Ranting and Venting

You'll see links to news articles, snippets from interviews and other web paraphenalia. This will also be a dumping ground for various stuff that I might need to get off my chest. Hence the Ranting and Venting title.


Friday, January 13, 2006

Clinton didn't use warrantless wiretaps

I didn't even know that Bush tried to accuse Clinton of Illegal wiretaps. What a cowardly thing to do. He can't even take the blame for something he did. He has to try and blame a Democrat for giving him the idea.

The Salt Lake Tribune Writes:
Former President Clinton said Thursday that he never ordered wiretaps of American citizens without obtaining a court order, as President Bush has acknowledged he has done.
Clinton, in an interview broadcast Thursday on the ABC News program ''Nightline,'' said his administration either received court approval before authorizing a wiretap or went to court within three days after to get permission, as required by law.
''We either went there and asked for the approval or, if there was an emergency and we had to do it beforehand, then we filed within three days afterward and gave them a chance to second guess it,'' Clinton told ABC.
Bush said in December that he authorized wiretaps without obtaining court permission and defended the practice as a ''vital tool'' in tracking terrorist suspects and accomplices.
''I don't have enough facts to know why there would be some reluctance to go there,'' Clinton told ABC. ''I felt that the court and the setup was more than enough to do what we needed to do.''
Asked if the president should have the authority to order wiretaps without warrants, Clinton said, ''I think that's a decision the Supreme Court would have to resolve.''



The Article can be found here:
Clinton says he didn't use warrantless wiretaps

2 Comments:

Blogger Brad said...

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1/14/2006 10:58:00 AM  
Blogger Mindwolf said...

Your post has been removed for abusive language, Brad, I suggest less attacking next time.

By the way, if you love Bush so much, you obviously haven't taken into consideration how much he has lied to us, spied on us, sold us out, destroyed our economy, immersed us in the largest debt in history and is personally responsible for starting a war on false pretenses.

1/14/2006 11:07:00 AM  

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