Spying on his fellow Americans
The Huffington Post has a rollcall of reaction of the spy-on-Americans story.
Kansas City Star: “The Struggle With Foreign Enemies Does Not Simply Give Him A Blank Check”…
Denver Post: Adm. Has Lost “Balance Between Essential Anti-Terrorism Tools And Encroachment On Liberties”…
LA Times: “Stunning,” “One Of The More Egregious Cases Of Governmental Overreach”…
Wash. Post: "The Tools Of Foreign Intelligence Are Not Consistent With A Democratic Society"…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Unacceptable Actions Of A Police State”…
St. Petersburg Times: “So Dangerously Ill-Conceived And Contrary To This Nation's Guiding Principles”…
NY Times: Bush "Secretly And Recklessly Expanded The Govt.'s Powers In Dangerous And Unnecessary Ways"…
See also: "Spying on Americans: The Latest Developments"
Kansas City Star: “The Struggle With Foreign Enemies Does Not Simply Give Him A Blank Check”…
Denver Post: Adm. Has Lost “Balance Between Essential Anti-Terrorism Tools And Encroachment On Liberties”…
LA Times: “Stunning,” “One Of The More Egregious Cases Of Governmental Overreach”…
Wash. Post: "The Tools Of Foreign Intelligence Are Not Consistent With A Democratic Society"…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Unacceptable Actions Of A Police State”…
St. Petersburg Times: “So Dangerously Ill-Conceived And Contrary To This Nation's Guiding Principles”…
NY Times: Bush "Secretly And Recklessly Expanded The Govt.'s Powers In Dangerous And Unnecessary Ways"…
See also: "Spying on Americans: The Latest Developments"
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Bush’s Snoopgate
The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security.
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2005
Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate—he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda—but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
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FROM THE BLOG, "WURFWHILE"
"There Is No Question That The U.S. Congress Has Impeached Presidents For Lesser Offenses."
Yesterday Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, reacted to news that President George W. Bush had authorized wire-tapping of Americans without court review saying, "There is no question that the U.S. Congress has impeached presidents for lesser offenses.” Lewis said, in a radio interview with WAOK-AM, that he would sign a Bill of Impeachment and that the House of Representatives should consider drawing up Articles of Impeachment. Lewis went on to say, "It's a very serious charge, but he violated the law... The president should abide by the law. He deliberately, systematically violated the law. He is not King, he is president."
The AP says Representative John Lewis is the "first major House figure to suggest impeaching Bush." Other government officials and political groups have suggested taking steps towards or actually impeaching President George W. Bush prior to the recent revelations that the president approved spying on Americans and tried to prevent the New York Times from making it public. [The New York Times sat on the spy information for over a year - preventing it from affecting the 2004 presidential election.]
Since the spy revelations, Senator Barbara Boxer has sought expert opinions "on former White House Counsel John Dean’s statement that President Bush admitted to an 'impeachable offense.'” President Bush has not denied the spying charges, but he and his Administration argue that the spying, considered by outside legal experts to be in violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was legal.
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