Bipartisan Group of Sens. Seek Joint Judiciary-Intell Inquiry into Spying

Feinstein, Bipartisan Group of Senators Seek Joint Judiciary-Intelligence Inquiry into Domestic Spying
December 20th, 2005

The White House attempted yesterday, to elaborate on their authority for eavesdropping on American citizens.

Today, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and a bipartisan group of Senate Intelligence Committee members called for a joint inquiry by the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees into the President’s authorization of domestic electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens.

“We write to express our profound concern about recent revelations that the United States Government may have engaged in domestic electronic surveillance without appropriate legal authority. These allegations, which the President, at least in part, confirmed this weekend require immediate inquiry and action by the Senate,” the Senators wrote in a letter to Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the chairman and vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Joining Senator Feinstein on the letter were Senators Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

Senator Feinstein noted that under the Senate Intelligence Committee rules, “if five members of the Committee make a request in writing to the Chairman to call a meeting of the Committee, and the Chairman fails to call such a meeting within seven calendar days thereafter, including the day on which the written notice is submitted, these members may call a meeting by filing a written notice with the Clerk of the Committee who shall promptly notify each member of the Committee in writing of the date and time of the meeting.”

The following is the text of the letter:

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1469

I'd love to see some Repubs reclaim their honor.

to have the last laugh when it comes to Bush. I think it is clear that Hagel thinks Bush is a punk and sees the neo-cons as destroying the republican party.

Get the facts.

:wow:

First she voted against Roberts, now this.

I asssume these are just isolated, though.