Feb 14 2006
Thoughts On FISA-NSA
There are some good points being made on the FISA-NSA issue today. Check out this, this and this for starters.
UPDATE:
And then you have the droolers on the left:
This is the sort of nonsense despotic regimes engage in. These cowboys have found no evidence of any terrorist activities, except their own, so in order to keep the people “safe” they now have to resort to desperate measures. Knowing your wife’s panty size apparently can tell when the next so called terrorist attack will be.
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He and his bastard crowd have demonstrated beyond any question that they ARE TERRORISTS!!, of a caliber far worst than the Arab world has produced. I can hardly believe no action has been taken against Adolph Bush, and his other Nazi swill.
Someone is having ‘issues’. This nut get’s the rabid liberal of the year award.
UPDATE II:
OK, after that bizzare liberal ranting let’s look at the view of these folks from the center-right in this piece.
Worst of all, in lock step with the policies of the Clinton administration, the left continues to refuse to see terrorism as anything other than a criminal justice issue. Their policies are not designed around preventing attacks but about obsessing endlessly about legal procedures and only after these are exactingly followed to then seek convictions within the criminal justice system.
Terrorists deserve full constitutional rights and due process, Bush deserves to be impeached or worse….Got it.
This is only slightly OT but relates to leak investigations: did you see the New York Sun article, “Miller, Fitzgerald Face Off Again”? It is all baout the unintended consequences of Plame-gate. The article is at http://www.nysun.com/article/27523 and includes this:
“Journalist Judith Miller and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald squared off in court again yesterday, with a lot less public attention than last year, when the dogged special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case had the then-New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days to force her to disclose the identity of an anonymous source.
Yesterday appearance in Manhattan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was another instance of Mr. Fitzgerald trying to find out about Ms. Miller’s sources, this time by looking at the New York Times’s phone records, and prosecutors raised the prospect of pressing her directly yet again, as they did in the Plame case to disclose the sources.
At the center of this leak case is the question of how Ms. Miller, who has since left the paper, and a second Times reporter came to learn of the government’s plan to take action in the wake of September 11 against two Islamic organizations suspected of having terrorist ties.
The government is appealing a ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet last year that barred Mr. Fitzgerald from inspecting Ms. Miller’s phone records. Mr. Fitzgerald’s appeal has come before judges Amalya Kearse, Robert Sack, and Ralph Winter of the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Judge Winter was absent from the panel at yesterday’s hearing.
Mr. Fitzgerald, present yesterday as the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, did not address the court.
He left the arguments to another federal prosecutor, James Fleissner, who warned that Judge Sweet’s ruling to protect journalist phone records may encourage investigators to more regularly question reporters themselves about their sources.
That warning suggests that federal prosecutors could be influenced by that 2005 ruling, which is understood as offering significant First Amendment protection for reporters, to be even more willing to question reporters directly instead of going through phone companies to learn of their sources.”
My apologies for putting so much into the comment but I don’t have your e-mail and thought this woudl be right up your alley.
SW
And oh what a grin… the article from the “rabid liberal of the year” (as AJ calls Ted Bohne) appears on Rob Kall’s “news” site.
Mr. Kall is, in his prior career (and could still be active, for all I know), a teacher/instructor/author on “Positivity Training”. An advertising excerpt from FutureHealthy.org linked from his personal site….
“Lectures, seminars, coaching, consulting To Bring Out The Best In People”
Ummmmm… lot’s of anger from in this one, Obie-won. Not exactly a great endorsement for the training results.