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Nowhere Man
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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:23 am Post subject: Lawmakers concerned about FBI raid |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/23/jefferson/
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| "Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years," Hastert said on Monday. |
Precedent?
How about laws requiring warrants?
Congress can't be bothered until it's their rump on the line.
Then, we have consensus.
"This will go to the Supreme Court!"
Is congress being wire-tapped without warrants? I doubt it, but we might "find a pattern".
Hey, we're at war!
To borrow from a pundit, "Why should this bother you? Are you doing something wrong?" |
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Nowhere Man
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| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: ... |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/26/MNGAKJ2OPB1.DTL&type=politics
"Our government has not faced such a dilemma in more than two centuries,"
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The presidential intervention came as House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., normally the Bush administration's champion on Capitol Hill, suggested that the Justice Department had tried to intimidate him through a news leak because of his challenge of the department's authority to conduct the search.
Hastert portrayed an ABC News report on Wednesday evening as calculated retaliation and said he had demanded a retraction. The network, citing unnamed sources, reported that the FBI was investigating Hastert in connection with the influence-peddling investigation surrounding fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"This is one of the leaks that come out to try to, you know, intimidate people," Hastert told Chicago radio station WGN. |
Try to intimidate people?
What did Congress have to say about our phone records? |
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