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wishlist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:17 AM
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Bush's OK of Domestic Secret Spying is a Flagrant Abuse of Power
Good one from Asheville N.C. Citizen Times today:

"Outrage. In the end, that’s really the only reaction applicable to President Bush’s acknowledgement Saturday that he has for years OK’d secret spying on U.S. citizens inside these borders.

In a brief address Saturday, the president said key congressional leaders had been informed of the practice, which he has reauthorized three dozen times, and he furthermore made it plain he doesn’t intend to put an end to it. He lashed out at the disclosure of the story in the New York Times, which apparently sat on the story for around a year before going to press with it late last week.

None of the three institutions - the presidency, Congress and the press - mentioned in the previous paragraph are going to come out of this looking good.

But there’s every chance the president is going to come out the worst of the lot."

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051220/OPINION01/51219014/1039
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:20 AM
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1. And equally important is his intention for our future ...
he intends to continue these activities and has so stated.
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:31 AM
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2. And from a red-state paper
Good, I want the people who voted these criminals into office to see just what they have brought down on all of us.
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:09 AM
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3. Asheville is an island of blue
in a red state...if I'm not mistaken.

Some of the best vegan/vegetarian restaurants in the South are in downtown Asheville!

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