A Quiet Little Deal By Uncle Pat
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines a few days ago to reject Democrats demands of an investigation into the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program. Instead, they bravely approved establishing (with White House approval) a seven-member panel to oversee the effort.
It would be hilarious if it wasn’t such a stick-in-the-eye to the constitution. These comedians are going to oversee an illegal presidential operation.
That must be why they call it the Select Committee. They select the intelligence the President most wants them to bow down over and then, like ducks in a shooting gallery, they all fall down in compliance.
The Republican members, that is. Chairman Pat Roberts, a Republican from Kansas (where anything can happen and often does) broke a lot of legs in closed session. Closed, not because anything important to al Qaeda was being discussed, but because when you rip up and throw away the laws of the country, it’s best done in private.
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