dianne feinstein

The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration:

Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who is the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Fox News Sunday called it a “big problem.” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, on “This Week” on ABC, agreed that the secrecy “could be illegal” and demanded an inquiry.

Mr. Obama said this weekend that he had asked his staff members to review the mass killing of prisoners in Afghanistan by local forces allied with the United States as it toppled the Taliban regime there. The New York Times reported Saturday that the Bush administration had blocked investigations of the matter.

Sure - we can fork out all this money:

The U.S. government already has a courthouse at Guantanamo Bay, but the Pentagon isn't satisfied, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports. It plans to spend $100 million of your tax dollars to build a huge new facility just down the hill.

"This is very expensive for the number of cases, 60, which they anticipate trying," says Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

That's right, a $100 million courthouse to try about 60 cases. That's $1.6 million per defendant ... just for the building. The trials will cost many millions more.

So let me guess - Halliburton is tapped for the contract, so Dick Cheney become even richer at the expense of America. Why can't they just use a tent, with some armed soldiers to make sure the defendants don't run? This is just another sign of pure government waste and taxpayer fraud at the behest of George W. Bush and company. Congress must hold serious oversights as soon as the Democrats take control and put an end to this. Furthermore, the companies who have become rich from this crap need to repay the money to the taxpayers. I want mine back - don't you?

Compliments of the Washington Post

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: White House homeland security adviser Francis Fragos Townsend , Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs .

THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and actor Richard Gere .

FACE THE NATION (CBS, WUSA), 10:30 a.m.: National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley and Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, WRC), 11 a.m.: Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R).

LATE EDITION (CNN), 11 a.m.: Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie , Arab American Institute President James Zogby and Hadley .

Well out of all of those I must say that Meet The Press is definitely doing a right wing Sunday,

On a rather slow and quiet Tuesday about a month ago a hell broke loose on
Capital Hill when Harry Reid shut down Senate to demand answers on the stalling
of the next phase of the pre-war intelligence report. It lead to outbursts
before the cameras and a new political fight. It also resulted in a committee
being set up to find out why the Intelligence Committee hadn't done their job.
Sen. Roberts said after Congress was reopen that the following week he had
scheduled for nothing but meetings on phase two. Now that is appearing to be a
lie according to

Raw Story:

Phase II, the follow-up to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s
investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq, is still facing opposition
from administration officials and has seen little action from the
committee’s chairman, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), RAW STORY has learned.

Following a surprising move early last month by Senate Minority Leader
Harry Reid (D -NV), in which he shut down the Senate in an effort to force
discussion on the inquiry, the Senate leadership established a six member
bipartisan task force and set a Nov. 15 deadline for a progress report.

The six task force members selected were Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV),
Carl Levin (D-MI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Pat Roberts (R–KS), Trent Lott
(R–MS) and Kit Bond (R-MO).

A week later, on Nov. 8, the Senate Intelligence Committee staff briefed
task force members on the investigative work done thus far.