Federal Agencies Play Hot Potato over Wiretapping Probe

[kpete]

Federal Agencies Play Hot Potato over Wiretapping Probe

By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News (January 24, 2006)

The investigate units of several federal agencies are denying their responsibility for probing Bush’s approval of–and the US Attorney General’s justifications for–wiretapping Americans without the consent of Congress, Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned.

The flowchart of non-accountability–tracing letters to and from members of US Congress, the US Department of Justice, and the US Department of Defense–has been made available on U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren’s website.

Most fascinatingly, in response to a letter from US Rep. Lofgren and 38 other members of Congress, the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) claims an investigation into Gonzales’s role would not fall within the agency’s purview. They claim it should be handled as a matter of the quality of Gonzales’s service as an attorney by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

Rep. Lofgren and other members of Congress disagree. The investigation should be focused on whether Gonzales did something illegal; it should not take the form of a performance review, they argue, according to a letter on Rep. Lofgren’s website.

"It looks like they’re playing hot potato!" one staffer for a member of US Congress told APN.

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/pages/24/index.htm

[acmavm]

1. Oh hot potatoe my butt. They don't want to bite the hand that

feeds them. And feeds them rather well I might add.

edit: To add "as long as they do as the criminal cabal wants they'll continue to sit at the republican pigfest banquet.

[Triana]

2. these MORONS have NO sense of priorities at all....

...or VERY bassackwards ones.

THEIR #1 priority?

...their OWN ASSES

Forget what their country needs. WHO cares about THAT?

What a bunch of weasels.

[G_j]

3. keep it hot

keep asking, demanding answers