Is this a growing trend?

[fooj]

The Attorney General of the US doesn't get sworn in at a wiretap hearing...

The oil executives don't get sworn in by Ted (I wanna be the Hulk) Stevens at their hearing...

Talk about a pattern.

WTF is going on? Has everyone lost their collective minds?

Peace.

[muntrv]

1. By refusing to swear on the Bible,

this is the one time you see the Repukes embrace atheism.

[jean]

2. Has anyone documented whether Democrats have ever NOT

been sworn in?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Why swear them in when they will refuse to admit that

what they are doing is illegal, and quite distasteful in the extreme.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/24009prs20060201.html

“The Pentagon’s monitoring of anti-war protesters is yet another example of a government agency using its powers to spy on law-abiding Americans who criticize U.S. policies,” said ACLU staff attorney Ben Wizner. “How can we believe that the National Security Agency is intercepting only al Qaeda phone calls when we have evidence that the Pentagon is keeping tabs on Quakers in Fort Lauderdale?”

The ACLU filed national Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee, Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice and Greenpeace, as well as dozens of local groups in Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania and California. The ACLU is seeking the disclosure of all documents maintained by the Department of Defense on the individual groups. Many of the groups involved in today’s action, such as the Rhode Island-based Community Coalition for Peace, have already learned that they are listed in the Pentagon’s Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) database.

[baldguy]

4. If they've got nothing to hide...