Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Ted Kennedy "Weighs In" On Spying

Pardon the pun.

This interesting tidbit from the
FoxNews Political Grapevine on Tuesday.

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy has said the vice president "ought to reread the constitution" if he thinks President Bush can approve domestic surveillance without congressional oversight or a court order.

But
Institute for Homeland Security director Randy Larsen says that on the day after 9-11, with the Pentagon still smoldering, Kennedy invited Larsen to his office for a briefing and asked Larsen whether the attacks meant that the government should unleash the NSA and CIA inside the United States. After a pause, Larsen says he told the Senator "we may have to look at that, but we'd need a lot of oversight." Senator Kennedy could not be reached for comment.


Heh. I'll bet he couldn't.

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