Isn't is a crime to withhold information from Congress?

X, I am not certain if this is against the law or not, but if it isn't then the law should be changed. This programs screams of Iran Contra, and this is be much harder to correct because any investigation of the Bush administration will be considered to be Bush bashing. But, the law is the law, and no one is above it.

Para, some have said that this proves that Pelosi was correct about the CIA, I don't know if this is true or not, but I wouldn't oppose an investigation of this as well. But, like I put in a post awhile ago, there are republicans that have said that they weren't breifed on the same programs that Pelosi is saying she wasn't, so I think there should be an investigation into this. With so many republicans crying about the POSSIBILITY of the Obama administration taking their rights away, you would think people like you Ted, would want to investigate ANY attempt at taking your constitutional rights away from you.

It seems like from what I've been reading on myLot is that some one somewhere FU******** up and now they are just covering that AS****** Anyways, I think that information regardless of how it is put out there should be investigated to find out who the guilty party is. 4 years down the road when Hillary Clinton will run again for president there will be questions asked too about everything that she did while Obama is in office and The democrats will be doing the same thing the Republicans are in covering there As**** so no one person is to blame or at fault. Every administration regardless of Democrat or replubican party has done stuff to cover themselves so it looks like just a mistake that was over looked by someone. They don't blame just one person because then it could come back that they had something to do with it because they were the ones placing blame.

Lampar, you are correct that this sounds like an end around the constitution, and it needs to be investigated. I am sure the reason they are saying that this was an on and off again program is because the people in charge of this are afraid that they will be charge with a crime. Everyone knows that in a situation like this there is always an Oliver North who will have to go to jail to make sure that other people more important don't. But, this time that person may have to stay in jail for along time, Obama could be in office for 8 more years, and that is alot of time to spend in jail for someone else.

Debater, i am sure majority of Americans will like to see how this massive illegal massive wiretapping program issue going to turn up in the future, whether the intrusion of privacy rights had been committed or the program is still in continuity, what are the data that had been collected and stored, who in the executive branch had access to them. It is still unclear whether congress has enough clouts to kick start a hearing or not , let alone can order an investigation due to the nature of partisan divide. Based on statements of some interviews of senators, not all of them regarded this secret program in violation of our constitutional rights and also many in USA consider this program had long existed before even Bush n Cheney are in office, according to the skeptics of government here. I guess we just have to wait n see the actions high ranking congressional leaders willing to take in week ahead in confronting this over expansion of executive power in time of war, see whether certain lines need to be drawn in curbing executive branch's authority in the constitution.

From what I have read, the director of the CIA shut it down right away, so he knew something was wrong. At some point in time money had to funneled to this program, and that money came from somewhere that it shouldn't have so at the very least this is a misaproperation of funds which is illegal. From what we have been told this program was not fully operationsal, and it was an off and on program. So shutting it down isn't going to hurt anything, and keeping it going could voilate the constitution.

If its in violation of the constitution then it should be looked at. Whose to blame for it I would say would be something to be discussed. Because it sounds like to me that Cheney wasn't the only one in the know.