Posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:35 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
Though Bob Schieffer introduced Wednesday's CBS Evening News by using loaded language as he pointed out how, “to protest the President's decision to continue spying on American citizens, a federal judge took the unprecedented step of resigning from the court that issues warrants in such cases,” an event also highlighted by ABC and NBC, unlike those networks, CBS White House correspondent John Roberts informed viewers how “the President got support today from an unusual quarter: Democrat Jane Harman, a key figure on the House Intelligence Committee.” He highlighted how she asserted that “I believe the program is essential to U.S. national security” and, in a slam at the leaker and the New York Times, that the “disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.” Schieffer, however, remained most interested in the resignation. After Roberts wrapped up his story, Schieffer marveled to him: “I want to go back to this federal judge resigning. I must say in all my years in the news business, I've never heard of a federal judge resigning in protest over anything.”
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Especially THAT Democrat. She always seems very much in line with the talking points of the day. Maybe a moment of honesty or conscience overcame her, who knows?!
Or does she need to take a position like this to 'maintain her political viability' with the folks at home (sorry to be so cynical)?
Jane Harman is one of the few Dems in the House that seems to put our country before the RATS agendas. She's from California too, hard to believe.
How ironic his initials are B.S.
When I heard that Harmon did the right thing, I thought, guess she will be killed by the dems. like any other democrat that does not vote the party line.
It seems that the most we can get are two democrats voting with the republicans, but our side.............EGAD! maybe they can be replaced in 2006.
Another surprise today someone posted...........
John Schmidt served under President Clinton from 1994 to 1997 as the associate attorney general of the United States.
http://tinyurl.com/8q8mt
Excerpt........
President had legal authority to OK taps
By John Schmidt
Published December 21, 2005
President Bush's post- Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents.
The president authorized the NSA program in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. An identifiable group, Al Qaeda, was responsible and believed to be planning future attacks in the United States. Electronic surveillance of communications to or from those who might plausibly be members of or in contact with Al Qaeda was probably the only means of obtaining information about what its members were planning next. No one except the president and the few officials with access to the NSA program can know how valuable such surveillance has been in protecting the nation.
In the Supreme Court's 1972 Keith decision holding that the president does not have inherent authority to order wiretapping without warrants to combat domestic threats, the court said explicitly that it was not questioning the president's authority to take such action in response to threats from abroad.
Four federal courts of appeal subsequently faced the issue squarely and held that the president has inherent authority to authorize wiretapping for foreign intelligence purposes without judicial warrant.
Anti-Christmas votes Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to protect the symbols and traditions of Christmas. The vote was 401-22 in favor of the resolution (5 voted "present"); below are the representatives that voted "nay."
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Jane Harman (D-CA)
Too bad she's a bigot siding with the most radical leftist anti-Christians.
She'll get little coverage, and with Republicans not using vital info such as Carter, Reagan, and Clinton's exec orders on nonwarranted searches and Gorelicks Senate Intelligence Committee Testimony.
Republicans don't even put out information that help their own cause to beat the Democrats, real dumb asses
They are preaching to the billionaires who fund their party. This is about money, not votes. It takes a lot of "walking around money" to deliver Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Cross her off the leak suspect list.
bttt
Maybe thats what she wants you to think.
There are probably 3 democrats with the intelligence to understand what this whole thing means. I think Harmon knows how serious it is and that the leaker WILL be caught and there will be some serious ramifictions. I'm talking jail time here folks, and it's more than likely someone on one of these committees who did the leaking.
$$$$, the raising of it, was what the vote on ANWR was all about. The wackos lie about it, and their dumber than dirt true believers send the money. But, once we can get in to ANWR, drill, and the Sun stays in the sky, the issue is over and won`t raise a dime.
Harman represents a district with a lot of defense and space industry engineers and such living in it. But she has always been tough on defense and foreign policy matters, and need not now since the district was gerrymandered to make it unmarginal. So chalk it up to actual conviction.
Thanks for this post. It does a better job of explaining this subject than most.
There was a time that although I figured that although Shieffer was clearly a loyal Democrat, I could give him the benefit of the doubt that he was simply an "old fashioned" Democrat and maybe even a straight shooter.
Turns out Shieffer's a complete scumbag and a liar - - no better than Rather.
The corrupt, Clinton appointed Judge Robertson resigned "without providing an explanation".
Schieffer's assertion that Robertson resigned "in protest" is pure speculation based on the following "scoop" from the Washington Post:
Two associates familiar with his decision said yesterday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may have tainted the FISA court's work.
Notice all the weasel words in the "report"? In fact, the more likely scenario is that Robertson was nailed as a leaker and told to resign. Imagine the pinched look on that scumbag Shieffer's face when his newsroom handlers tell him he has to report THAT little item whether he wants to or not.
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