Feingold Proposes Bush Censure Over Spying

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Feingold Proposes Bush Censure Over Spying

Posted on Mar 12, 2006

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WASHINGTON - A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.

“The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable,” Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., told The Associated Press in an interview.

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By anonymous, March 13, 2006 at 2:54 am Link to this comment
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The operations officers who were authorised to do this work for Congress. Why not censure congress for allowing this since the beginning of the NSA and then, after Plame complains aobut it, go after the President when it is Congress who authorized operations officers like Plame to use NSA assetts domestically to begin with?

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