in light of the new information. I think we should concentrate on the members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Subcommittee.
http://truthdigger.blogspot.comAccording to
RawStory.com,
"The Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has issued 51 questions to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on President Bush's warrantless wiretap program."
Between this story and the story by the
NY Times story,
"A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had "serious concerns" about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring and why.
Ms. Wilson, who was a National Security Council aide in the administration of President Bush's father, is the first Republican on either the House's Intelligence Committee or the Senate's to call for a full Congressional investigation into the program, in which the N.S.A. has been eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of people inside the United States believed to have links with terrorists.
The congresswoman's discomfort with the operation appears to reflect deepening fissures among Republicans over the program's legal basis and political liabilities. Many Republicans have strongly backed President Bush's power to use every tool at his disposal to fight terrorism, but 4 of the 10 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voiced concerns about the program at a hearing where Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales testified on Monday."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nsa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Thanks to the Democratic Underground threads for the info (Thanks
Pirate Smile)
.
We now have two House Republicans, a member of the House Intelligence Subcommittee and the Chairman of the House Judicial Committee, questioning the program.
In light of the House getting involved, I have decided to update this website with info on how to contact the House Republicans as well as the House Democrats. Please use the comments section to give suggestions on how best to do this.
Keep calling!
FROM:
http://truthdigger.blogspot.com/2006/02/house-republicans-starting-to-inquire.htmlList here:
http://truthdigger.blogspot.com/2006/02/contact-house-republicans-about-nsa.html