Posted on 12/18/2005 7:24:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Reid Seeks Probe of Bush Domestic Spying
5 minutes ago
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called Sunday for congressional hearings and investigations into President Bush's authorization of domestic spying as part of the war on terror.
"This Congress has done very little oversight," Reid, D-Nev., said on "Fox News Sunday." "There should be an investigation and hearings."
Reid acknowledged that he was briefed by the administration about the surveillance program "a couple of months ago." But he said the program apparently has been going on for four years and "there's no way the president can pass the buck."
Bush acknowledged Saturday that since October 2001 he has authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on international phone calls and e-mails of people within the United States without seeking warrants from courts.
The New York Times disclosed the existence of the program in a story last week. Bush and other administration officials initially refused to discuss the surveillance.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that public disclosure of surveillance programs used to wage the war on terror damages those efforts.
Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser when the program began, acknowledged that she was aware of it.
In appearances on news shows, she echoed Bush's defense of domestic spying, calling it necessary and within his legal authority, as well as his criticism of reports disclosing it.
"It is really a serious matter when we get the disclosure of a program like this because, after all, what we must do is protect, from those trying to hurt us, knowledge of how we follow them, how we follow their activities," Rice said on "Fox News Sunday."
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All the Dems do anymore is seek probing.
Have you forgotten that we have a "living" constitution and according to the commie lefties it has morphed into a suicide pact?
Since when was Graham ever of any use to the Republican party?
Great tagline.
May I suggest a fifth? The ignorant and gullible Demonrat voter, who while not consciously supporting the terrorists, returns to office time after time the lib bubbleheads whose lust for power supercedes any concern for the terrorist threat and whose implacable hatred of George Bush makes even terrorist enemies palatable to them.
Watch the week-kneed Republicans go along with it.
Liberals are America's worst, home-grown enemy. That they wax sactimoniius and claim the patriotic; make them not just dangerous; but absolutely insufferable.
The dems are desperate to get anti-Bush hearings going. If they can generate wall to wall coverage of trumped up spy charges or anything else to hang around the admin's neck, they'll have a shot at taking congress back. On NPR (where else), this A.M., a man said sonorously that these illegal actions by Bush will certainly influence his vote. (No mention of what office Bush holds anywhere in the story. He could be Chief Dogcatcher for all NPR cares.)
> All the Dems do anymore is seek probing.
Particularly Barney Frank, who thankfully has been keeping
a low profile lately.
In July 2000, the Clinton administration announced they would seek broad powers to require internet providers to permit the FBI to scan e-mails. Without a warrant.
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Excellent post - if only we could instill the courage in the Republican majority to actually do it.
a probectomy with all for feet..yep that would hurt!
During the impeachment of Cliton (misspelled on purpose), but after that...?
Surely there should be an expectation to muddy over "Able Danger".
"This Congress has done very little oversight," Reid, D-Nev
Is he admitting that congress didn't do their JOB?
One thing that offends me about this discussion is how the Democrats (and their willing accomplices in the media) refer to "Spying on US Citizens" to create the impression that you, or I might be getting spied upon, when they KNOW that the only people that were tapped were people who either had phone or email contact with Al Quaida.
As for why we don't get a judge's approval to spy on enemies like this... it is not a CRIMINAL investigation, it is a MILITARY investigation. The military does not go to the courts for permission to engage the enemy and should not.
The Dems know this, but they are talking like they think they have grounds for an impeachment. Just watch... you heard it here first... the I word will be used within the next week by a leading anti-war Democrat.
I think Reid is flopping around because the DNC talking points generator has gone tilt on him.
If you go back and review his Saturday radio address, Reid, the NY Slime and the rest of the Left may just have realized that they finally went over the line with Bush. I know that I can't recall anybody in the WH whispering the word "illegal" before, let alone having POTUS use it in a national radio address.
If you can get any comment at all out of the Senators that voted against cloture, they're bloviating about ACLU talking points, grandly wrapping themselves in whatever shreds they've left us of the Constitution and, as a backup, pointing fingers at the NY Slime story as adversely affecting their poor little overwrought psyches.
Sounds to me like a whole bunch of politicos looking frantically for cover and leaving the Slime to fend for itself.
IMHO, Bush may just cloud up and rain crap all over some people over this.....if the storm hasn't already begun.
News should be most interesting by about Monday noon.
I agree and I'm looking forward to Rush's Show at that time tomorrow. Merry Christmas and God Bless you and all of yours.
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