Comments on: Bush NSA Spied on EVERYBODY, Including US Journalists

By: Lycanthropia : Obama, Week 1: A Lycanthropic Digest

Lycanthropia : Obama, Week 1: A Lycanthropic Digest — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:08:57 +0000

[...] the Russell Tice’s revelation that the National Security Agency under George W. Bush spied on everyone, but it isn’t getting traction. The media is focused instead on scaring the public about [...]

By: Glynn Wilson

Glynn Wilson — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:13:40 +0000

It was more than that. I was a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights and a criminal conspiracy. See the latest post on it... New York Times Reporter Reacts to New Spying Allegations

By: Petty Vindictiveness

Petty Vindictiveness — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:03:29 +0000

This was just another example of the childlike will of the imposter-in-chief to intimidate everyday Americans away from expressing dissent, and to harass those who would expose his malfeasances. The conservatives believe in sabotage of the government so the private enterprises can profit more. Preventing adequate journalism prevents adequate public discourse and that leads to enhanced profitability for Vice-President Cheney, the war profiteering industry and the oil industry. Boo!

By: carver

carver — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:00:50 +0000

On the issue of specific targeting of some groups Mr. Tice mentioned journalist as one group. Based on that, I would bet a weeks salary that another group was the US Congress, which could be one reason that “impeachment was off the table”. Not that I think the Bush administration would stoop to blackmail – yeah, and bears never poop in the woods.

By: Yana Davis

Yana Davis — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:23:25 +0000

Bottom line, the Bush administration did everything possible to tear up the Bill of Rights. Fortunately, there were enough voices raised crying “foul,” and enough federal judges with intestinal fortitude, to put a monkey wrench in those plans to a significant degree.

The founders never envisioned the federal government spying on its own citizens, and they certainly had a healthy aversion to unbridled executive power following their experience with King George and his minions. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were their response, writing into our most basic law certain “unalienable rights” which no one, no matter their position, can violate.

With a constitutional lawyer now in the Oval Office, one who says he understands, respects and will again implement the protections of the Bill of Rights, we can rest a little easier. We will rest even better when the authoritarian abuses of the late administration are brought fully into public view and those responsible, whenever possible, prosecuted.

The Bill of Rights is not a Bill of Suggestions. It’s a constitutional, ironclad guarantee of naturally inherent human rights. Any who knowingly try to eviscerate it are truly “un-American” in the most fundamental sense.