So Who Wants To Make A Citizen's Arrest On John Boehner???

[DeSwiss]

What a Mess

Talking Points Memo
08.02.07 -- 11:52PM

According to the Post, the reason for the administration's feverish effort to get legislation to expand its surveillance powers under FISA is that earlier this year a FISA Court judge declared a key portion of the administration's program illegal. The ruling of course was secret. And it seems that until now the White House had kept this information hidden form Congress.

So why are we finding this out now? Well, that's another interesting story. Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) went on Fox News Tuesday night and discussed the whole thing. But the very existence of the ruling is highly classified. So it seems he publicly revealed highly classified information.

Needless to say, his flack disagrees: claims that Boehner leaked classified secrets on Fox News are "just plain wrong and distracts from the critical task at hand -- fixing FISA to close the serious intelligence gaps that are jeopardizing our national security."

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016152.php

*** - So Cheney, Edelman, Libby and Rove out Valerie Plame -- and then nothing happens. Nothing, except Libby gets a pardon for lying about it. Now Boner violates FISA by disclosing on Faux News of the existence of the court's ruling which it seems is also a crime. So can we at least arrest HIM now??? SOMEBODY??? ANYBODY???

[hang a left]

1. Stupid ass whack

But know for sure that the part he was talking about on Fux was inst-declassified ya know.

[DeSwiss]

4. Explain please? n/t

[bananarepublican]

8. Yep! Bush has given him an "Executive Privilege" badge. n/t

[DeSwiss]

9. Oh, I thought he used one of these....

[babylonsister]

2. Forget Boehner (for now), but what's the deal with this? Where are the

Dems on this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1499355

[DeSwiss]

3. Well I know....

...where 3 Democrats are on it:

"Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said today that he is working closely with Senators Reid and Leahy and their House counterparts, along with top officials in the Bush Administration, to craft a temporary legislative fix to FISA."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1490167&mesg_id=1490167

What I can't understand is why are they trying to "fix" a law that the court has said Bush has already broken? Why help him out? Shouldn't they be looking into this as impeachment article instead????

[babylonsister]

5. No clue. I've been trying to find out what they are up to all day, with

no success. So bedtime for Bonzo (moi), I guess I'll hear about it.
Indeed, WHY help him? On the face, it sucks to me.

[noise]

6. Who could of imagined

Boehner the whistleblower.

Only an asshole like Boehner would think leaking evidence of illegality bolsters the case for Congressional approval.

[Disturbed]

7. The new Amerikan Order decrees that Rethugs do not have

to abide by any Laws. Everyone else does.

[DeSwiss]

10. And you notice....

....that Josh Marshall over at TPM says Boehner's "flack disagrees: claims that Boehner leaked classified secrets on Fox News are "just plain wrong and distracts from the critical task at hand -- fixing FISA to close the serious intelligence gaps that are jeopardizing our national security."

Disagrees? He was on the damned news!!!! They have pictures you asshat!!!

So he never answers the question, just says that its "just wrong." Wrong it what sense? I hadn't even known you couldn't disclose that a FISA ruling had been made. I knew it was a secret court session which smacks of a star chamber to me, considering some of the judges Bush has put out there. These dudes need NO MORE POWER given to them.

Enough have already died....

[DemReadingDU]

11. afternoon kick