Sensenbrenner To Draft Legislation To Limit FBI Raids Of Congress

[kpete]

Law needed to limit FBI raids, lawmaker says By Andy Sullivan
12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner said on Tuesday he plans to draft legislation that would protect congressional material during searches by government investigators.

Sensenbrenner also said he wanted to call Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller to testify about their justification for the unprecedented raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record), the target of a bribery investigation.

Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said at a hearing on the raid that his bill could avoid a repeat of last week's standoff between congressional leaders and the Bush administration after the search of Jefferson's Capitol Hill office.

"We want to make sure that when the next congressman is investigated for illegal activity that the procedure done by the Justice Department is right," Sensenbrenner said.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060530/pl_nm/congress_raid_dc

[ixion]

1. see how quickly they act when it's their 'home' that get's searched

apparently, it's a-okay to search the homes of us peasants without a warrant, or without telling us, and to do so without a decent means of legal recourse should something go wrong with that search.

But when it's one of their own, they can't act quick enough to limit an agency's power.

That's a textbook example of US government in action. :grr:

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Try to look shocked when they ban all investigations into Repubs.

Yawn.

[Metta]

3. The parts he wants to outlaw point to his wrong doing,

In the problem is the answer. Old Chinese proverb.