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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Yeah, the leaker will likely end up between a rock and a hard place. I imagine he'll be identifed as a real rocky feller. I'm deadly Syrianous. But maybe he'll be able to get Sandy to steal the handwritten note implicating him.
Schieffer is such an idiot. He shouldn't report the news if he doesn't even understand it.
The judge did not resign. The judge quit the special FISA court. He's still a judge.
And of course, judges DO resign all the time, when they don't die first. I'm certain that they have many reasons to do so, and some have certainly said SOMETHING when resigning that suggested current events were to blame.
I bought a tuna sub at Subway today, maybe that was in protest to the President's actions as well. Who knows? Ask my unnamed source.
That's who I think it is too.
I like Harmon on this. She is smart, knowledgable and serious.
Do judges sometimes "leak" top secret information to the media?
anyone else wondering about this?
bump bump bumperoonie
I live in Harman's district. As Dimocrats go, she is a wee bit more moderate and sane than most, especially on defense matters. We have the Los Angeles Air Force Base here in her district, and she's fought hard to keep it open.
That said, Harman is a Dimocrat through and through. Before the 2000 redistricting, this district was pretty evenly split between Dims and Republicans. But the 'Rats up in Sacramento redrew it so registrations here are now 60% Dim, with the rest divided between Republicans and Independents. Harman has no worries being reelected in this district now.
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