Cobb

I think it has become abundantly clear (or at least I respect the arguments) that FISA, written in 1978, simply cannot deal with current technologies and the statute must be updated

All Bush had to do was go to Congress and ask for more authority - period. They didn't do this because they didn't think Congress would approve. That cross-eyed, retard of an Attorney General said as much. That is what children do when they sneak and do something that they know their parents won't say yes to. The man publicly stated, more than once, that he knew warrants were needed and then he did the opposite behind the scenes. Sorry, the man has no track record as a saint, a scholar or a gentleman. We have checks and balances for a reason. He HAS to stop acting like he is free, white and 21 and can do as he damn well pleases!

Well, you have to decide that if you have Osama's phone number are you going to wait for Congress to change a law, or are you going to act. Its Congress' job to deliberate, and they've had over 20 years to update this law and they haven't. So why should ongoing investigations that can deliver Al Qaeda be held up by Congress.

The law I know. But...

They have 72 hours. They can tap me (and now I know they probably did because I was all over Arab websites while contracting at the Dept. of Defense at the onset of the war) and ask for a warrant. I don't see where the problem is in following the proper channels. The only reason to do otherwise is if you are violating what you know is the right thing.

Q, maybe this guy W knows what he's doing (or at least more than y'all give him credit for). . . Maybe he knows that if he went to congress for EVERYTHING, that bay-gal Pick-my-noseylosi would start yelling on the front steps of Congress warning the bad dudes that they were being listened to so they can once again go further underground to seal our fate. So just go back to breakin into closets and grabbin little Cuban boys and let W do his job?!

The 72 hour window is a valid point, like it or not.

The only people who think that W knows what he is doing are dirt stupid. Greedy people like him because Corporate interests are the only way he got elected. The man is Urkel on crack and everything he has touched has been a disaster. Yet, I watch C-Span almost every morning and hear someone, every day, claiming they support him because they don't want "the blacks" to get welfare from their tax dollars. Come on! At this point, we have a plutocracy and the only people who support him, HONESTLY, are incredibly DUMB or incredibly GREEDY!

His foreign policy was highjacked by arrogant neo-cons who had no clue what they were doing and thought they could move colored people in the Middle East around like chess pieces only to see it FAIL miserably.

Yes, the little Cuban boy should have been sent back to his family. Every other BLACK stranded person from the Carribean would have been caught in the Ocean and sent back.

BDS Loud and Clear!