Well, today marks six months that I’ve been at this.

For those who are regular readers, this week I’m doing a series on Long Term Care. Today’s post on the …

I notice you posted bush’s radio address. In that speech he almost quotes the law verbatum, obviously not, but you can see how he was reflecting on the law by explaining it to the common folk with a dash of salt. In laymans terms that is…:) Thats why i have every confidence in Bush and his legal team.

Everyone here is so smart.

A big thank you for posting the law! I will study it.

I knew it wasn’t as simple as the Democrats were saying.

I know the Bush people must be consulting lawyers all the time to make sure they get this hunt for terrorists right.

Sorry my typing is off today…:)

EX. ORD. NO. 12139. EXERCISE OF CERTAIN AUTHORITY RESPECTING ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE

Ex. Ord. No. 12139, May 23, 1979, 44 F.R. 30311, provided:

By the authority vested in me as President by Sections 102 and
104 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
1802 and 1804), in order to provide as set forth in that Act (thischapter) for the authorization of electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1-101. Pursuant to Section 102(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(a)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order, but only if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that Section.
1-102. Pursuant to Section 102(b) of the Foreign Intelligence Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(b)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve applications to the court having jurisdiction under Section 103 of that Act (50 U.S.C. 1803) to obtain orders for electronic surveillance for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence information.

1-103. Pursuant to Section 104(a)(7) of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1804(a)(7)), the following
officials, each of whom is employed in the area of national
security or defense, is designated to make the certifications
required by Section 104(a)(7) of the Act in support of applications
to conduct electronic surveillance:
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Director of Central Intelligence.
(d) Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(e) Deputy Secretary of State.
(f) Deputy Secretary of Defense.
(g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.

None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that
capacity, may exercise the authority to make the above
certifications, unless that official has been appointed by the
President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

1-104. Section 2-202 of Executive Order No. 12036 (set out under
section 401 of this title) is amended by inserting the following at the end of that section: ”Any electronic surveillance, as defined
in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, shall be
conducted in accordance with that Act as well as this Order.”.

1-105. Section 2-203 of Executive Order No. 12036 (set out under
section 401 of this title) is amended by inserting the following at the end of that section: ”Any monitoring which constitutes
electronic surveillance as defined in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be conducted in accordance with that
Act as well as this Order.

Signed by Jimmy Carter.

1802: Electronic surveillance authorization without court order; certification by Attorney General; reports to Congressional committees; transmittal under seal; duties and compensation of communication common carrier; applications; jurisdiction of court

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(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year if the Attorney General certifies in writing under oath that.

As you can plainly see Buhs acted well withing the law. PERIOD!!!

The talking heads keep saying it is wrong to spy on Americans.
I disagree. Some Americans are working with the terrorists, taking their money in exchange for propaganda, or maybe even in exchange for votes. Treason is what some of this spying shows, I think.

For example, the radical Colorado professor, Ward Churchill (a white American citizen who masqueradesas as an Indian), went to a conference in Washington hosted by Cynthia McKinney that was about Able Danger. Churchill has been an opponent of America’s policies toward Iraq. He celebrated 9-11 in an article called “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens” (also know as “Some People Push Back”) and called the 9-11 victims “Little Eichmanns.” I think he may have been snooping to see what Able Danger might know about him.

I am going to hold the politicians who voted against the Patriot Act responsible should we be attacked again. I bet the people who were incinerated in the WTC, airplanes, and Pentagon would not feel that monitoring communications was violating their rights as much as getting burned up alive.

Bush said:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_12_11_corner-archive.asp#084995

In the weeks following the terrorist attacks on our nation, I authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution, to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. Before we intercept these communications, the government must have information that establishes a clear link to these terrorist networks.

This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security. Its purpose is to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the United States, our friends and allies. Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.

As the 9/11 Commission pointed out, it was clear that terrorists inside the United States were communicating with terrorists abroad before the September the 11th attacks, and the commission criticized our nation’s inability to uncover links between terrorists here at home and terrorists abroad. Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn’t know they were here, until it was too late.

The authorization I gave the National Security Agency after September the 11th helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities. The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time. And the activities conducted under this authorization have helped detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks in the United States and abroad.

The activities I authorized are reviewed approximately every 45 days. Each review is based on a fresh intelligence assessment of terrorist threats to the continuity of our government and the threat of catastrophic damage to our homeland. During each assessment, previous activities under the authorization are reviewed. The review includes approval by our nation’s top legal officials, including the Attorney General and the Counsel to the President. I have reauthorized this program more than 30 times since the September the 11th attacks, and I intend to do so for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al Qaeda and related groups.

The NSA’s activities under this authorization are thoroughly reviewed by the Justice Department and NSA’s top legal officials, including NSA’s general counsel and inspector general. Leaders in Congress have been briefed more than a dozen times on this authorization and the activities conducted under it. Intelligence officials involved in this activity also receive extensive training to ensure they perform their duties consistent with the letter and intent of the authorization.

This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties. And that is exactly what I will continue to do, so long as I’m the President of the United States.

This article by James Risen that ratted out the efforts to evesdrop on American Al Qaeda collaborators was publihed just as the Senators were voting on the extension of the Patriot Act. Also, as noted by Drudge, Risen has a book coming out soon, and this article will make his book sell.

Here is an article that discusses the political damage from this leak.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051218/ap_on_go_co/cornyn_times

SNIPS:

“[O]n Saturday [Sen. John Cornyn] accused The New York Times of endangering American security to sell a book by waiting until the day of the terror-fighting Patriot Act reauthorization to report that the government has eavesdropped on people without court-approved warrants. ”

“At least two senators that I heard with my own ears cited this as a reason why they decided to vote to not allow a bipartisan majority to reauthorize the Patriot Act,” said Republican Sen. John Cornyn…of Texas. ”

“Well, as it turns out the author of this article turned in a book three months ago and the paper, The New York Times, failed to reveal that the urgent story was tied to a book release and its sale by its author.”

“I think it’s a crying shame … that we find that America’s safety is endangered by the potential expiration of the Patriot Act in part because a newspaper has seen fit to release on the night before the vote on the floor on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act as part of a marketing campaign for selling a book,” Cornyn said.

“As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “The unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk.”

President Bush delivered a very tough radio address responding to the controversy over the New York Times report on National Security Agency surveillance. The gist, according to Byron York at National Review’s The Corner: the surveillance program is …

I agree that the left has suckered people on the right into criticizing the CIA.

They have been “accusing the CIA of conducting a covert war against the Bush Administration by leaking damaging classified information to leftwing journalists in the press. That the most damaging leak of all to date, the “secret prisons” story leaked to the Washington Post, is incredibly damaging to the CIA itself has not given them pause.”

I think this statement is probably true. I have been saying that the whole CIA should not be bashed all along.

Maybe there are a few bad apples. With CIA operatives it is difficult to tell what is going on.

It is the CIA who are taking these terrorists off the street.

Not that I am some big expert, however.

THE ROGUE WEASELS CLUB

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
  

Friday, 16 December 2005

How upset are you over the CIA “secret prison scandal”? Maybe you said, “What scandal?”, or maybe you’ve glanced at stories about it carried in the back pages of your newspaper. Here in Europe, it’s the giant screaming front page headline story on every paper you pick up from England to Germany. The Europeans are in a state of high emotional froth over CIA “renditions” of Moslem terrorists seized in one of their countries and taken to a “secret prison” in Poland or elsewhere. The Euroweenies are far more concerned with the “human rights” of the terrorists than they are about the threat of terrorists to kill them. If you think all of this is just an excuse to bash the CIA and indulge in anti-Americanism, you’re right – just as planned by the weasels. Everyone on the right, it seems nowadays, from the editorials in the Wall Street Journal to conservative columnists like Mona Charen and bloggers like John Hinderacker, are issuing calls to “Investigate the CIA!” They have been suckered by the left. They should instead be demanding, “Investigate the weasels, not the agency!” All of them have been accusing the CIA of conducting a covert war against the Bush Administration by leaking damaging classified information to leftwing journalists in the press. That the most damaging leak of all to date, the “secret prisons” story leaked to the Washington Post, is incredibly damaging to the CIA itself has not given them pause. Why would the CIA conduct a covert war against itself? Because the agency is now being run by an ally of George Bush who is trying to root out left wing “rogue weasels” from its midst: Porter Goss. You could call it, as some of the good guys at Langley are starting to, the Rogue Weasel Club. According to one member of the intel community, its members include: *Recently retired officials who are active in, or advising, all the Congressional investigative activities that have so crippled and mangled the reform of the intelligence community. *Current CIA officials who have migrated to other intelligence agencies within the community. Individuals of special concern should include current FBI officials and analysts who have ties to and sympathy with targets of Goss’ house cleaning. The club is being assisted by members of Congress, their staff, and the media in operating what amounts to a shadow intelligence community in opposition to the elected Republican Legislative and Executive branches of our government during a time of war. This intel individual concludes: “The Rogue Weasel Club operating with immunity as they sabotage and ‘stick the knife’ into the backs of their former co-workers who are faithfully attempting to carry out the oaths that they took when they signed up.” And so it is time to name names. The following are signees to a letter addressed to John McCain in support of his campaign against “torture.” (It’s in quotes because there already are such laws, and everyone knows McCain is indulging in his usual petulant grandstanding.) By affixing their names to the McCain letter, they came out of the cold and announced themselves as members of the Rogue Weasel Club. They are waging a covert, and increasingly overt, war against the Bush Administration and Porter Goss’s CIA. This is the cabal of leftwing spooks Bush and Goss are up against, who are purposefully damaging the president with leaks to the press and folks in Congress who wish them ill. One of them is the culprit who leaked the “secret prison” story to John McCain, who in turn leaked it to the Washington Post. They are the ones who should be investigated – and it’s about time conservative critics of the CIA figured it out. Signees to letter to Senator John McCain, December 9, 2005: ROBERT BAER, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA VINCENT CANNISTRARO, former director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center KATHLEEN CHRISTISON, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA WILLIAM CHRISTISON, former National Intelligence Officer and Director, Office of Regional & Political Analysis, CIA RICHARD CLARKE, former advisor, National Security Council RAY CLOSE, former Chief of Station Officer, CIA VICKI DIVOLL, former Assistant General Counsel, CIA GRAHAM FULLER, former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, CIA MELVIN A. GOODMAN, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA PHILIP GIRALDI, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA MICHAEL GRIMALDI, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA RALPH M. HOCKLEY, Col. USA (ret), former intelligence officer ARTHUR S. HULNICK, former intelligence officer, US Air Force, former CIA LARRY C. JOHNSON, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA EDWARD R. M. KANE, former Chief of Station, CIA CAMERON LA CLAIR, former Executive Officer of Area Division, CIA W. PATRICK LANG, Col. USA (ret), Chief of DIA Middle East Division, Director Defense Humint Services LYNNE A. LARKIN, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA DAVID MACMICHAEL, former National Intelligence Council officer, CIA TOM MAERTENS, former analyst, Intelligence and Research, Department of State EUGENE A. MANNING, former Analyst, Office of National Estimates, Directorate of Intelligence, and Counterintelligence Center, CIA JAMES MARCINKOWSKI, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA JOHN E. MARSH, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA RICHARD MCDERMOTT, former Army Counterintelligence Special Agent RAY MCGOVERN, former Analyst, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA DAVID RUPP, former Case Officer, Directorate of Operations, CIA GARETH A. SHELLMAN, former intelligence analyst, U.S. Army Security Agency JOHN P. SONTAG, former intelligence analyst, CIA and Department of State LEWIS R. SORLEY, former Director, National Intelligence Emergency Support Office, CIA ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS, former clandestine officer, CIA STANSFIELD TURNER, former Director of Central Intelligence AMB. (RET) PHILIP C. WILCOX, JR., former Ambassador at Large for Counter Terrorism at Department of State AUSTIN YAMADA, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism Discuss this article on the forums. (4 posts)

SBD

The Lord is my strength and my shield;
In Him my heart trusts;
So I am helped, and my heart exhults,
And with my son I give thanks to Him.

(Psalm 28:7)

Well, my heart trusts George Bush, too!

I am glad he took responsibility, and he said his actions were consistent with the US law and the Constitution.

He said it was a highly classified program that was improperly provided to news organizations and puts our security at risk.

I am not afraid of this guy. I have his picture on my dresser, and on my computer desktop. I have his Christmas card on my kitchen table. He’s no Hitler.

He is the President Americans chose, and he is keeping us safe from people who would do more than monitor my e-mail.

I also saw on TV that when they have to act without a court order to get information quickly, that they submit their information to a court affter the fact.

Woolsey is on FOX and hinting that some of these terrorists are Americans linked with foreigners.