There Ought To Be A Law
Originally posted by loam
The legislation is to ensure FISA review. Are you saying he has made public statements that he believes the President acted properly?
Let's ask him:
From Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law
The program "is in flat violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," said the chairman, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who will
open committee hearings on Monday.
That's what he's saying, according to Brian Knowlton of the International Herald Tribune.
My quandary arises from the fact that if this is true,
then what's the point of passing another law?
How does that make sense?
The Art Of Not Making Sense
If the President is breaking the law, then passing more laws isn't going to fix that.
My problem with this story is that it defies my ability to understand it.
Maybe it's an indication of a profound reasoning deficit on my part, or maybe it's an indication that this whole issue
doesn't make sense.
Why doesn't it make sense? I'll speculate.
Laws Of Deception
I suspect it's because information necessary to understand what's
really going on is being withheld.
Why do that? To achieve some sort of political objective.
Who benefits? Probably not someone obvious, and probably not the people being deceived.
Suspicion deliberately turned in one direction usually indicates a desire to turn it from another direction.
I'm getting too damn old to keeping salivating every time some huckster rings a bell, which is why I'm unwilling to play along with this.
And I still expect
real violations of law involving the illegal release of classified information to be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law.
Unless the law truly has become meaningless, of course.
