February 8, 2006 /

Will Rove Blackmail Her?

This will be in tomorrows New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program. […]

This will be in tomorrows

New York Times:

Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry By ERIC
LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — A House Republican whose subcommittee
oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on
Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush
administration’s domestic eavesdropping program.

The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman
of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical
Intelligence, said in an interview that she had “serious concerns” about the
surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from
many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension
about whom the agency is monitoring and why.

Ms. Wilson, who was a National Security Council aide in the
administration of President Bush’s father, is the first Republican on either
the House’s Intelligence Committee or the Senate’s to call for a full
Congressional investigation into the program, in which the N.S.A. has been
eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of people
inside the United States believed to have links with terrorists.

The congresswoman’s discomfort with the operation appears to reflect
deepening fissures among Republicans over the program’s legal basis and
political liabilities. Many Republicans have strongly backed President
Bush’s power to use every tool at his disposal to fight terrorism, but 4 of
the 10 Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voiced concerns about
the program at a hearing where Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
testified on Monday.

 

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This is great news considering the fact that James Sensenbrenner, who chairs
the House judicial committee has refused to take any action. This will hopefully
be the start of something bigger. Rove might have to do a lot of blackmailing
now.

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