News in the news
"Sen. John McCain and President Bush's national security adviser met early Wednesday in hopes of reaching a compromise on the senator's proposed ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects." Link
I thought we were the good guys. Why are we having a conversation over whether the good guys should use torture as an interrogation method?
========================================
House ready, Senate balks at renewing USAPATRIOT
"About a dozen Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are complaining that the Patriot Act gives government too much power to investigate people's private transactions, including bank, library, medical and computer records. They also say it doesn't place enough limits on the FBI's use of National Security Letters, which compel thirds parties to produce those documents during terrorism investigations.
"Senate Democrats joined by some libertarian-leaning Republicans want to extend the expiring provisions of the law by three months to give Congress time to add more protections against what they say are excessive police powers." Link
So there about 12 patriots left in the Senate. More than I expected, actually. That's somewhat encouraging, but they're battling in an environment where the "watchdog press" puts their concerns in the 13th paragraph of an alarmist story that spends the first dozen paragraphs emphasizing concerns that "the nation's safety could be endangered if the Senate doesn't follow suit."
I thought we were the good guys. Why are we having a conversation over whether the good guys should use torture as an interrogation method?
========================================
House ready, Senate balks at renewing USAPATRIOT
"About a dozen Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are complaining that the Patriot Act gives government too much power to investigate people's private transactions, including bank, library, medical and computer records. They also say it doesn't place enough limits on the FBI's use of National Security Letters, which compel thirds parties to produce those documents during terrorism investigations.
"Senate Democrats joined by some libertarian-leaning Republicans want to extend the expiring provisions of the law by three months to give Congress time to add more protections against what they say are excessive police powers." Link
So there about 12 patriots left in the Senate. More than I expected, actually. That's somewhat encouraging, but they're battling in an environment where the "watchdog press" puts their concerns in the 13th paragraph of an alarmist story that spends the first dozen paragraphs emphasizing concerns that "the nation's safety could be endangered if the Senate doesn't follow suit."
posted by B.W. Richardson at
8:54 AM
1 Comments:
BWR Wrote:
So there about 12 patriots left in the Senate. More than I expected, actually. That's somewhat encouraging...
I gotta disagree with you, sir, a closer look (other than just this one issue) at the Senators will reveal that there are Zero, Zilch, Nada patriots in that asp pit. Not only are they not patriots, they are traitors.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home