Most of the big cities in America have neighborhoods that are pretty much FEMA camps already.

DadZilla3 wrote:

well to be fair Freddy Kruger was NOT a terrorist.

teedubbya wrote:

nothing. assuming the original leak was from someone with a security clearance rather than discovered through some other means.

teedubbya wrote:

The law governing clandestine surveillance in the United States, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, prohibits conducting electronic surveillance not authorized by statute. A government agent can try to avoid prosecution if he can show he was "engaged in the course of his official duties and the electronic surveillance was authorized by and conducted pursuant to a search warrant or court order of a court of competent jurisdiction," according to the law.

"This is as shocking a revelation as we have ever seen from the Bush administration," said Martin, who has been sharply critical of the administration's surveillance and detention policies. "It is, I believe, the first time a president has authorized government agencies to violate a specific criminal prohibition and eavesdrop on Americans."

Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said she is "dismayed" by the report.

"It's clear that the administration has been very willing to sacrifice civil liberties in its effort to exercise its authority on terrorism, to the extent that it authorizes criminal activity," Fredrickson said.

President Bush said yesterday that he secretly ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans with suspected ties to terrorists because it was "critical to saving American lives" and "consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution."

Bush said the program has been reviewed regularly by the nation's top legal authorities and targets only those people with "a clear link to these terrorist networks." Noting the failures to detect hijackers already in the country before the strikes on New York and Washington, Bush said the NSA's domestic spying since then has helped thwart other attacks.

In his statement, delivered during a live and unusually long radio address, the president assailed the news media for disclosing the eavesdropping program, and rebuked Senate Democrats for blocking renewal of the USA Patriot Act, which gave the FBI greater surveillance power after Sept. 11, 2001, and which expires Dec. 31.

"The terrorist threat to our country will not expire in two weeks," said Bush, calling a filibuster by Democratic senators opposed to the Patriot Act "irresponsible."

New York Times & Washington Post ran with a story in 2005. I was furious then and and still am. The only reason this is what it is now, is because the GOP is pulling at every string possible to damage the other party....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/16/AR2005121600021.html 




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700456.html 

Taps86 wrote:

The DEMS went at the GOP too. It's the same song different day.

teedubbya wrote:

The difference is "Hope & Change".

HockeyDad wrote:

that and there is a little black peppah in the recipe that bothers some folks sense of taste

teedubbya wrote:

The emperor has no clothes.

Is it really being a "traitor" to disclose WHAT the government is doing?
We are not in danger from the leaked information. No other entity has gained anything that could be used against us.

This information was leaked to expose the reality taking place behind closed doors.

Maybe he could be charged legally for breaking confidentiality, but traitor?
Spare me the drama.

tailgater wrote:

So you're saying people don't like being spied on by a black president but it is fine from a white president? You gonna go with that?

HockeyDad wrote:

The DEMS went at the GOP too. It's the same song different day.

teedubbya wrote:

😟

DrafterX wrote: