John Dean's Latest on NSA Program

[JDPriestly]

An Update on President Bush's NSA Program: The Historical Context, Specter's Recent Bill, and Feingold's Censure Motion
By JOHN W. DEAN

President George Bush continues to openly and defiantly ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- the 1978 statute prohibiting electronic inspection of Americans' telephone and email communications with people outside the United States without a court-authorized warrant. (According to U.S. News & World Report, the President may also have authorized warrantless break-ins and other physical surveillance, such as opening regular mail, in violation of the Fourth Amendment. . .)

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In some two hundred and seventeen years of the American presidency, there has been only one President who provides a precedent for Bush's stunning, in-your-face, conduct: Richard Nixon. Like Bush, Nixon claimed he was acting to protect the nation's security. Like Bush, Nixon broke the law - authorizing, among other things, illegal wiretaps.

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In the end, this issue is going to be resolved by the 2006 midterm election. If Republicans lose control of either the House or Senate, the investigations of the Bush/Cheney White House will begin. It won't be pretty. It will make dealing with lying about sex
look like High School hazing. It will even make Richard Nixon look like a piker when it comes to staying within the law.

End of quote.

Dean points to Bush's low polls and asks whether there will be an "October Surprise" to bring them up.

Then, referring to the possibility of an "October Surprise," Dean says:

If they do it, Bush will get away with his lawlessness. If not, he and Cheney are in for two very bad years. They have earned them.

End of quote.

That's our job guys. We have to educate the public about the corruption and vice in the Bush administration to the point that they will immediately see through the "October Surprise" that Bush is very likely to pull. Is an October 11 in the making?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. LInketty-link please?

[Larkspur]

2. Hurricane season starts June 1 and Mother Nature may have some more

"surprises" way before October rolls around.

Hurricane Katrina ripped the veneer of strength and compassion from Bush. Here brother and sister storms will keep pummeling him.

[JDPriestly]

3. Link. Sorry

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060324.html

[rodeodance]

4. Or a weekend surprise like in 2004 (bin ladin tape showing up)!!

....In the end, this issue is going to be resolved by the 2006 midterm election...... The big question is whether there will be an "October Surprise"