Betraying a U.S. agent, Torture, and Mass Eavesdropping
Why do I feel as if all the conspiracy theories are being played out publicly right now?
--The President/VP fed a CIA agent's name to a reporter so it would be revealed in an attempt to punish an official in the administration who publicly disagreed with policy.
--The President is trying to redefine torture so that they can commit atrocities on secretly nabbed prisoners of a war that might never end
--The spy agencies under direct leadership of the President are listening in on everything I might say to someone who lives outside the homeland
These are things that are usually splashed across Weekly World News or written about in Action Thrillers at the movies. How can we tolerate a President who allows these things to take place on his watch. How can we not seriously question a system which allowed these kind of moral atrocities to take place for so long without coming to light?
Complete transparency. Showing all of our cards. Taking a hit now and then, and maybe responding out of passion or anger or even a mistake, but owning up to our responsibilities and admitting that we need to fix them. When people say that Bush doesn't admit to a mistake, that only addresses half of the problem. The other part is what happens after a mistake. You make up for it, you apologize, and you try to fix whatever you screwed up--without losing your humility. Even if we can't be a humble nation because of our sheer unbalanced richness compared to other nations around the globe, why can't we act like a humble nation? Is it really that hard to put a caring human being in office as the President instead of this? I would vote for Oprah for President in a second if she ever ran.
Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls - New York Times:
But in at least one instance, someone using an international cellphone was thought to be outside the United States when in fact both people in the conversation were in the country. Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, would not discuss the number of accidental intercepts, but the total is thought to represent a very small fraction of the total number of wiretaps that Mr. Bush has authorized without getting warrants. In all, officials say the program has been used to eavesdrop on as many as 500 people at any one time, with the total number of people reaching perhaps into the thousands in the last three years.
--The President/VP fed a CIA agent's name to a reporter so it would be revealed in an attempt to punish an official in the administration who publicly disagreed with policy.
--The President is trying to redefine torture so that they can commit atrocities on secretly nabbed prisoners of a war that might never end
--The spy agencies under direct leadership of the President are listening in on everything I might say to someone who lives outside the homeland
These are things that are usually splashed across Weekly World News or written about in Action Thrillers at the movies. How can we tolerate a President who allows these things to take place on his watch. How can we not seriously question a system which allowed these kind of moral atrocities to take place for so long without coming to light?
Complete transparency. Showing all of our cards. Taking a hit now and then, and maybe responding out of passion or anger or even a mistake, but owning up to our responsibilities and admitting that we need to fix them. When people say that Bush doesn't admit to a mistake, that only addresses half of the problem. The other part is what happens after a mistake. You make up for it, you apologize, and you try to fix whatever you screwed up--without losing your humility. Even if we can't be a humble nation because of our sheer unbalanced richness compared to other nations around the globe, why can't we act like a humble nation? Is it really that hard to put a caring human being in office as the President instead of this? I would vote for Oprah for President in a second if she ever ran.
Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls - New York Times:
But in at least one instance, someone using an international cellphone was thought to be outside the United States when in fact both people in the conversation were in the country. Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, would not discuss the number of accidental intercepts, but the total is thought to represent a very small fraction of the total number of wiretaps that Mr. Bush has authorized without getting warrants. In all, officials say the program has been used to eavesdrop on as many as 500 people at any one time, with the total number of people reaching perhaps into the thousands in the last three years.
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