and no thanks to our own senator grassley

from today's des moines register, who endorsed grassley last election, and now they're bitching about what he's doing. what hypocrites.

Don't take seriously the reports that Congress is finally standing up to President Bush.

Those reports are based on congressional opposition to the Dubai ports deal — an easy pandering to public sentiment that requires no political courage whatsoever.

On a more difficult question, which involves a threat to the Constitution itself, Congress has, as usual, caved in to pressure from the White House and shirked a clear duty.

Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee have decided not to investigate whether the president violated the law when he ordered government agents to wiretap Americans without obtaining warrants.

Instead, the committee said it would increase "oversight" of the wiretapping by asking the president to inform, in secret, a few more members of Congress about the program than he currently does. In essence, Congress will be content with selected members being told what Bush chooses to tell them. The committee will make no attempt to gather information on its own.

That's not oversight. It's abetting a cover-up.

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