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To: Txsleuth
.Specter and McCain are already foaming at the mouth to get the hearings up and running on this NSA thing...and you add "Reps" like Hagel to the mix...and this is gonna be worse than the 9/11 hearings...

Hearings are already scheduled.

I doubt they will be as dramatic as you think, and I seriously doubt they will result in any compromise to national security. It's possible to discuss what constitutes reasonable targets, and what constitutes reasonable oversight, without dislosing one iota of our "intelligence gathering supposed secrets."

In fact, if plyaed right, the hearings can marginally improve the surveillance effectiveness. I certainly don't see any harm coming from Congress expressing that it sees eye-to-eye with the President's actions.

642 posted on 01/29/2006 8:59:22 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
In fact, if plyaed right, the hearings can marginally improve the surveillance effectiveness. I certainly don't see any harm coming from Congress expressing that it sees eye-to-eye with the President's actions.

Morning cboldt...If it was not an election year, I would be worried. With the polling numbers showing this to be viewed as a national security issue, the Dems will treat it with some respect.

649 posted on 01/29/2006 9:01:41 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: Cboldt

I hope you are right...but, I just don't trust the Congresscritters to NOT use this as yet one more excuse, with the National...and international audience..

To get on their soapboxes..and campaign for funds with their lefty sugar daddies..


654 posted on 01/29/2006 9:05:07 AM PST by Txsleuth
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