Pat Roberts: Bush Can Spy

[kerrygoddess]

Pat Roberts: Bush Can Spy
February 3rd, 2006 @ 2:59 pm

Here we go… So much for anything coming out of hearings on Bush’s secret NSA domestic spying program…

Senate Intel Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said today that “the Bush administration’s domestic spying is within the president’s inherent power under the Constitution,” and he rejected the outcry of criticism that “Congress was kept in the dark about it.”

Roberts said the Bush administration’s notification of just eight members of Congress fulfilled the legal requirement that the legislative branch be kept fully and currently informed.

Roberts has received a dozen briefings on the program; the committee’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, half that many.

Rockefeller says he has not received enough detailed information about the surveillance to make a judgment about its legality, and that the full committee should be briefed.

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[smartvoter]

1. Yep. It's about power. The constitution does not matter. nt

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

2. See Bush spy. Bush likes to spy. Who does Bush spy on?

They will not say.

They are full of it.

[joeybee12]

3. So, does this guy just automatically bend over when Bush walks by...

...or did he do that too many times before and they have pix of it which they hold over him?

Either that, or he's a raving lunatic--take your pick.

[AtomicKitten]

4. yeah, and Pat Roberts can kiss me arse.

God told me so.

[Chipper Chat]

5. Is their anyone more arrogant than Pat Roberts?

No#2 is James Sensenbrenner. They are the face of the Republican party today. No other elected officials in Washington are more disgusting than those two (well, maybe Bush and DeLay). WAIT A MINUTE - I forgot - Bush wasn't elected.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

7. Ooo! Ooo! I know: Frist and Kyl are very arrogant too! n/t

[HereSince1628]

6. Take the guy off the kool-aid for a month and THEN ask him.

Fucking Enabler, I for one will not forget. And during the war crimes trial I will testify that Roberts willingly perverted reality to protect Der Fuerher.

BTW, everyone openly hostile to the US Constitution is an ENEMY OF THE STATE and will recieve appropriate handling when they fall into our custody.

[Neil Lisst]

8. they're in a full court press to justify illegal domestic spying

I cannot believe these Republican assholes are defending the trashing of the constitution for such crass political reasons.

Bush has done more damage to the US than all the terrorists combined could possibly do.

We've had over 100,000 dead from gunshots since 9/11, but no one is suggesting we suspend the 2nd amendment.

But 3000 dead in 2001, and suddenly, Bush's asinine programs trump liberties that took 200 plus years building. He's a greater danger to America than Osama.

[zulchzulu]

9. Roberts would shred the Constitiution if he's told to

What a good foot soldier for PNAC.

[saltpoint]

10. Swear to God, doesn't Pat Roberts remind you of a guy who might

be the clerk in the supplies warehouse in Nazi Germany? Not intelligent enough to run the show, but dutiful and supplicant enough to order crap for the powers that be. They order it. He ships it. Case closed.

Bush tells him what to do. Roberts does it. "Only following orders."

[burythehatchet]

11. I guess they have the picture of Pat's dalliance

with that goat

[renie408]

12. Yeah, he must have gotten caught trying to create an animal-human hybrid