Al Gore calls for Special Counsel to investigate the President and Administration over wire tapping

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In what appears to be Al Gore's best speech ever , the former VP having spoken at the DAR Constitutional Hall in Washington, DC. this morning, has called on Attorney General Gonzales to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the President's bypassing of the FISA Court in authorizing Wire tapping on Americans. Gore 's main call was to wake up Americans to the intrusion and grab for power by this President and Administration. In summary, his impassioned speech called for the following actions:

• A Special Counsel, like Special Prosecutorr FitzPatrick, who continues to investigate the CIA leak, be appointed and investigate the abuse of power of this President with regards to the wire tapping authorization and bypass of the FISA Court.

• Whistleblower protection bill be approved by Congress for those government officials that come forward and have come forward in telling of this and other illegal actions by this Administration.

• Congressional hearings that are meaningful and bi-partisan be established to investigate these abuses.

• Congress should deny special powers asked for by this President in the Patriot Act.

• And that any company that has assisted the government conduct these illegal wire taps should cease and desist all operations in helping the government do this. Freedom within the Internet must be preserved.

• And lastly, this issue should be part of the discussion for any person running for office in the coming elections to where they stand on this issue.

Gore was superb and better than I have ever seen him. He has been revitalized. He is not afraid to remind us of how we are losing our democrac freedoms a drip at a time. The audience gave him a standing ovation after his 1 hour and 5 minute speech shown on C-Span this morning.

He gave me hope that someone has the courage to speak out against what has happened to our freedoms. He also spoke eloquently about how our Founding Fathers conceived of 3 co-equal branches of government and that no one branch was above the others. He said we must stand up as involved citizens and call upon our elected officials to act on our behalf and for us all to speak out or there will be little freedom left.

See this speech or get a transcript of it. It should be out shortly and I will post where you can get it later.

UPDATE: 11:30am PST Jan. 16th
If you go to C-Span you can see the speech using Real Player. It is much better to hear this speech than to read a transcript. Much is lost of Gore's passion about this, by just reading it.