Did you know? Washington and Lincoln "authorized electronic surveillance."

[deadparrot]

Alberto: President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/06.html#a7043

Ladies and gentlemen, the Attorney General of the United States. :banghead:

[Canuckistanian]

1. I can just imagine those telegraph operators now..

"Do you hear that clicking?"

[EFerrari]

2. "We believe we are following the law."

"We are acting in a manner consistent with FISA."

Ladies and gentlemen, the pResident's vendido.

:puke:

[unschooler]

30. "I BELIEVED there was no relationship with Ms. Lewinsky."

Sure. The House of Representatives would have bought that.

[Mike Nelson]

3. I wouldn't mind Washington, Lincoln or FDR so much...

we have a man so PUNY in comparison -- bush

[Flabbergasted]

4. He didn't really say that did he?????

[havocmom]

18. He said it. I kept hoping I was just having some kind of psychotic event

and imagined the whole thing, but he said it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. So how, exactly, did Washington authorize electronic surveillance?

Did he stick the key at the end of Ben Franklin's kite string into his ear?

I'm so glad we have such a bunch a freaking rocket scientists running our government.....

[PatrioticLeftie]

6. Yeah, Abe

Sure loved his Mac, couldn't get him off it. One time, he had to hurry-write a speech on the way there, it was in some city in Pennsylvania.

[Cocoa]

7. how visionary of them

[kisstheman]

8. Telegraphs and phones; what's the difference?

[niyad]

13. welll, apart from the fact that they DIDN'T have telegraph in washington's

day, just for starters. and please explain how in the hell one eavesdrops on a telegraph machine realistically.

this is just one more example of how ignorant the entire administration appears to be, and worse, how f****** stupid they think the rest of us are.

[kisstheman]

17. please understand a joke

[niyad]

21. oh, I understand jokes just fine. what bothers me is that your response

is about the level of their defense of their indefensible behaviour, even if you did mean it sarcastically.

welcome, by the way--if I have so far failed to do so.

[kisstheman]

26. Don worry I think they are caught on this one.

I think.

[opiate69]

14. telegraphs?? in the 1700s??

:rofl:

"The first electromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in 1832. The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway. It ran for 13 miles from Paddington station to West Drayton and came into operation on April 9, 1839. It was patented in the United Kingdom in 1837."
source: Wikipedia

Enjoy your stay..

[kisstheman]

20. You got me

[opiate69]

22. did you forget the sarcasm tag then? If so, my apologies.

:toast:

[kisstheman]

25. My bad I did not. I had to actually check to see

If I was useing the correct word.

LOL

[0rganism]

9. Well, that would explain why Specter didn't want to have Gonzo under oath

:bounce: Yay! Our nation is being assfucked by IDIOTS! :bounce:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. Nope. Ben Franklin did run around with a kite and a key tied to the

end of the string, damn near electrocuting himself. But that is about as electronic as anyone got in Washington's era. :silly:

[Wilms]

24. That's what Ben Franklin wanted you to think he was doing.

:D

[Twist_U_Up]

11. alberto portrait

[EFerrari]

19. Eyes: down and to the left.

I wonder just what this little prick did for the BFEE.

And I wonder why he thinks they'll cover his ass when they need a scapegoat.

[Poiuyt]

12. Yes but it was legal for Washington and Lincoln to do electronic

surveillance because that was before FISA was passed

[azurnoir]

15. did they share a Delorian or did they each have their own?

[rucky]

16. One if by land, two if by sea?

[Patsy Stone]

23. Somehow, he never got up to Nixon.

Funny that...

[AtomicKitten]

27. dang, we should rescind President's Day immediately. (nt)

[ewoden]

28. Hey man that Washington guy was just...

feeling the negative waves through his teeth man.

The Attorney General is a dweeb!

[vademocrat]

31. Nope - ole GW had wooden teeth - bad conductors

[ewoden]

34. actually several sets of teeth , including human teeth set in lead

[vademocrat]

37. I didn't know that - I remember seeing his wooden dentures

at Mount Vernon Estate when I was a kid - the idea of wooden teeth grossed me out!

Thanks for the info - glad I didn't know this as a child, the idea of "someone else's teeth" would've grossed me out too! :-)

[WillyT]

29. Hey Folks... There WAS Electronic Surveillance In Washington's Day !!!

Not exactly NSA... but there at the beginning.

:evilgrin:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

32. K&R!!!!! Keep this at the top! All must see this.

I think he believed it himself.

[peekaloo]

33. He just out-dumbassed Cornyn's Hogan Heroes remark.

which in fact Cornyn made at El Raton's confirmation hearing.

[niyad]

35. oh geez, what did I miss on THAT one?

[peekaloo]

36. Cornyn attributed his knowledge of the Geneva Convention

was brought about from watching 'Hogan's Heroes'.

[niyad]

40. these people just get stupider every single day, don't they:

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of
International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held in Geneva
from 21 April to 12 August, 1949
entry into force 21 October 1950

[Redstone]

38. I'm not sure I can take any more of this. It would be laughable if it

wasn't so pitiful.

Redstone

[Hippo_Tron]

39. Damn you Washington, adding a third cup to the string