Sweeping that NSA thing under the rug

Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt

It’s great that our people in D.C. have taken it upon themselves to decide that the President spying on Americans isn’t important enough to look into. Of course, it was only after their little tet-a-tet that these “lawmakers” waffled.

They attributed the shift to last week’s closed briefings given by top administration officials to the full House and Senate intelligence committees, and to private appeals to wavering GOP senators by officials, including Vice President Cheney. “It’s been a full-court press,” said a top Senate Republican aide who asked to speak only on background — as did several others for this story — because of the classified nature of the intelligence committees’ work.

So, when the microphones got turned off they really got down to business. I don’t think it was a “you scratch my back and I’ll make sure you get reelected” thing. I’m thinking maybe it was more along the lines of “If you don’t support this program everything I’ve got on you is going to the press”…ummm, nothing like a little blackmail in the morning! What, you don’t think the prez and his underlings are capable of blackmail? Ha!

I would sincerely like to go on and on about how surprised and outraged I am by this development. I’m just disgusted. Just when you think someone’s grown and ready to fly the nest they fall right back in step. Next we’ll be hearing how the president isn’t above the law because the law has changed..

Oh wait! Seems my very own Senator Mike DeWine is working on that as I write this.

Senate intelligence committee member Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said in an interview that he supports the NSA program and would oppose a congressional investigation. He said he is drafting legislation that would “specifically authorize this program” by excluding it from the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which established a secret court to consider government requests for wiretap warrants in anti-terrorist investigations.

That’s great, Mikey, instead of treating the president like any other criminal you make the crime he committed legal. Does that work all the way around? If I come up with lots of money for you (you are running for re-election, aren’t you?) do you think you can make DUI legal so my brother can get out of the joint? Or do you just do stuff like that for your higer-ups?

You know, last night I was infuriated by what happened to Paul Hackett and had decided to vote independent no matter what. I’m calmer now, more rational, and will vote for anyone who can unseat that traitor Mike DeWine. I realize that he’s a Bush patsie, of course, but making a crime legal after it was committed is just too low. This will effectively stifle the “it’s not that he was spying, it was that he was spying without warrants” argument. Because we all know that once it becomes legal then history will be rewritten and people will forget that they were worried to begin with and why. Afterall, if what the president does becomes legal after the fact then it still makes it legal when it was a crime. Right?

Mark my words, if this bill passes (and there is support for it) then suddenly we’ll all be liars and everything we thought we knew about NSA, FISA, and Bush crimes will be “proved” wrong. It will never have happened and we’ll all be paranoid conspiracy theorists. This is what happens when we get side-tracked by Dick shooting his buddy.

Who needs the Constitution anyway?

Check out this picture for a really good analysis (can’t repost it here because I don’t have the money to pay for it).

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