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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Where's the exaggeration?
Unlimited power! Exaggeration.
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1) If the administration needs a wiretap to stop criminal or terrorist activity, then it can go to any court - and will get court permission. 2) If that is not good enough, a secret court exists to provide judicial permission. And 3) if that is not good enough, they can wiretap for 72 hours before going to any of those courts. Where is court permission an impediment to stopping terrorism? Nowhere. Not anywhere - three times over - does the need for a court order cause any risk to any Americans.
However a mental midget president says he should have the right to wiretap and bug anyone he wants at any time. OK. 4) The president now says he needs unlimited power. However UT disagrees? How is this possible - unless one has a right wing 'the president is never wrong' agenda.
Why did United States District Judge James Robertson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - the secret court - resign yesterday? Why even bother to have such courts when the president says he has the right to bug and wiretap anyone anytime without any judicial review? Somehow UT sees that as a president with limited powers. One would have to be daft to make such conclusions. This president is declaring he is above the law - as Richard Nixon also tried to claim before the Supreme Court. If George Jr can wiretap anyone anytime, then Nixon's plumbers also did nothing wrong.
Therein lies the damning fact for UT. How does George Jr's sound byte reasoning differ at all from what Richard Nixon did? Little hint. George Jr has the same Nixonian attitude - or is it President Cheney?