Watching Those We Chose: Mike McConnell to Arlen Specter, Gonzales Was Talking About Something Far Worse Than TSP

Watching Those We Chose: Mike McConnell to Arlen Specter, Gonzales Was Talking About Something Far Worse Than TSP:

"I am going to ask a question I haven't seen in the news media. Assume McConnell
is telling the truth, how odious are those other secret programs if at least one
of them was considered more controversial by loyal Bushies than the Terrorist
Surveillance Program? Here is a follow up question you won't see asked by the
MSM. Can either a free society or the Constitution survive as long as such
programs exist unsupervised? After all the U.S. Patriot act has already repealed
Habeas Corpus. What's next? Argentina style disappearances? Star Chamber Courts?
The disbanding of Congress?"

Why is that no debate can take place without the extremes and their slippery slope arguments taking over with their shouting. No one is talking about disbanding congress, no one is talking about ending the freedoms of Americans. What is being talked about is the best way to protect American interests at home and abroad. We face new threats, and we face new enemies and if we are going to take on those new threats and new enemies we have to think in new ways. While I understand the need and the concern about oversight, it needs to be limited in scope to prevent leaks of information to the press. The administration has found one program after another leaked to the media and broadcast to the world. If we are going to protect ourselves from those who would harm us, we cannot broadcast the details of how we plan to do that to the world.

Oh no. Harry Reid was mean to Arlen Specter. The Senate can't function while Specter has a bruised ego. - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Oh no. Harry Reid was mean to Arlen Specter. The Senate can't function while Specter has a bruised ego. - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

"Arlen Specter is a senior United States senator who expects to be allowed
his say on the Senate floor. So he bristled when Senator Harry Reid, the
majority leader, brusquely cut him off at the end of the Iraq debate.

“The leadership is setting a dictatorial tone,” Mr. Specter, Republican
of Pennsylvania, said Thursday, still furious over his treatment the day before.
“Senators didn’t get here to be pushed around.”

It may seem small-minded to bicker over a few words at the end of a 24-hour debate. But the clash between the two veteran senators is evidence of a larger breakdown in relations in the Senate, a deterioration in cooperation that is hobbling the Senate’s ability to get things
done. The situation is not likely to improve with a presidential election on the
horizon."

Forget about bringing the troops home, I think we need to bring congress home. They are just wasting money at this point. Shut out the light in the capital, lock the doors, close all the offices in Washington and send them all home. Let them sit at home and think about the mistakes they are making by not working together.