times pushed the story furiously, and its editorial page inveighed gravely against the president. A handful of Democrats cited the reportage in demanding the president’s ouster, while purveyors of Beltway Conventional Wisdom declared “impeachment” the word of 2006.
A most excellent article by Tony Snow – - and I could not agree more with him, it is time for the Dems to either put up or shut up. I like the idea that the taps should be put up for a vote – - then they will have to come to terms. GW doesn’t like to be pushed and every time the Dems and MSM start their pushing matches GW rises in the polls and comes out just fine.
So what? the sides are both for the dismantling of this now dead nation, say hi to the Mexican form of government, that is what the power people want. you know who will be the next EL.President don’t you? and let the propaganda fly! but in the end this place once called the USA Will become a third world hell with big guns.:sad: but remember some of us will fight before that time comes.
Hey say something? talk out say something get mad be happy but say something call me names say bush is god say Clinton is a great guy
(only a fool would say that the American Saddam after all bill Clinton is a guy who us our freedoms ) but say something the time is coming when people will be shot for talking out against evil. but the article is good not great and tony snow has the right for now under the bill of rights to say it.
I like the part where i say “us our freedoms get it”?:roll: