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.



Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:33 PM

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