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Ear to the Ground

The Bush Ship-Jumping Spreads…

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Posted on Jul 9, 2006

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a “sharply worded letter” to Bush warning him that he may have violated the law by keeping Congress in the dark on several unnamed intelligence programs, and that Bush risked losing GOP support on national security matters.

All of a sudden, it’s not just predictable GOP’ers like Arlen Specter who are rattling the saber on Bush’s excessive secrecy. Hoekstra was, until now, a hard-core Bushie. Seems there’s just so much alienation your friends will take before they lash out at you in public. Make no mistake: Bush values loyalty above everything else. That Hoekstra was willing to publicly cross the president says A LOT.


N.Y. Times:

WASHINGTON, July 8 — In a sharply worded letter to President Bush in May, an important Congressional ally charged that the administration might have violated the law by failing to inform Congress of some secret intelligence programs and risked losing Republican support on national security matters.

The letter from Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, did not specify the intelligence activities that he believed had been hidden from Congress.

But Mr. Hoekstra, who was briefed on and supported the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and the Treasury Department’s tracking of international banking transactions, clearly was referring to programs that have not been publicly revealed.

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By lamberthml@comcast.net, July 10, 2006 at 1:11 am #
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May more republicans jump ship for the sake of liberty! Too bad none have denounced the ‘Laugh-er curve’!

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By Jim Burke, July 9, 2006 at 9:40 pm #
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Call me cynical, but I suspect the Rep. ‘fall-outs’ have more to do with looking good for upcoming elections. What good does attacking Bush do now, with only 1 1/2 left? It really doesn’t hurt GWB and can only help at home.

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By Vietnam Vet, July 9, 2006 at 4:18 pm #
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Well, do we hear the first indications that the republicans are beginning to get the message that this thing we call a president is in an all out assault against the freedoms guaranteed under the constitution? I think it is premature, but maybe, just maybe, they are also awakening to the fact that this man is hell bent on destroying what he refers to as a “goddamned piece of paper.” I don’t want to get my hopes up, because there are still a significant number out there that have the view “whatever the president does is legal in the interest of security.” They forget what Ben Franklin said: “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

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