The GOP Cowards Caucus gives Bush his fig leaf on domestic spying.

[farmbo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/politics/08nsa.html?hp&ex=1141880400&en=7402b982a1503c71&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Led by the loathsome and cowardly Sens. Hagel, Snow and Dewine of Ohio, the Senate Judiciary committee today buckled under to Dick Cheney's bullying and agreed to Cheney's latest damage control scheme. Instead of publicly investigating Bush's unconstitutional domestic spying program, as promised, the Senate will now pass backroom, partisan "legislation" allowing Bush to ignore with impunity the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The Bush Administration's prior criminal misconduct will be totally ignored. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1139837721907

The new GOP scheme will, in order of importance:

1.Stop the planned public hearings before the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence Committees;
2. Allow Rove to characterize this criminal conduct as a "Terrorist Surveillance Program" in the 2006 elections.
3. Allow "oversight" :rofl: by GOP Senators of any information that Alberto Gonzalez deigns to give them;
4. Allow Bush to continue to spy on Americans (presumably his political enemies, since spying on al Queda has always been legal) without warrants.

Political opponents of the Bush Administration, anti-war activists, and Quaker troublemakers beware: that clicking sound on your telephone is no longer the SBC lineman

[bullimiami]

1. its still illegal whether they look the other way or not.

they are all criminals, the republican party is a crime syndicate. they cover for each other, laws be damned.

if by some miracle we ever get some power back there is going to be hell to pay.

there is no statute of limitations for war crimes, murder and torture, or treason.

[babylonsister]

2. The repug party is a crime syndicate. That's the best way I've ever

heard it described, and agree.

[acmejack]

3. They could teach the old Russian Supreme Soviet a few things.

My, but how we have devolved. When will they quit pretending? There really is very little point to continuing this charade much further, we are subjugated. Our rights have been trampled into the dirt with all too willing assistance of Congress and the Judiciary, valid now only at the pleasure of good King George. The most sacred of our founding documents is treated with disdain, no, with scorn, by the unelected goons who fancies themselves our new royalty.

Let us simply call this what it is, a dictatorship.

[originalpckelly]

4. Interesting

By oversight I think you mean the first or third definition right?
Definitions of oversight on the Web:

* an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
* supervision: management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
* a mistake resulting from inattention
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

By the way, don't give up hope. The smoking gun I posted on the forum earlier will certainly create a large amount of doubt on the part of people in Washington, hopefully.

If you didn't know, here is the link to the post I made earlier about the smoking gun:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2493476

[farmbo]

5. GOP "oversight":an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice

Good get!

Sad but true.

:crazy: