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Edited on Tue Mar-21-06 04:04 PM by blm
planned to kill it there? No. And first thing, Kennedy and Leahy demanded NSA documents for investigation that GOPs tried to kill earlier - censure debate in committee gives them the BASIS for investigation - just as Feingold needed.
Man - either you GET it or you don't. Funny how those who claim they support Feingold's censure are so quick to side with the GOPs method of demanding instant declaration of vote and not supporting the debate and investigation of censure in the judiciary committee where Feingold wanted it.
From JABBS post in GD-P:
Vermont Senators Patrick Leahy and Jim Jeffords are advocating an investigation of President Bush's warrantless surveillance program, as a precursor to a vote on Sen. Russ Feingold's censure resolution.
Feingold's censure motion, introduced on March 13, accused Bush of violating the Constitution and the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The basis of the concern: that the program circumvented rules that say the National Security Agency must obtain a warrant before proceeding.
Leahy, a Democrat, and Jeffords, an Independent who often sides with Democrats, are making a second go at having the Senate investigate warrantless surveillance, after the Senate Intelligence Committee voted along party lines against such an investigation. Instead, Congressional Republicans cut a deal with the White House to provide Congressional oversight for warrantless surveillance.
“Sen. Feingold says he intended his resolution to prompt congressional investigations into the president’s actions on these issues. Republican leaders so far have been reluctant to allow that,” said David Carle, a Leahy spokesman. “Sen. Leahy believes in first things first, and the first thing is Congress doing its oversight duty in investigating the Bush administration’s illegal domestic wiretapping.” >>>>>>>>>
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