Cheney wants surveillance law expanded

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer via Associated Press

Vice President Dick Cheney prodded Congress on Wednesday to extend and broaden an expiring surveillance law, saying "fighting the war on terror is a long-term enterprise" that should not come with an expiration date.

"We're reminding Congress that they must act now," Cheney told the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The law, which authorizes the administration to eavesdrop on e-mails and phone calls to and from suspected terrorists, expires on Feb. 1. Congress is bickering over terms of its extension.

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to extend the stopgap Protect America Act without expanding it, raising stakes for an expected showdown in the Senate later this week on a new version of the law.

"This cause is bigger than the quarrels of party and the agendas of politicians," Cheney said. "And if we in Washington, all of us, can only see our way clear to work together, then the outcome should not be in doubt."



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Yeah, yeah, this is news like "The sun rose in the east this morning." Still, highlighting how desperate the Junta is to trash our rights can't be a bad thing.

But if you have a limited capacity and spend time and resources monitoring non-threatening people, won't the terrorists benefit from the overload?

Oh wait.... helping the bad guys is the strategery.

I forgot.

can spy on all the freepers.

Use their own rules against them.

and have MaBell shut down the surveillance. Why is it so important that we the general public have to give up our rights if you guys don't think it is important enough to take the time to write a check?

secret energy meetings. You're the fucking terrorist, you asshole piece of rotting feces.

Edit: This wasn't a response to you Robbien. You're all right ;). Oops.

He's actually a diseased rectal douche bag

We all know Tricky Dick makes a $hit-ton of $$$$ by "fighting" it---from the cocktail parties of DC. :puke:

Why is this creature from the bowels of the regions of puke and hatred allowed to have a position in our government? Why in the name of all things good and righteous have our leaders in congress not banished this man from the seat of power he now occupies? I just don't get it.

This is a war criminal, a treasonous chicken hawk who has one thing on his mind...making money for himself and oil baron cronies. And yet...impeachment is off the table. We have criminals running our government and yet nothing is being done to stop them and hold them accountable. America as a democracy no longer exists.

(twice)

Its sickening the power that this evil man has.

the villagers are coming with their torches and pitchforks

and that pressure cooker should be and way past the time of blowing up.

as in: business venture. as in: big ol' honkin' hand out for Haliburton.

vile man.

An unelected underground criminal is giving orders. :wtf:

Oh shit, I forgot, he doesn't have one. Bring on the garlic.

since it's mechanical.

I have dreams of bitch slapping Cheney. He's in a straight jacket of course. I also kick him in his saggy man sack. Very cathartic.

let the Iraqis do what they please with the whole administration. That would be justice.

Nice star BTW :silly:

Is there a statute of limitations for Treason? I hope not - I want this asshole to sweat slime the remainder of his life.

There was a guy who deserted from the US Army during the Korean War; he went to work for the North Koreans and eventually settled in Japan. He recently (last year? Two years ago?) gave himself up to US authorities to serve a sentence of desertion and treason handed down decades ago in abstentia.

not on the table :sarcasm: And to think I was so proud to have helped elect the first woman Speaker. What a huge disappointment THAT has been. Cheney is an asshat and can go Cheney himself. I never really knew what hatred felt like until those two, and their minions, took over our country :mad:

I wrote my Mom and sister congratulating their gender for the accomplishment. Then her true colors started to bleed through. Women in power can be equally shitty. I really already knew that, but Ol' Nancy had me fooled for a bit there.

It seems like it's the only place left sufficiently wacked out to welcome him.

Of course he won't-- The war criminal would need the 82nd Airborne to protect his sorry ass and they are unfortunately at the moment helping Halliburton garner record corporate profits.

And the people should be able watch him from home on TV.

the motherfucker, the least they can do is to ignore him.

comes with that...but his office is immune?...:wtf:


If cheney comes clean, he may have a case, but he is most likely one of the greatest criminals ever to hold a post in the government, how come we can't see what he's been doing?

Cheney cannot fade from the scene soon enough for me. He is a SERIOUS threat to democratic rule and in times past would have already hung high from the rafters for being a traitor.

J