Spy v. Spy
President Bush has gone to great lengths to emphasize the fact that his secret spying program is limited to phone calls and emails which originate here in the United States but which are sent out of the country. He and other administration officials have repeatedly stressed that point-to-point calls and emails which both begin and end inside the United States are not being spying upon without the legally required search warrant.
Doesn't Bush's distinction presume that terrorists are only going communicate terror plans with foreign sources? And doesn't that kinda run contrary to the whole point of a terror cell as an entity which doesn't need or require outside direction?
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I personally don't care where the calls or emails start or end. what I care about is that Bush is not following the current law and even went to the length of creating a secret law.
I can't help but be concerned that we seem to be inching closer and closer to a dictatorship.
I share that concern, Don. And it goes well beyond president Bush or even the GOP.
If these extraordinary power grabs are not legally rebutted and reigned in in no uncertain terms... then there will be precidents set which future presidents surely will take advantage of.
You hit it on the nail Kevin. I'm going to comment more on a new post about this administrations goal with all this.
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