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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Here is my bottom line:
1) What was done was done. The best we can do going forward, in my opinion, is to make sure the President and Congress work together to make sure we have a system in place that accomplishes the goals on both sides of the issue.
2) On the issue of immunity - We will not be served if through litigation certain things related to this are made public. For example: If you have a neighbor (US citizen in the USA) who was innocently, in regular contact by phone with a known terrorist overseas and the administration tracked that activity but took no action - what happens if that is made public? How are we going to benefit? What is going to happen to your neighbor? In my view nobody wins, telecoms spend millions in defense costs, we are not made safer, and your neighbor's life may be ruined. Congress needs to put this issue to rest.
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Thats cool....we clearly have different bottom lines.
It is evident by the fact that you have stated on several occasions that if you were president, you would willfully violate the law and your oath of office and spy on American citizens without a warrant or shred White House documents if you thought you knew better than Congress and the Judiciary or if you could get away with it. I would not.
(I have visions of the Ace Administration....the resurrection of J Edgar Hoover or channeling Nixon or perhaps a kitchen cabinet of Bush/Chaney as advisers on how to circumvent the laws of the land).