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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Senator Russ Feingold calls for censure of Bush
… over the NSA wiretaps ’scandal’:
March 12, 2006— In an exclusive interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush for approving domestic wiretaps on American citizens without first seeking a legally required court order.
“This conduct is right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors,” said Feingold, D-Wis., a three-term senator and potential presidential contender.
He said President Bush had, “openly and almost thumbing his nose at the American people,” continued the NSA domestic wiretap program.
President Bush has long asserted that the so-called ‘warrantless wiretaps’ are an essential tool in the war on terror.
But in a copy of the censure resolution obtained by ABC News, Feingold asserts the president, “repeatedly misled the public prior to the public disclosure of the National Security Agency surveillance program by indicating his administration was relying on court orders to wiretap suspected terrorists inside the United States.”
Feingold cites three instances over a year-long period in which Bush outlined the necessity of a court order or a judge’s permission prior to a domestic wiretap of a U.S. citizen.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., also appearing exclusively on “This Week,” defended Bush.
“Russ is just wrong, he is flat wrong, he is dead wrong,” Frist said.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think if the Dems don’t watch it, they’re going to overplay their hand here. They’re riding high after getting the upperhand last week on the national security front (even though it was based on faulty pretenses) but if they keep pushing it on the NSA surveillance issue, I think it’s going to backfire. I hope so.
Read more via Decision ‘08, Political Pit Bull
(Cross-posted at Blogs For Bush)
Related Toldjah So posts:
- House approves Patriot Act, Senate panel rejects broad NSA inquiry
- NSA Surveillance Program ’scandal’ – update
- Congressional probe of NSA surveillance may not happen afterall
- Admin briefs Congress on NSA surveillance
- Thomas Sowell on the NSA ’scandal’ controversy
- NSA ’scandal’ fallout: convicted terrorist conspirators wanting cases thrown out
- Intelligence officials: NSA leak has undermined ability to fight terrorism
- On politicizing the Patriot Act and the NSA ’scandal’
- NYT: NSA scandal is worse than WWII Japanese internment camps
- Link between disposable phone sale surge and NSA leak?
- Whistleblower or leaker?
- Joe Klein: How to Stay Out of Power (and undermine the war in the process)
- Why it was important to keep the cat in the bag
- The Rep. Jane Harman flip flop
- NSA initially acted on its own after 9-11
- Investigations begin into the NSA eavesdropping leak
- “… the only thing outrageous about this policy is the outrage itself”
- Michael Barone on the MSM’s ‘eavesdropping’ coverage
- Brief history of warrantless searches
- Past presidents and the NSA
- Bill Clinton and the NSA
- WSJ: “Thank you for wiretapping”
- The Prez fires back
- Prez essentially says ‘let me do my job’
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- Reid has come out against the censure, so apparently the party core isn’t too happy about Feingolds ploy, which was an obvious trial balloon to see how many of the hard left in the party he might be able to rally in anticipation of a presidential run.
- Problem is its not the “nuanced” approach the Dems have been trying to achieve, tip-toeing through the backlash landmines that they can step on, and end up looking even weaker on the WOT.
The Dems feel they made some political hay on the UAE port dustup, and Feingolds manuevers could offset that quickly, and even worse put some of the hopefuls like Hillery in a bad situation. If she backs him with this idiocy, and it peoves unpopular with the electorate, she gets hurt, ect.
- Reids comments, the usual “we all need to be assured blah blah blah”, but not supporting Feingolds move may be some more visability into the ongoing fight between the Deaniacs and Clintonista’s within the party.
- McCauliffe was just on FOX, and watching him you see the problem the Dems have in a nutshell. The gal interviewing him asked four times what the Dems plan was and each time he repeated the same meme’s about Bush, you’ve heard them all before.
- The Dem message continues to be, threaten the Iraqui’s and if they don’t get it together pull out all the troops now. No idea of what to do when and if we did that and al Qaeda/Iran/Syria responded by over-running the country with masses of Insurgent incursions and doing everything they could without us there to instigate all out civil war. Then the country would be right in the hands of Iran and the Jihadists, and still the Dems have no alternatives, other than “Bush bad”.
- Lets see. the Dems in the past three years have:
- Called for an announced time table, to be sure the mad Mullahs would know exactly how long they had to wait to move in.
- Called for an immediate pullout, leaving the whole situation to collapse, and making all the gains we’ve made useless.
- Called for threats followed by withdrawal, again leaving a mess with absolutely no alternatives, so somewhere down the line we’ll get to do it all over again at even higher cost in money and lives.
- The Dems don’t have a clue. Turn the operation of things over to people with no plan and these sort of ideas? Only if we’re as crazy as they are.
- Bang
Bang wrote, “- McCauliffe was just on FOX, and watching him you see the problem the Dems have in a nutshell. The gal interviewing him asked four times what the Dems plan was and each time he repeated the same meme’s about Bush, you’ve heard them all before.
Yep. I’ve heard them. One inaccurate accusation after another. I feel like a broken record .
The Democrats will be known as the Peace Party and if Reid is not into that he can join the War Party(Republicans). As can Biden,Clinton and anyone else who wants violence and war to be the greater part of America’s foreign policy. Peace
Do you think you can figure out why your party doesn’t vote the way you want them to? It’s because your position is not attractive Steve. And not based on truth.
- If the Dems don’t stop the anti-American crusades they’re going to be known as the “Peace of crap” party. A lot of the electorate already feel that way, and who could blame them.
- On another note. Al Sadr, the firebrand cleric finally came out today, after yesterdays attacks on civilians, and blamed said attacks on al Qaeda, which is a new one for him. He also urged calm on the part of his militia, although four men were discovered hung from some power line towers by Iraqi police.
- Officials say the men had explosives strapped to their bodies, and two had granade launchers. The police believe the men may have been al Qaeda, since two were from Syria, and said they think they were killed by Al Sadr’s men. If the various Iraqi groups begin to hunt down and dispatch al Qaeda insurgents, the whole situation on the ground could change in a hurry.
- Bang
I wonder if this the PLAN Dean said the Dhimmicrats after all this time finally have for 2006…..