Gonzales perjury, Part 2
Ask and you shall receive.
I don’t think this really surprised anyone. Now the Bush Administration is on record admitting that there were intelligence programs working alongside the Terrorist Surveillance Program authorized by one of Bush’s executive orders after 9/11.
The NSA wiretap scandal disclosed by James Risen of the NY Times back in December of 2005 and acknowledged by the Bush administration as the Terrorist Surveillance Program was just one of many other intelligence programs.
Which fits. Bush claimed that the TSP only monitored communications where at least one of the targets was a known member of Al Qaeda.
The evidence, however, pointed to activities which far exceeded this limited scope. Data-mining, secret agreements with telephone/wireless companies for access to all of their records, federal agents who worked undercover to infiltrate organizations considered to be politically antithetical to Bush Administration policies.
When I posted about this the other day, I thought it was interesting that in order to save Gonzales’ butt from perjury charges, the Bush Administration would have to disclose at least the existence of other programs.
Can the apologists continue to pretend that we’re not at the edge of something irrevocably and undeniably unconstitutional here?
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August 1, 2007 at 2:50 pm
i think that is putting it mildly. i am awed by the way the constitution and bill of rights has been thrown to the wind, and the checks and balances in the country just kind of, fell asleep or got paid off, or something. and then i’ve got a bunch of friends that think nothing is wrong. i’m normally not political, but this is like a bad sitcom, or something, where everything is so blatant, and it’s like we are watching it on tv. i dont know if that made any sense.
August 1, 2007 at 3:08 pm
it made perfect sense. i don’t know where it came from but there’s this saying that the big lie is easier to believe than the little one. the more outrageous the lie, the easier it is to accept.
well, the bush administration’s rationales and explanations for its behavoir is so outrageously disingenuous. maybe that’s why it’s been so hard for some to come around and recognize it for what it’s been: a dangerous mix of incompetence and revolution. they’ve been throwing out so many democratic traditions and ridiculing anyone that stands in their way.
August 1, 2007 at 3:18 pm
hitler said it. i’m not kidding.
something like:
people will fall for a big lie faster than a small lie, because they themselves tell small lies, but they wouldn’t try to pull off a big lie, and so they think others wont either.
and if you read what goebbells said at the nuremburg trials, about how you instill fear in people, take away their rights, and call anyone who opposes you weak, or aiding the enemy, or traitor…
i think we are in for a big surprise soon. i think we will be a police state. it’s very scary.