Thursday, December 29, 2005
Daschle Speaks On Domestic Wiretaps
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD Ret.) has put his two cents on the table about the Domestic Wiretapping Initiative that President Bonehead authorized in the days following 9/11. In this piece, he details what powers Congress did give Bushy Boy post-9/11, and how they got to that point by narrowing the language and focus of the legislation. When the Administration didn't get their way the first time, they tried to insert the words "in the United States and" right after "appropriate force." For some reason, they sought to reenact that point of their original request. When denied, apparently Crawford, TX's Village Idiot had to go the covert (and illegal) route and make them a "secret necessity that's, like, vital to National Security and kept totally, like, hush hush." (Link)
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You're right. There's no possible way of knowing exactly what powers the Adminstration was or wasn't given in the wake of 2001. Why? National Security, of course. That's one of the major problems: We simply don't know. The other problem is, if the Administration doesn't get what they want from Congress, then they'll go the under-the-radar route and act on their own. Talk about impeachable.
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