Bush administration was either incompetent or is guilty of malfeasance

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10477

Bush administration was either incompetent or is guilty of malfeasance
by Frank J Ranelli | Oct 15 2007


George Bush has been likely caught in another lie, another cover up, and another scandal. One that may debunk his entire justifications for violating FISA, or worse yet, show that the 9/11 attacks were not prevented due to gross incompetence!

Bush simply can't have it both ways.

Impeachment, not immunity, or blank war checks without aggressive congressional checks and balances, is more warranted than ever now. As first reported on Daily Kos, and summarized by Bob Fertik on Democrats.com, the Bush administration has been pursuing dragnet data mining operations well in advance of September 11, 2001. Of course, once again, Bush has been mendacious and totally erroneous about when the illegal warrantless wiretapping began and for what purpose.

Quoting Mr. Fertik,

“This week Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest, revealed the Bush Administration started muscling telephone companies to wiretap American citizens without a warrant on Feb. 27, 2001. When Qwest refused, they were cut out of government contracts and Nacchio was prosecuted for insider trading.

So we now know Bush began violating FISA and the 4th Amendment just 1 month after stealing the White House. And since the 9/11 attack was 7 months later, Bush has lied about 9/11 being the justification for warrantless wiretapping for the past two years.”

Therefore, Bush either lied about the program’s intended purpose or the program failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks! At this point, Joseph Nacchio’s revelation strongly suggests that the Bush administration was grossly incompetent on September 11, 2001, which negates any and all claims that the warrantless wiretapping has, or continues to, prevent any terrorists attacks at all. Otherwise, it has been involved in a Watergate-like abuse of power, for nefarious reasons, over the past six-plus years.

Impeachment, not future elections, is the only way to halt this runaway exploitation of claimed plenary power by President Bush.
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[BrklynLib at work]

1. How about both???????

[Didereaux]

3. We may have to impeach the goddam Dem leadership first... n/t

[BrklynLib at work]

5. They sure as hell are not doing what they were elected to do...

[BridgeTheGap]

2. LIHOP starts to seem more credible now

not like it was incredible before.
What was their justification for the wiretaps BEFORE 9/11?

[bdamomma]

4. maybe this wicked regime has done the same thing to the Dems

perhaps they are dangling that over their heads.

[havocmom]

7. cheney seems to have no limits or inhibitions in keeping power

If someone can't be bought or blackmailed, they can be threatened. If they don't fear for themselves, there is family. If they are brave enough to not succumb to threats against family, there are MILLIONS of other people that could be threatened if they don't comply.

Observing from a distance, I have no doubt cheney would do anything it takes to get what he wants. They actually know the man. Seems likely they don't have many delusions that he is a nice guy who works within rule of law.

[bdamomma]

8. cheney is the root of evil. a guy who has a mechanical heart.

ugh, now that is evil.

just a reminder, Frontline has a documentary about Cheney tonite.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

[havocmom]

9. He was evil before his heart died. So evil, he killed his own heart

THAT'S evil

Thanks for the heads up about the program.

[havocmom]

6. Justification for wiretaps before 9/11> Gotta have info to blackmail people

All that lockstep was probably not just ideology.