David Drake: Wiretap Schmiretap: Part 2

Friday, May 12, 2006

Wiretap Schmiretap: Part 2

Wiretap Schmiretap Part 1 is the post below this one.

Did you read the New York Sun Editorial today? A colleague told me he heard Rush Limbaugh quoting from it. HERE is a link to it.

Here are some excerpts:

...no sooner had USA Today disclosed details of an apparent attempt by the National Security Agency to defend Americans from terrorists than the Democratic Party and its leading politicians and interest groups went on the attack. Not against the terrorists but against President Bush.

"This is another example of the Bush Administration misleading the American people," said a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, Stacie Paxton.

Oh, don't bother telling the whole story there, Stacie. Put forth your misleading information and red herrings with the hope that it brings your party legitimacy and some gains in the November elections.

Senator Clinton pronounced herself "deeply disturbed."

Not disturbed as we all know, but disturbed by the story itself.

MrsSatan: "Deeply, deeply, 'Poseidon Adventure'-depths, disturbed."

Ah, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE:

Mrs. Clinton might want to have a talk with her husband. It was President Clinton who signed into law the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, after it was passed in both the House and Senate by a voice vote. That law is an act "to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for law enforcement purposes, and for other purposes." The act made clear that a court order isn't the only lawful way of obtaining call information, saying, "A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization."

Oh that BubbaCheese...anything to subvert our right to privacy...right, Commiecrats?

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE:

The law that President Clinton signed into law and that was approved by voice votes in 1994 by a Democrat-majority House and a Democrat-majority Senate not only made clear the phone companies' "duty" to cooperate, it authorized $500 million in taxpayer funds to reimburse the phone companies for equipment "enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to access call-identifying information that is reasonably available to the carrier." Again, the law, by referring to "other lawful authorization," states clearly that a court order isn't the only form of lawful authorization possible.

"...it's the phone companies DUTY to cooperate...." , Wow, the way the LiberNazis are reporting this you'd think Bush and Cheney just came up with this idea a couple months or weeks ago!

The Democrats who controlled the White House and both houses of Congress in 1994 showed signs of understanding the national security issues at stake here when they passed the law. Their understanding seems to have eroded since then. It can't be that they feel America faces less of a threat - if anything, the attacks of September 11, 2001, make the case for such programs even stronger. What's changed isn't the enemy threat but the party that now controls the White House. Which explains why Mrs. Clinton is "deeply disturbed" about activities legal under a law her husband signed.

They Libs knew what they were doing in 1994. But now, they're trying to peddle a different story, aren't they? Selective Amnesia or Early Alzheimer's? If it's the latter, you should resign from office. We cannot trust something as important as our security to politicians who are afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease.

You want it both ways, don't you Liberals? Well, we're not going to let you have it both ways.

This is yet another fine example by President Bush and his Rope A Dope strategy. He gives you just enough rope, allowing you to make complete idiots of yourselves, and then historical information shows up that you supported the SAME THING when BubbaCheese was in the White House and that the Left overwhelmingly approved the same blueprint, the same plan, the same methodology!

Oh, wait, there is a difference, a huge one. The LEFT isn't a majority anymore, are they? "Oh, Dat's So Sad."

To quote Otter from "Animal House": "We're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!"

Guess what Libs, I'm guessing come November there will be even fewer of you in Congress. And that's a good ---- no wait, that's a GREAT THING!!

©2006

// posted by David Drake @ 6:31 PM

Comments:

I heard about this on Rush this afternoon too. You just have to wonder what the hell Mr. Slick and Mrs. Satan did with all the political intel the gathered via this wiretapping biz. FBI Files? Sheesh! THIS is how they have managed to stay out of jail so long. Those FBI files are all old info and not much play is left in them. They must still be getting the goods on their opponents somehow (a mole at NSA perhaps?) They sure left behind enough moles at CIA and the State Dept. to make this scenario possible.

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:51 PM, May 12, 2006

The past is the past. If Mr. Clinton used the NSA to spy on us, it is part of history now. We can do something about what the current president is doing. We should demand an end to it.

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:30 AM, May 14, 2006

donnab - so we should forget the past? if so, why is the Left always reminding us of how horrible they think of, and feel about, President Nixon, one of the finest presidents in contemporary time, if you ask me.

donnab, you are Hillary, posting under an alias, aren't you? I bet you voted for Gore and Kerry, didn't you?

# posted by

David Drake : 3:51 PM, May 14, 2006

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