And the circus begins again
Via AP/Yahoo:
Congress Demands Phone Records Answers
WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans and Democrats demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a government spy agency secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country.
Presumably this has been discussed with key members of the intelligence committees as the terrorist surveilance program was. I suspect we'll get the same level of silence from those members. And once again, there will be calls for hearings, but no one will call for the program to end.
I don't believe that Congressional Republicans are as loyal to the President as the left suggests. Shoring up my belief that the NSA terrorist surveilance program was legal was the low number of complaints from the right. If the "R" crowd in congress really thought the President broke the law, they'd throw Bush under the bus in a heartbeat. And it would help them gain (instead of lose) seats this fall.
Watch what congress doesn't do. That will tell you more than the pandering statements made to the press.
