Mukasey chokes up in calling for retroactive immunity.
By on Mar 28th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Mukasey chokes up in calling for retroactive immunity.
In a speech last night in San Francisco, Attorney General Michael Mukasey appealed to the tragedy of 9/11 in calling for broad surveillance powers and retroactive immunity for telecommunications carriers. The New York Sun reports that “Mukasey grimaced, swallowed hard, and seemed to tear up as he reflected on the weaknesses in America’s anti-terrorism strategy prior to the 2001 attacks. ‘We got three thousand. … We’ve got three thousand people who went to work that day and didn’t come home to show for that,’ he said, struggling to maintain his composure.” Watch this report from San Francisco’s ABC affiliate:
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Mukasey, more like Muskiekasey, eh?
March 28th, 2008 at 10:53 amIt’s time to select a new team to defend this country. The current team is the same as the one who was “defending” us on 9/11. It doesn’t appear that they’ve learned any lessons from that attack, but are just trying one knee jerk strategy after another. Their bring the same lack of competence to bear to everything they do. Defending the country, prosecuting terrorists, detaining POWs, responding to natural disasters, waging a war, even processing passports.
March 28th, 2008 at 10:57 amPHUCK YOU, TRAITOR!!!
March 28th, 2008 at 10:59 amHey pal, I work 6 blocks from the Trade center! I Saw 1 World on Fire! I Saw 2 World explode! This Administration dropped the ball from day 1 and hasn’t done Squat to improve the situation. If the Justice Department really wants to do someting to improve America’s security they should start investigating the Administration and report their findings to Congress. Then they should kick Congress in their collective ass so that they Impeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:00 amAbu Ben Hussein Leporello.
Flash back…
PDB, handed to G W Bush by NSA chief Condoleeza Rice:
“Bin laden determined to strike United States. With airplanes.”
March 28th, 2008 at 11:01 amIf only somebody had told President Bush all about terrorists and terrorism, he may done something to fight it.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:02 amwarantless spying on Americans began in February 2001 BEFORE 9/11. It did not protect us from those attacks and was patently ILLEGAL. NO immunity for telecoms and jail all those involved. RESTORE Constitutional rights.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:02 amAs I type this I sit about 20 blocks from Ground Zero. I have been a native NYer my entire life, and I stopped choking back 9/11 tears back in October 2001.
We really need to put the adults back in charge. I’ve had beyond enough of the emo fear mongers.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:03 amHe’s really choking on the lies the neocons perpetuated to get the telecoms to spy on Americans.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:08 amChoke on TRAITOR! Or come clean!
Bush has really lowered the bar for acceptable attorney’s general. A person chosen at random on the street would have more integrity, than to knowingly lie about such a vital intelligence tool, as Mukasey has done. Next year, when Democrats can look at it objectively, Mukasey will look like the worst sort of fool, for this blatant pander to his boss. What law school diploma-mill awarded Moe a degree?
A really principled alumnus… heh.
And perhaps - just perhaps, mind you - if Ashcroft hadn’t been chasing hookers in New Orleans, he’d have found time to chase down possible leads that might have averted 9/11.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 amI have said it before and it needs said again.
If no laws were broken, why the need for retroactive immunity?
And if laws were broken, why is the law enforcement arm of the US asking for immunity, instead of doing its job and arresting someone?
Either we are a country of laws,or we are a Banana Republic shithole.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 amNo retroactive immunity for telecoms who collaborated with the administration in the illegal wiretaps. They broke the law; they knew they broke the law.
Mukaskey can cry all of the crocodile tears he wants to, but the fact remains is that this incompetent president and his incompetent administration dropped the freaking ball on 9/11/01 and have been scrambling to cover it up ever since. The PDB was clear. Only an IDIOT wouldn’t understand what it meant.
America is crying out for real leadership. I wish that the election were held today so that we can get moving on cleaning up this mess!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 amNevar Says: March 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Flash back…
PDB, handed to G W Bush by NSA chief Condoleeza Rice:
“Bin laden determined to strike United States. With airplanes.”
They really, really don’t want to discuss this part, Nevar.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:10 amPlease desist from bringing truth to their table. They don’t like the taste & apparently they’re quite allergic to it.
/snark
progressinourminds Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Its Republican’s fault anyway. Stupid American!
Fixed your non-sequitor, no thanks necessary.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:11 amI’m so sick of these crying Republicans.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:12 amIs ‘progressinourminds’ Trajan, did you guys say?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:15 amMukasey didn’t choke on TORTURE! Or political meddling
March 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am“Bin laden determined to strike United States. With airplanes.”
But that was too vague according to Condi. “No one could imagine them using planes as missles”.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:17 amhttp://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8KDSBXg0NU4&feature=related
Oh, gag me. Is giving retroactive immunity going to bring any of the people back who died on 9/11? Is giving retroactive immunity going to prevent another similar attack? This blatant exploitation is an insult to all those who were directly impacted that day, and even to those of us who were indirectly impacted.
This is just shameless crocodile tear-shedding. Mukasey and the rest of the White House are getting increasingly desperate to protect their backsides, and will do ANYTHING to keep lawsuits out of court that will expose the massive amount of slime under this rock.
And the fact that they are so desperate is convincing me that they probably have even more to hide than I originally thought.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:19 amCry me a friggin’ river.
As if this admin, or anyone in this admin, ever gave two craps about US. Ha!
Screw you, Mr. Atty General. You and your ilk SUCK!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:19 ammust’ve had lunch with boner prior to the speech…
lying P O S …
just reading and acting on the information available
March 28th, 2008 at 11:23 amwould’ve helped tremendously… lying P O Ss…
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From Wikipedia: “During his tenure on the bench, Mukasey presided over the criminal prosecution of Omar Abdel Rahman and El Sayyid Nosair, whom he sentenced to life in prison for a plot to blow up the United Nations and other Manhattan landmarks uncovered during an investigation into the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[15] During that case, Mukasey spoke out against leaks by law enforcement officials regarding the facts of the case allegedly aimed at prejudicing potential jurors against the defendants.[22]”
Mukasey’s claim to fame in gaining the AG position was that he was at the forefront of terrorist investigations.
For him to lament a lack of intelligence about Arab terrorism attacks is like a judge in DWI court who has a bottle under his robe.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:25 amWhen all else fails, cry like a baby. This speaks to their devotion, wiling to push fascism at all costs.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:25 amWayne Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
“… or we are a Banana Republic shithole.”
***clearing of the throat…***
???????????
March 28th, 2008 at 11:26 ammisshussseinmolly: I suspect what they are trying to cover up is just the tip of a VERY BIG iceberg.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:27 am“It just tears me up when I think of all the profits telecommunications companies could lose because of violation of privacy lawsuits. Damn you US Constitution!!!” - Major League Asswipe Michael Mukasey.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:27 ambarfly Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:28 amMarch 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
And perhaps - just perhaps, mind you - if Ashcroft hadn’t been chasing hookers in New Orleans, he’d have found time to chase down possible leads that might have averted 9/11.
——
or perhaps if Ashcroft hadn’t wasted so much time throwing Tommy Chong into jail for selling bongs and worrying about a statue’s naked boobies!
Gin Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
For a little perspective on 9-11 FITNA is now online. When will you open comments, Faiz?
You must be lost. Little Green Footballs is at http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com , not thinkprogress.org
March 28th, 2008 at 11:28 amand the stupid bunny-bot clearly has not a clue what she is reading.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:29 amHe is choking up thinking about how much it is going to suck when they’re all in jail.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:29 amBush also pitched the idea of a live diaper change, but Mukasey ultimately opposed.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:32 amOh Crap. Now the AG pulls a Boner?
Grow up, you lame ass, and don’t conflate 9/11 for your fourth amendment end run scam.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:36 amAnd I think collectively we are deluding ourselves if we think that the 3 candidates running for President are really going to make any real changes. The Bush “unitary executive” approach toward the presidency will remain. Who would want to give up that much power? Everything changed on September 11,2008. There’s a new enemy afoot. And as long as this phony war on terrorism continues this country economically, spiritually and morally will continue to go down the toilet. All the sound bites, debates — what have you, aren’t worth a damn unless we show that 9/11 was a cover-up. The brightest light imaginable needs to be shown on this admin. They are cockroaches. And until this beacon of light exposes the last 8 years for what it really was :LIES. This country will continue to erode right before our eyes. The only way this country can heal is to know the truth about 9/11
The truth will set this Great Nation Free.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:37 amI’s pay for a “pay-per-view” to see Mukasey waterboarded.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:38 amI’d pay for a “pay-per-view” to see Mukasey waterboarded.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:39 amGin Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
For a little perspective on 9-11 FITNA is now online. When will you open comments, Faiz?
________________
Unfortunately for you, this is off topic. THIS thread is about Mukey crying over telco immunity.
Nice try though…
March 28th, 2008 at 11:39 amThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:26 am
“… or we are a Banana Republic shithole.”
***clearing of the throat…***
???????????
No offense to polar bears intended….
March 28th, 2008 at 11:45 amThe New York Sun reports that “Mukasey grimaced, swallowed hard, and seemed to tear up as he reflected on the weaknesses in America’s anti-terrorism strategy prior to the 2001 attacks.”
And that utter, complete and devastating failure by the Bush administration to prevent 9/11 means that we Americans should now quietly hand over our entire lives, our rights and our freedom to Big Brother?
Up yours, asshat.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:45 amGin Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 11:09 am
For a little perspective on 9-11 FITNA is now online. When will you open comments, Faiz?
Saddam Gin is just trying to deflect the issue from the domestic GOP lies to the foreign GOP lies.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:46 amYou would hope that the head of the Justice System in America would tear up at the sight of an Administration that hasn’t seen a law that it wouldn’t break, a criminally stacked Judicial Branch, the traitorous leaking of undercover agents, torture in the name of our Country, a nation tied up in a needless war at the expense of military readiness but this bottom feeder chokes up over not forgiving corporations who have broken federal laws. This blithering idiot should be crying about not having an opportunity to investigate and prosecute these companies who have potentially breached privacy laws against innocent citizens of America. What is the state of justice in this country when the head guy cries about not forgiving crimes that most likely go right to the head of this corrupt Administration?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:48 amIt’s not just about telco immunity.
It’s about who pulled the strings on that sunny September, Tuesday morning in 2001.
It’s about the ever encroaching on our Civil Liberties. The constant trampling on The Constitution, The Bill of Rights.
It’s about Accountability and throwing the book at the Criminals that have resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the last 8 years,
It’s about throwing away the key.
It’s all about the economic, moral and spiritual healing of this Great Nations.
who gives a crap about these Telco Companies?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:48 amGin, spamming every thread with the same post will get you flagged out.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:49 amAG Mike went to the same Bad Acting School as Boehner, didn’t he?
March 28th, 2008 at 11:53 amMukasey… 9/11 was an inside job! If you want to quote 9/11 to advance the deterioration of civil rights, lets then talk about 9/11 shall we? First, show us the footage or a frame from the hundreds of security cameras surrounding the Pentagon which show a 757 hitting the building. Than you can explain to us, what an E-4B military plane was doing flying over Washington that day. There is footage of it you know! Then, Mr. Mukasey, you can explaing how two aircraft hit two buildings but three came down with total collapse in less than 10 seconds. You haven’t done that. And No, the official story does not explain that and it does not mention the 47 massive steel columns which should create a lot of resistance but, on 9/11 they had total collapse! You are choking not because you care, you fake bastard, you are choking because you are guilty!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:59 amAnd there you have it…
The top law enforcement official in the land crying about 9/11 and stumping for retroactive immunity for telcos.
Not to say we told you so America, BUT WE ALL FRIGGIN’ TOLD YOU SO!!!!
March 28th, 2008 at 11:59 amLet’s not forget that the illegal surveillance was ALREADY HAPPENING BEFORE 9-11 !!!! …and yet they are pretending that this unconstitutional, felony act would prevent a terrorist strike, when that has already been absolutely disproved. They don’t want you to think about that. They assume, correctly, that most Americans have forgotten, or failed to read the news at all, that this illegal program was in play within a month of Bush taking office.
This dramatic sham is an incredible moral low, almost as shameful as the previous AG (Abu Gonzales)…
March 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pmWaterboard Mukasey until he RESIGNS!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:07 pmThis administration must be tried for TREASON.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:37 pmTelcom immunity wont bring them back. If anything Telcom immunity will open the door to political shennanigans that have nothing to do with 911.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pmAs horrible as the attacks of 9/11 were, five times that many people are murdered in this country every year. I don’t see any one in the government crying over them or suggesting we make any extra effort to stop it from happening.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pmHave I said The Hauge 2009 War crimes commision lately?
March 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm“If they have done nothing wrong, what do they have to hide?”
March 28th, 2008 at 12:43 pmCongratulations! Would Mukasey have the guts to gripe for the 9-11 families? No! To admit the U.S. will pull through this, as the world’s standard bearer for, the thirst for Democracy? No! Would he write here to complain, with courage, relevance and timeliness, here, on this site? No way!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pmCongratulations! Would Mukasey have the guts to gripe for the 9-11 families? No! To admit the U.S. will pull through this, as the world’s standard bearer for, the thirst for Democracy? No! Would he write here to complain, with courage, relevance and timeliness, here, on this site? No way!
March 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pmSaddam controled all of 911 by remote control given to him by Jimmy Carter…and McCrazy saw it from his bamboo cage.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pmfamilyman Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
As horrible as the attacks of 9/11 were, five times that many people are murdered in this country every year. I don’t see any one in the government crying over them or suggesting we make any extra effort to stop it from happening.
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Amen. Let’s see some tears shed for people who are killed on our roads by drunk drivers. For people who perish in drowning accidents. For people shot by madmen who obtained guns through legal loopholes. For teen suicides. The list could go on and on with people cut down before their time for reasons other than international terrorism, but I don’t see any wars declared over them.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:02 pmThe more I think about this scumbag, the more disgusted I am.
The AG’s position is to prosecute crime.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pmThe telecoms broke the law, everyone acknowledges this.
Mukasey is enabling the criminals.
He should be dismissed immediately.
What this administration is desperate to cover up is WHO was spied on. If the Cheney regime was really after “terrorists” then they would have had NO problems going after them under existing FISA laws.
The only reason for bypassing FISA completely is because the people Cheney wanted to spy on had nothing to do with terrorism.
Domestic wiretapping is a strictly political operation and it will interesting to see how many U.S. citizens were being blackmailed with illegally obtained personal information.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pmIn December 2005, New York Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau broke the shocking story of the Bush administration’s program of illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA. Now, in a new book due out next week, Lichtblau details the White House’s 13-month effort to block the Times’ revelations of its lawlessness. And to be sure, that deceitful stonewalling and the threats of retribution that followed show a Bush administration determined to conceal its criminality at any cost.
For the details, see:
March 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm“NYT’s Lichtblau Details White House Effort to Block NSA Story.”
NutWrench Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
“it will interesting to see how many U.S. citizens were being blackmailed with illegally obtained personal information.”
Makes you wonder about Nancy Can’tFindATable Pelosi doesn’t it?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pmEdgeOnIt Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Congratulations! Would Mukasey have the guts to gripe for the 9-11 families?
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Oh, come on. EVERYBODY knows that the telecoms have suffered far more than the 9/11 families have (snark).
March 28th, 2008 at 1:40 pmMukasey chokes up in calling for retroactive immunity.
Does he realize that if it isn’t given , that Chimpy can be held legally accountable , which is the reason for the tears to begin with ?
What a jerkoff…..Cry over the Constitution being ignored by this garbage administration , you political party hack ; not what is going to happen to your “beloved leader” and the rest of his nefarious band …………
March 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pmTrying to exploit the deaths of Americans to prevent Telecoms from presenting evidence at trial that would reveal to the American public factual evidence of what the Bush admininstration has done without the legal or constitutional authority to do so is shamelessly contemptible. He can take his phony sniveling act somewhere else. The Bush administration is replete with duplicitious corksoakers of every profession, race, religion, sex and socio-economic background. Their qualifying trait is ethical and moral plability. It’s the first requirement on the job description for Bush admininstration employees. When the Attorney General is more a political whore than a principled lawyer, you know his moral compass is 180 degrees out of whack.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:54 pm“Serving” the president doesn’t mean “covering up his crimes”. Unfortnately, like Alberto Gonzales, that is precisely what Michael Mukasey is endeavoring mightily to do. Protecting a criminal from being proven a criminal is what a criminal lawyer does…..not what the Attorney General of the United States of America does.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:14 pm‘Teleneocons’ have broken the law. They commited a crime and they should be held accountable for that. If they wanted to spy on someone, they had in place the FISA procedures. Their big lawyers knew that but chose to follow the War Criminals in the WH and in the Pentagon. If justice still works in the USA they will be held accou ntable for violating the law. But only if… Judging by what has been happening in the las 8 years, ‘God help America!’ it is beyond blessing…
March 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm…and the best actor is… Mukasey for his fake shoking over 9/11!
March 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pmI’m amazaed that these suposed public officials never speak in public.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pmWatching ‘John Adams’ on HBO & listening to Mufakesy is ironic.
Adams was a driving force in our Declaration of Independence.
Mufakesy is a coffin nail in the WH drive to corporate dependence.
Adams believed in truth above all.
Mufakesy believes the truth is whatever Cheney says.
I firmly believe, after watching ‘Bush’s War’, that Bush himself was one of the first to be blackmailed by Cheney. They needed a short leash on the cheerleader. Perhaps that’s why Bush’s Bilderberg ‘name’ is ‘temporary’…they only need him while he’s in the WH.
Blackmail, you say? Why not? …camera pans in on tarmack at isolated runway, where G.W. & Jeb await a load of prime Columbian coke…
March 28th, 2008 at 2:34 pmMukasey should know that it is the fault of the Bush administration for starting this illegal program in the first place. It is too late now to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:04 pmThey can play the FAKE CRYING GAME all the time, but it won’t work.
NO immunity for spying on Americans. The telecoms did do it before 9-11 and they deserve to pay the price.
I can’t wait for Obama to take over these FASCISTS.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm9/11 has changed everything. I can’t grow tomatoes as easily as I used to. Herego, the government should have broad sweeping powers to give me free tomatoes. If you don’t think my argument is sound, you are living in a pre-9/11 world and the terrorists will win because I will be lacking in lycopene.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pmI say let the lawsuits begin. If the telecoms were coerced or intimidated into breaking the law, any halfway decent lawyer will find in favor of the defendant. But at least Americans would hear more of the truth than they’re getting now, since a whole lotta muck will see the light of day in such a trial.
Which is exactly why Bushco and his band of merry men are pulling out all the stops to make sure it doesn’t happen.
NO on immunity!!!
March 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pmooops — I meant “any halfway decent lawyer will manage to obtain a ruling finding in favor of the defendant.”
Friday afternoon and my brain cells are almost gone.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:22 pmThinking of the damage Bush&Co has done over the past 8 years should make him cry.
I don’t feel sorry for him nor for anyone in the cabal.
It was on their watch that the tragedy occurred. It was they who ignored repeated warnings; it was they who used the tragedy as a catapault into Iraq; it was they who have used many underhanded and secretive tricks to destroy the Constitution and to break down the equal powers of government into a omnipotent executive branch.
My fondest dream includes seeing everyone of the b@stards arraigned, tried, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison (if not hanged) for treason.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm3000 Americans died of terrorism in the last 7 years.
4000 Americans (not including civilians) died of War in the last 5 years.
tens of thousands of Iraqis died of War in the last 5 years
tens of thousands of Americans died in drunk driving accidents in the last 5 years.
You do the math. To me it looks like we’re the bad guys. Fortunately we can change ourselves every four years without a war.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm“9/11! 9/11! I said 9/11!! Dontcha know, 9/11 changes everything! Remember 9/11!!!”
No, thanks, Mukasey, you’re just plagiarising Giuliani, and we thought his act wore old a while back.
Cheers,
March 28th, 2008 at 4:55 pm.
ONE of the defining characteristics to what it means to BE AN AMERICAN is the ability for one to be FREE FROM UNWARRANTED SEARCHES AND SEIZURES FROM A FORM OF GOVERNMENT; The FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY!
R E M E M B E R:
THEY(sic) HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS…
… and so THEY(sic) debate and lobby the merits to undermining those very freedoms.
.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:07 pm“THEY(sic) debate and lobby the merits to undermining those very freedoms.”
Lobby them over there so they won’t lobby us over here! (unabashed snark)
March 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pmSorry, Muskrat, but Boner Boy still holds the title as the Best GOP crybaby.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:54 pmPersonally, I’d prefer to have an Attorney General who chokes up when talking about defending the Constitution…
March 29th, 2008 at 12:07 am> As horrible as the attacks of 9/11 were,
> five times that many people are murdered
> in this country every year.
Drop a frog in boiling water and it will jump out, but but him in cold water and gradually turn up the heat and he will quietly allow himself to die. Sadly, most people in this world possess only slighty more critical thinking skills than a frog…
March 29th, 2008 at 12:23 am> Little Green Footballs
> is at
> http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
read some of the comments on that site….these people seem wholly detached from reality….they call saddams true claims that he had no wmd to be “propaganda” and they actually act like the iraqis have any prospect for a better life now than they did under saddam….apparently in thier minds pre-war iraq was one enormous rape factory and nows its well on its way to becoming some sort of utopia..interestingly enough, these are the same people who think bush should be able to do everything and anything saddam did, as long as its done in the name of fighting terrorism. they think democracy in iraq is great but dont seem too fond of what democracy has wrought in palestine, for some reason..
oh, also one of them had the audacity to single out DEMOCRATS as receiving questionable favors from lobbyists.
guess he was asleep through the whole abrahamhoff scandal and everyone it implicated.
do these peoples brains shut off whenever they start receiving information that doesnt mesh with thier worldview, or what?
March 29th, 2008 at 12:39 amSince he stressed the point that they didn’t listen in on citizens in the U.S. I would like to point out that since they did nothing illegal as listening in on citizens then there is no law broken and no fear from law suits.
Now if they acted outside the law on just the word of the President. That is illegal and there is no immunity in my wallet for them. Qwest acted lawfully. If the telecoms acted illegally and don’t feel there should be punishment for illegal acts. Even at the personal and private requests of a President, that can only make promise that future amnesty will be given. I can only say that the President promised the Telecoms something he doesn’t have to give……..
March 29th, 2008 at 2:19 amI guess Mukasey has been taking the advanced acting lessons since his performance in the Senate confirmation hearings. But what was his motivation?
Oh, yeah, it was to cover up administration crimes.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:32 amEverybody, don’t forget to write your thank you notes to Feinstein and Schumer.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm