Thom Hartmann suspects spying is widespread ... even on politicians

[Bozita]

He thinks this may well be the coming bomb.

What would be the public reaction to learning that Kerry was wiretapped?

Thom's filling in for the Majority Report now on AAR.

[lovuian]

1. 10,000 names and yes Kerry's name is on it... Its how they

stayed ahead of the campaign...

[Hello_Kitty]

5. I think so too.

I think that's how they got Dan Rather too. They were probably spying on news people and realized they were going to nail the Chimp for his Nat'l Guard stuff. So that gave them plenty of time to concoct the document forgeries and get their freeper troops lined up.

[merh]

2. They have been spying on political opponents for years now.

They also like to charge them with crimes for actions they do all the time - their own sins.

They are ruthless and the rights of the citizens are inconsequentail, the ends justify the means.

:grr:

[bullimiami]

3. how did they know not to go back to the un for an iraq vote????

wiretapped them. of course.

where did rove get a lot of dirty ideas from???

wiretapping political opponents, of course.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. If information comes out that Kerry was wiretapped...

Then it's game over for the Bush Crime Family.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. I'll bet the shredders and the hard drive destroyers are working

overtime this week.... I'll just bet.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. That's been floating around in here since day one. nt.

[RagingInMiami]

8. this will end up make nixon looking like a boy scout

[Kansas Wyatt]

9. It is the only reasonable MO for Bush doing it.

All of their other excuses do not hold up.

[C_U_L8R]

10. On politicians.. and freepers too

The first people these shitheads spy on
are in their own base.... that is how they
keep it together... what do you think someone
with a nickname like "the hammer" does????
He certainly doesn't hammer democrats.. that's for sure.
These republican thugs police their own.. and that
includes wiretapping right wing politicians
and their support groups like the freepers.
In fact. every single post to Free Republic
is scooped, sorted and categorized for later use
on a super-computer cluster in VA.
So freeps.... you have yourselves to thank.
You voted for these assholes.

[laheina]

11. I really think

that part of the reason that they can command the cohesion that they have among their own, was that they have stuff on some of these people.

That is a tactic that Rove has used in the past.

[C_U_L8R]

14. It worked for Goebbels and Himmler

and it's working right now for Rove.

And like every historical example
it will fail... spectacularly

[oregonjen]

12. Will the NY Times come out with names?

They released names of groups, so what about individuals?

[dweller]

13. Kennedy and Gore both

weren't they held up at airports, pulled aside due to no-fly restrictions?

... wonder why ?

dp

[Bozita]

15. Could the wiretap list be incorporated into the "No-Fly" list?

IIRC, it took Kennedy 3-4 months to get his name off the "No-Fly" list.

And he went to Ashcroft for assistance.