CHENEY'S FAULT
EAVESDROPPING
So, it was Cheney, no the NSA who wanted to eavesdrop not on international calls to a from the US but INSIDE the US itself. SO, J. Edgar Hoover has taken over the body of Cheney, huh?
Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials.
That totally goes against what Bush has been saying. Bush said that the calls were purely international calls and not those INSIDE our borders. And that the calls were not being monitored per se but only that patterns in calls were being monitored. I forget, who did we elect as President? What happened to the trend where the VP was just a yes man for the President and only supported the ideas of the President, not create policies of his own.
posted by Kenny @ 9:45 AM
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You do know Domestic spying has gone on since the cold war? The VP should be involved in the administration, if the President were to be incapacitated, I would hope the VP would know what the hell was going on.
"During the twentieth century, the focus of the vice-presidency has shifted dramatically from being mainly a legislative position to a predominately executive post. As modern-era presidents began playing an increasing role as legislative agenda setters, their vice presidents regularly attended cabinet meetings and received executive assignments. Vice presidents represented their presidents' administrations on Capitol Hill, served on the National Security Council, chaired special commissions, acted as high level representatives of the government to foreign heads of state, and assumed countless other chores — great and trivial — at the president's direction. Beginning with Richard Nixon, they have occupied spacious quarters in the Executive Office Building and assembled staffs of specialists to extend their reach and influence. From fewer than 20 staff members at the end of Nixon's vice-presidency, the number increased to 60 during the 1970s, with the addition of not only political and support staff but advisers on domestic policy and national security. Walter Mondale expanded the vice president's role as presidential adviser, establishing the tradition of weekly lunches with the president, and subsequent vice presidents have continued to be active participants in their administrations."
I love Google :)
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_President.htm
Really great article on the expansion of the VP office.
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