Wrong Branch, Senator Rockefeller
March 4, 2008 by
Filed under Bush Powers, Capitol Hill, Clueless, Deserved, Double Standards, Idiot Ideas, Legal Ramblings, Money, Uncategorized
From the (subscription only) Wall Street Journal:
Instead of battling, Sen. Rockefeller decided it was more productive to join forces, his aides said. He agreed with the administration that a new surveillance law should give phone companies some type of immunity from lawsuits because they participated in “good faith.”
Psst. Mr. Rockefeller? Sorry to break the news to you, but that “Senator” title you have? It doesn’t mean “Judge.” When Congress drafted our intelligence laws, do you really think they intended the “good faith” defense to be determined by someone with a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages and History or by someone with, I don’t know, a law degree who sits on the federal bench?
And funny, isn’t it, that the administration’s and Rockefeller’s legal conclusion that the phone companies acted in “good faith” is based upon the word of — the telecoms. In the legal world– the one Rockefeller is avoiding at all costs — that’s not justice.
That’s a Kangaroo court.
