Saturday, August 12, 2006
Soft on security, Republicans push plans for police state.
Hoping to use the British bomb plot to advance their plans, the Republicans, who are historically weak on effective defense and counter terrorism plans, are pushing for Congress to pass more un-American plots against us.
White House officials said Friday that the fallout from the discovery of the British bombing plot could help the administration advance its agenda in Congress. The officials cited in particular battles over supervising the program of eavesdropping without warrants and how to try detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba....Standard Republican tactics, pump up the fear so they can cover their asses when they break the law. But, as we have seen, they will never spend the money to do it right.
....The official said the arrests in Britain would also help the White House secure its compromise with Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, allowing a secret intelligence court to review the legality of its conducting wiretaps without warrants on Americans suspected of having ties to terrorists. Critics argued that the accord, reached after months of White House resistance to such a review, would leave such an important question in the hands of a secret court.
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