This Is What The Democrats Want To Stop...
Published Sat, Nov 11 2006 1:51 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
A federal judge has refused to throw out the guilty plea of a convicted al-Qaeda supporter who argued that he was illegally spied on through President Bush's controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.
Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver, pleaded guilty in 2003 to plotting to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and launch a simultaneous attack in Washington. He asked a judge to vacate the plea, arguing in part that the alleged surveillance violated his rights and that the government could not use it to build a case against him.
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Faris is unique among defendants who have challenged the surveillance because Bush administration officials have said he was spied on -- and credited the program with helping to uncover his plot.
Good for the Judge! This traitor was a terrorist plotting to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge, and he confessed in open court. He deserves what he gets. Read more.
The New York Times reports:
After meeting with Mr. Bush at the White House, Senator Harry Reid, the incoming Senate majority leader, said “the first order of business” when Democrats formally take over in January will be to reinvigorate Congressional scrutiny of the executive branch, with a focus on Iraq.
“Let’s find out what’s going on with the war in Iraq, the different large federal agencies that we have,” said Mr. Reid, Democrat of Nevada. “There simply has been no oversight in recent years.”
In other words, The Democrats are going to try to paralyze the administration with investigations, subpoenas and the like. They're going to try to gut everything the administration has done to stop the terrorists before they manage to pull off another attack in the United States.
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