White House Told NSA Briefings Broke Law (the beginnng of the end?)

White House Told NSA Briefings Broke Law
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 43 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding information from the full congressional oversight committees about a new domestic surveillance program.

In a letter to Bush, Rep. Jane Harman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said the National Security Act requires the heads of the various intelligence agencies to keep the entire House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States."

Only in the case of a highly classified covert action can the president choose to inform a narrower group of Congress members about his decision, Harman said. That action is defined in the law as an operation to influence political, economic or military conditions of another country.

"The NSA program does not qualify as a 'covert action,'" Harman wrote.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/domestic_spying_congress_6

PUHLEASE???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Ask not what your country can do for you...................................

Can we get these RAT BASTARDS out of OUR HOUSE NOW?

Peace.

Chimperor...he ain't going anywhere.

If no one comes to arrest him...then what he did is legal.

It's as simple as that in the Tyrants' World, be he a Hitler or the lesser type of Caesers-ish Tyrant like Bush.

He's always guarded. At the WH. While traveling. Basically everywhere he goes. So how does one arrest a President? Would it take the military? FBI? Secret Service turn on him? What?

who was Jesus Christ compared to Chimperor, and an American in a basic way that Chimperor could NEVER be...which is that Nixon could have continued to fight, Julius Caeser (Or Chimperor Bush) style, after it became clear he was a crook.

In thos heady days of American freedom, Nixon, for all he'd done wrong, RESIGNED and left voluntarily, rather than drag himself and the nation to crisis, disgrace, and possible dissolution (or civil war).

Think about it. What if Nixon had fought to the bitter end? What if he had refused the charges and refused the authority of the courts over him ("if the President does it, it's legal")?

Well, that is essentially what Bush has done all this time, though he hasn't been tested by ultimate challenge.

If it did, I believe the Busheviks would rather see a milllion of us "little people" dead than relinquish power.

And 2005 Americans are not the Free People of 1974 America, fresh of defeating Hitler and democratizing Western Europe. Which is perhaps the hugest factor of all.

And yes, how does one arrest a Caeser? We have come full circle. In Free America, the President was beholden to the law like everyone else.

But Bushmerika isn't even CLOSE to being Free America.

and I agree with what you say - but the US didn't 'democratize Western Europe'. France and Britain were already democratic, as was Germany before Hitler.

In many ways the US subverted democracy in Western Europe with its programmes of political destabilisation directed at left parties and organisations. Italy didn't run an election free from the influence of the CIA until the 1990's, if, indeed, it has stopped. Probably every country had/has the same sort of programme in operation against them.

We don't really know the full extent of US actions directed at controlling the governments of western Europe - but there is no reason to doubt that such control was applied in many different ways, nor any reason to suppose they have stopped.

It's not on her website.

I posted about this too - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1554