Commie Liberal Comes Out Against Bush's Spying Program
Yes, that noted bleeding heart lefty, Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Spector, is going all Arianna on the president:
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."
There's something to be said for that, but is it really a problem, at that level of government, to get clearances? And what kind of speed are we talking about, really? Would that be the speed at which the administration has brought in Osama Bin Laden? And then there's the, cough, effectiveness issue. If you're going to use the Constitution for toilet paper, at least make it worth our while!
"And what kind of speed are we talking about, really? Would that be the speed at which the administration has brought in Osama Bin Laden?"
-- that made me laugh out loud, Amy!
Lena at February 6, 2006 2:25 PM
It's four years old, but a friend shared it this week:
http://tinyurl.com/dnfnt
Crid at February 6, 2006 7:28 PM
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