Lugar Supports Investigation Of Bush’s Spying Program

[kpete]

Lugar Supports Investigation Of Bush’s Spying Program


Add Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) to the list of conservative senators - which already includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) - who have expressed serious concerns about Bush’s secret domestic spying program. From CNN’s Late Edition:

BLITZER: So you want hearings? You want hearings?

LUGAR: I do. I think this is an appropriate time, without going back and should the president have ever tried to listen to a call coming from Afghanistan, probably of course. And in the first few weeks we made many concessions in the Congress because we were at war and we were under attack.

We still have the possibility of that going on so we don’t want to obviate all of this, but I think we want to see what in the course of time really works best and the FISA Act has worked pretty well from the time of President Carter’s day to the current time.

http://thinkprogress.org/

[madokie]

1. Good to know.

I watch the senate on cspan a lot and I think Luger is one to toe the line irregardless of his own convictions, so this is good news.

[mom cat]

2. Are the rats deserting the sinking ship of state?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

3. Repub Support My Ass. It'll be yet another half cocked effort

Let's face it, the support on important issues from Republicans is equivalent to the support you would get from a 15 yr old jockstrap..... ....Not much.

[rzemanfl]

5. Guess it's time to buy a new jock. n/t

[shance]

6. I agree. Arlen Spector is the author the famed "magic bullet theory".

Thus, was an accomplice in the cover-up of the JFK assassination.

How "trustworthy" can such an immoral, cowardly, ethically challenged, pathetic human being be?

[havocmom]

4. Does he support REAL investigation or just controlling the spin on ruse?

Hard to trust anything they say about investigations knowing how much white paint they slop around under that guise!

[Sydnie]

7. Lugar doesn't want anyone looking too closely at

the connection between his office and the Abrahmoff scandal. He would put his own mother's action in question if it would keep the Abrahmoff spotlight off him.