Domestic SPYING By BUSH To Be INVESTGATED By Same CONGRESS That DENIED His REQUESTS To Do SAME

New York Times ARTICLE on Bush-domestic-spying Congressional-investigation(s) being planned, HERE; ...Excerpted here:

"Officials Want to Expand Review of Domestic Spying..."
New York Times, By Eric Lichtblau, WASHINGTON, Dec. 24

...Members of the Judiciary Committee have already indicated that they intend to conduct oversight hearings into the president's legal authority to order domestic eavesdropping on terrorist suspects without a warrant. But Congressional officials said Saturday that they would probably seek to expand the review to include the disclosure that the security agency, using its access to giant phone "switches," had also traced and analyzed phone and Internet traffic in much larger volumes than what the Bush administration had acknowledged. "We want to look at the entire program, an in-depth review, and this new data-mining issue is certainly a part of the whole picture," said a Republican Congressional aide
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The White House declined to comment Saturday on the security agency program or the use of data-mining, saying it would not discuss intelligence operations.
"The administration will aggressively fight the war on terror in an effort to protect the American people while at the same time upholding the civil liberties of the American people," said Allen Abney, a White House spokesman. "The president is doing both of these things and will continue to do both of these things."
Defenders of the program within the federal government say that the security agency's broad analytical searches and data-mining, combined with actual eavesdropping, are an essential part of detecting and preventing terror attacks.
And they say the president is well within his legal authority to order such programs, because of his inherent constitutional power and because of Congressional authorization in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that permitted him to use "all necessary and appropriate force" to fight terrorism.

No comment, Herb.