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Cheney Big Brother?
Last week, increasingly beleaguered attorney general Alberto Gonzales exasperated Senators with another round of dubious testimony concerning everything from warrantless domestic surveillance to authorizing torture to US attorneys firings. But on one point, Gonzales' prevaricating may have been to protect his career benefactor Bush not from direct responsibility, but from something else. Gonzales refused to tell Senators who had ordered him to go to then ailing attorney general John Ashcroft's hospital bedside to try to coerce him to sign off on a domestic spying program that then acting attorney general James Comey had refused to reauthorize.
There are growing signs that Cheney was behind the whole incredible series of events that culminated with Gonzales and former chief of staff Andy Card being sent to a nearly comatose Ashcroft's bedside on March 2004 with an envelope with the orders to reauthorize the NSA domestic spying program. Former deputy attorney general James Comey had previously testified about the extraordinary scene at Aschroft's hospital bed.
Yesterday, Newsweek revealed that it was Cheney who briefed the "Gang of Eight" Congressional leaders on the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program the day of the controversial Gonzales Ashcroft hospital visit:
Late on the afternoon of March 10, 2004, eight congressional leaders filed into the White House Situation Room for an urgent briefing on one of the Bush administration's top secrets: a classified surveillance program that involved monitoring Americans' e-mails and phone calls without court warrants. Vice President Dick Cheney did most of the briefing. But as he explained the National Security Agency program, the lawmakers weren't fully grasping the dimensions of what he was saying.
Today, via TPM, a New York Times editorial says that it was Cheney who ordered Gonzales to Ashcroft's bedside.
Is "Fredo" Gonzales protecting Bush not from acknowledgement that he ordered the attempted end run around the acting attorney general on warrantless domestic spying, but rather from the revelation that he had turned over the keys on the issue to Cheney?
The majority of the American population is either unaffected by the Federal government or has no idea what "their government" is supposed to be doing FOR them. The white-middle-trash (still the largest population block) has been convinced by the fascists - over the last 40+ years - that anybody who expects the government to "work for them" is a liberal trying to help "those people". The white-middle-trash would still rather cutoff their noses to spite their faces in this area. Until you socialists can figure out how to talk TO ? as opposed to AT - the majority of the white-middle-trash population, you'll keep losing. All you guys can do now is to keep rubbing their noses in "diversity" and trying to get them to "repent". Meanwhile the fascists have deregulated, outsourced, militarized, and otherwise kicked the constitution apart while the guilt-ridden socialists are worried about? what? Do you socialists actually ALL agree on helping anybody outside of your guilt-ridden special interest group rankings?
The majority of the American population is either unaffected by the Federal government or has no idea what "their government" is supposed to be doing FOR them. The white-middle-trash (still the largest population block) has been convinced by the fascists - over the last 40+ years - that anybody who expects the government to "work for them" is a liberal trying to help "those people". The white-middle-trash would still rather cutoff their noses to spite their faces in this area. Until you socialists can figure out how to talk TO ? as opposed to AT - the majority of the white-middle-trash population, you'll keep losing. All you guys can do now is to keep rubbing their noses in "diversity" and trying to get them to "repent". Meanwhile the fascists have deregulated, outsourced, militarized, and otherwise kicked the constitution apart while the guilt-ridden socialists are worried about? what? Do you socialists actually ALL agree on helping anybody outside of your guilt-ridden special interest group rankings?
When are they going to admit that this administration will not tell the turth about anything?
All the hearings are a waste of time. Those who don't lie outright, split hairs in defining certain words/phrases.
Bill Clinton lied, but his lie did not affect the whole country. That was his and Hillarys' concern, not ours.
When is Congress going to remember its role in Government and take back the authority that Shrub and the Shootist have granted theirselves?
Congress will act when the public-that's us folks, keep bombarding them with telephone calls, letters and emails letting them know we are watching them. Their main concern, democrats and republicans alike, is to get reelected. For far too long, we Americans have not voted, have not held our representatives answerable, and have not followed up on promises made. It's time we demand explanations and accountability from Congress. It's their job to answer to us and it's our job to ask the questions.
The majority of the American population is either unaffected by the Federal government or has no idea what "their government" is supposed to be doing FOR them. The white-middle-trash (still the largest population block) has been convinced by the fascists - over the last 40+ years - that anybody who expects the government to "work for them" is a liberal trying to help "those people". The white-middle-trash would still rather cutoff their noses to spite their faces in this area. Until you socialists can figure out how to talk TO as opposed to AT - the majority of the white-middle-trash population, you'll keep losing. All you guys can do now is to keep rubbing their noses in "diversity" and trying to get them to "repent". Meanwhile the fascists have deregulated, outsourced, militarized, and otherwise kicked the constitution apart while the guilt-ridden socialists are worried about what? Do you socialists actually ALL agree on helping anybody outside of your guilt-ridden special interest group rankings?
When the people start refusal to support the "lesser evil" and vote consistently for less government [any third party will do - even the Socialists want less government than the Democrats], the "fascists" [another form of socialism] in power will keep splitting hairs and bringing up paper tigers to fight - and support clandestinely. I'm doing my part. I vote mostly Libertarian - except when our nominees sound like Republicans. Then I vote Green - except when they sound like Democrats. Even the Constitutional Party has it in spades over the "lesser evil".
While the Greens and Socialists want a single payer system be not confused: we already have socialized medicine. This socialized medicine works for those profiting from health care and we see the devastation daily in our lives.