Am I to surmise that there will be NO INVESTIGATION of NSA wiretaps?

[spanone]

This appears to be what I'm reading. Help me if I'm wrong. These are powers neither party should have!!!!!!!!

NONE WHATSOEVER?????

~snip~"If the effort to prevent vigorous and appropriate investigation succeeds,we fear the inexorable conclusion will be that these executive branch agencies hold themselves above the law and accountable to no one," wrote the lawmakers, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, a member of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees.

The lawmakers initially asked the independent watchdogs at the Justice and Defense departments to open inquiries. Both declined.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/27/eavesdropping.ap/index.html

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Conclude, why don't you, instead of just surmising?

Be bold. Go into the darkness. Extract the truth, the reality.

Congress won't do jackshit, because they're dominated by Republicans and I don't know what the fuck is wrong with the Democrats.

The best hope for any kind of attack on this bullshit is via lawsuits already filed by people allegedly spied upon. But, that's a long-away and uphill road.

So, once again, Fuckface and his thugs get away with it.

Don't you get sick of it?

[spanone]

3. Crimey, I hate to deduct the obvious, but hell, I gotta keep hope.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

18. I'm putting my hope

into the legal system.

Don't ever give up hope, pal. Ever.

[seabeyond]

16. wtf is wrong with dems is repugs are majority adn roberts made a

deal with the whitehouse.....

the people are the only ones that can make it happen, or wait until dems are maority. and that is reality

[windy252]

2. If there even is an investigation,

which is doubtful, if it's done by a Republican controlled chamber it's going to be a whitewash.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Kinda like a...errm...well...

A Politburo.

[Mandate My Ass]

5. why bother?

Bush will set the parameters of any investigation, like he has in the past, and declare anything congress wants to look at would jeopardize national security. They will change the "law" to suit Bush and retroactively absolve him of any wrongdoing. Tice has said the NSA program is nothing compared to other things he's seen.

Bush broke the law by not launching an investigation of the Plame leak, broke it on the ports deal, broke it on domestic spying and most likely broke it in ways we don't even know about.

[Coexist]

6. sorry - I posted a dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x531063

[Harald Ragnarsson]

7. No need to investigate this really

No Clintons were involved in the matter as far as I can tell

:sarcasm:

[spanone]

8. But, but you never know, you could dig one up...

And to think we HAD a constitution pre-GWB.

[Disturbed]

10. "Above the Law. Accountable to No One"

This describe the Bush Regime.

The majority of the Dem Party are whipped dogs who whimper and whine and scamper to the feeding bowl right afterward.

[The Stranger]

9. Portomania and Arabophobia have overtaken the Congress -- and the DU.

[spanone]

11. The Congress (dems) just asked for this Investigation.

[Avalux]

13. No mania or phobia about what's going on here -

each new scandal that comes up is a "fuck-you" to the American people by Bushco, whether it's spying on us or selling us off to the highest bidder. They do whatever the hell they want, just daring someone to stop them. No one will, so they keep doing shit. All of these things are tied together.

[anarch]

12. of course not

Instead, there will be legislation to make such wiretaps legal. And then, by act of magic, there will have been no crime committed. Abracadabra.

Just like that magical act in 1924 or whenever that turned a million relatively harmless junkies into criminals, poof, just like that.

[Avalux]

14. Just what McClellan said this morning -

he called the 'program' vital to saving lives and said the WH and Congress will work together to pass a law making it necessary.

[BuyingThyme]

15. Yes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=446700

[leftchick]

17. And they have never stopped wiretapping and data mining

and never will apparently.