Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Journalist's phone records used in investigations.

shakran · 05-17-2006, 06:42 AM

1) It's a nebulous war in which, btw, the commander in chief has declared "major combat operations" to be over. By your argument as long as we keep up the "war on terror" charade, the government has extraordinarilly expanded powers. What incentive do they have to end the war? Ever?

2) the article says nothing about leaks that directly effect the operations of the war. These leaks are often about policy, not procedure or tactics.

3) To give one agency the power to investigate and subpoena is far too much power in the hands of one agency. We're allowing them to be the investigators AND the judge. There's a reason checks and balances exist, and it's to prevent abuses by government that are made possible with events such as this.

05-17-2006, 06:42 AM	#40 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	1) It's a nebulous war in which, btw, the commander in chief has declared "major combat operations" to be over. By your argument as long as we keep up the "war on terror" charade, the government has extraordinarilly expanded powers. What incentive do they have to end the war? Ever? 2) the article says nothing about leaks that directly effect the operations of the war. These leaks are often about policy, not procedure or tactics. 3) To give one agency the power to investigate and subpoena is far too much power in the hands of one agency. We're allowing them to be the investigators AND the judge. There's a reason checks and balances exist, and it's to prevent abuses by government that are made possible with events such as this.