(Bipartisan) Senators steam over new report of N-S-A phone calling...

then promptly fall in line. :eyes:

I wonder if they'll be so gauche as to actually subpoena the executives and make them testify under oath? Prolly not. "National security" considerations, doncha know?

Arlen's campaign contributors certainly won't.

Why in the hell doesn't he hold hearings where Admin. officials rather than Tel. cos. are questioned under oath?

testimony.

so I think the phone company CEOs will get a free pass too.

do you think these assholes have finally woken up? Me either

It's time to totally destroy these fascist corporations.

And the admin's trying to shut them down with the court-created state secrets privilege.

Congress will do nothing ~ not until they are all thrown out will we get this country back. I don't think it should be a class action suit either, but rather millions and millions of individual suits and these companies should go bankrupt. They have betrayed this country. If Qwest could say no, so could they have.

Hi to all the traitors who are spying on Americans rather than keep the oath they took to defend the Constitution of the US against both foreign and DOMESTIC enemies. Explain this, is every American a terrorist now? Does George Bush really hate the American people this much? Anyone who went along with this attack on the American people is a traitor, imo.

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I was thinking law itself and the Constitution should suffice.

:sarcasm:

Well, we need a new Congress first.

First, a Democratic congress...THEN a PROGRESSIVE Democratic Congress.

to defend it.

so I want my $130,000 and I want my privacy back right now :mad:

www.privateeye.com

I am and NO I am not going to write to them and GIVE THEM MY SOCIAL SECURITY # in order that I be removed!!! :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

And we wonder why all of this identity theft and debit card theft is going on. Look no further than your local NSA database from hell!

I want my $130,000.00 right now too!!!

I wonder if the DO NOT CALL list is yet another method that has been used to collect information that is in this "database"??? Have we all been "suckered" on this one too I ask? :wtf:

I'm really sorry I registered with the DO NOT CALL list now! :grr: :argh:

:kick:

yeah. right. whatever. :eyes:

this is important.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

REACTION
From the White House:
The White House defended its overall eavesdropping program and said no domestic surveillance is conducted without court approval.
''The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks,'' said Dana Perino, the deputy White House press secretary, who added that appropriate members of Congress have been briefed on intelligence activities.

From Capitol Hill:
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would call the phone companies to appear before the panel ''to find out exactly what is going on.''

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the panel, sounded incredulous about the latest report and railed against what he called a lack of congressional oversight. He argued that the media was doing the job of Congress.
''Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda?'' Leahy asked. ''These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything ... Where does it stop?''
The Democrat, who at one point held up a copy of the newspaper, added: ''Shame on us for being so far behind and being so willing to rubber stamp anything this administration does. We ought to fold our tents.''

The report came as the former NSA director, Gen. Michael Hayden - Bush's choice to take over leadership of the CIA - had been scheduled to visit lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday. However, the meetings with Republican Sens. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were postponed at the request of the White House, said congressional aides in the two Senate offices.

Source: The Associated Press

I get the feeling that Lieberman doesn't believe in the fourth amendment. I'd be happy if he just kept his mouth shut on this one. I guess this is a good test of how worried he is about that primary.

is he'll PUSSY FOOT around it, and say the "politician" response... "well this is not something we want, we need to prevent this going forward"


no they need impeached out Joementum, but you don't have the balls... does he not see he's not getting back in??? he needs to do something big to keep relevant!

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <----- CHECK IT OUT! lots of great relevant stickers (spying,etc)

It is almost funny if not so serious.

the 2000 election.

Fascists are just soooo predictable.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! STOP THE LUNATIC BUSH AND HIS BAND OF TRAITORS!

yeah, the congress SHOULD be pissed.