Was Heather the fat one?
Posted on 02/08/2006 10:19:09 AM PST by areafiftyone
The Republican chairwoman of the House subcommittee charged with overseeing the National Security Agency announced her own misgivings with the Bush administration’s controversial terrorist surveillance program Tuesday and called for a full congressional inquiry into the matter.
The congresswoman, Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., is chair of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence.
With the announcement, she became the first Republican on an Intelligence Committee, from either the House or Senate, to call for a full investigation.
Wilson told the New York Times that she had "serious concerns,” arising, at least partially, from the fact that the administration has withheld information about the operation from lawmakers.
Though Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday, the inquiry was limited to the legal justifications for the operation and did not reach operational detail. The administration has also met frequently with the Gang of Eight – a group that includes party leaders in the House and Senate, and both intelligence committees.
But Wilson said continued limited briefings were "increasingly untenable.”
Vice President Cheney explained the administration’s reticence to discuss operational details of the program in an interview Tuesday on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
"It’s important for us,” he said, "if we’re going to proceed legislatively, to keep in mind there’s a price to be paid for that, and it might well in fact do irreparable damage to our capacity to collect information.”
She's in danger of losing her New Mexico house seat. This is a shameless attempt to prove her squishy bona fides.
Was Heather the fat one?
Nothing to fear from an investigation, unlike the Democrats. Let's have one.
If I remember correctly, Heather Wilson was once in the military.
I always thought it was strange that so many women have bought that Ford "Probe" car. It makes me laugh to think of all of those salesmen getting a woman into a "Probe."
Another RINO stupid dimwit. Rep. Heather Wilson, R is a nut. These nosy jerks are undermining our security with all this stupid probes.
Whoever frames the issue wins the debate. Regardless of TV talking heads or Congressional Committees, the person will always win who asks the question:
Is is reasonable or unreasonable to listen to the conversations of Al-Kaida?
Make the Lawmakers take a secrecy oath and then tell them individually, in private what they want to know.
If leaked you will know the leaker.
This whole thing is looking more and more like a "Rope-a-Dope".
Fine. Tell her to bend over and grab her ankles.
"she had "serious concerns,” arising, at least partially, from the fact that the administration has withheld information about the operation from lawmakers."
Well except for the 8 top bipartisian positions that were repeatedly briefed (15 people total with turnover). Geez, why might the President want to keep a top secret program involved his Constitutional right to surveil the enemy to a limited group? She is just pissed that she in on an intel subcommittee and didn't know about it. Boo hoo.
With a twist - give them each a slightly different story.
Then you'll know who is the leaker.
Why are there so many that do not?
Couldn't be that they don't want to get it. That they have ulterior motives.
Nah ... I didn't think so.
Yep. She feels she's gotta out-moonbat her opponent. Apparently, her seat in congress is the key to our nation's security.
She is just someone on an intelligence SUB-committee that has her nose out of joint that she wasn't in the "in crowd" that was briefed...
For ALL of the Congresscritters that weren't told...GET OVER IT AND YOURSELVES.
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