Someone should tell Assistant Attorney General Ken Wainstein that certain GOP talking points do not hold weight anymore. The whole, "you're either with us or against us" and "releasing information that regards the Bush Administration will help the terrorists" does faze most Americans and certainly none that can think clearly. Any shred of trust that the people had in the Bush White House has been gone for a long time now. So Wainstein really should just can it. Instead, he couldn't resist but opine anyways.
From RawStory:
Defending the Bush administration's efforts to immunize telecommunications companies from any responsibility for their assistance in the likely illegal surveillance of Americans after 9/11, a top national security official said any discussion of US surveillance efforts aids terrorists.
"Every nugget of information that comes out in the course of these investigations helps our enemies," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein, who oversees the Justice Department's national security division, said Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Wainstein was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering legislation to update a foreign surveillance law.
A key sticking point in the debate over the government's surveillance authority is whether the updated law will provide legal immunity to telecommunications companies that facilitated the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans' phone calls. President Bush authorized the emergency surveillance, which proceeded without court oversight, immediately after Sept. 11, but many of the program's details remain unknown.
Now lets translate all that garbage. The "enemies" we are talking about are the Congress and the American people that want to hear the truth and serve justice to the telecommunication companies that went along with Bush's illegal wiretapping program. The actual terrorists couldn't give a damn if records were disclosed that showed anti-war protesters and political opponents of the President were wiretapped. As many people already know, this is just a pathetic way for the Administration to deflect embarrassing and incriminating information from getting out.
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