{"id":196697,"date":"2008-04-01T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/illegal-wiretap-bill\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T21:55:00","slug":"illegal-wiretap-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/illegal-wiretap-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Wiretap Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is now being reported that, after having thrown everything at the Congressional Democrats but the kitchen sink, Bush is trying to adopt a more conciliatory attitude on the FISA update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’ve accused Pelosi and Reyes of everything short of buggering goats, and now it’s time to make nice.<\/p>\n

Bush does not get it. The congressional Democrats stood up to him<\/span> before the recess, and when they got back to their home districts, their constituents basically high fived them<\/span> for standing up to him.<\/p>\n

They realize that standing up to Mr. 19% is a political winner, so you have to convince them of the benefit to the public good of your proposals.<\/p>\n

Bush’s problem is that there is no public good<\/span> to telco immunity. It’s not about the public good. It’s about keeping Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> out of jail<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Telco immunity is important to Bush because Bush illegally <\/span>coerced the telecommunications companies to Hoover the phone and internet well before 911<\/span>, and if it comes out in court, he goes to jail, as do many of his cronies.<\/p>\n

Even the MSM is getting it now, with the LA Times describing DNI Michael McConnell’s behavior at a retreat with members of the House Intelligence Committee as being water carrying for the administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Took them long enough. He has been lying, and lying in ways that can be disproved in a few minutes with “the Google”, for months now, and the press is finally starting to notice.<\/p>\n

All of this lot need to go on trial after January. The pardon of Nixon has created a cult of impunity among Republicans that needs to be shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is now being reported that, after having thrown everything at the Congressional Democrats but the kitchen sink, Bush is trying to adopt a more conciliatory attitude on the FISA update. You’ve accused Pelosi and Reyes of everything short of buggering goats, and now it’s time to make nice. Bush does not get it. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1102,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-intelligence","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}