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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 05:52 AM
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NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know? - By Ray McGovern
NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know?

By Ray McGovern
October 15, 2007


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has admitted knowing for several years about the Bush administration’s eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant. She said she was briefed on it when she was ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. But was she told that the illegal surveillance began well before 9/11?


Referring to her briefing in an apologia-sans-apology Washington Post op-ed on Jan. 15, 2006, she wrote: “This is how I came to be informed of President Bush’s authorization for the NSA to conduct certain types of surveillance.”

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Either way you were woefully derelict in your duty. Either they told you or they didn’t. Either way you come off as no leader.

Time to fish or cut bait. Assuming the Bush regime did not inform you regarding eavesdropping on Americans before 9/11, do not any longer cover up for the White House. Rather, these crimes demand impeachment.

If they did keep you fully informed and, out of obeisance to the executive branch you acquiesced and said nothing, you should lay down your duties as House leader, examine your conscience, and consider resigning.

more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/101407a.html
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:37 AM
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1. kicked and recommended
for the Truth, damnit! :patriot:

I am sick to death of lies and obfuscation.

I am sick of government treating the citizens who pay the bills as though they were criminals.

I am sick of spin and triangulation.

How the hell do we expect to restore our republic with no opposition to those would would have us become a Theocracy?

Nance, if you don't have the courage to move forward, please get off the stage and make room for someone who does.

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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 07:23 AM
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2. What he said!
:grr:
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 08:33 AM
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5. The way the far left beats up Pelosi reminds me of
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 08:34 AM by Gman
the way we used to go after Gingrich, that fat ass from Chicago-what's his name, etc...

These far lefties just do such a wonderful job for the Republic party. I'm starting to wonder how many of these far left self-styled "pundits" are financed by right wing think tanks.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 08:38 AM
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6. party has nothing to do with it.. it's about the people, and about the truth
I want honesty in government, and I want the government to stop thinking that it owns my a**, that's all.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 09:11 AM
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8. _^,,^_
Edited on Mon Oct-15-07 09:11 AM by formercia
surely you jest. :rofl:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 12:50 PM
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9. Who wants uncorrupt elected officials, anyway?
Democracy is overrated, apparently. We should just trust that our "betters" have our interests at heart, eh?

Thanks for chiming in for the toe-the-party-line faction. :puke:
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:31 PM
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13. DO THESE QUESTIONS NOT NEED TO BE ASKED AND ANSWERED??
do we not have the right to know the answers??

my co-workers were killed on 9/11..i was in the air that morning out of Newark..and this administration has used the deaths of nmy co-wporkers for their spying and war and all the other lies and bullshit..used them in their death..used my neighbors son ..in his death for their lies and deciet..do we not hsve the right to know if our own knew this info????????

your damn right i want the answers..to questions that should have been asked a long time ago! This is not about far left or right or middle..thisn is about truth..this is about our constitutional rights as Americans.

and why..tell me.. why impeachment is off the table..when this info has been known??????????

this is my constitution they are dealing with and fucking with.

this is my childrens constitution they are destroying

i have had the clicks on my phone for a very long time..as i went out and spoke about the lies of 9/11..

i want the damn answers and i want them now!

fly..flight crew of one of the airlines involved on 9/11 ..NYC based.
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tomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 10:41 PM
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15. you haven't seen far left yet. nt
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 07:52 AM
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3. so the 'opposition' leader is complicit in the crimes? if true pelosi must go.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 08:25 AM
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4. Several years? Even before the Dec. 2005 revelations?
If so, then she REALLY needs to resign. This goes BEYOND acquiescence and borders on COMPLICITY IN A FELONY.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 09:05 AM
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7. Ergo. No impeachment.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 02:50 PM
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10. I don't believe anything she saz anymore! k&r
Either she's a liar, a fraud or a coward. I can't tell but I'm getting sick of it!
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 05:11 PM
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11. Hear! hear!
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:21 PM
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12. Nancy probably couldn't do anything about it
She was bound by secrecy. If Nancy had gone public she would have gone to prison next.
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-15-07 06:34 PM
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14. the she needed to call for impeachment...end of story..they broke the law..eom
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