Thursday, June 08, 2006
Good News and Bad News
Big news today in the War on Terror: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the AL Qaeda leader in Iraq, is dead.
Although it may be unseemly to rejoice in the death of any human being, I would like to congratulate the US military and intelligence people on a job well done.
More good news from Iraq: they have finally filled the last and most important vacancies in their government.
Arlen Specter recently sent a, shall we say, “pointed” letter to VP Cheney yesterday, criticizing him for trying to interfere with his investigation of telecommunications companies by contacting members of the Judiciary Committee and lobbying them to oppose any hearings.
He also criticizes the administration’s secretive behavior over the past couple of years in general. Unfortunately, he indicates that he will delay hearings as part of some compromise deal with the White House as he’s not sure if he has the votes on the committee to proceed with a closed hearing on the NSA’s domestic program.
Mission accomplished, Cheney. I have long criticized Specter for accommodating the White House in blocking or delaying investigations into its illegal NSA program, but if he’s telling the truth it is the members of his committee (the republican members, that is) who are obstructing justice this time.
So I would like to name them here: Orrin Hatch of Utah, Charles Grassley of Iowa, John Kyl of Arizona, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
I would say “for shame,” but these men have no shame. I have come to expect nothing from Hatch, DeWine, Sessions, Cornyn, Brownback, and Coburn, and I am beginning to expect nothing from Grassley, Kyl, and Graham.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 3:16 PM 
