Comments on: FISA Fight, Round 3: Dems refuse to cut off debate on telecom amnesty http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/28/fisa-fight-round-3-dems-refuse-to-cut-off-debate-on-telecom-amnesty/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bush authorizes the NSA to police the Internet–but it’ll be AT&T doing the policing | Scholars and Rogues http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/28/fisa-fight-round-3-dems-refuse-to-cut-off-debate-on-telecom-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-95395 Bush authorizes the NSA to police the Internet–but it’ll be AT&T doing the policing | Scholars and Rogues Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:57:41 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/28/fisa-fight-round-3-dems-refuse-to-cut-off-debate-on-telecom-amnesty/#comment-95395 [...] immunity for the telecoms and expansive new surveillance powers, and the Dems in Congress who refuse to let lawbreaking companies get away with [...] [...] immunity for the telecoms and expansive new surveillance powers, and the Dems in Congress who refuse to let lawbreaking companies get away with [...]

]]> By: Russ Wellen http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/28/fisa-fight-round-3-dems-refuse-to-cut-off-debate-on-telecom-amnesty/comment-page-1/#comment-13522 Russ Wellen Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:28:15 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/28/fisa-fight-round-3-dems-refuse-to-cut-off-debate-on-telecom-amnesty/#comment-13522 Something I don't get about this "unitary executive" thing. Cheney et al seek it for not just Bush, but the presidency in perpetuity. Doesn't it ever occur to them that one of the rabble can ascend to the White House and, French Revolution-like, use that power to subjugate the corporate elite? Guess they don't think that far ahead. Neither did they imagine they'd have to spend the waning Bush years erecting legal subterfuges to escape prosecution for things like torture. Something I don’t get about this “unitary executive” thing. Cheney et al seek it for not just Bush, but the presidency in perpetuity.

Doesn’t it ever occur to them that one of the rabble can ascend to the White House and, French Revolution-like, use that power to subjugate the corporate elite?

Guess they don’t think that far ahead. Neither did they imagine they’d have to spend the waning Bush years erecting legal subterfuges to escape prosecution for things like torture.

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