My letter to my Senators

To the Honorable Senator Richard Durbin (and seperate to Barack Obama),

I am writing to express my concern over the president's admission on December 17, 2005, to violations of the law over thirty times since September 11, 2001 and, in complete disregard for the law, his assertion that he will continue to violate the law.

I cite for your convenience, those portions of the United States Code the president has flagrantly and blatantly admitted to violating over thirty times:

TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

CHAPTER 36--FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE

SUBCHAPTER I--ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE

§ 1802. Electronic surveillance authorization without court order; certification by Attorney General; reports to Congressional committees; transmittal under seal; duties and compensation of communication common carrier; applications; jurisdiction of court

§ 1804. Applications for court orders

§ 1805. Issuance of order

§ 1806. Use of information

§ 1807. Report to Administrative Office of the United States Court and to Congress

§ 1808. Report of Attorney General to Congressional committees; limitation on authority or responsibility of information gathering activities of Congressional committees; report of Congressional committees to Congress

The sanctions for such crimes are covered here:

§ 1809. Criminal sanctions

I am further concerned that the president, the (at the time) National Security director, and other officials may be liable under this portion of the United states code:

§ 1810. Civil liability.

According to this portion of the United States code, Congress must declare war in order for the president to do what Bush did, and it limits the time period to just fifteen days:

§ 1811. Authorization during time of war

Please address these concerns. No president is above the law. George W. Bush is a president, not a king.

Sincerely,

I sent letters to both my senators & nine state reps yesterday. I hope they are overwhelmed with letters, email & faxes.

On a sad note, another site I frequent, which is largely a younger crowd, late teens to early 30's, the people there do not seem alarmed over boosh's admission. "It's the president, so it's ok" said one. "Anything to stop terrorists" said another. Worse, most don't even know what the heck I was talking about -- they thought it had to do with more police activity to catch drug dealers. Gasp!! I read stuff like this & I wonder if we have a chance. :banghead: