Bush confesses…
In December 2005, after the NY Times did what the legitimate press is supposed to do (are you paying attention FauxNews?) and revealed that his administration was violating the law and our constitutional rights by spying on US citizens without search warrants, or in fact without any court supervision whatsoever (Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts, December 16, 2005) bush publicly confessed (actually boasted) that he had violated the law of the land:
…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.
…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.
President’s Radio Address, December 17, 2005
Putting aside the obvious non sequitur of bush acknowledging that his long-standing practice of revealing classified information to advance his political goals is in fact illegal (does the name Valerie Plame Wilson ring a bell?), he also admits that they view US citizens as “our enemies.” This is consistent with their many other offensive and illegal practices, including “Extraordinary Rendition” and other instances in which they kidnap people and throw them into prisons and subject them to torture, both in the US and around the world, based solely on bush’s “judgement” (these are not 2 words you often see together beyond FauxNews) that they “pose a threat.” There is no oversight, and no evidence that this illegal spying is not being inflicted on citizen’s communications not involving suspected terrorists. In fact, there is a lot of reason to believe that they are spying on anyone they view as a political threat, i.e. anyone willing and able to reveal the truth about their criminal enterprise.
This band of fools apparently believes that we, the sane intelligent citizens, are just not interested and not paying attention when they commit these crimes, and that the laws of the land just don’t apply to them. They are seemingly confident that they will never be called to account in the criminal justice system for their behavior. I beg to differ…
When (not IF) they are hauled into court, this public confession will be one of the prime exhibits against them.
This is hardly an isolated incident, in fact it is another in a long line of serious criminal offenses committed by cheneybush, and entirely consistent with their attitude that “if the president does it, it is by definition not a crime.”
The clock is ticking, and in a few months we will send bush back to his “ranch” to “clear brush” and watch sitcoms, or whatever else his simple mind can handle. Then the real work will begin, of cleaning up their colossal messes and restoring sanity and the rule of law to this nation, and restoring our credibility and alliances which he has trashed around the world.
Tags: ashcroft, bush, cheney, crimes, criminal, eavesdropping, surveillance
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