Specter's NSA Plan Hits Snag

It should hit a snag!

This idea of legalizing actions that BushCo lied about, repeatedly, even when not asked, and deliberately hid from most of Congress and the American people, is just stupid.

What was done is done, and Bush and compnay must be held accoubtable, not let off the hook by passing news laws making what they did legal.

Doesn't anyone give a damn about the Bill of Rights anymore?

....and what about the obstruction of justice? Bush shut an investigation down by refusing to give OPR lawyers security clearances they needed to conduct an investigation. (Meanwhile, Rove, the leaker, continues to have his.)

This is like the Saturday Night Masacre using a silencer.

Of course, we have heard little about this, since the TeeVee news media is again obsessed with something else, the Israeli/Lebanon war which we can do absolutely nothing about, unlike a criminal president, which we should be doing something about.

This country is rapidly becoming an open-air mental institution and the inmates have the keys.

Specter's NSA Plan Hits Snag:

A White House-endorsed plan to formally legalize the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program ran into more political problems yesterday in the Senate, as Democrats successfully maneuvered to block a committee vote on the proposal.

In addition, three of the committee's leading Democrats announced that they would block the confirmation of a senior Justice Department official in protest of a recent move by President Bush. The president effectively stopped a probe into the NSA program by denying security clearances to Justice Department investigators.