Comments on: NSA Hearing Highlights, Part Two http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » NSA Hearing Highlights, Part Four http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12381 Decision ‘08 » Blog Archive » NSA Hearing Highlights, Part Four Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:40:20 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12381 [...] The previous installments are here, here, and here… [...] [...] The previous installments are here, here, and here… [...]

]]> By: dmac http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12376 dmac Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:54:41 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12376 Perhaps Feinstein's previously sane behavior is being affected by rumours of a challenger coming from the far Left during her next election... Perhaps Feinstein’s previously sane behavior is being affected by rumours of a challenger coming from the far Left during her next election…

]]> By: Mark http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12362 Mark Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:36:08 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12362 DBrooks - yeah, exactly... DBrooks – yeah, exactly…

]]> By: DBrooks http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12360 DBrooks Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:13:25 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12360 Feinstein: "If the President were caught having sex with a donkey or a 12-year-old, would you help him circumvent normal prosecutional procedures by arguing this fell under his constitutional right to protect the nation?" Gonzalez: "Well, Senator, I am not comfortable with your question, or with proceeding in this line of highly unlikely hypotheticals." Feinstein: "I'm asking a question. You choose not answer it?" Gonzalez: "Yes, ma'am." Feinstein: OK. If the president were to break into Cindy Sheehan's tent, and steal her Ouija Board, could the president suspend, in secret or otherwise, ......" Feinstein: “If the President were caught having sex with a donkey or a 12-year-old, would you help him circumvent normal prosecutional procedures by arguing this fell under his constitutional right to protect the nation?”

Gonzalez: “Well, Senator, I am not comfortable with your question, or with proceeding in this line of highly unlikely hypotheticals.”

Feinstein: “I’m asking a question. You choose not answer it?”

Gonzalez: “Yes, ma’am.”

Feinstein: OK. If the president were to break into Cindy Sheehan’s tent, and steal her Ouija Board, could the president suspend, in secret or otherwise, ……”

]]> By: peter http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12358 peter Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:32:27 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12358 That's a false choice -- if the administration followed the law, no prosecution would be jeopardized -- That’s a false choice — if the administration followed the law, no prosecution would be jeopardized –

]]> By: Clint http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12356 Clint Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:01:22 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12356 *yawn* The argument that 9/11 was a crime, not an act of war, has been repeated over, and over, and over. Nothing new about it. Does anyone really believe that if we knew where O.B.L. was hanging out it would be <b>murder</b> rather than a legitimate military strike for us to blow him up with a cruise missile? If we have to choose between intelligence gathering aimed to <i>prevent</i> the next attack and intelligence gathering aimed to produce a solid criminal prosecution of those responsible after the next attack... how many Americans are really with Senator Kennedy on this? *yawn*

The argument that 9/11 was a crime, not an act of war, has been repeated over, and over, and over. Nothing new about it. Does anyone really believe that if we knew where O.B.L. was hanging out it would be murder rather than a legitimate military strike for us to blow him up with a cruise missile?

If we have to choose between intelligence gathering aimed to prevent the next attack and intelligence gathering aimed to produce a solid criminal prosecution of those responsible after the next attack… how many Americans are really with Senator Kennedy on this?

]]> By: Fargus http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12355 Fargus Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:54:13 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12355 I think that the third branch needs to be involved, too. And so does the Congress. And isn't that what the whole debate is about? The fact that the Executive has locked out the judicial branch from having any oversight here? I think that the third branch needs to be involved, too. And so does the Congress. And isn’t that what the whole debate is about? The fact that the Executive has locked out the judicial branch from having any oversight here?

]]> By: too many steves http://informedspeculation.com/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-12354 too many steves Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:43:44 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/02/06/nsa-hearing-highlights-part-two/#comment-12354 Credit where credit is due. Kennedy seems to be trying to get at the issues and likely consequences. Not exactly a search for truth, but certainly something positively directed, especially as compared to the deplorable line of partisan posturing disguised as questioning by Senator Feinstein. This is shaping up as a dispute between two of the three branches of our government as to which power supercedes the other in this case. I think we need the third branch to step in as a dispassionate, neutral observer to settle the dispute. Credit where credit is due. Kennedy seems to be trying to get at the issues and likely consequences. Not exactly a search for truth, but certainly something positively directed, especially as compared to the deplorable line of partisan posturing disguised as questioning by Senator Feinstein.

This is shaping up as a dispute between two of the three branches of our government as to which power supercedes the other in this case. I think we need the third branch to step in as a dispassionate, neutral observer to settle the dispute.

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