Why did GWB allow illegal wire tapping?

Question

Wasn't this an infringement on our rights? shouldn't he be impeached for what he did? or its o.k. in the conservatives view point that we should live under a dictatorship until we win the war on terror. What an example of freedom huh ?

Answer 1

you will enjoy life under my dictatorship, dude! HAHAHHA

Answer 2

In the first place, there is no illegal wire tapping going on, and in the second place, even if there were, our rights would not be violated. Here's why I say this, and believe it.
If probable cause exist, then "law enforcement" can follow up and investigate further. In this day of wireless communications, with so much "flying" through the air, anybody can pick up anything. If these listening outpost should happen to pick up a conversation where either or both parties are outside the U.S., (Middle East particularly) and something is picked up to trigger further investigation, then I do not see the problem. The government has the responsibility to protect its citizens, yet the citizens want to take away the means for the government to protect.
Secondly, violation of rights does't fly because the U.S. Consititution applies to United States citizens, not the entire world, and only then when you are in the United States.
This entire argument about wire-tapping is nothing more than another attempt from left leaning democrats, and their friends in the media to discredit the Bush Administration. For the last 7 years, more or less, and for another year or so, sore losers in the Democratic party have flooded (and will continue to flood) the airways, and print media with attempts to discredit Bush.
Impeach Bush? How about charging Treason every time someone, politician or news person releases information on something like the wire tapping, which at one time was an effective tool to fight terrorism. Don't laugh, Abraham Lincoln did it during the Civil War to newspaper men who were too free with there words.

Answer 3

He needed a smokescreen to cover his negligence in failing to heed urgent pre-9-11 warnings of the FBI, CIA and his counterintelligence chief. The smokescreen was this: he didn't have the tools to fight terrorism before the strike, and therefore urgently needed them post-9-11. Such tools included a war in the middle east to establish a friendly democracy there, warrantless wiretapping, detentions without lawyers or trials, and the use of torture and cruel and unusual punishment. Besides it's fun having dictatorial powers as a "unitary" executive. Even before 9-11 he said:

If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," December 18, 2000, and,

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " July 30, 2001

And Bush, who has taken more than 425 vacation days, loves the easy way; there's no doubt about that!

Answer 4

The Neocon white house has an agenda of taking away civil liberties.There are so many reasons why Bush should be impeached,that list is long but yes this should be on it.
Anyone who defends this illegal wiretapping follows the logic of a police state.
Civil liberties have been fought for for centuries all around the world but now people would simply give them up without a struggle cos they're spoiled.They don't remember or can imagine how it is without them. They take life as we know it for granted while they accept when someone takes it away
Want to stress this again,the argument I have nothing to hide is the logic of a police state.When you choose to enter that logic you are no longer the land of the free and nothing stand in the way of government to take further steps.

Answer 5

Wait a sec. You advise if Congress supplies the administrative sizeable capability to look into on people, it's going to use it? Benghazi is a witch hunt being devised from a tragedy. it extremely is Republicans searching for political threat. The AP surveillance is a hundred% legal using fact congress exceeded a regulation announcing it extremely is below our final president. The IRS project, is a localized journey in Cincinnati, which got here approximately and became stumbled on final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. The operative became released. The president had no longer something to do with any of this. i locate the AP tale worrying, in spite of the undeniable fact that it extremely is totally legal. i locate the IRS project troubling, in spite of the undeniable fact that it became dealt with some distance faraway from presidential notice. relax. i'm optimistic you will locate yet another vivid merchandise to distract you quickly.

Answer 6

Because the voter allowed the government to do so. Bush has little to do with it. Of course it appears that the president supports such behavior, but in the long run, YOU and every Yahooligan are responsible for everything YOUR government does. It's a LOT of responsibility, maybe too much?

Answer 7

He did not do anything illegal as was established in court.

No. we won't live under your dictatorship. People are still "innocent until proved guilty" here. Even our President.

Any phone call, around the world, might at any time due to traffic be routed through the United States. That means that Osama, calling from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia might actually have his call routed through Chicago, Illinois.

THAT'S why this wire tapping was important. It allowed us to track and follow such calls (The locations, not the content, since they weren't listening to the content, just tracking where calls came from).

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Answer 8

Why do you think he hasn/t been impeached? Because he has a dossier on every congressman, senator, and influential journalist in the country. Like the Nixon administration, this one sees its enemies as enemies of the state, and reacts accordingly. Look at some responders on YA, and you will see contrary (what they call "liberal") views labeled as terrorist. Exactly how Jews ended up in concentration camps, for being opponents of a politician who was out to annihilate them.

Answer 9

It definitely seems to me that a president who does something as blatantly illegal as this should face a bill of impeachment.

Had the president needed to spend some time defending his job, he might have behaved better. Shame on the "opposition" for being, apparently, chicken.

I've always voted democrat, except the last few election cycles. Been voting Green lately. And I urge anyone who wants a reall opposition to do the same.

Answer 10

He did nto allow 'illegal' wire tapping. He allowed
legal wire tapping, at least his Attorney General said it was legal! Sure GW wanted it to happen and pushed hard, but the AG had to sign off for it to happen.

Answer 11

If you are not doing anything wrong, would it matter if someone hears you? I do not look at "spying" as an infringement of rights. I see it more as an annoyance. My rights I see as more of the day to day kind of thing. Take away my home, food, child, protection, etc.... those kinds of things I see as an infringement of my rights.