[privacy] Follow-Up: Jack Cafferty Calls Arlen Specter 'A Gutless Republican Wor m'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

As a follow-up to yesterday's e-mail entitled "Senate Won't Question
Telecoms About NSA Spying", I found this transcript and video of Jack
Cafferty's timely and appropriate dialogue over on CNN yesterday
afternoon (if anyone cares).

Enjoy. :-)

Via Crooks and Liars.

[snip]

Cafferty: What an idiot I am. I actually thought at the time Senator Specter was going to exercise his responsibility 
to provide some congressional oversight of the executive branch, you know, see if the White House is playing by the 
rules. Silly me.

In the end, Senator Specter has turned out to be yet another gutless Republican worm cowering in the face of pressure 
from the administration and fellow Republicans. There are not going to be any hearings. Americans won't find out if 
their privacy is being illegally invaded.

You know what the Senate Judiciary Committee settled for instead? Senator Orrin Hatch said he has won assurances from 
Vice President Dick Cheney that the White House will review proposed changes to the law that would restrict certain 
aspects of the NSA program.

Dick Cheney is going to decide if it's OK to spy on American citizens without a warrant. And this worthless bunch 
senators has agreed to let him do it. It's a disgrace.

[snip]

Link to dialogue & video snippet:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/07.html#a8619

- ferg


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