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Bob Cesca: BREAKING: George Washington Tapped Phones!
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| Contributor | Guy |
| Last Edited | Guy Feb 07, 2006 07:13pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 8, 2006 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday: "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."
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Three questions here. How did President Washington generate the 1.21 gigawatts of power required to fire up the flux capacitor in his souped up DeLorean time machine? Did he use the Mr. Fusion modification to get up to the requisite 88 miles per hour? And, as Atrios asked, what war was he fighting during his presidency which enabled him wartime executive powers? Strike that. I forgot. Washington fought with John and Sara Conner in the war against cybernetic organisms -- unsuccessfully since one of them would go on to become governor of California.
So for those of you Bush apologists ready to regurgitate Gonzales' justifications at the office Tuesday, you should know that electronic communication didn't exist during Washington's presidency. Neither did electric power for that matter. Or a war. Thought I'd save you the embarrassment. Especially those of you who are IT professionals.
Some other presidential facts which Gonzales failed to mention whilst citing precident from decades and centuries ago... |
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