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Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
Bush assured the telcos that doing what he asked absolutely legal. It was this assurance that probably convinced them to cooperate.
Now, he says that they need immunity because they did it.
The reason cited by Bush is that security would be compromised if there are trials. This is complete and utter BS. The method used is already well known, no threat there. What the government did with the info is not the subject of the suits, no threat there.
I have absolutely no reason to believe that Bush did not lie to the telcos about the legality of what they did, and every reason to believe he is lying now so that no court is ever allowed to rule on the legal issues. Bush has made it clear in the past that he has no use for the courts since they do not always bend to his will, and his security angle is just another attempt to marginalize them.
I am getting pretty sick of his rants that anything anybody does that he does not like is aiding the terrorists.
Bush doesn't 'convince' the telcos it's legal; he's not a lawyer, and they not only have their own lawyers who tell them it's not, they are legally obligated not to take his word.
The angle that he convinced them is just a sales pitch to try to get the public sympathetic to them - 'they were just trying to serve their country as the president asked'.
It's BS; it's the telcos selling out their customers in exchange for government favor in a deal everyone knows is illegal and they hope not to get caught, and Bush wants them to get immunity so that it's not much harder to get them to go along next time the government wants them to break the law, which is exactly why the public needs to get congress not to give them immunity - so that the government can't easily get companies agreeing to break the law.
Bush wants the telocos to have immunity so that he has imunity. On the first day of trial there are going to be 3 CEO swearing up and down that Bush told them to do it. After that it is game over for Bush and impeachment time.