Looks like the Dems wussed out once again

so much for tough questioning and getting the answers we so richly deserve...

General Hayden flatly defended as legal the secret domestic eavesdropping program he ran until last year as director of the National Security Agency, and that argument was directly challenged by only a handful of Democratic senators.

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[F]or the most part, Democrats as well as Republicans praised his experience and said he was a good choice to lead an agency

i am thoroughly disgusted... why do we bother to elect these people...? they are clearly patsies... they sat there on their well-padded asses and failed to mount a serious challenge to this guy in spite of this...

General Hayden could not explain coherently why he testified in 2002 that he had no authority to listen to Americans' phone calls without a warrant, when the president had already given him that authority.

General Hayden's appearance also made it clear that the one warrantless spying operation Mr. Bush has acknowledged — listening to calls between the United States and other countries — is not the only one. And he testified that he did not, as Mr. Bush has said, design the N.S.A. operation, which violates the 28-year-old legal requirement for a warrant for any domestic wiretapping.

The hearing drove home again that the spying is being conducted outside the constitutional system of checks and balances.

screw 'em all... they're not worth the powder to blow 'em up...

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