[privacy] Countdown: Bush Used Bogus Terror Threat To Scare Votes For FISA Bill

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Crooks and Liars.

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Keith Olbermann has been tracking the Bush Administration’s use of
trumped up terror alerts to manipulate the American people for the past two
years, but in this latest Nexus of Politics & Terror report on Countdown,
it appears the president stooped to a new low by using a bogus terror
threat that specifically targeted Capitol Hill to manipulate members of
Congress just hours before a crucial vote on the FISA bill last August.

According to Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Homeland
Security Subcommittee on Terrorism Risk Assessment, the Bush administration
knowingly used bogus intelligence to make lawmakers believe there was the
chance of an imminent attack on the U.S. Capitol, thus frightening them
into passing the temporary expansion of his powers to spy on Americans
under the FISA act.

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More:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/25/countdown-bush-used-bogus-terror-t
hreat-to-scare-votes-for-fisa-bill/

- - ferg

p.s. I think Keith Olbermann rocks. :-)

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