Barron's Calls for W Impeachment Over FISA Bypass
[Update - Christmas Day] More Commentary from DailyKos.From Barron's via Patridiots.com:
Certainly, there was an emergency need after the Sept. 11 attacks to sweep up as much information as possible about the chances of another terrorist attack. But a 72-hour emergency or a 15-day emergency doesn't last four years . . .
Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later. The members of the House Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President Clinton ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment.
More here from Atrios and here from MyDD.com and more here from Armando over at dailykos..
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And, to throw fuel on the fire, here's a post from extreme righty (but libertarian-leaning) redstate.org regarding the searches of Muslims without consent - basically scanning for radiation. While the blinded-by-the-light Bushie apologists will say who cares, here's what Scalia noted in a ruling that is a perfact parallel (using infrared scanners to do searches without warrant) to this issue of searches from afar:
Case background:
Does monitoring radiation levels constitute a "search"? In 2001, as the article points out, the Supreme Court ruled that the use of thermal imaging to detect heat lamps in a residence was a "search" under the 4th amendment and a warrant was needed. The case was U.S. v. Kyllo, and the opinion was written by Justice Scalia.Scalia's majority opinion:
Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.
Nuff' said. Clear violation of 4th Amendment.
posted by jimboses @ 12:52 PM
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