Village Voice
by Nat Hentoff

01/13/06

If Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is able to go ahead with his investigation that will include the NSA itself, it may be possible for Americans to prevent our falling into that abyss from which Frank Church warned 'there is no return.' As of this writing, however, there is White House and congressional Republican leadership pressure to move the Senate investigation into the hands of Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and his Senate Intelligence Committee. (According to The Almanac of American Politics, Pat Roberts's American Civil Liberties Union rating is 22 out of 100.) If this Congress fails again to rein in the NSA, Thomas Jefferson told us what to do: 'The people ... are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' So, as Joe Hill would say, it's time to begin to organize to change Congress...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp