I can't wait until the FBIs' budget comes up for renewal. Maybe then they will learn the meaning of 'don't bite the hand that feeds you', but probably not.

It occurs to me that the Republicans would be happy to have the FBI raid of a Democratic congressman's office stay is the news as much as possible. I wonder if that has anything to do with all of the back and forth between Republicans.

Don't get me wrong, if this representative is dirty, he should be investigated, prosecuted, convicted and thrown into a cell right next to Duke Cunningham. However, the way this was done smacks of the administration ignoring that congress is a CO-EQUAL branch of the government.

The argument made by the Bush administration on everything from energy task-force meetings with Ken Lay and the oil barons to visits from Jack Abramoff is that there is an executive priviledge/national security reason for their refusal to turn over documents or testify even in closed sessions of select committees. They have even had the temerity to deny federal investigators necessary security clearances to conduct investigations into the NSA wire tapping scandal, a constitutional crime that the president has confessed to.

Is it unreasonable to presume that sensitive notes or documents might be in the posession of a state reperesentative? That an FBI agent might not have sufficient security clearance to view said documents?

Finally, when will "the people" object to this administration's contempt for the Constitution as demonstrated by its disregard for separation of church and state, privacy rights, habeous corpus, and the ridiculous and unprecedented use of signing statements to declare itself exmpt from constitutionally enacted laws.