Is it fair that Bush is tapping into American's phone calls?
493432
he isnt personally ,he got teams of fibs doing that ,and since when has he done anything that is fair ,why should you expect that now ,
724859
Um no, not really.  They're just pawns in Bush's game.  He calls the shots, they do what they're told.
572944
First, Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. Nobody would have cared about BJ's. But our president lied under oath!!\n\nSecond, who says phone calls are private in the first place? When you are on a phone, you are broadcasting anything you say to the world!! People record your phone calls all the time!! Credit card companies, cutomer service reps, you name it. And for Christ's sake, read a little and educate yourself. Unless your talking to a known or suspected terrorist, the government doesn't have the time, energy, or manpower to listen to you talk to your dumb girlfriends about who got kicked off of American Idol, or how fat your ass looks in your new jeans!!\n\nThird, the Red Sox suck!
829523
you mean the TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE" directive, don't you?  It is not a bill to listen in to Aunt Martha and steal her chicken recipe, and it's not even for listening in to college professors talk to each other about how to turn America into a socialist state.  It is about listening to INTERNATIONAL phone calls to or from known terrorists so that our leaders can protect us. And it hasn't been "thrown out" yet, but I'm sure it will be when the Dems take over.  Then I can't wait for all the "why didn't they connect the dots?" whiners after we get hit again.
1182705
Bush is trying to play the American people for fools.  He is not serious about stopping illegal immigration and never has been.  If you have doubts examine his proposal for a guest worker program.  This program is a way to ensure a permanent supply of cheap labor for the business elite, whom he represents.  Sending troops to the border won't solve the problem, and he knows it.  Again, just trying to play Americans for fools.  Proposing an ammendment to have English be the official language does NOTHING to solve the problem.  It's just Bush telling the American people, "Oh, you're upset because my corporate buddies are taking away your jobs and giving them to foreigners to increase their profits, here I'll throw you this bone, maybe you'll settle down, and we can all go back to screwing you in the butt."  And all the while, he has the audacity to propagate lies like " the illegals are doing jobs Americans don't want."  I think it's time for all Americans to wake up and see what our government is doing to us and whose interests they are really looking out for.
1063247
We are very much on the defensive militarily and they are trying to find a weak spot, possibly working with one of our residents but even communication is being highly monitered.  It's funny.  I could probably get on the phone with one of my friends and talk about how people want to "kill George Bush" and all of us that are talking about it and saying anything with "kill" and "president" in it on the phone or in emails have to be examined too.  I wonder how effective it is and how much time all our phone calls and emails take up and how much money it costs to pay this scret service department to do all this moniterring.  There could be a guy talking about the "assassination of President" Kennedy and his phone call or email would be monitered too.\n\nWhen you think about it, the one set of terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are still continuing to hurt us in many ways and one of them is financially  because of all the security operations that have been set up to find insergents and much of it being wasted on suspected people's phone calls, emails  and detaining suspected people at air ports who are in some way supicious but actually are innocent.  Many people I know are now out of a job and many of them are now trying to maintain their poorly running cars that they cannot afford to take to the shop or are trying desperately to figure out how they can get a cheap or free car in order to get around.  And the insugents know all of this and are probably sitting back and laughing.\n\nIt seems they don't need to do any more damage.  We are still suffering from 2001 and the problems we are creating ourselves.
673483
NOT AT ALL.\n\nDICTATOR BUSH DOES WHATEVER HE WANTS. SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL HE CONTINUES TO DO WHATEVER HE WANTS AND NOBODY IS STOPPING HIM.  HE'S LONG OVERDUE FOR IMPEACHMENT.
894497
No it is not. Most of Bushes friends are crooks...example Ken Lay. ENRON\narrogant and deluded the whole lot of them
109924
First off, Domestic Warrentless Spying is a misnomer.  For decades, the government can listen to calls without a warrent, and then go for a warrent afterwards.  In this case, the Bush administration used executive power to say that a warrent isn't even needed after the fact, which is something the Clinton adminstration did as well.  It is not to monitor your calls to your friends.  It is to monitor calls that are received from and placed to known terrorists overseas.\nSecond, Congress passed a law which Bush signed, creating strict restrictions against torture and affirming that it is illegal.  So, Bush isn't supporting torture.
1064456
This is Mr. Floyd calling for Mrs. Floyd\n Its  a man answering.\nThis is the united states calling, are we reaching?\n *click*
145997
No. You must inform them that they are being recorded. (Unless your name is Bush)
1126478
Same thing he's dong with our phone calls...
6861
Let's see Osama calls someone in America tells him to begin the operation to blank the blanks\n\nYour questin indicates you would have us ignore this call?  Then you ask why people are going against reason?   \n\nHelp me out but I've read the original bill of rights and frankly I can't find a single place in there that talks about the right to private un-monitored phone communications with our enemies.\n\nGet off your high horses and start doing what's right for the country if Bill Clinton had done this you'd be calling him a hero.  Bush scratches his nose and you think it's a triger to the terrorists to begin blowing up oil fields so bush's evil friends can raise our gas prices.
954067
Like the person said above me, it's all staged.  I don't know why they put the number up to call (If you are husband that wants to tell your wife so and so...).  I guess they put up the little 1-800 call in just to appear genuine.
484785
No your right. I agree 101%. We are slowly but surely losing ALL of our rights. BUSHERJERK is now or already has OUR phone records. I'm gonna start saying IN EVERY phone conversation I am having what I think of BUSHERJERK in the HOPES that he or one of his G MEN hear what I say. I would love to see him in person so I could give him a one finger salute. I'd most likely get arrested for something he would make up but I think it would be worth it.
318926
Actually, the US Supreme Court has NOT addressed warrantless wiretaps as they are being done by Bush. To the contrary, the Supreme Court has said (see Hamdi v. Rumsfeld) that the current poltiical situation is "not a blank check" for the President to do anything he wants, regardless of existing laws.\n\nIn fact, there are two reasons why warrantless wiretapping is not authorized, and is explicitly illegal under specific laws that were intended to cover this exact situation.\n\nFirst, FISA passed by Congress thirty years ago explicitly states the conditions under which surveillance can be conducted, and was passed specifically to address monitoring of US citizens communicating with people in another country, where one or more were suspected of being a threat. FISA requires that even in an emergency, the wiretapping agency get a warrant from a judge within 72 hours AFTER the tap is initiated. This defeats any argument made about their not being enough time to act within the bounds of law, and Bush has admitted that he's never even applied for the warrants afterwards in an attempt to obey with the law.\n\nInterestingly, some of big names opposing FISA being passed thirty-years ago include Bush Sr., Rumsfeld and Cheney. So, they were told, by Congress explicitly, that they ideas about inherent presidential authority were wrong. So, not only is Bush breaking the law, but he's breaking a law that was specifically set up to govern this very action, after his top advisors were told what the law was in this exact situation.\n\nSecond, there is the ridiculous claim that Bush is acting under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the administration argues implicitly allows such actions. However, the AUMF is two paragraphs long, and states only that Bush is authorized to send military troops to Afghanistan, pursuant to the War Powers Act.\n\nWhat does the War Powers Act say? It limits presidential authority to send troops or deploy domestic assets unless authorized by Congress (since only Congress can declare war, and only Congress has jurisdiction for making domestic laws). The War Powers Act also specifically says that the President does not get any implied powers under this law, and that the President must obey all existing laws even when exercising explicit powers.\n\nYou can't claim implied powers based on a law that says "no implied powers". That's basic legal theory 101. It's like trying to argue it doesn't count as treason because the traitor chooses to call it something else. Performing actions that explicitly breaking laws that were intended to cover this exact situation is breaking the law, pure and simple.
842986
Yes.\nThis is just another example of how Karl Rove has the Republicans negative campaigning. They have told lies about their counterparts. Over half of the Country believes Congress is doing a poor job, Bush has a 38% approval rating as of this week.\nThis many people cannot be wrong. They resort to these telemarketing schemes to lie to voters. They are even doing on TV ads. That is because they have done such a poor job, that this is the only thing left to try to win with.