Comments on: Obama’s FISA Headache

By: Airpower

Airpower — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:53:50 +0000

Can the Statue of Limitations be extended (by Congress) even after it has run out?

By: Nell

Nell — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:06:44 +0000

There is no evidence whatsoever that the Obama DoJ “wants to lose” — quite the opposite. As GG points out, they’re making one filing after another to prevent an adverse ruling. And in the al-Marri case, rather than leaving the Supreme Court habeas case in place while al-Marri’s actual prosecution moves, properly, to a civilian criminal court, the Obama DoJ is asking the SC to dismiss.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:01:14 +0000

FWIW, I’m convinced this is surely the case.
Think about it: if you have CDO’s, you can ‘hedge bets’ that Company A or Company B will default.

How to make sure it defaults so that you can collect on your ‘hedges’ (i.e., ‘bets’)?

Listen in on the ‘insider’ info.
Asswipes, every damn one of them.

OR: ‘Evidently my TinFoilHat is wider and has way more bows and feathers than yours.’

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:04:24 +0000

Really……not really. so far, he’s sure got the Repubs lookin’ bad without “playing partisan politics” overtly.

They all look like lunatics right now except to their die hard friends.

I’m still holding out that “little wild bouquet” that Obama is the canniest politician we’ve maybe ever seen. He’d better be, ’cause he’s walking some dangerous lines here. The more blame he can shift and shrug off, the better for him.
As long as he can get it to work….

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:56:29 +0000

45 – hasn’t the discussion been that they kind of “6 degrees of Bin Laden”-ed their interceptions? IOW, that if they picked up the lawyers, they would have pinged the lawyers calls out, and very likely the calls of the OTHER Americans on American soil that the lawyers called – I guess until they got back to bar foundation fundraising calls going to DOJ lawyers.

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:52:50 +0000

crammed full. not a square to spare.

By: perris

perris — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:44:52 +0000

I am going to bet they have business logs as well, information that has nothing to do with anything but getting an edge in commerce

By: ThingsComeUndone

ThingsComeUndone — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:44:20 +0000

Obama’s DOJ is still likely not to indict on this issue. But it will mean we might have evidence that Bush broke the law before the statute of limitations runs out for his crime.

The President trying to steal our rights away and using all the levers of government to do it is not extenuating circumstances?
All Bush or any future President has to do is just run out the clock?
Are The Supremes going to trust Obama with that much power?
Personally I think the authoritarian personalty projecting its fears and desires on others would not let this stand.

By: scribe

scribe — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:21:08 +0000

For some reason “Reply” isn’t working for me today. My comment at 52 was in reply to Leen upthread discussing BrendanX using Rummy to explain the difference betweed Good and Evil to his son at the bus stop. And that would be “Better BrendanX than me”, to be limpidly clear.

By: scribe

scribe — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:14:22 +0000

Better him than me.