The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning on holding further hearings on the recently revealed NSA surveillance program that tracks terrorist communications in addition to hearings on the number crunching/data-mining operations also conducted by the NSA with congressional approval. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (i.e. the Senate committee that actually oversees intelligence operations like the NSA programs in question) apparently did not, to use the words of ranking Democrat Jay Rockefeller, “feel qualified” to carry out their assigned duties. The Senators who made Mrs. Alito cry, however, apparently feel that they are qualified to pass judgment on national security issues due to the recent experience of their own Charles Schumer with illegal violations of U.S. citizens’ privacy. Of course, Senator Schumer was merely spying on political opponents, thus there will be no need for him to recuse himself from hearings dealing with the legality of spying on terrorists and their supporters.

In related news, the Judiciary Committee is also planning to hold hearings regarding the voting procedures of the House Ways and Means committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee. Chairman Specter has expressed his outrage that other congressmen were actually allocating funds to various projects without allowing the Judiciary Committee an opportunity to hold televised hearings on the legality of such expenditures. Some sources have also leaked or, in Rockefellerspeak, “blown the whistle” on further Judiciary Committee plans to install its own “Commissioners” in every other congressional committee along with other such “Commissioners” who would oversee the work of every executive branch agency. It is expected that the Judiciary Committee will issue a “Little Red Book” outlining such plans in the near future.

Is this whole thing a sting?

They’re Democracts, see-dubya. Progressives. Clintonistas. They know better than the redneck flyover country fools that put the Chimperor in office. So they’re just doing for us what we’re too stupid to recognize we need done. Or so they think.

We should lock them all up for a very long time.

I doubt these people fear arrest for the sedition they’re committing. After all, a leaker will tip them off before a judge ever signs the arrest warrant!

The Wilson thing I understand–he was kinda done anyway. But who are these people who are leaking?

This is the kind of garbage that a rookie in the intelligence services would know better than to do.

This has GOT to stop or our way of life is doomed.

Duty, Honor, Country
(in that order)
Rowane

The First leaks could be considered Treason… therefore, anyone implicated in this second bit of chicanery is part of a conspiricy aiding treason, and thus Treason itself…

I’ll volunteer for the fireing squad…

If you have *any* sort of security clearance then they can (and sometimes do) flip through all your mail and parse your garbage.

The reporters *may* have some legal protection available – since they’re known to be involved in a criminal conspiracy I think the warrants have probably been granted – but the people they’re talking to have nothing to hide behind.