Hatch compares FISA critics to those ‘who wear tin foil hats and think 9/11 was an inside job

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Speaking today on the Senate floor in favor of the Foreign Service Intelligence Act legislation, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) compared critics of the bill — which include Sens. Harry Reid (D-NV), Chris Dodd (D-CT), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), among others — to deluded conspiracy theorists. Hatch mocked the what he called “onerous oversight provisions” included in the bill, and said those who raise the specter of unchecked executive wiretapping power “feed the delusions of those who wear tin foil hats around their house and think that 9/11 was an inside job.” Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/25/hatch-compares-fisa-critics-to-those-who-wear-tin-foil-hats-and-think-911-was-an-inside-job/

Those “onerous” oversight provisions Hatch maligns? A ban on “reverse targeting” of Americans and a new requirement of probable cause for surveillance of Americans abroad.

[whistle]

1. Hatch was part of the inside job group

[Hydra]

2. Sad to say he's elected from my state

And I think we are the last truly red state in the union.

This is just pathetic, though. This is the sort of thing I expect from Lindsay Graham or Bush.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Hey, Orrin, why the fuck did the NSA start the taps 6 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11...

Perhaps someone wanted to keeps tabs on just how secret a certain plan was?

[Wiley50]

4. FUCK YOU ORRIN!

Oh wait, you might be right

These people must be the same types that would believe someone from your office, for instance

would hack the computers of your Dem colleges for over a year

in order to know their plans beforehand. And that would be lunacy to believe.

Oh wait!

FUCK YOU ORRIN!

Die already you old scumsucker!

[lonestarnot]

7. DITTO!

[noise]

5. The President acts in good faith?

Only an authoritarian cheerleader would find it ok to give Bush more unchecked powers. Better to be labeled a conspiracy theorist than trust grandstanding a-holes like Hatch.

[ToeBot]

6. What ever the Republicans are covering up must be monumental, otherwise...

why would they be so eager to give this spying power to a Democratic President. Guess we'll never know.

[Rex]

8. It was an inside job you warthog from hell!

But then Shithead knows all about inside jobs. I really hope there is a hell.