Bush Won’t Talk - Declines Comment on NSA Spying Report

Bush Won’t Talk - Declines Comment on NSA Spying Report
December 16th, 2005

Bush refused to comment on whether the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on Americans today, in an interview to be aired Friday evening on “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.”

Leaders of Congress condemned the practice of eavesdropping without warrants on Friday and “promised to look into what the administration has done.” This from some of Bush’s leading defenders:

“There is no doubt that this is inappropriate,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said there would be hearings early next year and that they would have “a very, very high priority.”

He wasn’t alone in reacting harshly to the report. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the story, first reported in Friday’s New York Times, was troubling.

Democratic Leaders were more to the point:

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Nixon has probably moved over on the bench, and he is saving the Monkey a seat by the fire, whilst Satan tosses another log on....

This is an issue that the REAL conservatives are going to be p.o.'d about.