Sunday, December 18, 2005
Our Dear Embattled Leader carries on the Soviet tradition.
Despite all their rhetoric during the Cold War, it seems that the Republicans very much admired Soviet style government. How else can you explain the disclosures of the last three months, as the WaPo reports.
It's time for impeachment, folks. This is way bigger than a blowjob.
In his four-year campaign against al Qaeda, President Bush has turned the U.S. national security apparatus inward to secretly collect information on American citizens on a scale unmatched since the intelligence reforms of the 1970s.The NSA revelations are most troubling as the actions of ODEL were absolutely unnecessary. As Josh Marshall has shown, the mechanism for doing what ODEL authorized was inplace and functioning smoothly during this time. The arrogance of His Holiness George II is amazing. Even when he has the necessary laws in his favor, he chose to violate them.
The president's emphatic defense yesterday of warrantless eavesdropping on U.S. citizens and residents marked the third time in as many months that the White House has been obliged to defend a departure from previous restraints on domestic surveillance. In each case, the Bush administration concealed the program's dimensions or existence from the public and from most members of Congress.
Since October, news accounts have disclosed a burgeoning Pentagon campaign for "detecting, identifying and engaging" internal enemies that included a database with information on peace protesters. A debate has roiled over the FBI's use of national security letters to obtain secret access to the personal records of tens of thousands of Americans. And now come revelations of the National Security Agency's interception of telephone calls and e-mails from the United States -- without notice to the federal court that has held jurisdiction over domestic spying since 1978.
It's time for impeachment, folks. This is way bigger than a blowjob.
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