Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Specter caves on NSA Hearings, but Cheney Promises to Look into It!

CNN: JACK CAFFERTY, On May the 11th in the wake of news the govt was secretly collecting the phone call records of millions of Americans, I went on the air and said this: "We better all hope nothing happens to Sen Arlen Specter, the Repub head of the Sen Judiciary Comm, b/c he might be all that is standing between us and a full-blown dictatorship. He's vowed to question these phone comp execs about volunteering to provide the govt w/ my phone records and yours and 10s of millions of other Americans." CAFFERTY: What an idiot I am. I actually thought at the time Specter was going to exercise his responsibility to provide some congressional oversight of the exec branch, you know, see if the WH is playing by the rules. Silly me. In the end, Specter has turned out to be yet another gutless GOP worm cowering in the face of pressure from the admin and fellow Republicans. There are not going to be any hearings. Americans won't find out if their privacy is being illegally invaded. You know what the Sen Judiciary Comm settled for instead? Sen Orrin Hatch said he has won assurances from Dick Cheney that the WH will review proposed changes to the law that would restrict certain aspects of the NSA program. Dick Cheney is going to decide if it's OK to spy on American citizens w/o a warrant. And this worthless bunch of senators has agreed to let him do it. It's a disgrace." Sadly, I am numb to news like this. I have to wonder: Is this what non-Nazis and Jews felt like in the 1930s?
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