Ira Aten
02-01-2008, 09:38 AM
Below is a story which would seem to indicate that the entire U.S. Senate should be indicted for violation or their oaths of office to the Constitution. With America poised for a financial market meltdown, the ceding of our soveriegnty via a NAFTA Superhighway scheme, and a "100 year" war soon to be declared by one member of that august body, the famous Senator Arlen "magic bullet theory" Specter is now proposing that the United States Senate spend untold amounts of money, on an asinine scheme to "save America" from (of all damned things) football spys.
We need to replace the entire United States Senate, due to them failing to halt their "learned colleague" from diverting the Senates attention away from their duties which are clearly defined in Article one of the U.S. Constitution.
Nowhere in the document, does it mention a damned thing, about "spying" on football strategy, that I can find.
Here is the article below:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7745866?MSNHPHMA
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots, The New York Times reported.
Specter said Goodell would be called before the committee to address both the league's antitrust exemption in relation to its television contract and the destruction of the tapes that revealed spying by the Patriots early in the 2007 season.
"That requires an explanation," Specter said. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes. Or any time you have records destroyed."
Specter said he wrote to Goodell about the tapes on Nov. 15 and again after more than a month passed without a response.
"The irony is that we have been in contact with the senator's office several times in recent weeks," Joe Browne, the NFL's executive vice president for internal affairs, told the paper, "The issue of these letters was not discussed."
Specter called Browne's response "untrue."
"It's the same old story," the senator said. "What you did is never as important as the cover-up. This sequence raises more concerns and doubts."
"It's premature to say whom we're going to call or when," Specter said. "It starts with the commissioner. He had the tapes, and he made the decision as to what the punishment could be. He made the decision to destroy them."
Specter said it had not been decided when Goodell would be called before the committee.
Specter, an avid football fan who often calls Philadelphia sports radio stations, said he was concerned about the integrity of sports.
"I don't think you have to have a law broken to have a legitimate interest by the Congress on the integrity of the game." he said: "What if there was something on the tapes we might want to be subpoenaed, for example? You can't destroy it. That would be obstruction of justice.
"It's premature to make any suggestions until you know a lot more about the matter. We need to know what's on those tapes."
We need to replace the entire United States Senate, due to them failing to halt their "learned colleague" from diverting the Senates attention away from their duties which are clearly defined in Article one of the U.S. Constitution.
Nowhere in the document, does it mention a damned thing, about "spying" on football strategy, that I can find.
Here is the article below:
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7745866?MSNHPHMA
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to explain why the league destroyed evidence related to spying by the New England Patriots, The New York Times reported.
Specter said Goodell would be called before the committee to address both the league's antitrust exemption in relation to its television contract and the destruction of the tapes that revealed spying by the Patriots early in the 2007 season.
"That requires an explanation," Specter said. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes. Or any time you have records destroyed."
Specter said he wrote to Goodell about the tapes on Nov. 15 and again after more than a month passed without a response.
"The irony is that we have been in contact with the senator's office several times in recent weeks," Joe Browne, the NFL's executive vice president for internal affairs, told the paper, "The issue of these letters was not discussed."
Specter called Browne's response "untrue."
"It's the same old story," the senator said. "What you did is never as important as the cover-up. This sequence raises more concerns and doubts."
"It's premature to say whom we're going to call or when," Specter said. "It starts with the commissioner. He had the tapes, and he made the decision as to what the punishment could be. He made the decision to destroy them."
Specter said it had not been decided when Goodell would be called before the committee.
Specter, an avid football fan who often calls Philadelphia sports radio stations, said he was concerned about the integrity of sports.
"I don't think you have to have a law broken to have a legitimate interest by the Congress on the integrity of the game." he said: "What if there was something on the tapes we might want to be subpoenaed, for example? You can't destroy it. That would be obstruction of justice.
"It's premature to make any suggestions until you know a lot more about the matter. We need to know what's on those tapes."