Under pressure from President Bush, Democratic leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to expand the government’s electronic wiretapping powers.
What? The New York Times, (via Memeorandum), lays out the arguement that the left is afraid to not act on this for fear of appearing weak on national security.
Captain Ed points out:
The Bush administration didn’t just start calling for movement in the last few days. They agreed to place these efforts back under the supervision of the FISA court in January on the promise that the Democratic-controlled Congress would take action on these requests months ago. Instead, the Democratic leadership put them on the back burner while taking 108 days to authorize funding for the troops in Iraq and spending hundreds of hours on oversight hearings.
Now that the August recess approaches, the White House and the Directorate of National Intelligence wants some action. They have pressed Congress hard to take care of the nation’s business sometime in between hysterical committee hearings and strategizing for surrender in Iraq. Given that this has been sitting on their desks for seven months with no action at all, the impatience seems particularly justified, especially considering the recent news of a serious uptick in terrorist communications.
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August 1, 2007 - 08:54 AM on August 1st, 2007
This is very bad. If they need to tighten up security so much, why don’t they control the borders and stop illegal immigration?
August 1, 2007 - 01:05 PM on August 1st, 2007
As usual, the Democrats aren’t being honest. They don’t want to deal with the truth in Iraq. They just want to lie to the public and destroy the military.
August 1, 2007 - 01:34 PM on August 1st, 2007
The top Democrites despise the military. Remember when Klintskum said he “loathed’ the military? You know regardess of what posturing they do, deep down they all despise the military. It is intrinsic to the American Left. That’s because military core values (duty, honor, country) are all anathema to the Left.