- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Marcy Wheeler over at Firedoglake/emptywheel has said, and I agree, that the only explanation for this is that, given the fact that the telcos have spent zero dollars on lobbying for this legislation that it is in fact that there are some Democrats, such as Rockefeller, who was the minority chair of the SSCI at the time the Bush administration started this business and Jane Harman received some details on the "program" and either didn't bother to do anything or wrote a CYA letter to the file just in case.
