Bush denying access to “the dustbin of history”?
By: bluegal @ 2:09 PM – PST

The bill reversing this travesty is advocated in Public Citizen’s online letter for your Senator.

I am trying to say, it would be nice to keep the rage in perspective, and realize that for all of us, this President has taken this country way out there, and if God willing we have an election, then we can hopefully go back to where we before this RePUG jerk came along.

Comment by natisman — March 3, 2008 @ 5:22 pm

Yeah, but what is so frustrating is that congress (as a whole) COULD fix fix the system if they had the country’s best interests in mind, yet they sit by and make us HOPE that the NEXT election will be the one that makes the difference. I have this nagging suspicion that I am in for a let down even greater than the one after the 2006 elections. I hope I am wrong – but the hair on the back of my neck stands up every time someones says “just wait until January”.

Executive Order 12334 — President’s Intelligence Oversight Board
There is hereby established within the White House Office, Executive Office of the President, the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board, which shall be …
Ronald Reagan
The White House,
December 4, 1981
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/120481e.htm

President’s Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) was established by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976 as “a White House entity with oversight responsibility for the legality and propriety of intelligence activities. The Board, which reports to the President, is charged primarily with preparing reports ‘of intelligence activities that the IOB believes may be unlawful or contrary to Executive order or Presidential directive.’ The Board may also refer such reports to the Attorney General. This standard assists the President in ensuring that highly sensitive intelligence activities comply with law and Presidential directive. In 1997, the IOB was made a standing committee of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB).”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=President’s_Intelligence_Oversight_Board

Thats why I find it hard to listen to folks who the first thing they say is hang Pelosi and what the hell is congress doing? Do you know how badly Bushco has screwed things up not only his section of goverment but the Congress and Courts as well.

I am trying to say, it would be nice to keep the rage in perspective, and realize that for all of us, this President has taken this country way out there, and if God willing we have an election, then we can hopefully go back to where we before this RePUG jerk came along.

So shut up, ya disagreeable cretin.

Yet again, Bush has decided that it’s perfectly safe and perfectly appropriate to give a governmental agency the ability and the permission to police itself. Human nature being what it is, this effectively means “as long as you’re careful and make certain that you don’t get caught, you can do whatever you — and most importantly, I — want to do.”

Arn – can I make a suggestion? Please stop shouting at us. I know you are one of the good guys but I never read anything you write because I don’t like being shouted at. When you bold your text, you are shouting. When you bold and capitalize text, you are screaming.

Maybe we have some hope of laying out all the abuses and correcting them … as lng as we don’t let them steal the election!!!

Cheers,