[Clips] Specter: Administration broke law

[Tyler Durden]

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 at shipwright.com>
>To: cypherpunks at jfet.org
>Subject: [Clips] Specter: Administration broke law
>Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:00:07 -0500
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>   From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>   Subject: [Clips] Specter: Administration broke law
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>   So. Same show. Two different headlines.
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>   Let's bleat some more about the law, shall we?
>
>   Cypherpunks do what? ;-)
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>   Cheers,
>   RAH
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>   <http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060205-065029-9962r>
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>   United Press International
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>   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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