Posted on 12/26/2005 3:31:50 AM PST by Puzzleman
The New York Times' Christmas gift -- sorry, holiday gift -- to the nation's political dialogue was its Dec. 16 story reporting that the National Security Agency has been intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects abroad and U.S. citizens or legal residents in the United States.
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Many of the news stories about the NSA intercepts show that it is mainstream media that are living inside a bubble, carefully insulating themselves and their readers and viewers from knowledge of applicable law and recent historical precedent, determined to pursue an agenda of undermining the Bush administration regardless of any damage to national security.
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Barone v Pinkerton
Pinkerton v Barone
I can't decide which column I like more.
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-oppin224561206dec22,0,4034515.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
He's a good and intelligent man.
His analysis of the 2004 election was spot on.
.......... and Bill Sammon on 2000 ............. "At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" --- great book.
If Kerry was 100,000 votes closer Ohio would have been a replay of Florida.
Some jokes just write themselves.
I also enjoy Michael Barone when he is a guest on Fox. I wish they would have him more often.
"The Constitution, Justice Robert Jackson famously wrote, should not be interpreted in a way that makes it "a suicide pact." The notion that terrorists' privacy must be respected when they place a cell-phone call to someone in the United States is in the nature of a suicide pact. The Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures in the United States should not be stretched into a ban on interceptions of communications from America's enemies abroad."
Amen
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If BS were concrete, John F'in would be an Interstate Highway .......... a FReeper
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And I agree with you about Michael on television. Calm, reasoned, and polite he is.
He is an unassuming and settled adult. I like that in my pundits.
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The other day, Dingy Harry swore that the briefings he'd received by the President months ago contained nothing about these 'secret', illegal details. Another baldfaced lie. The dems and the MSM want another attack on US soil. That's their goal -- they figure the voters will lose all faith in the President and republicans. Sad if Americans have to die, but it's for 'the common good', their ticket to power.
BTTT...
Let's examine the REAL CRIME HERE: somebody leaked this information and has severely DAMAGED our national security by crippling one of our greatest weapons against these islamic nuts.
"Let's examine the REAL CRIME HERE: somebody leaked this information and has severely DAMAGED our national security by crippling one of our greatest weapons against these islamic nuts."
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look to a judge who "resigned" from the FICa court.
There's got to be a good expression similar to "cried 'Wolf!" too often" to wave off all this hyperbole from the leftists -- those Leninist agitators -- and their "news stories" and other public blatherings that are tinged with a note of hysteria.
It's pathetic. They have but one real issue. Every other "issue" is a weapon.
"Bring it all down, man." That's the Leninist agitators' decades-old single issue.
Go ahead. Let's have the "investigations."
Put the Leninists under oath before Congress and let them face perjury charges. They cannot keep from lying. It's what they do.
Just to be nitpicky and petty..
Some say that Justice Jackson (a FDR liberal) actually said, in Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949), "There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact."
Further, "14 years later in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez (1963), Justice Goldberg wrote, '[W]hile the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact.'"
The latter was in opposition to government-imposed punishment without procedural safeguards.
Justice Jackson's point was (from an Internet source), "Extremism in the name of civil liberties could lead to the destruction of the nation."
I hope someone gets it together to sue the NY Times for false advertising concerning its motto.
When does the investigation start? I want some leakers to get the max punishment possible.
You don't understand. Only leakers ever investigated are those which can help the DEMS. You know, like the Plame investigation. Because this "story" was leaked to the NYTs and it led to criticism of Bush, this is the instance of an honest "whistle blower". Nothing to investigate here. Move on.
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