Re: Something we can all agree on


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:50:40 -0800, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> >"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
> >news:c7j9q153sftkt709i50pttvls7t7tcf1gn@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:49:52 -0800, "Richard Henry" <rphenry@xxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
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> >>
> >> >So now that W has admitted committing a crime, and has confirmed that
he
> >> >will do it again, when do the impeachment hearings start?
> >>
> >> Don't be silly. Members of Congress of both parties were briefed on
> >> what was going on. And these same people are going to vote to impeach
> >> him? And, during those hearings, reveal who leaked?
> >>
> >> I suspect not.
> >
> >So you don't deny that it's a crime?
> >
>
> Tapping international phone calls to try to keep Americans from being
> killed? Do you think that's a crime?

Tapping international phone calls, when knowledge of the contents might save
American laws and property, is a powerful tool of our technology. There is
even a law and a special court set up to authorize things like that.

W apparently decided he doesn't need them. Or his handlers told him he
doesn't need them.

> I don't, and there's a couple thousand years of legal precedence that
> says it's not.

A couple thousand years of wiretapping?


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