Spector Wants Full Story of the Jack Anderson Search

[kpete]

Senators Seek Answers in Probe of Reporter

By LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 6, 2006; 3:59 AM

WASHINGTON -- In a new jab at the Bush administration over its use of executive power, the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that the Justice Department explain the agency's investigations of journalists who publish classified information.

Specifically, Republicans and Democrats want to know more about the FBI's effort to obtain a half-century's worth of papers kept by columnist Jack Anderson _ a member of President Nixon's "enemies list" _ who died in December at 83.

Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has chafed for months over President Bush's secretive domestic wiretapping and phonetapping programs, and maintained that national security may not justify such uses of executive power. He personally told President Bush earlier this year that "the president doesn't have a blank check."

Now, with the administration considering prosecuting journalists who publish classified information and refuse to reveal their sources, Specter wants the full story of the Anderson search.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060600170.html

[Mandate My Ass]

1. Specter has "chafed" for months?

Yeah, he wants the full story so he can retroactively exonerate his lord and master.

What a poseur. Only nobody is buying it anymore. :eyes:

[dogday]

2. More dog and pony shows from

the two-faced master himself....

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. FYI Judicial Cmte hearing going on now at CSPAN (after break)

They're breaking to vote at the moment, but CSPAN is carrying Judicial Committee hearings on DOJ's investigation of reporters that publish classified info. Panel two up in about 10-15 minutes or so.

They are re-airing the beginning of the hearing till they are back from the break.

edit: Discussion thread here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1362971&mesg_id=1362971

[meegbear]

4. Yeah, because it affects HIM ...

when citizen's rights have been stepped on, big deal. Now the repugs care about privacy and rights.

Fuck 'em.