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The Day Senator Bunning Read the Newspaper

So Kentucky's Sen. Jim Bunning says he doesn't read newspapers, but he did pick up a copy of the Times long enough to read the financial-surveillance story, and he knows treason when he sees it.

Bunning equated the Times' story last week on the bank records to publishing the phone number of Osama bin Laden, saying the al-Qaida leader would be tipped and change his number immediately.
"In my opinion, that is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, therefore it is an act of treason," Bunning said of the story, which detailed how the government is analyzing a massive database on international money transfers.

Let the record reflect that to suggest that terrorists would have had no way to suspect that their records might be surveiled--through an agency that out and out advertises its cooperation with law enforcement), you have to assume that they're pretty damn obtuse. But no matter: Bunning's point really is that, as Ari Fleischer would have it, "people need to watch what they say, watch what they do."

"What you write in a war and what is legal to do for the federal government, or state government, whoever it is, is very important in the winning of the war on terror."
Asked if that could be a recipe for government abuse of civil liberties, Bunning responded: "It could be."

Posted by Monika Bauerlein on 06/28/06 at 9:40 PM | E-mail | Print

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One of our foundfathers said tiranny would come to this shore during a engagment with a foreign entity

Posted by: Josh Ondich on 06/29/06 at 5:19 AM

That senator and the Bush administration is a example of tiranny

Posted by: Josh Ondich on 06/29/06 at 5:21 AM

Bunning isn't too sharp but he had a hell of a fastball.

Posted by: Pug on 06/29/06 at 5:23 AM

Of course Bunning doesn't read the newspaper he is a Bushie Republican all of whom are lock step, knee jerk, blind, 'Stepford' thinkers and do nothing followers.
Of course Ari Fleischer would say those things which are an implied threat because he is a nazi-fascist neocon all of whom are war and fear mongers.
It certainly is a Bush government abuse and continuing erosion of our civil liberties but that is exactly what the Bushies nazi fascist neocons want to do. They want to use 'we the people' to pay for, with dollars and dead and maimed troops, their political adventures all over the world.

Read Stephan Cohen for a great analysis of screwed up Bushie foreign policy toward Putin to get a perfect example of how to alienate and antagonize another government as Cheney did in his recent speech about Russia and as John Bolton did in his speech about Iraq before the war. Both Cheney and Bolton are nazi neocons.

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