Bill Would Allow Warrantless Spying 




Bill Would Allow Warrantless Spying
The Bush administration could continue its policy of spying on targeted Americans without obtaining warrants, but only if it justifies the action to a small group of lawmakers, under legislation introduced yesterday by key Republican senators.

So let me get this straight. Bush wouldn't go to a special secret court to get the warrants but these morons in congress thinks he is going to go to their special group to justify its illegal wiretapping?? Are they that stupid? He is just going to blow them off too. He doesn't care about the law or the constitution. He is a dictator and a war criminal.

  • House approves new money for war and a little for hurricane
    The House voted Thursday to give President Bush $92 billion more for Iraq, Afghanistan and Gulf Coast hurricane relief despite worries about the ballooning costs of the war and the recovery effort.

    The bulk of the bill, $67.6 billion, would pay for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would boost to nearly $400 billion the total spent on the conflicts and operations against terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

  • Senate Approves Budget, Breaking Spending Limits
    The Senate narrowly approved a $2.8 trillion election-year budget Thursday that broke spending limits only hours after it increased federal borrowing power to avert a government default.

  • Poll shocker: 42% say impeach Bush
    A new poll finds that a plurality of Americans favor plans to censure President George W. Bush, while a surprising 42% favor moves to actually impeach the President.

  • GAO: Millions wasted during Katrina relief
    The government wasted millions of dollars in its award of post-Katrina contracts for disaster relief, including at least $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used, federal auditors said Thursday.

    The Government Accountability Office’s review of 13 major contracts — many of them awarded with limited or no competition after the Aug. 29 storm — offers the first preliminary overview of their soundness.

    or total incompetence...

  • Time for Facts, Not Resolutions
    We understand the frustration that led Senator Russell Feingold to introduce a measure that would censure President Bush for authorizing warrantless spying on Americans. It's galling to watch from the outside as the Republicans and most Democrats refuse time and again to hold Mr. Bush accountable for the lawlessness and incompetence of his administration. Actually sitting among that cowardly crew must be maddening.

    Still, the censure proposal is a bad idea. Members of Congress don't need to take extraordinary measures like that now. They need to fulfill their sworn duty to investigate the executive branch's misdeeds and failings. Talk about censure will only distract the public from the failure of their elected representatives to earn their paychecks.
 

Posted: Fri - March 17, 2006 at 09:36 AM           |

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