NSA spying is legal because once upon a time Dick Cheney's lawyer said so in sec

[Ptarmigan]

babsbunny (8,230 posts)

NSA spying is legal because once upon a time Dick Cheney's lawyer said so in secret documents that l
 NSA spying is legal because once upon a time Dick Cheney's lawyer said so in secret documents that later vanished

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2013/5047

by Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
June 28, 2013
Throughout the past weeks of revelations regarding the NSA and other agencies spying on millions of Americans, a bipartisan clique of hawks in both the Obama administration and Congress have repeatedly stated that the secret survellance practices are legal. The NSA director, General Keith Alexander, has already lied to Congress once that can be proven, without even a threat of sanction. The UK Guardian has released new documents today that show the legal justification for these survellance was so secret the former NSA director may have never actually read them.

The Guardian released the NSA Inspector General's report on the legalities of certain ongoing wiretap programs. It reveals without a doubt that as time progressed, intelligence gathering on people around the world increased, restrictions relaxed, and successive secret legal opinions normalized and regularized what was originally a secret temporary emergency measure. Federal judges and the vast majority congressional Democrats enthusiastically approved the measures without ever actually examining the legal underpinnings due to the reported success of the programs.

Barack Obama continued it.

Catherina (30,525 posts)
1. A most excellent piece

I read this last night in LBN when the Columbus Free Press itself posted it.

A most excellent piece. Thank you for re-posting it.

cantbeserious (2,378 posts)
2. RIP Constitution Of The United States of America

So says the one who hates the Constitution.  

Pholus (2,534 posts)
3. "due to the reported success of the programs. "

Oh, the hazards implicit in the words "Trust me."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023126258

[I_B_Perky]

OK let me see if I got this right dummie. Cheney, thru his lawyer, said it was legal. Obumbles continued it.

So that absolves all blame on obumbles? 

[Freeper]

cantbeserious (2,378 posts)
2. RIP Constitution Of The United States of America

Poor stupid DUmmies don't realize that once the Constitution is finally dead and buried that they can finally get the socialist utopia that they are dreaming of. Just imagine if that pesky piece of paper didn't give us the right to speak up and to bear arms.

[I_B_Perky]

Poor stupid DUmmies don't realize that once the Constitution is finally dead and buried that they can finally get the socialist utopia that they are dreaming of. Just imagine if that pesky piece of paper didn't give us the right to speak up and to bear arms.

They won't be around see their communist utopia, Freep. They will be the first against the wall. Communist utopias do not like paying people to sit on their ass.  I find it amusing that dummies are working toward a state that will see them shot and dumped in an unmarked grave.   

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So that absolves all blame on obumbles? 

But Cheney is still guilty.

Poor stupid DUmmies don't realize that once the Constitution is finally dead and buried that they can finally get the socialist utopia that they are dreaming of. Just imagine if that pesky piece of paper didn't give us the right to speak up and to bear arms.

The end of the Constitution means we no longer have to observe the BoR for those pinheads.

That's open season.

[Freeper]

They won't be around see their communist utopia, Freep. They will be the first against the wall. Communist utopias do not like paying people to sit on their ass.  I find it amusing that dummies are working toward a state that will see them shot and dumped in an unmarked grave.   

That's why we call them DUmmies. They constantly tell us how we vote against our own self interests when they are trying to shape the country in a way that ultimately is against everyone's self interests except for those in power. As they are shoved on the trains they will be asking if 0bama knows about this.