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FWIW, on the subject of why some Dems seem eager to give immunity now- another poster raised an excelent point, that some were probably briefed early on the illegal wiretapping but probaly felt that a)publicly appearing "weak on terror" post 9-11 was political suicide b) it would never come out anyway c) made them feel part of the "in crowd", or d)all of the above.
I was reminded of this when I saw this article in the NYT today:
The two senators who honored flight instructors for alerting the authorities to Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 attacks are asking why the men were left off a $5 million government reward given to another tipster. Clarence Prevost, 69, received the payout on Thursday, when he was honored in a private ceremony as part of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. But Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims, two of Mr. Prevost’s former colleagues at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis, are questioning the reward. A 2005 Senate resolution commended them for alerting the F.B.I. about a month before the attacks. The Minnesota senators who sponsored that resolution — Norm Coleman, a Republican, and Mark Dayton, a Democrat who has since left the Senate — want answers. “I have contacted the State Department to determine why these heroic men were not recognized for their roles,” Mr. Coleman said in a statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/washington/26brfs-TWOOTHERSSEE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
Giving them the reward would re-light the issue of how the FBI completely screwed the pooch on 9-11, utterly ignoring a smoking gun of a warning. So, conspiracy after the fact- to cover up one's own negligence and incompetence?
"Never assume a conspiracy if simple stupidity will explain the facts"
