John Conyers To Gonzales: Your Answers Have Been"Insufficient" - Calls For NSA Wiretap Hearings

[kpete]

Democrats call for NSA wiretapping hearing

Mike Sheehan
Published: Friday January 19, 2007

A key Democrat and members of a House panel he chairs seek a "full briefing" on the Bush administration's controversial domestic eavesdropping.

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Conyers describes Gonzales' offer to brief him directly as "insufficient."

The Michigan Democrat also asks to be provided with "copies of the new court orders, under classified cover, so that we may be better informed on the new program." He adds that "a number of important questions remain unanswered."

To illustrate, Conyers writes, "It is unclear whether the FISC issued blanket orders authorizing surveillance for groups or categories of individuals. The Department also has not stated whether the Administration is engaged in any other surveillance or searches, outside the publicly-known NSA program, without judicial review.

"Finally, your own letter restates the Department's position that the initial program was within the law, raising the question of whether the Administration will return to the use of warrantless surveillance at some point in the future," Conyers concludes.


more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Democrats_call_for_NSA_wiretapping_hearing_0119.html

[Matariki]

1. kick n/t

[cool user name]

2. Fuck yeah!

[Subdivisions]

3. BOO-YOW! Bend over Gonzo and prepare to receive a

foot in your ass!

[originalpckelly]

5. I think he's about to receive a little more than that...

more like a strategically placed subpoena!

[BootinUp]

4. Thank you America for voting...

Knowing that we have someone speaking for us and with some power again is quite a relief.

[Matariki]

6. I am SO HAPPY John Conyers finally has the power of the majority.

I'm sure he's WELL PREPARED for it !!!

[ClintonTyree]

39. No kidding!

After a decade of being shut out of government as the "minority party" we finally have people with the determination and power to lift up the rocks the Republicans have been operating under. Now we'll get to see the dirty details and all around skulduggery the GOP has used to turn our government into the cess-pool it is today.

And I for one couldn't be happier! :woohoo:

[yojon]

50. Maybe after a few months of these hearings

even the reptilians will be shamed into supporting impeachment....

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. OK! k(pete)nr. ....n/t

[Swamp Rat]

8. John Conyers, my hero!

:patriot:

[porphyrian]

9. Go, Congressman! - n/t

[Imagevision]

10. Gonzalez under oath is having serious problems -- Rice is next to go under oath

as she is asked about NSA and the lead up to 9-11

[bananarepublican]

38. Why aren't Ganzalez and Rice 'having a chat together' with Cngress...

... rather than having to 'ickily testify' under oath alone.

I can understand freepers who do not want a cosy chat rather than a full accounting. Come on America let's us all get back to Newt's and Tom's non-nastiness!!!

[robertpaulsen]

11. Yes! Perhaps then, impeachment can be brought back to the "table".

If Conyers was a poker player, I'd say he just raised the ante!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[me b zola]

12. k&r!

:kick:

[Little Star]

13. John Conyers is the best!!!!!

[Vidar]

14. Good to hear from Conyers. He's been too quiet of late.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

15. Kick his smug, traitorous ass! n/t

[mikelgb]

16. Kick for Conyers

[jelly]

17. Hooray!

I do believe we are finally witnessing some oversight in action.

I also heard Sen. Leahy promise Gonzo that if within one week the administration does not turn over information concerning the Canadian who was handed over to Syria where he was tortured, there will be a full investigation into the matter.

BRING IT ON, SENATORS!

[northofdenali]

18. ....

:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

Now, I'll kick back and watch :popcorn: the investigations, subpeonas, indictments, impeachments, and jailings with true glee.

[Imagevision]

19. Conyers is beginning to have his day... Go Johnny GO!!!

[WinkyDink]

20. John Conyers has been waiting for a loooong time. The mills of God grind slowly,

but they grind exceedingly fine.

[BattyDem]

21. I LOVE this man!!!!!!!!!

:patriot: :loveya: :patriot: :loveya: :patriot: :loveya: :patriot:

[Aviation Pro]

22. It's almost time for "all in"....

...in this high stakes game of Texas Hold'em. Wait for the river card.

[lonestarnot]

23. JC ROCKS!

:yourock: JC!

[ToolTex]

24. I conjecture they have pressured AT&T and Sprint to route all domestic calls

through Canada, so they can record them all and call them international; and have simply snowed the FISA court. TIA just can not seem to be killed, no matter what.

[Maryland Liberal]

25. Side Show

What we really need is John Conyers impeaching the Bushie

[mod mom]

26. I love that man! Who was there for us after the '04 theft? Who was

there demanding answers about DSM? My avatar says it all:

[brer cat]

27. I so love this! But I do have one nitpick:

...it was supported by "the first Muslim to serve in Congress, Keith Ellison (D-MN)." And how is his religion (or lack thereof as the case may be) relevant to the subject at hand? Is the man to be forever identified thusly?

[GenDem]

28. Hooray for Conyers and oversight!!!

And here's to taking him out of the basement office and giving him his rightful place! They will all be listening to his questions, now.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. IMHO, One Of The Biggest Victories In November Was Giving This Man Legitimacy.

John, your day is here.

:toast:

[Richard Steele]

30. YES!!!!!!!! recommended

[lligrd]

31. Goal - Wipe That Smug Look Off Of Gonza's Face

And if it takes waterboarding, which he made legal, so be it!

[coznfx]

32. I'm ready for the show!

Let's hope there's lots of re-runs.

Go, Johnny, Go!

[newyawker99]

48. Hi coznfx!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Hekate]

33. Happy dance, happy dance. I shall call this dance "The Downfall of Bush."

"The Downfall of Bush" from my "Schadenfreude Suite," which includes "All Hail the Subpoena Power of John Conyers."

:bounce: :party: :popcorn: :kick:
:bounce: :party: :popcorn: :kick:
:bounce: :party: :popcorn: :kick:
:bounce: :party: :popcorn: :kick:

:evilgrin:

Hekate

[tex-wyo-dem]

34. Thank you, Mr. Conyers!

Somehow I have the feeling that he's about to unleash a firestorm of subpoenas on this administration unlike anything ever witnessed.
A target rich environment, it is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. I hope I will be able to watch THIS GO AROUND

Gonzo is sweating it

[tblue]

36. Finally, finally, some sanity has returned to Congress. So happy I could cry.

[killbotfactory]

37. Viva Conyers!

There was a reason he was on Nixon's enemies list.

[Ikonoklast]

40. The shells are dropping closer to the target

We all know the real question that needs to be asked.

"Has the NSA or any other entity of the Federal Government been directed to, at your or the Presidents' request, to collect intelligence, eavesdrop electronically, or wiretap an individual or group that was deemed a domestic political opponent of this administration?"

The dam will break. It will be perjury, at the very least.

[rosesaylavee]

41. Love the understatement...

"insufficient" must be sending a chill through the WH now...

[Vinca]

42. It's a new world, Gonzo.

:rofl:

[The Wizard]

43. Gonzo could be

the next toss salad guy to exit the Cheney/Bush crime syndicate.
When will Libby mysteriously die from the heart attack that killed Kenny Boy? You know they want to shut down that trial.

[spanone]

44. K I C K AND R E C O M M E N D

[Botany]

45. Who does not think that bush/Rove used the NSA to spy on Kerry & etc?

In 2004 phones for Kerry & Democratic organizations in Ohio were hacked,
tapped, and blocked. Some of it was a very sophisticated operation. Computers
were hacked into too.

[SutaUvaca]

46. Hooray! Hooray!

..for the light of day!
Go Johnny!
Sock it to 'em, sock it to 'em, sock it to 'em, sock it to 'em.

[peace13]

47. Thank you John for fighting for America! n/t

[govegan]

49. John Conyers = Profile in Courage

A man for our times.

[IWantAChange]

51. I sure hope the American public understands how important oversight is.

The fact that it was eliminated shortly after the "Republican Revolution" in '94 may have been the start of the erosion in civil liberties that we all face today. Thank goodness for men like John Conyers.

[PurpleChez]

52. John Conyers Rokks!

[thereismore]

53. Keith Ellison, the only Musulman in Congress, co-signed. Yay! nt

[McCamy Taylor]

54. Contempt of Congress and Impeachment of Gonzales, please!

Gonzales just axed a federal prosecutor who convicted Duke Cunningham and was indicting more Reps. Meanwhile, he had hired on, using Arlen Spectre's secret Patriot Act clause, a RNC lawyer who specializes in digging up dirt against Democrats to work for the DOJ doing what Gonzales said last fall that the Justice Department was going to concentrate on in 2007-8----setting up Congressional stings and aggressively prosecuting members of Congress. We all know that means that Gonzales is going to try to get rid of some Senate Democrats, and smear the party before the 2008 election.

Gonzales HAS to go. He is a Mafia enforcer. He should be in Club Fed and he should be disbarred.

[rodeodance]

55. go big JOHN!!