Bush Opens (Warrantless) Wiretap Documents to House

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Bush opens wiretap documents to House

As Senate Takes Up Eavesdropping Bill, Bush Opens Wiretapping Documents to House Members

PAMELA HESS
AP News
Jan 24, 2008 12:52 EST

Ending months of resistance, the White House has agreed to give House members access to secret documents about its warrantless wiretapping program, a congressional official said Thursday.

The Bush administration is trying to convince the House to protect from civil lawsuits the telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on Americans without the approval of a court. Congress created the court 30 years ago to oversee such activities.

House Intelligence and Judiciary committee members and staff will begin reading the documents at the White House Thursday, said an aide to Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas. Reyes and ranking Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan requested the documents in May, saying they would not support telecom immunity without them. The Senate committees were given the documents last fall.

The documents include the president's authorization of warrantless wiretapping, White House legal opinions going back to 2001, and the requests sent to the telecommunications companies asking for their assistance, said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the classified program.

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[tom_paine]

1. Who here believes the Bushies sent anything close to ALL the documents?

Got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya'. It's hardly been driven on.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "We do. Smirk." - Republicon corporate media propagandist cadre

"Smirk, Our fingers were crossed, smirk, so what we said doesn't count. Smirk."

- Republicon corporate media propagandist cadre

[underpants]

8. *raises hand*

NOT ME :hi:

[frog92969]

2. If the requests sent to the telecoms were official,

then they already have immunity. Chimpy wants some too.

[Solly Mack]

4. Why should fucklehead turning over any document change anything?

There should still be no immunity

[Sam Ervin jret]

5. Don't go to the White House to read them!!! You'll come out POD PEOPLE.

God knows what he is telling these idiots to get them to fall for this line, but it must be really good.

People who see the wire tap results are CONVINCED. WELL I WOULD BE TOO. GOD KNOWS what they have on these guys.and on tape! wow!!

FIGHT the temptation to cover your own ass congress and DO NOT PASS this FISA immunity BILL.

They broke the law, they can pay. What the hell difference does it make what they "caught" on tape? I don't care if they stopped an enemy invasion from MARS and PLUTO!!

BREAK THE LAW. GO TO COURT. If you have a defense, put it up there. If the court needs to be closed, fight that fight there, in the COURTS.

Where BUSH only owns some of the people some of the time.

[Ian David]

6. I'm going to bet that once AGAIN all he sent them was a pile of press clippings.

The "Secret Documents" are going to be things that are already in the public domain, along with thousands of pages of press clippings from the MSM.

[KoKo]

7. "Give Em Hell Harry!" must have told Bushie to send some scraps because his butt is

in the fire and he's got a load of Senators ready to hop those jets for Davos..so he needs anything wrapped with a pretty bow he can dangle before them to get his IMMUNITY.

Disgusting.

[DCKit]

9. WH house legal opinions? Since when are they worth the paper they are printed on?

As the old saying goes, opinions and assholes, everyone's got one.