{"id":2390,"date":"2006-02-08T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2006-12-16T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T21:28:45","slug":"republican-congresswoman-calls-for-full-nsa-wiretap-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congresswoman Calls for Full NSA Wiretap Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE GOOD NEWS…<\/b> We have a new winner of the too-rarely-bestowed BRAD BLOG<\/a> “Intellectually Honest Conservative Award”! According to Wednesday’s NY Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had “serious concerns” about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring and why.
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\nShe said she realized that publicizing her concerns over the surveillance program could harm her relations with the administration. “The president has his duty to do, but I have mine too, and I feel strongly about that,” she said.<\/div>\n

Congratulations Rep. Wilson on being the latest recipient of our prestigious award! You are in shamefully rare company these days!<\/p>\n

THE BAD NEWS…<\/b> The once great NY Times<\/i> is still hopelessly in the tank, reporting the Administration “company line” as fact in the “paper of record” [emphasis added]<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Ms. Wilson, who was a National Security Council aide in the administration of President Bush’s father, is the first Republican on either the House’s Intelligence Committee or the Senate’s to call for a full Congressional investigation into the program, in which the N.S.A. has been eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of people inside the United States believed to have links with terrorists.<\/b><\/div>\n

FRESH IDEA FOR NY TIMES<\/i> ‘REPORTERS’\/EDITORS…<\/b> Try reporting facts<\/i> instead of White House spin. The fact<\/i> of this matter is that unless you all know something that neither the Congress nor the Country seems to know, you have no idea<\/i> whether the illegal warrantless NSA domestic spying program is eavesdropping on people “believed to have links with terrorists.”<\/p>\n

We realize the White House would like you to report it that way — and though you scored many points with them doing exactly that prior to the War in Iraq, we’d have hoped you’d have learned a lesson by now. Apparently you haven’t.<\/p>\n

The fact that nobody outside of the Administration has any idea who is being tapped<\/i> is just one of the reasons Ms. Wilson is calling for a full investigation. Had you read your own article, you might have understood that.<\/p>\n

Keep up the bad work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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