Posted on 02/06/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by ken5050
Good Monday morning, once again, fellow political jinkies. The NFL season may be over, but the political season inside the Beltway is 24/7/365. So join us, if you can, as those wacky Dems on the Senate Judiciary committee reprise their pitiful efforts to once again smear President Bush and score political points..
Betcha they will try to "Guckert" that guy...and get him thrown out as a Bush activist plant...
Oh, good, White House briefing will be shown during the break. I hope Scott McClellan will be at his best today (which I know isn't much, but he occasionally has good moments).
It is, isn't it. Thanks for the link.
SAVES LIVES? DO IT
By DEBRA BURLINGAME
DO you remember Rick Rescorla? He was the Morgan Stanley security chief who persistently warned Port Authority officials before the first World Trade Center bombing that the Twin Towers were vulnerable to terrorist attack. They didn't listen.
After six people died in the 1993 bombing, Rescorla repeatedly drilled employees on evacuation procedures. On 9/11, after the first jet slammed into Tower One at 8:46 a.m., he ignored the official order to send his workforce back to their desks in the south tower.
"Everything above where that plane hit is going to collapse," he told a friend over the phone. "I'm getting my people the [expletive] out of here."
The 62-year-old Vietnam veteran grabbed a bullhorn and led hundreds of people out of the building, singing "God Bless America" to keep them from losing their nerve, going back again and again for stragglers.
He's credited with evacuating 2,700 people, but did not save himself.
Listening to members of Congress argue about the National Security Agency (NSA) terrorist-surveillance program brought Rescorla to mind. What would he think about all the dry legal arguments concerning the president's authority for intercepting al Qaeda conversations?
I think the decorated war hero would say, "If it'll it save my people, do it."
Missing in the debate over the program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists without a warrant is the question of whether or not it works.
After The New York Times seized on an illegal leak to reveal the secret program's existence last month, Rep. Jane Harman, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and one of the "Gang of Eight" given a full briefing on the program, said, "I believe the program is essential to U.S. national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilites."
Gen. Michael Hayden, the principal deputy director of national intelligence (appointed to his previous job as NSA director by President Bill Clinton), said — "unequivocally" — that we've gotten intelligence information that "otherwise would not be available."
A 2004 NBC report graphically illustrated what not having this program cost us 41/2 years ago. In 1999, the NSA began monitoring a known al Qaeda "switchboard" in Yemen that relayed calls from Osama bin Laden to operatives all over world. The surveillance picked up the phone number of a "Khalid" in the United States — but the NSA didn't intercept those calls, fearing it would be accused of "domestic spying."
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/pfriendly_new.php
That's interesting...
I see fireworks over this in the future.
Anything to make America weaker, say Bush failed, and try to get Dems elected. Shameful.
Powerline told Dirtbin that Dan Rather has heard of PajamaMedia?
BWAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
It'll be great to see their blogging on this, Heck it might be up now, I'll check.
Detestable? It goes beyond the pale. I've been getting some things done while listening to the replay of this morning and I can't decide which one is digging his hole the deepest. Right now Lahey is on and I've despised him for a very long time.
I have no doubt. So predictable aren't they? That one is going to sting for a while.
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John Hinderaker, Power Line
February 6, 2006 07:22 AM
That’s the title of Debra Burlingame’s op-ed in this morning’s New York Post. Debra defends the NSA terrorist surveillance program, on which hearings are getting underway today in the Senate. She notes an NBC report that I didn’t know about:
Missing in the debate over the program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists without a warrant is the question of whether or not it works.A 2004 NBC report graphically illustrated what not having this program cost us 41/2 years ago.
He's like watching paint dry. Poor guy.
The woman should run to unseat a Democrat in NY IMO.
The dems are stuck (mentally) in the Vietnam War and have lost sight of 911 and an attack on American soil... they don't realize the game changed on that date.
She's a lawyer, she knows what she's talking about.
Re the Durbin/Powerline exchange, anyone have video?
Bin Lookin to no avail.....
They know they're lying.
My tv is to my left as I sit at the computer. I am going cockeyed.
Off topic while at break:
Does anyone remember how long the memorial or honoring process went on for Jackie Kennedy Onassis, when she died?
Bet PowerLine will have it later.
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