Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds

Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds
by Jay on 04-27-06 @ 1:46 pm Filed under ACLU, War On Terror, News
Via Breitbart
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration’s secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.

“Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress at the moment,” Specter, R-Pa., told the panel. “If we are to maintain our institutional prerogative, that may be the only way we can do it.”
Specter said he had informed President Bush about his intention and that he has attracted several potential co-sponsors. He said he’s become increasingly frustrated in trying to elicit information about the program from senior White House officials at several public hearings.

According to a copy of the amendment obtained by The Associated Press, it would enact a “prohibition on use of funds for domestic electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes unless Congress is kept fully and currently informed.”

Specter also agreed with Democrats who say that any of the bills to tighten guidelines for National Security Agency program and increase congressional oversight could be flatly ignored by an administration with a long history of acting alone in security matters.

“It is true that we have no assurance that the president would follow any statute that we enact,” Specter said. He said he’s considering adding an amendment to stop funding of the program to an Iraq war- hurricane relief bill being debated by the Senate this week and next.

Senior Republican officials said they had not received guidance about the legislation and could not say when it might come to the Senate floor.

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This is just wonderful, simply wonderful! This doofuss Specter is worried about NSA spying on citizens and the whole damn Mexican border is wide open! Hell the 'illegals' could be bringing in 'nukes by the truckload' and we wouldn't know it. The entire 'Federal Government is FUBAR to the max'. To quote the old saw, "The inmates are running the institution."

The best part about this whole 'tempest in a teapot' is that NSA will get the funds anyway. Anyone who has ever heard of 'black funds' knows what I mean.