Maybe he knows that some US persons (citizens or foreigners here leaglly) are collaborating with organizations that are–let us say–less than charitable.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Are you really so stupid that you believe what you post or are you just being purposefully obtuse? So none of the attacks on the U.S. where acts of war? Bush is the one attacking and killing U.S. citizens? You are so far out there you are not even in the same reallity as the rest of us. You are the poster child for why morons should not be allowed to have an opinion little less post in a public forum. After reading your post(and I really regret doing so) I realize somewhere a village is missing an idiot. Keep up the good work AJ!

thanks for the support.

From a summary perspective, the Department of Justice reiterates points that have been argued by other bloggers and myself:…

The DOJ attemped to answer questions from Democrats and Republicans in Congress regarding the FISA-NSA stuff. The ACLU are visibly frustrated that their campaign against the monitoring conversations with terrorists has lost its steam. This is probab…

What?! That’s terrible! That’s — oh, wait — that’s not what it says at all. It says: “if the Attorney General authorizes emergency surveillance and the FISA court later declines to permit surveillance, there is a risk that the court would disclose the surveillance to U.S. persons whose communications were intercepted.”

You see, the key word there is “U.S. persons.” Supposedly, this program is aimed at the people overseas — the people the U.S. person is talking to. But if the AG authorizes surveillance on an innocent person, the FISA court may tell the U.S. citizen that he was spied on — and that is right and good. The U.S. citizen is not a terrorist; he is supposedly not even being “targeted,” and if there was no good reason for the surveillance, he should know that it happened.

Conflating U.S. citizens with “terrorists” is just another way of perpetuating the administration’s myth that only “terrorists” have anything to fear from this program — and, along with other Bush Administration attempts to use “war powers” (put in quotation marks because a war that will never end, as the war on terror will not, is hardly a war by any real definition of the term) against American citizens, is part of the way the Bush Administration has quite literally declared war on its own people.

Oh, and “terrorist surveillance program?” Is there any evidence that anybody in the Administration ever called it that until recently, when they needed a PR term to convince Americans (falsely) that only “terrorists” have anything to fear? This Administration is one long PR campaign, and those who use this meaningless term are just PR flacks, inherently unserious about the issues at hand.

The responses are interesting overall but don’t change the basic facts as they seem to stand: the Bush Administration broke the law so they could use war powers against Americans. Shameful that so many people in the blogosphere (and in the Congress) are enabling Bush’s war against America.

…okay, while I wait for SOMEONE to get my little quiz below right, here’s a massive post from AJ regarding a FISA/NSA surveillance document dump from the DoJ. Very informative…thanks, AJ!…

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