[IP] more on Senate Won't Question Telecoms About NSA Spying
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From: "Atkinson, Robert" <rca53@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 7, 2006 8:42:25 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Senate Won't Question Telecoms About NSA Spying
Does the same sentiment re Sen. Specter apply equally to Sen. Feinstein?
The same article also said:
"... Sen. Dianne Feinstein -- an Intelligence Committee member who said
she'd been briefed "very thoroughly" on the program -- said she agreed
with Chairman Specter's decision. "I don't know what would be served by
issuing a subpoena here," she said. "It seems to me that the
Intelligence Committee, having reviewed that program, knows what
questions to ask, and they cannot
be asked in open session."
Or is there a double standard?
Bob
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:12 AM
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Subject: [IP] Senate Won't Question Telecoms About NSA Spying
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From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@xxxxxxxx>
Date: June 7, 2006 3:07:44 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ghicks@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Senate Won't Question Telecoms About NSA Spying
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@xxxxxxxx>
Dave:
For IP if you desire.
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How very disappointing.
When Jack Cafferty said on CNN:
"We all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that stands
between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He's vowed to
question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide
the government with my telephone records, and yours, and tens of
millions of other Americans."
[ref:
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/05/quote-of-day-3-jack-cafferty.html]
Tonight on CNN (in response to the news below), Jack called Specter
"another Republican worm" for going back on his word.
I couldn't agree more.
When Sen. Specter originally said that he would get to the bottom of
this issue, I thanked my lucky stars that there seemed to be some
integrity on Capitol Hill. Now, I'm sorely disappointed.
Anne Broache writes on C|Net News:
[snip]
A prominent Republican senator on Tuesday backed away from his pledge
to question executives from telecommunications companies that have
allegedly been cooperating with the government's secret wiretapping
program.
Arlen Specter said that after discussions with the Bush administration
and Senate Intelligence Committee colleagues who had been more fully
briefed on the National Security Agency program, he was "prepared to
defer on a temporary basis" requiring representatives from AT&T,
Verizon Communications and BellSouth to testify before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which he leads.
[snip]
A sad state of affairs.
More here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6080646.html
Disgusted.
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