WTF Is It Now?!?

Firestorm
CNN's Jack Cafferty: "We all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, because he might be all that stands between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He's vowed to question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide the government with my telephone records, and yours, and tens of millions of other Americans.

"The President rushed out this morning in the wake of this front page story in USA Today and declared the government is doing nothing wrong, and all this is just fine. Is it? Is it legal? Then why did the Justice Department suddenly drop its investigation of the warrantless spying on citizens because the NSA said Justice Department lawyers didn't have the necessary security clearance to do the investigation. Read that sentence again. A secret government agency has told our Justice Department that it's not allowed to investigate it. And the Justice Department just says ok and drops the whole thing. We're in some serious trouble, boys and girls"

BuzzFlash: "If Specter is serious - which he isn't - subpoena Hayden, Gonzales, Negroponte and Goss. They have all committed perjury before the Senate, anyway. And the Democrats should boycott the hearings unless the top Bush officials are put under oath."

Gingrich: "I'm not going to to defend the indefensible..."
Scarborough: "Be afraid, be very afraid..."

Sen. Leahy: "Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with Al Qaeda?"

Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law, George Washington University: "[T]he real check and balance for this type of thing rests with Congress. And Congress has done nothing."