Treason in the Bush Administration

[fenderfour]

I'm bored and ressurecting for a

[johndavidjr]

Of course, a CIA agent may or may not have foreign contacts who could be endangered by disclosing the agent's identity.

 

Obviously this would also jeopardize US intelligence sources. Wilson probably isn't endangered. Some posters seem to get this; others not.

 

Bush Administration was solely concerned with domestic politics &/or may have believed it didn't apply to Ms Wilson. Novak is simply a scum bag who is impressed with his White House contacts.

 

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[sailBOI]

Could someone define the precise manner in which the Patriot Act is undermining our freedoms? I have heard the hyperbole, but haven't seen much evidence to back it up. If it is in fact degrading the freedoms outlined in the Constitution then it is by definition unconstitutional and will be overturned in the courts eventually if it is not taken out with legislative action first. This is not without precedent, as there are a number of laws enacted in WWI and WWII (and earlier, e.g. the Alien and Sedition Acts) that gave the government power to stifle dissent that Congress ultimately revoked or allowed to expire. I'm not for complacency in these matters - but is the target here really the threats represented by this legislation or the Bush administration?

 

Broad Bi-Partisan Support

 

"The Patriot Act Helps Law Enforcement Target Terrorist Financing

Senator Kerry (D-MA) said, "I support the conference report before the Senate today. . . if one is going to cope with an al-Qaida, with a terrorist entity such as Osama bin Laden, who moves his money into this legitimate marketplace, law enforcement has to have the ability to be able to hold people accountable where it is legitimate to do so. . . . With the passage of this legislation, terrorist organizations will not be able to move funds as easily and they will not be able to have their people move within our country with bank accounts that we cannot penetrate, with major sources of funding transferred to them from the Middle East or elsewhere to empower them to be able to do the kind of things they did on September 11." (Senator Kerry, Congressional Record, October 25, 2001)"