Sunday, January 01, 2006

Stop the Yammering!

Seriously people, could the left please stop engaging in the argument "Is Bush's warrantless wiretapping illegal?" Of course it is illegal.

The questions now are:

  1. Is Bush abusing this power to substantially violate the rights that FISA is meant to protect? Such as freedom of the press, and freedom of political activity? So, who did Bush spy on? Journalists? Members of Congress? Senators? any Judges? Prominent members or donors to the Democratic part?

  2. Was any of this information used to violate the rights meant to be protected by FISA? Did they politically go after journalists they got information on? Did they go after Members of congress they got information on? Was any information passed around to anyone outside the NSA, like to the FBI? Or to the political folks, like Karl Rove?


Also, Democratic Senators should immediately introduce a bill to stop these violations of FISA, and to correct the violations that have occurred. Specifically, the Congress should direct the President that he does not have the power to violate FISA under the statute he claims; that all previous wiretaps must now be presented to the FISA court for approval, and that the subjects of wiretaps that the FISA court declines to be approved be alerted to the existence of the wiretaps and given full transcripts of what was taken down.

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