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Frist: Americans Don’t Need No Stinkin’ NSA Oversight Bill Frist, Senate whorehouse ringleader and the Dr. Mengele of the animal kingdom, told Bob Schieffer last month that he believes Bush’s illegal and unconstitutional NSA program is in fact legal and constitutional because Bush and his Straussian neocon cronies say so, thus reflecting the view of our bought-and-paid-for Congress that no investigation will be forthcoming—or no meaningful investigation at any rate. Of course, if asked, Frist and his fellows would declare the program targets only “al-Qaeda” bad guys placing phone calls from distant caves and tribal areas, when history demonstrates repeatedly such “wiretaps” are directed against American citizens for political reasons. According to blogger Glenn Greenwald, with a March 7 “vote looming on Sen. Rockefeller’s motion for the Committee to finally hold hearings to investigate the scope and nature of the Administration’s NSA warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens…. Frist specifically threatened … he will fundamentally change the 30-year-old structure and operation of the Senate Intelligence Committee so as to make it like every other Committee, i.e., controlled and dominated by Republicans to advance and rubber-stamp the White House’s agenda rather than exercise meaningful and nonpartisan oversight.” Committee Chair Pat Roberts, who suffers from an unhealthy snoop fixation—his National Security Education Program allows covert CIA sneaks to romp on university campuses—”refused to allow a scheduled vote to take place on February 16 because, according to reports, at least two and perhaps three Committee Republicans (Snowe, Hagel and DeWine) were prepared to vote for Sen. Rockefeller’s motion to hold hearings.” As noted here yesterday, Mike DeWine, Congress critter-corporate-whore from Ohio, believes there is nothing unconstitutional about the NSA program (the part of his brain once capable of reading and understanding the Fourth Amendment has apparently ceased to function properly) and has introduced a “legislative proposal” (constitutional workaround, otherwise known as subversion) to exclude the NSA wiretapping program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and court approval (in other words, Bush and his congressional co-conspirators want to stamp out the “oath or affirmation” declaration contained in the Fourth Amendment—of course, it is possible the majority of Congress suffers from the same mental disease as General Michael Hayden, the principal deputy director of National Intelligence, more accurately described as Snoop Central). Joe Gandelman of the Moderate Voice wonders if Republicans will “go along” with Frist’s threatened “nuclear option” and trash the Fourth Amendment once and for all. “If Frist delivers on this Tony Soprano-like threat, it could be grave for the GOP this election year,” Gandelman writes. Don’t count on it, Joe. Remember those infamous Diebold voting machines, held under lock and key by Republicans, the very same voting machines the corporate media refuses to report with any regularity (only us tinfoil hatters demand paper trials for the voting process). “Hopefully Frist’s ploy will get lots of publicity in coming weeks. Then Senators will have to choose whether they will opt to behave as if they own the government and can do with it and the rules by which people have operated in it for years in whatever way they wish—or whether they understand (as most politicians have in the past, no matter what party) that they’re merely caretakers of cherished institutions that are cherished precisely because of these rules and protections.” One has to wonder if Mr. Gandelman has read too many Glad Books, the Pollyanna sequels published by Elizabeth Borden. Naturally, “Frist’s ploy will get lots of publicity in coming weeks,” but this will of course come to naught, same as any number of previous attempts to pull the covers off the Straussian neocons have flopped. Gandelman seems to believe, as a “moderate,” that the rules still apply when in fact they were chucked years ago. Our Congress critter-corporate-whores are not “caretakers” working dutifully in the service of the American people, but rather service the interests of multinational corporations, corporate CEOs, and rich people, the very plutocratic elite. As the NSA “wiretapping” (more like tapping the entire electronic communications grid) episode (and episodes are shortly forgotten, especially after the corporate media turns its attention elsewhere) demonstrates, Congress, in league with the Straussian neocons running the Bush administration, is dismantling what remains of these “rules and protections” in rapid fashion. If indeed there is an investigation into NSA constitutional violations, it will produce a predictable whitewash. Here in America, Spook Central has had its way for decades, snooping and subverting as it has pleased, and no congressional buzz session, consisting mostly of hot air and theatrics, will change the status quo. ---------------------------------------------------
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