As I made myself watch Specter's response to Russ Feingold's Censure Resolution, I about fell off my chair when he said he'd had another hearing. He proclaimed that the experts (not named) had agreed that Bush had the authority under the Constitution to go around FISA.
This bugged me because (1) being a C-Span junkie, I would have watched the hearing and (2) I wondered who were his "experts".
I did some snooping today and lo and behold there was a hearing. But of his 7 experts, the three I checked all said the NSA program was illegal
(1) Herb Koh - Dean of Yale Law School
(2) Robert Levy, Esq. - Cato Institute
(3) Bruce Fein, Esq.- Fein & Fein, Washington, DC
I get so irritated when Washington, DC politicians think we are stupid. WE ARE NOT...call your senators .. support the Censure Resolution...
Senator Feingold is correct. The Senate cannot allow Bush's abuse of power go unchecked. We are a country of laws not of men. DeWine's proposal to make the NSA program legal is after the fact...after BUSH violated the law which does not make what BUSH has done legal.
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