Wisconsin LTTE: Impeach Bush over NSA spying order

Dear Editor: I would like to express my support for Sen. Russ Feingold’s filibuster against renewal of the Patriot Act. Feingold’s filibuster is an important, long overdue effort to preserve endangered civil liberties in the United States.

Although it comes as no surprise that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, I am nonetheless outraged. It’s heartening to this impeachment supporter that many other Americans oppose such illegal surveillance. According to a Dec. 17 AOL poll, more than 63 percent of respondents believe this kind of spying shouldn’t be legal.

The neocons have stolen two presidential elections. They are at the very least negligent in their conduct relating to the 9/11 attacks. They lied to get us into the Iraq war, where they have killed possibly a hundred thousand people. So why should this latest evidence of executive malfeasance matter? Because, especially in conjunction with the aforementioned crimes, Bush’s order to the NSA makes Watergate look petty.

Bush personally and illegally ordered the surveillance of folks in the USA, without even the quasi-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court’s authorization. In a sane and healthy America, where common sense dictated the course of electoral politics, the revelation of Bush’s dictatorial order to spy on U.S. citizens would result in the ouster of this illegal regime. Even Republican Arlen Specter has said the Bush surveillance is against the law.

There are those who say: "It’s just not the right time yet to be talking impeachment." If not now, when?

Dan Goldstein Madison http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=66273&ntpid=5