Senator Blocks Vote on Subpoenas Over Eavesdropping

[maddezmom]

Source: New York Times

By JAMES RISEN
Published: June 15, 2007
A Republican senator blocked a vote in the Judiciary Committee on whether to authorize subpoenas to the Justice Department to obtain secret legal opinions and other documents related to the National Security Agency’s program of domestic eavesdropping. The action by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona will block the vote for a week. After the vote next Thursday, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the committee, can decide whether to issue the subpoenas or use them as leverage in negotiations with the Bush administration over access to the documents.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/washington/15brfs-SENATORBLOCK_BRF.html

[midnight]

1. Why all this hiding and negotiating to get documents to review

in this matter? If the domestic eavsdropping program is legal what is the big deal?

[InkAddict]

13. Maybe they failed to "earmark" enough funds for permanent magic markers

and hourly wages for Indian/Chinese redactors.

[liberal N proud]

2. Our government is so broken, I don't know if we will ever see it fixed.

Everyone from Congress through to the White House need to be thrown out
They are criminals.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Don't lump everyone together

[Lerkfish]

4. one minority senator can do this. Why couldn't all our minority dems do this before2006?

[atreides1]

5. Because

They were keeping their powder dry, remember!!!!

[Kolesar]

6. Block an investigation of the bush government? ... eom

[bearfan454]

14. Damn good question nt

[Catshrink]

7. That's my senator: Vile Kyl

:puke:

[Supersedeas]

8. Jon Kyl - another Bush-hole lackey

[UpInArms]

9. where is that cognitive dissonance within the republican party

what happened to "smaller government" "less government interference" and all those talking points that they used to spew?

And where are all those folks that followed them because of their spew?
Following them right over a cliff now?

Idiots!

[Oakland]

10. When the Dems were in the minority, they couldn't

even get a meeting room. Probably lost their keys to the bathrooms, too. So how is it
that Pubs in the minority can tie Dems into knots? What a sorry bunch of losers.

[focusfan]

11. repukes are desperate

to save there own asses from scandal

[VP505]

12. I think I hear

the shredders running full bore, why else would he want to block this if not to give more time to cover their asses?

[cascadiance]

15. Maybe we could help with a bipartisan effort to recall Jon Kyl...

Apparently the anti-immigrant types on the other side are already starting this effort against him and McCain now...

http://www.mothersagainstillegalaliens.org/?p=218

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. Imprison Sen John Kyl of Arizona

blocking can be obstruction?

[badgervan]

17. Kyl Again

I've heard he has the I.Q. of an acorn. How do these guys keep getting elected? His constituents must want a doofus "representing" them.