Negroponte gets demoted to Assistant Secretary of Defense, the army gets wiretapping powers

[shance]

The timing seems impeccable, or is it just me?

Anyone have a good explanation why all of a sudden its important for the army to be allowed to wiretap?

The "domestic surveillence" royal privilege granted to Bush & Co by Bush & Co. is now going to be further invasively permitted by the Bush & Company simply because they say they can do it.

In fact now they have just decided that since wiretapping is not written in the manuels, they are simply changing army manuels in order to say that they can wiretap.

Isn't this a pattern of Mr. Negropontes? To escape the scene after he has given the instructions and put the plans in place?

I'm simply wondering why now the further potentioal illegal assault on our personal lives and the exit from the CIA by Mr. Negroponte.

However, I find it equally interesting that now the Bush Administration is now wanting to grant 'domestic surveillence powers' to the Army??

What is wrong with this picture except so many things?

[scarletwoman]

1. Um, I believe he's going to be Deputy Secretary of State. But yes, this is the pattern.

Just like how he got the "Salvadoran Option" death squads set up while he was ambassador to Iraq.

Good observation.

sw

[shance]

2. Thank you for the clarification.

Yes, its important to bring to light what is happening in the darkness behind the curtain.

[jmowreader]

3. Apparently Bush ran out of toilet paper

First he wiped his ass on the Constitution.

Next, he wiped it on the final decisions of the Nuremburg Tribunals.

And the Geneva Conventions.

Oh, and the wishes of seventy percent of all Americans and ninety percent of all Generals.

Bush needed to take a dump last night. He couldn't use the Declaration of Independence, because that's written on animal skin (parchment) and Laura's making a dress out of that. Imagine him running around the White House with his legs crossed and a clothespin over his pee-pee because his mommy said never sit down without a historical document sitting there to clean your butt with. And all of a sudden...hey, there's Army Regulation 380-53 (Communication Security Monitoring), which very specifically says not to wiretap against civilians. Army regulations are printed on soft, supple paper. Perfect!

[shance]

4. I don't think it is Bush Jr. that is making any of the decisions really.

I think it is his father and those who worked with his father in his Administration.

[shance]

5. Am not sure what the truth is. At the least the Bushcoup has taken our capital hostage

and the City of New Orleans and we need to take them back.

[jmowreader]

6. It might be guys like Wolfowitz

Bush's father isn't nearly this stupid.

GHWB attempted to pull GWB's fat out of the fire with the Iraq Study Group. GWB's response was to blow their recommendations off. Trust me, "send 23,000 more soldiers over there" was not one of their ideas.

There are some grade-A neocons out there, guys even more strident than GHWB. I know Bush listens to Grover Norquist, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. They're the ones pulling Bush's chain, not his dad.