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Senator Specter - bush put on notice, panel to hold hearings on spying on Americans | |
| Pollyannuh
Offer Upgrade  User ID: 46877  United States12/16/2005 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, well, we already knew they do this kind of bushchit, now, we have PROOF, and the dirty deed is UN-FREAKIN'-CONSTITUTIONAL!!!  [link to www.truthout.org] SNIP Report of NSA Spying Prompts Call for Probe By Jennifer Loven The Associated Press Friday 16 December 2005 Washington - A key Republican committee chairman put the Bush administration on notice Friday that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the United States. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he would make oversight hearings by his panel next year "a very, very high priority." "There is no doubt that this is inappropriate," said Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Other key bipartisan members of Congress also called on the administration to explain and said a congressional investigation may be necessary. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appeared annoyed that the first he had heard of such a program was through a New York Times story published Friday. He said the report was troubling. Neither Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice nor White House press secretary Scott McClellan, asked about the story earlier Friday, would confirm or deny that the super-secret NSA had spied on as many as 500 people at any given time since 2002. That year, following the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people inside the United States, the Times reported. Before the program began, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained court orders for such investigations. Overseas, 5,000 to 7,000 people suspected of terrorist ties are monitored at one time. "We need to look into that," McCain told reporters at the White House after a meeting on Iraq with President Bush. "Theoretically, I obviously wouldn't like it. But I don't know the extent of it and I don't know enough about it to really make an informed comment. Ask me again in about a week." Last Edited by Account Deleted by User on 11/01/2011 10:37 PM |
| Atma
User ID: 51201 United States12/16/2005 07:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Pollyannuh
(OP) User ID: 46877 United States12/16/2005 08:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Atma, LOUSY double-speak. I saw the dude on a video clip saying basically the same thing. The Patriot Act is in limbo because even some of the half decent Republicans are feeling the heat from their constituents and are calling bush on the carpet because of this bushchit. They have got to get away from bush, quickly, and bring our country around before it no longer resembles our beloved USA anymore. |
| Atma
User ID: 51201 United States12/16/2005 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Pollyannuh
(OP) User ID: 46877 United States12/16/2005 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Atma, they have their fingers in so many holes trying to stop the dam from breaking that they've probably lost count. People better wake up real quick or before we know it, some of us will be living behind barbed wire without due process of the law. They are IGNORING the law! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 54130 United States12/16/2005 08:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
