Notice how Bush calls NSA wiretapping Americans a "program"?

[Mika]

How many time does he repeat the word "program" as if it is a legal and legitimate endeavor?

[Seedersandleechers]

1. He's talking thru Rove's asshole...IMO

[tx_dem41]

4. Was that visual entirely necessary?

:)

[Lefty48197]

2. We should call it Rove & Cheney's wiretapping program

Force them to explain who Rove and Cheney are.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Yes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x30839

[proud patriot]

5. so we call it "Bush's wire tapping CRIME"

:think:

[Panda1]

6. Call it what it is...a purge

It's designed to shut up and round up all opponents to this regime.
His "program" is illegal. If using "keywords" gets us on a list, every single DUer is being monitored by either a computer, a listener, or both.

[Dongfang Hong]

7. It is a program.

So is Social Security and so was the Holocaust. Both the most upstanding and the most evil programs are still programs regardless of their legality or moral value. I don't see much spin in the word program. Now, the fact that he keeps talking about how necessary the program is--which I am neither here nor there on--instead of the brazen illegality of the manner in which he went about doing it is irritating. It again muddles the issue, and again once the issue is sufficiently muddled, the public loses interest. How can they be interested in following a scandal they don't understand?

But most obnoxious is his claim that the terrorists will somehow be helped by the knowledge that the NSA frequently fails to apply for rubber-stamped retroactive warrants in a secret court. One imagines an AQ operative on the phone to a cell in New York city:

"My brothers under God, brave band of knights sweeping down to halt the evil of the Crusaders! I regret that, God willing, we may no longer plan our defense of the umma as we have been. For the New York Times, God be praised, has given us a valuable bit of information that may assist us in avoiding the Zionist-Crusader's traps. When the NSA has been spying on us, they have been doing so without warrants! Now, we were willing to risk the well-known NSA wiretaps as outlined in the infidel public-knowledge 1978 FISA act and USA PATRIOT acts, but we cannot risk the danger of such a tap without a rubber-stamp warrant applied retroactively. From here on, my brothers, we must go alone."

Come on.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Dongfang Hong!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: