From ActForChange
"Congresswoman Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee overseeing the National Security Agency, has just broken ranks with her party, defied Karl Rove, and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the recently-disclosed domestic wiretapping program. We couldn't agree more.
"Attorney General Gonzales appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee this past Monday and attempted to justify the legality and constitutionality of the eavesdropping program; most observers agreed that he failed to do so. In an unprecedented move, that Committee voted along party lines that Mr. Gonzales's testimony would not be under oath. Nonetheless, his responses to the Committee were full of evasions and contortions of logic, and noticeably short on actual legal reasoning to justify the program.
"We deserve to know the full truth about the Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Does it violate the constitutional rights guaranteed to us by the Fourth amendment? Has this program actually produced any useful information for investigators, or just sent FBI agents on thousands of wild-goose chases? Why did the Administration refuse to seek the warrants it needed through expedited procedures explicitly spelled out in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Were Americans spied upon for non-terrorism-related reasons?
"Only a full Congressional inquiry can answer these questions and determine if the wiretapping program -- which is still ongoing -- is legal and constitutional, and whether or not violations of the law occurred."
Call to action
Ask your representative to support Congresswoman Wilson's call for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
For more on Bush and domestic spying see Harvey Silverglate in The Phoenix
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