Chairwoman of NSA Subcommittee Breaks Ranks

The very conservative New York Times reports that Representative Heather A. Wilson (R-NM) chairwom of the NSA subcommittee joined a growing number of Congressional and Senate Republicans who are speaking out against, or at the very least, seriously questioning King George's domestic eavesdropping program. When Representative Heather A. Wilson broke ranks with President Bush on Tuesday to declare her "serious concerns" about domestic eavesdropping, she gave voice to what some fellow Republicans were thinking, if not saying. ***** Ms. Wilson said she decided to speak out this week because she had become increasingly "frustrated that the administration was not giving us the information we needed to do our job." With Mr. Gonzales unable or unwilling to answer questions at the Senate hearing, she said, there was no way to determine whether the surveillance law needed to be updated. "I think the argument that somehow, in passing the use-of-force resolution, that that was authorizing the president and the administration free rein to do whatever they wanted to do, so long as they tied it to the war on terror, was a bit of a stretch," she said. "And I don't think that's what most members of Congress felt they were doing." Bush and his spin machine can change the name of the program to "Terrorist Surveillance" or any other frendly sounding name but what it still comes down to is he skirted the the FISA court and by doing so broke the law. A PR campaign to make this more palatable to the public (much like his "Blue Skies Initiative") will not change this fact. One thing you can always count on, is that when this dictatorial administration puts a friendly sounding name on any of its' proposed programs you can damn well expect it will be doing just the opposite of what the name leads you to believe. Congratulations those Republicans who see this for what it is, a growing power-grab from Congress and worse still yet another way to infringe on the privacy of Americans, and spit on the rights granted by the Constitution George himself describes as just a goddamned piece of paper!