Bush flip-flopping on NSA program?

Question

Well, an interesting development; George W. Bush, who touted his NSA warrentless wire tapping program, and continued to talk about how important it was has now decided to let it expire. Is he flip flopping? Or, could it be that since Osama Bin Ladin's New York City based Ministry of Information, the New York Times, leaked the program, terrorists have stopped using telephone communications to their supporters here in the U.S., thus leaving Bush with no real reason to continue it?

And don't tell me about how Bush is ruining our rights to privacy; FDR wire tapped every phone in the country and put all Japanese Americans in federally monitored camps after Pearl Harbor. So did Wilson.

Justagran- You're wrong. It is not illegal for the President to authorize the NSA to wire tap phones, why do you think that Bush hasn't been indicted for it? I'm trying to understand your reasoning; Bush committed a crime and wasn't indicted for it? Also, there were terrorist attacks thwarted because of the program, and after the new york times ILLEGALLY leaked the program terrorists stopped using it as a form of communication. If they were not watching the sopranos, as you so intelligently put it, they did end up reading the times. In addition, FDR did what he thought was right considering that it was Japanese Americans living in Honolulu that coordinated with Japanese spies in helping catalog the targets at the naval base. Not Bush, nor Roosevelt, nor Wilson did anything illegal.

Answer 1

FDR was wrong too then. So was Wilson, its illegal, and without a docile whipped in Congress who forgot it has oversight, Bush knows hes got to back off or ask for a constitutional crisis at a time when his only friend is his dog. You know, the Mafia dopes knew better than to use a phone because of tapping by the FBI, just how stupid did you think the college educated terrorists were that they were going to spill their guts over the phone? Even the stupidest home-grown bomber watches the Sopranos.
Bush and his cronies have said they have the right to use executive privilege because its a time of war, and they claim this under the patriot act. It isn't a crime because its not, that doesn't make it legal or his claims legal, if it had been challenged, and gone to the supreme court, we would have found out for sure, but the republican congress wasn't going to challenge his claims and when the Dem's got in, they might, and so....no more claim.

Answer 2

After 6 years of rail road treatment I fear he's becoming very tired. A person can only take so much. This program will go on just as before but will be put through the FISA court now. Since the democrats were the one's screaming about this program when a communication slips through that should have and would have been caught by this program it'll be all on them.

I'm hoping Monday's episode of 24 really happens preferably near hollywood or Martha's vineyard. It's going to take another attack to get people to stop listening to all the liberal kooks in this country. I'd rather the liberal kooks get hit than the Americans who make this country work.

Answer 3

That Japanese thing you mentioned, one of the real low points in America's history. No amount of wrongs make what President Bush is doing, right. Let's face facts, now that his congress is no longer in control, his behind is being backed against the wall. Republicans are going to start paying the price for their arrogance. It wouldn't surprise me to see V.P. Cheney take a fall along with Scooter Libby. The crap is starting to hit the fan, hold onto your hats, I'm predicting a lot of splattering.

Answer 4

i think of a final attempt to warn Iran what's inevitable if it would not come to the table is straightforward and if some see it as a turn-flop (a-l. a.-john Kerry (Vietnam conflict hero)), it fairly is a desperate way of finding at it. Iran is on the verge of being decimated.