House Judiciary Committee Meeting on Warrentless Wiretapping

[MiniMe]

Does anybody know what is going on with it? It was scheduled at 11am, and supposed to be on cspan3. It is advertised on the cspan website. They have something else on cspan3 right now, so I tried the house judiciary webcast, and it said the program was unavailable.

Tuesday 09/18/2007 - 11:00 AM
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Full Committee

Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part II)


The Honorable Mike McConnell
Director of National Intelligence
The Honorable Kenneth Wainstein
Assistant Attorney General for National Security United States Department of Justice

[MiniMe]

1. Nevermind, it is starting now

per cspan, they delayed it so everybody could participate in a series of votes.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. nadler just got a round of applause

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3. conyers just put them under oath.

[rodeodance]

16. Good. Wonder why Petraeus was NOT under oath?

[MiniMe]

4. McConnell can't discuss some things in an open meeting

Of course. And those are the things that we are probably most interested in. How convenient.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. "no americans' phones have been tapped without court order"

says mike mcconnell

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Link right here and thanks for the heads up!

http://judiciary.house.gov/

[Beelzebud]

7. Thankee for the link.

[MiniMe]

9. Also on cspan3

http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. Thank you! nt

[MiniMe]

8. I didn't change my position because the white house talked to me

Good Lord, the man is trying to pull an Alberto. Conyers is very frustrated with him. He says that they didn't tap any americans without a warrent, but they couldn't control who was on the other end of the line.

[rodeodance]

15. the reason the WH talks to them is to get the talking points te he.

[Igel]

27. They're using the terms to mean different things, with different focus. n/t

[MiniMe]

10. Nadler up now

[rodeodance]

19. LOTS of protestors

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject cpan 3 LOTS of protestors at conyers Survailence hearing. tune in if you can
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1834712#1834712
1834712, cpan 3 LOTS of protestors at conyers Survailence hearing. tune in if you can
Posted by rodeodance on Tue Sep-18-07 12:04 PM

[rodeodance]

12. can you put Offical thread # 1 in subject line. I just started one as i did not know

you were here.
thanks.

[rodeodance]

13. REC

[rodeodance]

14. I heard the discussion about 200 hrs needed for every tap. But seems it would

take 200 with or without a warrent. did I get that straight?

[MiniMe]

17. I think that they were saying that they didn't believe that it took 200 hours

for each warrent.

[rodeodance]

21. yes, I got that part. But am unsure of the final conclusion.

[rodeodance]

22. Protestors again. I can not hear them

[MiniMe]

18. Can't edit it now, past the edit time.

I originally posted it because I didn't know that the hearing was delayed for voting and I wondered if anybody had heard anything about it.

[rodeodance]

20. ok

[MiniMe]

23. Ugh, Tom Feeney, * apologist, is up now

feeding a whole load of BS to McConnell

[MiniMe]

24. Augggghhhhh

"Its just not fair if a telecommunications company gets sued for helping the government out with National defense"

Yes, it IS fair to hold a company liable if they are breaking the law. The constitution doesn't confer rights to companies.

[MiniMe]

25. Mel Watt up now

[MiniMe]

26. Asks if any of the cases they want to immunize have merit

lots of hemming and hawing, and finally they say somebody else would have done that