Is There Anything Pat Roberts Won't Help Bush To Cover Up? (NYT Edit)

Editorial
Doing the President's Dirty Work

Published: February 17, 2006
Is there any aspect of President Bush's miserable record on intelligence that Senator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is not willing to excuse and help to cover up?

For more than a year, Mr. Roberts has been dragging out an investigation into why Mr. Bush presented old, dubious and just plain wrong intelligence on Iraq as solid new proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was in league with Al Qaeda. It was supposed to start after the 2004 election, but Mr. Roberts was letting it die of neglect until the Democrats protested by forcing the Senate into an unusual closed session last November.

Now Mr. Roberts is trying to stop an investigation into Mr. Bush's decision to allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without getting the warrants required by a 27-year-old federal law enacted to stop that sort of abuse.

Mr. Roberts had promised to hold a committee vote yesterday on whether to investigate. But he canceled the vote, and then made two astonishing announcements. He said he was working with the White House on amending the 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to permit warrantless spying. And then he suggested that such a change would eliminate the need for an inquiry.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/opinion/17fri1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Nice of the Times to finally get off the schneid and notice that this corrupt administration is being actively aided and abetted by congressional Republicans. But they'll probably back off as soon as someone says that the tone of this editorial is "shrill" or smacks of "conspiracy theoryism" or some other such nonsense.

But it's nice to see a major media outlet wander off the reservation if only for a one day editorial.

we are in the mess we're in. THEY helped further this fascist regime's evil agenda, and now look at our country! LOOK AT THE FREAKIN' MESS they corporate media has created. I think it's too late to undo all the damage they have done and I'm not so sure they want to. They're just throwing us an occasional bone. The NYT and Judith Miller are traitors. The corporate owned media, the regime, and CONGRESS....ALL traitors.

We are so screwed.

We will be serenaded by a chorus of closing barn doors..........

The horses are long gone...

I can only imagine the stress and fury he feels everyday fighting that little, rat bastard.

EVERY DAMN DAY, until something substantial is done. All it would take is one other Senator to second the motion.

he should have reached his rage limit with roberts a couple of years ago.

in ok just pisses me off to no end. How in the hell can people in his district keep electing this poor excuse of a Senator. What an asshat. but then again we have inhofe and dr tom, at least we have a dam good Governor though, Governor Brad Henry. The man diffently has his priorities straight. Education.:hi: