{"id":6107,"date":"2005-12-16T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2005-12-16T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T17:53:32","slug":"snarlin-arlen-isnt-lying-about-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/snarlin-arlen-isnt-lying-about-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Snarlin&#8217; Arlen isn&#8217;t lying about spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/6102.html\">earlier item<\/a> about the Bush White House quietly allowing the National Security Agency to <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/16\/politics\/16program.html\">spy on Americans<\/a>, on U.S. soil, without getting a warrant, at least one Republican senator is bothered enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/bush_nsa;_ylt=Atp2g9z64Sdp23hIZ727rxWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\">consider hearings<\/a> on the issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A key Republican committee chairman put the Bush administration on notice Friday that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the National Security Agency eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he would make oversight hearings by his panel next year &#8220;a very, very high priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no doubt that this is inappropriate,&#8221; said Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Senate Judiciary Committee follows through on this, it would likely be the first major hearing of a Bush-related scandal since, well, ever.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, administration figures are on the defensive. Condoleezza Rice, on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show, said she wouldn&#8217;t comment on &#8220;intelligence matters,&#8221; but added that she believes the president &#8220;has not ordered people to do things that are illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Center for National Security Studies disagrees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/16\/AR2005121600021.html\">telling the WaPo<\/a> that the secret order may amount to the president authorizing criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like the kind of question that can be explored in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on an earlier item about the Bush White House quietly allowing the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, on U.S. soil, without getting a warrant, at least one Republican senator is bothered enough to consider hearings on the issue. A key Republican committee chairman put the Bush administration on notice Friday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}