Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
And if you read the article I posted you will see that he didnt. It was no secret and congress was consulted.
Your Rush article? That oxycontin freak can't find his butt with both hands intellectually. He's going on about Lincoln and the Civil War when the nation had literally been torn in two. His articles are half truths at best, I prefer sources that contain at least some shred of intellectual honesty. Rush is an entertainer, like Stern.

Or the 2nd article? Talk about flawed logic. The author is doing a lot of twisting to try to extend the exemption, labeling citizens agents of foreign powers without ever providing proof that they are indeed agents as such. (Just trust Dubya?) Not to mention that the foreign power definition itself is quite stretched in the context, since they represent no known government and might indeed be homegrown entities. That's the reason the check step is there. So rather than having some idiot boot licking minion sign off ("Here Brownie, sign this for me") he should be getting some judicial authorization. He of course finishes with the standard GOP conservative line, that those questioning the president are aiding terrorists. I think we should be allowed to take the author out and beat him senseless...although it appears that wouldn't be much of a beating...or perhaps none.

But the best part is the defense of lack of oversight being responsible for Dubya's actions. It's always the other guy that is responsible for him abusing his powers. As with the WMD intelligence our lawmakers were not adequately or accurately informed by the Administration. Even GOP members are saying so on this one. THEY do not feel properly informed. Dubya can get away with misleading them, he's done it before. It isn't so easy when he has to do it through a judge rather than through an appendage of his party's apparatus that happens to be Congress.

Thank God for the Free Press. I feel safer knowing they are out there, rather than relying on Dubya' judgement.