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Taking Olbermann and Obama to Task for FISA Support

by Paul Gessing

Just because Obama supports Bush's unconstitutional FISA expansion doesn't mean that it is any more legitimate or better policy. While MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has often been an opponent of the Bush Administration's war and privacy policies, his principles apparently don't extend to keeping Democrats from doing the same things.

Glenn Greenwald over at Salon.com takes Olbermann, Jonathan Alter, and other unprincipled lefties to task for endorsing Bush's power grab.


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# posted at by Rober Lewis

Paul, please remove this comment and the comment before from Mr. Lewis (which is inappropriate).

# posted at by Xianleftist_Michael [TypeKey Profile Page]

A main problem with the Bush wiretaps was that he ignored the FISA process. A law that can be complied with is progress, although I agree that the war on terror is likely a sham - although removing the wall of separation between the intelligence and criminal agencies was likely a good thing.

If we don't like Bush and Cheney, we should impeach them - although this is problematic given the fact that the votes to remove are absent. For a while it looked like the President was hemmoraging support in the Senate GOP. The bleeding appears to have stopped enough to keep impeachment off of the table.

# posted at by Xianleftist_Michael [TypeKey Profile Page]