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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:40 PM Aug 2013

Kucinich: DO AWAY WITH THE NSA!





Kucinich on the NSA:

"...When I look at the scope of their activities,...how they have illegally spied on Americans,...how they have this wholesale approach towards gathering the most private & personal information of the American people,......how they misled Congress, misled the FISA Court and perhaps even misled the White House. They have gone far beyond the Constitution, and frankly, we now have to make a choice,....we either choose the Constitution or we choose the NSA,.....BUT WE CAN'T HAVE BOTH....."

"...The NSA has to go! Listen,....this is an organization that is out of control,...its gone rogue and its very destructive of a half a dozen cherished constitutional principles and we cannot tolerate it...."


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Kucinich: DO AWAY WITH THE NSA! (Original Post) Segami Aug 2013 OP
Love me some Dennis! n/t Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #1
Finally Dennis says something that makes sense Politicalboi Aug 2013 #2
Nobody makes sense all the time, LWolf Aug 2013 #9
Dennis has almost always made sense elias7 Aug 2013 #10
i think he gave us a good bumper sticker message "do away with the nsa" leftyohiolib Aug 2013 #3
It's also a chant.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #15
Love that man. wild bird Aug 2013 #4
The Constitution or the NSA. That's about as plain as it gets. snappyturtle Aug 2013 #5
exactly... Divine Discontent Aug 2013 #6
when he was in Congress did he do anything to try to get rid of it or reform ? JI7 Aug 2013 #7
Its evident the NSA hid details from Congress and FISA Court HooptieWagon Aug 2013 #11
Wow, I didn't know Kucinich was a racist Rand Paul supporter? HooptieWagon Aug 2013 #8
He is right, as always. Out of control is putting it mildly. I would add that sabrina 1 Aug 2013 #12
Ideas like this are why they gerrymandered him out of office. Oh, and the reason I silvershadow Aug 2013 #13
kr Norrin Radd Aug 2013 #14
Kooch is the best. n/t Cleita Aug 2013 #16
Still the same committed, honest, and brave man he's always been. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #17
. Egnever Aug 2013 #18
Can't agree with that sentiment Recursion Aug 2013 #19
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
2. Finally Dennis says something that makes sense
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:47 PM
Aug 2013

Let's get rid of the NRA too. Both IMO are terrorist groups.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
9. Nobody makes sense all the time,
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 10:25 PM
Aug 2013

but Dennis is on target more often than not, and more often than most.

I'll second getting rid of both.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
15. It's also a chant....
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 12:11 AM
Aug 2013

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wild bird

(421 posts)
4. Love that man.
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 09:52 PM
Aug 2013

He calls it as it is.
The NSA has proven itself to be untrustworthy and possibly breaking the law, abolish it or severely rein it in with strict oversight.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
11. Its evident the NSA hid details from Congress and FISA Court
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 10:33 PM
Aug 2013

preventing any oversight or checks and balances. And we don't know to what extent the WH was informed, although POTUS's job description includes oversight of agencies under him....Its his JOB to know, and to inform Congress and Courts.

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
8. Wow, I didn't know Kucinich was a racist Rand Paul supporter?
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 10:05 PM
Aug 2013

We're proud to have him under the bus with the rest of us.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
12. He is right, as always. Out of control is putting it mildly. I would add that
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 10:39 PM
Aug 2013

it's time to stop funding to Private Security Corporations, like Booz Allen eg. Billions of dollars have poured into these Corporations since Bush/Cheney pushed the privatization of our Security.

 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
13. Ideas like this are why they gerrymandered him out of office. Oh, and the reason I
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 11:28 PM
Aug 2013

love me some Dennis!

 

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)
17. Still the same committed, honest, and brave man he's always been.
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 02:50 AM
Aug 2013

What the party leadership did to him is shameful.

I'll tell you one thing however, we have not heard the last of Dennis Kucinich.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
19. Can't agree with that sentiment
Thu Aug 22, 2013, 03:00 AM
Aug 2013

But the longer the intel community stonewalls the more likely a drastic overreaction like that becomes.

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