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This month he went into more detail, defending the National Security
Agency's warrantless eavesdropping within the United States. That
program is separate from the GST program, but three lawyers involved
said the legal rationale for the NSA program is essentially the same one
used to support GST, which is an abbreviation of a classified code name
for the umbrella covert action program.
The administration contends it is still acting in self-defense after the
Sept. 11 attacks, that the battlefield is worldwide, and that everything
it has approved is consistent with the demands made by Congress on Sept.
14, 2001, when it passed a resolution authorizing "all necessary and
appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons [the
president] determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the
terrorist attacks."
"Everything is done in the name of self-defense, so they can do anything
because nothing is forbidden in the war powers act," said one official
who was briefed on the CIA's original cover program and who is skeptical
of its legal underpinnings. "It's an amazing legal justification that
allows them to do anything," said the official, who like others spoke on
the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues.
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LelandJ
Michael Madigan wrote:
>1. People who abort their babies are selfish
>scumbags. They are compounding a mistake by adding a
>murder to it.
>
>2. The wiretaps are LEGAL.
>
>3. While serial monogamy is bad, homosexuality is
>worse. Kind of the difference between involuntary
>manslaughter and first degree murder.
>
>
>
>--- Kristyne McDaniel <newsbox .AT. mcstyles D.O.T com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Ed,
>>
>>
>>
>>>( -or- http://tinyurl.com/94796 )
>>>
>>>
>>This is one of two things:
>>
>>1) People think heterosexual serial monogamy is more
>>"moral" than homosexual
>>monogamy.
>>
>>2) People think that if you do something "immoral"
>>it is OK as long as
>>nobody knows about it.
>>
>>Note: Reason #2 is why we have such a high abortion
>>rate. It is also the
>>reason the Bush administration got so huffy about
>>the reports of illegal
>>wiretaps.
>>
>>-- Kris
>>www.shamrocktrails.com
>>
>>
>>
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