Are you surprised about the recent report saying the FBI violated surveillance laws?

Question

Didn't Bush claim that only al queda types were the target?

Would you be surprised if the DNC itself was being monitored?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1868576.htm

Answer 1

No I am not surprised. This exactly what opponents of the Patriot Act said would happen. Of course we were told that's ridiculous that could never happen, well it did happen so now what? A slap on the wrist and they are told to stop doing it? Of course the people who will excuse this are the same fools who put safety from "terrorists" before freedom. Anyone who excused this abuse by the FBI is pathetic.

Answer 2

No, I am not surprised. With the new Patriot Act, I can see their confusion, though, with the law. However, the FBI will do whatever it wants to get their job done. They are like a secret society, which is necessary to be, to get the bad guys. Things are not always what they seem, and even Bush told the American people, right after 9/11 happened, that we should be tolerant, as some of the things the government will have to do, to defeat terrorism, may look ugly, and even like the mafia. He told us all, that the government will need to talk to underworld crime peoples to get down to the real terrorists. I don't blame him or the FBI, if they need to break a few small laws, to capture the enemy, who cares not a wit for Americans, or America, it is worth it to me. I want my child safe, my country safe, and innocent people safe. That is Mr. Bush's, and the American FBI's mission. Remember, things are not always what they seem. Terrorists don't deserve American rights, while they kill US.

Answer 3

I'm not surprised at all! Our government is ANTI-AMERICAN and pro-illegal immigrant!! Our government allows Venezuelans to vote in the USA for Venezuelans even after Hugo Chavez calls him a devil and tells him to go home. We use Venezuelan Voting Machines which no doubt helped to put Bush into office and which are easily hacked -- (just check into the operating systems and ask any young computer hacker how easy it is to hack into any government system (Oh, and we don't condone hacking, we report it when we see it). We do monitor and research all kinds of issues as loyal citizens of the United States of America.

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Answer 4

Are you really surprised by this, i'm not they just got caught, how long have they been spying on the ppl, probably for over 40-60 years. The ppl have no freedoms what so ever. They have cameras on every street corner, phones have been tapped for God knows how long. Ppl need to wake up I would say before its to late, because I believe it already is.

Answer 5

Wow, The BBC now there's an unbiased source. The article may as well of been written by one of the terrorists.

I still didn't notice a victim named that's suing the government or anything?

Answer 6

no and I would not be surprised at any thing these crooks do , some say Hoover was a homo ? maybe he was ? who knows ?but, at least he kept the F,B,I, STRAIGHT AND ALL OF THE POLITICIANS, so I had rather have a homo as head of the F,B,I, and have it a good organization then these so called straights and have it so dishonest, tell me I am wrong.

Answer 7

In the conduct of the office of President of the United States, George Walker Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has attempted to impose a police state and a military dictatorship upon the people and Republic of the United States of America by means of "a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations" against the Constitution since September 11, 2001. This subversive conduct includes but is not limited to trying to suspend the constitutional Writ of Habeas Corpus; ramming the totalitarian U.S.A. Patriot Act through Congress; the mass-round-up and incarceration of foreigners; kangaroo courts; depriving at least two United States citizens of their constitutional rights by means of military incarceration; interference with the constitutional right of defendants in criminal cases to lawyers; violating and subverting the Posse Comitatus Act; unlawful and unreasonable searches and seizures; violating the First Amendments rights of the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, peaceable assembly, and to petition the government for redress of grievances; packing the federal judiciary with hand-picked judges belonging to the totalitarian Federalist Society and undermining the judicial independence of the Constitution's Article III federal court system; violating the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions and the U.S. War Crimes Act; violating the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; reinstitution of the infamous "Cointelpro" Program; violating the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the Convention against Torture, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; instituting the totalitarian Total Information Awareness Program; and establishing a totalitarian Northern Military Command for the United States of America itself. In all of this George Walker Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore George Walker Bush, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

Answer 8

I'm surprised it's even being reported.

Answer 9

Nothing surprises me.

Answer 10

Not at all.
"Power corrupts, ultimate power corrupts ultimately."