Most of the news stories about the Meet the Press debate Sunday on President George W. Bush’s domestic spying program centers on comments that both Democrats and Republicans now feel the program is useless because al Qaeda knows the NSA is listening and they won’t use cell phones to discuss their plans.
The real story that came out Sunday is that Pat Roberts, the arrogant Republican chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, told show host Tim Russert that he
believes the President of the United States is above the law and can do
whatever he damn well pleases.
The House Intelligence Committee chairman Sunday said President Bush’s secret eavesdropping program on Americans is useless because al-Qaida undoubtedly has changed its means of communication to avoid Washington’s monitoring.
Republican and Democratic senators want Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe to determine if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters.
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., called the leak of intelligence information “inappropriate” if it is true that unnamed “superiors” instructed Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to divulge the material on Iraq.
Sen. George Allen, R-Va., said a full investigation is necessary.
Vice President Dick Cheney, a darling of the National Rifle Association and a strong advocate of guns and hunting, shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas.