REPORT: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) – Chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee
REPORT: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) – Chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee
Yesterday, the Senate Intelligence Committee led by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) voted to block an investigation into the NSA’s warrantless domestic spying program and made a deal with the White House to produce legislation allowing “wiretapping without warrants for up to 45 days.” Ranking Member Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) called the move “proof that the White House controls the Intelligence Committee.”
This isn’t the first time Pat Roberts has covered up for the Bush administration. Far from it.
Pat Roberts has been instrumental in the cover-up of virtually every national security scandal of George W. Bush’s presidency. ThinkProgress has produced a comprehensive report showing how Roberts and his Senate Cover-up Committee have obstructed investigations into everything from false Iraq intelligence to detainee torture to the CIA leak scandal.
Check it out HERE.
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Lol…I love that pic. that is great.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:24 pmWhy is it the the square states mess it up for everybody?
March 8th, 2006 at 1:28 pmRoberts is an product of narrow minded, simpleton, ingnorant, donkey talkin’, fear loving, bigot, hateful, state like Kansas. “Civil liberties would nean a lot more if you were dead Mr. Roberts”
March 8th, 2006 at 1:31 pmAs I have stated earlier, it’s time to take this crap to the streets. Legislatures aren’t going to do anything but cover up for these criminals.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:32 pmLet’s just call this the Abu Ghraib trickle-down effect.
Coming to a Blue-State Halliburton Relocation Center near you.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=11466500&src=rss/politicsNews
-GSD
March 8th, 2006 at 1:39 pmGlen Greenwald has another excellent post on this:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/
The only way for this to capture the soft middle third’s imagination is to show direct impact upon their lives. More stories, like the retired couple investigated by the Administration for paying off credit card debt, need to come to light.
The real loss for us is the DP World deal. This was a nuclear device stuck up the GOP ass ticking down to November. Funny how the house “grew balls” on the same day the senate was castrated. Possible link?
March 8th, 2006 at 1:40 pmHere’s a funny quote by Sen Roberts, although I’m pretty sure he wasn’t trying to be funny:
“We should fight the enemy. We should not fight each other.”
That picture begs for a Caption Contest.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:41 pmCaption Contest:
Notice how when I pull the string on Bush’s back he says something stupid.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:43 pmI Hate This Country!!!
March 8th, 2006 at 1:44 pmVance
Hate the GOP and their enablers, not the country. We can be a great country again.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pmstuff like this is what makes us all wonder why Sen Reid couldn’t use this to just up and leave. Without a quorum, the republithugs couldn’t do anything.
i realize the Dem’s can’t really do anything till they break that 50 vote barrier, but still, grow some huevos!
March 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pmI betcha Roberts is goosing GW in that picture.
And I think W likes it.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:46 pmWhy does that photo remind me of a marionette and a creepy side show barker?
Z.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:47 pmThe GOP trolls seem to have been quiet the past few days. Maybe they stopped drinking the kool-aid and the brainwashing is wearing off.
I expect them all to come and apologize in the near future.
And then I expect monkeys to fly out of my butt.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:50 pmWe know all this crap.
When are the Senate Dems gonna do their jobs?
March 8th, 2006 at 1:51 pm“stuff like this is what makes us all wonder why Sen Reid couldn’t use this to just up and leave. Without a quorum, the republithugs couldn’t do anything.” –kindness
HILARIOUS. Just wait until after they STEAL the Fall Midterms, see how many Dems are willing to take you up on your NAIVE suggestion.
‘Without a quorum” they will somehow muddle on without a quorum.
When the ‘leftosphere’ is busy bleating about how the Dems are Evil Too, they ignore the fact that Constitutional government ONLY exists at this point because of the Dems. They are taking a series of Bad Votes, to your tomatoes, and keeping OUR hand in the game.
That IS the game. It’s a kind of capitulation, but it isn’t complicity.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:53 pm“When are the Senate Dems gonna do their jobs?” –Flamethrower
Maybe after the US-registered ANTHRAX runs out. Or perfectly good airplanes stop crashing with US Senators and their entire families inside.
What have YOU ever done for America???
YOUR job, at this point, is to fight within the state you live in for your/our VOTING RIGHTS.
Are you doing that? Or are you too busy counting up how many tomatoes you have left?
March 8th, 2006 at 1:56 pmKindness
I agree that Reid should shut down the Senate over this. But it would be helpful if tangible rights violations of ordinary Americans come to light.
March 8th, 2006 at 1:58 pmi pity roberts, i really do. what a sad, sad man.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:00 pmYeah and when will we get that phase 2 report into the intelligence failures on Iraq? That two weeks sure is getting long. Time for Harry Reid to close Senate again.
Jamie
March 8th, 2006 at 2:06 pmhttp://www.intoxination.net
Sen. Pat Roberts is a closet homosexual and they have pictures of him and this is why he is just a puppet. Hopefully this factual statment will not be considered defamatory under the terms of use here.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:07 pmHey Pat, cover this up, too (found at democraticunderground.com):
Elizabeth Dole sends out GOP fundraising letter disguised to look like federal tax form, “requires” you to respond “or else”
March 8th, 2006 at 2:13 pmParty before country, politics before policy, Bush uber alles. What the F@#$ is the matter with Kansas? They keep electing a lying enabler of the worst sort.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:14 pm45 days? Um, wouldn’t gw STILL be breaking the law even with that length of time?
March 8th, 2006 at 2:14 pm20- Yeah, that Phase II report should be out any time now. I’d put the over/under around, oh, let’s say never.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:15 pmI’m ashamed to have ever been associated with this totally corrupt and habitual law breaking right wing party. Never again!
March 8th, 2006 at 2:19 pmSo what does the White House have on Roberts? It appears that Roberts has some serious skeletons in his closet to bow down to such an incompetent administration. Somebody needs to investigate Roberts and find out his sordid past
March 8th, 2006 at 2:19 pm25- Republicans would never admit to being two phased.
Goper’s Lament
March 8th, 2006 at 2:22 pmI don’t understand enough about administrative checks and balances in America, can someone please educate me, is there a judicial or other body in America who has the authority to investigate these activities?
March 8th, 2006 at 2:23 pmWhat do we do now? Our Constitution is useless now
March 8th, 2006 at 2:30 pm#29….
Nope. That’s Congress’ job. And they aren’t doing it.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:31 pmComment by British Gary — March 8, 2006 @ 2:23 pm
The system was designed for the branches of government to place the good of the nation over party politics when it comes to oversight. Unfortunately, the US is in the last throes of democracy and the Republican party is behaving much like the old Soviet Union where the leader simply told the peoples’ deputies what to do and how to vote and they nodded in agreement and ratified whatever was asked of them.
Unless some patriotic Republicans actually decide that the good of the nation is more important than lockstep obediance to Bush and Rove, we may be playing taps to the 200 something year old representative democracy that was the US of A.
-GSD
March 8th, 2006 at 2:32 pmPaul in LA: I’m working my ass off, motherfucker.
These guys need to get their heads out of their asses and quit playing games. We’re playing tiddly-winks, RoveCo is fighting to kil the Dem Party.
I figured it out. They haven’t.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:34 pmProof that Democrats are totally irrelevant is more like it.
Roberts did you a favor – the NSA spying was a winning issue for the GOP because it exposed Democrats as the terrorist sympathizers they are. ABC’s poll showed the opposition was partisan at best, wrong on terror at worst.
Besides Durbin and Rockefeller are under investigation themselves. They will be pinned as the leakers and run through the mud just in time for November’s election.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:35 pmGary,
It’s all in the constitution…
There are three branches of Government…
The Legislative (Congress)
The Executive (President)
and the Judicial (Supreme Court)
Congress make the laws, the supreme court decides if they are constitutional and the executive run the country and obey the laws…
Congress and the courts are supposed to oversee the executive…
Of course it doesn’t seem to work that way.
Adam
March 8th, 2006 at 2:38 pmWe’ve got to get the Senate back and get those varmits out of the Committee chairmanships. The problem with this issue is that most Americans don’t think they are being spied on. Of course they don’t have any way of knowing because only Roberts and a few others know the extent of the program.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:38 pm[...] Yesterday, the Senate Intelligence Committee led by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) voted to block an investigation into the NSA’s warrantless domestic spying program and made a deal with the White House to produce legislation allowing “wiretapping without warrants for up to 45 days.†[...]
March 8th, 2006 at 2:39 pmI guess if your the dictator, excuse me, the President, then you’re above the law and if the law doesn’t work for you, then you just have them change the law. Ignoring all the while, that you BROKE the law in the first place.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:39 pm#36
March 8th, 2006 at 2:44 pmThe problem with you and the rest of the libs is that you think this is some huge government cover up like watergate and you have done your best to impeach Bush with it. The program was not tapping domestic calls idiot, it listening to international calls to persons associated with Al Qaeda, the enemy in case you don’t know. This scandal is far from over, however, the “whistleblowers” will have to answer and will pay a price. It’ll be nice to see a few dems sqirm for a change.
Don’t be too hard on Kansas, which produced both a Republican with integrity in Nancy Katzenbaum and a strong Democratic governor in Kathleen Sebelius. Every state has it’s share of wackos, from Pataki in N.Y. to Schwarzenegger (and worse) in Cal. What’s the matter with Kansas, as the book goes, is what’s the matter throughout the USA — averqage voters easily distracted by the political three-card monte being pulled by the GOP and its MSM lackeys.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:45 pmAs Glenn Greenwald commiserates with appropriate vitriol and razor precision, this outcome of the Senate Intelligence Committee, despite our commonsense-defying and desperate hopes, was inevitable. What manner of coercion, threats, entreaties, bribes, admonishments, and heaping mendacity must the Bush Administration employ to keep its jackboot on the face of Congress? After all, they have the NSA, the FBI, and whatever other manner of black-ops available within their purview to dig up or manufacture evidence that puts the metaphorical gun to the head of anyone who would resist absolute compliance – all within a prescribed daedal ruse – to the grand scheme.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:47 pmProof that Democrats are totally irrelevant is more like it.
Troll spotting!
Roberts did you a favor – the NSA spying was a winning issue for the GOP because it exposed Democrats as the terrorist sympathizers they are.
Man, that’s stupid. Yea. Democrats WANT to be attacked. That’s it. We like seeing our family, friends, and countrymen killed. What an assinine comment.
ABC’s poll showed the opposition was partisan at best, wrong on terror at worst.
Dude. Bush broke the law. The end. We want to be tough on terror, but we’d like to follow the law. Going above the law just cause you think it’s best for everyone doesn’t change the fact that you broke the law. We are a nation of LAWS, not a nation of men. Bush and friends have forgotten that.
Besides Durbin and Rockefeller are under investigation themselves.
For…. what? Well, I guess if you don’t have anything on the Dems, it’s time to just make stuff up, right?
They will be pinned as the leakers and run through the mud just in time for November’s election.
No, you’re confused. The Vice President, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff, and the President’s top advisor are all leakers. They actually leaked classified info.
Silly, Kool-Aid drinker.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:48 pmNewNonNeoCon:
You are enaging in mere conjecture. You have absolutely no idea who is being subject to warrantless surveillance. The lack of oversight is what all the fuss is about. If it’s merely known al-Qaeda operatives that are being targeted, I doubt if any reasonable American … liberals included … would have a serious problem with it (although seeking retroactive warrants under the FISA law is the legal way to go about it). Fact is, though, we don’t know with any reasonable degree of certainty who is being spied on, since there’s no check on the system. And, no, we don’t trust the Bush Administration since, time after time, it has proven itself wholly untrustworthy.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:49 pmDoes this mean that they can monitor anyone they want for 44 days, and if they don’t find anything by then, discontinue the monitoring for a day or two, and then start all over again with a fresh clock?
Oh yeah – Tour De Farce you an Idiot!
I won’t bother arguing with you. Too pointless! But it does make me feel good to call you names… YOU NOT SO VERY SMART PERSON!
Wow – I feel better already!
March 8th, 2006 at 2:50 pm#32 GSD, I think the moderate republicans didn’t realise they were getting caught up in the neoconservative agenda until it was too late. I think it is they, not the Democrats who will now determine the future of America. Rove is coercing them, it seems to me unless they defect to the Dem party or collectively denounce the neoconservative agenda, your fears (which I share) will be realised.
The more neocons are in power, the more it seems likely America will dominate the world through fear. All progressives know where this is going to lead. Is anyone working with moderate republicans to garner their support and allow them to save face?
March 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pm[…] and made a deal with the White House to produce legislation allowing “wiretapping without warrants for up to 45 days.†[…]
Not only is this proof that the Whitehouse controls the Intelligence Committee, it’s proof that the Intelligence Committee knows Bush broke the law. I mean, come on! What’s the need of introducing legislation to make warrantless wiretapping legal if you thinks it’s already is? Introducing a bill that makes warrantless wiretapping legal is a clear admission that it IS ILLEGAL NOW!
So, remind me again, why is there no Intelligence Committee investigation into Bush’s illegal and continued use of warrantless wiretaps?
March 8th, 2006 at 2:53 pmKansas use to be a fairly middle-of-the-road state and as a Congressman, Roberts was pretty moderate. But Kansas has taken a sharp turn to the right as evidenced by the election of that right-wing wacko Brownback and the morphing of Roberts. Now Kansas is one of about 6 states that gives Shrub an approval above 50%.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:54 pmTake it to the streets, people! The Bushite Cartel has it all locked up; the courts, the congress, the vote and enough illegal spy info and/or payoffs to keep alot of folks ‘in line’ or their mouths shut…all the while ignoring portions of the Constitution which would limit their actions. A government for and by the people…time to march enmasse to Washington. A million voices cannot be silenced.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:54 pmThese are frightening and dangerous times. This country is going down the road of Nazi Germany and there doesn’t seem there’s anyone that has the courage to stop it.
The liberals need to organize a groundswell if there is to be any hope.
By the time we can smell the acrid smoke of burning flesh from the smoke stacks of the “detainee camps” Haliburton is helping to build, it will be way too late. If it isn’t already.
March 8th, 2006 at 2:57 pmIs anyone working with moderate republicans to garner their support and allow them to save face?
Comment by British Gary
No that would require a leader with a soul, humility, and vision.
America does not make those any more. We can have fake ones on ‘reality’ shows and pretend everything is ok.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:02 pmpat roberts, pat robertson…what’s the difference?…none.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:08 pm‘it’s not against the law,if bush does it’..hello impeachment.
[...] More on Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Coverup Committee HERE. [...]
March 8th, 2006 at 3:10 pmComment by British Gary — March 8, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
The US has dashed our international credibility in a very short 5 years.
We are also pushing our military to a stretching point and we will be facing a Dien Bien Phu moment in the middle east unless we start removing troops soon.
All imperial powers fail one way or another. We will not buck that historical trend.
Look at Iran…they are not afraid of us. Even though the Bush/Neoconartist strategy was to use the Iraq incursion to intimidate all the regional powers…Iran just said: “Bring ‘em on.”
There is a coming disaster, that is what Murtha is warning about.
-GSD
March 8th, 2006 at 3:10 pmTour De Farce – How is it possible that you can believe a man that says that he will do anything, including breaking the law and taking away your civil liberties, to protect you – but then he turns around and does almost nothing about port and border security?
If his main concern really was security- wouldn’t you think that he would address these two other areas?
And since he has not – doesn’t it seem inappropriate to believe that security is his real motivation?
Come on Man – WAKE UP!
March 8th, 2006 at 3:10 pm#42
March 8th, 2006 at 3:12 pmSo you weren’t upset with project Echelon under Bill Clinton, which randomly trolled U.S. telecommunications looking for trouble? These were millions and millions of domestic taps without a court order. And we could trust Clinton?
What “moderate” republicans?
Olympia Snow was all over getting this agreement.
You must be thinking of Diane Feinstein.
only a few troll statements. poor bois, no one want to play with you… I don’t pity your sorry asses.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:14 pm54 – you are a liar sir.
site sources or shut the hell up.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:16 pmhey tour de fart, could you give a link providing more info on rockefeller and durbin being investigated?
March 8th, 2006 at 3:17 pmOne cannot help but be reminded of that reaction as the Bush administration proceeds in its relentless assault on the foundations of our democratic system. We all (and no one more so than the Washington media) have an investment in the idea that “the system†is virtually immune from harm. The rule of law prevails, the institutions of the republic are immovable, and no matter who holds power at a particular moment, no official or administration can really harm the fundamental underpinnings of the world’s oldest democracy.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/03/08/unitary_executive_or_autocracy.php
March 8th, 2006 at 3:17 pm#56
You certainly are not kind.
Here is the article from the American Thinker about a 1999 NYT story:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5150&search=CLINTON
March 8th, 2006 at 3:21 pmNew NonNonNeoCon
What does Clinton have to do with anything at this point?
March 8th, 2006 at 3:23 pm#57
Here you go:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/23/131312.shtml
March 8th, 2006 at 3:25 pmLearn the truth about what NewNonNewCon is pushing about Clinton and Echelon here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/the-echelon-myth/
March 8th, 2006 at 3:26 pmAs TP’s Judd points, “The Clinton administration program, code-named Echelon, complied with FISA. Before any conversations of U.S. persons were targeted, a FISA warrant was obtained.”
March 8th, 2006 at 3:27 pm#64 deleted
March 8th, 2006 at 3:27 pmNew NEoCOnMan,
I knew about Clinton’s echelon, I was worried at the time about that. But I trusted Clinton with the program, I didn’t necessarily trust the people who actually worked the program.
The issue is trust. If this administration appeared competent and trustworthy, I would be less suspicious of the intentions and uses of the warrentless survaillance program. When I have not seen anything of competence and any reason to trust these guys, I am going to question and overreact, and jump into the moonbat feverswamp on everything they do.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pmYou neocons ought to get down on your hands and knees and thank your pretend God every night for bringing you Clinton.
If not for him you might actually have to start looking critically at your own actions.
Even the most brain-dead among you might be having a tough time by now believing that all the woes of the world were Carters fault.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:30 pmThanks Payson,
Glad you are not getting tired of informing people of the same fundamental facts over and over. Clinton got a warrant.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:32 pmGosh Smedly – Sounds like somebody needs a nap!
March 8th, 2006 at 3:32 pmClinton was spying on his enemies at will, including millions of Americans, domestically and during peacetime for his own gain. Bush is spying only on international phone calls to our enemy, during a time of war and trying to protect us from another attack like 9/11. See the difference? But, again, you don’t care. What matters to you is only political gain. I thought we all cared about national security, but I guess only some of us do.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:34 pm#64 deleted
Comment by Admin
Common Admin – Poor Smedly didn’t mean no harm. Garrrsh!
March 8th, 2006 at 3:35 pmNewNonMan
I don’t think there is anyway for you to know who Clinton spied on, who Bush is spying on, to what extents, and what the intelligence was used for. You are just acting like a dope. You should be thankful for Clinton, or who would you blame your problems on.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:38 pmthanks for the link to the highly credible, completely nonbiased newsmax site; perhaps you could get me a link to some of senator roberts’ diary entries as well. seriously, am i supposed to get my news from a site that gives away a free ‘how jimmy carter was the worst president ever’ book with every subscription? i think i understand what the farce is now.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:41 pmIt takes 45 days to give Bush a proper reach-around.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:41 pm#54 I trust Clinton…and? I love Clinton and Carter and you are just jealous that you have no idols other than dead Reagan.
Clinton ROCKS!! Ironically, Clinton was a better republican than your brand of uber zealots.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:41 pm69 – click the link on 62. This was something judd published in December. Frankly you are wasting your time, which I could care less about, but you are wasting my time and Judds resources.
Go create your own blog so everyone can ignore you fully.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:42 pmI don’t understand why the courts don’t realize that even if Congress passes a law that allows wiretaps without a warrant that this law would be inconstitutional.
No matter how you look at it, it is.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:43 pmI just love how after 6 years everything for the republican party comes back to Clinton. They hate him so much because he was so effective!
If that does not work, swiftboat them.
March 8th, 2006 at 3:57 pmThis deal is an abomination and an affront on our constitutional liberties.
I am ashamed that this government of Republicans represent us.
March 8th, 2006 at 4:00 pmOK let me preface this by saying I don’t support the use of violence to carry out social & political change.
Others aren’t so nice though. Makes me wonder if the whole point is to create such an abomonation here in the US that a violent upheaval actually happens. The conspiracy theorist in me (he’s one of my smaller, easier to control demons) says they’re doing this on purpose just for this scenerio so they can declare marshal law.
The righties here will undoubtably gloat and say, bring it on. Don’t be too sure, trools. Libertarians are on our side on this one. And we libs, well, we believe in gun control, but many of ‘em also believe in gun ownership too. It’d be ugly no matter what.
March 8th, 2006 at 4:09 pmI just love how after 6 years everything for the republican party comes back to Clinton. They hate him so much because he was so effective!
Sad, isn’t it?
Bush is spying only on international phone calls to our enemy, during a time of war and trying to protect us from another attack like 9/11.
I’ll use your logic on you, Neo. And you trust Bush is telling you the truth? With all the lies, half-truths, and exaggerations, what has he possibly done to garner your trust?
Neo-conservatives are giving GW a blank check to do whatever he wants. Blind faith is a dangerous thing.
March 8th, 2006 at 4:11 pmsorry Admin .. I must apologize for my stupid comment … Its just everytime i see a picture of Bush I stare in his eyes and tell him how crazy he is and how I hope he has a rotten nights sleep and 91% of the worlds population hate him……
I think its called trancendental meditation im sure if we all follow suit he will eventually have a heart attack
March 8th, 2006 at 4:34 pm#69 – I’m rehashing what others have already addressed here but, I have to respond to your stupidity:
Project Echelon was approved by the FULL Intelligence and Judicial Committees of both houses of Congress and by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before any surveillance was initiated. That’s not to say that I (and many others) didn’t take issue with it. President Clinton at least followed the law though. President Bush, in circumventing and subverting FISA (which states unequivocally that it is the only controlling statute regarding domestic spying), broke the law. That is the real difference here. I would like you to answer the following questions for me though:
1.) How do you know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the President’s program is only monitoring people with ties to terrorism? (I would appreciate it if you would provide links or some tangible proof)
2.) History shows that FISA has been, essentially, a rubber stamp when cause is shown. The FISA court declined only 4 warrant requests of ~20,000 in its first 25 years of operation. If the President’s program was ONLY monitoring people with verifiable ties to terrorism, why was it necessary for the Administration to circumvent FISA (particularly when they have utilized FISA to a far greater degree than any other administration since FISA’s inception)?
3.) Since you are so adamant about preventing terrorism (which, I may add, is a goal shared by EVERYONE here), would you have a problem if the police entered your home and required you to present them with a catalog of Every phone call you’ve made over the last year and a catalog of All firearms you own?
You neocons are fools and cowards! Far more people die from the common cold every year in this country than die as a result of a terrorist attack. If you are willing to give up to your civil liberties because you are so fucking afraid of this boogyman that your alleged leaders have created that you can’t function, move to North Korea or Iran (they share your ideology regarding the state taking care of the people). Regardless, I am not willing to sacrifice 1 iota of my civil liberties because you are a coward! If you honestly believe that the President should be able to break the law with impunity because he is allegedly protecting us (remember how well he protected us on 9/11/01) from something that poses less of a threat to our daily lives than toenail fungus, turn in your passport for shredding and get the fuck out of my country you fascist!
March 8th, 2006 at 4:34 pmRoberts will ALWAYS give Bush what he wants. He will sell out the nation for politics — what does Bush have on him?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:38 pmThey are all corrupt — why is Roberts so afraid to press Bush.
Roberts will ALWAYS give Bush what he wants. He will sell out the nation for politics — what does Bush have on him?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:38 pmThey are all corrupt — why is Roberts so afraid to press Bush.
How’d that happen?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:38 pmI’m looking at the picture. Where exactly is Sen. Robert’s other hand?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:51 pmSenator Roberts is a unprincipled, partisan, political hack. Who was he talking about when he wrote:
Are we to have standards for the President different from standards applied to other citizens? Americans long ago rejected the imperial presidency. The President is not above the law. He is not a king.
In arriving at the conclusion this President should be removed from office I weighed whether his actions damaged the national security of the United States. Again, I concluded that the President, by his actions, has severely damaged his ability to act as a leader in the community of world nations at a time when solid leadership is needed.
This President has lost respect of our allies. His actions have emboldened our potential enemies, creating opportunities for them to act adversely to U.S. interests. Our foreign policy is adrift. The consequences to this generation and future generations are severe.
I am convinced that this President has used foreign policy and the power of his office for his own purposes in an effort to divert attention from the legal and personal problems he created.
Each time the President has acted, charges of “wag the dog” have reverberated around the globe. Whether those charges are true or false is no longer material. What is material is that the President of the United States is not credible. He is not trusted. He cannot act in the best interest of America.
He has lost the moral mantle of leadership.
He has selfishly placed this nation in jeopardy.
It is precisely this kind of situation, I am convinced, that worried America’s founding fathers as they devised the impeachment mechanism to remove a sitting president whose actions endangered the republic.
Senator Pat Roberts (Republican HYPOCRITE – Kansas)
Voting Record — Impeachment Trial of William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton
http://www.ameriroots.com/ impeac…or_roberts.html
- Do Elephants remember?
March 8th, 2006 at 4:52 pmThe beginning of the end of the american empire – The laughing stock of the world
March 8th, 2006 at 5:02 pmCouldn’t the dems just fillibuster the legislatuion allowing illegal wiretapping.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:30 pm#54
Nice try at a red herring argument. IF Clinton were spying on Americans without complying with the FISA law, then it was equally wrong. There, does that make you happy? Is it your contention that what Clinton may or may have not done justifies anything which Bush decides to do? I thought neocons considered Clinton was corrupt and immoral, so I’ve never understood the idea of applying the Clinton Litmus Test to Bush.
Back to my original point: you have no earthly idea how warrantless wiretaps are being employed or who is being targeted because of a lack of oversight, hence you have not proven that they are only being used to target al-Qaeda operatives. You want to get down to addressing this issue rather than engaging in fits of fallacy?
March 8th, 2006 at 5:43 pmAnd so, with the help of toadies like Senator Pat Roberts, the greatest experiment in freedom and democracy advances once more step toward burning the Reichstag.
Soon, the corporations will burn the Constitution, imprison their enemies, declare “perpetual war for perpetual peace,” appoint Dubya Chancellor, and corporate iron rule will descend upon America. We have become Nazi Germany. And there will be no one left to free the world, this time.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:44 pmWhen the dittoheads of Kansas elect Bush lapdogs like Pat Roberts into office, it’s no wonder they’re putting a bunch of medieval claptrap into their schools, and determined to march backward into the middle ages.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:12 pmBush is the anti-Christ. These people are all just plain evil, each and every one of them. If this country doesn’t fix what’s going on in the 2006 and 2008 elections, the United States will be finished.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:36 pmTo be fair, Roberts would have not covered up for Bush if the other Republicans were not supporting Roberts. Roberts is the poster boy, but the blame belongs to the GOP.
March 8th, 2006 at 7:19 pmwhatever happened with phase 2 of the iraq report? the one that senator reid moved the senate into a closed session to force the issue? the one where roberts said was coming out in a few days?
March 8th, 2006 at 7:30 pmGee, you’d think Pat Roberts would be so busy
March 8th, 2006 at 7:56 pmsucking Bush’s dick, he wouldn’t have time for
anything else.
“I would only point out that you really don’t have any civil liberties if you’re dead,†Roberts said at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
This comment keeps popping up and it really disgusts me.
There were 56 people in Philadelphia some 230 years ago who found civil liberties to be worth “…our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Names like Hancock, Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson. Meanwhile Washington was giving action to the words.
Patriotism, pshaw. Roberts and party are TORIES!
March 8th, 2006 at 8:48 pmnewcon
If, indeed, the wiretapping was done only on Al Qaeda suspects it would have been simple to get the 72 hour retroactive warrants – right? How many arrests were made from these taps? Who was tapped? No one knows, not even the FISA judges.
March 8th, 2006 at 9:13 pmOn the issue of warrantless surveillance, it’s time to consider impeachment, JABBS argues. All Americans should be outraged that Republicans place party before country, choosing to legalize an illegal program through legislation.
Legislation may make sense going forward, but it does not deal with the nearly four years of illegal activity by this administration.
If Democrats can’t make this a central issue for all Americans, they don’t deserve to take back Congress.
March 8th, 2006 at 10:40 pmRoberts entire political career has been dedicated to covering things up! He is one of the reasons that Senators in general are considered corrupt and stupid! He must resign!!!
March 9th, 2006 at 1:14 amGiven the Senator’s track record, the only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this. No need to consult the “Magic Eightball”. “Rule of Law”, my arse !!!
March 9th, 2006 at 8:03 amWhat state is Roberts from? He needs to be voted out of office.
March 9th, 2006 at 9:31 amNo surprise here.
In other news: DeLay won his primary. Were there any doubts?
This just in: teacher suspended for saying some people compare Bush to Hitler.
“You don’t have any civil liberties if you’re dead.” Hmmm…could there be a purge coming? After all, what self-respecting dictator hasn’t stayed in power without killing thousands, if not millions, of political dissidents? Hitler, yup. Stalin, yup. Hussein, yup.
Soon thoughtcrime will be punishible by death.
And the smiling clerk behind the counter repeats mindlessly, “Have a nice day.”
March 9th, 2006 at 9:52 amRoberts is the single person who is keeping Bush from being impeached… he’s got the president’s back, but who’s got his???
http://blogdebogs.blogspot.com/2006/03/american-dictatorship-down-pat.html
March 9th, 2006 at 12:08 pmA submission for the “Caption Contest”: “I think I just pooped my pants… where’s Condi?”
March 9th, 2006 at 12:20 pmAbramoff appears to be Bush’s/Republican’s “top money theif”, hence they sent him all over the place to “scoup up the money”! You also need a collection of others who can help you spin away possible problems and one of those appears to be Sen Pat Roberts. Maybe he’s the top dog for spining? Of course this doesn’t happen without greasing a few palms here and there!! So maybe a good idea would be to “probe” Pat Roberts” and “find his money”?
I might know a few places to start…. try looking into a mammoth sized Corruption Laundromat named :
Mandarin Oriental Group
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/hotel/520000016.asp
It’s owned by:
Look Who’s Talking
http://www.modernagent.com/x/modernagent/visitor/resources/editorial.cds?n=6039
I was in a family for more than 26 years who joined Organized Crime. This wasn’t any ordinary Crime system and is considered the Worlds Largest Crimal System, that extends beyond our shores. I know from being in the family that The Marndarin Group is actually the Worlds Largest Coruption Laundromat. It’s also has MOB ties and if you don’t believe me, try checking it out and see who the investors are. I would recommend that you first fasten your seat belt first!
March 9th, 2006 at 2:09 pmAre all Kansans cowards like their Senator Pat Roberts?
March 11th, 2006 at 7:24 amThank you, for pointing out the hypocricies of Roberts. These transgressions should trancend partisanship.
I cannot begin to properly villify Roberts for his being one of the Nine Senators of Shame who voted against the McCain anti-torture on October 5, 2005.
Then there is also his adamant defense of tyrannical acts perpetrateed upon America by the current Administration.
Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, Public Presentment of Indictment, Warrants obtained via sworn testimony in court, Public Trials, the Ability to Challenge Prosecutorial Witnesses and Evidence, and the Ability to obtain witnesses and evidence for defense, are natural rights that a legitimate government cannot infringe upon, and yes this does include “criminal combatants“.
Even the Devil himself deserves due-process of law in an American courtroom before he is hanged.
The Dreamtime America is Dissipating.
Without it, we are lost.
March 14th, 2006 at 6:59 am