This isn't from the Onion!
Nov. 6th, 2003 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusAs far as I know, this is real. If so, I think it's absolutely hilarious!
My favorite quotes:
Corallo said. "But when the Judiciary Committee sat down, both Republicans and Democrats, they obviously discussed the applications, that certain provisions could be used in regular criminal investigations."
(Oh, yeah, of course our elected reprsentatives discussed the implications of the legislation, rather than only worried about how voting against it would affect their political careers. Sure, Mr. Carallo. That would be nice, though, wouldn't it?)
"More activity like this is going to cause us to take a close look at what was passed," Reid said of the law being invoked in the Galardi probe.
(Shouldn't he have taken a close look at the bill BEFORE he passed it??! What the fuck does he think he's being paid for??)
I think the FBI has it right. Use the legislation, passed by congress, to investigate congress. Obviously, they wouldn't have passed a law that they thought they'd be exempt from, right? It's not like they think they're some kind of privileged breed held above the rest of mere mortals who are subject to the laws they pass.
Besides, what could be more directly helpful to the enemies of the United States than corruption of public officials. Let's hear it for the FBI!
My favorite quotes:
Corallo said. "But when the Judiciary Committee sat down, both Republicans and Democrats, they obviously discussed the applications, that certain provisions could be used in regular criminal investigations."
(Oh, yeah, of course our elected reprsentatives discussed the implications of the legislation, rather than only worried about how voting against it would affect their political careers. Sure, Mr. Carallo. That would be nice, though, wouldn't it?)
"More activity like this is going to cause us to take a close look at what was passed," Reid said of the law being invoked in the Galardi probe.
(Shouldn't he have taken a close look at the bill BEFORE he passed it??! What the fuck does he think he's being paid for??)
I think the FBI has it right. Use the legislation, passed by congress, to investigate congress. Obviously, they wouldn't have passed a law that they thought they'd be exempt from, right? It's not like they think they're some kind of privileged breed held above the rest of mere mortals who are subject to the laws they pass.
Besides, what could be more directly helpful to the enemies of the United States than corruption of public officials. Let's hear it for the FBI!
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Date: 2003-11-07 07:56 am (UTC)I can only hope.
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Date: 2003-11-07 10:45 pm (UTC)That's what it looks like to me, too. But it gives the FBI more power. It's almost as if there's someone in the FBI who cares more about Americans' civil liberties than about their own power. I wonder what's really going on...