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Thursday, February 14, 2008

FISA and The Bush Veto Threat

     Bush says that if there is no retroactive immunity ( amnesty ) for the telecoms, that he will veto the FISA bill. So, Bush is then willing to let Americans die ( won't happen if FISA bill expires ) if ATT and others aren't let off the hook for spying on us?

  Ted Kennedy summed it up on the Senate floor on Monday, before the Senate voted and this still holds true for the House.

  The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA.  But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retro-active immunity.  No immunity, no FISA bill.  So if we take the President at his word, he's willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.  Source

  Different day, same shit for Bush. He's making the amnesty issue the issue. Forget about the terrorist! More solid proof that this FISA version has nothing to do with monitoring terrorist and more to do with monitoring you and I.

Bush Tells The House: Pass FISA Bill Or Terrorist Will Kill Us, Again! Please Pass the Tums!

   Let me tell you something. After reading Crime Boss Bush's little press gathering, I had to reach for the Pepto-Bismol! This punk is so sickening that someone in the medical research establishment needs to come up with some kind of a vaccine for him.

  Some of Bush's comments:

   At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction to our shores that will make September the 11th pale by comparison. To carry out their plans, they must communicate with each other, they must recruit operatives, and they must share information.

  It's a safe bet that Bush's terrorist are not emailing or using the phone system to let each other know the next stage of their plans. Bush's comment here is beyond ludicrous.

     The lives of countless Americans depend on our ability to monitor these communications.

  In that case Preznit Bush, bring forth the 5 million or so emails that the Bush Crime Syndicate has misplaced.  I'd like to read those terrorist emails.

Bush then goes on to say that the Senate did a wonderful thing in passing the Protect America Act in a " bipartisan majority. "  Here comes my favorite part.

The Senate bill also provides fair and just liability protections for companies that did the right thing and assisted in defending America after the attacks of September the 11th.

  Funny how Bush leaves out the part about him going to those same telecoms before 9/11 happened, and wanting our private records. He also didn't mention that the phone companies stopped assisting  in America's defense when the government wouldn't pay their phone bills.

In order to be able to discover enemy -- the enemy's plans, we need the cooperation of telecommunication companies. If these companies are subjected to lawsuits that could cost them billions of dollars, they won't participate; they won't help us; they won't help protect America. Liability protection is critical to securing the private sector's cooperation with our intelligence efforts.

  They won't help in an illegal manner if their asses are put to the fire! they sure as fuck will not cover for Bush if they have to go into a courtroom. Bush is only concerned with us finding out just how much of a gutter crawling scab he really is.

The House's failure to pass the bipartisan Senate bill would jeopardize the security of our citizens. As Director McConnell has told me, without this law, our ability to prevent new attacks will be weakened. And it will become harder for us to uncover terrorist plots.  

  This line of bullshit has been laid to rest Here.

It is time for Congress to pass a law that provides a long-term foundation to protect our country. And they must do so immediately.

  Better hurry up House before Bush's next telecom bribe gets withheld from him!

   Would somebody please pass me some more Tums? I feel sick again.