22 Members Of The House Judiciary Committee DEMAND NSA SPY DOCS

[kpete]

Twenty two members of House Judiciary Committee demand NSA spy docs

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday February 1, 2007

Twenty two Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday demanding that he turned over documents pertaining to the Bush Administration's warrantless surveillance program, RAW STORY has learned. To date, only two Committee members have received access to the documents.

The text of their letter follows.

Dear Mr. Gonzales: We write in an effort to obtain a full briefing of members of the House Judiciary Committee concerning the legal orders and related materials concerning the president's warrantless wiretapping program. Notwithstanding your proposal to allow Chairman Conyers to review these materials, it really is imperative that all members of the Judiciary Committee have access to them so that members may perform their oversight function under the law. There is little point in allowing only the Chair and Ranking Member to review these materials, when it is the entire committee that has oversight responsibility.

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Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr., Rick Boucher, Jerrold Nadler, Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, Melvin L. Watt, Zoe Lofgren, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, Martin T. Meehan, Bill Delahunt, Robert Wexler, Linda T. Sanchez, Steve Cohen, Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr., Luis V. Gutierrez, Brad Sherman, Anthony D. Weiner, Adam B. Schiff, Artur Davis, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Keith Ellison

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http://www.rawstory.com/Twenty_two_members_of_House_Judiciary_0201.html

[IWantAChange]

1. Rep Conyers will not let this rest - hope MSM picks it up.

[liberalnurse]

2. I am counting on his determination!

John Conyers is a " Defending Patriot" of the U.S Constitution. :patriot:

He is one of the Progressive Democratics of America!

PDA....:yourock:

[BuyingThyme]

3. The greatest thing about that letter:

Nowhere does it say anything about any "terrorist surveillance program."

[peacetalksforall]

4. Wording could be more direct:

We write in an effort to obtain a full briefing..."

why oh why didn't they leave out IN AN EFFORT TO

so they could be more positive - We write to obtain a full briefing....

and

"... it really is imperative that all ..."

why not It is imperative -

omit REALLY IS

Their message (especially because it appears in the first paragraph) is way too submissive.

imo This is a really important letter and they were so soft.

[texpatriot2004]

5. Glad to hear this. nm

[mmonk]

6. Good luck with that.