Senator Grassley has just said he can not understand why their is no outcry over the leaking of this program as compared to the outcry of the Valerie Plame leak. Can this guy be serious or is a member of the judiciary committee that blind to the law? He also said that if hypothetically the […]
Senator Kennedy said we are sending a message to the people conducting the taps they may be prosecuted for illegal taps, also we are sending a message to the telecommunication companies that they are under siege and could result in criminal prosecution and has already lead to a civil case. He also brought up the […]
Congressional Research Services, the non-partisan research group of Congress, released a report yesterday laying significant legal doubts to President Bush’s warantless wiretapping program. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 – President Bush’s rationale for eavesdropping on Americans without warrants rests on questionable legal ground, and Congress does not appear to have given him the authority to order the […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – The limited oral briefings provided by the White House to a handful of lawmakers about the domestic eavesdropping program may not have fulfilled a legal requirement under the National Security Act that calls for such reports to be in written form, Congressional officials from both parties said on Tuesday. The White […]
I been wondering that since Bush feels he has the power to break the law and since his current Supreme Court nominee, Sam Alito, shares the same “constitutional” values as Bush will that make him even more of a threat to the high court. Well it turns out Alito will get to answer on that: […]
To give my readers a better example of how the Republicans feel about your civil liberties, you just need to look at what was said in Senate today: “None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,†said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on […]