As Arlen Specter sells us out to Cheneybu$h on NSA spying

glenn greenwald says:

The only question is whether (a) George Bush should be able to eavesdrop on Americans in secret and with no oversight, or (b) George Bush can eavesdrop on Americans, but only with a requirement of judicial oversight - a requirement which every President, without complaint, has complied with for the last 30 years, including Ronald Reagan at the height of the Cold War.

With just the smallest amount of resolve and message discipline, they can easily convey that this is not a debate about whether to eavesdrop on Al Qaeda -- everyone is for that -- but is about whether George Bush should have the power to eavesdrop on Americans with no oversight, an awesome power which this country overwhelmingly decided 30 years ago, in the wake of decades of abuses, that we do not trust the President -- any President -- to have. This is yet another long-standing safeguard against abuses of executive power which the Bush administration is uprooting -- in the process, changing the kind of nation we are.

i agree.
i agree intensely.
i am in extreme agreement.
Yes.

Well said

Lambert says it for me.
he is voicing my outrage.
thank you.

i want to know why there isn't mass outrage.
a coherent laser beam of white hot anger focused on the danger
of these threats and attacks on our Constitutional Rule of Law.
why hasn't the bright light of the public awareness been focused
on this line that has been crossed?

why is this left underexposed when we were forced to spend $40 million dollars for monica's stained blue dress? She, the trophy hunting fellatio artist braggart provocateur.

no one could not take away our Constitutional freedoms with attacks like 9/11.
cheneybu$h surrendered them willingly.