Comments on: McCain Willing To Grant Telecoms Immunity After They Say They’re Sorry

By: AnnieW

AnnieW — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:15:38 +0000

Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald is reporting that McCain official position is “John McCain still supports amnesty for telephone and internet companies that helped the Bush Administration target Americans for wiretapping for five years, without getting any court orders”.

No apologies necessary.

By: COProgressive

COProgressive — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:42:35 +0000

It’s not about the telcos, it’s about questions that will be asked in the trials. The Bush administration does not want the telcos to have to answer the question “Even after knowing that there would be no warrant for the surveillance, under whose authority did the surveillance continue?” We’d all like to know the answer to that question.

By: buckheaddad

buckheaddad — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:32:00 +0000

DANCE ON, Great American Public.

Every morning the politicians and preachers look in their mirrors, and smirking say to themselves:

“Wonder what line of shit I can hand those dumb bastards today?” . . . .

LAUGHINLY, they move on thinking “I’ll think of something”.
They’ll believe anything I tell them.

By: lm945

lm945 — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:59:07 +0000

What are you all so worried about? He specifically said they’re only going after the “bad people.”

You know. Democrats. The “left wing” media. Anyone he thinks is looking/acting like they’re thinking about doing/saying something he doesn’t like.

By: judyinnm

judyinnm — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:28:36 +0000

Come to think of it, “restoring civil liberties” hasn’t become a major theme of anyone’s campaign……….

By: judyinnm

judyinnm — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:27:17 +0000

It’s a safe guess “restoring civil liberties” will NOT be a major theme of his campaign. Nor will denouncing torture.

By: jrod

jrod — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:33:18 +0000

Maybe we should let Charles Manson out of jail if he makes a “heartfelt apology”. What makes these Corporations feel like they have the entitlement to break the law.

By: ucsbclassics53

ucsbclassics53 — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:43:24 +0000

Imagine if we tried that with law enforcement…Say you’re sorry and you can go after your murder or your rape or your robbery…

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:24:49 +0000

R E M E M B E R:
THEY(sic) HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS…

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

… And so THEY(sic) debate and discuss the merits to undermining those FREEDOMS.

Name me ONE terrorist that has attacked my freedoms and I will show you the George W. Bush Administration and hundreds of members of Congress.

By: IgnoranceIsNotBliss

IgnoranceIsNotBliss — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:20:55 +0000

…..unless they first offer a heartfelt apology for their actions….

Oh for pete’s sake!!!! What the hell kind of crap is this?

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:58:03 +0000

you don’t accept an apology to let off a premeditated murder one criminal, do you? Well, these war crimes definitely were premeditated. wire tapping is calculated first, am I right?

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:55:07 +0000

They sure as hell must be stopped and made acountable for every breech and insult done to the Constitution and to the American people and everyone else around the globe affected by their careless and calculating, premeditated actions.

By: shoeless

shoeless — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:53:57 +0000

stewarjt Says:

I tried this tactic once with a speeding ticket. I still had to pay it!

Well course not. Speeding is obviously much worse than violating the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States!

By: JMOHR

JMOHR — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:52:07 +0000

Yes, McCain will pander and establish his carefully crafted position of being both moderate and extremely conservative, a maverick who falls strictly in line with the Republican elite and a moral/ethical person as long as those who favor the Republican elite never pay a price for their actions.

Yes, a show trial in which the public will never learn anything (revealing except for all the real information which will not be made public because of national security/executive privilege)and nothing more than a heartfelt apology (such a wonderfully objective standard.)

These people must be stopped. They must all pay the price.

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:51:33 +0000

I’ll bet they’ll make Alberto Gonzales write, I will not disrupt the orderly judicial process 100 times on a dry erase board!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:51:05 +0000

Is this going to be McCainProgress for the next five months or the next four to eight years? Are there any other candidates running for President?

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:49:15 +0000

wow,Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove in timeout chairs for 15 minutes! where has real justice gone to? The dogs???

By: stewarjt

stewarjt — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:46:01 +0000

McCain Willing To Grant Telecoms Immunity After They Say They’re Sorry

I tried this tactic once with a speeding ticket. I still had to pay it!

By: shoeless

shoeless — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:45:21 +0000

In a new interview with Wired, Chuck Fish, a full-time lawyer for Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign, says that the senator opposes immunity for telecoms that aided the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program — unless Paxson Communications reassigns Vicki Iseman to lobby aboard the Straight Talk Express.

By: ninique

ninique — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:45:06 +0000

a heart-felt apology??? wtf? oh! I know, Go sit in your timeout chair, you’ve been naughty. We’ll let you out in 15 minutes when we need you again. In the mean time, think about how sorry you are so they fall for it!