"As has been clear from the beginning, and as Savage notes, the ...

[understandinglife]

... significance of the NSA scandal was never about eavesdropping. Its significance lay in the fact that the President got caught red-handed violating the law on purpose, because he believes he has the power to do so. To defend his conduct, the administration has been forced to parade those theories around out in the open, and as a result, it is only a matter of time before the public starts to realize how severe the crisis is that we have in our country:

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Glenn Greenwald's is a good read. And, I agree with his concluding assessments:

Americans have to really be persuaded that there is serious and deliberate wrongdoing in order to demand that meaningful action be taken. But that is clearly starting to happen, and the Globe and Charlie Savage should be congratulated for that rarest of acts -- journalists who are fulfilling their journalistic purpose by informing Americans as to what this government really is doing.

More than anything else, when Americans grasp what Savage now makes fully accessible to them, the result will be something Bush, Cheney and all their neoconster buddies will not be able to spin, divert or escape.

The scale of their collective lawlessness is unparalleled in American history, and while the same mendacious corporate press that today is desperately trying to suppress Colbert's truth-to-power will also try to distract attention from the truth delivered by Savage, these good ol'internets will continue to prevail and expand access to Bush's vast criminality.


Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq.

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1. "They are going to need an awful lot of help to come to terms with ...

... fact that the cowboy stooge they all clap and laugh for like a bunch of trained seals is, in fact, a grotesque criminal who most certainly thinks he has the right to spy on all of them. It gives me great hope to know that people like Colbert and Greenwald are willing to give it to them.

From by Jane Hamsher

I agree.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

2. "Bush ends rule of law; Americans continue to shop, enjoy TV."

"No Constitutional crisis to see here, folks. Move along."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/30/92922/6097

Not.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

3. Digby: "At what point does this country begin to recognise that we are ...

... in the midst of a constitutional crisis?"

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114643971947022778

It can't be any more obvious, imho.


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