Chris Dodd Likens Telecoms To Nazis

During debate on wiretapping terrorists, Chris Dodd compares telecom companies who assisted the government to defendants at the post-WWII Nuremberg trials for "only obeying orders given by Hitler."

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[kawbwebz]

Dodd's analogy is apt? Bush is a dictator? Was not FISA voted on and passed by both parties.

How about a history lesson...

Did not JFK and FDR use surveillance without warrant against threats to national security domestic and foreign? JFK wiretapped the KKK and the Black Panthers. JFK and his brother Bobby wiretapped Martin Luther King as the Cold War was in full swing and MLK and known Communists advising him. FDR wiretapped facist sympathizers.

see "Uncuff the FBI"--by Mark Riebling

[kawbwebz]

Oh yeah, forget to mention the VENONA intercepts which proved the Rosenbergs and hundreds of other "Americans" were Soviet spies. Some were working in the highest levels of the administrations of FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. Was there a warrant for VENONA? NO. Did the military tell FDR? No. Why? They couldn't trust him. His and other administrations were suspect. They were right. If you don't believe me. Look it up.

[PanhandlePress]

Chris Dodd's father was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. He compiled and published his father's Nuremberg diaries in the book "Letters from Nuremberg: My Father's Narrative of a Quest for Justice" (Random House 2007). The analogy to telecoms illegally spying on Americans is apt. In both Nazi Germany and the U.S. under Bush, the argument is that the Leader's word is law itself. That way leads to disaster for any democracy.