The thing about PARTISANS and the AP story.

[dutch508]

Whenever they say Partisans I always think of Tito in the mountians of Yugoslavia fighting off the NAZIs.
Of course, when I see the name BONOBO I always thing of a red assed baboon...

Thu May 16, 2013, 01:07 AM
Bonobo (20,483 posts)

The thing about PARTISANS and the AP story.
If you defend the kind of secretive, blanket monitoring that was done on AP, including monitoring the professional and personal calls of hundreds of people... then you MUST be prepared to keep you mouth shut when it is done by a Republican in the future.

"They thought it was necessary and it was within the law." are words that WILL come back to haunt you because you can bet your ass that it will happen and the Obama Admins actions are surely setting a dark, dark precedent.

 
He is correct. BUT--- of course the rest of the DUmpmonkiez don't see it.

Anansi1171 (87 posts)
11. The AP story does not involve monitoring calls, per se, but call records after the fact.

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As far as we know. Characterizing it as blanket monitoring is a bit misleading. A wide range of professional and personal call records is really what it was. The connected phone numbers, call time and duration. Nothing thus far indicates there were phone taps, wherein the government was "monitoring" the content of calls in progress or after the fact.

Proceed

it all depends on what the word 'is' is... or the definition of 'edit'... or 'monitoring'...

DevonRex (19,871 posts)
17. AP can reap what they sowed. nt

Yes, the people don't need to fear--- the government will tell them when and what and who to fear...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022850844

[txradioguy]

I...I tried to come up with some kind of logical reasoning for how they justify this...and got a headace.

What a bunch of idiots.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Bonobo actually makes sense, which is an amazing thing in itself.  I think that DUmmie is a she-DUmmie; IIRC bonobos are actually a smaller subspecies of chimps, mostly known for being as sexually indiscriminate as female Progressive college sophomores.

Congress and the Oministration are now falling all over themselves to move forward a journalist shield law, in order to give the MSM a big enough blow job to get forgiveness, though I personally have a problem with giving one (alleged) profession a set of rights that the rest of the populace doesn't have.

[Freeper]

Remember kids ignore the voices that warn of tyranny.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

It would be hippie-critical for the Proglodytes to say this is like the Patriot Act (or anything else they objected to doing to stop FOREIGN terrorists).

We are so far beyond "BUSH DID IT TOO!" territory.

We are beyond Nixon territory.

This is wholesale corruption and abuse of power, not for the sake of national security and defense against active threats.

This is self-serving, partisan tyranny.

[FlaGator]

Remember kids ignore the voices that warn of tyranny.

They desire tyranny. It absolves them of responsibility for everything.