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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:09 AM
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FEINGOLD"The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed"
UPDATE -- Feingold Responds:
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis) responded to Gonzales' comments in an NBC interview this morning. "This is just an outrageous power grab," he said. "Nobody, nobody, thought when we passed a resolution to invade Afghanistan and to fight the war on terror, including myself who voted for it, thought that this was an authorization to allow a wiretapping against the law of the United States. "There's two ways you can do this kind of wiretapping under our law. One is through the criminal code, Title III; the other is through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That's it. That's the only way you can do it. You can't make up a law and deriving it from the Afghanistan resolution. "The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed," said Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.).
http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900211.html
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:11 AM
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1. This is one of the few Democrats who should be president
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:29 AM
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7. Agreed.
No way is Feingold going to get caught napping by anyone, swiftboat or otherwise.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:13 AM
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2. There's one other way to wiretap
and that is what bush has done. It is to say "Fuck the law, I am the emperor and I'll do whatever the fuck I want and you can't stop me." Feingold and the rest of the Senate need to stop him and stop him now.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:14 AM
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3. Good shot, Russ!
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:19 AM
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4. But if it's unchallenged in court, it defacto becomes the Enabling Act
And the real question is whether the Bush team's assertions will stop what should become a blood letting.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:26 AM
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5. Charles I of England and Louis-Seizième of France were
laws unto themselves. They got to say what would be spied on and they got to treat their own pronouncements as law.

Why not Bushler? Isn't he his father's rightful son and heir?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-19-05 11:28 AM
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6. VIDEO #7 of 13 here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/

Check out video #12 too. Couric and Russert on "Constitutional lawyers vs. real americans"
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