Thursday, May 17, 2007

High Drama - High Crimes?

Crooks and Liars is one of the more popular blogs in the blogosphere ... and here is a sample why.

Bush Refuses to Respond To Kelly O’Donnell’s questions about Comey’s testimony

It's hard to overstate the importance of Former Deputy AG James Comey's incredible testimony earlier this week. At a press conference today with outgoing British PM Tony Blair, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell asked President Bush about Comey's startling allegations. Needless to say, he refuses to answer the question and instead opts to remind us how much the Evil Scary Islamofascists want to kill us, and how Very Important this program is in order to "protect" us.
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Turley on NSA Spying: “I don’t know of a more potential charge of impeachment”

George Washington University Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley says that the latest NSA warrantless wiretapping revelations – wherein the administration knowingly broke the law and continued spying on American citizens after top DoJ officials refused to certify the legality of the program — make this a "clear impeachable offense."
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‘It looks like the process was out of control’

Somehow, this scandal manages to keep getting worse, while Alberto Gonzales’ lies manage to become even more troubling.
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Alberto Gonzales Carefully Tailors Warrantless Wiretapping Testimony

PBS Frontline's "Spying on the Home Front" last night was downright chilling. Although there were no major blockbuster revelations, they painted a very clear and complete picture of the Bush administration's vastly expanded domestic surveillance programs and their impact on civil liberties. This clip shows how Alberto Gonzales was very careful during his Senate testimony on the NSA warrantless wiretapping program exposed by the New York Times in December 2005. On numerous occasions he made it abundantly clear that he was only testifying on that specific program, which leads one to conclude that there are likely other (and more intrusive) domestic spying programs in place. Indeed, when Sen. Feinstein asks him if there are any other programs, he literally says "I don't know how to answer that."
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Comey offers High Drama — and maybe High crimes?

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey seems to have raised eyebrows throughout the political world with his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony yesterday. While the prosecutor purge was supposed to be the key topic of the hearing, Comey’s story about the 2004 reathorization of the NSA warrantless-search program turned out to be the big news.
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It's also a sample of why it's well past time for the Bush Administration to go. Is it possible to impeach them all at once?

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