Three Cheers and Thanks to the Leaker\r\n<\/p>
Author: Stephen\r\nDeVoy<\/i><\/p>\r\n
Over the last year, someone leaked to the New York Times the fact that George\r\nW. Bush illegally ordered the NSA to violate our rights and the law by\r\nauthorizing wiretaps of US citizens without a court warrant. Bush does not\r\nhave the authority to authorize such an operation, therefore, the NSA should\r\nhave refused to follow his orders. Whoever leaked this story knew that\r\nBush and the NSA were violating the Constitution and U.S. law. Whoever\r\nleaked this story knew that Bush and the employees of the NSA conducting the\r\nsurveillance were violating their oaths to \"support and defend the\r\nConstitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.\" Since the\r\nillegal program was classified, we must assume that the source of the leak had a\r\nsecurity clearance and, therefore, chose fidelity to the oath over fidelity to\r\nhis or her employer. Such a person is what we call a whistleblower. \r\nI would like to personally express my gratitude to this person and all upon all\r\nAmericans to join me in designing him or her a hero.<\/p>\r\n
As must bullies do, George W. Bush is pointing the finger of accusation at\r\nthe whistleblower, accusing this heroic individual of what can only be described\r\nas treason, and has moved the Department of \"Justice\" to open an\r\ninvestigation into the source of the leak. While Congress should be\r\ndemanding the resignation of this half wit traitor occupying the White House,\r\nthey instead join in the call to tar and feather the hero who followed his or\r\noath. I suppose that if the leader is a traitor, treason becomes the\r\npatriotism of the day. I for one reject this nonsense. If the polls\r\nwe have recently seen online are any indication, the vast majority of Americans\r\nreject Bush's bully politics and criminality too.<\/p>\r\n
This country has never before seen such overwhelming support from the people\r\nthemselves to impeach a President. Never before has a president openly\r\nadmitted to violating the law and then turned around and confirmed that he would\r\ncontinue to do so unabated. Yet, despite this, our Congress is almost\r\nsilent while a traitor pisses on the Constitution right before our eyes. \r\nShame on the U.S. Congress!<\/p>\r\n
I don't know where all of this will go. I don't know if we will all sit\r\nand watch like cowards as an absolutist fascist pigs oinks his way over our\r\nrights. What I do know is that some unknown person had the integrity to\r\nexpose our treasonous President and to that person I say \"Thanks, keep up\r\nthe good work!\"<\/p>\r\n
<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Let's extend our thanks to the spook who outed Bush.","numcomment":8,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/01\/143084.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":143087,"heading":"Impeach Now!","article":"Impeach Now!","author":"Impeach Now!","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2006-01-03 03:21:22","modified":"2006-01-03 03:21:22","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/01\/picture_1.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/01\/picture_1.jpg"}},{"id":143089,"heading":"wedges","article":"And how to we use these conflicts in the ruling class to our tactical advantage? The side that considers this present course of iron hammered approach, reckless endangerment to their sizable capital interests, is calling in disclosures on the huge exposed buttocks of this gaggle of criminals. That means the the CIA who represents this side, which is Old Banking Capital is using their assets to rat on the other maggots. We should watch things very close. And prepare for major stupidity in the form of a 'pretext' for having the 82nd Airborne coming to pay a visit.\r\nCan I have a Witness?","author":"Waldo","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-03 03:50:22","modified":"2006-01-03 03:50:22","fileurl":""},{"id":143104,"heading":"Tactics?","article":"Waldo=Sheepdog\r\n\r\nThe Left has only 1 'tactic'... attack that which is healthy and replace it with the disease of the collective.","author":"Scorpio","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-03 16:27:20","modified":"2006-01-03 16:27:20","fileurl":""},{"id":143108,"heading":"Waldo + Sheepdog","article":"That bastard.\r\nBut seriously, aint it great when mom and daddy fight?\r\nYou do wonder, however when they're going to pull the damn guns out and shoot the place up.\r\nYou want to be under cover. Yup.","author":"Waldo=Sheepdog","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-03 17:15:37","modified":"2006-01-03 17:15:37","fileurl":""},{"id":143177,"heading":"Clearly","article":""Waldo=Sheepdog "\r\n\r\nWhat tipped you off?\r\n\r\nThe horrendous spelling\/typing\/sentence structure or the predictable nonsense about the CIA?\r\n\r\nGood call.","author":"fresca","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-04 05:41:20","modified":"2006-01-04 05:41:20","fileurl":""},{"id":143194,"heading":"Russell Tice and the NSA","article":"Atrocious spelling R us. Like I said before, just because your English is limited,that doesn't mean the words are misspelled.\r\nAnd speaking of rats outing each other, I'm glad, I tell you, about the 'roadblock' that was removed from this disclosure asset so he, like the other disclosure assets of the CIA could build the fire around the here to fore, unprepared buttocks and exposed crimes of the neocon cabal. \r\nExpect assassinations, or accidents.\r\nStock up on emergency items and materials.","author":"Atrocious spelling","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-04 17:04:04","modified":"2006-01-04 17:04:04","fileurl":""},{"id":143207,"heading":"fresca","article":"He said: "...the CIA who represents this side, which is Old Banking Capital ... " This is the standard paranoid conspiracy nonsense from Sheepdip. It was a dead giveaway. Poor bastard just can't control himself.","author":"Scorpio","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-04 20:15:17","modified":"2006-01-04 20:15:17","fileurl":""},{"id":143209,"heading":"further comments","article":"This is a classic move within the ruling class similar to the one, by the same principles, as the JFK assassination.\r\nOld banking capital which it appears, does not enjoy its investments devalued through inflation or currency devaluation.\r\n","author":"poor Bastard","parent_id":143084,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-04 21:05:50","modified":"2006-01-04 21:05:50","fileurl":""}]}