Mr Gore Get Off Your High Horse!
Al Gore has some nerve, criticizing the President for wiretapping terrorists. It was not very long ago he was criticizing the Administration for not doing enough to combat terrorism. Mr Gore You can’t have it both ways. Now I realize this is an Election year, and the Democrats need all the help they can get in the Midterm elections, but coming just short of calling for the impeachment of the President when he is doing what is necessary to protect this country from more terrorism, is beyond reason.
We do not yet know all the details of what the President authorized. There will be an investigation and we will find out.. We need to remember that this is a time of war, which means that it is sometimes necessary to use extreme methods to defeat the enemy. My understanding, so far, is that the wiretaps were on people getting phone calls from persons overseas who were known or suspected of being connected with Al Qaeda. This is a far cry from what Gore calls “pervasive spying” on US citizens. There are some questions as to whether he should have gotten warrants from the court. He did consult Congress, which is required in this situation.
Do not forget that the Administration that Gore was a part of obtained FBI files of those they considered political enemies. That was not during wartime, and there was no danger to national security. Ol’ Al still can’t get over the fact that he lost the 2000 election. I shutter to think what this country would now be if he had been in charge when we were hit on 9-11.
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Recently, the United States was involved in a little something called "The Cold War." In fact, this war heated up in a few places like Cuba, Hungary, Korea, and Vietnam.
Suppose that Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon et al used the fact that we were fighting a war, a cold war, against a dangerous enemy, as a pretext to sweep aside civil liberties and spy on domestic citizens? Don't you suppose that a few of use, this side of Joe McCarthy, might be a little bit concerned about the actions and the excuses for it?
So far, the Cold War has claimed more American lives than has the War on Terror. But we won it without the need to trash the Bill of Rights.
You are mistaken, Carter, Bush 1 and Clinton all used non-court ordered wire taps, One big one that comes to mind is the Aldrich Aimes case, he was and american citizen, and he was tapped. If a known Nazi was calling the US during world war 2 I am sure they would have tapped that called too. In a time of war extrodinary measures are needed, even expected. The wire tapping does not appear to be wide spread at this time, and Bush is not using it on his political enemies, as Clinton did with those FBI Files.
If someone is talking to Al-Qaida from some country out there to here or vise versa, I want to know why also! There is no imaginary threat here, the threat is real and deadly. Anything it takes to stop these Jihadist's. Dont forget the plot to blow up the Brooklynn bridge was foiled using this method. We will never know how many other's have been foiled. If this means setting my Civil Liberties on the back burner for now by all means do it. I am sure President Bush isnt having anyone listen to Aunt Martha and Aunt Bessie swap Apple Pie recipies!
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