Comments on: How dumb would Hayden CIA nomination be? http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323/comment-page-1#comment-23994 Gary Mon, 08 May 2006 22:03:45 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1323#comment-23994 PubliusToo: Yeah, some of the law-oriented blogs (e.g., ReddHedd aka Christy at firedoglake) were all over the "fruit of the poisoned tree" ramifications of illegally obtained evidence potentially letting terrorists off scot-free. Traditional media, to my knowledge, have barely blinked if they've noticed the issue at all, except reporting the FISA judges' serious concerns over it (i.e., if FISA warrants were obtained based on illegal NSA surveillance, the "legally" obtained FISA evidence would also be tainted and likely inadmissible). PubliusToo: Yeah, some of the law-oriented blogs (e.g., ReddHedd aka Christy at firedoglake) were all over the “fruit of the poisoned tree” ramifications of illegally obtained evidence potentially letting terrorists off scot-free. Traditional media, to my knowledge, have barely blinked if they’ve noticed the issue at all, except reporting the FISA judges’ serious concerns over it (i.e., if FISA warrants were obtained based on illegal NSA surveillance, the “legally” obtained FISA evidence would also be tainted and likely inadmissible).

]]> By: Gary http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323/comment-page-1#comment-23992 Gary Mon, 08 May 2006 21:54:59 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1323#comment-23992 Keifus: New Gallup poll out today. "As you may know, the Bush administration has been wiretapping telephone conversations between U.S. citizens living in the United States and suspected terrorists living in other countries without getting a court order allowing it to do so. . . . Do you think the Bush administration was right or wrong in wiretapping these conversations without obtaining a court order?" Right 46 Wrong 51 "Do you think a special prosecutor should or should not be appointed to investigate this matter?" Yes, should 58 No, should not 39 Yep, sure looks like a slam dunk political winner all right. Pathetically, with "only" 51% opposed, Cokie might actually be right that this IS "Bush's strongest polling point right now". Keifus: New Gallup poll out today.

“As you may know, the Bush administration has been wiretapping telephone conversations between U.S. citizens living in the United States and suspected terrorists living in other countries without getting a court order allowing it to do so. . . . Do you think the Bush administration was right or wrong in wiretapping these conversations without obtaining a court order?”
Right 46
Wrong 51

“Do you think a special prosecutor should or should not be appointed to investigate this matter?”
Yes, should 58
No, should not 39

Yep, sure looks like a slam dunk political winner all right. Pathetically, with “only” 51% opposed, Cokie might actually be right that this IS “Bush’s strongest polling point right now”.

]]> By: PubliusToo http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323/comment-page-1#comment-23989 PubliusToo Mon, 08 May 2006 21:09:52 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1323#comment-23989 The democratic party's biggest challenge is to communicate clearly how the President's apparent unwillingness to obtain after-the-fact court orders under FISA actually compromises national security. By failing to comply with FISA's unequivocal and unobtrusive requirements, the administration has jeopardized the usefulness of any evidence obtained from the wiretaps in any later criminal prosecution. And as far as we know, the administration cannot give any reason whatsoever for its refusal simply to ask the FISA court to validate the wiretaps after-the-fact as permitted under FISA. The democratic party’s biggest challenge is to communicate clearly how the President’s apparent unwillingness to obtain after-the-fact court orders under FISA actually compromises national security. By failing to comply with FISA’s unequivocal and unobtrusive requirements, the administration has jeopardized the usefulness of any evidence obtained from the wiretaps in any later criminal prosecution. And as far as we know, the administration cannot give any reason whatsoever for its refusal simply to ask the FISA court to validate the wiretaps after-the-fact as permitted under FISA.

]]> By: Keifus http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323/comment-page-1#comment-23973 Keifus Mon, 08 May 2006 12:40:42 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1323#comment-23973 According to Cokie Roberts this morning, ('what the Democrats call the') domestic eavesdropping program is the president's strongest polling point right now. His strongest point. I shit you not. Keifus According to Cokie Roberts this morning, (‘what the Democrats call the’) domestic eavesdropping program is the president’s strongest polling point right now.

His strongest point. I shit you not.

Keifus

]]> By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1323/comment-page-1#comment-23971 Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator Mon, 08 May 2006 11:03:12 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1323#comment-23971 <strong>CIA CHOICE SPURS WIDE CONCERN</strong> WASHINGTON — The Republican chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence panels raised seriou CIA CHOICE SPURS WIDE CONCERN

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