Dem. Rep. Harman: Bush sets up Repubs to take credit for (fake) progress

[ProSense]

Dem: Wiretap inquiry a ruse to aid Wilson

By James W. Brosnan
Scripps Howard News Service
February 23, 2006

WASHINGTON - The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee says the White House is letting Rep. Heather Wilson claim progress in an investigation of warrantless eavesdropping to help the Albuquerque Republican in her re-election race.

Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat, charged in a press release that the White House has yet to come through with briefings on the program that Wilson announced Feb. 8 as forthcoming.

"What's worrisome is that the White House remains focused on two political objectives - first to allow Republicans in tight congressional races, such as Rep. Heather Wilson, to claim credit for `progress,' and second, to allow Republican Chairman Pat Roberts to block a bipartisan vote in the Senate Intelligence Committee on a full investigation of the program.

"These political agendas are not surprising," Harman continued, "given Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove's vow to make the NSA program a partisan wedge issue in the 2006 election."

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http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_national_government/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19861_4490340,00.html

[laheina]

1. This one always struck me as too good to be true.

That a junior party member that I had never heard of was going to take on the White House never passed the smell test with me.