Sunday, December 18, 2005
The inert mass starts to move.
Not very much movement yet in the great manure heap that is Congress but some of the moops are getting chippy.
Lawmakers have been caught by surprise by several recent reports, including the existence of secret U.S. prisons abroad, the CIA's detention overseas of innocent foreign nationals, and, last week, the discovery that the military has been engaged in domestic spying. After five years in which the GOP-controlled House and Senate undertook few investigations into the administration's activities, the legislative branch has begun to complain about being in the dark.Still, Henry Waxman D-CA probably said it best.
On Friday, after learning that the National Security Agency was eavesdropping on conversations in the United States, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the activity was "wrong and it can't be condoned at all," and that his committee "can undertake oversight on it."
That same day, the House approved a resolution that would direct the administration to provide House and Senate intelligence committees with classified reports on the secret U.S. prisons overseas.
"There was nothing too small to be investigated in the Clinton administration and there's nothing so big that it can't be ignored in the Bush administration."UPDATE:Harry Reid has called for investigations, according to the WaPo today. Let's hope he and Arlen can get something done. How hard could it be for the two of them to bulldoze that WATB Frist.
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