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President Bush wants Congress to broaden the government's powers to eavesdrop on private conversations without court approval. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, a controversial public surveillance law is set to expire February 1.

President Bush says the government's ability to listen-in on telephone calls is critical to fighting terror.


President Bush speaks at a Republican lawmakers luncheon in Sulphur Springs, W.Va, 25 Jan 2008
"One of the most important tools is to be able to figure out the intentions of an enemy that still wants to do us harm," he said. "If they are making calls into America, we need to know why they are calling, what they are thinking, and what they are planning."

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-25-voa47.cfm

Let's see what the democrats that were elected to the Senate and Congress do. Remember them campaigning hard against the Patriot Act?

Considering a democrat sponsored H.R. 1955, the Homegrown Terrorist Bill or illegal thoughts bill was sponsored by a democrat and only had 6 votes against it I bet it goes through.

Yay Republicrats for making us "safe" from the boogie men of the world.
 
Stealing money would help a lot of Americans pay their bills, too. But that's not right either.

I agree that our Government needs to be empowered to fight terrorism but not if it means trampling the Constitution in the process. Figure out and utilize those methods that don't make a mockery of the standards we are supposed to uphold. For the sake of the liberty we cherish, maintain a level of oversight and due process.

In our ongoing mission to protect American lives, U.S. soil, and interests abroad, we're losing sight of those tenets, ideals, and the basic framework that supposedly makes any of that worth protecting in the first place.
 
Might as well just crown chimpy emperor and get it over with.

Like I said in another thread this bunch can't get out fast enough. Thing is, I seriously doubt the next one will be any better.
 
The sad thing is that all of the pieces that could have (conceivably) alerted our federal guardians to the 9/11 plot and enabled them to prevent it was already out there through pre Patriot Act methods. We were always told that they couldn't piece it together because they were swamped with data.

The federales solution? Backdoor the constitution...and add a whole lot more potentially confusing data to the equation! :shrug:

Do they really think they are going to intercept a call between terrorists that just point blank says "OK...remember, we're bombing the Golden Gate Bridge this Wednesday at 2 PM. Don't forget to swing by Salim's house at 201 Oak Street to grab the dynamite. Just a quick reminder...here are the names, adresses, and physical descriptions of your 8 accomplises"?
 
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...795&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

In January 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee that in his opinion: "There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away." He was challenged by Sen. Arlen Specter who asked him to explain how it is possible to prohibit something from being taken away, without first being granted.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-3>[4]</SUP>
As Robert Parry writes in the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel:
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The Department of Justice has taken the position in litigation that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 does not amount to a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed in a 2-1 decision, on February 20, 2007, which the U.S. Supreme Court initially declined to review. The U.S. Supreme Court then reversed its decision to deny review and took up the case in June of 2007






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States



http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...228&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...452&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7


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google

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/google-is-watching-you-450084.html


facebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G_gPhU


cell phones

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/can_you_hear_me.html




how will it end?
 
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