Gore Wants Special Counsel to Investigate Bush

Former US Vice President Gore Wants Special Counsel to Investigate Bush Spy Power

NOTE pls: The 'managers' and the 'christian government' of The Netherlands openly SUPPORT the neocon's GENOCIDES in Iraq and Afghanistan by the ILLEGAL* American war machine. Contrary to the wishes of 3/4 of the 16 million inhabitants. War criminals in The Netherlands, like former SHELL/PM Wim Kok, have appeared in court hearings concerning the many NATO WAR CRIMES in former Yugoslavia - [http://tinyurl.com/662pp ] - with one of those neocon warmongers now even wanted to be called 'Your Excellency' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dsw3c
Not realizing yet like many, that later on in the War Crime Tribunals they'll just be: 'THE ACCUSED'.

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NOTE 2: The item below is from an american newspaper and has been produced by a certain mr. Braunstein. Forgetting to point out that it does not make any difference whatsoever who's dealing: Republicans or Democrats.

FPF - Gore quote: "Gore criticized the administration's indefinite detention of terrorism suspects and the authorization of aggressive questioning techniques for captives that, Gore said, "plainly constitute" torture. If the president has the power "to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?" Gore asked."

Gore Wants Special Counsel to Investigate Bush Spy Power

From the Los Angeles Times - by Ronald Brownstein - Times Staff Writer

January 16, 2006 - WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Al Gore, charging that President Bush's record on civil liberties posed a "grave danger" to America's constitutional freedoms, urged the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Bush's authorization of warrantless domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency.

In a detailed and impassioned speech sponsored by liberal and conservative groups on Monday, Gore said that while much remained unknown about the spying program, "What we do know . . . irtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law, repeatedly and insistently."

Gore, the Democratic nominee against Bush in the bitterly disputed 2000 presidential race, also said Congress "should hold comprehensive . . . hearings into these serious allegations of criminal behavior on the part of the President."

White House officials declined to respond to Gore's speech. Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the speech demonstrated Gore's "lack of understanding of the threats facing America." - (FPF: this is total crap)

She added: "While the president works to protect Americans from terrorists, Democrats deliver no solutions of their own, only diatribes laden with inaccuracies and anger."

Since acknowledging in December the existence of the surveillance program, Bush has said it targeted only Americans linked to terrorists and "is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities." - (FPF: this is total crap)

Bush said that his constitutional power as commander in chief and the congressional resolution authorizing him to use military force in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks provided a legal basis for the espionage activities. - (FPF: this is total crap)

Many Democrats and some Republicans have disputed those assertions and the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, in a study released earlier this month, questioned the surveillance's legality.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled hearings on the NSA program. The authority to appoint a special prosecutor rests with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a longtime Bush aide who, the president has said, is among those who regularly review the spying program.

Gore said a special counsel was needed because of Gonzales' "obvious conflict of interest" in investigating the program's legality.

The speech was the latest in a series Gore has delivered in recent years harshly criticizing Bush policies.

Although Gore has said he has no interest in seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, his searing denunciations of Bush -- particularly over the war in Iraq -- have generated a steady, though still low, buzz of interest in that possibility. Some see him as a potential liberal alternative to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the early favorite in the race.

When the former vice president left Monday's speech, some of the 50 supporters who surrounded his car chanted "Gore in '08."

Gore's speech, delivered to an enthusiastic audience at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, was co-sponsored by the left-leaning American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Liberty Coalition, a recently formed alliance of groups concerned with privacy and civil liberties. The coalition includes liberal organizations, such as MoveOn.org Political Action, and conservative ones, such as the National Taxpayers Union, the Free Congress Foundation and American Conservative Union.

"An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution -- an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the king from whom they had broken free," Gore said.

Gore did not specifically call for Bush's impeachment -- an unlikely occurrence in a Congress where both chambers are controlled by Republicans. But he repeatedly argued that Bush's authorization of the domestic surveillance and other administration assertions of executive authority in the struggle against terror threatened "the rule of law" -- the same phrase House Republicans stressed in their impeachment case against President Clinton.

Ranging beyond the spying program, Gore charged that Bush has "brought our republic to the brink of a dangerous breach in the fabric of the Constitution" through many of his tactics in the war on terror.

Gore criticized the administration's indefinite detention of terrorism suspects and the authorization of aggressive questioning techniques for captives that, Gore said, "plainly constitute" torture. If the president has the power "to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?" Gore asked.

Gore drew some of his loudest applause when he argued that Congress has become "entirely subservient to the executive branch" and failed to exercise its oversight responsibilities on Bush. He said congressional Democratic leaders briefed on the spying program "must share the blame" with Republicans for not protesting it.

Gore was scheduled to be introduced via a satellite feed by former Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., one of the managers of the House impeachment case against Clinton. But problems with a satellite link prevented Barr from speaking.

Barr, a conservative known for his staunch support for civil liberties, has been critical of the administration's surveillance program.

[andend] - 2006 Los Angeles Times - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9bwsr

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* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justifyimpeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

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* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org

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* Wayne Madsen - ''The neo-cons have done to the U.S. Intelligence Community what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. America has never been weaker. Rather than creating a "New American Century," the neo-cons have created a new global "Dark Age" of fear and constant war.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

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* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

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