Lugar Supports Investigation Of Bush’s Spying Program

Add Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) to the list of conservative senators - which already includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) - who have expressed serious concerns about Bush’s secret domestic spying program. From CNN’s Late Edition:

BLITZER: So you want hearings? You want hearings?

LUGAR: I do. I think this is an appropriate time, without going back and should the president have ever tried to listen to a call coming from Afghanistan, probably of course. And in the first few weeks we made many concessions in the Congress because we were at war and we were under attack.

We still have the possibility of that going on so we don’t want to obviate all of this, but I think we want to see what in the course of time really works best and the FISA Act has worked pretty well from the time of President Carter’s day to the current time.

< http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/01/lugar-supports-hearings/ >

Wow! :wow:

I'm not really optimistic



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too much can be revealed. That is my hope...

:shrug:

The GOP and their allies in the Democratic Party want to prevent a bona fide impeachment inquiry, as the Constitution requires, instead they are going to give us a bullshit series of hearings that will produce a convoluted report in which no one will be held accountable.

Mister Lugar, do you want the American republic, or do you want a dictatorship? If you want a dictatorship, why should we even bother with a Congress, let Bush rule by decree! Bush is already ruling by decree anyway, so let's stop the pretense that there is a Constitution and a separation of powers and let us all bow down to our new emperor.