Comments on: Congressional Research Arm Rebuts Bush on Spying

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:03:09 +0000

I don’t doubt many people think he is on shaky ground, but that is far from calling his authorization illegal. I still whole heartily feel that President Bush felt the the War on Terror and keeping us safe after 9/11 gave him the authorization and I do however accept that you and other disagree with that. This is truly what makes our country great and it would be a very sad day when we as Americans cannot debate this and other topics in an opeb forum such as this.

By: VirusHead

VirusHead — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:38:28 +0000

They can only conclude likelihood, since they are the research arm of Congress rather than the judicial branch. My interpretation is that the President is on very shaky ground, since this is not a partisan group. What the report does, in fact, is give ammo for investigation.

How you get from that “they know for a fact it is possible” or that they would have any reason to state differently than what they would know for a fact is a little beyond me, but as always, you’re entitled to your own reading.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 10:39:49 +0000

The report states that “President Bush probably cannot use the argument that he has the authority” that doesn’t exactly strike me as a very confident finding for a report that is no doubt going to be used by a bunch of over zealous Senators during any one of a number of hearings into the so called illegal wiretap and electronic eavesdropping.

I would expect a report that is supposed to be damning against the President’s authorizing of the NSA to conduct warrant less wiretaps should in fact contain language like ” under no circumstances can we find that the President can authorize this kind of actions”

To me that means that they know for a fact that it is possible that the Presidents assertion that he has the authority to authoize the NSA to carry out the warrant less wiretaps and he did.