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Friday, December 16, 2005

Revelations

Posted by on December 16 at 10:42 AM

Yesterday I posted a link to a recent poll that found 32 percent of Americans now favoring the impeachment of President Bush.

If they needed something else to add to their articles of impeachment, there’s this: Today the New York Times reveals, in what could turn out to be a huge story, that Bush secretely authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Thanks to revelations of similar spying programs in the 1970s, it is now very illegal for any government agency to spy on Americans, as The Washington Post points out today:

Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the secret order may amount to the president authorizing criminal activity. The law governing clandestine surveillance in the United States, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, prohibits conducting electronic surveillance not authorized by statute…

“This is as shocking a revelation as we have ever seen from the Bush administration,” said Martin, who has been sharply critical of the administration’s surveillance and detention policies. “It is, I believe, the first time a president has authorized government agencies to violate a specific criminal prohibition and eavesdrop on Americans.

Senators from both parties have already called for hearings. But somehow, after the last five years, I’m not as shocked by all this as Ms. Martin.


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I'm guessing people won't start calling for impeachment until he starts raping babies.

Those babies had it coming, anyway. Their retreat and defeat tactics only weaken America.

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