Tuesday, February 28, 2006

what a surprise!

White House Rejects Special Counsel
WASHINGTON - The White House on Monday rejected the call by more than a dozen House Democrats for a special counsel to investigate the Bush administration's eavesdropping program.

President Bush's spokesman Scott McClellan said those Democrats should instead spend their time investigating the source of the unauthorized disclosure of the classified program, which "has given the enemy some of our playbook."

"I really don't think there's any basis for a special counsel," McClellan also said.

In a letter released Monday, 18 House Democrats told Bush that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should appoint a special counsel. They said the surveillance of terrorists must be done within the bounds of U.S. law, but complained that their efforts to get answers to legal and factual questions about the program have been stymied — "generally based on the feeblest of excuses."

"If the effort to prevent vigorous and appropriate investigation succeeds, we fear the inexorable conclusion will be that these executive branch agencies hold themselves above the law and accountable to no one," wrote the lawmakers, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees.


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So, the Dems should be looking for the whistle-blower who exposed the fact that our president is breaking the law, rather than investigating the rpesident? THAT makes a lot of sense!
And, of course, the "enemy" had no idea that we would wire-tap anyone - oh wait, he thinks that they would "forget" if we didn't remind them, that's right!
Once again, bush flips-off the law and those of us who believe that even the president needs to obey the laws that our country is founded on.
Some of us would prefer not to live in a dictatorship - regardless of the fact that bush wishes that we were!