In answer to your one question:

Nothing.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m011806.pdf

CRS, NSA AND THE QUESTION OF CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION

Last week, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) lashed out at theCongressional Research Service for asserting that the BushAdministration may have had a legal responsibility to notify morethan just eight members of Congress regarding the NSA surveillanceactivity.

Rep. Hoekstra, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,did not merely suggest that the CRS might be wrong; he claimed thatthe agency was actually biased against Bush Administration policy(Secrecy News, 02/05/06).

In fact, however, it is increasingly clear that Rep. Hoekstra isthe one who misunderstood and misrepresented the requirements ofthe law.

Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) put the matter plainly at a February 6Senate hearing on the NSA surveillance program, explaining thatthe statute which permits limited notification to eight members ofCongress is relevant only to covert actions, and not to the NSAprogram.

“When you look at that section [50 USC 413(b)], the only thing thisreferences as far as what this Group of Eight does is receivereports in regard to covert action. So that’s really all it is. Itdoes not cover a situation like we’re talking about here at all,”Sen. DeWine said.

“We all have a great deal of respect for these eight people…They’re leaders of the Congress. But there’s no statutoryauthority for this group, other than the section that has to dowith covert operation, and this [the NSA activity] is not a covertoperation as defined in this specific section.”

“I don’t mean to be impolite… I guess I’m just kind of a strictconstructionist, kind of a conservative guy, and that’s how I readthe statute,” Sen. DeWine said.

I guess I am thinking that Sen. DeWine and the CRS might, just might, know more than bloggers here.

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/020706/news4.html

Nothing personal, just a general comment. Sorry if you took offence.

Stuck pig squeals the loudest.

Hank

Have you even read half of the posts that most of the liberals post here?

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/02/07/185446.html

Enjoy!

Hank

Currently in the Reserves.

It is a matter of honor and integrity on my part.

I don’t believe any member of the armed forces should publically attack his President.

You can get away with criticizing the pres if you’re in the military, but you’d have to be an idiot to do that. Believe me, you don’t need the kind of grief a thing like that causes. That’s a good way to spend the rest of a short lifespan on “point”. (Point man usually gets shot first)

JR won’t have the cajones to meet us. He’d rather hide behind the WE BLOG.

Your Pa,

Hank

Sure JR,

I’ll meet ya for lunch with my dad.

It is not that hard to figure out where a certain Marine Base might be here in Kansas.

Do a google search or something…

Name the time and place this weekend. We’ll have lunch.

Hank

“Here’s what we’re doing. Deal with it.”

Oh, yes, that’s “oversight.”

Take just the one statement about the judge notifying the target that they are being wiretapped.

If you actually read the provision the only way this happens is if the Judge finds the wiretap to have been illegal. And then only if the government states they are going to use the information they collected.

Gonzo made it sound like after the warrant the Judge would immediately notify the target.

Half truths and misdirections.

Hey Nathan? Let’s meet! I stll say you and your “DAD”hank are one in the same. Oh Nathan? What Kansas Marine base are you stationed to?

Bush is not a king. At least not yet. It is telling that his illegal spying on Americans is decried not just from the “treasonous hate America left” but also from more sensible,less servile voices from the right. Republican Senator and head of the Senate judiciary comittee Arlen Specter is also concerned that laws have been broken by this President and administration.

Are you bushies really so scared of big bad terrorists? What do you wet yourselves anytime you see an Arab? Or…….are you playing the scare? And if you are, just what is YOUR motive? That is what I want investigated and wiretapped.

YOUR and I do mean YOUR pResident has said “If you are not with us, you are against us”. Well I am against pResident Bush and I am also against any who support him in his wanton subversion of the Constitution and his exploitation of his executive power for ends not in the best interest of this nation and its people.

I hope the NSA got that.