Hayden Coasts Through Committee
Gen. Michael Hayden sailed through the Senate Intelligence Committee as expected. The vote was 12-3.
Hayden won the backing of the committee’s eight Republicans and four of seven Democrats. Voting against him were Democrats Evan Bayh (IN), Russell Feingold (WI) and Ron Wyden (OR).
They objected mainly to what they called the administration’s failure to justify adequately the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretaps of Americans’ international calls. Hayden headed the NSA when the program was launched, soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “My vote was an objection to the administration’s unwillingness to ensure both our physical security and our civil liberties,” Bayh said.
Feingold likely voted against Hayden for overseeing the NSA’s TSP. Feingold is playing to the lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party, which has become the dominant force in the ‘Hostile Party’. It’s a shame that they’ve gotten that much of a hearing with that once-great political party.
Wyden said he also believes that Hayden misled Congress by suggesting the eavesdropping program, revealed by the New York Times in December, was the full extent of the highly secret domestic surveillance operation. USA Today recently reported that the NSA also collected millions of phone records from U.S. businesses and homes.
I wish Mr. Babington would get this straight. The data mining program isn’t eavesdropping. It’s connecting the dots through phone call patterns. Eavesdropping is when you’re actually listening to the conversations.
If there’s anything I hate more, it’s when journalists misuse words. After all, words is what they do for a living. It isn’t like Mr. Babington doesn’t know the difference, either. This is what I’m refering to when I talk about the Agenda Media. It’s pretty simple: they’re the Democrats’ willing accomplices.
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May 24th, 2006 at 8:34 am
The “Agenda Media” and libs highjacked our language a long time ago. “Tolerance” now means agreeing with the PC view. “Christian” is an curse word, not a noun. And “diversity” used to be called “perversity”, until the lack of any social conscience or control became the norm.
That is why Dingy Harry can look straight-faced into the cameras and say the elephants are a “culture of corruption” because of Abramhoff while taking some of that same money with his hand behind his back, or Tubby Teddy can kill a young girl and then preach to a SCOTUS nominee about ethics. His son isn’t doing too well along those lines, either.