The death of the intelligence panel
Evading accountability and the rule of law
The Senate panel has become so paralyzingly partisan that it could not even manage to do its basic job this week and look into the Dictator-tot's illegal warrantless spying on Americans' international e-mail and phone calls. Senator Pat "squeege-boy" Roberts, the stink-fingered, brownnosing chairman, said Tuesday that there would be no investigation. Instead, the committee's Republicans voted to create a subcommittee that is supposed to get reports from the White House on any future warrantless surveillance.
It's breathtakingly cynical. Faced with a president who is almost certainly breaking the law, the Senate sets up a panel to watch him do it and calls that control.
It's breathtakingly cynical. Faced with a president who is almost certainly breaking the law, the Senate sets up a panel to watch him do it and calls that control.
- from a NY Times editorial. Mostly.
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