I think Leahy is just pissed off because Cheney told that story that Leahy wanted to kiss him! I would be pissed too..

LOLMAO

I have no doubt that this Administration has more than 1 spying program going on–so that part of the equation rings true to me, & of course, he can say, if pressed, that he couldn’t talk about it in open testimony, but lying & saying instead that it was the Terrorist Surveillance Program (that Congress was briefed about only AFTER the New York Times outed it) was a supremely foolish thing to do. However, better to acknowledge the one program & claim it’s limited only to people who have international communications with suspected Al-Queda than to acknowledge the controversial data-mining programs that Wired & other techies say has been going on, or the fact that they’ve been broadly monitoring “subversive” elements at home–very broadly defined as anybody who publicly disagrees with ANYTHING this Administration does.

I don’t know about you all, but I often get visits from the DOJ to my site, Moron Cowboy.com, & to my great surprise, after running a routine spyware check on my computer, found several “rootkits” that enable complete examination of a computer’s contents–everything. There was in fact a post on the very topic over on that site Dusty was talking about the other day. (Have to go back & remind myself of its name).

I have no doubt that if it were all to come out, it’d put Nixon’s spying on “political enemies” to shame, & for the exact same reasons–they’re using the “terrorist threat” as a convenient excuse to expand domestic spying beyond anything Nixon could have come up with in his most paranoid-delusional fantasies. That’s my hypothesis, anyway.

And what will Congress do about it? We’ll see. Conyers, I think, is being more circumspect since Nancy Pelosi shut him down. Leahy is doing the most & loudest growling & grumbling, but we’ll see if the rhetoric even begins to match the action. That is, whether Democrats realize that their political lives are on the line right now, too! It’s going to take some serious cajones to stand up & press those contempt citations, but they absolutely must if they intend to save themselves.

And they all picked up on the NEW lie that fell out about Strongarming Ashcroft….and there for the gang of 8 business, he sat and lied over and over, but this time he was told that he was not credible- at all.

What just eats at me- this lying sniveling sack of something stuck to the bottem of a shoe is in Charge of JUSTICE and TRUTH in the Country….totally Horrendous….

I really look forward to what unfolds now with GonzoGate DP and your take on everything. Do you agree that Leahy seems sharper than Conyers? I feel Conyers just doesn’t seem to have the same level of ..I don’t know..expertise..or that he’s as pissed off about being jerked around as Leahy is.