Looks like some of these ex-CIA types are ready to turn on any President. Newmax covers a story in Der Spiegel Die Zeit: The man who ran the Central Intelligence Agency’s Bin Laden desk during the 1990s is accusing President Clinton of giving the CIA carte blanche to circumvent U.S. law and interrogate terrorist suspects [...]

A must read the last day of 2005. I linked into the second page where the fun begins. There is an introduction page prior to this page you can reach through navigation arrows upper left and right of the main body. Hat Tip Real Clear Politics. UPDATE: My Favorite Matt Lauer in Baghdad: “Talk to [...]

Editorial clean up, thanks to reader Snapple: 12/31/05 What stunning hypocrisy is eminating from the ACLU! They are calling for in investigation into crimes by Bush because he did not follow FISA – a process and set of statutes the ACLU claimed was illegal in 2002 in an amicus brief to the government’s first ever [...]

A gentleman on FoxNews (Brit Hume’s show) made the obvious point that the NSA story is not a case of whistleblowing because there was nothing being done wrong and nothing was being hidden. FISA and Congress knew of the program and were kept up to date. The NSA is not illegal. So there can be [...]

Here is a great discussion of legal warrantless searches, which combined with the basic fact the Constitution, and the powers it subscribes to the President, supercedes any legislation out of Congress (hing: FISA) results in a really bad year to come for the impeachment crazed left. Several types of search and seizure have long been [...]

Updates at the end Washington Post CIA Prison story also being probed – see Update VII All my FISA-NSA posts can be found here This is great news: The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine who disclosed a secret NSA eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 [...]

The Watcher’s Council has made their weekly selection of top posts and here are the top results. In the council category first place goes to Above Thy Deep and Dreamless Sleep… by Gates of Vienna, while second place goes to The Suicidal Pursuit of Perfection by ShrinkWrapped. In the non category first place goes to [...]

See Mac Ranger for the details

Seems like mature discussion of the actual issues is starting to arise out of the heap of rabid cries for impeachment (which I hope continue since these calls will demonstrate the lack of seriousness and immense void of proposals from the left). Hat tip to Real Clear Politics for finding many of these excellent discussions. [...]

A diarist over at Redstate makes a good point about the FISA wall and Moussaoui. BTW, yes I am still banned at Redstate since I made them call me names against their own policy on personal insults! Isn’t life ironic?

Talk about hoping the world will end so you can be crowned emperor of the ashes! Check out this liberal’s pathological fantasy, culminating in Bush’s impeachment: Because we shall soon see the consequences of those warrantless searches, the consequences of the government’s five years of secrecy, and even the citizens of the “Red States” will [...]

While this general story is cute about the Wilson twins (who are about 6 months younger than our twin daughters), the real surprising gem is that Joe Wilson talked to Fitzgerald quite recently: Wilson said he does not know how the current investigation was progressing and has only spoken to the special prosecutor twice, most [...]

Don Surber has an excellent post out today illustrating how Bush deals with corruption in Big Business. Where some pols might take campaign donations to water down laws and help these people skate, Bush send them to jail. Check out the list, it is amazing.

For all those who fell asleep during US Government class (especially you intellectually superior liberals) the US Constitution takes precedent over any act of Congress. So, no matter what the FISA statute says, it cannot supercede the US Constitution and the powers granted the President in that document. Any legislation that attempts to challenge the [...]

As I suspected, it is not clear FISA has any authority over the NSA’s role in surveillance overseas. The rub comes when information from overseas or in connection with overseas agents touches people in the US. That is when the FBI must come into play, and apparently the process of that hand over is through [...]