Rep(tilian) Peter Hoekstra shows off his slime...

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In his piece in the LA Times, he has the gall to say (referring to the USA Today article leaking the domestic spying database): This article hurt our efforts to protect Americans by giving the enemy valuable insights into the Terrorist Surveillance Program, which has been focused like a laser beam on Al Qaeda and its known associates.

Wow. Is this man so bereft of even a shred a integrity! Focused like a laser beam on Al Qaeda! What about the the millions of Americans who placed calls through AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, whose records were sought by the NSA?

I am so amazed that this swine would lie like this with a straight face.

This is the letter I sent the LA Times:

If Rep. Hoekstra had been doing his job as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, there would have been no need for a whistleblower to leak to the public that something rotten was happening in this country.

It is astonishing to me that he can state even now that this program was narrowly focused on Al Qaeda when he knows that the exact opposite is true. And, if as he says, this program was so important to our security, why did the NSA not obtain, somehow, the records of Qwest's customers? Did Bin Laden send out a memo to his henchmen not to use Qwest's service?

This country lost all credibility when it invaded Iraq under the guise of national security. Hopefully, come November, we can retire Rep. Hoekstra from his job as chairman of this vital committee and ensure that this administration never gets such a free pass.