In 2003 The administration tried to push through legislation for the Patriot Act that would have allowed (P)Resident Bush to spy on all citizens of the United States, but it was defeated. This legislation was drawn up by the Justice Department lawyers with the claim it was to strengthen the Patriot Act.
The draft would allow The NSA to do what they had been doing for the Bush administration along, spying on Americans, and groups that they felt would be a danger to the citizenry of the country. Groups like the Vegan Society, and, PTA. God help us if those groups gain control. I hate bean sprouts.
The Washington Post reported last night [right at my bedtime the bastards] that this might be what the administration is saying gives the (P)Resident the authority to use warrantless wiretapping. Read on>>>
Could it be that the left is grabbing at straws in trying to bring down Bush? This administration is to my knowledge, one of, if not the most corrupt of history. But this is not going to be a editorial.
Officials from the Justice Department said,that giving Bush free range to spy on the people was not the intent of the legislation.
And that sounds like pure unadulterated bull-puckie. Most of the Congress and Senate didn't know that the Bush administration had used the NSA for Domestic Spying, by issuing a secret order.
What has critics wondering is the fact that they felt the need to get the draft in the Patriot Act.
"It's rather damning to their current view that they didn't need legislation," said Timothy H. Edgar, a national security lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union. "Clearly the lawyers at the Justice Department, or some of them, felt that legislation was needed to allow the government to do what it was doing."
But the Justice Department said that the measures were not drafted to help the NSA effort.
Now while out on the "He Had the Authority Tour"Attorney General Gonzales made mention that if the Patriot Act, would "Sunset", all authorities granted under it would still be in-play. In away he is right, seeing that The Patriot Act is made up of a mix of laws that were already on the books (that were tweaked) and some new legislation.
Az. Republic
In another article that covers the White Papers sent to the Congress, Steven Bradbury acting assistant attorney general said,
"The program was designed to be protective of civil liberties," said Steven Bradbury, acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. "It's not a blank check that says the president can do whatever he wants."
Bradbury said the president has a special role and duty to take whatever military action is needed to counter attacks on the United States, and those actions necessarily include intercepting telecommunications and e-mail.
"When it comes to responding to external threats to the country ... the government would like to have a single executive who could act nimbly and agilely," Bradbury said.
That last quote tells us that he is not talking about Bush, or it would have read, "When it comes to responding to fictitous threats to the country ... the government would like to have a single executive who would act aggressively and is always numb."[Sorry, couldn't resist.]
Why I Think Alito is so Important.
(So Why Don't "They" see it?)
One thing we saw at the Alito hearings was that he fits right into the Bush scheme of things, oh yea and the tears of the truth coming out.
There are a lot of things that can be said about Alito when he was a lawyer and judge and `On the side of the people isn't one of them.' The following infromation has been taken off of Save The Court
While serving as a lawyer for the Reagan administration, he argued that the police should be able to shot a 10 year old in the back and kill him after he broke into a house and stole 10 dollars. The Supreme Court disagreed.
As a judge, Alito allowed the strip search of a 10 year old girl, even thought the search warrant did not mention her. Michel Chertoff, then a conservative judge, said that Alito's ruling would turn the constitution's section on search warrant Requirement into nothing more than a rubber stamp.
This is the most telling reason that should send up flairs, set off buzzers, and ring bells for the Senate:
Judge Samuel Alito has consistently excused the government of illegally wiretapping, and other unconstitutional invasions of privacy.
"Knight Rider Review" said that, "Alito goes out of his way to narrow the scope of individual Rights." He ruled the FBI could run video surveillance without a warrant, to which a dissenting judge said it is Orwellian.
Alito has said, that he believes the politicians, not the women should make personal health decisions.
Alito also says that he subscribes to a theory known as "Unitary Executive" which give sweeping powers to the Executive branch and are uncheck by any other branch.
So what is it that the lawmakers don't get? Don't they see that with what is in place on the "High Court" already they are about to put the people that voted them in, in deep dodo? Or as I have said before, "They are playing for the other side."
ABA