TURLEY keeps banging about Shrub's criminal acts

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-05-16-forum-nsa-oversight_x.htm

.... Now, it appears Congress is finally acting — not to end alleged criminal acts by the administration, mind you, but to stop the public from learning about such alleged crimes in the future. Members are seeking to give the president the authority to continue to engage in warrantless domestic surveillance as they call for whistle-blowers to be routed out. They also want new penalties to deter both reporters and their sources. ....

The plain fact is that neither party wants to acknowledge that the president might have ordered the commission of federal crimes in the name of national security. Thus, while there have been calls for another feeble hearing (possibly with telecom executives), Congress would prefer to investigate steroids in baseball and the selling of horses to France for gourmet dinners.

Congress has become a sad parody of itself. In his State of the Union address in January, Bush proudly said he had repeatedly ordered the domestic surveillance operation and would continue to do so. In perhaps the most bizarre moment in modern congressional history, members from both houses proceeded to give him a standing ovation — cheering their own institutional irrelevancy. ....

It is time to separate true patriots from cringing politicians. The assertion of unchecked power by this president has created a danger to our constitutional system. Congress must demand an independent investigation of these programs. It must also pass a federal shield law and strengthen whistle-blower protections to preserve the only current check on governmental abuse. It should change the federal law to prevent the abusive use of the Espionage Act, such as in the AIPAC case. Finally, it should revamp the intelligence oversight system, which has long been viewed as a pathetic paper tiger with either little interest or ability in checking abuses. ....

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Turley is very powerful here. I won't hold my breath for congress to do anything. Welcome to the USA now a complete Corporate Dictatorship!

always interesting to hear him on Keith Olbermann show

They have not only aided and abetted multiple crimes, but they daily break their oath to defend the Constitution. Specter's latest scam is an extraordinary act of cowardice and dereliction of duty.

In the best of all possible worlds.

excoriating of bush and his cabal. He is scorching in both his written and oral statements on this.