WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.
The report, compiled by five inspectors general, refers to "unprecedented collection activities" by U.S. intelligence agencies under an executive order signed by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Does this really comes as a surprise to anyone? I mean - come the fuck on. A great many voices, and not just on the left, were raising concerns about the Bush/Cheney zeal to milk the American people's fears and anger and the media's and politician's cowardice after 9/11 in order to expand executive branch powers and also ram through some of the most unconstitutional "national security" policies in this nation's history.
For this story to just now be getting some "mainstream" press attention indicates quite clearly the depths of incompetency and and dereliction of duty of America's 4th estate press and an abdication of responsibility by the civilian government - Congress and the Senate to uphold the rule of constitutional law.
And on the heels of this sobering revelation comes the story yesterday that Dick "Halliburton" Cheney ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counter-terrorism program from Congress in full defiance of the law which requires full disclosure of such operations to Congress.
Conservatives will pooh-pooh it and say - "Bush and Cheney were simply doing what needed to be done to protect America." Of course they bluntly refuse to consider the fact that they were out and out breaking laws in doing so and that if Obama or any other Democratic President were to do something similar they'd be calling for immediate investigations and impeachment proceedings.
What appears to be the undeniable truth is -- conservatives are of the view that lying about blowjobs is a crime that is much more of a threat to the Republic than actions and deeds which clearly undermine the rule of law and constitutional principles. And it's why conservatives simply fucking suck and why it's one of my missions in life to point out the reality of that fact to people as much as I can.
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