Just Say No To More Wiretapping Until the White House Comes Clean

I can't really imagine what the Democrats are thinking by working with the President on expanding FISA. Especially when the Bush Administration wants Abu Frickin' Gonzales to monitor the wiretapping?!!!

One obstacle to a deal this week is a disagreement between Democrats and the White House over how to audit the wiretapping of the foreign-to-foreign calls going through switches in the United States.

The Democrats have proposed that the eavesdropping be reviewed by the secret FISA court to make sure that it has not ensnared any Americans.

The administration has proposed that the attorney general perform the review.

The law sounds OK as far as it goes, but it's lunacy to entrust this Administration with even a smidgen more power. Not until they stop obstructing and explain what the "broader" program of wiretapping truly is. I think there's good reason to believe that Abu G is still lying about this, and therefore laws regarding it shouldn't be passed until that is cleared.

Host Wolf Blitzer asked Specter how he would respond to an unsatisfactory letter from Gonzales. “If you’re not satisfied with that letter, I assume your conclusion will be like other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he did lie,” said Blitzer.

“Well, if he doesn’t have a plausible explanation then he hasn’t leveled with the Committee, that’s right,” responded Specter.

Abu G shouldn't be within 100 feet of sweeping new executive powers. Congress should keep on the restraining order.