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RE: Wait a minute...
By Viditor on 4/16/2008 11:14:41 PM , Rating: -1
No, Watergate was about election fraud and a president spying on the demecratic party for the purpose of gaining a heads up on the up and coming election

That was only a part of it...and not why Deep Throat was leaking.
The main reason was that (just as with Bush) the Administration (and the Justice Department) had superceded it's authority and bypassed all established checks and balances. This act increased the power of the Presidency to well beyond that articulated in the Constitution (Good King Richard).

The domestic spying program intacted after 911 had a very specific purpose. The purpose was to discover the nature of communications to the U.S. from known terrorist organisation

Again, not true...
It was to discover the nature of communications from SUSPECTED terrorist organisations...the difference their is what inspired the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments.

even if that conversation covered a terrorist plot and the U.S. citizen was found accutally performing the terrorist act, the evedence gathered via the wire taps would have inadmissable in a court of law

It's much worse than that...any further evidence gathered at a later date which might in some way have been even slightly influenced by the wiretap is precluded from being presented.
This forces the situation where the ONLY means of Justice is a Star Chamber, assassination, or Gitmo...all of which are abhorent.
The Bush administrations illegal wiretaps actually PREVENT legal action, and force agencies to take illegal action...
Stupidity by anybody's definition.


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