NYT: Time for Facts, Not Resolutions

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Editorial

Time for Facts, Not Resolutions

Published: March 17, 2006

We understand the frustration that led Senator Russell Feingold to introduce a measure that would censure President Bush for authorizing warrantless spying on Americans. It's galling to watch from the outside as the Republicans and most Democrats refuse time and again to hold Mr. Bush accountable for the lawlessness and incompetence of his administration. Actually sitting among that cowardly crew must be maddening.

Still, the censure proposal is a bad idea. Members of Congress don't need to take extraordinary measures like that now. They need to fulfill their sworn duty to investigate the executive branch's misdeeds and failings. Talk about censure will only distract the public from the failure of their elected representatives to earn their paychecks.

We'd be applauding Mr. Feingold if he'd proposed creating a bipartisan panel to determine whether the domestic spying operation that Mr. Bush has acknowledged violates the 1978 surveillance law, as it certainly seems to do. The Senate should also force the disclosure of any other spying Mr. Bush is conducting outside the law. (Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has strongly hinted that is happening.)

The Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees should do this, but we can't expect a real effort from Senator Pat Roberts, the Intelligence Committee chairman, or Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. They're too busy trying to give legal cover to the president's trampling on the law and the Constitution.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/opinion/17fri1.html

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Investigage?

The ny times has some Fu%&ing gall saying:

"They need to fulfill their sworn duty to investigate the executive branch's misdeeds and failings.

We'd be applauding Mr. Feingold if he'd proposed creating a bipartisan panel to determine whether the domestic spying operation that Mr. Bush has acknowledged violates the 1978 surveillance law, as it certainly seems to do. The Senate should also force the disclosure of any other spying Mr. Bush is conducting outside the law."

They are SO FULL OF IT! Like that is EVER going to happen in Congress, under the current make up. Get A Clue! Bastard Corporate Media Whores!!

[still_one]

4. just ask the times, and judith miller

and how they pushed us into a war based on a lie, or withheld stories for their own needs

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Fresh air

whatever it is worth go go go
Time to call a spade a spade.

[still_one]

3. what a bunch of garbage

perhaps the author of this inane article does not realize that the republicans have already indirectly said they WILL NOT INVESTIGATE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH'S MISDEEDS AND FAILING, instead they will backdoor it to a limited audience, and restructure FISA to exonerate the law that was broken.

This idiot, who is probably a so-called democratic adivisor must understand this is NOT about a simple misdeed or failing, it is a VIOLATGION OF FEDERAL LAW, and a VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SEPERATION OF POWERS THAT WAS VIOLATED

Since I don't subscribe to the nypuke I don't know who the author is, but can only hold that person in the lowest contempt for helping destroy OUR COUNTRY!!!

[jsamuel]

5. Bullshit, it was illegal and we know it was illegal. A spade a spade inde

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