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Originally Posted by Seaver
Calm exterior? You called the President a MF in your title.
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Seaver......how would you describe a president who purposefully msleads the public by attempting to instill fear that the expiration of the PAA would pose a grave threat to national security?
Reported in the Bush-friendly, conservative Washington Times:
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Many intelligence scholars and analysts outside the government say that today's expiration of certain temporary domestic wiretapping laws will have little effect on national security, despite warnings to the contrary by the White House and Capitol Hill Republican leaders.
With the Protect America Act expiring this weekend, domestic wiretapping rules will revert to the 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which requires the government to obtain a warrant from a special court to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance in the United States.
The original FISA law, these experts say, provides the necessary tools for the intelligence community to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists.
Timothy Lee, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, said the last time Congress overhauled FISA — after the September 11 terrorist attacks — President Bush praised the action, saying the new law "recognizes the realities and dangers posed by the modern terrorist." (my editorial comment: at the same time as he was authorizing warrantless wiretaps outside of FISA)
"Those are the rules we'll be living under after the Protect America Act expires this weekend," Mr. Lee added. "There's no reason to think our nation will be in any more danger in 2008 than it was in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/artic...847451166/1002
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Oddly I don't think we will see a multi page quoted rant about Bush's recent reception in Africa.
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Maybe he went for a geography lession.
How about these quotes:
Bush in 2001:"We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease."
Then later: "Africa is definitely not a nation," "It's at least five nations. And Liberia, too."