Senator Russ Feingold On the Attorney General’s Testimony

[dogday]

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On the Attorney General’s Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee


WASHINGTON - April 7 - We already know that the president has broken the law by authorizing the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens making international phone calls. But yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, the Attorney General refused to rule out warrantless spying on purely domestic communications. This admission should trouble all Americans. It confirms that the administration is pushing a legal theory that knows no limits.

Congress must not allow the President and this administration to ignore the rule of law. The censure resolution I introduced is an appropriate and measured response to the President’s illegal actions. Congress must reassert its role in our constitutional system.


http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0407-14.htm


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[ClassWarrior]

1. Go Russ!

NGU.

[FormerRepublican]

2. I love Feingold!

:loveya:

[converted_democrat]

4. Me too.. He really cares about the people of this country, and the

nation itself.. I was all of our politicians had half his passion..

[neoblues]

3. Congress Must.... Or it's gonna get worse... Much worse. nt.

[pdxmom]

5. I really, really don't understand why every person in this country

isn't up in arms about this latest. How can the Attorney General of the United States imply that there is any situation in which the President can order a violation of one of our basic rights as enumerated in the Constitution and not have 95% of the country up in arms?

Are these people totally stupid? No sense of history? No understanding of what our military has gone to war in the past to protect?

This is the one question I would really like to be able to understand.

[driver8]

8. I used to blame it on ignorance but I now know that isn't the case.

I belong to a veteran's board and out of about forty of us, three of us are liberals and the rest are what one might call "freepers." The guys on this board are well read and know their US history very well. However, they continue to defend and support shrubby the criminal. It doesn't matter what evidence I present to them, they always come back to "Bush is defending our country from terrorists." That is it for them -- that is all that they care about. If I speak out against him, then I don't support the troops and am not a patriot. It is amazing.

I try to understand what these people see in this clown but I see nothing that warrants support. You should hear them scream when I tell them that "Bush wipes his ass with the Constitution."

[dogday]

15. One of the reasons is they barely mention

this on M$M and people don't know about it...

[BuyingThyme]

6. Everybody who was present at that hearing should resign immediately.

To sit there and listen to what Gonzales had to say, without immediately calling for his resignation, is traitorous in itself. It's like Gonzales saying he was gonna go to a nightclub tonight and start killing people with an automatic weapon. No difference.

The Democrats have joined the Republicans, and are now devout enemies of the American people. They don't know the difference between right and wrong. They can't see beyond the lies of the New York Times and Washington Post.

[me b zola]

7. KnR

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[debbierlus]

9. Only a matter of time before the President is exposed

For authorizing a program that allows the President to listen to whoever he wants, at any time, regardless of reason.

[dogday]

10. Do we really want the President exposing himself????

bwa-hahahahahahahah :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Just Me]

11. I consider Gonzales' remarks evidence of domestic spying.

It's fucking SOP for those tyrants to withhold the truth about their activities BECAUSE they KNOWINGLY stepped over the line. I'll bet IF congress were given its authority to SEE what's been taking place, every single member of this administration would be behind bars,...every single one of them. That's why they MUST be secretive and throw around the "security" defense ALL THE TIME.

Why don't those Bush "loyalists" who assert, "if you have nothing to hide you wouldn't be bothered by these additional intrusions into your life" ask the same of their EMPEROR!!! If he and his have nothing to hide, why not open the books to "the people"?

[WiseButAngrySara]

12. You know the answer. National Security, or It's an ongoing investigation!

n/t

[Pryderi]

13. WHAT THE FUCK IS HARRY REID DOING???? WHERE IS THAT WIMP?

[FogerRox]

14. Right on Brother RUSS

[Terran1212]

16. Take them down feingold!