Dick Cheney has his go-to guy in Tim Russert; George Bush has Wolf Blitzer.
Despite the fact that the president's petulant hysteria that refusing to
include retroactive immunity will endanger Americans, a lie that even his
own people can't sup****t, has been thoroughly debunked, that's not going
to
stop Wolf Blitzer from serving up a hot, steaming pile of propaganda
direct
from the bowels of the White House to House Intelligence Committee
Chairman
Silvestre Reyes this morning on Late Edition.
Unfortunately, whatever blinders that Blitzer has on that does not allow
him
to get facts about this FISA propaganda is also apparently affecting the
House intelligence committee as well, as Reyes tells Blitzer that they are
negotiating a compromise that could include telecom immunity.
"We are talking to the representatives from the communications companies
because if we're going to give them blanket immunity, we want to know and
we
want to understand what it is that we're giving immunity for," he said. "I
have an open mind about that."
Regarding a compromise deal, Reyes said: "We think we're very close,
probably within the next week we'll be able to hopefully bring it to a
vote."
Please, no. Jumping Jiminy on a popsicle stick, is there no blatantly
illegal acts that this White House wants to commit that the Congress will
fight? Maybe they're wi****ng for the telecom largese to come back.
Studs Terkel, author and oral historian; Quentin Young, physician and
advocate for health-care reform; State Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie; and
James
Montgomery, former Chicago cor****ation counsel, are plaintiffs in Terkel,
et. al vs. AT&T. They've written an op-ed on Why We Sued The Phone
Company.
Clearly, we will have to deluge Congress with demands that they not cave
into the Bush administration. Again. Your first stop is this PfAW petition
as well as sending emails/snail mails and faxes to your representatives.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/14/countdown-special-comment-on-fisa-president-bush-is-a-liar-and-a-fascist/
Russert should just go and work for Fox News.
So they're going to give them immunity despite the fact they hardly asked
for it?
This is absurd. They're just covering their own ***** now and everyone
knows
it. The Telcos don't need no stinking immunity because they will never go
bankrupt, which would destroy communications in this country. What's more
is
that the Telcos can't unsee what they have seen while in league with the
administration, and it all boils down to that pesky surveillance program
that was enacted pre-9/11 that Bush said was justified by 9/11 to keep us
from having future 9/11s despite the fact it didn't freaking protect us
from
9/11.
This is so blatant that it makes me want to puke. Protection from 3000
counts of negligent 9/11 manslaughter is what this is.
A 4th grader should be able to understand why retroactive immunity makes
no
sense.
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