WTF?! Sensenbrenner wants answers on wiretap program?!

[Independent_Liberal]

I don't know if I'm buying this or not. Sensenbrenner wanting answers about domestic spying? Either he just wants to do a whitewash or he's decided to jump ship. If he decided to jump ship, then it's safe to say hell has frozen over.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senior_House_Republican_wants_answers_on_0208.html

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Senior House Republican wants answers on wiretap program
John Byrne
Published: February 8, 2006


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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.

The letter, issued to Gonzales today and acquired by RAW STORY, demands answers to myriad legal questions on the program, which involved eavesdropping on Americans' calls overseas. Sensenbrenner has given Gonzales a Mar. 2 deadline to respond.

Combined with a move by the chairman of a House subcommittee on intelligence, and hearings in the Senate, the move may signal that Republicans are not going to swallow the President's justification for the surveillance, and may be a precursor to hearings in the House. Still, Sensenbrenner seems to leave room for accepting the taps, at one point referring to them as "terrorist surveillance," the Administration phrase for the program.

Strikingly, the letter to Gonzales quotes Harvard University professor Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional scholar who testified at unofficial hearings held by ranking Judiciary Democrat John Conyers (D-MI). In a letter to Conyers, Tribe wrote that the taps "far from being authorized by Congress, in the face of an explicit congressional prohibition and therefore unconstitutional."

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[bigbrother05]

1. It's Busy work

Have until March 2, alot can happen in that time, and hoping
people will forget.

[marmar]

2. Exactly....

Sense-lessbrenner is doing nothing but providing cover. He can go fuck himself. (He's probably the only one who will! :blush:)

[DemInDistress]

3. senseless wants to keep his job in November...spygate may have fooled

some but many don't approve. Or is he posturing?

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Trying to look good for the next election. Here is Sensenbrenner.

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/050613.htm

I havent seen anything to suggest that he has changed.

[Dr. Jones]

5. Presidentin' is Hard Work...

I'm uh...connectin' the dotss...lookin' on the internetss...uh, they're DANGEROUS, and they want to STRIKE US...be afraid! Uh, be very afraid! Give up your civil liberties and follow me, I will protect you if you hand over your allegiance to me!

[Road Scholar]

6. I think they'll hold a reverse kangaroo court and declare

everything alright so Bush can't be tried twice for the same crime after November. IMHO

[acmejack]

7. Immunity for witnesses!

Been done before, was highly effective. Allowed a bunch of miscreants to avoid their just desserts!

[kentuck]

8. He, like Heather Wilson and others, want cover thru their next election

They have drunk the kool-aid.

[BuyingThyme]

9. This is all a set-up to put an end to this "issue."

They have defined this "program" as having something to do with al Qaeda, but there is no such "program."

They are using the word ("program") as a ruse. It's intended to keep attention away from the really, really, really egregious political spying.

To be a part of this "program" al Qaeda must be involved. Therefore, this "program" is minuscule at best and non-existent in al probability. But it serves as a prop for Republican criminals while allowing them to ignore the most serious crimes.

[Road Scholar]

11. Eggzakley!!

[wtmusic]

10. He will "demand investigation"...then come out and endorse the program

seems like that is how it usually works

[jazzjunkysue]

12. They're jumping ship. It had to happen.

Eventually the neocons will go too far. I think the Nixon thing is too close to home.