(Sen. Kit ) Bond: Attention is hurting surveillance effort

[sabra]

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/13862090.htm

Bond: Attention is hurting surveillance effort


Associated Press

ST. LOUIS - The terrorist surveillance program could be destroyed if investigations and discussion by the media continue, Sen. Kit Bond said Monday.

The Missouri Republican and Senate Intelligence Committee member said he felt it was time to speak out before more details of the National Security Agency's program are released, potentially compromising it.

"The only way we have of stopping further attacks is by fortified intelligence," Bond said at a news conference at Lambert Airport in St. Louis.

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Bond said other presidents, including Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt, have used their authority to gather intelligence through wiretapping.

[Fovea]

1. To protect your freedom of speech

we demand you shut up!

Have I mentioned today how much... yeah, I have.

[AllegroRondo]

2. Right - because the terrorists would never have guessed

that we would try to listen to their phone calls?

[pinniped]

3. Sure, just like if we stop talking about it these alleged terra dudes....

will forget and start talking and planning shit on the bugged phones again.

[Roland99]

4. Yeah, we can't have those 5,000 terrorists in the court system being freed

Oh wait...there *aren't* 5,000 terrorists in our court system.


Bond is such a parrot.

[deadparrot]

5. Dear Kit:

Love,
deadparrot
A Constituent

[Roland99]

9. LOL!

[TlalocW]

6. Yeah, but that was LEGAL wrietapping, Kitty

With warrants.

TlalocW

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

7. Bond, I live in St. Louis, and you do NOT speak for me.

Grr...I hate being represented by these cretins.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Too much investigation could keep Kit Bond from appearing drunk

every time he shows up in public.

[catmandu57]

10. God, I'm so embarrassed

to have this damn whiskey drunk representing my state, and we've got to put up with this buttmunch until 2010.

[liveoaktx]

11. Then better tell Bush to shut up and quit leaking!

[gratuitous]

12. It's called a democracy, Mr. Bond

Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the difference between a democracy dedicated to liberty and freedom, and a fascist regime intent on repressing rights. Although from your comments it's apparent that you're much more ideologically at home with Kim Jong-Il than with Thomas Jefferson. Maybe you'd feel better being a Senator in North Korea, Mr. Bond?

[magellan]

13. "Fortified intelligence" the only way we have of stopping further attacks?

Then bring the troops home NOW!!

[Rex]

14. Bush compromised the NSA by demanding illegal wiretaps.

Nice try idiot Bond. Take it up with your master Cheney.

[truthisfreedom]

15. either you have the rule of law or you don't. either this is anarchy or

not. you have to choose.

[cmdrzog]

16. not anarchy, fascism n/t