Here's a surprise the congress didn't see the same Intelligence as the Resident. According to the
Washington Post Dec 16, Bush himself said that the members of congress saw the same classified documents that he saw 112 times, when trying to debunk his opponent's charges that he lied to take the country in to war in Iraq.
Commonsense, should tell most that the Jr. congressman would not have the security clearance as the President of the United States. Read on>>>
Democrats said the 14-page report contradicts Bush's contention that lawmakers saw all the evidence before U.S. troops invaded in March 2003, stating that the president and a small number of advisers "have access to a far greater volume of intelligence and to more sensitive intelligence information."
The White House disputed both charges, noting that Congress often works directly with U.S. intelligence agencies and is privy to an enormous amount of classified information. "In 2004 alone, intelligence agencies provided over 1,000 personal briefings and more than 4,000 intelligence products to the Congress," an administration official said
In that last paragraph, it states that in 2004 congress received 4,000 intelligence products, but when did we invade Iraq? Hum, maybe it was, March 20, 2003 . The vote to give the resident the power to use force as a last resort, was in October of 2002. Ok this maybe fuzzy math for the Resident, but that tells me that there was six months before he went into Iraq. It was over 2 years before they started having so-called, intense briefings with congress.
Bush has fiercely rejected those claims. "Some of the most irresponsible comments -- about manipulating intelligence -- have come from politicians who saw the same intelligence I saw and then voted to authorize the use of force against Saddam Hussein," he said this week.
Well that's 113.
Well it is all over the news that Bush signed an Illegal Order to allow the spying on US citizens, and he says he will do it again and again. The order allows, the NAS to monitor the E-mails and phone calls of United States citizens.
I personally think that the eavesdropping story affected the vote on The Patriot Act Friday by the senate. As I said yesterday, it proves you can not give this administration an unwatched opportunity, because like a little child they will misuse it. I think that some of the senate also saw this.
This must be a Tee-Ball game where the batter never strikes out, or is it that we have become a nation of such political correctness, that we don't want to hurt George W. Bush's feelings and scold him. Either way, we are letting this man run the country into the ground and tarnish what little good image we had left. Albert Einstein, once said, to do the same thing over and over, and expect a different result is the definition of insanity.
I feel that we need to give this administration a total vote of non-confidence. What looks worse the fact that we have a madman at the helm, or that he is allowed to remain there by the people? ABA