William Safire is angry his home and office were wiretapped by NSA

[bananas]

I didn't see it myself - it's from a post buried in another thread,
there are a number of responses there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=51854&mesg_id=52252

shaniqua6392 Donating Member (835 posts) Wed Jan-04-06 02:57 PM
Response to Original message

11. On Sundays Meet the Press.....
William Safire (Republican) told Tim Russert that his office and home phone were tapped by the NSA. He was extremely unhappy about that. It was interesting to see him be so upset. He would have probably been on the side of Bushco, if it had not happened to him personally. Very funny. I will have to look for a transcript of the show and see if it was changed at all.

[acmavm]

1. Well, what's the phrase bush** supporters use? If you're not doing

anything wrong...

Couldn't happen to a nicer(?) liar.

[leesa]

24. Yup. Therefore this PROVES Safire is a terrorist, because we only

wiretap terrorists, right?

[lovuian]

2. I can't wait to hear that wiretap LOL!!!

and of course Saffire has Terrorist connections LOL!!!

[leftchick]

3. well fuck bill!

It could not happen to a better bush ass kisser! How are your liking your freedoms now billy??

:rofl:

[Warpy]

4. Good, it always takes this stuff a little time to sink in

It took Congress nearly 2 years to realize that they, too, had been targeted by Nixon's Dirty Tricks squad and that they'd likely had their tax returns examined, their phones tapped, their mail read, and all the other stuff the last fatally paranoid administration did to friend and enemy, alike.

This will eventually sink in on the GOP side of the aisle, as every member of Congress who's had his arm twisted over some bit of egregious legislation by threats of revealing bribes/tax cheating/mistresses/what have you to the general public starts to realize where Rove & Co. got all their juicy gossip.

It wlll happen, though. Even GOP Congressmen aren't utterly dead above the neck although they do seem that way from time to time.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Anyone in here who emails or calls their congresscritter or

representative could now be a "person of interest".

[roguevalley]

6. Poor Bill. PoooooOOoooor Bill. That's what he gets for living three

feet up Bush's ass.

[Hotler]

17. What's the diff between brown nosing and..

ring around the collar? The level of commitment.

[Doctor_J]

7. You voted for him and endorsed him twice, dumbass

chickens are roosting in Bill's family room. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[notadmblnd]

8. I guess it just goes to show...

that if you suck on bushes ass long enough, he'll eventually shit in your mouth. Ummm Ummm, eat up Billy.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. What happened to "I've got nothing to hide!"?

[Elidor]

10. Perhaps he'd like some freedom fries with that shit sandwich

:evilgrin: They tell me I'm not supposed to enjoy schadenfreude, but I do. Oh, how I do!

[SpiralHawk]

29. ROFLMAO

Freedom Fries and a big juicy Shit Sandwich -- the NeoCon Diet Craze sweeping the nether regions of the nation.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

11. that was by Nixon, wasn't it? n/t

[mark0rama]

15. Looks that way from the context, yes.

It would make sense that this would be when he was Dick's speechwriter.

[LittleClarkie]

12. The way of a Republican

It happened to him, so it's not cool.

And after all that water he carried. Poor Mr. Safire.

So, are we to feel sorry for this.. this.. terrorist!?

He must be, after all, because BushCo would never, NEVER just wiretap someone if it didn't have to do with 9/11 and keeping us all safe from the next terrorist attack, which is right around the corner any minute now, mind you. Don't forget that. Any minute now. The only thing between it and you is our strong presnit.

[mcscajun]

13. So they're eating their own, now, eh?

Fuck Bill Safire, anyhow.

[Cobalt Violet]

14. That sums up the idiot class quite well.

They will probably all be on the side of Bu$hco until it(any # of things) happens to them.

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. Exactly - so long as it doesn't affect them

personally, they don't care. The "I Got Mine" Syndrome.

[Cha]

16. WHY would they tap william

gop bootlickin' safire?

[carolinalady]

18. How do these people all of a sudden find out they were wire-

tapped? They seem to be coming out of the woodwork.
:shrug:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

23. That's what I want to know. n/t

[gratuitous]

28. And why are they telling us?

Doesn't Safire know that by revealing he was being spied upon, valuable information (think Sheriff Buford T. Justice in "Smokey and the Bandit" intoning "valuable evidence") is being given to Al Qaeda and others who would end our way of life. I think Safire needs to be declared an enemy combatant and extraordinarily rendered to our good friends in Pakistan to find out what he knows, and why he hates America so much.

Is that flickering 15-watt bulb coming on for you now, Mr. Safire?

[karynnj]

19. It's not easy to feel sorry for a Nixon person who was tapped

THat it's by his own side is even better. Seeing that he and Nixon had plenty of young John Kerry tapes, he should know his values and they likely don't include tapping Americans. Maybe he should have endorsed him over the dictator.

[Golden Raisin]

20. Well, boo fucking hoo hoo hoo.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. The erstwhile Nixon/Agnew speechwriter who was such a partisan and fan of going to war with Iraq has now gotten a good whiff of the BushCo skunks he willingly hopped into bed with. If BushCo had the NSA tapping Safire I really think the complete list of "tappees" is going to be shockingly amazing when and if it ever comes to light.

[ddeclue]

21. Bugging reporters is tremendously ham handed of BushCo

They will find out that this is how to make enemies and influence people (against you). Never pick a fight with people who buy their ink in 55 gallon drums.


Doug D.

[Luminous Animal]

22. Transcript? Link?

Let's not go half-cocked. Or even full cocked.

[ComerPerro]

25. Why is he upset? He has nothing to hide, right?

[mattomjoe]

30. Just one more example of how full of shit conservatives are.

They talk "tough" about this wiretapping issue -- "I got nuthin to hide" -- but I bet you if they found out they were being listened to, they'd be pissed. They've taken this nonchalant attitude about this because they're SURE no one is listening.

[Tesha]

26. How tragic for him. (NT)

[Rageneau]

31. Finally -- something that cheers me up about this wiretapping.

I wonder if they taped Ann Coulter's calls to 1-900-P-H-O-N-E-S-E-X?

[cookiebird]

32. Join the Club, Bill

"Hello, my name is Bill, and I've been NSA'D...."
folks, no one has asked the Real Question: how long has this BS been going on?

[madfloridian]

33. Here is the link and his statement.

MR. SAFIRE: I was writing a speech on welfare reform, and the president looks at it and says, "OK, I'll go with it, but this is not going to get covered. Leak it as far an wide as you can beforehand. Maybe we'll get something in the paper." And so I go back to my office and I get a call from a reporter, and he wants to know about foreign affairs or something, and I said, "Hey, you want a leak? I'll tell you what the president will say tomorrow about welfare reform." And he took it down and wrote a little story about it. But the FBI was illegally tapping his phone at the time, and so they hear a White House speechwriter say, "Hey, you want a leak?" And so they tapped my phone, and for six months, every home phone call I got was tapped. I didn't like that. And when it finally broke--it did me a lot of good at the time, frankly, because then I was on the right side--but it told me how easy it was to just take somebody who is not really suspected of anything for any good reason and listen to every conversation in his home--you know, my wife talking to her doctor, my--everything."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10558586/

Sounds like he was talking about the FBI, can't tell for sure.

[arewenotdemo]

34. "my wife talking to her doctor, my--everything"

Rich stuff. One can only hope red dresses were involved.

[bananas]

35. Thanks - there's also video and audio available

There's a few more paragraphs of his statement.
The netcast doesn't work on my computer,
I downloaded the podcast but haven't listened to it yet.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/

MEET THE PRESS NETCAST & PODCAST

Get Meet the Press when & how you want

• Click here to see Sunday's MTP netcast.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10386260/

• Click here to download the MTP podcast.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8132577/#mtp

Here's the mp3 link from the podcast xml file:
http://podcast.msnbc.com/audio/podcast/pd_mtp-01-01-2006-090525.mp3
length=11686496

[Supersedeas]

37. Thanks for the linkie

[Neil Lisst]

36. When was Safire a speechwriter? I thought it was with Nixon.

He is talking about his time with the WH, because he's working with the president on a speech, and he's telling Safire to get the word out.

Safire does, and gets caught on a wire leaking info to a reporter, so they wire him for six months, listen to every call he makes at home.