NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - The Wall Street Journal
Excerpt:
"Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But the data-sifting effort didn't disappear. The National Security Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance, has been building essentially the same system."
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Congress. Show all posts
Monday
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - The Wall Street Journal
President Presses Congress to Make His Tax Cuts Permanent
Excerpt:
"As Democratic leaders urged action on an economic stimulus measure in the Senate, they wasted no time Monday in pouring cold water President Bush’s budget plea for a permanent extension of his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., sharply criticized Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget proposal, saying it “fails to respond to the real problems facing middle-class families” and would harm the elderly and the poor."
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=cqmidday-000002665562
Yankees' Pettitte Meets With Congress To Discuss Steroids
Yankees' Pettitte Meets With Congress To Discuss Steroids
Excerpt:
"New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte showed up early for his closed-door interview Monday with lawyers from a congressional committee looking into drug use in baseball.
Pettitte, wearing a gray suit and bright striped tie and clutching hands with his wife, did not speak to reporters on his way into the offices of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. His meeting is part of preparation for a Feb. 13 public hearing expected to focus on Roger Clemens' denials of allegations about his use of performance enhancers made in the Mitchell Report by former personal trainer Brian McNamee."
Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes This Week
Showdown Over Destroyed CIA Tapes This Week -Will Congress Offer Immunity to Find Out What Really Happened to Alleged Torture Tapes?
Excerpt:
"Upset because they believe the tapes may have shown illegal torture. But the chief witness, former CIA official Jose Rodriguez — the man who ordered the destruction of the tapes — threatens to invoke the Fifth Amendment and remain silent, unless he is granted immunity from prosecution for anything he tells Congress."
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=4128320
Saturday
House Panel Subpoenas Ex-CIA Official in Tape Destruction Probe
House Panel Subpoenas Ex-CIA Official in Tape Destruction Probe
Excerpt:
"The House Intelligence Committee today subpoenaed Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's clandestine service, as part of its probe of the agency's destruction of videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.
``We have been told that Mr. Rodriguez would like to tell his story, but his counsel has advised us that a subpoena would be necessary,'' Representative Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat who is chairman of the panel, said in an e-mailed statement. ``We therefore have issued the subpoena.''"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0erxbacwyc0&refer=home
Democrats Want Probe of Tape Destruction - Washington Post
Democrats Want Probe of Tape Destruction - Washington Post
Excerpt:
"Angry congressional Democrats demanded Friday that the Justice Department investigate why the CIA destroyed videotapes of the interrogation of two terrorism suspects.
The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called on Attorney General Michael Mukasey to find out "whether CIA officials who destroyed these videotapes and withheld information about their existence from official proceedings violated the law."
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., accused the CIA of a cover-up. "We haven't seen anything like this since the 18 1/2-minute gap in the tapes of President Richard Nixon," he said in a Senate floor speech."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120800339.html
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By Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - My Challenge to the President
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - My Challenge to the President
Excerpt:
"So I ask President Bush and the Members in Congress who support his veto:
Would you deny your own family what you'll be denying to millions of other families if this bill is vetoed? If you don't believe the federal government should support children's health care, how can you in good conscience accept it for your own families?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-edward-m-kennedy-/my-challenge-to-the-presi_b_66946.html
Tuesday
Monday
By John McCain and Joe Lieberman - Listening to Petraeus - The President had the courage to change course on Iraq. Does Congress?
Excerpt:
"Today, Gen. David Petraeus--commander of our forces in Iraq--returns to Washington to report on the war in Iraq and the new counterinsurgency strategy he has been implementing there. We hope that opponents of the war in Congress will listen carefully to the evidence that the U.S. military is at last making real and significant progress in its offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010585
Thursday
A More Pessimistic Report on Iraq
Excerpt:
"Add another assessment of the Iraq surge to the pile. A draft of a progress report requested by Congress from the Government Accountability Office is “strikingly negative” and questions a more optimistic report by the administration in July, according to The Washington Post, which obtained a copy.
Five benchmarks separated the two reports. In July, the White House said eight benchmarks were met satisfactorily; the G.A.O. puts the figure at three."
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Monday
Conyers: We Will Press on
"From House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI):
"It is a sad day when the Attorney General of the United States resigns amid a cloud of suspicion that the system of justice has been manipulated for political purposes. More than accountability, we need answers. Unfortunately, the continued stonewalling of the White House in the U.S. Attorney scandal has deprived the American people of the truth. If the power of the prosecutor has been misused in the name of partisanship, we deserve a full airing of the facts. The responsibility to uncover these facts is still on the Congress, and the Judiciary Committee in particular.""
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004002.php
Congressional probe promised for deadly mine - Politicians promise to investigate causes behind the tragedies and improve safety
Excerpt:
"Congress will investigate and hold hearings on the Utah mine disaster, several key congressional leaders vowed Friday after a second tragedy at the Crandall Canyon mine brought rescue operations to a halt.
The chairwoman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees mine safety promised a congressional probe, as did the the head of the House Education and Labor Committee. Utah politicians also backed an investigation of what went wrong in the initial mine tunnel collapse and the subsequent rescue effort that claimed three lives Thursday night."
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6656139
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