Bush Admin Convinces A Single Judge In A Secret Session To Cover Presidents's Ass

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Gonzales: NSA Wiretapping Now Subject to Court Approval
By Justin Rood - January 17, 2007, 2:10 PM

The National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program will be subject to court approval, according to a new letter from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to lawmakers.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002356.php

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The administration said it had briefed the full House and Senate Intelligence Committees in closed sessions on its decision.

But Representative Heather A. Wilson, Republican of New Mexico, who serves on the Intelligence committee, disputed that, and some Congressional aides said staff members were briefed Friday without lawmakers present.

Ms. Wilson, who has scrutinized the program for the last year, said she believed the new approach relied on a blanket, “programmatic” approval of the president’s surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants.

Administration officials “have convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the president’s terrorism surveillance program,” Ms. Wilson said in a telephone interview. She said Congress needed to investigate further to determine how the program is run.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/washington/18intel.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5094&en=31f17ca266626030&hp&ex=1169182800&partner=homepage

[sakabatou]

1. Covering your ass

Rule #82 of how to be a repuke

[muntrv]

2. Shrub usually tells judges to kiss his ass.

[autorank]

3. KR. "The power of the pen"

These guys are amazing. They think that just because they write something down it absolves them
of any responsibility to follow the law, the will of the people, or any code of ethids other than
their own.

This is just another example..write a memo sayi8ng, hey we're going to do it our way.
Wasn't that a Sinatra song, "My Way"

And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.

I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.

Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!

[I_Make_Mistakes]

4. The thing is Heather is a Republic and I don't like her much from

the things I've seen of her on C-SPAN, so why is she exposing this? Very interesting!