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PennyMan Donating Member (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:25 PM
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President signed an order allowing the NSA to spy on Americans
Edited on Fri Dec-16-05 03:34 PM by PennyMan
The revelation today that the President signed an order allowing the NSA ( National Security Agency ) to spy on Americans without first
obtaining a search warrant is shocking. This order clearly violates the fourth amendment to the constitution.
President Bush swore an oath to defend that constituion. He has clearly violated his oath of office.
Usually I think calls for impeachment are overblown.
But when a President knowingly violates the constitution he swears to uphold, he must be impeached.
We cannot tolerate such disregard for the fundamental law of the United States.

Here Is The Link:
http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/12/16/12274/365




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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:38 PM
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1. This is big and his stooges aren't talking.
<snip>"There is no doubt that this is inappropriate," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said there would be hearings early next year and that they would have "a very, very high priority." He wasn't alone in reacting harshly to the report. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the story, first reported in Friday's New York Times, was troubling.

<snip>Neither Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice nor White House press secretary Scott McClellan would confirm or deny the report which said the super-secret NSA had spied on as many as 500 people at any given time since 2002 in this country.

<snip>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales refused to confirm that the NSA eavesdrops on Americans or whether he played any role, in his previous job as White House counsel, in providing legal justification for the program.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051216/D8EHH80O0.html
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