If We Admit Our Sins To Congress We're Off The Hook!

Congressional Probe of NSA Spying Is in Doubt: White House Sways Some GOP Lawmakers
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer

"Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday."

Despite the revelation that yet another warrantless spying program exists and is focused on US citizens and the utter lack of oversight on the one we know about, all the White House has to do is submit a mea culpa and lobby for dismissal of congressional inquiry. Tell me this doesn't smakc in the face of justice.

"The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of international terrorism suspects or people who allegedly aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism officials. The list kept by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) -- created in 2004 to be the primary U.S. terrorism intelligence agency -- contains a far greater number of international terrorism suspects and associated names in a single government database than has previously been disclosed. Because the same person may appear under different spellings or aliases, the true number of people is estimated to be more than 200,000, according to NCTC officials."

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How many of us are in that database? Are you? I know I could be because I communicate with others around the globe, speak out against the corruption that I see in Washington, protest the violation of the Constitution, and have friends in India, Pakistan, Bahrain, England, Australia, Germany, Canada, Iran and elsewhere. I have also discussed security and terrorism in a multitude of forums. Am I a target of the spying? (If I wasn't yesterday, I may be today!)

"The Senate intelligence committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a Democratic-sponsored motion to start an inquiry into the recently revealed program in which the National Security Agency eavesdrops on an undisclosed number of phone calls and e-mails involving U.S. residents without obtaining warrants from a secret court. Two committee Democrats said the panel -- made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats -- was clearly leaning in favor of the motion last week but now is closely divided and possibly inclined against it."

Let us send these folks an avalanche of e-mails, telegrams and letters telling them WE want to know the truth. WE are entitled to the truth. WE are entitled to a government that operates primarily in the open, according to the first principles of our Constitution, and in a manner that represents JUSTICE!