Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: GOP Senators block judicial review of NSA program

Can't trust any Republicans, not even the moderate ones.

Of course with all the wirse tapping that's been going on, Karl Rove probably has files on all of them, that would make J. Edgar's look like child's play.

There is a definite pattern here. Some form of Busite fascism makes it's way inot the light, several Rethugs will wail and gnash their teeth, but when it comes to actually doing anything about it, ccount them out.

If there is a God, they will all pay this election day, or some other time in the very near future, when they are all named as co-conspirators in every damnone of the Bush crimes they have helped to cover up.

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: GOP Senators block judicial review of NSA program:

"A front-page article in this morning's The Hill reports that Sen. Specter has finally made enough concessions to secure the support of the more right-wing members of the Judiciary Committee for his legislation that (along with a bill from Sen. DeWine) would render legal the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program. As part of this negotiation, what were these Bush allies (Hatch, Sessions, Cornyn, Kyl) holding out for? The removal from Sen. Specter's bill of a clause that would mandate that the FISA court rule on the legality and constitutionality of the NSA program.

As usual, the thing which Bush supporters fear most - and which they most desperately seek to avoid - is a judicial ruling on the legality of the administration's behavior. As The Hill reports:"