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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:59 PM
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Newsday: Who needs the Patriot Act? President Run-amok would ignore it
Bush shows he believes he is above the law

December 20, 2005

Who needs the Patriot Act? Not President Run-amok.

The president has now admitted to secretly authorizing what amounts to an end-run around the law that is meant, specifically and determinedly, to keep intelligence agencies from snooping on Americans at home.

In asking the super-secret National Security Agency to monitor - without any court oversight whatsoever - the international phone calls and e-mails of hundreds of Americans, President George W. Bush has gone far beyond what even the Patriot Act allows. So why make a fuss over the Senate's refusal to extend it? Even if lawmakers passed it, Bush would ignore it.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opcoc204558361dec20,0,7989551.column
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1. Or, As He's Known on the Simpsons
Edited on Wed Dec-21-05 12:28 AM by neoblues
Commander Cuckoo-Bananas (in Chief).
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