Thanks ever so much for your information. While Buddha thinks that I am charismatically sarcastic and he stated that he is looking for a font. I think he is in the inevitable delicate position of being in the land of Oz. But then again, looking at some of my comments I guess they could be toned down a tad. As such, I have no reason to doubt his accuracy. I think that we can look to you for rationality.

Thanks again.

“Self-righteous outrage is the classic human response to being found out.”

It’s also the core of some of the funniest Marx Bros. routines ever.

What do you mean a “regressive force?”

Bush Policies led to prisoner abuse:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_go_co/us_interrogation_memos_senate

OMG

mespo,

Surely you reference the original George Segal laugh riot and not the Jim Carrey misfire.

“Oh, now she gets the 4th Amendment … when it applies to her.

It is all about Jane.”

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I like to call it “Fun with Dick and Jane — and Alberto.”

“The Justice Department attorneys were prepared to pursue a case against Harman, which would include electronic surveillance approved by the so-called FISA Court, the secret panel established by the 1979 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to hear government wiretap requests.”

source at — http://awurl.com/bxmCc1CYm

Gonzales killed the inquiry into Harman due to her supporting the warrentless position of the Bush administration.

This was actually reported in 2006 by Time.: http://awurl.com/yL2riUuSK

It’s nice to see the corruption and poison of the Bush years being exposed (again!) in a more favorable light that might actually lead to legal action.

As with the Cheney story yesterday, it seems like corrupt government officials have a newfound interest in transparency. Let’s hope all the dirty laundry comes out.

I think the ACLU website has a place for people to write in their stories. I would also go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for information on how really, just about everyone is being monitored. Blanket monitoring is very bad law enforcement and terrible public policy (as Ms. Harmon seems to have miraculously discovered)!

Did anyone hear that the New director of Freddie Mac apparently died of a suicide?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_freddie_mac_official_dead

I wonder if the same fate awaited Kenneth Lay. Now he died of a heart attack. But a newspaper a read in California was talking about how one could die from injecting oxygen in a vain and it would appear like a heart attack. This was one week before Lay died.

I wonder who was going to be exposed? And who helped David Kellerman commit suicide.

I “second” your response. Thanks for stating it so well. (My own situation could be described as “kafkaesque” and I know I’m not alone.) I suspect, hope and pray that many of the abuses of the last eight (or more) years will be exposed, hopefully sooner rather than later.

And you’re right: “We should be able to see those files.”

It is all about Jane.

In some cases, a faulty/bad fusion center algorithm might be enough to launch a virtual all-out offensive, I’m guessing. Or could it be that one has always been a registered Democrat who happened to travel to Somalia with with a spouse employed by a relief agency. Or was it the humanitarian work done in Nicaragua? Or perhaps the little book called “Bad Bush” that was purchased as a joke. Maybe this will open up the “out of control” domestic surveillance/wiretapping programs. We have agengies that have run amok with information that, on the face of it may seem suspicious but, in the end, is nothing. The rub is that the lives of innocent people life have been forever changed and probably not for the better. And let me tell you, these things are still in progress. These programs are still going strong.

Damn the decaf. I don’t think I’ll ever get the hang of mornings again.

SO Jane? How’s that catering to graft merchants and spies working out for you? Not so easy to be an accessory to espionage or take orders from those who bought your soul when you’re phones are tapped, is it?

The average, law-abiding American has experienced abuses that no one seems to want to acknowledge or touch. I suppose it’s possible, just as was true regarding warrantless wiretapping, pre-Tamm, that the proverbial cats aren’t out of the bag, yet. Most people don’t know that half of it. The question is: Will they ever?

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I find it deliciously ironic that the maven of Bush’s illegal intelligence program is caught with a legal wiretap. Her incredible statement that the interception is “an abuse of power” is comical since she apparently bases it on the doctrine of separation of powers. This from a woman whose imminent prosecution was waylaid by Consigliere Alberto Gonzalez, while still masquerading as AG, because Bush “needed Jane” to prop up his assault on the Constitution. The rats are in the water now!

Wow, simple logic to me. Care now. Am I my brothers keeper? If someones rights are being trampled, do I care? well heck yeah, if that someone is me.

This is why I think that the right to privacy case in the strip search is of such importance.