My colleague has quite a gift with words. He is so royally pissed at the Senate Intelligence Committee cave-in on the NSA investigation that he wrote a powerful letter to the Republicans on the committee. Since he isn't a Kos member yet, just a lurker, he said I could post his letter.
Check it out below the fold!
I am writing to express my disgust and outrage at the Republican rejection of Senator Rockefeller's motion to investigate the Administration's troubling, patently illegal NSA spying program.
You have betrayed your office as a United States senator and your duty to uphold this nation's Constitution. You were elected to represent the interests of the American people, yet you work out a deal with the Administration to support a program that violates the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution and abuses the privacy rights of U.S. citizens. Do not tell me you do this in the name of national security, for what sort of security requires criminal activity to maintain it? Do not tell me that you believe the NSA spying program is consistent with the FISA law that explicitly requires court orders for surveillance activities. As your Democratic colleagues, along with constitutional scholars from our top universities and even some of your fellow Republicans have stated, this NSA program flatly contravenes FISA. But you reject the call for an investigation and choose instead to permit the gross criminality of this program to continue.
Your action, or rather inaction, will not go unnoticed. I will continue to write the members of this committee and the Congress to demand that someone, anyone, bring accountability to this Administration. I will do everything I can to ensure that Republicans do not retain their majority in either house of Congress come this November. I look forward to the day when the citizens of your state justly vote you from the office you have so dishonored and betrayed. That indeed will be a vote for national security, for our nation is far from secure with senators like you setting policy.
He says it's OK to borrow anything you like.