Senators rap FBI over domestic spying (Specter, Leaky Leahy, DiCHiFi frustrated by FBI)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/6/06 | Lara Jakes Jordan - ap

[NormsRevenge]

A worker at the National Security Agency at the Threat Operations Center in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. The Justice Department is launching an internal review of its participation in the Bush administration's controversial domestic eavesdropping program, the department's inspector general told congressional leaders on Monday. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

[lormand]

This is not the first, nor last time Specter defends the world's most evil people.

[Blue Turtle]

WOW....all this going on...and the Dems haven't even taken their oath yet.

[The Blitherer]

His answer annoyed senators

Wish I could have seen it.

[bybybill]

Wonder how the Rat Senator`s investigation of all the FBI files that were found in the White House the last time Hillorat lived there is progressing?

[taxesareforever]

"What assurances can you provide that the program is worthwhile?" asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "Have arrests been made? Have terror cells been broken?"

What a jerk. Why doesn't he just cross the aisle and say he is a demorat instead of pretending to be a Republican.

[NormsRevenge]

Specter: "Have arrests been made? Have terror cells been broken?"

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I'd like to know what planet he lives on.

[AppyPappy]

He was also scolded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., for ranking violent crime prevention as less of a priority than public corruption and organized crime cases.

I wonder how much money DiFi received from labor unions last year.

[AppyPappy]

I'm guessing that Spector is worried abut the FBI investigating Congress.

[snowrip]

He was also scolded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., for ranking violent crime prevention as less of a priority than public corruption and organized crime cases.

Of course Feinstein is worried about the prioritization of corruption by the FBI... she's part of the crookedest political machine in the history of the United States! BTW, if Feinstein was SOOOOOOOO worried about curbing violent crime, she'd be screaming to close the border and deport all the illegals. After all, 90% of the felony warrants in LA county are for illegal aliens... the same group who makes up 30% of those held for violent crime in our federal penitentiaries.

Oh, wait, she needs those votes to hold political power. Well, I'm sure she sends her deepest apologies to those who abide by the law.

[roses of sharon]

The WOT is over.

[Wormwood]

"When done poorly or without proper safeguards and oversight, data banks do not make us safer, they just further erode Americans' privacy and civil liberties," said Sen. Patrick Leahy ... He said the administration "has gone to unprecedented lengths to hide its own activities from the public, while at the same time collecting and compiling unprecedented amounts of information about every citizen."

He must be mistaken. Right?

[nothingnew]

Most of our government has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. Washington DC is a fantastic exercise in futility with an astronomical price tag which we pay for. It's a sickening vomit inducing parade of narcisstic blowhards who, for the most, have never earned an honest dollar in their lives.

Be sure to vote in the next round so we can get more of the same.

FMCDH(BITS)

[AppyPappy]

I wonder how Sen. Pat Geary feels about investigating organized crime?

[verbal voter]

The self aggrandizement of senators at the Gates hearing makes one wonder if the senate is necessary at all.

[what's up]

"I am prepared to brief whichever committee, to the extent that I am allowed to," he said.

He's a good soldier, though I'm sure many Freepers would find something to bash him about as they do everyone in the administration.

This was the beauty of the GOP congress...investigations could be kept at bay. But too many conservatives were susceptible to the hyperventilating of the MSM and didn't vote because of a so-called MSM created corrupted GOP congress.

Ah, well, I guess dumb ignorance will always be with us.

[Tamar1973]

"What assurances can you provide that the program is worthwhile?" asked Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. "Have arrests been made? Have terror cells been broken?"

If I were the FBI chief, I would have responded by asking, "What assurances do I have that you will make sure that whatever I tell you doesn't end up on the cover of the NY Slimes?"

[Youngman442002]

"WOW....all this going on...and the Dems haven't even taken their oath yet"

You mean the oath to protect the United States.....right

[Joe Boucher]

I'm not advocating for it so please don't have the f.b.i. come visit me but I'm a little suprised some nut hasn't killed one of these unAmerican type senators or congress critters like the talk show host has said is going to happen.