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• Friday, February 29, 2008 08:30 AM

  Some questions that should be asked

  I've been on a personal vendetta of late, trying to put out the concept that if (when) amnesty is signed into law, there should be an unrelenting campaign specifically targeting Jay Rockefeller, insisting that he hold hearings in the Senate Intelligence Committee to get a full disclosure, to the full committee (in secret when necessary) of the extent of the illegal actions taken both by the telecom companies and by the administration.

  At the time of the passage of the Protect America Act, members of Rockefeller's committee were shown documents by the government while they were deliberating the bill. A primary focus of any hearing should be to compare what was shown to Congress with what Comey, Ashcroft, Goldsmith and Mueller knew to be going on that was so patently illegal. My guess is that the committee was only shown what the program became after these objections and that nothing relating to what transpired before the hospital confrontation has ever been disclosed to Congress. There are claims by the administration that appropriate disclosure has taken place to various Congressional leaders in the past, but I would be shocked if the activities that had conservatives like Comey and Goldsmith so worked up have been shown to anyone outside those who cooked up and carried out the plan.

  —Jim White Read Jim White's other letters
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