McConnell again says public FISA debate will kill Americans.
McConnell again says public FISA debate will kill Americans.
In an interview with the El Paso Times last month, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell claimed that “Americans are going to die” because of the “public” debate on warrantless wiretapping. During his testimony today before the House Intelligence Committee, McConnell reiterated his morbid claim in an exchange with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA):
ESHOO: After the act passed, you claimed that because of the congressional and public debate over changes to FISA, quote, Some Americans are going to die.
MCCONNELL: Yes, ma’am, that’s right.
ESHOO: Do you really believe that because we have a public debate in the Congress of the United States about surveillance, about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that Americans are going to die?
MCCONNELL: Yes, ma’am, I do.
ESHOO: And did Americans…
MCCONNELL: They will.
ESHOO: … die because of our debate?
MCCONNELL: They will, and the reason is…
ESHOO: I think you need to explain that, not just to us, obviously. The cameras are up. That’s a heavy statement.
MCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.
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McConnell is a threat to our way of life.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:06 pmHe must have worked for Stassi.
And that reason is so secret that only certain people that are in this Reic…….I mean Administration should know about it.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:06 pmBut we trust the government, don’t we?
September 20th, 2007 at 6:08 pmWe have met the enemy . . .
McConnel is a member of the Bush Regime, so he gets paid to lie.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pmCan’t they at least come up with another excuse? This one is tired and worn out.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:10 pmApparently talking kills. And because he says so.
Remember we’re all about “just trust us” in America now.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:11 pmHoly crap!!!!!!! Reminds me of Cheney saying if you vote for democrats we’ll get attacked again.
We deserve so much better.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:14 pm“MCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.”
They should have finished the quote:
September 20th, 2007 at 6:15 pm“…And the reason it’s conducted in secret is so that you never know when we’re violating the law and the constitution. And that, of course, is the most important thing - that you never know whether or not what we’re doing is legal.”
Public discourse is unpatriotic and prohibited under rule #8 of the Fascist Declaration of Autonomy. It also violates rule #12 or “There shall be no questioning of authority as it threatens public harmony and safety.”
September 20th, 2007 at 6:21 pmMCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.
Isn’t that exactly what the Constitution protects against?
September 20th, 2007 at 6:22 pmMore proof that Naomi Wolf is correct that we are quickly becoming a fascist nation.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2007/ 09/ 20/ the-colbert-report-naomi-wolf-on-fascism-in-america/
September 20th, 2007 at 6:25 pmMcConnel reminds me of one of those types that runs around saying they know a secret, to attract attention, then when queried, reply, “I could tell you but I’d then have to kill you.”
I dont like politicians using fear to get legislation/lobbyist earmarks passed as it is dishonest, disengenous and works to remove civil rights and freedoms, the very things that our enemies, according to the reactionists, hate us for.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:25 pmThey will die, as a definitive statement. Not “they might die” or “it’s possible,” as if that isn’t ridiculous enough, but they will. How irresponsible. Kinda like that “gut feeling” thing. Scare, scare, terror, we’re all gonna die!
Repubs are the biggest scaredy cat whiney ass titty babies I’ve ever seen, and that’s why this bs works on them.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:27 pmencourage your friends in Kentucky to rid themselves of that clown - he’s an embarrassment to the Bluegrass State.
Rep. Enshoo should’ve asked Mitch to either prove it or shut up about it.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:28 pmHasn’t this man already admitted to lying to Congress? Why should we believe anything that comes out of his lying mouth?
September 20th, 2007 at 6:28 pmamericans will die if we stay in iraq.
americans will die if we dont lower the speed limit to 10 miles an hour nationwide.
americans will die if we don’t abolish our constitutional rights, which allow some criminals to escape justice by supression of evidence.
americans will die if we dont ban trans fats.
since when has “americans will die” been a valid justification for anything goes?
September 20th, 2007 at 6:31 pmFake Terror Attack ???
Bush Used A Fake Terror Attack Warning To Get FISA Bill Passed ???
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/20/11318/6103
If this is true I think, this is the next Resulution
for the Senate to condemn. After MOVEON !!!
Condemn the President !!!
September 20th, 2007 at 6:31 pmAnd Look how many Senate Republicans VOTE for it.
Isn’t that exactly what the Constitution protects against?
Comment by dlet — September 20, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
Ummm… wouldn’t it be more correct to say, “What the Constitution ONCE PROTECTED against?”
September 20th, 2007 at 6:33 pmWhy should we believe anything that comes out of his lying mouth?
Comment by TheToonGuy — September 20, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
Some of us don’t, and haven’t for going on 7 years now.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:34 pm“… Americans will die if we don’t ban trans fats.”
Comment by Chocolate Jesus — September 20, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
Whoa, Chocolate J… are trans fats Islamic?
Indeed… why do trans fats hate America so?
September 20th, 2007 at 6:36 pmencourage your friends in Kentucky to rid themselves of that clown - he’s an embarrassment to the Bluegrass State.
Comment by tombaker — September 20, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
I think you have the wrong McConnell in mind. Not that yours is a bad idea.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:38 pmCigarettes kill millions every year, lets waterboard the tar out of their lungs while eeking out confessions.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:41 pmBe afraid, be very afraid. Give me your freedoms, and I will protect you.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:43 pmRemember the terror color charts? The were visuals to keep us scared. Remember all the fright we were supposed to have because all the furriners were coming to get us? Remember Cheney basically telling everybody if you vote Dem, you will die? Well, have they been right? no they haven’t. We have all been duped by a sick bunch of cowards currently squatting in our white house. It makes me so sad to think big, strong republicans can be soooo scared of nothing. I thought the repubs were the party of John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, etc…You know big confident types. now the typical republican (if they aren’t molesting some poor kid) is hiding under their beds, clutching their pearls. Folks, the repubs are fake. They are hypocrits and cry babies. They want nothing for you - only for them and their party. History will judge them with great disappointment.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:46 pmMcConnell needs to step down because of his outright lies in claiming that further gutting the 4th Amendment-AKA the FISA “rewrite”-played any role in a terrorist plot apparently disrupted by the Germans a few weeks back
Tell W that there are no more votes on any issues McConnell has any say in until he’s replaced
And that worthless W lackey, Lieberman, needs to apologize for taking McConnell at his word with that outright lie, mocking McConnell’s opponents at the same time
September 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pm“We deserve so much better.”
Comment by hellinabucket — September 20, 2007 @ 6:14 pm
I used to think the same thing but apparently we don’t because we keep voting these same pricks in and it gets worse all the time.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pmWhat he MEANT to say that REPUBLICANS will die after the 2008 elections unless they can continue to spend the next 14 months leading up to November ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPING Democratic Congress members.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:54 pmgummitch - you’re right of course - i jumped the gun when i saw the McConnell name, though I don’t doubt Mitch would’ve been there to take Mike’s side
September 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pmDebate kills? Uh? No wonder none of our trolls haven’t died, they can’t debate. Now I know, don’t debate and you won’t die, cool.
Buck Fush
September 20th, 2007 at 6:58 pmOnly the 30%ers listen to this garbage anymore. The more they say it, the more it hardens the rest of the country against them.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:11 pmPuh-lease! McConnell is doing a “chicken little routine” and tap dancing on the heads of Congress with his bogus claims. Ditch this guy. He’s already admitted to lying about this new temporary FISA provision so he has no respect and absolutely no credibility.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:18 pmMCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.
And rules under which the intelligence business are conducted SHOULD NOT BE SECRET. For damn sure the intel business doesn’t want to say publicly what the are doing. That isn’t the real question. The real question is HOW they are doing it.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm#22 Xisithrus:
… while eeking out confessions.
I like that. The visual is priceless … albeit horrific.
Cheers,
September 20th, 2007 at 7:24 pmArrrggg……
Debate will kill us all, must stop all debates!!!
People quit typing and debating on blogs, or Americans will die!!!
…..oops …..sorry about that, freeked for a second…….
Carry on……..
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September 20th, 2007 at 7:45 pmMaybe McConnell is talking about the Americans in Iraq.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:05 pmMCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.
McConnell is just trying to warn Anna that if he told her the big secret, then he would have to kill her.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:35 pmWho is really surprised? It´s in the manual.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:47 pmWe have become a nation of sheep and lost all perspective, it is really amazing to the point it is amusing. More people are killed per month on the highways than were killed on 9/11. AQ has attacked us at home exactly 2 times in 14 years. Yet for fear of another attack we have to change our way of life, remove freedoms given us by the Founding Fathers, march off to wars resulting in close to 4000 Americans killed, tens of thousands wounded, not to mention hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, and millions displaced.
Bin Laden in his wildest dreams probably could not imagine he would accomplish half of what the 9/11 attacks achieved. We also left our Saudi Arabia bases and the price of oil increased from 30 to 80 dollars a barrel, some of the issues he had given for attacking (infidel presence on holy land and the low price of their precious oil resource) . Who says terrorism does not pay? Plus, he has not only not been caught after 6 years, he has a new beard! Life must be good.
If the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize and coerce people to do what they would not otherwise do, this country may consider themselves duly terrorized. The real terrorists are not hiding in a cave, they are in Washington, and their salaries are paid by the people they terrorize to convince them to spend more to keep us safe and profit their corporate masters.
FDR said “the only thing to fear is fear itself”. Bushies say “the only thing to fear is not being fearful enough”. The people say, “save me Mistah Prezudent, I am ahfraid, spend mah money, take mah freedoms, torture dem bad guys, jess keep Osama away”, from their homes as in places like Topeka, Kansas . The MSM then shoves this parody on us in one form or another, a thousand Baghdad Bob’s if not more out there pounding the same message home.
Baghdad Bob said while American soldiers are showering in Saddam’s bathroom nearby presidential palace: “We have killed most of the [coalition] infidels, and I think we will finish off the rest soon.” Sounds a lot like the crap we hear from our government about Iraq and AQ. You don’t think Baghdad Bob got himself a job in Washington, do you?
September 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pmIt just never stops getting worse.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:11 pmOne nation under surveillence
September 20th, 2007 at 9:21 pmwith liberty and justice for OIL !
He sounds so sure Americans will die ,because of our being a democracy ,I suspect we may see a terrorist attack just in time to suspend the next elections ,with democrats as the scapegoats ! This crowd is way past the point of no return and the plan was never to stop half way.Hell 3/4 of a million are dead already as a result of a planned attack on a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 911 ,in order to control persian gulf oil .
September 20th, 2007 at 9:30 pmStop talking about it, McConnell!
You’re killing me!
Aaarrrrrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 9:31 pmBush is responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden ever was !
September 20th, 2007 at 9:31 pmMitch McConnell- sworn enemy of Democracy.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:32 pmIf the intelligence business were conducted in secret and without oversight,Mr. McConnell, Aldrichh Ames would be a Grand Old Man of the Intelligence community.
We can’t discuss aspects of wiretapping because of all those Islamofascist spy satellites and theie hiddden caves full of supercomputers cracking our security! And the sharks with friggin’ laser beams on their heads!
Because Usama bin Laden didn’t escape Tora Bora because we needed a boogeyman–it’s because he stole Iron Man’s armor! A-and has a Power Ring! And knows the words to summon the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!
And what’s their mantra? “They want to kill us!”
Ooooh! That’s horrible! Because the Communists only wanted to beat us at hockey!
And the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese just wanted to make us eat raw fish and sauerkraut!
Not like these guys in their robes and second hand weapons!
These guys actually HATE us! Like so we should die, dead!
Oooooh!
And if we leave Iraq, they’ll follow us home!
Led by the Sixth Attack Carrier Group of the Holy Islamic Navy!
Jusr like when we left Vietnam, the Commies made us fight them on the Golden Gate Bridge and in Disneyland!
I put it to you, Mr. McConnell, that the only reason Al Qaeda still exists is that you and your higher-ups find them politically convenient.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:33 pmAl Qaeda …..a VERY loosely affiliated group of people who have no idea they are members .
September 20th, 2007 at 9:39 pmBush has AL Qaeda ,Hitler had the Jews .The more things change the more they stay the same !
Tell a lie ,the bigger the better , repeat it often enough , and villify the people who question it as unpatriotic and endangering the safety of the nation .
September 20th, 2007 at 10:26 pmGoebels paraphrased
pbg @ 9:33 pm …
September 20th, 2007 at 10:31 pmit’s good to be able to chuckle about such as this…
good for the soul… ’cause the cryin’ gets so old…
…
Psycho president, I think you have tapped into Bush’s brain. I can easily visualize his saying what you write here.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:54 pmAs the rethuglicans like to say, the boogey man will get you if you have your freedom and liberty.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:46 pmA debate will kill Americans.
As opposed to the occupation of Iraq that is actually killing Americans.
McConnell can surely see the need to end the occupation of Iraq, then.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:13 amCrap! I keep trying to get some one to tap my phone and they wont do it. I was told I would have to break a law the get a tap, which I will not do so I guess I am screwed! I want people to hear what I have to say about them.
Very simple, call the WHitehouse, and tell them how much you hate them. Throw a couple of “bombs” and “Plutonium” and other good words into the phone while you wait on hold. YOu should have a free “satellite hookup” in no time.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:36 amI ALWAYS say really nasty things while I wiat on hold anywhere nowadays. I even call my cell phone and have open conversations speaking of all sorts of things. If they are true to their word, they do not listen to me.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:37 amYOu should have a free “satellite hookup†in no time.
Comment by Bodhittsatva — September 21, 2007 @ 12:36 am
And perhaps even an “electrode hookup” to yer genitals too!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:14 amThere had better be an attack today, or someone’s going to lose a lot of money in put options.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:40 amThis almost sounds like a threat.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:58 amIf public debate digs up the facts that the Administration has twisted facts to gain support for the changes in FISA to spy on Americans will the Administration and their henchmen really to kill someone?
This is something Hitler might do . Is the Administration willing to go that far?
I wouldn’t put it past them.
“MCCONNELL: The intelligence business is conducted in secret. It’s conducted in secret for a reason.â€
They should have finished the quote:
“…And the reason it’s conducted in secret is so that you never know when we’re violating the law and the constitution. And that, of course, is the most important thing - that you never know whether or not what we’re doing is legal.â€
And this is exactly what Reid and Pelosi should be saying. Who confirmed this jerk? Answer–everybody. No more confirmations of Bush nominees should be allowed. They are all thugs and liars.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pm