Comments on: Protection, Projection, Rejection

by: Sachem

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:03:28 +0000

McConnell confirms that the FISA issue is Private Sector Liability Get a warrant.

by: joanr16

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:45:08 +0000

Jeez, better late than never, I say.

by: Doug Hughes

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:56:22 +0000

Bulworth - good point which the Democrats should be hitting HARD in all interviews. FISA is all about protecting telecoms who broke the law. One question that should be asked - how many pieces of silver did they accept to sell out their customers? Second question - WHICH customers did they sell out? Because I am not at all convinced that the spying was limited to international calls.

Kuvasz - I understand the question ‘where were you when..’ I have wondered where the students were for nearly the last 3 elections - that are now mobilizing in this election. Where was the free press (being led by the nose, like idiots) BUT - I salute the press to the new revalation - I laud the bloggrs new and old and the voters - I love young voters who are becoming active and informed. A lot of evil might have been prevented if they signed on a decade ago, but they are here now, and I won’t say anything that can’t be interpreted : WELCOME!

by: tech98

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:47:32 +0000

Send a package of Depends and a baby pacifier to Representative Ted Poe, Republican of Texas. You’d have to be a small child or a Texas Republican to fall for such crap.

by: Swami

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:26:59 +0000

the question i ask is why now is this being discussed with such breathless import?

The availability of the internet, maybe? I’m sure had the internet been around in the 1850’s we’d be actively blasting the Dred Scott decision.

by: Bulworth

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:05:26 +0000

Hindrocket must have missed McConnel’s NPR interview where he basically gave away the game, upchucking the fact that the most recent FISA dispute is all about amnesty for the telecoms. Strange forthrightness from this administration. But they’re Very Serious.

by: MNPundit

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:52:32 +0000

I can easily be convinced Bush would allow a terrorist attack he could prevent simply to score political points.

Will he? I’m worried.

by: felicity

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:38:27 +0000

Why, oh why do we have a Military Code of Justice which includes detailed rules of interrogation - no torture in other words - which no torture-happy rightie is questioning and another ‘code’ - torture to your heart’s content - which righties constantly defend as necessary? Do they realize that if some evil-doer happens to end up in the custody of the military not only will we get no info from him today, he’ll live to blow us up tomorrow? Why aren’t they shaking in their sadistic boots over that possibility?

All non-sadistic congressmen are asking is that the spooks etal be made to follow the military’s interrogation rules.

by: kuvasz

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:30 +0000

whenever was US foreign policy not “the ends justify our means?”

it is not true that this started with george bush, it has always been the command of the day. all one needs to do is look at our direct past to see it in full fledge.

the question i ask is why now is this being discussed with such breathless import? the US murdered thousands in central america in the ’80s, mined the harbors in Nicaraqua, lost the case in the world court, but i never saw anyone protesting much about it. so while it is good that finally some folk have gotten off their asses and begun to criticize such actions, they are decades late to the show, and their past silence did nothing more than enable the current crowd in washington to sneak closer to the edge.

old dan froomkin is merely a propagandist who weaves a past out of self-delusional threads.

instead of pointing his finger at those big bad guys now he ought to take the time to consider how our national silence about this in the past acted as the midwife for what we find repulsive today.

by: joanr16

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:11:18 +0000

Hmm… let’s see… checking the news for the latest suicide terror attack on American soil.

Ah, here we go. Yet another grad student, off his meds and armed to the teeth, commits mass murder on a university campus.

Straining for gnats while ignoring the camels (or however that goes); that’s the nation we’ve become. We can have all the freakin’ guns we want, since the gun will bygod solve all our problems. But freedom from government spying? No way.