12-19-2005, 04:18 AM
kandrathe,Dec 18 2005, 09:08 PM Wrote:So.... Rather than jump to the impeachment phase, how about we figure out what the heck law was broken, if any?
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The laws that this will fall under will be FISA (???) I believe (one of the million laws that stars with F and ends with A). It was written just after the vietnam war when it was learned that the CIA was tapping calls of american citizens that they deemed to be national threats. Such horrible individuals as Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, and others.
The problem, and this is what Liberals and some Conservatives (especially Conservative Libertarians) are going to pound home, is that Bush isn't giving any reason for doing this that wasn't giving back in the 70s. The american people heard this reasoning and said that it didn't matter you still can't spy on american people without proper oversight. Even the people that helped write the law are coming out and saying that if it isn't drop dead illegal it is completely against what the law was written for.
It's possible that we will find out that Bush and the government finagled their way through some loopholes that keep what they did in the realm of law. That doesn't mean what they have done isn't slimey as all hell. But that part doesn't really suprise me.
here's some more slimey stuff regarding the government spying on americans:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121805D.shtml