Well finally. An actual republican CONSERVATIVE (or at least right now). The thing that most neo-Cons don't seem to get is that "speed" doesn't matter. If it hasn't been authorized by law, then tough luck: We'll just have to take the Al-Qaeda hit until we authorize otherwise. Supporters of any extra-legal plan deployed by "leaders" without our collective legal consent need killin'. Quick. Fuck the plan. Fuck their "protection". -TD
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> To: cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: [Clips] Specter: Administration broke law Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:00:07 -0500
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Delivered-To: clips@philodox.com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:54:49 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <clips@philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Specter: Administration broke law Reply-To: rah@philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces@philodox.com
So. Same show. Two different headlines.
Let's bleat some more about the law, shall we?
Cypherpunks do what? ;-)
Cheers, RAH -------
<http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060205-065029-9962r>
United Press International
Specter: Administration broke law
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says President George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program appears to be illegal.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Specter called the administration's legal reasoning "strained and unrealistic" and said the program appears to be "in flat violation" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Hearings into the surveillance program are scheduled to begin Monday on Capitol Hill.
Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency, defended the surveillance on ABC's "This Week" and the Fox News Network, the International Herald Tribune reported.
"It's about speed," General Hayden said in his ABC appearance. "It's about hot pursuit of al-Qaida communications."
The Bush administration says the surveillance has been carefully monitored and targeted at individuals with known or strongly suspected terrorist ties. But officials have also given different estimates of the amount of monitoring.
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-- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'