GOP Sees Strategic Advantage in Court Loss on Wiretapping - Los Angeles Times

The GOP and false choices:

We can have our constitution, in tact, preserved by a Judge (when Congress fails to do their damned jobs), or we can listen in on Al Qaeda phone calls and, therefore, prevent attacks on our homeland.

What about listening in on Al Qaeda with oversight? Is that such a novel idea?

Hell no, it isn't.

It's the law.

You can be secure or you can be free. So, what's your pleasure? There is no such thing as total security. There are more Americans killed on the highways and byways of this contry every year than are killed by terrorist in any given year.

Why don't we outlaw cars? (Especially the urban assault ego vehicles)

The fact is, there will always be terrorism. As long as man doesn't think twice about inflicting all manner of horror on his fellow man, there will be terror. It matters not if terror comes in the form of planes flown into buildings or shock and awe in Baghdad. Terror is terror.

We will never be entirely safe from someone who is pissed off to the point of being deranged. Terrorism did not begin in Munich, 1972 and it will not end now, or in the near future. (Can we spell Tim McVeigh?)

As a matter of fact, BushCo has made it even more likely than it was 6 years ago.

The Bush administration has been listening in on phone calls, reading emails and tracking money tranfers for almost 6 years, that someone who has never even thought about killing anyone, will snap and blow some of us to kingdom-come. That person may or may not be Arab/Muslim or homegrown crusading crackpot.

How many arrests have there been as a result of the illegal wiretapping? How much good has actually been done?

If Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are really the only targets of all ths scrutiny, why can't we have oversight?

GOP Sees Strategic Advantage in Court Loss on Wiretapping - Los Angeles Times:

WASHINGTON - This week's federal court ruling that declared the president's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional was a blow to the Bush administration and a victory for its critics. But in a reversal, it is Republicans who are highlighting the decision and Democrats who are sidestepping it.

A day after a Detroit judge said the president 'blatantly disregarded' the Constitution when he authorized the domestic surveillance program, top Republicans issued a stream of memos discussing her ruling and released a new Web ad accusing Democrats of being against terrorist surveillance.