There's still hope. . . .
0 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 21 December 2005 at 12/21/2005 08:36:00 am.
. . . My optimisim is probably overactive, but hey, they almost managed to impeach Bill Clinton because he got his groove on with Monica (and said he did not have sexual relations with THAT woman). Maybe someone can actually manage to see that Monkey Face gets the recognition he deserves for being unethical on a much more important, and very, very, very scary scale. Which could adversely affect a hell of a lot more innocent people than one guy who liked gettin' jiggy in the oval office.
I suppose the sure-to-be-long-and-drawn-out process starts here, with the Dems and their Freedom of Information Act request :
In an interview on Monday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez admitted that the administration asked certain Members of Congress about getting a new law to allow spying on Americans without a warrant. Realizing that even a Republican-controlled Congress wouldn't authorize such a measure, they decided to manipulate current law and proceed with the program anyway.
Manipulation of a law like this is dangerous. The same Office of Legal Counsel used vague assertions of sweeping authority in the infamous torture memos. The victim of this reasoning is the rule of law itself -- when this administration asserts sweeping authority to step over any line of legality, it asserts that there are no lines at all.
Does this administration believe there are any lines it can't cross? Americans deserve to know. This administration must demonstrate clearly what legal authority allows it to disregard criminal prohibitions on unilateral domestic spying. Sign on to the request now -- it will be delivered on Thursday:
www.democrats.org/foia
I suppose the sure-to-be-long-and-drawn-out process starts here, with the Dems and their Freedom of Information Act request :
In an interview on Monday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez admitted that the administration asked certain Members of Congress about getting a new law to allow spying on Americans without a warrant. Realizing that even a Republican-controlled Congress wouldn't authorize such a measure, they decided to manipulate current law and proceed with the program anyway.
Manipulation of a law like this is dangerous. The same Office of Legal Counsel used vague assertions of sweeping authority in the infamous torture memos. The victim of this reasoning is the rule of law itself -- when this administration asserts sweeping authority to step over any line of legality, it asserts that there are no lines at all.
Does this administration believe there are any lines it can't cross? Americans deserve to know. This administration must demonstrate clearly what legal authority allows it to disregard criminal prohibitions on unilateral domestic spying. Sign on to the request now -- it will be delivered on Thursday:
www.democrats.org/foia
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