Congress - oath is to protect the Constitution- not W's illegal acts

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

http://nytimes.com/2006/02/17/politics/17nsa.html?hp&ex=1140238800&en=36843e33d850eee1&ei=5094&partner=homepage

NSA- House"inquiry" limited to changing law while Senate "discusses" same!

Representative Heather A. Wilson, the New Mexico Republican and committee member who called last week for the investigation, said the review "will have multiple avenues, because we want to completely understand the program and move forward."

But an aide to Representative Peter Hoekstra, the Michigan Republican who leads the committee, said the inquiry would be much more limited in scope, focusing on whether federal surveillance laws needed to be changed and not on the eavesdropping program itself.

The agreement to conduct an inquiry came as the Senate Intelligence Committee put off a vote on conducting its own investigation after the White House, reversing course, agreed to open discussions about changing federal surveillance law. Senate Democrats accused Republicans of bowing to White House pressure.

So it's all come to this - they are all just figuring out how to change the laws that the President broke so that he can continue to break them albeit "legally". It can't be any clearer that we do NOT have a Congress that represents and defends the people of the United States against a usurping Executive Branch.

We are a "Nation of Laws" - it's just that the laws are disposable and flexible and they don't apply to everyone. Some animals are more equal than others.

[neoblues]

1. We are a Nation of Laws... Of, By, and For the Wealthy, n/t,

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Rat bastards. That's what the House did with it's own ethics rules. They

changed them so Delay could stay in power if he was indicted, the Democrats and PEOPLE of the country spoke out against their bullshit and they changed them back. Now they're going to just change the FISA rules so they can LEGALLY wiretap us???? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!! :grr: