Oh, this is rich. Cheney tells Congress to expand surveillance law

That's right, the same guy who said he wasn't part of the Executive Branch so his files wouldn't be archived, the same guy who went hunting with Scalia so his Energy Task Force documents wouldn't be made public, the same guy... well, you get the picture.

"Vice President Dick Cheney prodded Congress on Wednesday to extend and broaden an expiring surveillance law, saying "fighting the war on terror is a long-term enterprise" that should not come with an expiration date.

"We're reminding Congress that they must act now," Cheney told the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The law, which authorizes the administration to eavesdrop on e-mails and phone calls to and from suspected terrorists, expires on Feb. 1. Congress is bickering over terms of its extension.

On Tuesday, Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to extend the stopgap Protect America Act without expanding it, raising stakes for an expected showdown in the Senate later this week on a new version of the law.

"This cause is bigger than the quarrels of party and the agendas of politicians," Cheney said. "And if we in Washington, all of us, can only see our way clear to work together, then the outcome should not be in doubt.""

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRICMUBI8QvePywA5BLklcJJApcAD8UBNQBO2

then the outcome should not be in doubt."

How sweet! He wants to work together instead of being the autocratic asshole that he is. It almost brings a tear to my eye...

seem to go along with every other thing he wants to shove down our freaking throats. Bitter much? Hell, yes.

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to include the right of congress to read administration email, ....

but no, that's probably not what Cheney has in mind.


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