Little Alberto gets peppered by Senators

So, the W.H., after calling opposition to domestic wiretapping tantamount to terrorist appeasement, now says it will play by the rules.

Why don't I trust this?

Are they hoping that the truth of the wiretapping, like the names of people being wiretapped, will not come out, now that they have agreed to stop the program? Are the hoping Dems will just forget about it?

Perhaps they have come up with a new program that no one, yet, knows about.

We thought that TIA had been deep-sixed, only to find it had moved from the Pentagon to the NSA, where they were wire-tapping anyone and everyone they wanted, with no judicial oversight.

So, why is this program, suddenly, unnecessary?

Bloomberg.com: Politics:

Senators peppered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with complaints that the Bush administration paid scant attention to civil liberties and made overreaching claims of presidential power during its five-year war on terror.

During his first appearance before a Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales was questioned repeatedly about why President George W. Bush didn't act sooner to put electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists under court supervision.

In a reversal, the Justice Department announced yesterday that a secret court will oversee the wiretapping of international phone calls by suspected al-Qaeda agents in the U.S., a program that began in 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks.

``It is a little hard to see why it took so long,'' said Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican who headed the panel until Democrats took control of Congress this month. ``There hasn't been a sufficient sense of urgency'' to ``get this job done faster,'' he said.