Censure Hearing Today
Mar 31st, 2006 at 6:56 am by Susie
John Dean will be testifying at the Senate censure hearing this morning (live on CSPAN at 10 a.m. EST):
Dean was summoned to the hearing by Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., the author of a resolution to censure, or officially scold, Bush. The measure would condemn Bush’s “unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States without obtaining the court orders required” by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Republicans planned ways to mock the censure effort as a partisan stunt.
“This resolution puts Senate Democrats in the unfortunate position of looking like they are not serious about the war on terror, while the president is doing everything possible within the law to protect the American people,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Well, if Corny the Clown is against it, that’s a clear signal to American citizens they should be for it.
Why are Senate Republicans amending the FISA law to make the President’s actions legal if they’re already legal? What exactly does bypassing the Judicial branch have to do with hunting down terrorists? How many terrorists have been arrested from the President bypassing the FISA court? How many plots against the United States have been foiled that could not have been foiled by going to the FISA courts? What exactly was it about the retroactive warrents and 5 of only 20,000 requests for warrents that the FISA court has ever denied did the President find a hinderance to hunting down Al Qaeda? Why is it that the only people who are saying the President is operating within the law are Republicans?