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Originally Posted by powerclown
You have a mediocre sense of sarcasm. Try keeping it to yourself eh?
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I seem to have misread your last post. You wrote:
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Originally Posted by powerclown
If it isn't a game, then why did the NYTimes expose a clandestine government program aimed at those responsible for 9/11 (rhetorical question).
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Why? Because it's wrong. Domestic spying has rules to follow. If there was even an iota of reason behind tapping the phones, then they could have simply gone through FISA. What that tells me is that this doesn't have anything to do with terrorism. The FISA court is a revolving door, it almost never turns down requests to wire tap. If the government wanted to tap potential terrorists, then they could have slapped together a quick case and had permission in a matter of hours. They didn't. Not only that, but they didn't even contact the court after the surveliance. No attempt was made to get permission. This blatent disregard for checks and balances tells me one thing: they aren't spying to stop terrorism.
I'm sorry for misreading your post. I havn't slept in 33 hours (long story). I read it too fast and took it as some sort of attack about my conspiracy related questions surrounding 9/11. I apologize.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
I never said anything about loyalty to country. The leap was yours. I am talking about playing games...publishing something to get back at someone has always been a game played by the press. Thats how I see this.
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You are suggesting that the NYT places their partisan writing over the welfare of the country. To me that means disloyalty.
I personally don't care about the motives behind the publishing. The information needed to be out in the open and now it is.