If you're into self-abuse, check out this brain-dead editorial from the New York Times. To sum up for those of you who would rather not claw your eyes out: Valerie Plame leak bad; leaks that actually harm national security good. Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers. I've found very […]
That's what it is. It's not "domestic spying" no matter how many times the New York Times misuses the term. On Sunday, Times public editor Byron Calame wrote this piece describing how the Times bosses weren't interested in explaining why they held the surveillance story for a year and why they released it when they […]
The Instapundit linked to this piece by Rand Simberg over at Transterrestrial Musings on the possible effects of The New York Times breaking the NSA surveillance program just prior to the 2004 presidential election. But perhaps they had the political acumen to realize that it might backfire on them. Consider--the Democrats were trying (however pathetically), […]
This I really love. ABC News finally finds a "Constitutional scholar" who believes that the NSA's surveillance of international communications between al Qaeda agents overseas and people in the United States are illegal. The guy's name is David Cole. (Nope, I'd never heard of him either.) He's certainly no Lawrence Tribe or Cass Sunstein. What's […]
It looks like New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen are going to be spending some time in the inside of a jail cell. Risen and Lichtblau are the two reporters whose bylines were atop the article revealing a code-word National Security Agency surveillance of al Qaeda. Now, Lichtblau and Risen can't be […]
It looks like some Democrats "get" it, but it looks as though they don't have any pull. Some centrist Democrats say attacks by their party leaders on the Bush administration's eavesdropping on suspected terrorist conversations will further weaken the party's credibility on national security. That concern arises from recent moves by liberal Democrats to block […]
I just got finished watching this week's "Fox News Watch" and loony liberal Neil Gabler and American University prof Jane Hall both saw nefarious pro-conservative intent in the New York Times' decision to hold the story of President Bush's surveillance of al Qaeda operatives/affiliates inside the U.S. during the 2004 election. They may very well […]
Radioblogger has a transcript of University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. The entire thing is well worth reading if you didn't hear it on the radio. I've never before found myself continually nodding in agreement when I read what Sunstein said. I'd like to point out a couple of […]
John Hinderaker over at Powerlineblog has perhaps the most in-depth and exhaustive legal analysis of presidential powers vis a vis national security and surveillance. In brief: not illegal, not unconstitutional, not impeachable.
There's a line in "Die Hard 3" where Samuel L. Jackson's character tells Bruce Willis' character that he doesn't hate him because he's white, he hates him because "you're gonna get me killed." (Radio show Hugh Hewitt uses the sound clip liberally.) Well, if the majority Democrat view were national policy (Sen. Joe Lieberman and […]