Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight on Hill

[kpete]

Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight on Hill

By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 18, 2005; A07

Lawmakers have been caught by surprise by several recent reports, including the existence of secret U.S. prisons abroad, the CIA's detention overseas of innocent foreign nationals, and, last week, the discovery that the military has been engaged in domestic spying. After five years in which the GOP-controlled House and Senate undertook few investigations into the administration's activities, the legislative branch has begun to complain about being in the dark.

On Friday, after learning that the National Security Agency was eavesdropping on conversations in the United States, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said that the activity was "wrong and it can't be condoned at all," and that his committee "can undertake oversight on it."

That same day, the House approved a resolution that would direct the administration to provide House and Senate intelligence committees with classified reports on the secret U.S. prisons overseas.

"Republican Congresses tend to overinvestigate Democratic administrations and underinvestigate their own," said Davis, who added that he has tried to pick up some of the slack with his committee. "I get concerned we lose our separation of powers when one party controls both branches."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700992_pf.html

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1. FUMBLES??? as if these were ACCIDENTS???

[bridgit]

2. fuck the republican congress bunch of shit fer brains crackers...

:thumbsdown:

[acmejack]

3. Apparently their major concern is "embarrassing the Administration"

3 investigations of *, >1000 for Clinton. What more needs to be said?

[bridgit]

4. they and the admin are an embarrassment before the world already...

x(

[Swamp Rat]

5. Fuck Bushler AND the GOP!

[bridgit]

6. dude, if the dems can't pull this next round together the entire world...

will be fucked into an oligarchy...don't hate me but i cop't your pic above cause it's cool B-)

[Swamp Rat]

8. No problem...

I just finished it this morning, as a companion piece to this one:

[bridgit]

9. what software suite are you using, cause they look real clean...

B-)

[Swamp Rat]

11. No 'suite' in my tool box.

:( I'm flat broke and lucky to make it outta New Orleans with my hide! :D

I use Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Max OS X Tiger. It is somewhat limited, but I enjoy pushing the limitations to the extreme. I use LOTS of layers combined with LOTS of airbrushing... whatever I can do to process the image until it matches the image in my brain. If I had CS2, I'm sure I'd be able to do even more cool stuff. ;) I need to take a break from doing pix and practice guitar and drums. I gotta prepare for Mardi Gras! Laissez le bon temps roule! :party:

[bridgit]

12. le bon temps roule, ami, seen where y'all were scrambling...

for a time or two, taking this opportunity send along my, "glad you made it Swamp Rat :D " i have a friend in biloxi with sad/amazing tales of not-so-common heroism & survival :thumbsup: i'll tell hubby bout what-all your using, but the effect is stellar like you don't already know :D

[killbotfactory]

7. Oversight? What's that? It sounds like a commie terrorist plot!

Next thing you know we'll have a seperation of powers, specifically designed to weaken our nation!

[Hubert Flottz]

10. "seperation of powers, specifically designed to weaken our ...

nation"

We have a fake separation of powers and fake oversight, to go with our faulty intelligence that lies between our fearful leader's ears. If the repigs in congress don't do anything about Bush shifting into Stalin Mode now, then things will get worse fast from here on out. Bush's own spies are out terrorizing people now! AMERICAN PEOPLE!