"Senate Intelligence Chairman: Bush Can Spy"...Rat Bastard Roberts!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

:grr::grr::grr::grr:

Senate Intelligence Chairman: Bush Can Spy
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago

WASHINGTON - Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.

The program is "legal, necessary and reasonable," the Kansas Republican wrote in a 19-page letter, taking a particularly expansive view of the president's authority for the warrantless surveillance.

"Congress, by statute, cannot extinguish a core constitutional authority of the president," Roberts wrote.

Presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush have intercepted communications to ascertain enemy threats to national security, Roberts told the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Roberts' letter came just three days before that panel was to question Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about the surveillance.<snip>


http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/02/03/318717.html

[speedoo]

1. Fuck him.

He is one of the main reasons the Dems must regain the Senate. Another big reason is SCOTUS.

[louis-t]

2. Is Pat Roberts a judge?

Constitutional scholar? Any experience in law interpretation? Then he is just saying what his king is telling him to. Pat Roberts should just shut the fuck up.

[CottonBear]

3. I don't care what Roberts said. Bush broke the law. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Wonder if he knows how much heat he will take for this.

[Justice Is Comin]

5. We'll see how high profile he is with his

bullshit when Gonzalez is in front of the committee with spittle running out the side of his mouth as Kennedy fries him on one side, and then Feingold turns him over and grills the other side.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. LOL...but, but, but that will have to be discussed in private session.

I can't wait to see the Democrats skewer him.

[BuyingThyme]

6. They are WAAAAAY desperate.

This was all planned ahead of time. They knew long ago that this was going to be an impeachable issue, and Roberts signed on.

When we start locking them up, let's not forget Pat Roberts.

[Catfight]

7. Let's see if the law agrees with that thinking...I think not. Bush=liar

and lawless.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. I sent an email. Tell him he is violating conservative principles.

[atommom]

10. Not to be confused with Dread Pirate Roberts.

But really, a statement like this is no surprise from Pat. What else is he going to say?

[SillyGoose]

11. Wonder if he would still say that if oh, say, HILLARY, got elected

President and decided to spy domestically without warrants. Betcha he and all his little republican cronies would be singing a different tune then.

I'm not optimistic about these hearings at all. Just another whitewash for Administration wrongdoings.

[deacon]

12. These people are traitors--bush broke the law period--The are

deserters-betraying America. A president is NOT above the law.

[H2O Man]

13. No surprise.

This is an old debate, and there are people who believe the way Pat Roberts does. But they are wrong. The congress made the FISA law for just this reason. The US Supreme Court decided the Keith case even before that. Thus, both federal law and the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in a case very similar to the current events, make clear the president does not have the right to spy in this manner.

[Justice Is Comin]

14. They're playing three card monty.

They're desperately trying to keep the focus lasered on al Qida evesdropping. Because that's not why he didn't go to the court and that's not what he's doing. He's spying on his political detractors and he's about to get caught.

That's like somebody nonchalantly walking out of a department store with a canoe on their head. The act is so blatant that nobody thinks they're stealing it.