"When yer tawkin' on the phone wit Al Qaeda, we wanna know what cher tawkin' bout"

[many a good man]

That was the little tyrant's favorite line in the days following the revelations of his warrantless wiretapping of Americans.

HOW STUPID DOES HE THINK WE ARE?

To wiretap an American, you need a warrant. DOES HE EXPECT US TO BELIEVE THAT A FISA JUDGE WILL NOT ISSUE A WARRANT to tap a phone line when there's a known terrorist on the other end?

He didn't go the FISA court because
1) he doesn't want to say WHO he's tapping
2) he doesn't want to say HOW he determines who to tap
3) he doesn't want anybody to tell him who he can or cannot tap

I really don't mind that they tap the phone of someone in the US who is talking to a known terrorist. In fact, I'm glad that they do as long they do it properly with a warrant. It's the shredding of our Constitutional rights that I can't abide.

Congress needs to step up and end the secrecy and abuse of power. The have to stop insulting our intelligence. They have to stop destroying the rights we have fought for over so many generations.

We need the TRUTH about how we are being spied on. We need to STOP trusting a ruthless right wing prevaricating tyrant and his henchmen. We need to STOP the destruction of America and everything it stands for and millions have fought and died for over the generations.

As RFK, Jr said, See you at the barricades.

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1. They want to wiretap EVERYONE and then decide

who is a terrorist later. In addition, coupled with the recent EO, they want to find out if anyone "materially supports our enemies in Iraq" (by wiretap and email and blog snarfing), arrest that person and send him/her to detention centers and seize their assets AND THEN claim that they support terrorists. Not that such a claim need be made, after all, the executive branch decides everything, so they don't need to make any such claim (or have evidence to back it up) in a court.