Congress Seeks Oversight

Will Congress take on the police state? Congress may soon be voting on a bill that would force disclosure of government data mining of US citizens. Under Republican control congress was unable to pass such legislation. Does this signal a new direction in oversight? Is congress seeking to do its job or is it interfering in the domain of the unitary executive?



Could this bring a showdown over the surveillance state? At long last congress is attempting to reclaim oversight over the executive branch. This oversight was sorely lacking under the Republican congress. Will this lead to more questioning of the administrations actions? Will it be in time to stop the future rashness of an administration bent on self-destruction. Can it slow the ratcheting up of the rhetoric on Iran?

Perhaps it's too little too late but it is a start. All ready the Bush disinfo machine is going into action. It is long overdo that congress assert its constitutional duty of checks and balances but there is no reason to think that the administration has any intention of going softly into that dark night. Expect them to 'Rage' on.

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i just think it just a play for the public. they do this just to keep people from asking to many questions about what the government are really doing.

in the real world the government can do what ever it wants to people, full stop. ask yourself why do hundreds of thousands of people work for intelligence services in the usa if you are a free country.

As I understand it, this is the sign of possibly better things to come. But is screams Partisan Politics, and that is gonna get worse.

I am so not qualified to comment, though, IMO.

C

...All ready the Bush disinfo machine is going into action. It is long overdo that congress assert its constitutional duty of checks and balances but there is no reason to think that the administration has any intention of going softly into that dark night. Expect them to 'Rage' on.

Great find, great paragraph.

Will Congress take on the police state?

No, they pushed it further with HR1.

Congress may soon be voting on a bill that would force disclosure of government data mining of US citizens.

Oooo. Bush may veto it.

Will this lead to more questioning of the administrations actions?

Yeah? So why don't they impeach Bush, stop the Iraq war, don't do everything they can to stop the Iran war? Why don't they reverse Patriot act? Military Comission Act? Defense Authorization Act? Wiretapping? Close Guantanamo? Voted HR1? Stop the electronical voting machine? Close Halliburton? Close the concentration camps? Stop the american union? Try to pass legalisation of illegal immigrants?

RON PAUL FOR 2008.

Aren't democrats supposed to be for big government, everythings blurred these days, so one party just seems like the other.

[edit on 18-1-2007 by andy1033]

Bush is allowing people into the borders and from other country's to freely make it into the United States. They're plan is to create a scenario where a suspected terrorist takes a flight and actively create a plot in real time that they can execute and blame on terrorists. That's my take on it

Vitchilo, I couldn't agree more but I hope for the best. It looks like Bush et.al. are preparing to go it alone. More signing statements and messages tyo butt out. Congress needs to grow a pair otherwise the will be coopted. If there isn't clear change within the next 2 years God help us all.