Senator Feingold's misguided Censure Motion has been assigned to committee, where it should die a quiet death.
The committee is supposed to conduct a thorough investigation of the NSA program. Good. I hope it does, cause an honest investigation will show that the program is legal. That the monitoring of possible hostile communications is proper conduct by the President, especially when those communications could be the trigger for an attack on American soil.
Senator Feingold has signaled his complete disregard for the safety and security of Americans.
Senator Feingold thinks that terrorism is simply a criminal justice matter. He is dead wrong. Al Qaeda has declared war on the United States (1998). The US is at war with Al Qaeda and its allies. The wartime 'stop-loss clause' of our military contracts is in effect. We are prosecuting a war, not fighting crime. Monitoring hostile communications should be expected in time of war.
The latest Al Qaeda threat targets Arizona. So, I would expect that the NSA would be actively seeking to intercept communications that might relate to an attack in the State of Arizona. And if this involves the incidental intercept of innocent calls between Americans, I would expect the NSA to delete those calls from its files and fine tune the intercept program to reduce the chances of listening to innocent calls.
But the program must continue. We must have an active defense.
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