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Date: September 25, 2007 10:30:55 PM PDT
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Subject: Bush's Policy on the Truth: "I Could Tell You, but Then
I'd Have to KILL You"
Olbermann:
Bush adminstration use of bogus terror threat is 'most overt
accusation yet'
David Edwards and Jason Rhyne
Tuesday September 25, 200
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/
Olbermann_Fake_terror_threats_aim_for_0925.html
Former US Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein joined Keith
Olbermann to discuss recent charges that the Bush administration
employed false intelligence to convince lawmakers they should
temporarily expand domestic spying powers under the Federal
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
"These charges...are the most overt accusation yet of a government
gone so wrong that it is using the terrorist's weapon of fear
against its own people -- and against other legislators who will
not go along with the program," Olbermann said.
At a forum on FISA hosted by the Center for American Progress, Rep.
Jane Harman (D-CA) said that on Aug. 2, word of specific
intelligence prompted increased security on Capitol Hill. The House
and Senate passed the FISA expansion bill days later.
In what she called a "Rovian strategy of using terrorism as a wedge
political issue," Rep. Harman charged that the threat, "it turned
out, was bogus; the intelligence agencies knew that."
"The President continues to insist that he can spy on Americans
without warrants irrespective of what a statute says -- that he has
constitutional authority to override whatever Congress may do,"
said Fine.
"There is no disinclination of this administration," he continued
"to stoop to misrepresentations and omissions to heighten the sense
of danger to get whatever they wish in the legislative package."
Before passage of the FISA expansion, Fein said that "the
administration was openly telling members of Congress if they voted
against the bill Bush insisted upon, Americans would die."
"There wasn't any substantiation of that," he said. "It was just:
'Trust me, we always tell the truth."
Fein insisted that the president would continue to "have his way if
he continues to frighten the Congress and Congress refuses to
demand information and facts rather than just rumor."
"The mind reels," Olbermann responded.
The following video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast on
September 24.
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Bush Used Bogus Terror Threat To Scare Votes For FISA Bill
By: Logan Murphy on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 at 6:38 AM - PDT
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/25/countdown-bush-used-bogus-
terror-threat-to-scare-votes-for-fisa-bill/
Keith Olbermann has been tracking the Bush Administration’s use of
trumped up terror alerts to manipulate the American people for the
past two years, but in this latest Nexus of Politics & Terror
report on Countdown, it appears the president stooped to a new low
by using a bogus terror threat that specifically targeted Capitol
Hill to manipulate members of Congress just hours before a crucial
vote on the FISA bill last August.
Download (4266) | Play (3965) Download (2091) | Play (1951)
According to Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Terrorism Risk Assessment, the
Bush administration knowingly used bogus intelligence to make
lawmakers believe there was the chance of an imminent attack on the
U.S. Capitol, thus frightening them into passing the temporary
expansion of his powers ...
Keith talks with former Reagan administration official and chairman
of the American Freedom Agenda Bruce Fein, who has called for the
impeachment of both Dick Cheney and George Bush about Bush’s
unconstitutional power grabs and how the Democrats can exert their
powers as a co-equal branch of government by refusing to fund any
spending mandated in future FISA bills.
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