I stumbled across your blog while I was in the process of doing some online research. I agree with you that it is refreshing to hear a Republican openly supporting a whistleblower when, too often, the Republicans are the first to criticize such a stand.

ALL SOUND AND FURY...SIGNIFYING NOTHING.

So much blustering, so much bullsh*t.  We all know by now that this Congress will do absolutely NOTHING to Bush.

As a matter of fact, it will go out of it’s way to make what he did fit the law.  If not, they’ll change the law...retroactively.

NONE of the Republicans in Congress has the backbone of the Nixon Republicans who truly believed in the Constitution and separation of powers.

Take a look at Hoekstra’s top campaign donors and you’ll see why he’s pushing to nail Iraq for WMD.

3 General Dynamics $10,000
8 Northrop Grumman $8,250
9 Boeing Co $7,000
12 Lockheed Martin $6,500
13 Raytheon Co $6,000

The man has made a living taking money from the weapons industry. His money will keep pouring as long as there are GI’s fighting in Iraq.

http://www.operation2012.com/

This is from the Christian Monitor about the Hoekstra letter pointing to a secret organization within the government that could organize illegal intelligence operations like this.

“Conservative blogger Tom Maguire, in his blog JustOneMinute, says
there was a fairly significant passage in Hoekstra’s letter that
largely ignored by the media – that the chairman believes that there
is a “a strong and well-positioned group within the Agency
intentionally undermining the administration and its policies.”
Hoekstra’s letter indicates that he is concerned about the appointment
of Steve Kappes as deputy director of the CIA, as Hoekstra says Mr.
Kappes may have been a part of this group.”

As a firm 9/11 conspiracy beliver, I think this same organization with links to the CIA could be the mysterious agency that helped plan and carry out the destruction of the three world trade centers.  Nevertheless it is a scary idea that even Republican Congressmen aren’t allowed to know about intelligence operations being carried out by the executive office.

Also, doesn’t the idea of spying on people with sattelites eerily remind you of the movie Enemy of the State?

Please check out emptywheel’s story at NextHurrah
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/ 07/hoekstras_threa.html

“Hoekstra’s Threat”
by emptywheel

“...Hoekstra is one of the nut-jobs trying to claim outdated munitions are proof that Iraq had WMDs. As the Lichtblau-Shane article explains, Hoekstra was quite upset that Death Squads Negroponte pooped on his party and admitted the munitions find was absolutely worthless.

“… Politicization, to Peter Hoekstra, is anything that undermines attempts to disinform the public about justifications for the Iraq war.

“Remember, Hoekstra is the guy who championed the database of “Iraqi” documents, which is largely another attempt to create a false connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, another attempt to claim there were WMDs when there were none.

“ ...And, Hoekstra accompanied nut-job extraordinaire Curt Weldon to his meeting with Fereidoun Mahdavi which Weldon later used to make incendiary claims about Iran. Hoekstra isn’t in the business of ensuring we get sound intelligence. He’s in the business of disinformation.”
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/ 07/hoekstras_threa.html