March 6, 2006
Frist pulling out all the stops to avoid Senate oversight of NSA wiretaping
Wow. Glenn Greenwald has the skinny on how Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is so determined to make sure the Intelligence Committee doesn't look into Bush's secret domestic wiretapping program (the vote was already delayed once by the Committee Chair after it became apparent that three Republican committee members were going to vote to hold hearings) that he's threatening to end the special bipartisan power-sharing arrangement the intelligence committee has had since it was created 30 years ago. Sounds like a smaller version of the so-called Nuclear Option the Republicans were threatening over filibuster.
"If I can't have my way, I'm just going to take my Democracy and go home..."
(Thanks to Judith for the link.)
Posted by bug to Politics at March 6, 2006 6:18 PM | TrackBackI have looked all over the MSM for this story, and can't find it. ANyone else wanna complain about a 'liberal bias'?
Posted by: Joe at March 7, 2006 9:33 AMResistance is futile. We are BORG(Bastards of Republican Government).
Posted by: David at March 7, 2006 10:58 AM