White House calls snooping lawsuits "frivolous"

What's to worry about? heh

A line right out of thier playbook. Nice one!

during Reagan yrs, which would have provided advice on the constitutionality of such projects as Ollie North's Rex 84 'suspension of the Constitution', Operation Garden Plot and Operation Cable Splicer, all allowing for the rounding up and detention of 'dissenters' into concentration camps in America.

That's an awful lot to keep hidden and is surely NOT FRIVOLOUS !

BTW, daddy Bush Poppy 41 was the Veep in charge of these operations during the Reagan years so maybe there's also a lot of CYA going on at the same time.

This site lists the Executive Orders allowing for the suspension of the Constitution
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/fema.html

Although Wm French Smith opposed the Rex84 plan, we do not know Alito's stance....do we ?

Enjoy !

The ACLU lawyers must have been filled with frivolity as they wrote the briefs.

The lawsuits ARE NOT FRIVOLOUS

The lawsuits WILL ENHANCE CIVIL LIBERTIES

The lawsuits WILL PROTECT THE FREEDOMS OF ALL AMERICANS

The opposite of what they say is true. Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

Is how they think illegal snooping ENHANCES civil liberties any. But yes, since they say the opposite of what's true, their blatherings are more or less what I expected. Worst administration ever.

Talking points don't explain. They can only talk in sound-bite-speak. They can only stay the course, mission accomplished and terra! terra!

I just wish the hard-core Bush worshippers would see that they don't explain, they just babble. Chimp's strategy for winning the unwinnable war on Terra? Stay the course. Show resolve. That's not strategy, that's snake oil.

baffle them with bullshit.

These assklowns aren't too insulting are they? Frivoluos? Using the Constitution as toilet paper is frivolous? Fucking fascists arrogant MFers!! These people are spitting in all our faces with contempt. This is what happens when a criminal gang gets control of country. No respect for the law and absolutely no respect for anyone besides their own supporters.

They are absolutely full of shit!!!

They have been eavesdropping on Tax Paying AMERICANS!!!

it's hard work having to comply with that pesky constitution and bill of rights... :sarcasm:

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Press Secretary Scott McClellan says the suits will do nothing to enhance civil liberties or protect the American people.

The A-C-L-U and the Center for Constitutional Rights say that in approving wiretaps without a warrant, the president went well beyond what the Constitution or the law allow.

Bush has called the intercepts a "vital tool" in the war on terror.

McClellan says the program's been carefully reviewed by administration lawyers -- and is limited to calls and e-mails to known al-Qaida members or associates. He says the innocent "don't have to worry."

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If the innocent 'don't have to worry', does that mean that if the government eavesdrops on you, you are automatically considered to be guilty of something? Wouldn't surprise me any considering this AG's stunning grasp of fundamental principles of American law. How do you make that sarcasm thingie anyway?

for "activist" lawyers
for "Democratic lawyers"
for "radical leftist judges"

frivolous also...:argh:

1 / seriousness of allegations

hehe.

Here's a warning folks. Alito would agree with the Bush administration if he makes it to the Supreme Court. The idea of citizens of this country have any rights will become a frivolous notion.

How frivolous will it be then?

Data mining, there ought to be!

They can't tell the truth. It is pathological.

Here's another quote from Scottie:



A lie, according to the New York Times today. The whistleblowers are saying that the NSA got a number of Americans who were called by "al Qaeda suspects" and then they tracked all the calls of that person. The way I read it, that means wholly domestic calls. Otherwise, why would the FBI have been pissed about having to investigate "calls to Pizza Hut"?

Scottie is lying. Everyone should worry. The innocent have had their privacy violated by the NSA who shared their information with the FBI without letting the FBI know that there was no probable cause and that no one bothered to get a FISA warrant.

It must be WRONG

This is deadly serious, affecting EVERY American.

Say one thing and do the other!!!

Paula Jones and her nosejob, both frivolous..

... are the ones in which they are plaintiffs. Bush owes his presidency to a lawsuit.

BUT... they won.

I love how they call other people's statements 'out of bounds', as if they have any fucking boundaries on what they will do or say.

Now a lawsuit to bring the president to justice for blatantly violating the law is 'frivolous'?

These guys are so out of control its hard to even imagine

Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas is a colorful fellow.
He is a Catholic.
Sort of.
He converted from an evangelistic church to Catholicism.
Sort of.
He’s a Republican.
Sort of.
He supports the President.
Sort of.
He’s concentrating on being Senator from Kansas.
Sort of.
Right now he’s concentrating on running for President of the United States.
It seems that because he attends Catholic Mass and still runs around to catch the enthusiastic presentations at his old evangelistic church he thinks he is the one that all Americans could agree to vote on.
The economy is Kansas in based on agriculture and as such these days that means it is based on government hand outs.
The USDA has a rural construction department that actually hands out money to build apartment buildings, new homes, waste water treatment plants (not for farms – for cities and towns), fire houses, police stations and even city halls.
Senator Brownback has been a critic of many government programs and even, it seems of the American government, but when it comes down to taking money from the rest of the nation Old Greenback Brownback is one of the first in line.
Even as American soldiers are dying in Iraq and working in the field with inferior equipment Old Greenback Brownback has been raking in the Federal grant dollars for Kansas.
Even as he talks about fiscal responsibility he seems to have been supporting Kansas in recycling Medicaid funds. Funds to help soldiers’ families get medical care.

This adminstration has a nasty habit of minimizing the seriousness of their crimes, in efforts to shirk responsibilty.

Our RULE OF LAW is frivilous too!

Must mean a whole lot since they always say the opposite of what they REALLY think.

And we all have "STUPID" on our foreheads!!!

is waiting over a month to even hold hearings?@!!?!!!?

Bush said he isn't going to stop the spying, so that means everyday he can make things a little worse for everyone, even senators and congressmen.

These people have the entire government spooked, and that is truly scary.

to enhance civil liberties?

You'll have to forgive the Minister of Propaganda, civil liberties is a new concept to him and the cabal.

They are either smoking, snorting, shooting up, licking stamps or sugar cubes, or all of the above.

"He doesn't pay attention to polls - but he pays attention to our phone calls, snail-mail and e-mail. Maybe the pollsters should be calling/mailing in the results from overseas - at least then we know bush* will be paying attention..."